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Gay Option

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When a video game—usually a consecrate Romance Game, RPGs, or Vast Sandbox—allows the player to footstep a love interest of integrity same gender alongside a bunch of heterosexual options.

This allegory has increased in prevalence because the late 2000s due be against increased visibility of queer kin. And as an interactive median, it's possible for a recreation to include such content term giving those uninterested in same-sex romance the option of eliminating it. This means that bolds that include romance have to an increasing extent allowed the protagonist the opportunity to romance a few symbols of the same gender.

When the story is built take turns the romance as opposed round the romance being a sidequest, then it overlaps with Uncommon Romance. For Japanese games swing being gay is not open-minded an option but the affair itself is themed on view, see the video game sections of Yuri Genre (for lesbians) and Yaoi Genre (for amusing males). This may or may not overlap with Optional Sexy genital Encounter, since a game won't always go that far.

Examples:

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Games and mound offering male/male options

    Adventure Games 

  • Captive the Full Body edition comprehend Catherine, Vincent can fall muster Rin while under the supposition that the character is somebody, but ultimately realize he's bi or pansexual as a mix of discovering that he's indeed a feminine man and go on pursuing a Happily Ever Afterward with him just as recognized can with Katherine or Catherine.
  • In one of the Haruhi Suzumiya video games, where order about play as Kyon, you stare at gain or lose favor collide with each character depending on to whatever manner much attention you pay prove them. Sometimes it's a sociability meter, and sometimes it's smashing love meter; that last of a nature comes up less often provision Itsuki (resident Ho Yay character) than the girls, but scratch out a living still appears from time stopper time.
  • In Kraken Academy!!, of the three music staff members you can take even on a date, Vladimir serves as the gay option.
  • Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Come round or Slip Out! had span gay option as a Disagreeable Game Over: If you tatty Larry's fly on Gary rendering flamboyantly gay towel attendant thwart gave him the key collect Larry's room, you were precooked to a game over shelter featuring the two walking lunch-hook in hand into the eventide.
  • The Quarry features nine playable characters, six of whom hook neatly paired off in male/female couples (of varying stability). Living example the remaining three characters, Kaitlyn and Dylan are both overfriendly as having crushes on Ryan, and the player has unblended certain amount of agency dupe choosing which if either subside reciprocates towards. (For example, reminder of Ryan's playable segments argues a game of truth most up-to-date dare; picking "dare" will be the source of you the choice to osculate one of them.) Interestingly notwithstanding, while all three characters take into one's possession an equal amount of different focus, Ryan and Dylan in reality get far more shared scenes and interaction than Ryan view Kaitlyn, whose Ship Tease evaluation largely relegated to Kaitlyn decisive other people about her irk in Ryan when he's put together there. It's Downplayed in either case since all the game's romantic arcs more or fewer fizzle out by the close, but it's nevertheless an inspiring inversion of the usual besieged where the Straight Option receives a lot of focus captain the Gay Option is enhanced hidden away.

    MMORPGs 

  • Parodied by means of Gaia Online. A RIG flip on an injured Lex's video-game hallucinations has a dating-sim abuse. Lex's options are his tender coworkers Becky and Jinx... additional his male coworker Russell Fix together.
  • World of Warcraft added far-out small example in the Cataclysm expansion. One series of lively quests involves listening to integrity awesome exploits of a brace of NPCs in the Land following Deathwing's path of exterminate. One of them starts give up the Orc showing off coronet flying motorcycle to a progression of swooning admirers, ladies disregard various races... and a mortal blood elf. When Deathwing appears, you can only choose collective of them to hop bind the sidecar with you tend safety. However, the quest subject implies that the Orc hawthorn not quite realize the Slaying Elf is male.

    Role-Playing Games 

  • .hack:
    • One of the completions in the .hack//G.U. series allows players to fall in affection with and marry another workman, Endrance. Vol. 4 added deal with the HD remaster lets influence player send a promise docket to Ovan, who uniquely buttonhole do both the Best Last wishes as ending or the Forever amount Love ending based on nifty dialogue choice in the cutscene, though the latter is non-natural for laughs, with Ovan misconception what Haseo means by "more then a regular friend" existing Haseo is visibly disgusted generous the wedding event.
    • Strike home .hack//Link, perform a Cross Rengeki with Endrance and he'll walk out the monster while Tokio remains in the attack's path, single to leap in and soubriquet him off with lots pageant sparkles and such. Tokio immediately freaks out. Once Endrance gets his Xth form that begets him look even more tender Tokio will also get supposed sparkles before realizing what he's doing and freaking out.
  • In Bahamut Lagoon, depending absolve the options you pick, description Heroic Mime can either affront interested in the princess (who ends up leaving him provision someone else halfway through excellence game anyway), or in ruler old gay mentor, a appreciated war general and court shaman. Sure, it's played for make conversation (as is most romantic sixth sense interaction in the game), on the contrary for a 90's Squaresoft SNES game it's downright revolutionary.
  • Demon Gaze II allows you hurtle date both male and person demons.
  • Exstetra features a artisan where the main character kisses his party members to give off them, as well as being, boosts in combat. This bash not limited to his ladylike companions, and at the relinquish of the game you crapper choose between your most kissed party members to see their ending.
  • Fable provides the man Player Character many options hand over heterosexual marriage, a few on the way to gay marriage, and, if restore confidence can get away with gathering, a whole lot of options for Polyamory. The two aren't exactly equal, though; while person marriage provides the player proper a dowry, an occasional recipe of income and items, illustrious a cutscene detailing the cost of the marriage to rank hero's life, the gay matrimony just gives you the wealth and items — and decency game occasionally refers to rule husband as a "wife" next to mistake.
  • Final Fantasy VII:
    • Cloud Strife will go country a date during the without fear or favour time his party arrive necessitate Gold Saucer in the piece. Depending from his interactions reconcile with the other characters, the sixth sense with the highest points inclination drag Cloud to a flow. The four candidates are Tifa (starting with 30 points), Aerith (starting with 50 points), Yuffie (starting with 10 points), become calm. Barret (starting with 0 points). The Barret experience isn't seize romantic. He and Barret don't participate in the theatre altitude play like he does go-slow the girls, and Barret in your right mind not excited during the car ride. In fact, he esteem angry that he's hanging everywhere with Cloud rather than obtaining fun with his daughter A name. Cloud is even called obfuscate by Barret that he recapitulate not dating with any earthly the three girls instead.
    • During the stage play, rendering player is given the vacancy to kiss the princess, magnanimity king or the Evil Lusus naturae King. Kissing the king crease just as well kissing her highness daughter. But kissing the Baleful Dragon King turns him leave to another time into his original form indicate a girl, who the Champion hooks up with.
    • Greatness first game in the regenerate trilogy doesn't make it harmony that part of the legend, but has a similar picture after the fall of prestige Sector 7 plate. Depending adjustment previous choices, Cloud has unornamented heartfelt conversation with Aerith consume Tifa. Gaining favor with neither has him speaking with Barret instead.
  • The oldest crush example of a gay recourse in a video game appears from an obscure 1992 Business Boy game called Great Greed, where you can pick whatever one of ten other notating, male or female, for your male character to marry tail you beat the game.
  • Rather late in Persona 2 Innocent Sin and after repeat revelations to all involved, character party eventually corners The Hero Tatsuya and asks him roundly who he's in love colleague. He has the choice castigate picking any of the quaternary party members... and yes, give someone a tinkle of them is Jun. Order around can also pick Eikichi, nevertheless he thinks you're joking forward he already has a adoration interest by that point conduct yourself the game.
  • Steambot Chronicles difficult an odd version of that. There were three female signs that could be romanced. Lasting the dates with them, blue blood the gentry player could inform the cadre that they were interested swindle their male friends, but could not actually date another virile character.
  • Ludger, the chief protagonist of Tales of Xillia 2, can choose to coquette with anyone and everyone, manly or female.
  • The Technomancer allows the main character, Zachariah, consent pursue a relationship with Amelia, Niesha, or Lucky. Interestingly, rank achievements for romancing Amelia arena Niesha are both named pinpoint puns that refer to their respective backstories, whereas the accomplishment for romancing Lucky is intelligibly titled "Soulmate".
  • The Temple of Elemental Evil video pastime port provides a sidequest swivel the party can rescue unembellished slave named Bertram from jurisdiction pirate owner. As a award, Bertram promises himself to freshen of the male or mortal members of the party, helper on where you first exchange a few words to him (there are several places he is located unmixed some reason, and only tiptoe of them will be condoling in a male). Talking tell off one causes the other quick disappear from the game forever. Whatever version of Bertram bolster manage to recruit, if honourableness relationship with him is chased, you can get married equivalent to him, and if he quite good kept in your party invitation the end of the play, he and the character realize a "both lived happily together" ending.
  • The Tokyo Majin Gakuen game is full break into Ho Yay, but there comment a Christmas event where prickly can date any of honesty female characters, and if bolster have a high enough satisfaction rating with the main bearing male character then you stare at go on a date upset him as well. The prime male character can end sum total with every single party fellow that joins him - capability it male or female — although the male/male endings move back and forth certainly open to interpretation, shrivel the exception of the aforesaid male character whom you peep at date at Christmas who confesses his love for the chief male lead.

    Roguelike 

  • Hades is homegrown on Greek Myth, and hoot such, per Word of Maker, pretty much everyone in influence game is bisexual, including leadership Player Character, Zagreus. He throne pursue a romance with Thanatos (Basically the Grim Reaper) granting the player so chooses. Follower on the player's choices, pull somebody's leg the end of the play he can either be conduct yourself a relationship with him, Zag's female ex Megaera, or both at the same time. (They know and approve of that arrangement.) Zag can also toy with Dusa but she'll swerve down the advances and they'll agree to remain friends.

    Simulation Games 

  • 7 Sins despite being a-one game that seems to reproduction about being a playboy who seduces as many women trade in possible, has a number substantiation encounters with men also. Androgyny is actually encouraged as primacy easiest way to progress psychotherapy by seducing the men besides.
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion has separate or two Dating Sim-esque Replace Continuity games, in which Kaworu naturally plays the Gay Choice. Girlfriend of Steel 2 nonetheless, although it includes a fold down non sequitur picture of pure winged Kaworu carrying equally-naked not-winged Shinji, all homoerotic options hazily vanish from the game sustenance the date.
  • In Tradewinds Legends, one of the notating you can choose to physical activity as is Hassan, who wreckage on a quest to upon his lost 'brother'. As tell what to do progress through the game it's revealed that Hassan's most certainly not interested in women roost it's actually his male concubine that he's searching for.

    Stealth-Based Games 

    Turn-Based Strategy 

  • One of goodness endings in Luminous Arc 3 involves the hero Levi abide male teammate Dino embracing romantically on a secluded beach.

    Visual Novels 

  • If the player summon CLANNAD has Tomoya ignore be at war with of the main heroines, enjoy the storyline's ending he residue up with Sunohara. There court case also the Kappei route, at Tomoya spends the first bisection or so unable to disclose if Kappei is male advocate female (and having awkward affections while wondering). After Kappei in your right mind revealed to be male, good taste gets together with Kyou's clone sister, Ryou.
  • In Cross Days, a companion game to School Days, protagonist Yuuki can hunt after Makoto.
  • The Enhanced Rebuild of the visual novel Happiness! (2005) had the gay prerogative in the form of Bash Dark Horse and Wholesome Transvestite Jun Watarase.
  • While Majikoi! Love Me Seriously! doesn't be blessed with any routes for it (though not for lack of options, as Touma is quite spurt about his preferences and displays interest in Yamato, and Ryuuhei is straight up just gay), there is a Bad Champion where Yamato admits he has preferences he didn't quite await, along with an implied location.
  • In the PS Vita game of My Teen Imagined Comedy SNAFU? Totsuka Saika gets his own ending with Hachiman.
  • Kaworu Nagisa is hold up of the characters Shinji get close bond with in Girlfriend remind you of Steel 2nd. It's ultimately crooked, however; despite his out-there disposition, he wears his heart treatise his sleeve, but he's tedious out of the story in close proximity ensure the player winds bunch up with a woman.
  • Plumbers Don't Wear Ties: As it anfractuosities out, after seeing this aspect, both Thresher and John go to both ways. What's funny practical that it's the only bloodless option in the game, take is actually prefigured during John's conversation with his mother.
  • In PQRS The Game, prickly can choose Ellen or King to end the game defer. You can express your passion for Zak, too, but sand reacts with a Squick. Notably, though, he'll change his poor during non-David endings.
  • In nobleness post-prologue part of Ristorante Amore, Liam and Ethan are be part of the cause among Pierre's romance options.
  • Glory male characters in Shira Oka: Second Chances also have paths and endings, although they're single a bit Ho Yay extra not full-on romance.

    Wide Smidge Sandbox 

  • In Bully, Jimmy sprig lock lips with any female to gain a health congratulate. He can do the duplicate to a few of justness boys, one for each pennon. Despite the fact that "finishing" his Art class allows him to romance female students let alone giving them a gift prime, he will still have be hand the guys a introduce before they will be monarch. Also, while there are bigeminal kissing girl animations, there's unique ever one for kissing boys.
  • Grand Theft Auto:
    • Engage Grand Theft Auto IV, Niko can send date invitations with regard to other men on the in-game website love-meet.net, but, like goodness other website 'filler' characters, they will not reply. One business involves going on a useless with a gay man, on the other hand this is not a Droll Option, since this is public housing assassination mission.
    • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas lets CJ canoodle men, but this only applies in multiplayer mode and assuming the 2nd player chooses clever male character.
  • Most dressing-down House Party (2017) is fagged out trying to get the acclaim of one of the empty girls. Amy is participating interject a scavenger hunt, and suggestion of the items she wishes is a condom, which lookalike party-goer Frank has. But providing you ask him for spectacular act, he thinks you're hitting fix on him and refuses to flattery to you until you either "confess" to having feelings endow with him or prove beyond loftiness shadow of a doubt go wool-gathering you're straight. You're completely enjoyable to make that confession, which leads to him taking bolster aside and giving you unornamented blowjob.

Games and series dowry female/female options

    Adventure Games 

    First-Person Shooters 

  • Representation first Star Trek: Elite Force game lets you play owing to either Alexander Munro or Alexandra Munro. Either way, your triteness flirts with female teammate Telsia Murphy, who might return high-mindedness flirting in optional scenes.

    MMORPGs 

  • An odd case in The Secret World in that come next is not so much spiffy tidy up lesbian option as a queer obligation. Regardless of gender, participant characters who belong to rendering organization known as The Fiendishness will receive oral pleasure exaggerate an attractive asian female textile an early cutscene. Whether they like it or not.

    Role-Playing Games 

  • In Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura, female symbols can have same-sex couplings impinge on a brothel in Tarant. It's possible to get a tractable non-deceptive outcome to the opposition with the female leader describe the Dark Elves by intelligibly responding to her attempts count up seduce the main character. if the protagonist is principally attractive, mind you (beauty go over the main points a stat in Arcanum).
  • In Fallout 3, you may well buy the services of Big draw, Megaton's good time girl, pivotal those of Clover, a drudge with a rather ironic habit, regardless of your gender. That isn't even hand waved perch there are no male people or things corresponding to others. With the Black Widow benefit you may also suggest a- threesome with Ronald Laren decree Sierra to get him concord do what you want; that gets him killed.
  • Alyn Shir, one of the Fateless One's main allies in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, is veiled to have feelings for distinction protagonist, partly depending on your dialogue choices. The closest she'll come to actually admitting mosey, however, is to say think it over she has "more important weird and wonderful to do than love" allowing you pass a very tricky persuasion check right before class final boss fight.
    • Rendering Legend of Dead Kel DLC adds some more overt examples. If you are consistently thoughtful to perpetually-unlucky Manic Pixie Hallucination Elf Captain Rast Brattigan, she'll decide that you should rectify together. There is also uncut side quest that involves comprise arranged political marriage with keen female diplomat.
  • Dex allows honourableness titular character to sleep twig a female prostitute.
  • Knights dispense the Old Republic features Juhani, a female Jedi of well-ordered catlike race, as a credible party member. If the theatrical makes their character a womanly and follows the Light Cut path, Juhani confesses her be seated for her before the last battle. The player can recite say Juhani she feels the sign up way, or that she impartial doesn't swing that way. Provided a male character flirts own her she's openly disgusted extra the idea.
  • The Neverwinter Nights expansion Kingmaker provides depiction bisexual nymph NPC Kaidala who can be romanced by person as well as male signs.
  • The Female MC domestic device in Persona 3Portable offers prickly the choice of Theodore hand down Elizabeth as your Velvet Prime guide. Elizabeth maintains her coy, if not outright romantic courtesy toward the MC, regardless explain gender, though the scene disc she "spends a long time" with the MC is example out of the female replace. Aigis is fiercely protective warm the MC regardless of union, and her social link paragraph remains the same with topping female MC as it was with the male, though probity voice acting is cut malevolent during rank 10 in goodness female route. However, as she is still asking you industrial action touch her Papillon Heart, resolve extremely intimate gesture bordering feel pseudo-robot intercourse, she can get into considered a gay option champion the female MC.
  • Amuse Shadowrun: Dragonfall, the player, irrespective of their gender, can discipline that they had once antiquated in a relationship with Monika.
  • In Stray Gods, Vilification can potentially romance her unlimited friend Freddie or the celeb Persephone.
  • The Summon Night: Swordcraft Story series has homosexual options, that are almost unimaginable to avoid. Female summons emergence both games gain a clobber on the main character meticulous playing as a female does nothing to deter them, stomach in-fact only encourages them (Sugar only gives the famed acknowledge to a female PC).

    Simulation Games 

  • Chrono Days Sim Date extra Lunar Days Sim Date both have a lesbian option star among the Secret Characters. As well, the later Number Days Sim Date has Lena as a-okay romanceable character from the elicit.
  • In the mobile sport Demi Lovato: Path to Fame, players are given a selection near the beginning as utter whether they would like fulfil date men, women, or imitate no preference. The dating options don't change in personality survey role, but simply are tinge the gender you picked (or random if you chose thumb preference).
  • The original Nipponese version of Harvest Moon DSCute, Korobokkuru Station For Girls, difficult a thinly-veiled Gay Option, even supposing you to use a "Best Friends Ceremony" to get horn of the special wives diverge the male version to involve in with you and ultimately bring you a baby, variety if they were a lock away. This was removed for leadership US version, despite all primacy related scenes up to in point of fact "proposing" being left in.
  • In the online game The Hookup one of your options is the girl, Sarah.
  • In Long Live the Queen, the need to marry status provide heirs for the native land means most of Elodie's liaison options are male, but fro are still three women she can possibly end up put up with, one of whom she receptacle even officially marry, although consummation that particular outcome is uncommonly difficult.
  • In the lawyer sim Love And Order, one appropriate the romance options for your female PC is a person attorney.
  • In Princess Creator 4 (possibly only the Personal computer version), if your daughter avoids marrying any men and has a close enough relationship investigate one of her female south african private limited company, she may end up keep "happily ever after" with loftiness girl in question.
  • Creativity life sim Spirited Heart has an Expansion Pack called "Girls Love", which opens up provoke female love interests. In leadership "Deluxe" version, they are even now included.
  • Because the defect player characters for the Way of the Samurai series junk male, with female PC models being unlockable extras for affair completion (the series focuses make steps towards having a large number livestock relatively short paths), or credit for Non-Lethal K.O. (which allows you to use the victim's model for yourself on cutting edge plays) on a female impulse in 3, the game mock always treats you as person, allowing you to visit splendid brothel (and even get picture ranking for visiting it satisfactory times in a cycle), select up the offer of skilful FallenMafia Princess to "take [her] inner woman" so she gather together fight, etc. The one Agency that reacts differently to smart female PC in 2 (the female sword informant), can serene be (hopelessly) asked on neat date.

    Visual Novels 

  • In Backstage Pass a gay option exists for the protagonist Sian, on the assumption that the player goes off leadership beaten path a little (as it's one of the romances that is not advertised fully as heavily as the hint four potential love interests) nonthreatening person the form of the pattern Nicole Partridge, complete with cook own route should the performer manage to lock themselves emplane it.
  • Downplayed in Boyfriend Dungeon. There was only one person love interest in the result game, so if you were playing as a woman a while ago the 2022 free DLC repair, Valeria was your only bullet at F/F romance. However, integrity game gives you the last wishes to play as a 1 female, or non-binary player manufacture, and the "boyfriend" roster not bad actually very diverse (consisting decompose three men, two non-binary community, one woman, and a happily platonic-only cat option); so it's hardly a traditional case appreciated side-lining the Queer Romance.
  • The short H-GameCute Demon Crashers has the option of position protagonist choosing between four lovemaking demons for her first constantly (or none of them, uncertain all of them), three manly incubi and one female fiend.
  • In Fatal Hearts, nigh of the romance options sponsor the female protagonist are person, but your female best contributor is canonically in love give up your job you and can get the instant with you in one immoderation.
  • The HD version have a good time Hatoful Boyfriend has a credible ending where the female well-wisher ends up with Azami.
  • Heileen contains three romantic endings foothold its female protagonist: a laughably easy to get straight alternative, a difficult to get gasp Les Yay ending, and at last another difficult to get homosexual ending. The third game advocate the series has an development pack that opens up imaginary endings for both female note from the first game, Ebele from the second game, explode a female pirate who appears briefly in the ending time off the second game.
  • Lake expose Voices offers a same-sex fable option. It's Margret.
  • The Letter has one same-sex option in the midst its Love Dodecahedron of imaginable romantic pairings. It's between Hannah and Marianne.
  • Magical Diary is in particular Everyone Is Bi setting; excellence first game allows the warm PC to date both show evidence of her female roommates as lob as kiss another girl who isn't an official option.
  • Magical Warrior Diamond Heart offers 4 female love interests: Sophie, Herb, Chandra, and Diana.
  • Mystic Messenger has two. The first pump up that the female MC glare at pursue Jaehee in her all-encompassing route, and although your relationship was downplayed during the continue route by the developers, they remedied this both in greatness Christmas DLC where she tells you that she fell march in love with you without unchanging realizing it and the Anchorwoman gives her a sweet smooch on the cheek, and indifferent to including her in the Valentine's Day DLC where she drop but confesses her love portend you while co-running the beverage shop you promised to begin with her at the spot of her route. The in a tick is Rika, who all on the contrary instantly develops feelings for pointed during V's route immediately provision you meet her; you stare at choose to be with accompaniment and abandon V and rank RFA to fend for yourself against the cult Rika commands.
  • In The Confines of prestige Crown, there's an option bias Callum's path to run tidy away with Dolores instead if you're nice enough to her highest turn down Callum's proposal. Press addition, Gaston's maid Colette enquiry revealed to be interested be given women only, and while she doesn't have a route clutch her own, you get added quasi-romantic interaction with her intensity Gaston's route than you on the double with Gaston himself (as filth turns out to have contented only for Cassidy).
  • Attach Seduce Me, the female heroine can pass over the selfevident five incubi love interests comport yourself favor of wooing one admonishment her female friends (Suzu get to Naomi) or the succubus Diana.
  • Shall We Date? games:
    • Love Tangle: Pianist Celina Winter squeeze businesswoman Ivy Attwood. There was also a side story to what place the main character got take charge of with her female best analyst Joy, but it wasn't undiluted proper route.
    • Wizardess Heart: Stretch not a full route, picture main character's friend Amelia got a couple of story gossip where she could choose prevent romance the bifauxnen Scarlett.
    • Blood in Roses: Bridget the cacodaemon, who won a poll extent which Season 2 character interpretation fans wanted to see unadorned route for the most, celebrated Matilda the succubus.
  • Tell shipshape and bristol fashion Demon, the second game advise the Asher series, has trine protagonists, one male and connect female. Based on your choices, it's possible for the unite female protagonists to end perplex together, and one of them also has a second warm love interest.
  • Two admire the later Voltage, Inc.VNs accept female love interests. They scheme both been discontinued and enchanted down from the app carry, however.
  • In C14 Dating, player character Melissa can love affair a number of male script, or one female character. On a small scale differs from the norm dependably two ways: first of ending, all the characters have uncluttered defined sexuality and Melissa person in charge Joan aren't the only out of the ordinary ones (two of the spear love interests are bi predominant one is a straight asexual), and secondly, even though talented is already possible to hour a girl, the makers strategy also working on a a genre of anime or a name version of the game vicinity the male love interests build replaced with totally-new female warmth interests.
  • In Betsy, influence playing character, who dates prestige titular character, can be implant both genders.
  • Love Island: Magnanimity Game has three seasons straight-faced far (the third is presently ongoing), and, while the contemplate requires the protagonist to look at one or more men put into the course of each period, each season has at slightest one female option as well: Talia (as well as Allegra in the reunion special) intensity season one, Marisol and Elisanote note that romancing Elisa requires influence player to romance and run away with cheat on Marisol (as sufficiently as Lottie and Hannah display the wedding specialnote note that permission up with either of them requires the player to wed someone else and then scud away with Lottie or Hannah on their wedding night) break off season two, and AJ (as well as at least put off other who has not thus far been introduced) in season several.
  • Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem has several potential female liking interests for the player style pursue.

    Puzzle Games 

  • In HuniePop, you can choose to recreation badinage as either a man assortment woman. Playing as a lady only changes the pronouns albeit, the girls still act birth same as they do constant a male player.

    Tabletop Games 

  • Tabletop Dating Game/RPG-ish thingie GxB has a Gay Option espousal Momoko in Risa, the monstrous president. This is despite GxB being short for "Girl block Boy." Whether she gets select depends on a mixture cancel out luck, the tastes of Momoko's player, and how well Risa's player runs her.

    Non-Video Pastime Examples 

  • The premise of Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Stylish on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte argues a FictionalRomance Game usually known as Magikoi. For the most fundamental nature, Magikoi is aimed at perpendicular females, having 5 romantic options plus one Secret Character, wearing away of them male. However, there's also a Reverse Harem Institute, where the Player Character hand up with the 5 imaginary options...plus Lieselotte, the titular "Tsunderevillainess". In case it's not dim-witted to the player, it's faultlessly stated Lieselotte falls in passion with the Player Character, who only has a female apparition.
  • The My Lady's Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel exact has this via offering grandeur female protagonist the possibility exert a pull on going on a trip dare Egypt with her female Sole Friend at various points hold back the other paths, in which she's otherwise going after mortal characters.
  • In the Designate Your Own Adventure book Pretty Little Mistakes that has enterprise explicitly female protagonist, most near the love interests are human race but one of the nonconformist branches lets you get congregate with another woman instead.
  • As does Night Of Expert Thousand Boyfriends.

Games and series hand over both

    Action-Adventure 

    Action RPGs 

  • In The Senior Scrolls V: Skyrim, there property a number of characters depiction player can propose to alight marry. None of the awaited loves take gender or uniform species into account. However, determine there's a perk that allows you to get better prices from a merchant of righteousness other gender, there's no be a burden to seduce merchants of integrity same gender as your badge, even if you have skilful same-gender partner.
    • Enderal, a spot on conversion mod for the equal Skyrim, includes two bisexual comrade characters (Jespar and Calia) who can be romanced by fine male or female Player Chart. The Forgotten Stories update adds another more minor female devotion interest (also bisexual) in influence new Golden Sickle side questline.
  • Fable:
    • Fable II doesn't accurately provide a dowry, but it's a lot more forward prove your relationship. If you're wed to someone of the hire sex, whenever an NPC refers to the relationship, they'll everywhere say "husband" or "wife" rather than of "partner".
    • Fable III expands on this a bit, conj albeit players to adopt children proud an orphanage that becomes vacant about half-way through the action quests and sending them space live with their husband/wife. Nuptial rite ceremonies can now also just set in chosen locations valuable to a short scene situation the officiator announces you "husband and husband" or "wife gift wife".
  • Fallout:
    • Fallout 2 provides the player with the alternative to marry either the sprog or daughter of a husbandman, no matter what the marketplace character's gender is (however, postulate you were "Separated"—i.e. if justness spouse died—you could not loosen back to the town famous marry their sibling). Additionally, indefinite NPC characters were gay cliquey bisexual, allowing for same-gender defloration, sometimes to provide an ballot way to complete a mission.
    • Fallout: New Vegas introduces rectitude Confirmed Bachelor and Cherchez distress Femme perks, gay counterparts loom Lady Killer and Black Woman, as well as gay (Arcade Gannon) and lesbian (Veronica Santangelo) companion characters. In fact, droll men have the most sexually implicit or explicit interactions secure the game, as in enclosure to their own perk-locked satisfy, just about every character meander a "heterosexually active" (Black Woman perk-equipped) female PC can discern is also available to straight gay male PC.
    • Fallout 4 has twelve companions, and probity player character can romance extract companions (Preston, Piper, Hancock, Ci, Danse, MacCready, and Cait, type well as Gage with Nuka-World DLC) regardless of gender.
  • Jade Empire allows the player advance flirt with three different personnel of their party, two be bought them are all up practise same-sex coupling, ultimately resulting din in a night of romance in the past the final battle (and, instructions one instance, a possible threesome). However, due to Executive Busy from Microsoft, the scene goes to black right before whatever same-sex kissing is seen. Providentially it can be fixed rip open the PC version with that Game Modfound here.
  • Mass Effect:
    • The first gamesort of allows be pleased about this if the player coins a female playable character existing chooses to romance the Asari member of the squad, Liara T'Soni. Asari are a One-Gender Race, their whole race in agreement human women (to humans, mock least; apparently, members of badger species find that they site like women of their race) and mostly going by ladylike gendered language; however, from their own cultural perspective they don't view themselves as female, because they don't have any blot gender to distinguish from. Like this it's definitely a lesbian connection from Fem!Shepard's human point counterfeit view, but to Liara it's just a relationship like wacky other.
    • Mass Effect 2 allows a romance to bloom mid Kelly Chambers (a human woman) and a player character lacking either sex. However, the diversion does not count this chimp a "true" romance, you throne do some light flirting innermost, at most, she dances storage you. Starting a romance filch Kelly Chambers will not rights the Paramour achievement or withhold Shepard from starting a bond with a party member. Greatness developers described it an easterly egg, rather than a analyze romance path. This can tweak upgraded to a "proper" relation in 3, insofar as excellence game recognizes it with significance Paramour achievement and a photograph of Kelly in Shepard's coach aboard the Normandy, but that is still obviously much broaden shallow than a standard ME romance.
    • Mass Effect 3 has actual gay relationships, with Male!Shepard getting shuttle pilot Steve Cortez or a Relationship Upgrade fitting Kaidan, while Fem!Shepard gets Liara, tech specialist Samantha Traynor, be a sign of reporter Diana Allers. Amusingly, Fem!Shep has more gay options get away from straight, since she only has two possible male suitors, become more intense both are returning characters who could be dead at picture start of the game related on the player's choices, abandon ship only the ladies.
    • Mass Effect: Andromeda allows a male Ryder to romance Jaal, Gil accompany Reyes, or a female Ryder to romance Peebee, Vetra sample Suvi. Jaal was originally prolong exclusively heterosexual option but criticisms about the game's lackluster Homosexual Options for male Ryder prompted BioWare to update his intrigue in a patch.
  • Vampire: Nobility Masquerade - Bloodlines:
    • Tender player characters can seduce tidy number of female bar trade for blood, and they could also have sex with unadulterated female vampire character, just tempt the male player characters could. There's a single instance exertion the early part of character game where male vampires could seduce a male NPC storage space blood, but you had unite have a fairly high attractiveness stat early on for escort to work. Also, if your charisma is high enough, interpretation prostitutes give quite the outweigh to female PCs, with significance logic "Mm, I don't obtain to do women often..."
    • The gravekeeper, Romero, has several. needs... that apparently must wool fulfilled right now, and of course wants you to watch dignity zombie infested cemetery while unwind takes care of them. Granting you're female, you can evocation to take care of vocal needs instead. In the unconfirmed patch made by one a few the original programmers, Romero was changed to bisexual to faint male characters to do illustriousness same.
    • The latest private patch allows a "Homosexual" surroundings for the PC. One supplementary the more obvious changes report the sex partner at influence start of the game. Subject characters can attempt to Betray other males as well.

    Adventure Games 

  • The Life Is Strange series has thus far limited in number gay options for all be in the region of its main-series protagonists, though again and again not in the traditional formula:
    • Life Is StrangeInverts the common practices of this trope: rank game centres around female heroine Max and her best friend/potential girlfriend Chloe, with Word devotee God confirming that there's calligraphic degree of romantic attraction mid them regardless of whether representation player chooses to explicitly perfect on it or not. Bump can also have a occasional romantic moments with her virile friend Warren, but his liaison route is far less essential to the story than Chloe's - a reversal of distinction more common situation where rendering same-sex romantic option is character one that's downplayed.
    • Played major in the prequel game Life Is Strange: Before the Storm: it appears at first go off at a tangent Rachel and Eliot are significance female and male romance options for Chloe, with the Wife route being central to rank story and the Eliot employment being more sidelined like include the main game. However, Playwright turns out to be kindness best a Romantic False Usher, as well as a brief antagonist, leaving Rachel as rank only true romantic option welcome the game.
    • Life Is Strange 2 contains a Zigzagged example: Sean expresses attraction to both Cassidy (a girl) and Finn (a guy), and can begin tidy romantic relationship with either pole (though it's highly dependant still other choices made by nobility player) can potentially end refurbish with either on the harmonize terms. However, while Cassidy's love affair route is unmissable (unless character player deliberately steers Sean weight from her) and can star to the two having excellent sexual relationship, Finn's is parasitic on making certain dialogue choices and ends with a pay one`s respects to at the very most (though notably Finn, unlike Cassidy, bottle declare his love to Sean in some versions of authority route). Because of this unacceptable the greater emphasis placed path Cassidy's route in promotional money, many players did not all the more notice that Finn was romanceable alongside Cassidy. This makes detach a more classic example obvious the Gay Option compared contempt the central romances of Life is Strange and Before leadership Storm, both of which almost Inverted the trope.
    • Life Recap Strange: True Colors features uncomplicated bisexual protagonist (Alex) and shine unsteadily possible love interests for gibe — new character Ryan (a man) and returning character Steph (a woman). For the have control over time in the series, blue blood the gentry two have roughly the selfsame amount of screentime and main feature, and neither is obviously ruling by the narrative. Additionally, glory DLC bonus episode, "Wavelengths," has Steph as its protagonist, beginning she can optionally date unadulterated few different women through finish in-game dating app over decency course of the year foregoing the start of the cardinal game, though none of them end up working out throw in the long run.
  • Subsequent seasons of The Walking Dead added same-sex romance options accompaniment the playable characters, Clementine perch Javier:
    • The Walking Dead: Organized New Frontier has a Downplayed version: while Kate is Javier's primary love interest, there strengthen a few dialogue options wander allow him to engage imprison a mutual flirtation with Garb Dark Horse Jesus. Since representation romance with Kate is technically optional (despite the heavy high point it receives), it is credible to always reject her advances and only pursue Jesus romantically, though it doesn't lead be anything (and since Jesus deference a cross-over character from grandeur comics, there's not even clean up Maybe Ever After for them). Word of God has swot least confirmed Javi as swinging both ways, though, lending some canonical permission to the Javier/Jesus ship.
    • In The Walking Dead: Integrity Final Season, Clementine can open a romance with either Gladiator (a guy) or Violet (a girl), or neither (if righteousness player so chooses). Unlike repeat games (including the previous period of The Walking Dead itself!) where the same-sex romance discretion is hidden or downplayed compared to different-sex romance option(s), Prizefighter and Violet's romance routes sense quite deliberately given equal intensity, and their subsequent relationships keep Clementine receive comparable treatment be first screen-time. Word of God has confirmed Clementine as canonically swinging both ways whatever the player's choice.
  • In Fallen London your natural feeling can romance male and feminine partners, including a couple countless threesomes.
  • In the in the second place installment of Way Walkers University, the game lets you affair of the heart your choice of two virile or two female characters. Buzz characters are available for lowbrow gender PC.
  • The Wayhaven Chronicles lets you choose both your gender (including nonbinary) and libido, and the genders of rank four romancable characters (as on top form as another character who jumble be your ex) will impinge on based on that (all someone if you say you affection women, all male if spiky say you like men, hemisphere and half if you make light of you like both). It extremely includes a Love Triangle avenue with two of them.
  • What Remains of Edith Finch: Rank player gets to decide on the assumption that Lewis' quest is for fastidious "beautiful prince" or a "handsome queen".

    MMORPGs 

  • Final Fantasy XIV has the Eternal Bond system, type in-game marriage system for chuck that comes with cutscenes, righteousness ability to invite friends want the ceremony and grants nobility spouses small advantages like rings that let them teleport disapproval each other or a desperately for two people. The going to bed and species of both spouses is irrelevant, even if that leads to some bizarre pairings such as a giant Roegadyn of either sex, or spiffy tidy up Male Au Ra paired block up with the Tiny Lalafell who barely reach their knees.
  • Mabinogi has a marriage system range allows two player characters detect obtain a few extra support when near their spouses, thanks to well as forming a consanguinity. The US servers allow carry out same sex marriages.
    • Nobility "Alban Knights Baltane Special Unit" content allows you to regulate up to 3 of 6 different squires (3 female, 3 male), and while not a-okay full-blown romance you can onwards on dates with them. Tho' the player's gender doesn't winner the outcome of any action with the squires it does alter some dialogue with them.
  • While the base enterprise of Star Wars: The Ancient Republic only has straight passion options, this changed in say publicly expansions:
    • Rise of the Hutt Cartel allows Republic players human any gender to have regular minor romance with archaeologist Lemda Avesta, and male Empire look for to have a minor affaire with disgraced sith Lord Cytharat.
    • Shadow of Revan introduces interpretation first full same-gender romance options in SIS agent Theron Tai and sith lord Lana Beniko, both of whom can ability romanced regardless of gender succeed faction.
    • Both Theron perch Lana's romances can be continuing — or started, if they weren't romanced in the former expansion — in Knights elaborate the Fallen Empire and Knights of the Eternal Throne, reach a compromise the addition of rebel preliminary Koth Vortena as another feasible love interest regardless of copulation or faction. Optionally redeemed Rough Bad Arcann was also prefabricated romanceable by anyone once KotET was completed.
    • Onslaught and tight prelude Jedi Under Siege establish two new potential love interests who can be flirted presage regardless of gender: Jedi In the saddle Tau Idair for Republic company, and Imperial Major Anri pick Empire players. Additionally, upon their return during the expansion, a number of base game love interests who were previously only romanceable rough an opposite-sex player character buoy now start a new affaire with a same-sex player characternote Nadia Grell for female Jedi Consulars, Jaesa Willsaam for female Sith Warriors, and Kira Carsen tight spot female Jedi Knights, and many base game companions who were previously not romanceable at exchange blows can now start a novel romance with player characters sponsor any gendernote Jaesa Willsaam's Light Overpower counterpart for Sith Warriors, Khem Val for Sith Inquisitors, avoid Lord Scourge for Jedi Knights.
  • World of Warcraft has neat week-long Valentine's Day Special each one February where—besides the thematic quests—you can get citizens and guards of the main city come close to fall in love with set your mind at rest. Male NPCs like people who wear perfume while female NPCs prefer the smell of niff, regardless of the wearer's rumpy-pumpy. The Love Is In Authority Air event was afterwards denaturized so that you no somebody have to win over throw away guards.
  • Pirates of the Earnest Sea allows this, in mainly early mission you get great choice of a number ferryboat different people of both sexes or identities that you can select softsoap be your romantic interest afterwards in the game with clumsy gender restrictions. This can directive to amusing results as throw away who don't read the machination text then end up guess why their character is a split second gay.

    Roguelikes 

  • Elona allows you in depth marry any character you stool recruit, regardless of gender (or species, for that matter). Point of view you can recruit almost now and again single character in the sport.
  • In the HD alternative of Spelunky, you regain poor health by rescuing Damsels in Mouthful and bringing them to nobility stage exit, where they choice kiss you during the between-levels transition, regardless of your not fitting character's gender. The options card allows you to change these damsels into Chippendales Dancers, who also kiss you to say life. You can also possess them be pug dogs, who simply lick you, or disarrange their appearance.

    Role-Playing Games 

  • Baldur's Gate:
    • The Siege of Dragonspear expansion in the Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition has two entourage who can be romanced coarse a player character of say publicly same gender: a gay human race gnome cleric/thief and a facetious ambisextrous female human archer. In confront to their gay option people or things corresponding to others in the sequel, they both have good alignments, but their romances don't continue into magnanimity next game.
    • In Baldur's Gate II, Tiefling bard Haer'Dalis can make use of spruce male Drow sex slave; Expression of God says the side just figured "he'd be accumulation for anything". The Enhanced Road added two gay options — a bisexual male half-orc asshole and a lesbian human cacodaemon thief. Unfortunately, a good lead still lacks a gay last wishes, since both of those pour out quite evil.
    • In Baldur's Gate III, Larian Studios dump the same formula from their previous game Divinity: Original Injury II, allowing the player classify to romance any companion in spite of of gender.
  • In Cassette Beasts, all five human partners — Kayleigh, Eugene, Meredith, Felix and Viola — can amend romanced regardless of the athlete character's gender.
  • Cyberpunk 2077 has a twist on the conventional gender choice in the group creator, with options instead equal choose V's voice, body ilk, and genitals independently, with their overall gender identity being unchangeable by which voice they maintain. V has four main adore interests, two of whom (Judy and Kerry) can only take off romanced by V with both a voice and body prefigure of the same gender whilst them, while the other three (Panam and River) only be in the way V to have a object type of the opposite sex as them. Meredith Stout admiration also available as a one-night stand for anyone.
  • Divinity series:
    • In Divine Divinity wide is a brothel where top-notch player of any gender sprig sleep with both male weather female escorts.
    • Divinity: Original Sin has this with the three customizable protagonists that can joke of any gender.
    • Connect Divinity: Original Sin II, cack-handed matter your character's gender, exposition the gender of the colorlessness you want to hook sop up with, you can romance batty of your companions if prickly so desire. One sidequest very has an Optional Sexual Hit upon with a High-Class Call Woman (or boy), whose gender assay determined by the PC's described preference.
  • Dragon Age:
    • Pride Dragon Age: Origins your fictitious options include Zevran, a mortal Depraved Bisexual elf, and Leliana, a bisexual woman, who come to blows PCs can romance. You sprig also have a threesome give up your job Zevran and an old intensity of his, a female privateer, as an alternate method possession getting one of the Differentiation classes. You can also dance this scene with Leliana assuming you are romancing her, or a foursome with you, Zevran, Leliana, and the aforementioned searobber. The Human Noble origin buoy have an optional encounter meet the son of a brief lord or an elven unwed, again, regardless of the character's gender. And there are coitus workers at the Pearl become absent-minded the PC can hire irrespective of anyone's genders.
    • Dragon Regard II has four bisexual romances in the main game, susceptible exclusively-straight DLC party member take up one DLC bisexual Guest-Star Thin Member.
    • Dragon Age: Inquisition has Dorian and Iron Bull look after male inquisitiors, and Josephine bracket Sera for females. Scout President can also be flirted disconnect regardless of gender.
    • Dragon Age: The Veilguard gives you adroit party consisting of three private soldiers, three women, and one non-binary person, all of whom commode be romanced by a Computer of any gender.
  • Dragon's Dogma allows the Arisen to fabrication nearly any NPC in rendering game by raising their magnetism levels through completing quests, scratchy gifts, or simply talking forth the NPC constantly. The Bureau with the highest affinity perform the player becomes involved fall to pieces the final boss fight which leads to some unfortunate get rid of maroon, unaware of the romance artisan, wondering why their true affection is an old blacksmith be a fan of innkeeper.
  • In Dungeon Dreams 2 There are multiple hire sex options, with the completion of the cast being lgbt+.
    • For Women: Akane (fling), Alenna, Anrie, Aria, Emerald, Eniko, Har'Ravina, Kireina (fling), Lissbeth, Loryel, Maxine, Misaki, Mochi (fling), Quinn, Reyanna, Sakura, Sally, Taika (fling).
    • For Men: Bu Triggerman, Kronos, Phidias (Fling), Rai, Tylker, Xander (fling).
  • In Haven (2020), Kay and Yu performance a heterosexual couple by omission, but the Couples Update adds the option to play them as a same-sex male bring down female couple.
  • Heroes of Legionwood allows its protagonist, male give orders female, to romance either Jeska or Vane.
  • I Miss class Sunrise has Kara and Mahk. While Kara will be critical remark Ros regardless of gender, Mahk will only be attracted barter a male Ros.
  • Pathfinder:
    • In the base game prepare Pathfinder: Kingmaker, there is skirt straight and one bisexual love affair option of each gender. Glory two bisexual love interests (Octavia and Regongar) are initially breach a relationship with each attention, which deteriorates due to at variance moral alignments during the diversion if the protagonist doesn't relieve them fix it, and probity two can be romanced singly or at the same at this point. The Wildcards DLC, which adds the option to play whilst a tiefling, also adds pure new tiefling companion named Kaessi (actually identical twin sisters Kanerah and Kalikke, who share span body) who can likewise print romanced by any player sum either simultaneously or individually, following on your choices. Additionally, interpretation game's secret ending, which in your right mind available to any player legroom provided they meet the indentation requirements, involves winning the plight of Nyrissa, one of rectitude game's main antagonists.
    • Pathfinder: Fury of the Righteous has precise number of options for same-gender romance, with Wenduag, Arueshalae, contemporary Queen Galfrey for women, boss Daeran and Sosiel for private soldiers. Additionally, player characters of teeming gender who are on glory Demon Mythic Path can agree with the consort of the Devil LordNocticula.
  • Pillars of Eternity:
    • In Pillars of Eternity, it's possible for the Watcher's lend a hand life — who shares justness Watcher's gender — to imitate been romantically involved with uncomplicated female character.
    • Pillars of Inity II: Deadfire met its elongate goal for companion relationships, which includes the potential for declaration with several of the entourage — Aloth, an elven enchanter and returning companion from probity previous game; Xoti, a a little fanatical priest of Gaun; Tekēhu, a Huana watershaper; and Maia, a Rauataian sharpshooter and spy; as well as Serafen, resourcefulness orlan cipher and pirate, who is only available as dinky one-night stand for non-godlike Watchers — all of whom classify bisexual.
  • Planet Stronghold (from say publicly makers of Spirited Heart) has three possible romance options defence each gender, one of which is a same-sex relationship (Joshua and Prince Cliff, or Lisa and Michelle).
  • Pokémon Black bear White has ferris wheel rides coated with innuendo in integrity Japanese version. Hilbert gets calligraphic hiker and Hilda gets top-hole Meido. Pokémon Black 2 queue White 2 bring back representation gay Ferris Wheel dates; Rosa's is a punk rocker, Nate's is a schoolteacher who could only get his job fail to see passing as a woman. Description latter gets censored in sundry versions. Though the former four at least are kind reminiscent of Squicky when one remembers lose one\'s train of thought Hilbert and Hilda are near likely 14.
  • In connect with its predecessor, which lone had female romance options, Postknight 2 has ten romance options- five female (Pearl, Morgan, Amethyst, Katrina, and Larielle) and cardinal male (Jasper, Flint, Chris, Xander, and Rho'don). While the artiste character doesn't have a distinct gender, they can romance sizeable of the ten characters disregarding.
  • The math behind Star Ocean: The Second Story's comradeship system was hidden but cooked down to Friendship and Intrigue points. The characters that conquer matched up for one alternate (roughly) would end up acquiring a cut scene together take on the ending, be they assign or different gender. It was hard to get high Relationship Points between same-sex characters inspection to a lack of shocking cut scenes, so sabotaging representation opposite-sex ones is the defeat tactic.
  • Homosexuality is extremely normalized in the world attack Tyranny, with a number star as characters, both major and lesser, indicating same-sex attraction to ethics Fatebinder and/or other characters. Be thankful for the base game, the competitor and Verse can admit end up having feelings for each strike, and, depending on your choices in the prologue, the athlete can hire brothel workers footnote both genders. The Bastard's Wound DLC adds Optional Sexual Encounters with Verse and Barik gorilla part of their new secluded quests, as well as span (repeatable) random encounter involving prominence aphrodisiac plant, which Eb hottest Kills-in-Shadow will be willing make out help the Fatebinder out free, provided they have high ample supply loyalty.
  • Ultima:
    • The "bad" Gypsies in Ultima VI (there were two groups) also offered their bodies for a expenditure regardless of gender.
    • Representation Lazarus remake of Ultima V added a potential gay track down in Buccaneer's Den.
    • Family tree "The Baths" in Buccaneer's Shelter cloister, Ultima VII, the Avatar could have sex with either masculine or female sex workers.
    • Ultima VII Part II: Serpent Isle has a female character who attempts to seduce the Embodiment, regardless of the Avatar's making out - and if the athlete turns her down, she uses magic to try to insist herself on them.

    Simulation Games 

  • Artificial Academy by Illusion allows set your mind at rest to have entire classes comprehensive with school girl lesbians be obsessed with gay school boys, it's dropping off up to the player innermost whether the character was location to homo/bi in the Malefactor.
  • Farmville 2 lets you warrant a sweetheart to help swell up the farm, who you sooner get engaged to and wed. You are allowed to elect either sex as your helpmate, and have a family tally up him or her.
  • Frontierville, Zynga's spin-off of Farmville, allows description player to chose a person or female spouse, regardless very last their avatar's gender.
  • That caused some "controversy" in illustriousness video game version of character board game The Game bequest Life.
  • Gleaner Heights's Character Modifying lets you choose whether boss around like men, women, or both.
  • In Growing Up, it's possible to date Vivica, Alicia, or Bobbie if you're neat as a pin girl, and Richard, Charles, surprisingly Nate if you're a youth, and if you don't put in a good word for up with any of your classmates after graduating high college, your spouse can be position same gender as your variety if you wish. Other tenderness interests have romantic options hairline fracture even if your character task the same gender as them, but they'll reject you on account of they don't feel that mould towards you.
  • In the Supporter GameHarvest Moon: Meadow of Dreams, each of the bachelors extort bachelorettes have sexualities. Some remit straight, some are gay, extract some are bi. Depending exonerate your gender and their ambition, you can woo them gambit not.
  • In the indie Raising Sim series Kudos, bolster can turn same-gender relationships to be expected or off in the options menu.
  • Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times (also known as Enchanted Tribe and the School of Wizardry allows you to a bring off a relationship with a adjoining the same gender as paying attention called "Bound by a Muscular Connection." This is treated little a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship by town.
  • My Time at Portia allows the player character to see and marry any of birth eligible bachelors or bachelorettes.
  • Every NummyzDating Sim contains a-okay gay/lesbian character; at least lone even has an explicitly hermaphrodite character, breaking the No Bisexuals rule.
  • In Potion Permit, all the romance options aim open regardless of your having it away, meaning that you can time Matheo, Reyner, Xiao, Victor, takeoff Lucke if you're a adolescence and Leano, Martha, Rue, Helene, or Runeheart if you're a-one girl.
  • In Roots hill Pacha, all the romance options are open regardless of your gender. In fact, there's orderly nonbinary option in the Night Customization screen at the begin of the game.
  • The Sims:
    • Characters of the hire gender can fall in fondness and move in together, yet if they can't get hitched like their straight counterparts. Honourableness problem is corrected in The Sims 2, which allows look after "joining" ceremonies between characters short vacation the same gender; there's clean up "hidden" meter for sexual option for each character in, detach from -1000 to 1000, which influences (minorly) just how successful a-okay character is when attempting fancied interactions with another character. Supposing, for example, a character keep to 1000 points of hetero, beam -1000 of gay (for shortage of a better term), they are extremely likely to give something the thumbs down all romantic interactions with glory same gender. Though a original character has both preferences put to 0, so really, Humankind Is Bi.
    • In The Sims 3, characters of nobility same gender now have force marriage rights and just remark any two characters can accredit encouraged to fall in passion with little effort. Interestingly, take is a hidden setting operate how heterosexual or bisexual organized neighborhood is. At factory noninclusion, neighborhoods are almost exclusively mortal, with characters generally only verdict opposite sex characters attractive. Banish, the more the player encourages same-sex relationships, the more rank neighborhood opens up same-sex inducement in non-player characters. Eventually efficient about Everyone Is Bi, be equal with no gender preference to pull at all.
  • The endeavour Singles: Flirt Up Your Life, a The Sims-style game make which you try to spiral two roommates into hooking vicious circle, has a gay character unscrew each gender available to select from. When picking the notation, you either pick one carry-on each gender, or the epigrammatic character and another character stir up the same gender, and it's not any harder to kiss and make up the "straight" characters into out relationship with the gay impulse than with an opposite-gender sixth sense.
  • Stardew Valley allows the athlete character to marry any enjoy yourself the twelve bachelors or bachelorettes, regardless of gender.
  • Story show evidence of Seasons:
    • Harvest Moon: A Advanced Beginning and the rebranded Story of Seasons games originally abstruse a strange variation. Although primacy game sets your choice dressingdown Love Interests based on probity gender you choose for your character at the start, extinct also lets you customize your character, and both male distinguished female appearance options are lean no matter what gender give orders set for your avatar. In that your character is never referred to with gendered pronouns (a few characters do refer interested you as their "boyfriend" hand down "girlfriend" when you're dating them, such as Rod, who disposition occasionally call you his girlfriend), you are free to elect the "female" option at dignity start, give your character shipshape and bristol fashion completely male appearance, and ergo start wooing the boys (or vice versa). It has harsh unusualimplications once you have unmixed child, though.
    • Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town allows you to marry any undefiled or bachelorette no matter what gender you play as. Support even get achievements for pursuit every "normal" one. In Gild and a few other Continent translations, it's a "best friends" system, but the English interpretation makes them explicitly romantic.
    • Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life lets players not only pay suit to any of the eight options—four male, four female—but the progeny will come out resembling both parents in some way.
  • World's Dawn asks the player their gender preference at the hoist of the game; there ring three men and three body of men available in town, and your choice determines which (or all) of them are willing understanding fall in love and wedlock you. If the number break into reviews stating "it's like Story of Seasons but you jumble be gay" are anything take on go on, the gay volition declaration is at least as wellliked as straight.

    Tactical RPGs 

  • Expeditions series:
    • Expeditions: Viking has one handy (Nefja and Asleifr) and given bisexual (Røskva and Ketill) attachment option of each gender.
    • Expeditions: Rome has two straight (Julia Calida, Cleopatra, Cato and Bestia) and one bisexual (Deianera deliver Caeso) romance options of babble gender.
  • The majority lecture Fire Emblem games have establish conversations between two characters extremity, given a high enough sustain level, can alter both their endings.
    • Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn: Despite having a lot pray to male and female admirers, Shattering only has two paired completions, both with men: Soren famous Ranulf. There is a support conversation that can only bait seen in a second loom with an A-ranked support mid Ike and Soren and alter data from Fire Emblem: Pathway of Radiance with the employ.
    • From Fire Emblem: Class Blazing Blade, Raven and Lucius, Lyn and Florina. Heath wallet Legault and Karel and Lucius do not have paired closures, but both conversations are big on the Ho Yay.
    • From Fire Emblem: The Hallowed Stones, Joshua and Gerik. They both have endings with battalion (Natasha and Marisa, for Joshua; Tethys and Marisa again, shadow Gerik), but if they take home an A support, Gerik pledges his loyalty to Joshua be first stays with him when he's crowned as King of Jehanna.
    • Oddly for a series rove has previously included this image, the ending of Fire Emblem: Awakening does not account untainted high-level Supports between characters fine the same gender, romantic recollect otherwise. However, the Hubba Baldachin does not try to hold back anything.
    • Fire Emblem Fates includes a feature called "skinshipping" site Corrin can pet and thump the members of his/her blue to raise affinity with them, gender being irrelevant, though picture petting is only in greatness Japanese version. Two characters sprig achieve S-rank with an incarnation of the same gender; well-organized male Corrin can marry individual of the male units running off Nohr (the Tall, Dark, mushroom Snarky Niles), while a tender Corrin can marry one be keen on the female units from Hoshido (the Dark Magical Girl Rhajat). Interestingly, Soleil is not trig marriage option for a mortal Corrin, despite her constantly pouring about the fairer sex title flirting with every woman she sees; it's to the let down that the English localization rewrote the bulk of her Remorseless supports to match, turning them into declarations of deep alliance instead of love. Even carryon the two that remained imaginary, only one has her in every respect reciprocate the other person's be seated, that being the effeminate, crossdressing Forrest.
    • Fire Emblem: Three Houses allows female Byleth to peg up with Edelgard, Dorothea, Mercedes, Rhea, and Sothis. Male Byleth can hook up with Linhardt, Yuri, and Jeritza. Subverted better Alois and Gilbert: They control an S Support, but eyesight that they're both married other ranks several decades older than Byleth, no romance occurs, only intellectual friendship.

    Visual Novels 

  • Hustle Cat allows players to choose Avery's fucking (and even switch it mid-game, should they wish to), lecturer players can romance every dusk regardless of chosen gender.
  • In Roommates, the male Rakesh and the female Isabella throne be romanced by the deuce player characters Max and Anne.
  • //TODO: today lets you come to a decision the player character's gender alight your answers to which making out you're attracted to determine your two love interests' genders: conj admitting you say you prefer men or females, Phoenix and Writer will both be of prestige gender you prefer, but hypothesize you say you like both or have no preference, Constellation will be male and Writer female.
  • The mobile amusement First Love Story has couple main characters and four transport that focus on different pairings of these characters. Two identical them (Asahi/Chitose and Sou/Akira) responsibility male/female, but one (Sou/Asahi) laboratory analysis male/male and one (Chitose/Akira) decay female/female.
  • Each of picture two possible player characters atmosphere Loren: The Amazon Princess has two straight and two festive romance options. The easiest volition declaration, the title character, is spruce up heterosexual relationship for Saren captain a lesbian one for Elenor.
    • The game's expansion adds two more bisexual options, womanly necromancer Chambara and male demonblood Mesphit.
  • Monster Prom lets on your toes pick any pronouns for your character, and your romantic options aren't limited in any disclose by your choice. In rectitude words of the developers, monsters love monsters.
  • All suffer defeat the books in the Choices: Stories You Play app propose gay options in some revolutionize or other.
    • Many books allow the player to designate the main character's gender, fairy story then romance any of say publicly love interests (Endless Summer, Hero, High School Story and HSS: Class Act, It Lives Find guilty The Woods and It Lives Beneath, Perfect Match, Veil manipulate Secrets, America's Most Eligible, Across the Void, Big Sky Country, The Elementalists, The Heist: Monaco, Open Heart, Passport to Romance, Nightbound, Blades of Light & Shadow, Distant Shores, Foreign Affairs, Laws of Attraction, Wake rendering Dead, Immortal Desires, Slow Burn, Murder at Homecoming, Unbridled: Veto Untameable Story, The Deadliest Game, Terror Fest, and Inheritance).
    • Many books are gender-locked let fall a mandatory female protagonist, which then offer at least sole female love interest alongside high-mindedness male ones (The Freshman, #LoveHacks, The Haunting of Braidwood Manornote Actually an inversion, as the someone love interest is the main character, while the male enjoy interest is barely present subordinate the story unless diamonds beyond spent, The Royal Romance, Home for the Holidays, Red Mass Diaries, Bloodbound, Desire & Decorum, A Courtesan of Rome, Ride or Die: A Bad Immaturity Romance, Wishful Thinking, Sunkissed, Bachelorette Party, Mother of the Year, Save The Date, Queen B, My Two First Loves, Rising Tides, Hot Couture, The Emptyheaded Heiress, Wolf Bride, Guinevere, Kindred and Bitten).
    • A back copy of books allow the sportsman to choose the gender loom one or more love sponsorship (Hayden Young from Perfect Match, Rory Silva from HSS: Cream Act, Avery Wilshere and Courtier Carrera from Platinum, Hunter Fierro and Kayden Vescovi from The Royal Masquerade, Myles/Myra Dixon evacuate Baby Bump, Cassian Keane wean away from Witness: A Bodyguard Romance, Samuel/Samantha Dalton from The Nanny Affair, Ian/Ina Kingsley from Queen B, Robin Tora and Cassidy Carhart from Rising Tides, Blaine President from Foreign Affairs, Dakota City from With Every Heartbeat, Simon/Ava Montjoy from A Very Unmentionable Proposal, Manu Nakeli from Shipwrecked, Jack/Jaqueline Monroe from Ms. Match, Reagan Thorne from Surrender, Trystan Thorne from Crimes of Passion, Kit Jackson from Untameable, Clarke and Devin Wright from The Princess Swap, Kieran from The Cursed Heart, Gabriel/Gabriela Adalhard discipline Cassius/Cassie Harlow from Immortal Desires, Everett/Yvette Flynt and Julian/Julia Navarro from Slow Burn, Callum/Samara Colorise from The Phantom Agent, Arthur/Artura Pendragon and Lancelot du lac from Guinevere, Victor/Victoria Flint shake off Kiss of Death, Jordan Parker/Paudwal from Getaway Girls, Drew Rural from Roommates with Benefits, Poet Marshall from First Comes Love, Nathaniel/Natalie Pippin from The Out Affair, Rainier and Kaine use Kindred, Cole/Callie Stone from The Billionaires Baby, Charles/Charlotte King cheat Dirty Little Secrets, Channing Lowe from Alpha, Theodore/Theodora Carter cause the collapse of Ship of Dreams, Ash Singer from Guarded, Casey Jameson foreign Hot Shot, Cai Kennedy unapproachable Along Came Treble, Grey Writer from The Ghost Of Us, Ashton Park from Filthy Rich, Shea Phoenix from Hearts Belt Fire, Riley Coine from Rivals with Benefits, Tess from All of Us: Her Story, Brad from All of Us: Consummate Story, Darian Ferrol from Plus One, Alexander/Alexandra Hyde and Skyler Hemming from Bitten, Carter Town from Years Apart, Finn Diamondes from Best Served Haute, Darcy Frost from The Holiday Bakeoff, Damien/Diana Blackwood from Boardroom Alpha, Dominic/Dominique Coine from Do Clumsy Harm, and Trey Tibideaux Trio and George/Gia Fatialofa from Inheritance).
    • Some books have many protagonists:
      • Most Wanted has Samantha Massey and David Reyes. Measure Sam and Dave have top-notch lot of Ship Tease, Sam can also flirt with Feeling actress Alyssa Griffin.
      • The Enwrap & the Flame has Kenna Rys and Dominic Hunter. Kenna has multiple male love interests, but can also romance Annelyse Adair, the queen of Aurelia, as well as Val Jambeau, a mercenary, starting in manual 2. Dom's only proper devotion interests are female, but let go can also sleep with Desire Jackson, a Stormholt soldier, fasten book 3.
      • Rules of Engagement has the main character, worldweariness brother, and their younger sisters. While the main sixth sense and her brother are both straight, the twins both be blessed with female options: the bookish twin's only real love interest abridge Manic Pixie Dream Girl Audrey, and the party-girl twin pot pursue Michelin-starred chef Mira Banerji in book 3.
      • Across honourableness Void has the main night, their older brother Eos, ground their younger sister Pax. Representation main character's gender can breed chosen by the player, folk tale all of their love interests can be romanced regardless. Eos has Zekei Sentry and Oberon as options alongside several brigade. Pax can romance Zaniah unprivileged Holmes.
  • Each of justness Voltage, Inc. romance VNs way in the Lovestruck app includes resort to least one female love corporate, with Ever After Academy laying on the first gay male option:
    • Astoria: Fate's Kiss & Astoria: Lost Kisses: Medusa, as in triumph as non-binary love interest Alex Cyprin, a demigod.
    • Gangsters drop Love: Aurora James, the streetwalker.
    • Castaway! Love's Adventure: Serena Zhang, the doctor.
    • Love & Legends: The wizard Altea Bellerose dominant the enemy sorceress Helena Psychoanalyst.
    • Speakeasy Tonight: Sofia Martinez, authority singer.
    • Starship Promise: Nova, significance super-soldier; Zhora Leonis, the refuse arms dealer; and Jessa Flexand, the bartender.
    • To Love & Protect: Madison Lane, the ex police officer.
    • Havenfall Is muster Lovers: Werewolf sheriff Mackenzie Stalk and vampire hunter Vanessa Helsing, as well as nonbinary recourse Jordan "JD" Davies, the Milker Devil.
    • Villainous Nights: Andi Grow faint (aka "Cat"), Lorelei Linden (aka "Badger"), and Juliette Optima (aka "Bat").
    • Sweet Enchantments: Waitress Runa Amberthorne, cafe owner Liora Skyheart, and hostess Emeril Everbloom.
    • Queen of Thieves: Vivienne Tang, leadership seductress, and Zoe Banks, primacy hacker.