Try Life is Strange: an emotional coming of age game about a photography student with the ability to rewind time. One of my favorites.
Portal
Jade from Beyond Good and Evil.
Skullgirls!
-Control
-A Hat in Time
-Celeste
-Shantae (Pirates Curse and Risky's Revenge are my favs)
-Touhou Luna Nights
-Returnal
-Portal 1/2 if that counts
Life is Strange games! More story then anything, and the dialog is a bit cringy these days but there's really no other games like it and I highly recommend them.
Specifically the first game (unarguably the best one), its prequel, and True Colours. Life Is Strange 2 has two brothers, instead. They're all very, very good games that all have made me cry (some multiple times).
They're also pretty gay if that interests you.
Subnautica (obviously?) - Female protagonist trying to survive long enough to figure out what happened to her sister on a frozen planet.
Gris - A very lovely and emotional story about grief.
Just to be explicit, Subnautica: Below Zero is the entry featuring the female protagonist, Robin, not the first game.
Alien Isolation
Play Gris, if for no other reason than the art. It's just so beautiful.
Seconded
I reply it from time to time. I love it!
By NOLF you mean No One Lives Forever? If so a quick search gave me this "revival" site, seeing the Windows targets i bet that runs on Wine
Recently played Control. Had a blast!
Extremely retro, but currently available on the Mac App Store: Mess O' Trouble. It was a WorldBuilder game--think Infocom, but with static pictures you could interact with. I believe your choice of Daredevil Dawn or Fearless Frank had some impact on the gameplay if you got far enough, but child me never did.
Does this game exist on other platforms?
Doubtful, though it might be possible to emulate System 6 or System 7 and get it running on Windows or Linux.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. After playing it for a while I couldn't stop until I reached the end. It looks aged now but controls are generally nice and the story is amazing. And I think the character feels feminine, it's not just a neutral character with a female skin.
That is a good game, agree. My one complaint is that there're a few moments of drive-by transphobia in it. And some puzzles are obtuse or require items that can be missed, but a quick google solves that frustration easily if need be.
Along a similar vein, Syberia is wonderful.
Many good choices here. I didn't see Half Life Alyx here yet. It is an amazing game which alone is almost worth the cost of VR.
This game is amazing. I borrowed Index from a friend to play it and I loved every minute of it.
ID rather not shell out up to and above 1k for an enthusiast item for people with too much money, but thank you
Get a 2nd hand CV1
I just finished Control and it's really good! Jesse is a strong female lead and there's no male option like some games.
Seconding Control. One of my favorites.
I would third control. I picked it up from the Humble female protagonist bundle and it was fantastic, loved everything about it.
Once you unlock all the powers the combat and exploration really open up, and the game still has a significant bit of story left giving you time to have some fun with them.
Also loved the environmental lore, all the notes and the vids with Dr. Darling are great. Highly recommend the game.
Amazing game, definitely one of my all-time favorites and the most fun I've had with a combat system. The atmosphere of the game is fantastic as well, pulling so much tension out of every new supernatural office space you discover. I'm absolutely thrilled they confirmed a Control 2 recently, I can't wait to get back into that world with all its lore to discover. I feel like I need to play Alan Wake now too since they're connected.
Alan Wake is pretty interesting from a female perspective, because it's a male hero but it's good a pretty good female supporting character in the Sheriff and the plot with Alice is really interesting in light of the idea of fridging. Also, the sequel will have a second playable protagonist that's a woman.
Portal?
Whoa whoa whats wrong with Senua?
id rather not get lynched, thank you very much
Lol I'm genuinely curious. Its at the top of my "to play" pile since I've heard so much good about it.
So if there's any fair warning to temper my expectations..
algitht than if you like a nicely structured story than stay away its purposely confusing to "portray a certain type of mental illness", which i call bullhog on, a confusing mess is a confusing mess
combat i find too slow the game is generally boring to actually play
like it wanted to be an art project so bad bad just had to attach a game to it
Portal, Portal 2. Bonus points for also having a female antagonist and passing the bechdel test
Does it pass the bechdel test? Chell doesn't speak.
She tries to say "Apple" it's not her fault that severe brain damage causes her to respond nonverbally
Aquaria
A very well put together Metroidvania. The map is very fun to explore, good boss fights, great music, and interesting story.
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