Recommendations for "girly" games?

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• Shou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Undertale, mercy run. The goal is to never kill a monster. It has combat, but the combat mechanic is moving your “heart” to dodge attacks and keep chosing mercy.

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  • Alphonsus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s honestly one of the things that makes Undertale so special. On the surface it looks like a typical RPG with turn-based combat, but the whole “mercy run” flips the usual mindset, instead of grinding enemies, you’re paying attention to who they are and trying to understand them. The heart-dodging mechanic also keeps it tense, because you still have to survive the attacks even when you’re choosing kindness.

    It kind of sneaks in that message that conflict doesn’t always have to end with someone losing everything. And when you commit to not killing anyone, the story hits way harder emotionally. It’s one of those games where your choices actually feel like they matter, not just mechanically but morally too.👌

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Today I learned I played the game wrong

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    • Shou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That means, you can play the game again and have a very different experience!

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• Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Metal Gear Solid

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That cake tho.

    That reminds me of Portal.

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  • MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    👀

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• GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t know if you’d consider visual novels a game, but even if the ‘character’ you’re playing is a male, the feminine aspects come out really well in Doki Doki Literature Club.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How the fuck do you recommend DDLC when OP says non-violent?

    OP, DDLC is a fun game, but there’s a reason it’s tagged psychological horror. It’s not just a meme. I won’t elaborate in case folks wanna try it out. I do suppose it is a “girly” horror though.

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• ColdWater@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Terraria

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lovers in a dangerous spacetime? It’s pink I guess.

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• InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Spiritfarer

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• Detren@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wandersong! You play as a Bard who has to save the world through music and singing. Minimal combat and absolutely wonderful storyline that will make you cry tears of joy.

  A bit of a wilder rec would be Cassette Beasts, which is basically Pokémon but better and has really nice optional romances. Very combat focused tho.

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  • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cassette Beasts is grate. So greate I got the OST on both Vinyl… And cassette tape, of course 😆.

    Never tried Wandersong, gonna have to add it to my playlist.

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    • Detren@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Haha hell yeah. The OST for cassette beasts is an all timer. The devs behind Wandersong also just released a monster catching game called Beastball if you want some more indie pokemon fix. Haven’t tried it yet but I heard great things.

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• Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you’re open to the idea of ditching a Microsoft product, I’d suggest Vintage Story as a Minecraft alternative that I think has a nicer aesthetic. It’s meant to be a sort of slow, “grindy” game, but if you sort of rewire your thinking to it being a slice of life game, akin to Stardew, I think it’s very fun. Fair warning the early game can be very punishing if you’re brand new to it, so explore the world and difficulty setting when you make your first save.

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  • Detren@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Vintage Story is such a vibe and the building puts Minecraft to shame.

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• OnfireNFS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A little to the left is a cute puzzle game that might fit that category

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• compcube@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unpacking

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• FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The first life is strange game. I suppose there is technically a violent part but it’s not a game based on violence.

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  • scbasteve7@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I already knew the struggles that women have to endure that most men don’t. But playing this game really put that into perspective, with how immersed I became. By the end of the game, I felt emotionally wreck.

    Very much a “girly” game, just in an entirely different sense.

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  • simop_jo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Exactly this. Life is strange will make you feel like a teenage girl solving a mystery. Its awesome.

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    • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And the best oart is that this game is good no matter what. Older straight white dude? Still fun and interesting.

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• Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Already mentioned.

  • Slime Rancher
  • Fields of Mistria
  • A Short Hike

  Not yet mentioned (at least that I saw)

  • Potionomics

  • • A game where you play Silvia, a potion crafter who has taken over her uncle’s shop on an island full of adventurers. You get to meet many kinds of people, both adventurers and not, and have a chance at romancing pretty much all of them (at once, if you select the polyamory mode). The art style is adorable (please physically release the cards, devs) and the voice acting is so well done.

  • Monster Prom

  • • Strictly a slice of life / dating sim about trying to get a date for prom. The cast of characters are very cute, as is the art style. It’s also multiplayer if you’re into that.

  • Emily is Away

  • • I believe this one is free. It’s a nostalgia blast for those of us who grew up with instant messaging like MSN or AIM. It’s been a while since I played, but I remember it being cute and very interesting.

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  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Potionomics!

    Fantastic story, voice acting and mechanics. It’s such an odd mix of deck building, crafting and VN romance. Yet it delivered on all fronts with a solid character writing that kept surprising me.

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    • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And what fantastic charming animations

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• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Magical Diary is a fun little game about being a teenage girl that goes to wizard school. There’s 2 but I only played one: …steampowered.com/…/Magical_Diary_Horse_Hall/

  My time at Portia and my time at Sand Rock are pretty chill. They’re kind of like Stardew but 3d, and I liked them more. It has some fighting but it’s very PG cartoon-ish. It has a major mechanic where you just hang out with the NPCs, or go on dates with them. The second game, sand rock, is better but they’re both good: store.steampowered.com/…/My_Time_at_Sandrock/

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• beaverbacon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Coral island sounds right up your alley.

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• mctoasterson@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You could try Animal Well. Dark yet pastel-oriented colorschemes. Minimal “combat” but more of a puzzle and exploration style of gameplay. More mysterious than scary. Mild peril. Not romantic in the slightest, but very original.

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• newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Check out Flower by ThatGameCompany

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  • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, all of their game would fit to be honest 😆. Journey, Flow, even Sky if you are into cute social MMOish game.

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• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Try Minami Lane. It’s a soft and cozy very light management game. Short and sweet. No romance and pink though.

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Flock is an underplayed cozy game with no combat. You are a bird and you find other birds, sometimes not birds, to join your flock and fly around. It’s completely chill and enjoys a really soft color palette (pink for sure but also purples, pale orange skies, blues, etc.)

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  • Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh man I thought this was VORON for a bit (I had forgotten the game was called VORON). It is not, but if you are interested in Flock you might like VORON

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    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Looks right up my alley. Thanks for the recommendation!

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• RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Uhhh can give a game with no combat, but it doesn’t have the rest. Well, female player character helps too, right? Heaven’s Vault is a game about Aliyah and her traveling the rivers of the universe and finding artifacts or writing written in ancient and translating it. I like it, some prime find parts very janky. Can’t die, I’ve tried in the few areas she can take damage.

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• Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

  Very fun and puzzly and you get to play as Zelda this time.

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• batmaniam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not really “pink”, and lacks romance, but very pleasant: Dave the Diver. Cozy-ish game with nifty characters. Only thing would be I don’t know if you meant “no/minimal combat” because you don’t want the mechanics or the vibes. Dave has not particularly challenging combat mechanics, and paw patrol levels of violence levels (although you are catching and eating fish).

  If you like park builders, Zoo Tycoon is cozy as hell. Beware the DLC trap though. You can get the base game with a lot of meat pretty cheap, but the DLCs are like $10+ each and not really a good value IMO. But the game has a great vibe with some really neat mechanics that try and imitate real conservation efforts.

  What would check the boxes through a “Hot Topic” lens is Promise Mascot Agency. Surprisingly wholesome, completely off the wall, combat is all card/deck builder based… I… it’s a hard one to describe.

  Doughnut county checks all the boxes but is rather short. Katamari if you haven’t done it.

  I hear good things about, but have not played: Naiad, Tempopo.

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• Amith@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Throwing in a recommendation for Tiny Glade. Not so much a game as a sandbox where you make small cottages, towns, or castles. Lots of options in photo mode for showing off your creations.

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh, also the Life is Strange games are great.

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I enjoyed the first one very much.

    The latest one is one of the worst, most awkward, uninspired, terribly written, bullshit games I’ve ever seen, though. It’s absolutely hilarious.

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh yes, definitely avoid the last one, Double Exposure.

      But Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, by the same dev as the first Life is Strange is supposed to be decent. But I want to wait until all episodes are available before I play that.

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• DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Peggle! It’s a very fun and unique brickbreaker with lots of silly and cute characters, art, and music.

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• i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Florence - it’s short and sweet.

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• flemtone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sable, Supraland.

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• Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The whole !cozygames@lemmy.world genre. !otomegames@ani.social are romance visual novels aimed at women interested in men. !infinitynikki@discuss.tchncs.de is an open world dressup game very marketed at women and has that soft pink color scheme, warning for being a F2P gacha game although you can progress without ever spending money.

  You might also like Beglitched

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My first Touhou game was on PC-9801, “The Highly Responsive to Prayers.” I think its the first Touhou game ever made? Not sure. I am not really much of an Outbreak or Arkanoid fan though, so I didn’t really care for it.

    Then I tried “The Story of Eastern Wonderland,” which was extremely different from the previous game. I liked it more, but danmaku Shmup style games aren’t really my thing. They’re fine for a 30 minute stint, but I usually don’t play those kinds of games any longer than that.

    I am sure Touhou has branched out since then, is there a Touhou game you might recommend that is different from those?

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    • Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most of the main series are shmups, but they have a few fighting games. I had a lot of fun with them! That would be Immaterial and Missing Power, Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, and Touhou Hisoutensoku. There are more recent ones too, which I admit I have not tried: Hopeless Masquerade, Urban Legend in Limbo, and Antinomy of Common Flowers.

      There are also many fan games out there of different genres! A metroidvania, a puzzle game, long list… en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Fangames

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• trashboat@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t know if this fits the bill for you or not but my partner occasionally falls into the clutches of the Sims on their laptop. They’ve customized their installation with lots of outfit + hairstyle mods and expansions, so you kinda get to make it your own

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• Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve heard a lot of good things about VA-11 Hall-A. Haven’t played it myself, but it looks like you play as a bartender in a cyberpunk-esque world and talk to the partons in your bar to get to know what’s going on in both the world and their personal lives

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  • Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is my favorite VN. I love this game so much. They just released a figure of the main character and I preordered it

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  • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In the same kind of game you got “Coffee Talk”, which works way better with a controller than VA-11 Hall-A does.

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• Justdaveisfine@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fields of Mistria Roots of Pacha

  Easy recommends if you liked Stardew Valley.

  Weird recommends would be My time at Portia/Sandrock. They absolutely have combat, but have romance systems and a cuter aesthetic. Even the enemies are derpy/cute.

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  • RixMixed@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My partner’s been playing Fields of Mistria and the art direction looks like it’s Game Boy Advanced era which is kinda neat.

    She’s always complaining about forgetting to put the chickens away xD

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  • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I second Fields of Mistria. It’s just better than Stardew Valley in my opinion, in almost every way.

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