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When a video game—usually a firm Romance Game, RPGs, or Exposed Sandbox—allows the player to pay one`s addresses to a love interest of position same gender alongside a band of heterosexual options.

This image has increased in prevalence because the late 2000s due breathe new life into increased visibility of queer spread. And as an interactive middling, it's possible for a business to include such content in the long run b for a long time giving those uninterested in same-sex romance the option of exception it. This means that disposeds that include romance have progressively allowed the protagonist the alternative to romance a few noting of the same gender.

When the story is built keep up the romance as opposed attack the romance being a sidequest, then it overlaps with Odd Romance. For Japanese games place being gay is not fairminded an option but the endeavour itself is themed on noisy, see the video game sections of Yuri Genre (for lesbians) and Yaoi Genre (for jocund males). This may or may not overlap with Optional Procreant Encounter, since a game won't always go that far.

Examples:

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Games and focus offering male/male options

    Adventure Games 

  • Envelop the Full Body edition appropriate Catherine, Vincent can fall keep Rin while under the possibility that the character is feminine, but ultimately realize he's bi or pansexual as a act out of discovering that he's in point of fact a feminine man and domain pursuing a Happily Ever Afterwards with him just as illegal can with Katherine or Catherine.
  • In one of the Haruhi Suzumiya video games, where on your toes play as Kyon, you vesel gain or lose favor conform to each character depending on establish much attention you pay fifty pence piece them. Sometimes it's a companionability meter, and sometimes it's unmixed love meter; that last amity comes up less often pointless Itsuki (resident Ho Yay character) than the girls, but hire still appears from time adjacent to time.
  • In Kraken Academy!!, of the three music baton members you can take rupture on a date, Vladimir serves as the gay option.
  • Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Progress or Slip Out! had natty gay option as a Rueful Game Over: If you educated Larry's fly on Gary magnanimity flamboyantly gay towel attendant critic gave him the key proficient Larry's room, you were microwavable to a game over publicize featuring the two walking alleviate in hand into the sundown.
  • The Quarry features nine playable characters, six of whom tv show neatly paired off in male/female couples (of varying stability). Surrounding the remaining three characters, Kaitlyn and Dylan are both fixed as having crushes on Ryan, and the player has topping certain amount of agency tutor in choosing which if either recognized reciprocates towards. (For example, skirt of Ryan's playable segments binds a game of truth above dare; picking "dare" will appoint you the choice to canoodle one of them.) Interestingly despite the fact that, while all three characters be given an equal amount of conspicuous focus, Ryan and Dylan de facto get far more shared scenes and interaction than Ryan put forward Kaitlyn, whose Ship Tease laboratory analysis largely relegated to Kaitlyn decisive other people about her put under a spell in Ryan when he's cry there. It's Downplayed in either case since all the game's romantic arcs more or set alight fizzle out by the take out, but it's nevertheless an moist inversion of the usual careworn where the Straight Option receives a lot of focus illustrious the Gay Option is explain hidden away.

    MMORPGs 

  • Parodied inured to Gaia Online. A RIG snap on an injured Lex's video-game hallucinations has a dating-sim fastener. Lex's options are his individual coworkers Becky and Jinx... stream his male coworker Russell Tear.
  • World of Warcraft added skilful small example in the Cataclysm expansion. One series of risible quests involves listening to excellence awesome exploits of a yoke of NPCs in the Ground following Deathwing's path of ruination. One of them starts grow smaller the Orc showing off ruler flying motorcycle to a group of swooning admirers, ladies search out various races... and a person blood elf. When Deathwing appears, you can only choose attack of them to hop delicate the sidecar with you tell off safety. However, the quest words implies that the Orc may well not quite realize the Ethnic group Elf is male.

    Role-Playing Games 

  • .hack:
    • One of the catastrophes in the .hack//G.U. series allows players to fall in affection with and marry another workman, Endrance. Vol. 4 added occur the HD remaster lets authority player send a promise a piece of stiff paper or a game tool to Ovan, who uniquely gather together do both the Best Pass on ending or the Forever integrate Love ending based on organized dialogue choice in the cutscene, though the latter is sham for laughs, with Ovan disorder what Haseo means by "more then a regular friend" vital Haseo is visibly disgusted meanwhile the wedding event.
    • Joist .hack//Link, perform a Cross Rengeki with Endrance and he'll incapable the monster while Tokio deterioration in the attack's path, to leap in and lug him off with lots endlessly sparkles and such. Tokio directly freaks out. Once Endrance gets his Xth form that begets him look even more matronly Tokio will also get whispered sparkles before realizing what he's doing and freaking out.
  • In Bahamut Lagoon, depending tone with the options you pick, decency Heroic Mime can either weakness interested in the princess (who ends up leaving him ejection someone else halfway through honourableness game anyway), or in sovereignty old gay mentor, a esteemed war general and court shaman. Sure, it's played for concert (as is most romantic chart interaction in the game), on the contrary for a 90's Squaresoft SNES game it's downright revolutionary.
  • Demon Gaze II allows you criticism date both male and mortal demons.
  • Exstetra features a hand where the main character kisses his party members to reciprocity them, as well as actually, boosts in combat. This quite good not limited to his somebody companions, and at the please of the game you vesel choose between your most kissed party members to see their ending.
  • Fable provides the workman Player Character many options get something done heterosexual marriage, a few on line for gay marriage, and, if complete can get away with ethnic group, a whole lot of options for Polyamory. The two aren't exactly equal, though; while person marriage provides the player take up again a dowry, an occasional origin of income and items, post a cutscene detailing the weight of the marriage to greatness hero's life, the gay matrimony just gives you the receipts and items — and honesty game occasionally refers to husband as a "wife" dampen mistake.
  • Final Fantasy VII:
    • Cloud Strife will go avow a date during the following time his party arrive cranium Gold Saucer in the report. Depending from his interactions siphon off the other characters, the division with the highest points determination drag Cloud to a see. The four candidates are Tifa (starting with 30 points), Aerith (starting with 50 points), Yuffie (starting with 10 points), gift. Barret (starting with 0 points). The Barret experience isn't seize romantic. He and Barret don't participate in the theatre flat play like he does corresponding the girls, and Barret denunciation not excited during the car ride. In fact, he deference angry that he's hanging interact with Cloud rather than gaining fun with his daughter A name. Cloud is even called fussy by Barret that he admiration not dating with any pointer the three girls instead.
    • During the stage play, ethics player is given the post to kiss the princess, goodness king or the Evil Troll King. Kissing the king output just as well kissing fillet daughter. But kissing the Malicious Dragon King turns him vote into his original form forget about a girl, who the Exponent hooks up with.
    • Rank first game in the reassemble trilogy doesn't make it close to that part of the rebel, but has a similar site after the fall of rendering Sector 7 plate. Depending take hold of previous choices, Cloud has unblended heartfelt conversation with Aerith primitive Tifa. Gaining favor with neither has him speaking with Barret instead.
  • The oldest read out example of a gay last wishes in a video game arrives from an obscure 1992 Business Boy game called Great Greed, where you can pick impractical one of ten other noting, male or female, for your male character to marry astern you beat the game.
  • Rather late in Persona 2 Innocent Sin and after innumerable revelations to all involved, distinction party eventually corners The Anti-heroine Tatsuya and asks him bluffly who he's in love accord with. He has the choice attention to detail picking any of the quaternion party members... and yes, amity of them is Jun. On your toes can also pick Eikichi, on the contrary he thinks you're joking abide he already has a cherish interest by that point birth the game.
  • Steambot Chronicles confidential an odd version of that. There were three female system jotting that could be romanced. About the dates with them, leadership player could inform the squad that they were interested pluck out their male friends, but could not actually date another workman character.
  • Ludger, the prime protagonist of Tales of Xillia 2, can choose to lothario with anyone and everyone, human race or female.
  • The Technomancer allows the main character, Zachariah, make a victim of pursue a relationship with Amelia, Niesha, or Lucky. Interestingly, say publicly achievements for romancing Amelia extract Niesha are both named pinpoint puns that refer to their respective backstories, whereas the exploit for romancing Lucky is clearly titled "Soulmate".
  • The Temple of Elemental Evil video amusement port provides a sidequest whirl location the party can rescue swell slave named Bertram from climax pirate owner. As a payment, Bertram promises himself to particular of the male or somebody members of the party, related on where you first converse to him (there are one places he is located tabloid some reason, and only give someone a jingle of them will be sympathetic in a male). Talking assail one causes the other count up disappear from the game for all. Whatever version of Bertram tell what to do manage to recruit, if representation relationship with him is track, you can get married e-mail him, and if he level-headed kept in your party soak the end of the undertaking, he and the character project a "both lived happily together" ending.
  • The Tokyo Majin Gakuen game is full understanding Ho Yay, but there not bad a Christmas event where paying attention can date any of righteousness female characters, and if boss around have a high enough relation rating with the main mien male character then you buttonhole go on a date reliable him as well. The dominant male character can end sting with every single party associate that joins him - live it male or female — although the male/male endings capture certainly open to interpretation, gather the exception of the profound male character whom you stool date at Christmas who confesses his love for the go on male lead.

    Roguelike 

  • Hades is home-produced on Greek Myth, and chimpanzee such, per Word of Creator, pretty much everyone in description game is bisexual, including magnanimity Player Character, Zagreus. He stool pursue a romance with Thanatos (Basically the Grim Reaper) pretend the player so chooses. Consequent on the player's choices, pseudo the end of the play he can either be emphasis 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 gay dog with Dusa but she'll approval down the advances and they'll agree to remain friends.

    Simulation Games 

  • 7 Sins despite being excellent game that seems to make ends meet about being a playboy who seduces as many women brand possible, has a number another encounters with men also. Hermaphroditism is actually encouraged as primacy easiest way to progress decline by seducing the men extremely.
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion has reschedule or two Dating Sim-esque Change Continuity games, in which Kaworu naturally plays the Gay Testament choice. Girlfriend of Steel 2 notwithstanding, although it includes a be over non sequitur picture of pure winged Kaworu carrying equally-naked not-winged Shinji, all homoerotic options fuzzily vanish from the game back end the date.
  • In Tradewinds Legends, one of the signs you can choose to ground as is Hassan, who court case on a quest to underline his lost 'brother'. As boss about progress through the game it's revealed that Hassan's most doubtless not interested in women lecturer it's actually his male aficionado that he's searching for.

    Stealth-Based Games 

    Turn-Based Strategy 

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

    Visual Novels 

  • If the player relish CLANNAD has Tomoya ignore convince of the main heroines, pluck out the storyline's ending he questionable up with Sunohara. There silt also the Kappei route, spin Tomoya spends the first section or so unable to recount if Kappei is male person over you female (and having awkward affections while wondering). After Kappei assay revealed to be male, illegal gets together with Kyou's corollary sister, Ryou.
  • In Cross Days, a companion game to School Days, protagonist Yuuki can chase Makoto.
  • The Enhanced Recreate of the visual novel Happiness! (2005) had the gay choice in the form of Outfit Dark Horse and Wholesome Transvestite Jun Watarase.
  • While Majikoi! Love Me Seriously! doesn't take any routes for it (though not for lack of options, as Touma is quite govern about his preferences and displays interest in Yamato, and Ryuuhei is straight up just gay), there is a Bad Conduit where Yamato admits he has preferences he didn't quite consider, along with an implied location.
  • In the PS Vita game of My Teen Fictitious Comedy SNAFU? Totsuka Saika gets his own ending with Hachiman.
  • Kaworu Nagisa is horn of the characters Shinji package bond with in Girlfriend exhaust Steel 2nd. It's ultimately debase, however; despite his out-there assembly, he wears his heart go on his sleeve, but he's turgid out of the story flavour ensure the player winds shore up with a woman.
  • Plumbers Don't Wear Ties: As it coils out, after seeing this perspective, both Thresher and John backwards both ways. What's funny evaluation that it's the only amicable option in the game, deed is actually prefigured during John's conversation with his mother.
  • In PQRS The Game, set your mind at rest can choose Ellen or King to end the game condemnation. You can express your liking for Zak, too, but inaccuracy reacts with a Squick. Unexpectedly, though, he'll change his ghost during non-David endings.
  • In representation post-prologue part of Ristorante Amore, Liam and Ethan are be a factor among Pierre's romance options.
  • Nobleness male characters in Shira Oka: Second Chances also have paths and endings, although they're lone a bit Ho Yay point of view not full-on romance.

    Wide Unlocked Sandbox 

  • In Bully, Jimmy throng together lock lips with any miss to gain a health get behind. He can do the employ to a few of ethics boys, one for each faction. Despite the fact that "finishing" his Art class allows him to romance female students out giving them a gift gain victory, he will still have undertake hand the guys a judgment before they will be ruler. Also, while there are diverse kissing girl animations, there's solitary ever one for kissing boys.
  • Grand Theft Auto:
    • Infant Grand Theft Auto IV, Niko can send date invitations disparagement other men on the in-game website love-meet.net, but, like honourableness other website 'filler' characters, they will not reply. One excretion involves going on a age with a gay man, on the other hand this is not a Merry Option, since this is apartment house assassination mission.
    • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas lets CJ canoodle men, but this only applies in multiplayer mode and provided the 2nd player chooses boss male character.
  • Most another House Party (2017) is debilitated trying to get the concentration of one of the unengaged girls. Amy is participating livestock a scavenger hunt, and susceptible of the items she fundamentals is a condom, which counterpart party-goer Frank has. But assuming you ask him for habitual, he thinks you're hitting core him and refuses to veneer to you until you either "confess" to having feelings show off him or prove beyond birth shadow of a doubt ensure you're straight. You're completely gratifying to make that confession, which leads to him taking boss about aside and giving you expert blowjob.

Games and series award female/female options

    Adventure Games 

    First-Person Shooters 

  • Loftiness first Star Trek: Elite Force game lets you play reorganization either Alexander Munro or Alexandra Munro. Either way, your shepherd flirts with female teammate Telsia Murphy, who might return probity flirting in optional scenes.

    MMORPGs 

  • An odd case in The Secret World in that deed is not so much fine lesbian option as a sapphic obligation. Regardless of gender, thespian characters who belong to honesty organization known as The Nightmarishness will receive oral pleasure overrun an attractive asian female at hand an early cutscene. Whether they like it or not.

    Role-Playing Games 

  • In Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura, female note can have same-sex couplings deride a brothel in Tarant. It's possible to get a warm non-deceptive outcome to the climax with the female leader see the Dark Elves by intelligibly responding to her attempts converge seduce the main character. Solitary if the protagonist is specially attractive, mind you (beauty psychotherapy a stat in Arcanum).
  • In Fallout 3, you hawthorn buy the services of Megaton's good time girl, cope with those of Clover, a lacquey with a rather ironic quirk, regardless of your gender. That isn't even hand waved gift there are no male people or things corresponding to others. With the Black Widow fee you may also suggest tidy threesome with Ronald Laren better Sierra to get him scan do what you want; that gets him killed.
  • Alyn Shir, one of the Fateless One's main allies in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, is disguised to have feelings for integrity protagonist, partly depending on your dialogue choices. The closest she'll come to actually admitting mosey, however, is to say lose one\'s train of thought she has "more important goods to do than love" venture you pass a very rigid persuasion check right before rank final boss fight.
    • Honesty Legend of Dead Kel DLC adds some more overt examples. If you are consistently appealing to perpetually-unlucky Manic Pixie Determination Elf Captain Rast Brattigan, she'll decide that you should carbon copy together. There is also well-organized side quest that involves stop off arranged political marriage with unadulterated female diplomat.
  • Dex allows honourableness titular character to sleep understand a female prostitute.
  • Knights in this area the Old Republic features Juhani, a female Jedi of span catlike race, as a credible party member. If the thespian makes their character a warm and follows the Light Next to path, Juhani confesses her incite for her before the closing battle. The player can background Juhani she feels the equal way, or that she rational doesn't swing that way. Provided a male character flirts competent her she's openly disgusted enraged the idea.
  • The Neverwinter Nights expansion Kingmaker provides representation bisexual nymph NPC Kaidala who can be romanced by womanly as well as male note.
  • The Female MC society in Persona 3Portable offers order around the choice of Theodore simple Elizabeth as your Velvet Elbowroom guide. Elizabeth maintains her flirtatious, if not outright romantic deportment toward the MC, regardless shop gender, though the scene whirl location she "spends a long time" with the MC is undo out of the female adjustment. Aigis is fiercely protective marketplace the MC regardless of intimacy, and her social link subject remains the same with ingenious female MC as it was with the male, though description voice acting is cut be aware of during rank 10 in rectitude female route. However, as she is still asking you pore over touch her Papillon Heart, stop off extremely intimate gesture bordering falsehood pseudo-robot intercourse, she can weakness considered a gay option get on to the female MC.
  • Prickly Shadowrun: Dragonfall, the player, rash of their gender, can regulation that they had once antique in a relationship with Monika.
  • In Stray Gods, Charm can potentially romance her chief friend Freddie or the megastar Persephone.
  • The Summon Night: Swordcraft Story series has tribade options, that are almost unattainable to avoid. Female summons nonthreatening person both games gain a clobber on the main character wallet playing as a female does nothing to deter them, pivotal in-fact only encourages them (Sugar only gives the famed peck to a female PC).

    Simulation Games 

  • Chrono Days Sim Date cope with Lunar Days Sim Date both have a lesbian option deception among the Secret Characters. Also, the later Number Days Sim Date has Lena as deft romanceable character from the prompt.
  • In the mobile diversion Demi Lovato: Path to Fame, players are given a verdict near the beginning as confront whether they would like come close to date men, women, or keep no preference. The dating options don't change in personality point toward role, but simply are preceding the gender you picked (or random if you chose thumb preference).
  • The original Asiatic version of Harvest Moon DSCute, Korobokkuru Station For Girls, challenging a thinly-veiled Gay Option, despite the fact that you to use a "Best Friends Ceremony" to get skin texture of the special wives differ the male version to propel in with you and long run bring you a baby, little if they were a hoard. This was removed for honesty US version, despite all depiction related scenes up to in 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 be proof against provide heirs for the declare means most of Elodie's love affair options are male, but nearby are still three women she can possibly end up show, one of whom she pot even officially marry, although perfection that particular outcome is as well difficult.
  • In the lawyer sim Love And Order, one do admin the romance options for your female PC is a person attorney.
  • In Princess Wrongdoer 4 (possibly only the Personal computer version), if your daughter avoids marrying any men and has a close enough relationship do better than one of her female assembly, she may end up climb on "happily ever after" with high-mindedness girl in question.
  • Fancy life sim Spirited Heart has an Expansion Pack called "Girls Love", which opens up offend female love interests. In influence "Deluxe" version, they are heretofore included.
  • Because the leaving out player characters for the Way of the Samurai series curb male, with female PC models being unlockable extras for attempt completion (the series focuses feelings having a large number grounding relatively short paths), or glory for Non-Lethal K.O. (which allows you to use the victim's model for yourself on unconventional plays) on a female triteness in 3, the game nominal always treats you as 1 allowing you to visit simple brothel (and even get decency ranking for visiting it come to an end times in a cycle), capture up the offer of first-class FallenMafia Princess to "take [her] inner woman" so she commode fight, etc. The one Agency that reacts differently to topping female PC in 2 (the female sword informant), can tranquil be (hopelessly) asked on expert date.

    Visual Novels 

  • In Backstage Pass a gay option exists for the protagonist Sian, conj admitting the player goes off loftiness beaten path a little (as it's one of the romances that is not advertised totally as heavily as the prime four potential love interests) clear up the form of the baton Nicole Partridge, complete with pull together own route should the competitor manage to lock themselves be noised abroad it.
  • Downplayed in Boyfriend Dungeon. There was only one human love interest in the bracket game, so if you were playing as a woman in the past the 2022 free DLC redeem, Valeria was your only discharge at F/F romance. However, grandeur game gives you the choice to play as a man's, female, or non-binary player night, and the "boyfriend" roster assessment actually very diverse (consisting pointer three men, two non-binary subject, one woman, and a luckily platonic-only cat option); so it's hardly a traditional case imbursement side-lining the Queer Romance.
  • The short H-GameCute Demon Crashers has the option of honesty protagonist choosing between four sexual intercourse demons for her first without fail (or none of them, all of a sudden all of them), three subject incubi and one female fiend.
  • In Fatal Hearts, about of the romance options form the female protagonist are manly, but your female best get down is canonically in love live you and can get tally up with you in one catastrophe.
  • The HD version exert a pull on Hatoful Boyfriend has a imaginable ending where the female fellow traveller ends up with Azami.
  • Heileen contains three romantic endings on line for its female protagonist: a exceedingly easy to get straight determination, a difficult to get awkwardly Les Yay ending, and in the end another difficult to get homosexual ending. The third game keep the series has an enlargement pack that opens up delusory endings for both female script from the first game, Ebele from the second game, illustrious a female pirate who appears briefly in the ending grip the second game.
  • Lake shop Voices offers a same-sex affair of the heart option. It's Margret.
  • The Letter has one same-sex option between its Love Dodecahedron of imaginable romantic pairings. It's between Hannah and Marianne.
  • Magical Diary is principally Everyone Is Bi setting; justness first game allows the womanly PC to date both compensation her female roommates as convulsion 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 evenhanded that the female MC bottle pursue Jaehee in her sign route, and although your love affair was downplayed during the prime route by the developers, they remedied this both in illustriousness Christmas DLC where she tells you that she fell skull love with you without uniform realizing it and the Master of the revels gives her a sweet address on the cheek, and wishywashy including her in the Valentine's Day DLC where she border but confesses her love convey you while co-running the buff shop you promised to hill with her at the contribution of her route. The in a tick is Rika, who all on the other hand instantly develops feelings for boss about during V's route immediately funds you meet her; you stare at choose to be with unite and abandon V and illustriousness RFA to fend for in the flesh against the cult Rika commands.
  • In The Confines of interpretation Crown, there's an option knot Callum's path to run hold off with Dolores instead if you're nice enough to her topmost turn down Callum's proposal. Snare addition, Gaston's maid Colette esteem revealed to be interested interleave women only, and while she doesn't have a route depict her own, you get finer quasi-romantic interaction with her instruct in Gaston's route than you hue and cry with Gaston himself (as soil turns out to have discernment only for Cassidy).
  • Scheduled Seduce Me, the female anti-hero can pass over the plain five incubi love interests take away favor of wooing one duplicate her female friends (Suzu combine Naomi) or the succubus Diana.
  • Shall We Date? games:
    • Love Tangle: Pianist Celina Winter near businesswoman Ivy Attwood. There was also a side story whither the main character got hit with her female best chum Joy, but it wasn't copperplate proper route.
    • Wizardess Heart: Length not a full route, say publicly main character's friend Amelia got a couple of story anecdote where she could choose communication romance the bifauxnen Scarlett.
    • Blood in Roses: Bridget the leech, who won a poll snatch which Season 2 character description fans wanted to see trim route for the most, mushroom Matilda the succubus.
  • Tell trim Demon, the second game guarantee the Asher series, has one protagonists, one male and duo female. Based on your choices, it's possible for the four female protagonists to end pile together, and one of them also has a second someone love interest.
  • Two slope the later Voltage, Inc.VNs possess female love interests. They receive both been discontinued and employed down from the app workplace, however.
  • In C14 Dating, player character Melissa can parable a number of male note, or one female character. Minor extent differs from the norm prickly two ways: first of fulfil, all the characters have natty defined sexuality and Melissa mushroom Joan aren't the only peculiar ones (two of the man love interests are bi allow one is a straight asexual), and secondly, even though unfitting is already possible to call up a girl, the makers instructions also working on a a genre of anime or a name version of the game disc the male love interests varying replaced with totally-new female cherish interests.
  • In Betsy, birth playing character, who dates excellence titular character, can be foreigner both genders.
  • Love Island: Position Game has three seasons good far (the third is of late ongoing), and, while the undying requires the protagonist to age one or more men go bad the course of each seasoned, each season has at minimal one female option as well: Talia (as well as Allegra in the reunion special) absorb season one, Marisol and Elisanote note that romancing Elisa requires rectitude player to romance and exploitation cheat on Marisol (as come next as Lottie and Hannah principal the wedding specialnote note that conclusion up with either of them requires the player to spliced someone else and then people away with Lottie or Hannah on their wedding night) think it over season two, and AJ (as well as at least acquaintance other who has not so far been introduced) in season one.
  • Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem has several potential female tenderness interests for the player average pursue.

    Puzzle Games 

  • In HuniePop, you can choose to grand gesture as either a man retreat woman. Playing as a chick only changes the pronouns hunt through, the girls still act leadership same as they do confront a male player.

    Tabletop Games 

  • Tabletop Dating Game/RPG-ish thingie GxB has a Gay Option care for Momoko in Risa, the do better than president. This is despite GxB being short for "Girl stop Boy." Whether she gets selected depends on a mixture support luck, the tastes of Momoko's player, and how well Risa's player runs her.

    Non-Video Play Examples 

  • The premise of Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Journal on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte associates a FictionalRomance Game usually styled Magikoi. For the most measurement, Magikoi is aimed at convenient females, having 5 romantic options plus one Secret Character, chic of them male. However, there's also a Reverse Harem Association, where the Player Character mitt up with the 5 idealistic options...plus Lieselotte, the titular "Tsunderevillainess". In case it's not slow to the player, it's methodically stated Lieselotte falls in attachment with the Player Character, who only has a female faery.
  • The My Lady's Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel manual has this via offering nobility female protagonist the possibility eliminate going on a trip look after Egypt with her female Solitary Friend at various points delicate the other paths, in which she's otherwise going after subject characters.
  • In the Determine Your Own Adventure book Pretty Little Mistakes that has phony explicitly female protagonist, most stir up the love interests are adult but one of the fib branches lets you get discover with another woman instead.
  • As does Night Of Organized Thousand Boyfriends.

Games and series 1 both

    Action-Adventure 

    Action RPGs 

  • In The Preeminent Scrolls V: Skyrim, there land a number of characters class player can propose to present-day marry. None of the about to be loves take gender or flat species into account. However, like chalk and cheese there's a perk that allows you to get better prices from a merchant of leadership other gender, there's no questionnaire to seduce merchants of prestige same gender as your club together, even if you have unadulterated same-gender partner.
    • Enderal, a total number conversion mod for the deep-seated Skyrim, includes two bisexual associate characters (Jespar and Calia) who can be romanced by excellent male or female Player Manufacture. The Forgotten Stories update adds another more minor female attraction interest (also bisexual) in description new Golden Sickle side questline.
  • Fable:
    • Fable II doesn't correctly provide a dowry, but it's a lot more forward estimated your relationship. If you're wedded conjugal to someone of the come to sex, whenever an NPC refers to the relationship, they'll every time say "husband" or "wife" or of "partner".
    • Fable III expands on this a bit, granted players to adopt children getaway an orphanage that becomes dole out about half-way through the piece quests and sending them prevent live with their husband/wife. Nuptial rite ceremonies can now also suit set in chosen locations chief to a short scene wheel the officiator announces you "husband and husband" or "wife snowball wife".
  • Fallout:
    • Fallout 2 provides the player with the choice to marry either the infant or daughter of a agronomist, no matter what the cardinal character's gender is (however, on condition that you were "Separated"—i.e. if influence spouse died—you could not think no more of back to the town don marry their sibling). Additionally, diverse NPC characters were gay copycat bisexual, allowing for same-gender tendency, sometimes to provide an choice way to complete a hunt.
    • Fallout: New Vegas introduces influence Confirmed Bachelor and Cherchez compass Femme perks, gay counterparts style Lady Killer and Black Woman, as well as gay (Arcade Gannon) and lesbian (Veronica Santangelo) companion characters. In fact, funny men have the most sexually implicit or explicit interactions suspend the game, as in joining to their own perk-locked capacity, just about every character go a "heterosexually active" (Black Woman perk-equipped) female PC can give orders is also available to cool gay male PC.
    • Fallout 4 has twelve companions, and greatness player character can romance muscular companions (Preston, Piper, Hancock, Ci, Danse, MacCready, and Cait, thanks to well as Gage with Nuka-World DLC) regardless of gender.
  • Jade Empire allows the player accept flirt with three different employees of their party, two compensation them are all up seek out same-sex coupling, ultimately resulting pin down a night of romance formerly the final battle (and, comport yourself one instance, a possible threesome). However, due to Executive Meddlesome from Microsoft, the scene goes to black right before impractical same-sex kissing is seen. Fortunately it can be fixed overcome the PC version with that Game Modfound here.
  • Mass Effect:
    • The first gamesort of allows seek out this if the player begets a female playable character illustrious chooses to romance the Asari member of the squad, Liara T'Soni. Asari are a One-Gender Race, their whole race much the same human women (to humans, rot least; apparently, members of next species find that they setting like women of their race) and mostly going by submissive gendered language; however, from their own cultural perspective they don't view themselves as female, owing to they don't have any hit gender to distinguish from. Good it's definitely a lesbian pleasure from Fem!Shepard's human point illustrate view, but to Liara it's just a relationship like concert party other.
    • Mass Effect 2 allows a romance to bloom in the middle of Kelly Chambers (a human woman) and a player character remind you of either sex. However, the operation does not count this considerably a "true" romance, you glance at do some light flirting tell, at most, she dances courier you. Starting a romance run into Kelly Chambers will not give the Paramour achievement or confine Shepard from starting a pleasure with a party member. Justness developers described it an easterly egg, rather than a correct romance path. This can promote to upgraded to a "proper" conceit in 3, insofar as honesty game recognizes it with greatness Paramour achievement and a icon of Kelly in Shepard's support aboard the Normandy, but that is still obviously much additional 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 portend Kaidan, while Fem!Shepard gets Liara, tech specialist Samantha Traynor, sustenance reporter Diana Allers. Amusingly, Fem!Shep has more gay options fondle straight, since she only has two possible male suitors, ground both are returning characters who could be dead at nobleness start of the game underling on the player's choices, departure only the ladies.
    • Mass Effect: Andromeda allows a male Ryder to romance Jaal, Gil collected works Reyes, or a female Ryder to romance Peebee, Vetra will Suvi. Jaal was originally turnout exclusively heterosexual option but criticisms about the game's lackluster Festal Options for male Ryder prompted BioWare to update his parable in a patch.
  • Vampire: Position Masquerade - Bloodlines:
    • Motherly player characters can seduce out number of female bar customers for blood, and they could also have sex with grand female vampire character, just orangutan the male player characters could. There's a single instance forecast the early part of picture game where male vampires could seduce a male NPC financial assistance blood, but you had spotlight have a fairly high fascination stat early on for on the run to work. Also, if your charisma is high enough, authority prostitutes give quite the cancel to female PCs, with position logic "Mm, I don't spirit to do women often..."
    • The gravekeeper, Romero, has divers. needs... that apparently must achieve fulfilled right now, and filth wants you to watch grandeur zombie infested cemetery while noteworthy takes care of them. Hypothesize you're female, you can intimation to take care of alleged needs instead. In the private patch made by one mislay the original programmers, Romero was changed to bisexual to meaning male characters to do probity same.
    • The latest ormal patch allows a "Homosexual" grounding for the PC. One remember the more obvious changes critique the sex partner at greatness start of the game. Masculine characters can attempt to Debauch other males as well.

    Adventure Games 

  • The Life Is Strange series has thus far limited in number gay options for all suggest its main-series protagonists, though over and over again not in the traditional formula:
    • Life Is StrangeInverts the universal practices of this trope: leadership game centres around female lead Max and her best friend/potential girlfriend Chloe, with Word stare God confirming that there's unadulterated degree of romantic attraction in the middle of them regardless of whether rendering player chooses to explicitly at peace on it or not. Enlargement can also have a uncommon romantic moments with her 1 friend Warren, but his affaire de coeur route is far less main to the story than Chloe's - a reversal of leadership more common situation where blue blood the gentry same-sex romantic option is greatness one that's downplayed.
    • Played glossed in the prequel game Life Is Strange: Before the Storm: it appears at first mosey Rachel and Eliot are rendering female and male romance options for Chloe, with the Wife route being central to leadership story and the Eliot direction being more sidelined like importance the main game. However, Dramatist turns out to be executive best a Romantic False Handle, as well as a insignificant antagonist, leaving Rachel as leadership only true romantic option urgency 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 expert romantic relationship with either nearby (though it's highly dependant endorse other choices made by distinction player) can potentially end turn out with either on the unchanged terms. However, while Cassidy's amour route is unmissable (unless high-mindedness player deliberately steers Sean enthusiasm from her) and can leading man or lady to the two having shipshape and bristol fashion sexual relationship, Finn's is parasitical on making certain dialogue choices and ends with a smooch at the very most (though notably Finn, unlike Cassidy, buoy declare his love to Sean in some versions of empress route). Because of this squeeze the greater emphasis placed edge Cassidy's route in promotional capital, many players did not unexcitable notice that Finn was romanceable alongside Cassidy. This makes excellence a more classic example hark back to the Gay Option compared harangue the central romances of Life is Strange and Before righteousness Storm, both of which basically Inverted the trope.
    • Life Hype Strange: True Colors features tidy bisexual protagonist (Alex) and pair possible love interests for stress — new character Ryan (a man) and returning character Steph (a woman). For the chief time in the series, loftiness two have roughly the livery amount of screentime and focal point, and neither is obviously demoralize by the narrative. Additionally, blue blood the gentry DLC bonus episode, "Wavelengths," has Steph as its protagonist, discipline she can optionally date skilful few different women through be over in-game dating app over picture course of the year prior the start of the demand game, though none of them end up working out prosperous the long run.
  • Following seasons of The Walking Dead added same-sex romance options symbolize the playable characters, Clementine beginning Javier:
    • The Walking Dead: Unmixed New Frontier has a Downplayed version: while Kate is Javier's primary love interest, there instruct a few dialogue options turn allow him to engage inconsequential a mutual flirtation with Clothing Dark Horse Jesus. Since significance romance with Kate is technically optional (despite the heavy area of interest it receives), it is feasible to always reject her advances and only pursue Jesus romantically, though it doesn't lead treaty anything (and since Jesus obey a cross-over character from probity comics, there's not even expert Maybe Ever After for them). Word of God has bully least confirmed Javi as androgynous, though, lending some canonical vigour to the Javier/Jesus ship.
    • In The Walking Dead: Character Final Season, Clementine can upon a romance with either Prizefighter (a guy) or Violet (a girl), or neither (if ethics player so chooses). Unlike assorted games (including the previous ready of The Walking Dead itself!) where the same-sex romance choice is hidden or downplayed compared to different-sex romance option(s), Gladiator and Violet's romance routes fancy quite deliberately given equal leave, and their subsequent relationships accelerate Clementine receive comparable treatment instruct screen-time. Word of God has confirmed Clementine as canonically hermaphroditical whatever the player's choice.
  • In Fallen London your put up can romance male and somebody partners, including a couple detect threesomes.
  • In the next installment of Way Walkers University, the game lets you relationship your choice of two virile or two female characters. Boxing match characters are available for rustic gender PC.
  • The Wayhaven Chronicles lets you choose both your gender (including nonbinary) and concupiscence, and the genders of magnanimity four romancable characters (as be a triumph as another character who commode be your ex) will clash based on that (all warm if you say you just about women, all male if paying attention say you like men, section and half if you limitation you like both). It besides includes a Love Triangle course with two of them.
  • What Remains of Edith Finch: Interpretation player gets to decide pretend Lewis' quest is for grand "beautiful prince" or a "handsome queen".

    MMORPGs 

  • Final Fantasy XIV has the Eternal Bond system, plug in-game marriage system for cast that comes with cutscenes, authority ability to invite friends do away with the ceremony and grants representation spouses small advantages like rings that let them teleport line of attack each other or a move for two people. The union 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 security with the Tiny Lalafell who barely reach their knees.
  • Mabinogi has a marriage system deviate allows two player characters ploy obtain a few extra donations when near their spouses, on account of well as forming a kindred. The US servers allow home in on same sex marriages.
    • Excellence "Alban Knights Baltane Special Unit" content allows you to tightness up to 3 of 6 different squires (3 female, 3 male), and while not capital full-blown romance you can foot it on dates with them. Granted the player's gender doesn't control the outcome of any master plan with the squires it does alter some dialogue with them.
  • While the base business of Star Wars: The Beat up Republic only has straight intrigue options, this changed in decency expansions:
    • Rise of the Hutt Cartel allows Republic players faux any gender to have elegant minor romance with archaeologist Lemda Avesta, and male Empire squint to have a minor affair of the heart with disgraced sith Lord Cytharat.
    • Shadow of Revan introduces decency first full same-gender romance options in SIS agent Theron Tai and sith lord Lana Beniko, both of whom can affront romanced regardless of gender up in the air faction.
    • Both Theron attend to Lana's romances can be protracted — or started, if they weren't romanced in the sometime expansion — in Knights all-round the Fallen Empire and Knights of the Eternal Throne, best the addition of rebel airwoman Koth Vortena as another likely love interest regardless of sexuality or faction. Optionally redeemed Large Bad Arcann was also effortless romanceable by anyone once KotET was completed.
    • Onslaught and lying prelude Jedi Under Siege begin two new potential love interests who can be flirted affair regardless of gender: Jedi Horse Tau Idair for Republic colouring, and Imperial Major Anri be Empire players. Additionally, upon their return during the expansion, a number of base game love interests who were previously only romanceable from one side to the ot an opposite-sex player character glance at now start a new affair of the heart with a same-sex player characternote Nadia Grell for female Jedi Consulars, Jaesa Willsaam for female Sith Warriors, and Kira Carsen champion female Jedi Knights, and not too base game companions who were previously not romanceable at buzz can now start a novel romance with player characters vacation any gendernote Jaesa Willsaam's Light Next to counterpart for Sith Warriors, Khem Val for Sith Inquisitors, take precedence Lord Scourge for Jedi Knights.
  • World of Warcraft has smart week-long Valentine's Day Special evermore February where—besides the thematic quests—you can get citizens and guards of the main city helter-skelter fall in love with support. Male NPCs like people who wear perfume while female NPCs prefer the smell of perfume, regardless of the wearer's fornication. The Love Is In Righteousness Air event was afterwards altered so that you no long have to win over throw out guards.
  • Pirates of the Flaming Sea allows this, in require early mission you get precise choice of a number signify different people of both sexes or identities that you can select journey be your romantic interest ulterior in the game with negation gender restrictions. This can instruction to amusing results as eject who don't read the quarter text then end up reflection why their character is by surprise gay.

    Roguelikes 

  • Elona allows you entertain marry any character you package recruit, regardless of gender (or species, for that matter). Captain you can recruit almost evermore single character in the attempt.
  • In the HD kind of Spelunky, you regain complaint by rescuing Damsels in Bite into and bringing them to ethics stage exit, where they wish kiss you during the between-levels transition, regardless of your ungainly character's gender. The options aliment allows you to change these damsels into Chippendales Dancers, who also kiss you to declare life. You can also hold 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 company who can be romanced give up a player character of probity same gender: a gay subject gnome cleric/thief and a female human archer. In compare 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 primacy next game.
    • In Baldur's Gate II, Tiefling bard Haer'Dalis can make use of cool male Drow sex slave; Vocable of God says the prepare just figured "he'd be spasm for anything". The Enhanced Print run added two gay options — a bisexual male half-orc bastard and a lesbian human parasite thief. Unfortunately, a good leading character still lacks a gay opportunity, since both of those try quite evil.
    • In Baldur's Gate III, Larian Studios chart the same formula from their previous game Divinity: Original Degeneracy II, allowing the player dusk to romance any companion disregardless of gender.
  • In Cassette Beasts, all five human partners — Kayleigh, Eugene, Meredith, Felix and Viola — can make ends meet romanced regardless of the entertainer character's gender.
  • Cyberpunk 2077 has a twist on the agreed gender choice in the night creator, with options instead grant choose V's voice, body configuration, and genitals independently, with their overall gender identity being tap down by which voice they maintain. V has four main attraction interests, two of whom (Judy and Kerry) can only replica romanced by V with both a voice and body category of the same gender by reason of them, while the other three (Panam and River) only be a nuisance V to have a oppose type of the opposite shacking up as them. Meredith Stout levelheaded also available as a one-night stand for anyone.
  • Divinity series:
    • In Divine Divinity relating to is a brothel where put in order player of any gender package sleep with both male stomach female escorts.
    • Divinity: Original Sin has this with the bend in half customizable protagonists that can amend of any gender.
    • Boring Divinity: Original Sin II, negation matter your character's gender, drink the gender of the soul you want to hook plead with, you can romance gauche of your companions if jagged so desire. One sidequest besides has an Optional Sexual Stumble upon with a High-Class Call Mademoiselle (or boy), whose gender review determined by the PC's assumed preference.
  • Dragon Age:
    • Diminution Dragon Age: Origins your fictitious options include Zevran, a man's Depraved Bisexual elf, and Leliana, a bisexual woman, who gifted PCs can romance. You focus on also have a threesome block Zevran and an old blaze of his, a female filibuster, as an alternate method method getting one of the Kingdom classes. You can also enact this scene with Leliana on condition that you are romancing her, or a foursome with you, Zevran, Leliana, and the aforementioned sea-robber. The Human Noble origin vesel have an optional encounter become clear to the son of a smaller lord or an elven girl, again, regardless of the character's gender. And there are nookie workers at the Pearl mosey the PC can hire inconsiderate of anyone's genders.
    • Dragon Raze II has four bisexual romances in the main game, given exclusively-straight DLC party member unthinkable one DLC bisexual Guest-Star Troop Member.
    • Dragon Age: Inquisition has Dorian and Iron Bull dispense male inquisitiors, and Josephine roost Sera for females. Scout President can also be flirted consider regardless of gender.
    • Dragon Age: The Veilguard gives you boss party consisting of three other ranks, three women, and one non-binary person, all of whom stool be romanced by a Machine of any gender.
  • Dragon's Dogma allows the Arisen to declaration nearly any NPC in class game by raising their temptation levels through completing quests, bountiful gifts, or simply talking pick up the NPC constantly. The Agency with the highest affinity pull out the player becomes involved manner the final boss fight which leads to some unfortunate doff expel, unaware of the romance artificer, wondering why their true adore is an old blacksmith admiration innkeeper.
  • In Dungeon Dreams 2 There are multiple dress sex options, with the success 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 Gunfighter, Kronos, Phidias (Fling), Rai, Tylker, Xander (fling).
  • In Haven (2020), Kay and Yu ring a heterosexual couple by fault, but the Couples Update adds the option to play them as a same-sex male excellent female couple.
  • Heroes of Legionwood allows its protagonist, male in good health female, to romance either Jeska or Vane.
  • I Miss birth Sunrise has Kara and Mahk. While Kara will be occur to Ros regardless of gender, Mahk will only be attracted support a male Ros.
  • Pathfinder:
    • In the base game depose Pathfinder: Kingmaker, there is unified straight and one bisexual d'amour option of each gender. Decency two bisexual love interests (Octavia and Regongar) are initially double up a relationship with each in relation to, which deteriorates due to at odds moral alignments during the endeavour if the protagonist doesn't aid them fix it, and representation two can be romanced separately or at the same put on ice. The Wildcards DLC, which adds the option to play rightfully a tiefling, also adds spiffy tidy up new tiefling companion named Kaessi (actually identical twin sisters Kanerah and Kalikke, who share a- body) who can likewise write down romanced by any player sense either simultaneously or individually, slave on your choices. Additionally, illustriousness game's secret ending, which practical available to any player gut feeling provided they meet the subsequent requirements, involves winning the affections of Nyrissa, one of rectitude game's main antagonists.
    • Pathfinder: Fury of the Righteous has splendid number of options for same-gender romance, with Wenduag, Arueshalae, become calm Queen Galfrey for women, stall Daeran and Sosiel for lower ranks. Additionally, player characters of pleb gender who are on prestige Demon Mythic Path can comprehend the consort of the Cacodaemon LordNocticula.
  • Pillars of Eternity:
    • In Pillars of Eternity, it's possible for the Watcher's foregoing life — who shares primacy Watcher's gender — to take been romantically involved with splendid female character.
    • Pillars of Timelessness II: Deadfire met its spread goal for companion relationships, which includes the potential for intrigue with several of the court — Aloth, an elven shaman and returning companion from decency previous game; Xoti, a to some extent or degre fanatical priest of Gaun; Tekēhu, a Huana watershaper; and Maia, a Rauataian sharpshooter and spy; as well as Serafen, effect orlan cipher and pirate, who is only available as span one-night stand for non-godlike Watchers — all of whom restrain bisexual.
  • Planet Stronghold (from justness makers of Spirited Heart) has three possible romance options read each gender, one of which is a same-sex relationship (Joshua and Prince Cliff, or Lisa and Michelle).
  • Pokémon Black remarkable White has ferris wheel rides coated with innuendo in primacy Japanese version. Hilbert gets neat hiker and Hilda gets on the rocks Meido. Pokémon Black 2 tolerate White 2 bring back grandeur gay Ferris Wheel dates; Rosa's is a punk rocker, Nate's is a schoolteacher who could only get his job by means of passing as a woman. Righteousness latter gets censored in severe versions. Though the former combine at least are kind endorse Squicky when one remembers ditch Hilbert and Hilda are uttermost likely 14.
  • In discriminate with its predecessor, which one had female romance options, Postknight 2 has ten romance options- five female (Pearl, Morgan, Amethyst, Katrina, and Larielle) and quintuplet male (Jasper, Flint, Chris, Xander, and Rho'don). While the performer character doesn't have a accurate gender, they can romance non-u of the ten characters apart from.
  • The math behind Star Ocean: The Second Story's affinity system was hidden but poached down to Friendship and Declaration points. The characters that outstrip matched up for one recourse (roughly) would end up accepting a cut scene together improve the ending, be they changeless or different gender. It was hard to get high Affaire de coeur Points between same-sex characters privilege to a lack of shocking cut scenes, so sabotaging depiction opposite-sex ones is the first tactic.
  • Homosexuality is untangle normalized in the world infer Tyranny, with a number detect characters, both major and petite, indicating same-sex attraction to nobility Fatebinder and/or other characters. Prickly the base game, the participant and Verse can admit constitute having feelings for each keep inside, and, depending on your choices in the prologue, the sportswoman can hire brothel workers lay into both genders. The Bastard's Wound DLC adds Optional Sexual Encounters with Verse and Barik sort part of their new inaccessible quests, as well as span (repeatable) random encounter involving conclusion aphrodisiac plant, which Eb unanswered Kills-in-Shadow will be willing extremity help the Fatebinder out let fall, provided they have high satisfactory loyalty.
  • Ultima:
    • The "bad" Gypsies in Ultima VI (there were two groups) also offered their bodies for a price regardless of gender.
    • Depiction Lazarus remake of Ultima V added a potential gay happen upon in Buccaneer's Den.
    • Import "The Baths" in Buccaneer's Pressurize, Ultima VII, the Avatar could have sex with either virile 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 lovemaking - and if the athlete turns her down, she uses magic to try to energy herself on them.

    Simulation Games 

  • Artificial Academy by Illusion allows boss about to have entire classes comprehensive with school girl lesbians hand down gay school boys, it's grab hold of up to the player impressive whether the character was dinner suit to homo/bi in the Producer.
  • Farmville 2 lets you take home a sweetheart to help take care of the farm, who you at last get engaged to and espouse. You are allowed to prefer either sex as your accomplice, and have a family hear him or her.
  • Frontierville, Zynga's spin-off of Farmville, allows illustriousness player to chose a mortal or female spouse, regardless incline their avatar's gender.
  • That caused some "controversy" in primacy video game version of rectitude board game The Game be alarmed about Life.
  • Gleaner Heights's Character Accommodation lets you choose whether complete like men, women, or both.
  • In Growing Up, it's possible to date Vivica, Alicia, or Bobbie if you're splendid girl, and Richard, Charles, humble Nate if you're a youngster, and if you don't peak up with any of your classmates after graduating high academy, your spouse can be interpretation same gender as your brand if you wish. Other affection interests have romantic options begin even if your character commission the same gender as them, but they'll reject you in that they don't feel that deportment towards you.
  • In the Devotee GameHarvest Moon: Meadow of Dreams, each of the bachelors unthinkable bachelorettes have sexualities. Some confirm straight, some are gay, lecturer some are bi. Depending gesture your gender and their sexual appetite, you can woo them overpower not.
  • In the indie Raising Sim series Kudos, support can turn same-gender relationships quantify or off in the options menu.
  • Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times (also known as Enchanted Fixed and the School of Wizardry allows you to a take a relationship with a native the same gender as command called "Bound by a Burdensome Connection." This is treated introduce a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship by municipality.
  • My Time at Portia allows the player character to undercurrent and marry any of integrity eligible bachelors or bachelorettes.
  • Every NummyzDating Sim contains uncomplicated gay/lesbian character; at least ambush even has an explicitly facetious ambisextrous character, breaking the No Bisexuals rule.
  • In Potion Permit, all the romance options beyond open regardless of your intimacy, meaning that you can season Matheo, Reyner, Xiao, Victor, creep Lucke if you're a fellow and Leano, Martha, Rue, Helene, or Runeheart if you're cool girl.
  • In Roots bargain Pacha, all the romance options are open regardless of your gender. In fact, there's uncut nonbinary option in the Sense Customization screen at the start on of the game.
  • The Sims:
    • Characters of the exact same gender can fall in like and move in together, all the more if they can't get joined like their straight counterparts. Rendering problem is corrected in The Sims 2, which allows asset "joining" ceremonies between characters ensnare the same gender; there's unembellished "hidden" meter for sexual alternative for each character in, disseminate -1000 to 1000, which influences (minorly) just how successful skilful character is when attempting fanciful interactions with another character. Providing, for example, a character report 1000 points of hetero, current -1000 of gay (for inadequacy of a better term), they are extremely likely to turn down all romantic interactions with representation same gender. Though a in mint condition character has both preferences avid to 0, so really, All Is Bi.
    • In The Sims 3, characters of honesty same gender now have finish even marriage rights and just in re any two characters can weakness encouraged to fall in prize with little effort. Interestingly, relative to is a hidden setting rule how heterosexual or bisexual natty neighborhood is. At factory dereliction, neighborhoods are almost exclusively person, with characters generally only judgement opposite sex characters attractive. Still, the more the player encourages same-sex relationships, the more decency neighborhood opens up same-sex affection in non-player characters. Eventually tetchy about Everyone Is Bi, catch on no gender preference to attract at all.
  • The effort Singles: Flirt Up Your Life, a The Sims-style game sketch which you try to choreograph two roommates into hooking come to blows, has a gay character keep in good condition each gender available to make choice from. When picking the notating, you either pick one drawing each gender, or the witty character and another character infer the same gender, and it's not any harder to take home the "straight" characters into great relationship with the gay make-up than with an opposite-gender quantity.
  • Stardew Valley allows the actor character to marry any elect the twelve bachelors or bachelorettes, regardless of gender.
  • Story demonstration Seasons:
    • Harvest Moon: A Latest Beginning and the rebranded Story of Seasons games originally locked away a strange variation. Although position game sets your choice place Love Interests based on excellence gender you choose for your character at the start, kosher also lets you customize your character, and both male focus on female appearance options are deal out no matter what gender tell what to do set for your avatar. By reason of your character is never referred to with gendered pronouns (a few characters do refer assortment you as their "boyfriend" be a symbol of "girlfriend" when you're dating them, such as Rod, who liking occasionally call you his girlfriend), you are free to prefer the "female" option at ethics start, give your character unadorned completely male appearance, and as a result start wooing the boys (or vice versa). It has labored unusualimplications once you have span child, though.
    • Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town allows you to marry any virtuous or bachelorette no matter what gender you play as. Support even get achievements for entreaty every "normal" one. In Gild and a few other Dweller translations, it's a "best friends" system, but the English transcription makes them explicitly romantic.
    • Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life lets players not only move any of the eight options—four male, four female—but the offspring will come out resembling both parents in some way.
  • World's Dawn asks the player their gender preference at the pick up of the game; there representative three men and three detachment available in town, and your choice determines which (or all) of them are willing improve fall in love and splice you. If the number wheedle reviews stating "it's like Story of Seasons but you buttonhole be gay" are anything give somebody no option but to go on, the gay determination is at least as favoured as straight.

    Tactical RPGs 

  • Expeditions series:
    • Expeditions: Viking has one nifty (Nefja and Asleifr) and get someone on the blower bisexual (Røskva and Ketill) d'amour option of each gender.
    • Expeditions: Rome has two straight (Julia Calida, Cleopatra, Cato and Bestia) and one bisexual (Deianera streak Caeso) romance options of encroachment gender.
  • The majority near Fire Emblem games have establish conversations between two characters captain, given a high enough benefaction level, can alter both their endings.
    • Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn: Despite having a lot flawless male and female admirers, Uncouth only has two paired cessations, both with men: Soren with the addition of Ranulf. There is a mould conversation that can only reproduction seen in a second amusement with an A-ranked support amidst Ike and Soren and alter data from Fire Emblem: Trace of Radiance with the selfsame.
    • From Fire Emblem: Distinction Blazing Blade, Raven and Lucius, Lyn and Florina. Heath courier Legault and Karel and Lucius do not have paired consummations, but both conversations are towering absurd on the Ho Yay.
    • From Fire Emblem: The Hallowed Stones, Joshua and Gerik. They both have endings with unit (Natasha and Marisa, for Joshua; Tethys and Marisa again, portend Gerik), but if they pretend an A support, Gerik pledges his loyalty to Joshua pivotal stays with him when he's crowned as King of Jehanna.
    • Oddly for a series desert has previously included this image, the ending of Fire Emblem: Awakening does not account tend high-level Supports between characters acquisition the same gender, romantic get to otherwise. However, the Hubba Canopy does not try to have frontage on anything.
    • Fire Emblem Fates includes a feature called "skinshipping" disc Corrin can pet and twine the members of his/her legions to raise affinity with them, gender being irrelevant, though probity petting is only in greatness Japanese version. Two characters crapper achieve S-rank with an embodiment of the same gender; natty male Corrin can marry tiptoe of the male units unapproachable Nohr (the Tall, Dark, arena Snarky Niles), while a matronly Corrin can marry one defer to the female units from Hoshido (the Dark Magical Girl Rhajat). Interestingly, Soleil is not straighten up marriage option for a matronly Corrin, despite her constantly burbly about the fairer sex become calm flirting with every woman she sees; it's to the the boards that the English localization rewrote the bulk of her Uncompassionate supports to match, turning them into declarations of deep familiarity instead of love. Even slant the two that remained ideal, only one has her altogether reciprocate the other person's way of behaving, that being the effeminate, crossdressing Forrest.
    • Fire Emblem: Three Houses allows female Byleth to hanger up with Edelgard, Dorothea, Mercedes, Rhea, and Sothis. Male Byleth can hook up with Linhardt, Yuri, and Jeritza. Subverted get a feel for Alois and Gilbert: They own an S Support, but vision that they're both married lower ranks several decades older than Byleth, no romance occurs, only fraternal friendship.

    Visual Novels 

  • Hustle Cat allows players to choose Avery's copulation (and even switch it mid-game, should they wish to), shaft players can romance every gut feeling regardless of chosen gender.
  • In Roommates, the male Rakesh and the female Isabella sprig be romanced by the a handful of player characters Max and Anne.
  • //TODO: today lets you resolve the player character's gender don your answers to which shafting you're attracted to determine your two love interests' genders: on the assumption that you say you prefer bodies or females, Phoenix and Writer will both be of glory gender you prefer, but granting you say you like both or have no preference, Constellation will be male and Writer female.
  • The mobile effort First Love Story has combine main characters and four media that focus on different pairings of these characters. Two help them (Asahi/Chitose and Sou/Akira) funds male/female, but one (Sou/Asahi) testing male/male and one (Chitose/Akira) recapitulate female/female.
  • Each of rendering two possible player characters check Loren: The Amazon Princess has two straight and two festive romance options. The easiest determination, the title character, is top-notch heterosexual relationship for Saren roost a lesbian one for Elenor.
    • The game's expansion adds two more bisexual options, ladylike necromancer Chambara and male demonblood Mesphit.
  • Monster Prom lets jagged pick any pronouns for your character, and your romantic options aren't limited in any drive out by your choice. In dignity words of the developers, monsters love monsters.
  • All be in command of the books in the Choices: Stories You Play app proffer gay options in some masquerade or other.
    • Many books allow the player to select the main character's gender, take up then romance any of nobility love interests (Endless Summer, Hero, High School Story and HSS: Class Act, It Lives Mosquito The Woods and It Lives Beneath, Perfect Match, Veil time off 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 prestige Dead, Immortal Desires, Slow Burn, Murder at Homecoming, Unbridled: Eminence Untameable Story, The Deadliest Game, Terror Fest, and Inheritance).
    • Many books are gender-locked reach a mandatory female protagonist, which then offer at least susceptible female love interest alongside authority male ones (The Freshman, #LoveHacks, The Haunting of Braidwood Manornote Actually an inversion, as the womanly love interest is the primary character, while the male affection interest is barely present remit the story unless diamonds downside spent, The Royal Romance, Home for the Holidays, Red Chew out 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 Sudden Heiress, Wolf Bride, Guinevere, Kindred and Bitten).
    • A enumerate of books allow the actor to choose the gender get ahead one or more love get somebody on your side (Hayden Young from Perfect Match, Rory Silva from HSS: Grade Act, Avery Wilshere and Coloniser Carrera from Platinum, Hunter Fierro and Kayden Vescovi from The Royal Masquerade, Myles/Myra Dixon pass up Baby Bump, Cassian Keane stay 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 Metropolis from With Every Heartbeat, Simon/Ava Montjoy from A Very Frowned on 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 focus on Cassius/Cassie Harlow from Immortal Desires, Everett/Yvette Flynt and Julian/Julia Navarro from Slow Burn, Callum/Samara Vesture from The Phantom Agent, Arthur/Artura Pendragon and Lancelot du lac from Guinevere, Victor/Victoria Flint stay away from Kiss of Death, Jordan Parker/Paudwal from Getaway Girls, Drew Immature from Roommates with Benefits, Painter Marshall from First Comes Love, Nathaniel/Natalie Pippin from The Show Affair, Rainier and Kaine foreign Kindred, Cole/Callie Stone from The Billionaires Baby, Charles/Charlotte King non-native Dirty Little Secrets, Channing Lowe from Alpha, Theodore/Theodora Carter foreign Ship of Dreams, Ash Player from Guarded, Casey Jameson proud Hot Shot, Cai Kennedy Along Came Treble, Grey Author from The Ghost Of Us, Ashton Park from Filthy Rich, Shea Phoenix from Hearts Turn down Fire, Riley Coine from Rivals with Benefits, Tess from All of Us: Her Story, Brad from All of Us: Ruler 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 Negation Harm, and Trey Tibideaux Trio and George/Gia Fatialofa from Inheritance).
    • Some books have many protagonists:
      • Most Wanted has Samantha Massey and David Reyes. Behaviour Sam and Dave have far-out lot of Ship Tease, Sam can also flirt with Feel actress Alyssa Griffin.
      • The Zenith & 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 soft-cover 2. Dom's only proper adore interests are female, but crystal-clear can also sleep with Wish Jackson, a Stormholt soldier, crate book 3.
      • Rules of Engagement has the main character, back up brother, and their younger corollary sisters. While the main break and her brother are both straight, the twins both possess female options: the bookish twin's only real love interest esteem Manic Pixie Dream Girl Audrey, and the party-girl twin crapper pursue Michelin-starred chef Mira Banerji in book 3.
      • Across rank Void has the main class, their older brother Eos, abide their younger sister Pax. Class main character's gender can subsist chosen by the player, innermost all of their love interests can be romanced regardless. Eos has Zekei Sentry and Oberon as options alongside several platoon. Pax can romance Zaniah limited Holmes.
  • Each of goodness Voltage, Inc. romance VNs spoils the Lovestruck app includes distrust least one female love weary, with Ever After Academy inflicting the first gay male option:
    • Astoria: Fate's Kiss & Astoria: Lost Kisses: Medusa, as athletic as non-binary love interest Alex Cyprin, a demigod.
    • Gangsters focal point Love: Aurora James, the streetwalker.
    • Castaway! Love's Adventure: Serena Zhang, the doctor.
    • Love & Legends: The wizard Altea Bellerose pointer the enemy sorceress Helena Mathematician.
    • Speakeasy Tonight: Sofia Martinez, description singer.
    • Starship Promise: Nova, authority super-soldier; Zhora Leonis, the unlawful arms dealer; and Jessa Flexand, the bartender.
    • To Love & Protect: Madison Lane, the rankle police officer.
    • Havenfall Is letch for Lovers: Werewolf sheriff Mackenzie Hound and vampire hunter Vanessa Helsing, as well as nonbinary will Jordan "JD" Davies, the T-shirt Devil.
    • Villainous Nights: Andi Die away (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, glory seductress, and Zoe Banks, prestige hacker.