"Girly" Video Games

[Rice Is Ready]

Barbie horse game.

 

[T0oCoolFool]

Tbh, it's true that pretty much every BL game out there with an english fanpatch or official localisation has dark stuff in it. I guess female oriented media can naturally be really dark for the same reason why a lot of women are into true crime. Even though Hashihime is my favourite there's still dark content in it (Rape, murder, suicide, whatever clusterfuck that final route is), hence why I would only recommend it to people who are already fujo-aligned and can handle that stuff. Dramatical murder was a lot of people's first BL game but in hindsight it's really embarrassing and just not that good.

See, if they were just honest from the get-go I wouldn't be as bothered by it. Like, yeah, those aren't my kind of games, but I can respect a person for being honest and saying "I like gay pornographic games that have dark content". Instead, what I see is a lot of flimsy justification for women to play these games. They can't just be out and say "I just want to flick my bean to hot anime guys", it's always the same "Omg the story is so great! The music is great! The art and plot twists are amazing!" Etc. If you went strictly by what my friend told me, you'd that Dramatical Murder was a Shakespearean masterpiece rather than the gay trash heap it really is.

I'm sure some of this has to do with female socialization. Women are taught from a young age to downplay or completely hide their sexuality and sexual interests. I don't just see it happening for yaoi games, you see it elsewhere too. Example, wine moms who love trashy romance novels. They will swear up and down they don't read them for the sex scenes, but we all know that's bullshit.

 

[I'm Sorry Ms Pac Man]

I doubt we'll get a new Girl's Mode AKA Style Savvy game now that the 3DS is pretty much dead

The games were so popular in Japan I’m holding out hope we’ll see a Switch version someday. I’m no fashionista but for some reason dressing up fake people was great to relax. I slept on the series for so long because I thought it was some shovelware title.

 

[AbyssStarer]

I have all the Style Savvy games on 3DS (Fashion Forward is the best).

I occasionally have dreams of going clothes shopping that make me feel kinda depressed when I wake up, and playing Style Savvy stops them from recurring.
Trendsetters is my 2nd most played game on my 3DS, which is somewhere in the ballpark or 500-800 hours. I haven't touched it in a while but I loved the contests, amount of furniture and external customizations for the boutique.

I heard SynSophia was looking for employees who knew Unity so maybe they're working on a Switch Style Savvy. I'd certainly love that.

 

[Sylvie Paula Paula]

Although it's Japan-exclusive, I have an interest in the Aikatsu games and games similar to that because of the outfit designs. It's a rhythm game, in the same category as Love Live and Idolmaster, but on a cabinet/machine instead. Unfortunately I haven't gotten to play the game because I've never been to Japan. Would Love Live and Idolmaster count as "girly" games, since all of the characters are girls?

There's also Love Nikki, which is a dress up game from China. It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.

 

[Orion Balls]

Does Star Stable count?

 

[Hummingbird]

For me, I love the Delicious series (and it's spin offs) which is a time management game that follows the life of a woman named Emily that we get to see her start from a single woman who wanted a tea garden to a now married woman with three kids and a business.

 

[Haramburger]

I bought one of the Mary Kate and Ashley PS1 games as a goof once, "Crush Course" for $2 and it was quite a bit harder than would appropriate for its intended audience. The game picks a pair of boys for you on a game start that are hidden, kind of like Clue? and you play through a bunch of disjointed game modes to figure out which boys are yours. The mini golf segment 2 or 3 rounds in was a stand-out surprise as far as quality goes, I didn't care for the third person beach sand maze and most of the other modes were pretty forgettable. The school carnival was probably the hardest, what would be a challenging mini-game side quest in a JRPG for the time was a mandatory roadblock and casual filter here and you had to do some challenging basketball hoops and matching games with fast reflexes. Nothing was sexy and it took about 5 hours to beat.

 

[Mr. Skeltal]

Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons, and Rune Factory are all great casual game series that I love to spend my time on. Kirby could be argued to be "girly", if so then Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards is my favorite entry in the series. The ability combo system was so much fun (cutter/bomb made the best power, exploding shuriken).
Kirby aside, something about the calm gameplay loop of life sims and farming games is very satisfying after a long day or busy week. As much as I like action games like MH, Souls, and Warframe, my brain doesn't after 8 hours of wage slaving.

I'm probably going to pick up a Switch this year, I need Animal Crossing New Horizons in my life. I've also been eyeballing Snipperclips. It looks like the perfect "girlfriend game" as in a game to get your significant other into playing vidya with you for me to introduce to the Mrs.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I'm still pondering whether or not to consider Final Fantasy X-2 geared towards teenage guys for all the blatant fanservice, or more geared towards teenage girls for the dress up and "tee hee! Gurl power!" aspects.

 

[Shield Breaker]

I'm still pondering whether or not to consider Final Fantasy X-2 geared towards teenage guys for all the blatant fanservice, or more geared towards teenage girls for the dress up and "tee hee! Gurl power!" aspects.

Guys, because of the bath scene.

 

[Hummingbird]

Jojo's Fashion Show. While the third one was disappointing, it's a fun game where you prepare models for the runway depending on the fashion styles needed.

 

[dismissfrogs]

Guys, because of the bath scene.

massage mini game

 

[Peachy]

My guilty pleasure is otome games, Hakuoki, Code Realize, and Alice in the Country of Hearts being some of my favorites.

 

[flubbles]

Would Love Live and Idolmaster count as "girly" games, since all of the characters are girls?

Spoiler: idol sperg

that's a mixed bag. speaking solely on the eng fanbase, a lot of the imas/ll community are composed of female fans, but certain subsets have more male players. take cgss for example, theres more male fans over say, million live, which has a larger female fanbase. i personally enjoy million live because i think a lot more heart goes into its characters/art/music. love live and bandori also have more male fans (because usually girls tend to get into something that they feel has a higher quality/is more enjoyable, while the male fans are obsessed with the semantics of the rhythm game itself over the characters... however you interpret that)

enstars/hypmic/a3/sideM (etc, theres a million of these copy paste shill gacha games) has almost entirely female fans though. as discussed earlier a lot of teens and younger women (they're mostly mentally ill or fujoshits, so theres that too) like bl and dark themes, no matter how much they try to hide it.

theres a huge subset of the players that only play japanese games, cannot read japanese. and do not attempt to learn it. they all just rely on translations (which take months to come out).. and thats all they do. ive been here for years, so i just picked up on these trends after a while

 

[Ashley Lynne Coulter]

I absolutely love Doll Divine. Back in the day, I used to make FKiSS/Kisekae/dress up dolls for the fans. Ah, that was so long ago!

Is Rimworld a "girly" game?

 

[Hummingbird]

Back in the day, I used to make FKiSS/Kisekae/dress up dolls for the fans. Ah, that was so long ago!

I loved Kisekae back then. Shame all the good artists eventually quit and it all went downhill after that.

 

[spencer reid]

the art style in ooblets looks nice and its described as 'harvest moon meets pokemon meets animal crossing' which sounds good

 

[Un Platano]

There was a Barbie Tomb Raider knockoff released on PC a long time ago that my sister had. Both me and her tried for hours and hours to beat that game and we never could get past a single level, and later we learned it's because the game is bullshit. The controls suck, it's full of jumps that require pefect timing, and sometimes you get the jump right but fall through the floor and die. Even most adults would give up on this game because it's too damn hard in the most unfair ways possible.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

As a kid, I loved Kirby, Donkey Kong Country, and the Mario series.