"Girly" Video Games

[Feline Darkmage]

I love Insaniquarium!

Thank you, you're doing the lord's work.

 

[Yaks]

I give you:

http://www.dressupwho.com/games/darth-vader-hair-salon/

Darth Vader Hair Salon, where the force and light sabers are used to make you look fab.

 

[Feline Darkmage]

I give you:

http://www.dressupwho.com/games/darth-vader-hair-salon/

Darth Vader Hair Salon, where the force and light sabers are used to make you look fab.

Rey

 

[Sadcake]

I'm a whore for those freaking korean dress up games.

Love Nikki is my jam right now. It cracks me the fuck up. It's an adventure dress up games thing, with a story line you get through by dressing up.

So you get moments like "oh no! We are being chased! Quick, change into a jogging outfit! " It's ridiculous and I love it.

Cocopa play is fun too, but I mainly play it for the gacha and dress up aspect. The constant events are irritating.

 

[soryu]

I played a ton of Barbie PC games when I was young, even though I wasn't really a Barbie connoisseur. Barbie Storymaker was my favorite at the time.

Barbie Storymaker was the shit. I used to spend hours making stories, complete with voice acting. My favorite story was actually a little "commercial", advertising my mom's old workplace. I wanna play it again now.

I think my favorite game that could fit girly to a T is Style Savvy: Trendsetters.
Fashion Forward wasn't up to par, but I do like the hair dresser and makeup games, I fucking hate the weird Where's Waldo side-quest that unlocks different colors to your universal palette. I wish they kept the men's clothing in-game. I pray they bring it back in Styling Star.

Other games I enjoy that I consider "girly": Animal Crossing New Leaf and Happy Home Designer, the Chao Garden from Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Magician's Quest, Tamagotchi P's and Corner Shop 3, Nintendogs +Cats, Cooking Mama, Yoshi's Story, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Bust-a-Move, Professor Layton, and Flicky.
I've been wanting to try the Disney's Magical World series for a couple years, so I might order it once and for all soon.

 

[r00]

Stardew valley is kinda girly but I sunk a lot of time into making sure that Niggertree Farm was well maintained and operational and I don't regret one second of it.

 

[Hui]

Is Persona 4 girly?

 

[VK 996]

Style Savvy made me feel like I knew anything about fashion. I wanted to get the sequel, but I'm not sure it would improve the core gameplay much.

I played the original Style Savvy as a young teen, and only recently got Trendsetters (second game of the series). The graphics are much better and there's definitely more customization for your shop and whatnot.

It's still incredibly easy, but it's easily my favorite 3DS game. I've heard that most people prefer Trendsetters over Fashion Forward, though.

 

[Taily Puff]

Earlier in the thread people were talking about how fun it is adding fallout hair and clothing mods, and it is, but I didn't see anyone mention how the Saints Row games are incredible dress up simulators right out of the box. For every hour I spent playing those, I spent easily two or three more hours in the clothing stores bankrupting myself buying everything in the place and deciding what to wear on my next crime spree. There were times I would fire the game up just to realize I was broke and be annoyed that I'd have to actually play the game to get money for some new outfits.
I mean the games were great fun too, but getting to give your character just the right style for the next cutscene was was a huge part of them for me.

Also, not sure if these count as girly games, but I think they at least lean girly. Disney games. Disney doesn't get enough credit for it, but they make some surprisingly enjoyable vidya. Little Mermaid on nes, Aladdin and Lion King on genesis, Kingdom Hearts... Usually movie/tv tie in games are just long slow dumpster fires, but Disney turns out a pretty good showing sometimes. Mickey Mouse had some good ones to. Magical Quest was a lot of fun, and Castle of Illusion gets bonus points for being the first game that made me realize I had to get good, because if you beat it on easy, instead of an ending the game basically politely says "lol k now try on a real setting scrub."

 

[TrippinKahlua]

I can NOT believe I spent 4 months of 1997 finding every secret in the computer game "Barbie Riding Club"

 

[The Fair Lady]

Ah Insaniquarium, that's a name I haven't heard in ages. Good times.

I've played pretty much everything that's been mentioned in this thread. Harvest Moon, The Sims, Cooking Mama, Nintendogs, old Barbie games, visual/otome novels, etc.

I can NOT believe I spent 4 months of 1997 finding every secret in the computer game "Barbie Riding Club"

Duuuude this was my jam. I felt so proud when I finally found the mystery horse.

 

[MysticMisty]

Yoshi's Story, Kirby's Epic Yarn

I love Yoshi's Story and in my opinion it's the best of the Yoshi spinoff games. I love the way it looks, plays, and no fucking Baby Mario. Kirby's Epic Yarn is really good as well, but in my opinion kinda fell apart in the last area, Dream Land. Whereas the rest of the game was built around the game's new mechanics, Dream Land was just bare bones standard Kirby levels that minimized the new mechanics (save for the two bonus levels) so it just fell flat for me.

 

[Lackadaisy]

Is Persona 4 girly?

no, just faggy

 

[neverendingmidi]

I had fun with the first Sims game where I killed like 20-30 people in the same house, then put all the gravestones in a separate house with no doors so they couldn't mourn the dead. Then had a sim living there who was a neurotic mess from all the ghosts wandering through.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

I love dress up games because it makes it easier to find clothes and hairstyles for characters in my art.

 

[Feline Darkmage]

the Chao Garden from Sonic Adventure 1 and 2

I have a friend who used to bully the Chao in that part of the game and I legit felt bad for the poor things sometimes.

Not gonna lie though sometimes it was cathartic to throw them into walls after failing to get a 100% run in one of the main story levels.

 

[Lackadaisy]

I have a friend who used to bully the Chao in that part of the game and I legit felt bad for the poor things sometimes.

Not gonna lie though sometimes it was cathartic to throw them into walls after failing to get a 100% run in one of the main story levels.

Tbh, I only played the game for the Chao Garden.

 

[Sadcake]

Tbh, I only played the game for the Chao Garden.

Ditto. The only reason I did the missions was to find those stupid little animals for the Chao to eat (absorb? The fuck was that)



My brother used to load my save file as when I wasn't around and fuck with my choas. Dick.

That was game cube right? What's the verdict on animal crossing and pikmen as girly games? Because I played the fuck out of them.

 

[Lackadaisy]

Ditto. The only reason I did the missions was to find those stupid little animals for the Chao to eat (absorb? The fuck was that)



My brother used to load my save file as when I wasn't around and fuck with my choas. Dick.

That was game cube right? What's the verdict on animal crossing and pikmen as girly games? Because I played the fuck out of them.

I'd consider them both "girly" games, AC more so, but they're pretty gender neutral imo

 

[Taily Puff]

I'd consider them both "girly" games, AC more so, but they're pretty gender neutral imo

I think a lot of gender neutral games get considered girly because the stereotype that gamers are all guys. And to be fair a lot of triple A games are catering to a mostly male audience (thinking of military and sports and racing type games), so when you picture someone living off of mountain dew and doritos and beer and exclusively playing shooters or madden, you picture a guy first, and that image is what a lot of people still think of when they think of video games. So when you get a game that's more universally appealing across gender lines, like Animal Crossing or Minecraft or Portal, something the stereotype gamer bro's mom or girlfriend might play completely independent of them, it looks girly in comparison when filtered through the lens of something like Call of Duty.

MMOs tend to escape that reputation for some reason, but I guess that's because those are basically complicated slot machines designed to feed addictive personalities, and that's something running through both genders.