History Main / GayOption

* In ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'', [[EveryoneIsBi all the romance options are open regardless of your gender]], meaning that you can date Matheo, Reyner, or Xiao if you're a boy and Leano, Martha, or Rue if you're a girl.

* ''VideoGame/{{Facade}}'' lets you flirt with Trip, Grace, or both, regardless of your character's gender. Granted, they're too wrapped up in their own issues to reciprocate, but they do acknowledge the interest.

* Most of ''VideoGame/HouseParty'' is spent trying to get the attention of one of the available girls. Amy is participating in a scavanger hunt, and one of the item she needs is a condom, which fellow party-goer Frank has. But if you ask him for it, he thinks you're hitting on him and refuses to talk to you until you either "confess" to having feelings for him or prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that you're straight. You're completely welcome to make that confession, which leads to him taking you aside and giving you a blowjob.

** In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', you may buy the services of Nova, Megaton's good time girl, and those of Clover, a slave with a rather ironic fetish, regardless of your gender. This isn't even hand waved and there are no male counterparts. With the Black Widow perk you may also suggest a threesome with Ronald Laren with Sierra to get him to do what you want; this gets him killed.

* In ''VideoGame/StrayGods'', Grace can potentially romance her best friend Freddie or the goddess Persephone.

** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' your romantic options include [[AnythingThatMoves Zevran]], a male DepravedBisexual elf, and Leliana, a bisexual woman, who all [=PCs=] can romance. You can also have a threesome with Zevran and an old flame of his, a female pirate, as an alternate method of getting one of the Specialization classes. You can also do this scene with Leliana if you are romancing her, ''or'' a ''foursome'' with you, Zevran, Leliana, and the aforementioned pirate. The Human Noble origin can have an optional encounter with the son of a minor lord or an elven maidservant, again, regardless of the character's gender. And there are sex workers at the Pearl that the PC can hire regardless of anyone's genders.

When the story is built around the romance as opposed to the romance being a {{sidequest}}, then it overlaps with QueerRomance. For Japanese games where being gay is not just an option but the game itself is themed on it, see the video game sections of YuriGenre (for lesbians) and YaoiGenre (for gay males). This ''may'' or ''may not'' overlap with OptionalSexualEncounter, since a game won't always go that far.

* In one of the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' video games, where you play as Kyon, you can gain or lose favor with each character depending on how much attention you pay to them. Sometimes it's a friendship meter, and sometimes it's a love meter; that last one comes up less often for Itsuki (resident HoYay character) than the girls, but it still appears from time to time.

* In the PS Vita game of ''LightNovel/MyTeenRomanticComedySNAFU?'' Totsuka Saika gets his own ending with Hachiman.
* Kaworu Nagisa is one of the characters Shinji can bond with in ''[[Franchise/NeonGenesisEvangelion Girlfriend of Steel 2nd]]''. It's ultimately subverted, however; despite his [[CloudCuckooLander out-there nature]], he very much wears his heart on his sleeve, but he's written out of the story to ensure the player winds up with a woman.

** Many books allow the player to choose the main character's gender, and then romance any of the love interests (''VisualNovel/EndlessSummer'', ''[[VisualNovel/HeroChoices Hero]]'', ''VisualNovel/HighSchoolStory'' and ''[[VisualNovel/HighSchoolStory HSS: Class Act]]'', ''[[VisualNovel/ItLives It Lives In The Woods]]'' and ''[[VisualNovel/ItLives It Lives Beneath]]'', ''VisualNovel/PerfectMatch'', ''VisualNovel/VeilOfSecrets'', ''VisualNovel/AmericasMostEligible'', ''VisualNovel/AcrossTheVoid'', ''VisualNovel/BigSkyCountry'', ''VisualNovel/TheElementalists'', ''VisualNovel/TheHeistMonaco'', ''VisualNovel/OpenHeart'', ''VisualNovel/PassportToRomance'', ''VisualNovel/{{Nightbound}}'', ''VisualNovel/BladesOfLightAndShadow'', and ''VisualNovel/DistantShores'').
** Many books are gender-locked with a mandatory female protagonist, which then offer at least one female love interest alongside the male ones (''VisualNovel/TheFreshman'', ''VisualNovel/LoveHacks'', ''VisualNovel/TheHauntingOfBraidwoodManor''[[note]]Actually an inversion, as the female love interest is the central character, while the male love interest is barely present in the story unless diamonds are spent[[/note]], ''VisualNovel/TheRoyalRomance'', ''Home for the Holidays'', ''VisualNovel/RedCarpetDiaries'', ''VisualNovel/{{Bloodbound}}'', ''VisualNovel/DesireAndDecorum'', ''VisualNovel/ACourtesanOfRome'', ''VisualNovel/RideOrDieABadBoyRomance'', ''VisualNovel/WishfulThinking'', ''VisualNovel/{{Sunkissed}}'', ''VisualNovel/BacheloretteParty'', ''VisualNovel/MotherOfTheYear'', ''VisualNovel/SaveTheDate'', ''VisualNovel/QueenB'', and ''VisualNovel/MyTwoFirstLoves'').

* In the HD version of ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'', you regain health by rescuing {{Distressed Damsel}}s and bringing them to the stage exit, where they will kiss you during the between-levels transition, regardless of your chosen character's gender. The options menu allows you to change these damsels into ChippendalesDancers, who also kiss you to restore life. You can also have them be pug dogs, who simply lick you, or randomize their appearance.

* ''Artificial Academy'' by Illusion allows you to have entire classes filled with school girl lesbians or gay school boys, it's all up to the player and whether the character was set to homo/bi in the Maker.
* ''Farmville 2'' lets you earn a sweetheart to help on the farm, who you eventually get engaged to and marry. You are allowed to choose either sex as your partner, and have a family with him or her.
* ''Frontierville'', Zynga's spin-off of Farmville, allows the player to chose a male or female spouse, regardless of their avatar's gender.
* This caused [[https://www.engadget.com/2009-03-15-conservative-christian-site-decries-game-of-lifes-gay-agenda.html some "controversy"]] in the video game version of the board game ''The Game Of Life''.
* In ''VideoGame/GrowingUp'', it's possible to date Vivica, Alicia, or Bobbie if you're a girl, and Richard or Charles if you're a boy, and if you don't end up with any of your classmates after graduating high school, your spouse can be the same gender as your character if you wish. Other love interests have romantic options open even if your character is the same gender as them, but [[IncompatibleOrientation they'll reject you because they don't feel that way towards you.]]
* ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'':
** ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonANewBeginning'' and the rebranded ''Story of Seasons'' games have a strange variation: Although the game sets your choice of {{Love Interest}}s based on the gender you choose for your character at the start, it also lets you customize your character, and both male and female appearance options are available no matter what gender you set for your avatar. Since your character is [[PronounTrouble never referred to with gendered pronouns]] (a few characters do refer to you as their "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" when you're dating them, such as Rod, who will occasionally call you his girlfriend), you are free to choose the "female" option at the start, give your character a completely male appearance, and then start wooing the boys (or vice versa). It has some [[HomosexualReproduction unusual]] [[MisterSeahorse implications]] once you have a child, though.
** ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsFriendsOfMineralTown'' allows you to marry any bachelor or bachelorette no matter what gender you play as. You even get achievements for wooing every "normal" one. In Japan and a few other Asian translations, it's a "[[HideYourLesbians best friends"]] system, but the English translation makes them explicitly romantic.
* In the indie RaisingSim series ''Kudos'', you can turn same-gender relationships on or off in the options menu.

* ''My Time at Portia'' allows the player character to date and marry any of the eligible bachelors or bachelorettes.

* In the FanGame ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonMeadowOfDreams'', each of the bachelors and bachelorettes have sexualities. Some are straight, some are gay, and some are bi. Depending on your gender and their sexuality, you can woo them or not.
* ''VideoGame/GleanerHeights'''s CharacterCustomization lets you choose whether you like men, women, or both.

* The premise of ''LightNovel/EndoAndKobayashiLiveTheLatestOnTsundereVillainessLieselotte'' involves a {{Fictional|VideoGame}} RomanceGame usually called ''Magikoi''. For the most part, ''Magikoi'' is aimed at straight females, having 5 romantic options plus one SecretCharacter, all of them male. However, there's also a [[MarryThemAll Reverse Harem Route]], where the PlayerCharacter hooks up with the 5 romantic options...''plus'' Lieselotte, the titular "{{Tsundere}} [[AlphaBitch villainess]]". In case it's not clear to the player, it's explicitly stated Lieselotte ''falls in love with'' the PlayerCharacter, who only has a female sprite.

** [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 The first game]] [[DiscountLesbians sort of allows for this]] if the player creates a female playable character and chooses to romance the Asari member of the squad, [[HotScientist Liara T'Soni]]. Asari are a OneGenderRace, their whole race being female; however, from their own cultural perspective they don't view themselves as female, since they don't have any other gender to distinguish from. So it's definitely a lesbian relationship from Fem!Shepard's human point of view, but to Liara it's just a relationship like any other.

* The short HGame ''[[http://sugarscript.tumblr.com/post/126774226834/ Cute Demon Crashers]]'' has the option of the protagonist choosing between four [[HornyDevils sex demons]] for [[TheirFirstTime her first time]] (or none of them, [[spoiler:or all of them]]), three male incubi and one female succubus.

** ''VideoGame/PathfinderWrathOfTheRighteous'' has a number of options for same-gender romance, with [[CuteMonsterGirl Wenduag]], [[AscendedDemon Arueshalae]], and [[CourtlyLove Queen Galfrey]] for women, and [[AristocratsAreEvil Daeran]] and [[WarriorPoet Sosiel]] for men. Additionally, player characters of any gender who are on the Demon Mythic Path can [[spoiler:become the consort of the [[NobleDemon Demon Lord]] [[HornyDevils Nocticula]]]].

* ''VideoGame/TheTechnomancer'' allows the main character, Zachariah, to pursue a relationship with [[WrenchWench Amelia]], [[HiddenBadass Niesha]], or [[DarkAndTroubledPast Lucky]]. Interestingly, the achievements for romancing Amelia and Niesha are both named after puns that refer to their respective backstories, whereas the achievement for romancing Lucky is simply titled "Soulmate".

* In ''VideoGame/GrowingUp'', it's possible to date Vivica, Alicia, or Bobbie if you're a girl, and Richard or [[spoiler:Charles]] if you're a boy, and if you don't end up with any of your classmates after graduating high school, your spouse can be the same gender as your character if you wish. Other love interests have romantic options open even if your character is the same gender as them, but [[IncompatibleOrientation they'll reject you because they don't feel that way towards you.]]

* The [[UpdatedRerelease HD version]] of ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' has a possible ending where the female protagonist ends up with [[BikerBabe Azami]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'' is based on Greek Myth, and as such, per WordOfGod, pretty much [[EveryoneIsBi everyone in the game is bisexual]], including the PlayerCharacter, Zagreus. He can pursue a romance with Thanatos (Basically the Grim Reaper) if the player so chooses. Depending on the player's choices, at the end of the game he can either be in a relationship with him, Zag's female ex Megaera, or both at the same time. (They know and approve of this arrangement). Zag can also flirt with Dusa but she'll turn down the advances and they'll agree to remain friends.

This trope has increased in prevelence since the late 2000's due to increased visibility of queer people. And as an interactive medium, it's possible for a game to include such content while giving those uninterested in same-sex romance the option of skipping it. This means that games that include romance have increasingly allowed the protagonist the option to romance a few characters of the same gender.

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' allows female Byleth to hook up with Edelgard, Dorothea, Mercedes, [[spoiler:Rhea, and Sothis]]. Male Byleth can hook up with Linhardt, Yuri, and [[spoiler:Jeritza]]. Subverted with Alois and Gilbert: They have an S Support, but seeing that they're already married men and still committed to their marriage, no romance occurred, only platonic friendship.

* The ''Swordcraft Story'' sub-series of ''VideoGame/SummonNight'' has lesbian option''s'', that are almost impossible to avoid. Female summons in both games gain a crush on the main character and playing as a female does nothing to deter them, and in-fact only encourages them (Sugar only gives the famed kiss to a female PC).

* In ''Growing Up'', it's possible to date Vivica, Alicia, or Bobbie if you're a girl, and Richard or [[spoiler:Charles]] if you're a boy, and if you don't end up with any of your classmates after graduating high school, your spouse can be the same gender as your character if you wish. Other love interests have romantic options open even if your character is the same gender as them, but [[IncompatibleOrientation they'll reject you because they don't feel that way towards you.]]

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* ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'' is based on Greek Myth, and as such, per WordOfGod, pretty much everyone in the game is Bisexual, including the PlayerCharacter, Zagreus. He can pursue a romance with Thanatos (Basically the Grim Reaper) if the player so chooses. Depending on the player's choices, at the end of the game he can either be in a relationship with him, Zag's female ex Megaera, or both at the same time. (They know and approve of this arrangement). Zag can also flirt with Achilles but he'll turn down the advances due to being in love with Patroclus, despite the two being seperated in different afterlives.

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* The ''My Lady's Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel'' book has this via offering the female protagonist the possibility of going on a trip to Egypt with her female OnlyFriend at various points in the other paths, in which she's otherwise going after male characters.
* In the Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure book ''Pretty Little Mistakes'' that has an explicitly female protagonist, most of the love interests are male but one of the story branches lets you get together with another woman instead.
* As does ''Night Of A Thousand Boyfriends.''

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* The premise of ''LightNovel/EndoAndKobayashiLiveTheLatestOnTsundereVillainessLieselotte'' involves a {{Fictional|VideoGame}} RomanceGame usually called ''Magikoi''. For the most part, ''Magikoi'' is aimed at straight females, having 5 romantic options plus one SecretCharacter, all of them male. However, there's also a [[MarryThemAll Reverse Harem Route]], where the PlayerCharacter hooks up with the 5 romantic options...''plus'' Lieselotte, the titular "{{Tsundere}} [[AlphaBitch villainess]]". In case it's not clear to the player, it's explicitly stated Lieselotte ''falls in love with'' the PlayerCharacter, who only has a female sprite.

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* All of the Creator/ChoiceOfGames games allow a gay option (at least, the ones that have a romance element at all do). In ''Choice of the Dragon'' you can choose the gender of your mate (or 'I don't care'). ''Choice of Broadsides'' allows you to have an affair with Villeneuve, who is always the same gender as you. ''Choice of Romance'' always gives you the same options for love interests, but said love interests are male or female depending on whether you say you are flirting with men or women in an early decision. And in ''Choice of the Vampire'', you are able to have an affair with Clotho on one hand and Silas, your dominus, and to an extent Jesse on the other hand regardless of gender. Also, in all but ''Choice of Romance'' (and possibly ''Choice of Broadsides'') can you be bisexual - and in ''Choice of Romance'' your love interests are always all of the same gender. ''Choice of Broadsides'' is a little odd: when you're asked if you want to get married you can choose to claim you are attracted to your own gender; if you do this, and are friendly enough to Villeneuve, he/she will hit on you and you can accept. If you chose differently, this will never happen. However, after your affair you might have the opportunity to still get married; the text implies at first that you are doing this just to go through the motions or increase your position in society, but after that the description is pretty much identical to what it would be if you truly were interested in these men or women.

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* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'':
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'' includes romance options for the first time in the series, allowing either [[PlayerCharacter Alexios or Kassandra]] to romance male and female characters alike.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla'' continues this trend with both [[CharacterCustomization male and female]] [[PlayerCharacter Eivor]], now with the option for Eivor to enter an official relationship with one love interest, a change from the series of flings allowed to Kassandra and Alexios.

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', there are a number of characters the player can propose to and marry. None of the prospective loves take [[EveryoneIsBi gender]] or even [[InterspeciesRomance species]] into account. However, while there's a perk that allows you to get better prices from a merchant of the other gender, there's no way to seduce merchants of the same gender as your character, even if you have a same-gender partner.
* ''VideoGame/{{Enderal}}'', a total conversion mod for the aforementioned ''VideoGame/{{Skyrim}}'', includes two bisexual companion characters (Jespar and Calia) who can be romanced by a male or female PlayerCharacter. The Forgotten Stories update adds another more minor female love interest (also bisexual) in the new Golden Sickle side questline.
* ''Expeditions'' series:
** ''VideoGame/ExpeditionsViking'' has one straight (Nefja and Asleifr) and one bisexual (Røskva and Ketill) romance option of each gender.
** ''VideoGame/ExpeditionsRome'' has two straight (Julia Calida, Cleopatra, Cato and Bestia) and one bisexual (Deianera and Caeso) romance options of each gender.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'':
** ''VideoGame/FableII'' doesn't exactly provide a dowry, but it's a lot more forward about your relationship. If you're married to someone of the same sex, whenever an NPC refers to the relationship, they'll always say "husband" or "wife" instead of "partner".
** ''VideoGame/FableIII'' expands on this a bit, allowing players to adopt children from an orphanage that becomes available about half-way through the story quests and sending them to live with their husband/wife. Wedding ceremonies can now also be set in chosen locations leading to a short scene where the officiator announces you "husband and husband" or "wife and wife".
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
** ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' provides the player with the option to marry either the son or daughter of a farmer, no matter what the main character's gender is (however, if you were "Separated"--i.e. if the spouse died--you could not go back to the town and marry their sibling). Additionally, several NPC characters were gay or bisexual, allowing for same-gender seduction, sometimes to provide an alternative way to complete a quest.
** In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', you may buy the services of Nova, Megaton's good time girl, and those of Clover, a slave with a rather ironic fetish, regardless of your gender. This isn't even hand waved and there are no male counterparts. With the Black Widow perk you may also suggest a threesome with Ronald Laren with Sierra to get him to do what you want; this gets him killed.
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' introduces the Confirmed Bachelor and Cherchez la Femme perks, gay counterparts to Lady Killer and Black Widow, as well as gay (Arcade Gannon) and lesbian (Veronica Santangelo) companion characters. In fact, gay men have the most sexually implicit or explicit interactions in the game, as in addition to their own perk-locked content, just about every character that a "heterosexually active" (Black Widow perk-equipped) female PC can get is also available to a gay male PC.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' has twelve companions, and the player character can romance specific companions (Preston, Piper, Hancock, Curie, Danse, [=MacCready=], and Cait, as well as Gage with ''Nuka-World'' DLC) regardless of gender.

* ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' allows the player to flirt with three different members of their party, two of them are all up for same-sex coupling, ultimately resulting in a night of romance before the final battle (and, in one instance, a possible threesome). However, due to ExecutiveMeddling from Microsoft, the scene goes to black right before any same-sex kissing is seen. Luckily it can be fixed in the PC version with this GameMod [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160312121227/http://www.lucasforums.com/showpost.php?p=2401203&postcount=173 found here.]]
* Each of the two possible player characters in ''VisualNovel/LorenTheAmazonPrincess'' has two straight and two gay romance options. The easiest option, the title character, is a heterosexual relationship for Saren and a lesbian one for Elenor.
** The game's expansion adds two more bisexual options, female necromancer Chambara and male [[DealWithTheDevil demonblood]] Mesphit.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 The first game]] [[DiscountLesbians sort of allows for this]] if the player creates a female playable character and chooses to romance the Asari member of the squad, [[HotScientist Liara T'Soni]]. Asari are a OneGenderRace, their whole race being female; however, from their own cultural perspective they don't view themselves as female, since they don't have any other gender to distinguish from. So it's definitely a lesbian relationship from Fem!Shepard's human point of view, but to Liara it's just a relationship like any other.
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' allows a romance to bloom between Kelly Chambers (a human woman) and a player character of either sex. However, the game does not count this as a "true" romance, you can do some light flirting and, at most, she dances for you. Starting a romance with Kelly Chambers will not grant the Paramour achievement or keep Shepard from starting a relationship with a party member. The developers described it an easter egg, rather than a true romance path. This can be upgraded to a "proper" relationship in ''3'', insofar as the game recognizes it with the Paramour achievement and a photo of Kelly in Shepard's room aboard the ''Normandy'', but this is still obviously much more shallow than a standard ''ME'' romance.
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' has actual gay relationships, with Male!Shepard getting shuttle pilot Steve Cortez or a RelationshipUpgrade with Kaidan, while Fem!Shepard gets Liara, tech specialist Samantha Traynor, or reporter Diana Allers. Amusingly, Fem!Shep has more gay options than straight, since she only has two possible male suitors, and both are returning characters who could be dead at the start of the game depending on the player's choices, leaving only the ladies.
** ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' allows a male Ryder to romance Jaal, Gil or Reyes, or a female Ryder to romance Peebee, Vetra or Suvi. Jaal was originally an exclusively heterosexual option but criticisms about the game's lackluster [[GayOption Gay Options]] for male Ryder prompted Creator/BioWare to update his romance in a patch.
* ''Pathfinder'' games:

* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'':
** Female player characters can seduce a number of female bar patrons for blood, and they could also have sex with a female vampire character, just as the male player characters could. There's a single instance in the early part of the game where male vampires could seduce a male NPC for blood, but you had to have a fairly high charisma stat early on for it to work. Also, if your charisma is high enough, the prostitutes give quite the discount to female [=PCs=], with the logic "Mm, I don't get to do women often..."
** The gravekeeper, Romero, has some... needs... that apparently must be fulfilled ''right now'', and he wants you to watch the zombie infested cemetery while he takes care of them. If you're female, you can offer to take care of said needs instead. In the unofficial patch made by one of the original programmers, Romero was changed to bisexual to allow male characters to do the same.
** The latest unofficial patch allows a "Homosexual" background for the PC. One of the more obvious changes is the sex partner at the start of the game. Male characters can attempt to Seduce other males as well.

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* ''TabletopGame/GameOfLife'': At one point in the game you have to get married and you choose a pink or blue peg to join yours in your car playing piece. There has ''never'' been anything at all stopping you from choosing a same-sex partner peg when you get married in the game, and it has no influence on your ability to have children.

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* Inverted in ''VideoGame/EmbricOfWulfhammersCastle''. Although the game is YuriGenre and thus has many female/female options, there is still one ending where the Duchess can end up with Embric.
* In ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', protagonist [[TomboyishName Max]] can have romantic interactions with either estranged childhood friend Chloe or science nerd Warren. It's actually something of an inversion, though, since Chloe is practically the {{Deuteragonist}}, while Warren is a side character. Chloe is also the protagonist of the prequel, ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm'', and in it she can begin a romance with popular girl Rachel.
* ''VisualNovel/SummerRoseCourt'', a ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' FanGame VisualNovel, allows Ruby to romance any of the members of Team RWBY, Team JNPR, or Penny. This leaves Jaune as the sole male option, with Ren only being romanceable in a polyamourous route alongside Nora.

** ''VideoGame/ExpeditionsRome'' keeps the same formula as its predecessor, with one straight (Julia Calida and Bestia) and one bisexual (Deianera and Caeso) romance option of each gender.

* Kaworu Nagisa is one of the characters Shinji can bond with in ''[[Franchise/NeonGenesisEvangelion Girlfriend of Steel 2nd]]''. It's ultimately subverted, however; despite his [[CloudCuckooLander out-there nature]], he very much wears his heart on his sleeve, but he's written out of the story to ensure the player winds up with a woman.

* {{Downplayed}} in ''VideoGame/BoyfriendDungeon''. There's only one female love interest, so if you're playing as a woman, Valeria is your only shot at F/F romance. However, the game gives you the option to play as a male, female, or non-binary player character, and the "boyfriend" roster is actually very diverse (consisting of three men, two non-binary people, one woman, and a [[BestialityIsDepraved thankfully]] platonic-only cat option); so it's hardly a traditional case of side-lining the QueerRomance.

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* In ''VideoGame/GrowingUp'', it's possible to date Vivica, Alicia, or Bobbie if you're a girl, and Richard or [[spoiler:Charles]] if you're a boy, and if you don't end up with any of your classmates after graduating high school, your spouse can be the same gender as your character if you wish. Other love interests have romantic options open even if your character is the same gender as them, but [[IncompatibleOrientation they'll reject you because they don't feel that way towards you.]]