List of video games with LGBT characters
The following is a list of confirmed video games with gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender characters, including any others falling under the LGBT umbrella term. The numbers in this list are possibly higher due to fact that some characters remained unconfirmed, unsourced or controversial.
History
During the 1980s, characters that can be argued as identifying as LGBT were rarely shown in a realistic or non-stereotypical context and were often the objects of ridicule or jokes.[1]
In the 1990s, games (often Japanese ones) continued to use stereotypical LGBT characters which did not reflect the diversity in LGBT communities. However, more efforts were found to make more diverse and less one-dimensional characters.[2]
In 2018, Gamesradar's Sam Greer pored through thousands of gaming titles and found 179 games with any LGBT representation.[3] Of those 179 games, only 83 have queer characters who are playable characters. And of those, only eight feature a main character who is explicitly pre-written as queer as opposed to them being queer as a character creation option.
1980s
Year | Title | Character(s) | Classification | Notes |
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1985 | Le crime du parking | Paco | Gay | The culprit in the murder mystery is revealed to be the tailor, Paco, who is gay and deals drugs.[4][5] |
1985 | Le mur de Berlin va sauter | Carlus | Gay | The main antagonist and left-wing terrorist Carlos, who wants to blow up the Berlin Wall, is gay and a lot of the action is spent in gay nightclubs and public baths.[6] |
1986 | Moonmist | Vivien Pentreath | Lesbian | In one of the possible storylines it is revealed that Vivien, a friend of Lord Jack, was in a relationship with his former fiancée Deirdre—before her apparent suicide—and was jealous that she chose Lord Jack over her.[7][8] |
Deirdre Hallam | Bisexual woman | |||
1988 | Caper in the Castro | Tracker McDyke | Lesbian | A murder mystery problem solving game for Apple Mac computers written in the HyperCard language, distributed on underground gay bulletin boards, starring the lesbian detective Tracker McDyke. C. M. Ralph, who wrote the game, later released a straightwashed version called "Murder on Main Street" and published by Heizer Software.[9][10] |
Tessy LaFemme | Gay/Drag Queen | |||
1988 | Super Mario Bros. 2 | Birdo | Trans woman | In the first-edition manual for the North American release of the game, Birdo is referred to as a "male who believes that he is a female" and would rather be called "Birdetta", making her the first transgender character for Nintendo.[11][12] In the Japanese version, Birdo is referred as "Catherine" where it is also stated that the character is a man who wishes to be a woman.[13] In later printings, mention of Birdo being male was omitted, and further not included in most later games with the character.[11] |
1989 | Circuit's Edge | Yasmin | Trans woman | The game features a transgender woman named Yasmin alleged to be the player character's former lover, and a gay man named Saied.[14][15] |
Saied | Gay | |||
1989 | Phantasy Star II | Usvestia | Gay | Usvestia will teach the MUSIK piano technique needed to progress in the game more cheaply to male characters because they "look cute".[16] In the English version, he instead says "He looks smart," and the gender-based disparity is left unexplained.[17] |
1990s
Year | Title | Character(s) | Classification | Notes |
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1990 | Rise of the Dragon | Patrons of the Pleasure Dome | Gay | In an establishment called the Pleasure Dome that caters to gay patrons, among other things. One of its patrons is a woman posing as a man posing as a woman.[8] |
1992 | The Dagger of Amon Ra | Two female lovers | Lesbian | This game features a woman from a small town who gets a job for a New York paper in the 1920s. Two of the women she meets are involved in a secret love affair.[8] |
1992 | Ultima VII: The Black Gate | Avatar | Potentially gay, lesbian or bisexual | In the House of Baths at Buccaneer's Den, the player (the "Avatar") can pay for the services of male and female sex workers, regardless of the player's gender.[18] |
Sex workers | Bisexual | |||
1992 | Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender | Rex Nebular | Genderqueer | The game requires the male hero to change his sex on a planet where women rule.[19] |
1992 | Arthur's Teacher Trouble | Mr. Ratburn | Gay | Arthur's Teacher Mr. Ratburn is actually gay, at the time this Living Books PC game was released, his sexual orientation was unknown, but in the 2019 TV episode of Arthur, Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone, he came out as gay and actually marries a man named Patrick. |
1993 | Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle | A mage | Bisexual | A mage sexually proposes the player's character regardless of the character's gender.[8] The player is given the choice to accept or decline. |
1993 | Dracula Unleashed | Alfred Horner | Gay | Alfred Horner is a gay man who co-owns a bookstore. This was the first time a gay character in a computer game was given a speaking role.[8] |
1993 | Return of the Phantom | Charles | Gay | Charles is portrayed as an effeminate theater director. He is one of the good guys that helps the playable character, a French inspector, solve the mystery of the Phantom of the Opera once and for all.[20] |
1993 | Police Quest: Open Season | Bob Hickman | Gay | A gay bar is featured in the game. The player is a police officer trying to track down the murderer of his partner. His quest leads him to discover that his partner had a double life as a cross-dresser at a West Hollywood transgender bar.[8] |
1994 | Streets of Rage 3 | Ash | Gay | Ash acts as a boss in the game and portrayed with "tight clothes and effeminate movements".[20] He was censored in some versions of the game.[21] |
1994 | EarthBound | Tony | Gay | Tony who has subtle attractions to his best friend Jeff, according to EarthBound creator, Shigesato Itoi.[22] |
1995 | Eternal Filena | Filen | Lesbian | Filena and Lila are lovers.[23][24] |
Lila | ||||
1995 | The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery | Baron Von Glower | Gay | The antagonist Baron Von Glower pursues the protagonist Gabriel Knight sexually and eventually leads him to be turned into a werewolf.[8][19] |
1995 | Chrono Trigger | Flea | Genderqueer | Flea, a major villain, is genderfluid and/or gender nonconforming.[8] Notably, Flea stated in a self-referential manner "Male or female, what difference does it make? Power is beautiful, and I've got the power."[19] |
1995 | The Orion Conspiracy | Danny McCormack and his boyfriend | Gay | This is the first computer game to use the word homosexual. The main character, Devlin McCormack, lives on a space station where he investigates the murder of his son Danny McCormack and stops an alien invasion. His investigation leads him through the seedy, criminal underworld of the station, where he discovers that his son was homosexual by talking with his son's boyfriend.[8] |
1995 | True Love | Daisuke | Potentially bisexual | At the end of the game, the player character—default name is Daisuke—may attempt to start a relationship with any of the ten available girls, or with his best friend Kazuhiko as the only gay option. Depending on the choices taken and interactions experienced throughout the game, each girl and Kazuhiko may or may not be available for a relationship.[25] |
Kazuhiko Miyoshi | Gay | |||
1996 | Bahamut Lagoon | Sendak | Gay | Sendak is an older wizard who at one point flirts with the male protagonist, Byuu. The player can choose to accept or reject these advances.[26] |
1996 | Blazing Dragons | Sir Blaze | Gay | Sir Blaze, a dragon knight is implied to be gay similar to the cartoon.[2] |
Trivet | Trivet is a dragon jester who works for the king. He hates being a jester and is trying to look for another job. He learns about hypnotism. He hypnotizes Flicker into believing he is Princess Flame. The effect is temporary and Flicker goes back to normal. When Trivet tries to hypnotize Flicker again; Flicker deflects it onto Trivet by making him believe he is Flame. Trivet-as-Flame flirts with Sir Loungealot for a few scenes. When Sir Loungealot kisses Trivet; it snaps him out of his hypnosis. Sir Longealot realizes he wasn't kissing Flame but Trivet. However, Trivet happily thinks that Sir Loungealot would care about him in that way much to the dragon knight's repulsion.[2] | |||
1996 | Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh | Curtis Craig | Bisexual man | Curtis is the game's protagonist. He is also close friend with his co-worker, Trevor, who is gay. Curtis admits to his psychiatrist that he has feelings for Trevor and might be bisexual, and the two almost kiss later in the game. Curtis is also shown as having relations with his girlfriend and a S&M domme. Creators of the game talked about the mature sexual themes in the game during a 1997 interview.[27] Curtis is the first playable non-heterosexual character in a video game.[28] |
Trevor Barnes | Gay | |||
1997 | The Last Express | Sophie de Bretheuil | Lesbian | This game has the player meeting two young adult girls named Sophie de Bretheuil and Rebecca Norton who are almost always in each other's company. While at first they appear to be merely close friends, reading the diary of Recbecca suggests they are lesbians, but there are no explicitly homosexual gestures beyond hand-holding.[29] |
Rebecca Norton | ||||
1997 | SaGa Frontier | Asellus | Lesbian | Asellus, one of the main characters, was infused with mystical blood that causes her to be highly attractive to other women.[30][31] |
1997 | Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers | Beta | Gay | Beta is one of the owners of the EL-115 Club alongside his brother Alpha. Described as an "over-the-top caricature of an effeminate gay man who speaks with a lisp", Beta continually comments on the male player's attractiveness.[32] |
1998 | Star Ocean: The Second Story | Claude C. Kenny | Potentially gay, lesbian or bisexual | The player can choose to play as either Claude or Rena. They can have a friendship and romance level with each party member acquired. Ashton (a male party member) and Precis (a female party member) can go on a date with them, regardless of their gender.[8] |
Rena Lanford | ||||
Ashton Anchors | ||||
Precis F. Neumann | ||||
1998 | Fallout 2 | Player character | Potentially lesbian, gay, or bisexual | The player character can be either male or female. Miria and Davin are siblings that the player may have sex with and marry one of them, regardless of their gender.[33] The ability to marry either Miria or Davin irrespective of the player's gender marks Fallout 2 as the first game to feature a same-sex marriage.[34][35] |
Miria | Bisexual woman | |||
Davin | Bisexual man | |||
1999 | Persona 2: Innocent Sin | Tatsuya Suou | Bisexual man | Tatsuya is the game's protagonist who attends the prestigious Seven Sisters school. Jun is a Kasugayama student and Tatsuya's childhood best friend, who plays a major role in Innocent Sin as a late party-member. Jun is heavily implied to have romantic feelings towards Tatsuya throughout the game and his sexuality is confirmed by a demon contact in-game.[36]
Players can choose to have Tatsuya and Jun enter a relationship which is treated as them being lovers.[37] Tatsuya's attraction to both sexes is also implied, regardless of which character is romanced.[36] |
Jun Kurosu | Gay | |||
Anna Yoshizaka | Lesbian | Anna is a former start athlete and drop-out student from Seven Sister High. She is implied to hold romantic feelings towards the party member Yukino Mayuzumi. In the official novel where Anna retells the events of Innocent Sin as the protagonist, she confesses her one-sided feelings with the quote "I love you, and am captive to your beautiful face." referencing the poem Der Erlkönig by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.[36] | ||
Sumaru Genie | Intersex | Sumaru Genie is an intersex fortuneteller.[36] | ||
1999 | The Longest Journey | Fiona and Mickey | Lesbian | This computer game features Fiona and Mickey, a lesbian landlady and her long-time lover. It also features a gay cop.[8] |
A cop | Gay |
2000s
2000-07
Year | Title | Character(s) | Classification | Notes |
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2000 | The Sims | Sims | Potentially gay, lesbian or bisexual | All Sims can be directed to fall in love with and engage in romantic interations with others Sims of either gender.[38] |
2000 | Persona 2: Eternal Punishment | Jun Kashihara | Gay | Jun and Tatsuya from Persona 2: Innocent Sin (1999) reappeared in this game, with the former having a minor role.[37] |
Tatsuya Suou | Bisexual man | |||
Anna and Noriko | Lesbian | Anna reappears in the second game as a female track and field athlete whose relationship with her admirer Noriko contains lesbian overtones.[36] | ||
Sumaru Genie | Intersex | Sumaru Genie, the intersex fortuneteller from Persona 2: Innocent Sin (1999), appears in this game as well.[36] | ||
2000 | Final Fantasy IX | Quina Quen | Non-binary | Quina Quen is a playable character who belongs to a genderless race called the Qu. Referred to by the pronoun "s/he" throughout, the Qu's bizarre appearance offers little clue as to any intended orientation.[8] |
2001 | RuneScape | Angof | Trans woman | Angof is a female character in "The Light Within", a quest released on August 24, 2015. At some point after the quest, the player can show her a wedding ring, prompting her to tell the player she was born male, but "corrected" herself to female once she could shapeshift.[39] |
2001 | Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix | Hana Tsu-Vachel | Bisexual woman | The player character Hana Tsu-Vachel is bisexual and in a relationship with her hacker; Rain Qin. The game's advertising heavily emphasized their relationship.[40] |
Rain Qin | Lesbian | |||
2001 | Shadow Hearts | Meiyuan | Gay | Meiyuan is a gay Chinese acupuncturist.[41] |
2001 | Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty | Vamp | Bisexual men | Vamp is bisexual and his name refers to his sexual orientation.[42] He was the lover of Scott Dolph, a Navy commander.[43] |
Scott Dolph | ||||
2002 | Golden Sun: The Lost Age | Agatio | Gay | Agatio is one of the main antagonists alongside Karst.[44] |
2003 | Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic | Juhani | Lesbian | The party member Juhani is lesbian, though bugged coding on the initial release allowed her to be attracted to the player character regardless of gender. In subsequent patches, she reverts to same-sex preferences.[45] She and Belaya, another female Jedi were also heavily implied to be lovers.[46] This would make Juhani the first known gay character in the Star Wars universe.[47] |
Belaya | ||||
2003 | Deus Ex: Invisible War | Mark Finley | Gay | One of the manners which the character can gain access to the apartment of Mark Finley, Seattle's Minister of Culture, is to flirt with him at Club Vox; he will give the character his key. This only works if the character is male.[48] |
Lionel | ||||
2004 | Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations | Jean Armstrong | Gay | Trials and Tribulations localization team director Janet Hsu, in looking through all information that is given about Jean in the game, came to the conclusion that he is a gay man who likes to perform non-passing drag. Looking back at the game in 2014, Hsu said that she still thought Jean caused confusion due to the general public having a less informed and nuanced understanding of gender and sexuality at the time of the game's release.[49] |
2004 | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door | Vivian | Trans woman | Vivian is a transgender woman who is mocked by her elder sister Beldam, who misgenders her and refers to her a cross-dresser.[50] |
2004 | Fable | Player character and NPC townspeople | Potentially gay or bisexual | The male protagonist can romance and marry various characters, regardless of gender. However, while a marriage between the protagonist and a woman is treated as a legitimate marriage, one with a male NPC is treated comically and the union is referred to as "just a couple of blokes being blokes".[51] |
2004 | The Sims 2 | Sims | Potentially gay, lesbian or bisexual | Sims can romance and even marry other Sims of the same sex.[52] |
2004 | The Temple of Elemental Evil | Bertram | Gay | This computer game has an optional storyline permitting a gay marriage. In the town of Nulb, a pirate named Bertram begins flirting with male characters in the party and offers a lifetime of love and happiness in exchange for his freedom.[53] |
2004 | Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines | Player character | Potentially lesbian or bisexual | The player can have sex with female prostitutes or Jeanette as either a man or a woman.[54] |
Jeanette Voerman | Bisexual woman | The female player character is able to have implied offscreen sexual relations with Jeanette, another female character.[54] | ||
2004 | Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater | Major Raikov | Bisexual man | Major Raikov and Volgin are in a relationship.[55] |
Volgin | Gay | |||
2005 | Togainu no Chi | Akira | Gay | Akira is the protagonist and is accused of murder, being sentenced to life imprisonment. He is offered the chance to leave prison but only if he goes to Toshiman and participates and wins in the battle game Igra. Depending on choices made throughout the story, he can enter into a relationship with many other men.[56][57] |
Keisuke | Keisuke is Akira's best friend who follows him to Toshima and joins Igra to help him.[58][57] | |||
Rin | A light-hearted individual who teaches Akira how to participate in Igra.[58][57] | |||
Shiki | The strongest of Igra's fighters and Akira's "most iconic" love interest.[58] | |||
Motomi | A resident of Toshima, he doesn't take part in Igra but instead acts as an information broker.[58] | |||
2005 | Jade Empire | Last Spirit Monk | Potentially gay, lesbian or bisexual | The player—the Last Spirit Monk—can choose to play as either male or female. The player, regardless of gender, can romance Sky or Silk Fox. While only a male player can romance the Dawn Star, player can enter a ménage à trois with her and Silk Fox.[8] |
Sky | Bisexual man | |||
Silk Fox | Bisexual woman | |||
Dawn Star | ||||
2005 | Drakengard 2 | Yaha | Bisexual | Yaha is an enemy character who is in love with his old friend Urick, one of the playable characters.[59] |
2005 | Fahrenheit | Tommy | Gay | This computer and console game includes a gay stock market follower named Tommy. One of the game's protagonists is good friends with him and Tommy's knowledge of the stock trade is essential in progressing in the game. If asked, he mentions that he's dating someone.[60] |
2005 | Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories | Reni Wassulmaier | Genderqueer | Reni Wassulmaier is an adult film director. She is assigned female at birth. She undergoes four sex surgeries: female-to-male, then male-to-female, then female-to-male again, then male-to-female again. She is introduced in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (2005), as a female radio DJ. In between songs, she drops hints about previously being male.[61] |
2006 | Enchanted Arms | Makoto | Gay | Makoto is an openly gay male character.[62] |
2006 | Baten Kaitos Origins | Guillo | Genderqueer | One of the three main characters, Guillo, speaks simultaneously with the voice of both a man and a woman.[63] |
2006 | Corpse Party: BloodCovered | Seiko Shinohara | Lesbian | Seiko is shown to have romantic feelings for her best friend, Naomi Nakashima.[64] |
2006 | Bully | James "Jimmy" Hopkins | Bisexual man | Jimmy is able to kiss both boys and girls.[65] In the Xbox version the player can unlock an achievement by kissing a boy twenty times.[66] |
2006 | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories | Reni Wassulmaier | Genderqueer | In the prequel Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006), set 14 years before, she already had the first three sex changes and the objective for one mission, titled "So Long Schlong", is to take Reni to the hospital for her fourth sex change.[61] |
2007 | Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn | Heather | Lesbian | Heather is a character that the player can get on their team. She is implied to be a lesbian and claims to have joined the army to "meet cute girls".[67] |
2007 | BioShock | Sander Cohen | Gay | The insane artist Sander Cohen is confirmed to be gay by the game's creative director Ken Levine.[68] |
2007 | Clive Barker's Jericho | Cassus Vicus | Bisexual man | The Ancient Roman Governor Cassus Vicus claims it had been a while since "tasting" both genders after becoming aroused while confronting the Jericho Squad. Vicus is portrayed as overly perverted and morbidly obese and is said to practice cannibalism, sadomasochism and "blood orgies".[69] |
Abigail Black | Lesbian | Lt. Abigail Black, a telekinetic sniper and playable character, is confirmed to be lesbian.[70] | ||
2007 | Mass Effect | Commander Shepard | Potentially lesbian or bisexual | Commander Shepard is the main character in Mass Effect, and the player may choose to play as either male or female. A female Commander Shepard has two possible love interests; the male human Kaidan Alenko, and the female asari Liara T'Soni.[71] |
Liara T'Soni | Bisexual | Dr. Liara T'Soni is an asari. There is an option for a subplot romance and sexual encounter with her, regardless of the gender of Commander Shepard, the player character.[71] | ||
2007 | Assassin's Creed | Abu'l Nuquod | Gay | Abu'l Nuquod, one of the assassination targets in this historically based game, is strongly implied to be gay.[72] He believes that the people hate him because he is different, is shown caressing the cheek of one of his male guards during his angry tirade and claims that he cannot serve the cause of a God who calls him an abomination.[15] |
2008
Year | Title | Character(s) | Classification | Notes |
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2008 | Valkyria Chronicles | Dallas | Lesbian | Dallas is a female squad member whose profile states that she 'fancies women' and 'hates men'. Dallas has a crush on Alicia, the game's heroine, and her profile states that she became upset after Alicia's marriage until she became infatuated with another major character, Rosie. |
Ted | Bisexual | Ted is a bisexual squad member who has both the 'fancies women' and 'fancies men' potential abilities in his profile. | ||
Jann | Gay | Jann is a male squad member named has strong feelings for muscular men, particularly Largo. He wears makeup, has an effeminate voice and is flirty toward men, including the player character who is his commanding officer. | ||
2008 | Grand Theft Auto IV | Bernie Crane | Gay | Bernie Crane, formerly Florijan Kravić, (Serbian Cyrillic: Флоријан Кравић), a flamboyant gay lifestyle coach and friend of the protagonist, Niko Bellic. He is one of three survivors of Niko's fifteen man squad who fought in the Bosnian War. He has a secret relationship with Deputy Major Bryce Dawkins. |
2008 | Persona 4 | Kanji Tatsumi | Bisexual | Kanji Tatsumi,[8] a playable character, expresses interest in another boy (a cross dressing Naoto) and is shocked and confused about his own feelings towards him. At a later point, his Shadow Self manifests as an overly masculine and flamboyant gay caricature that rants about how he hates girls and likes boys and teases him about being gay. In actuality, Kanji fears being rejected by either sex. He still expresses interest in Naoto after finding out her true gender, though at the end of his social link, he outright states that his shadow self and him are one and the same, strongly hinting at bisexuality. |
2008 | Captain Rainbow | Birdo | Trans woman | Birdo's gender identity is explored in Captain Rainbow, which delves into her gender and how she was imprisoned for using the woman's bathroom. Birdo asks the player to find proof of her being female so she could be set free.[73] |
2008 | Violet | Violet | Bisexual | The player is either a man or woman and Violet is their girlfriend.[74] The player is freely able to change their gender and sex mid-game, which mostly only results in a few cosmetic changes in the dialogue. Violet serves as the game's narrator, but in fact the player character is only imagining how she would narrate. Upon gender-changing, Violet may react by saying, "I adore you either way." |
The player character | Potentially lesbian | |||
2008 | Heileen: Sail Away | Heileen | Potentially lesbian or bisexual | Heileen is the female protagonist. She has one male and two female romantic possibilities: John, Lora and Marie. |
Lora and Marie | Lesbian | |||
2008 | Fable II | Player character and NPC townspeople | Potentially gay, lesbian or bisexual | In Fable II (2008), there are more lesbian, gay, and bisexual NPC townspeople to court and marry. A context-specific line is used in a conversation within the middle of the game, wherein Hammer asks if the protagonist was able to convince their partner, wife, or husband to wait for them when they must go away for ten years. The game also includes a quest in which the player character finds a suitable partner for a farmer's son who hints at being gay. The farmer is surprised but accepts that his son is gay and was unable to find an acceptable partner because the father had previously presented him only with female suitors. Reaver, the NPC known as the Hero of Skill, is bisexual, known to have simultaneous lovers named Ursula, Penelope, and Andrew. |
2008 | Fallout 3 | Nova | Bisexual | Player characters, regardless of gender, can employ the services of a female prostitute named Nova in the city of Megaton. |
Carol and Greta | Lesbian | In the city called Underworld, the player meets a female Ghoul named Carol who is suggested to be in a romantic relationship with another female Ghoul named Greta. They have apparently adopted a son, named Gob. While it is never made clear if they are romantically involved, if the player is a Female, Greta will jealously warn the player to stay away from Carol. | ||
Flak and Shrapnel | Gay | In Rivet City, the player meets Flak and Shrapnel, a pair of weapons dealers whom the game identifies as "partners." The two run a shop together and share a single bed. It's only implied that the nature of their relationship is romantic. An NPC from another city refers to Flak as an "old queen." |
2009
Year | Title | Character(s) | Classification | Notes |
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2009 | Yakuza 3 | Yoshitaka Mine | Gay | Mine tells the protagonist Kiryu that he is in love with his oath brother Daigo Dojima. |
2009 | The Sims 3 | Sims | Potentially gay, lesbian or bisexual | |
2009 | Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony | Anthony "Gay Tony" Prince | Gay | In this episode expansion pack of Grand Theft Auto IV (2008), the title character is gay, and a friend of the protagonist, Luis Lopez. He also features in a cameo in GTA IV. |
2009 | League of Legends | Diana | Lesbian | As part of the Pride 2021 event celabrating LGBT Pride Month, Riot Games released the short story "Rise With Me", focusing on the backstory of Diana and Leona. The short story details how the two women fell in love and were each other's first kiss.[75] |
Leona | ||||
Vi | In the animated series Arcane (2021-present), which is set a few years before the events of the game, there are multiple hints that Vi and Caitlyn are attracted to each other.[76] | |||
Caitlyn | ||||
Neeko | Neeko was revealed to be a lesbian by senior narrative writer Matt Dunn in 2018, making her the game's first Champion to be openly LGBTQ.[77] | |||
Varus | Gay | Varus is a Darkin, a creature whose actual body is a weapon who can possess someone who attempts to wield it, and Varus himself isn't gay. However, when he attempted to possess the gay couple Valmar and Kai at the same time and fuse them together, the two hunters' love was strong enough to allow their conscience to be shared with the Darkin, with all three controlling the body. A music video titled "As We Fall" detailing this events was released in 2017.[78] | ||
Graves | Devon Giehl, former creative designer and writer at Riot Games, revealed in 2018 that she had initially planned for Graves and Twisted Fate to have been in a relationship,[79][80] but the team was prevented from doing so.[81] Despite this, many former and present employees have described them as a couple.[82] Furthermore, despite internal censorship and pushback, the 2021 "Sentinels of Light" event did allude to Graves' relationship with Twisted Fate.[83][84] | |||
Twisted Fate | Bisexual man | |||
2009 | Persona 3 Portable | Aigis | Bisexual | Aigis shows romantic interest in both the male and female protagonists of the game. Her social link remains unchanged regardless of the gender the player chooses. |
Female Protagonist | Bisexual | The female protagonist can romance both Aigis and Elizabeth, as well as Shinjiro, Ken, Akihiko, Theodore, and Ryoji. | ||
Ryoji Mochizuki | Bisexual | During his social link, Ryoji states he would still love the protagonist, no matter if they were a male or female. | ||
2009 | Dragon Age: Origins | Warden | Potentially gay, lesbian or bisexual | The Warden is the player character, who has the option to pursue a romance with four of the companions available for their party accompanying the player on their journey. Morrigan and Alistair can only be romance by a Warden of the opposite sex. Regardless of gender, the Warden can romance Leliana or Zevran Aranai. |
Leliana | Bisexual woman | |||
Zevran Aranai | Bisexual man | |||
Wade and Herren | Gay | The effeminate Wade and Herren have an armor shop that the player can visit. In a downloadable content episode released by BioWare it is possible to chase them from the shop to a back alley where Herren teleports himself and Wade to safety. The game designers confirmed Herren and Wade were lovers after the release of said DLC. | ||
Hespith | Lesbian | Hespith is a lesbian dwarf character who admits to being a lover of Branka, party-character Oghren's ex-wife. | ||
Branka | Bisexual | |||
2009 | Assassin's Creed II | Leonardo da Vinci | Gay | Lifelong friend of protagonist Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Leonardo da Vinci is implied to be gay, based on similar historical evidence. On one occasion, he assures Ezio that "women provide little distraction."[15] |
2010s
2020s
2020
Year | Title | Character(s) | Classification | Notes |
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2020 | Granblue Fantasy Versus | Ladiva | Trans woman | Ladiva is a wrestler, a "muscular fighter with a prominent goatee", and one of the game's multiple playable characters.[85] |
Cagliostro | Trans woman | Cagliostro is an alchemist born as a terminally ill boy, she built herself a healthy female body to live as and is one of the game's playable DLC characters. | ||
Belial | Bisexual | Belial is one of the primary antagonists for the game and was introduced as a playable DLC character. He expresses direct attraction to both male and female characters in the game and has explicitly stated his attraction for the male character Lucilius. | ||
2020 | Bokuhime Project | Hiyu Shinosaki | Lesbian | Hiyu, a supporting character attending the same school as the protagonist, is attracted to women.[86] |
2020 | Frog Fractions | October | Pansexual | In the Hop's Iconic Cap DLC, a Pansexual pride flag can be seen on October's closet door when you enter her room.[87] |
2020 | Tell Me Why | Tyler Ronan | Trans man, bisexual | Tyler and his twin sister Alyson travel to their childhood home in Alaska and must come to terms with their childhood. The game will also deal with how Tyler, who has transitioned since leaving home, is being affected. Dontnod worked with GLAAD to help create the character.[88] Tyler can potentially start a relationship with Alyson's best friend Michael.[89] |
Michael | Gay | Michael is Alyson's best friend and can potentially start a relationship with Tyler.[89] | ||
2020 | Hades | Zagreus | Bisexual or Pansexual | Zagreus is the son of Hades and described by the game's writer and designer Greg Kasavin as "bisexual or pansexual".[90] He has a few potential love interests and can start a relationship with Thanatos.[91] |
Thanatos | Gay | Thanatos is the god of death and can start a relationship with Zagreus.[91] | ||
Achilles | [92] | |||
Patroclus | ||||
2020 | Vampire: The Masquerade – Night Road | Player character | Potentially non-binary, gay, bisexual, or lesbian | Character creator allows the player to choose between being male, female, or non-binary, and being bisexual, gay, or straight.[93][94][95] |
2020 | Remothered: Broken Porcelain [96][97] | Rosemary Reed / Lindsay | Lesbian | |
Jennifer 'Celeste' Felton | Queer gender or lesbian | |||
Richard Felton | Transgender | |||
2020 | Bugsnax | Lizbert | Lesbian | The missing explorer Grumpus named Elizabert "Lizbert" Megafig is in a relationship with the doctor Eggabell Batternugget.[98] |
Eggabell | ||||
Snorpy | Gay | Chandlo's boyfriend; doesn't realize the two have been dating for years | ||
Chandlo | Bisexual[99] | Snorpy's boyfriend; confirms their relationship with a kiss | ||
Floofty | Non-Binary | Snorpy's sibling; They are non-binary and use they/them pronouns | ||
Wiggle | Pansexual | While never explicitly shown in the game, it was confirmed on the Bugsnax AMA that Wiggle is pan.[99] | ||
2020 | Spider-Man: Miles Morales | Gloria Davila and Steff | Lesbian | Gloria Davila debuted in Spider-Man (2018). She later reveals to have a relationship with Steff in this standalone expansion game. |
2020 | Cyberpunk 2077 | V | Potentially LGBTQ+ | The character creator will allow V to be transgender or non-binary.[100] |
Claire Russell | Trans woman | Claire has a transgender pride decal on the back of her vehicle. | ||
Judy Alvarez | Lesbian | [101] | ||
Meredith Stout | Bisexual | |||
Kerry Eurodyne | Bisexual | R. Talsorian Games, the creators of the tabletop RPG that the game's based on, confirmed on Twitter that he's bisexual.[102] | ||
2020 | Please Be Happy | TBA | Lesbian | The story is about love between women.[103] |
2020 | Ikenfell | Maritte
Petronella Gilda Ima Pertisia Bax Ibn |
Lesbian
Nonbinary Lesbian Nonbinary Lesbian Gay Gay |
Gilda expresses attraction for the protagonist Maritte and becomes playable. Petronella and Ima are also playable and nonbinary, using she/her and they/them pronouns, respectively. Bax and Ibn are friendly antagonists who are in a relationship. Maritte and Pertisia are also queer and in the playable party. |
2020 | Project Sekai: Colorful Stage feat. Hatsune Miku | Akiyama Mizuki | Non-binary or agender | Mizuki's in-game bio page lists their gender as "unknown," and they refer to themself with the typically masculine first-person pronoun "boku." |
2020 | Assassin's Creed Valhalla | Eivor | Potentially lesbian, gay, or bisexual | Eivor's gender can be selected by the player. They can pursue both opposite-sex and same-sex relationships. |
2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion | Various procedurally-generated playable characters and NPCs | Various LGBTQ+ identities | The procedural generation that generates Legion's characters includes many options for their sexualities and genders, giving them same-gender significant others or assigning them sexualities outright in their "metadata" section.[104] |
2020 | The Last of Us Part II | Ellie and Dina | Lesbian and bisexual or pansexual | Ellie is one of the main characters and she is in a relationship with a woman named Dina. At the start of the game, it was revealed that Dina formerly dated Jesse.[105] |
Lev | Trans man | Lev is a trans boy and former member of an antagonist faction who one of the main characters, Abby, meets and is scheduled to be executed. The two become friends through a series of mutual trials. |
2021
Year | Title | Character(s) | Classification | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
2021 | Psychonauts 2 | Helmut Fullbear Bob Zanotto |
Gay | Both are founding members of the Psychic Six. One memory shows Bob proposing and then later marrying Helmut. Helmut's body was lost, and Bob broke down after losing the love of his life, but in the game's present, Helmut's brain is found and placed in a new body, giving the two the chance to rekindle their relationship. |
2021 | Life Is Strange: True Colors | Alexandra "Alex" Chen | Bisexual | Alex Chen is the protagonist of Life is Strange: True Colors, and is able to romance a man named Ryan Lucan and a woman named Steph Gingrich. She is shown to be romantically interested in both characters. Unlike the previous player characters of the series, she is implied having dated both male and female characters before the events of the game. |
Steph Gingrich | Lesbian | Steph Gingrich reappears in Life is Strange: True Colors, this time as a major character, previously having been in Life is Strange: Before the Storm. She is able to be romanced by the player character as Alex Chen. | ||
2021 | Guilty Gear: Strive | Testament | Non-Binary | Testament returns as the final character in Guilty Gear Strive’s first DLC pack. Previously Testament was never referred to by binary pronouns and always had an ambiguous look, on their release Arcsys confirmed Testament wasn’t ever intended to be male and always went by they/them pronouns.[106] |
2022 and later
Year | Title | Character(s) | Classification | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
2022 | Goodbye Volcano High | Fang | Non-binary | The main protagonist, Fang, is classified as non-binary.[107] |
TBA | Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 | Player character | Unknown | Players will be able to choose pronouns, with the character creators going beyond "male and female models".[108] |
TBA | Baldur's Gate III |
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