LGBT Representation In Media / Video Games

Video Games with a prominent focus on LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual and/or aromantic) characters and people. The subject/theme of these works may or may not be about LGBTQIA+ culture and identities and can be highly varied. To be listed here, the work must contain either a main or recurring LGBTQIA+ character, or there must be a high frequency of LGBTQIA+ figures appearing rather than limiting it to one or two offhanded/one-off appearances. Word of Gay examples do not go here: the character's identity must be established within the work itself. See LGBT Fanbase for works that do not have unambiguous LGBTQIA+ subject matter, but attract a significant LGBTQIA+ fandom.

Some of these works have characters coming out or being shown to be LGBTQIA+ as reveals, beware of spoilers.

See LGBT Representation in Media for a list of works in other mediums with prominent LGBTQIA+ representation.

See also Queer Media for works with a primary focus on LGBT people, queer subjects and themes and Queer Romance for works that focus on romantic relationships between queer characters as the main plot. See also LGBT+ Creators for a list of artists/media creators who are LGBTQIA+.

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• 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim: The story arc of one of the male protagonists, Takatoshi Hijiyama, revolves around him grappling with his attraction towards the openly gay Tsukasa Okino. Being a World War 2-era soldier who was accidentally shifted forward into the future, he naturally struggles with his masculinity and patriotism versus his growing infatuation.
• AI: The Somnium Files: Secondary character Mama is a trans woman who serves as an information broker for the protagonist. Renju, a major suspect and victim in the case, and Pewter, the game's Mission Control, are revealed to be in a relationship.
  • AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative: One of the protagonists, Ryuki, is noted to have an attraction to his mentor Date.
• Apex Legends: There are several playable characters who are LGBTQIA+, including Bloodhound (non-binary), Gibraltar (gay), Loba (bisexual), Valkyrie (lesbian), Catalyst (transgender woman), Seer and Fuse (both of whom are pansexual). On the more ambiguous end, Bangalore is heavily implied to be a lesbian or bisexual and Mirage appears to be uncertain about his sexuality.
• APICO: Among the major NPCs, Drs. Sto and Codey are lesbians on a romantic "research trip", while Beetrix, Barnabee, and Bobbee use they/them pronouns (although the former two also use she/her and he/him pronouns, respectively). Additionally, there are no pronoun options when customizing your player character, leaving their gender identity open to interpretation^note although they're referred to with they/them pronouns by the other NPCs.
• Baldur's Gate III: Customizable player characters (Tav/Dark Urge) can be transgender (gender identity is separate from body type and genital selection) and/or gay/bisexual (all party members can be romanced regardless of PC gender); PC gender, body type, and genitals can also be changed at any time using the mirror in camp. The relationship between two female characters, Isobel Thorm and Dame Aylin aka the Nightsong, is critical to the plot of Act II. Several same-sex couples are both visible and teased among NPCs. There are also explicitly transgender (e.g., Nocturne) and gender-non-conforming (e.g., Lucretious) characters.
• Bastard Bonds: A player character of either gender can romance Nazar, a very muscular orc man, ex-husband of a female orc whose actions led to his imprisonment, and one of the titular 'Bastards' you can recruit. He is the only Bastard who can be romanced in this way.
• Batman: Arkham Series:
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum: Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy (both bisexual women) are villains/enemies in this game, and their romance is alluded to.
  • Batman: Arkham City: Catwoman, a bisexual anti-hero, is a playable character. Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy also return, and Harley Quinn is a focus of the game's DLC add-on Harley Quinn's Revenge.
  • Batman: Arkham Knight: Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy return, this time Harley Quinn is playable in a DLC add-on episode. Catwoman is also playable during a section of the game's story as well as getting her old DLC episode.
  • Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League: Harley Quinn is a playable main character. Rick Flagg off-handedly mentions that he previously slept with a man in one of the game's conversations.
• BattleTech (2018): Used subtly: it is possible to design your Player Character's portrait to be of one sex, but set their pronouns to masculine, feminine, or gender-neutral.
• Birdland: Bridget, the protagonist, is a teenager who realized recently that she's a lesbian and is dealing with a crush she's embarrassed about.
• Black Closet: Among the other options you have to interact with your classmates, you (as Elsa) can choose to romance several of the other girls who attend St. Claudine's.
• Blue Reflection: Second Light: Two of the characters, Rena and Yuki, are revealed to have both had fallen in love with each other in their past. As the game continues on, they rekindle their relationship and have quiet moments to share in each other's company. A bit more ambiguous but heavily implied is Kirara seeming to have a crush on Ao. The game's predecessor plays things a bit ambiguous with one character, Shihori, whom frequently fawns over Hinako and repeatedly tries to convince Hinako to swap underwear with her. If nothing more, it would at least imply Shihori is curious. Hinako doesn't feel the same way towards Shihori but never says she's straight either.
• Borderlands:
  • Borderlands 2: Axton a.k.a. The Commando is bi, though this example is accidental; Originally, Axton was meant to make flirtatious remarks only when reviving Maya, but due to an oversight in development he makes them when reviving male team members as well. They decided to Throw It In! and make him canonically bisexual, leading to this line from the Dragon Keep DLC when the characters ponder what they are going to spend their riches on:
    Axton: Guns and ladies... sometimes dudes.
  • Also introduced in Borderlands 2, Maya is canonically asexual and, based on dialog in a DLC expansion, likely aromantic.
  • Sir Hammerlock, an NPC introduced in Borderlands 2 is gay. He makes off-handed references to ex-boyfriends, is shown as being in a relationship with another NPC, Wainwright Jakobs, in Borderlands 3 and his wedding to Jakobs is the focus of a Borderlands 3 DLC expansion.
  • Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!: Janey Springs is a major NPC who occasionally helps out the Vault Hunters, and has a crush on Athena, one of the game's player characters (and narrator for the game). In the Claptastic Voyage DLC Athena reveals she and Janey started dating.
  • The character of Lor shows up first in Borderlands 3, and has a slightly-out-of-the-way log talking about how he wants to transition (with other hints, such as his subordinates addressing him as "sir", and the fact that his VA's a trans man). An NPC based on him shows up as a character in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, and he's finally managed to transition as of New Tales from the Borderlands.
  • Fl4k, one of the new vault hunters in Borderlands 3, is a robot who identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. They even wear a non-binary pride pin on their coat.
  • Zane, another Borderlands 3 vault hunter, is canonically pansexual and potentially polyamorous as he is said to be "married in multiple systems."
  • Tiny Tina is shown having a Precocious Crush on both men and women a few times in the second game onwards. As an adult in the third game, she's dated at least one other woman during the time skip.
• BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart: The main protagonists, Sophie and Anna, are a lesbian couple. Anna has an ex-girlfriend who hooks up with a different woman, Sophie's best friend Mirra, in the final act.
• Bugsnax: Among the major supporting cast are a lesbian couple (Lizbert and Eggabell), a gay couple (Snorpy and Chandlo), and another supporting character (Floofty Fizzlebean) is nonbinary and is voiced by a nonbinary VA.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War: Bell, the player character, can be non-binary.
• Cassette Beasts:
  • All the human partners can be romanced regardless of the player's gender.
  • A pair of supporting characters Leader Ianthe and Ranger Wilma are a lesbian couple.
  • Ranger Captain Skip is non-binary and goes by they/them pronouns.
• Catherine: Erica, a main character, is a transgender woman who gets outed at the end of the game, and Full Body introduces Rin, a crossdressing man who can be romanced by Vincent, the male player character.
• Celeste: Madeline, the game's protagonist, is shown to be a trans woman via the paraphernalia on her desk in the DLC chapter, "Farewell".
• Choice of Games: The majority of the games have love interests who can be romanced by the protagonist regardless of their gender, with some characters being Gender Flipped depending on that. Some games have characters who already have established sexual/romantic/gender identities.
• Cookie Run: Many of the playable characters are nonbinary and use they/them pronouns, with even more Cookies beyond that being gender non-conforming. This also applies to the spinoff game Cookie Run: Kingdom where the English dub has many of the non-binary cookies (Snow Sugar, Fig and Cream Unicorn) voiced by non-binary voice actors.
• Crush Crush: The main character can be either male or female when dating the otherwise all-female cast. Many of the "crushes" are attracted to women; Karma and Sutra are lovers, Pamu is a sex goddess that is interested in all body types, and Qpernikiss and the Dark One hook up in a phone fling.
  • Blush Blush: The main character can be either male or female when dating the otherwise all-male cast. One of the "blushes", Eli, is explicitly a hedonist who shows interest in other men as well as the player.
• Cute Bite: All of Buttercup's romance options are women, and one of her possible backstories is that she was locked in her coffin for stealing the heart of a woman her old master wanted to himself.
• Cyberpunk 2077: The main protagonist can be transgender and/or gay/bisexual. Also features a bisexual Deuteragonist, lesbian and bisexual male secondary characters (who can be romanced by a player with the right body type and voice) and a transgender woman as a supporting character.
• D4DJ Groovy Mix: Kokoa Shinomiya and Hayate Tendo are a couple of two girls who have been dating since sometime before the events of the game. They originally produced music as a couple unit before joining the four-person DJ unit UniChØrd, one of the eight featured units in the game. Their relationship is prominently shown whenever they're both on-screen and one of their cards, titled "True Love's Kiss", shows them about to kiss one another.
• Decarnation: Protagonist Gloria is queer in some way and is dating a woman at the beginning of the game. Their break-up is one of the kickstarting events of the plot.
• Deltarune: The main character, Kris, is nonbinary, and two of the party members/other main characters are girls with feelings for each other. Multiple side characters are also nonbinary, and there's an implied romance between a queer woman and a bisexual woman.
• Detroit: Become Human: One of the plot lines involves Connor and Hank investigating a homicide case where the culprit is a female android named Traci, who is in a relationship with another female android of the same model.
• The Devil in Me: Two of the main characters (Jaime and Erin) become a lesbian couple at the end of the game if they confess their feelings for each other and kiss (if both of them survive).
• Dicey Dungeons: The Robot and Jester are both nonbinary.
• Disco Elysium: Bisexual male main character and gay male Deuteragonist, lesbian secondary character, two gay male minor characters. Main character realizing his bisexuality is a minor optional subplot.
• Dokapon Kingdom: Princess Penny is bisexual, as established by both of the game's gendered endings. The King promises that whoever brings the most money following Dark Lord Rico's defeat will be betrothed to Penny, and this rings true for the ending. If a male character comes in first, Penny will vow to be with him forever, showing clear signs of infatuation. However, if a female character comes in first, the King objects to this, mainly on the grounds that it'll leave him without an heir to the kingdom, but Penny insists to her father that it's perfectly fine, still vowing to be with her forever, and showing infatuation towards the female character.
• Dragon Age: Medieval European Fantasy video game series. Each game entry allows for a Gay Option for the main player character, male or female.
  • Dragon Age: Origins: Players can choose to romance party members Leliana or Zevran as both male and female Wardens.
  • Dragon Age II: Players can choose to romance party members Anders, Fenris, Isabela, or Merrill as both male and female Hawkes.
  • Dragon Age: Inquisition: Players can choose to romance the Iron Bull or Josphine as both male and female Inquisitors; additionally there are Dorian (a gay companion exclusively for male Inquisitors) and Sera (a lesbian companion exclusively for female Inquisitors) as romance options.
• Duolingo: Lin is a Butch Lesbian, Bea is attracted to men and women, and Oscar is gay (and according to Word of God, he has quite high standards for men). Some stories involve their queer relationships, such as the story "The Ex-Girlfriend" in which Lin thinks she sees her ex-girlfriend out in public. Other stories involve new queer couples, such as "The Song" (about two elderly men disagreeing over the quality of a song that they first heard on their first date) and "The Honeymoon" (about two newlywed wives disagreeing over where to go on their honeymoon).
• Dyztopia: Post-Human RPG:
  • Akira is non-binary and has both men and women among their romance options.
  • Kiyota (F) has a crush on Runi (F) by default, but can also form a relationship with Akira if the player chooses to do so.
  • Akari Touma (F) has a Villainous Crush on Eliza Belguard (F).
• Extreme Meatpunks Forever: The game is about four gay friends beating up Nazis using Humongous Mecha made of meat.
• Far Cry 6: Paolo is a transgender man, while Isabela and Marisol, two minor characters who can be recruited as Bandido leaders after completing their sidequest, are a lesbian couple.
• Fear & Hunger: In the first game, Cahara is canonically bisexual, with his backstory involving affairs with men and women and being downright excited to have sex for "marriage". While other characters will also engage with "marriage" with people of the same gender, it's less clear whether they're doing it out of legitimate attraction or if it is a pragmatic decision to engage in it for the benefits of "marriage".
  • Fear & Hunger: Termina: The game features a transgender playable character (Marina), a bisexual playable character (Olivia, though that is only revealed by reading her mind in the demo, showing she is attracted to both Levi and Marina), as well as a lesbian non-player character (Samarie).
• Fear Effect: In the second game Hana is revealed to have a female love interest, Rain.
• Fear The Spotlight: Protagonist Vivian is in love with her best friend Amy.
• Final Fantasy XVI: Dion Lesage is gay and is shown sharing a kiss with his male lover Terrance. This became notable as the first example of explicit queer representation among a major character in the long running franchise (albeit there had been several installments with minor gay characters who were one-off stereotypes, like Mukki and the Gym Bunnies in Final Fantasy VII, or Ambiguously Gay protagonists, most notably, Vanille and Fang in Final Fantasy XIII).
• Fire Emblem:
  • Fire Emblem: Awakening: Tharja is bi, showing interest in the player character regardless of gender.
  • Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn: Kyza/Kysha is either a very effeminate gay man or trans woman with a crush on Ranulf in the original Japanese script, although this was Bowdlerized in the English localization. The English translation of Heroes portrays them as being nonbinary. Heather is a lesbian, though again this is more overt in the Japanese script.
  • Fire Emblem Fates: Soleil is bisexual, especially in the English localization where her only S-support options still presented as romantic are Forrest and a male Corrin. In addition, a Corrin of either gender has one same-gender romance option.
  • Fire Emblem Echoes has Camp Gay Leon, who has a one-sided crush on Valbar and is willing to stay by his side despite knowing that Valbar will never return his feelings.
  • Fire Emblem: Three Houses: The player character Byleth has same-sex relationship options, and some characters can be romanced regardless of gender, such as Edelgard.
  • Fire Emblem Engage: The player character Alear has more same-sex relationship options than any previous game, as most characters can be romanced regardless of gender.
• Furistas Cat Cafe: Among the VIP customers, Riley goes by they/them pronouns and had a girlfriend before they lost custody of their cat to her in a messy breakup.
• Get in the Car, Loser!: Sam, the player character, is a lesbian, and is only involved in the quest to save the world in the first place because Grace asked her, and Sam can't refuse a pretty woman.
• Gotham Knights (2022): Batman's proteges Nightwing, Batgirl, Robin, and Red Hood take over as Gotham's protectors after the supposed death of Batman; Tim Drake/Robin comes out as bisexual to his fellow heroes in this game, and his canon male love interest Bernard is mentioned.
• Going Under: Protagonist Jackie is indicated to be queer, and can flirt with Lili, a female shopkeeper. Out of her coworkers, Kara states she dated both men and women, while Tappi is a lesbian.
• Goodbye Volcano High: The lead is nonbinary and there eventually turns out to be trans people of both binary genders in the main cast. Some of the cis characters are at least implied to be an relationship with or interested in someone of their own gender.
• Granblue Fantasy: The game has an Everyone Is Bi approach to relationships between the player character and their party members, with several characters expressing or hinting at attraction regardless of the sex you choose for your avatar. As for individual queer characters. there's Vira (lesbian), Sandaphlon (gay), Meg and Mari (mutually sapphic pining), Yuel and Societte (implicitly a couple), Belial (bisexual), and Cagliostro and Ladiva (trans women). Several of these characters^note Vira, Yuel, Belial, Ladiva and Cagliostro also appear in Granblue Fantasy Versus.
• Grand Theft Auto IV: Bernie, one of Niko's war buddies, is found to be embracing an openly gay lifestyle after apparently spending his youth deep in the closet. His mission chain involves taking down homophobes who threaten his life or blackmail him with evidence of his affair with a "family values" politician.
• Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony: One of the main characters is Gay Tony, who is gay. He's the owner of Liberty City's most prominent straight and gay nightclubs, which Luis can visit at his own discretion.
• Growing Up: There are gay, lesbian, and bi romance options, with one character's route being a Coming-Out Story.
• Guilty Gear: This fighting game series has featured several fighters/characters on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.
  • Guilty Gear: The Missing Link: Testament was introduced in this game; they have an androgynous character design and Ambiguous Gender, but as of Guilty Gear -STRIVE-, they are referred as agender, with the English localization using they/them pronouns to refer to them.
  • Guilty Gear X: Venom is explicitly a gay man.
  • Guilty Gear -STRIVE-: Bridget (introduced in Guilty Gear XX) was previously presented throughout the series as a Wholesome Crossdresser, and she comes out as a trans girl during her storyline.
• Gyee: Most of the recruitable characters are gay or bi men.
• Hades: Zagreus is bisexual, with the option to romance Megaera, Thanatos, or both. Additionally, as the game is set in the Greek afterlife, Achilles and Patroclus are present and depicted as lovers.
• Haven (2020): An update to the game in March of 2022 added the option to swap the gender of either Kay or Yu, allowing them to be played as a same-sex couple depending on player preference. Yu is mentioned on several occasions to have two mothers.
• Honk, a 2023 Interactive Fiction piece. The main character, Lola the clown, is lesbian and in a relationship with fellow sideshow member Freda the strongwoman. Adagio the magician is also implied to be transgender.
• House Party (2017): In the game's original release, Brittany, Amy, Stephanie, and Frank all show some bisexual leaning, with Frank being the major Gay Option for the player.
• Horizon Zero Dawn: Protagonist Aloy is a lesbian, and starts dating another woman in the second game's DLC.
• HuniePop: Main character Kyu Sugardust is depicted flirting with both male and female characters. Additionally, the player character can be either male or female and will both date and have sex with the game's otherwise all-female cast regardless of which gender they pick.
  • HuniePop 2: The game's all-female cast show interest in each other as well as the player (who can again be either male or female themself) while engaging in three-way dating. One character, Polly Bendleson, identifies as a woman but can be either biologically female or hermaphroditic depending on the player's choice.
• Idol Manager: The Idol Singer group the player has to manage is all-female and the following can happen when it comes to their love lives:
  • The Player Character has the option to try flirting with the idols while socializing and can potentially get positive responses from them regardless of their own sex. When negative responses happen, they are sometimes explicitly caused by Incompatible Orientation.
  • It's entirely possible for two of the idols to start dating each other.
  • Idols who don't date each other will sometimes get in a relationship with an off-screen person. Said off-screen person is usually male, but can be female once in a while.
  • As the game depicts a subset of the entertainment industry with expectations of invokedContractual Purity, one possible idol trait is never getting involved in romantic relationships, be it with groupmates, off-screen partners or the Player Character. Such idols are tagged as being asexual and are aroace for gameplay purposes.
• Ikenfell features a large cast of queer characters, including three non-binary party members (Rook who uses he/him, Petronella who uses they/them and Ima who uses the neopronouns Ze/Zir). An epilogue also reveals the main character dates at least two other women, and that one of the party members is aro/ace.
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist:
  • Sol's name, pronouns, and gender presentation can be changed anytime and their biological sex is a separate, if more permanent choice.
  • Among the romanceable characters, all of which are open regardless of Sol's gender identity, Tangent is a sapphic trans woman^note she favors women in her epilogue, Marz and Rex are pansexual and polyamorous (and Sol can enter a threesome with them), while Nomi-Nomi is a nonbinary demisexual. Also, Dys is Achillean^note all inclusive term for males/male-identifying persons attracted to men since he can hook up with Sym, and also with Sol if they wish to enter a threesome with them. Additionally, Cal and Vace are Romeric^note men who favor women but can also be attracted to other genders while Tammy and Anemone are Julietian^note women who favor men, but can also be attracted to other genders.
  • Among the adults, Seeq is nonbinary while Utopia is mentioned to be trans in a Medbay conversation with Tang. Cal's mother is in a polyamorous relationship with three people, two of which are her boyfriends. Additionally, Marz is raised by her gay dads and one of them appears in a list otherwise made of mothers when discussing who could have carried Tammy, who only has a father.
• Jade Empire: Action RPG based on Wuxia and Chinese legends; the game allows for a Gay Option for male or female players, with Silk Fox and Sky being romance options for either gender. As it was developed and published in the early 2000s, the heterosexual romances ended with a kiss on screen whereas the gay romances faded to black before the kiss can be seen. A game mod for the PC years later restored the kissing scenes in full.
• Kena: Bridge of Spirits: Adira and Hanna are lesbians and shown to be in a relationship in flashbacks.
• Kitty Powers' Matchmaker has Drag Queen Kitty Powers herself hiring you to help her grow her dating agency. Some of your clients are gay, lesbian, or bi in addition to straight, and same-sex marriage is normal and legal.
• Knights of Ambrose
  • Knight Bewitched: Ruth, the main character, realizes after meeting Gwen that she's attracted to women. While she'd dated men previously, she'd never felt for them what she felt for Gwen.
  • Celestial Hearts: Kayah is a lesbian elf who falls in love with Helen, a bisexual angel.
  • Absinthia:
    • The main character Sera and Pirate Queen Contesse discuss how neither feels romantic attraction towards others, making them aromantic.
    • Jake and Thomas are a gay couple.
    • Freya, a trans woman, and Ruthea, a lesbian, had a falling out in the backstory, but slowly repair their relationship in the ending.
• Known Unknowns: Many of the main characters are LGBTQIA+ in some way. The protagonist Nadia is bisexual, Kaz is nonbinary, Summer and Anja are lesbians, and Annette is asexual.
• Lakeburg Legacies: Every villager is bisexual, so the player can have same-sex and opposite-sex couples living in their village. Same-sex couples can also easily adopt children, so they can have offspring and growing families like opposite-sex couples.
• The Last of Us: A video game series about a Zombie Apocalypse caused by fungi; Ellie, one of the main characters revealed to be a lesbian in a DLC side story/campaign about her relationship with another girl, and there is Bill, a gay supporting character in the main game.
  • The Last of Us Part II: Ellie, from the first game, is a main player character, and her love interest is Dina, a bisexual woman. There is also Lev, a young trans boy supporting character escaping with his sister from a transphobic community.
• League of Legends has several queer characters, whether they be introduced as such or featuring updated lore that confirms them to be queer. Not including instances that only are only metatextually implied (such as Taliyah, who was intended by her writers to be a trans woman, but this isn't alluded to in the final product), there still exists plenty of outward or at least subtextual queer representation:
  • In terms of fully confirmed couples: Vi and Caitlyn are a lesbian couple (it's more gentle Ship Tease in the game, but much more pronounced in Arcane), as were Diana and Leona who still hold a torch for each other. Valmar and Kai — two-thirds of the champion Varus — are a gay couple, and K'Sante is gay though has broken up with his partner, a non-playable male character named Tope. Nami is bisexual and in a polyamorous relationship with a man and a woman, and Udyr is strongly implied to be bisexual (having a female lover and male partner whom he refers to with equal fondness). In the Spirit Blossom Alternate Universe, Sett and Aphelios are definitely a couple (Sett is bi, Aphelios is at the very least into men), and it's suggested by their writer that their sexualities also apply to their main universe counterparts.
  • In individual instances, Neeko is lesbian (having an unrequited crush on the female Nidalee), Rell is bisexual, and Blitzcrank is treated as nonbinary (at least insofar as being referred to with gender-neutral pronouns following the game's Continuity Reboot).
  • In terms of non-playable characters, Tyari "The Traveler" identified as an AMAB nonbinary character before ascending as a transgender woman. Ada and Dess are confirmed to be a lesbian Battle Couple, and a smattering of Legends of Runeterra followers are also queer, such as the "Legion Veteran" (married gay man), the "Widowed Huntress" (married lesbian), the "Buhru Leader" (trans male), and "Dropboarder" (nonbinary).
• Lenna's Inception: The heroine has a Romance Sidequest with a woman, which is required to get the Golden Ending.
• Little Goody Two Shoes: The main protagonist is a lesbian with three female love interests. However, should she make a Deal with the Devil to attain her dream of a wealthy lifestyle, her beloved will be sacrificed as payment and she'll end up in a loveless, child-producing marriage with a man.
• Littlewood: During the game's epilogue, the characters the player didn't choose to romance will pair up. Among these potential pairs are Bubsy and Max, who are both male, and Zanna and Mel, who are both female.
• Lonely Wolf Treat: Treat is heavily implied to have a crush on both Mochi and Moxie, with the three of them eventually getting together. Trick, the protagonist of the fourth game, is nonbinary.
• Love & Pies: Amelia's uncle Sven is Happily Married to his husband Angus, Eve is in a Long-Distance Relationship with her partner, who goes by they/them pronouns, while Yuka is bisexual and has a crush on Eve.
• Love, Sam: Kyle is a gay man, whose unrequited feelings for Brian drive his hostility towards Sam, his girlfriend.
• Mass Effect: Sprawling Space Opera video game series revolving around companionship and moral choices, each game entry allows for a Gay Option for the main player character, male or female.
  • Mass Effect: Liara is a Discount Lesbians example; she belongs to the asari alien race, which is a monogendered pansexual alien race. She can be romanced by female Shepard.
  • Mass Effect 2: You can choose to romance Kelly, a pansexual woman/non-player character as female Shepard.
  • Mass Effect 3: Players can choose to romance Kaiden, Liara or Diana as male or female Shepard; additionally Steve (a gay non-player character exclusively for male Shepard) and Samantha (a lesbian non-player character exclusively for female Shepard) are romance options.
  • Mass Effect: Andromeda: Players can choose to romance Vetra, Pelessaria (an asari Discount Lesbian), Jaal, Keri, or Reyes as both male and female Ryder. Additionally, Gil (a gay non-player character exclusively for male Ryder) and Suvi (a lesbian non-player character exclusively for female Ryder) are romance options.
• Metal Gear: The video game series has had a pervasive homoerotic tone throughout all its entries; many characters can be easily intrepreted as queer, and close platonic same-sex friendships can be interpreted as romantic. Among the confirmed LGBT characters:
  • Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: Dead Cell member Vamp is explicitly stated to be bisexual, and it's all but said that Scott Dolph, fellow Dead Cell member Fortune's father, was his lover.
  • Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: Colonel Volgin is a Depraved Bisexual, and was in a relationship with EVA (a woman), and Major Raikov, a gay man.
  • Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker: Dr. Strangelove is a lesbian.
• Midnight Suns: Many characters share their comic version's sexuality, such as Nico being a lesbian and Deadpool being pansexual. Agatha Harkness also is given Adaptational Sexuality and was in a relationship with the Caretaker.
• Mortal Kombat
  • Mortal Kombat X introduces Kung Jin, the franchise's first openly gay character. The characters Mileena (introduced in Mortal Kombat II) and Tanya (introduced in Mortal Kombat 4) are hinted to be a couple through some pre-fight dialogue. Both would be considered to be bisexual women as they both previously have been interested in and paired with male characters.
  • Mortal Kombat 11: Mileena is playable in this game, and her arcade ladder ending sees her paired with Tanya as they raise a family.
  • Mortal Kombat 1: In this new timeline established by the game, Mileena and Tanya's relationship is made much more explicit as a subplot in the story mode; both of them keep the relationship under wraps due to Tanya's Vow of Celibacy. Both Mileena and Tanya may have possibly had an Adaptational Sexuality change from bisexual to lesbian as both barely show any interest in men and only in each other.
• Mortal Meal: It is eventually revealed that the playable character was in a relationship with another man when he was alive, and his Ghostly Goals is to be Together in Death with him.
• Mother 3: The Magypsies, a group of tritagonists who prominently appear throughout the game, are nonbinary and were based on gender-nonconforming friends of Shigesato Itoi.
• Murder By Choice: At the end of Chapter 1, it's revealed that one of the main suspects, Dr. Kat, has a wife and two children.
• Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA-: Ashuku Nyorai is a trans woman, and Nanda Ryūō is a gay man.
• Nefarious: In the minigame segment spoofing The Dating Game, Would You Date a Super Villain?, one of the suitors for the bachelorettes is Malice, a female villain. The three bachelorettes — Princess Mayapple, Becky, and Princess Ariella — are also unfazed by Malice's inclusion, and Mayapple chooses Malice as her date.
• Night in the Woods: Two of the main characters, Gregg and Angus, are a gay couple, and the player character Mae is attracted to multiple genders. A trans woman named Jackie also shows up briefly in an early scene, and plays a more prominent role in one of Bea's hangouts (in which Mae can also flirt with another girl).
• Nights of Azure: Arnice fell in love with her best friend Lilysse the first time she saw her, and shows no romantic interest in anyone else.
  • Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon
• NOISZ STARLIVHT:
  • Two members of the main unit STΔRLIGHT, Grace and Sera, are a lesbian couple. Many cutscenes show them being affectionate with each other and looking out for one another.
  • Another member, Hakuno, is a transgender woman who is confirmed to be attracted to other women, developing a crush on her best friend Sumire. The prequel visual novel, 2ECONDS TO STARLIVHT: My Heart's Reflection, reveals that trying to present feminine at school was met with a lot of revulsion from the student body and faculty.
  • The last member, Sumire, is a cisgender and heterosexual woman unlike the rest, but is later revealed to be part of a plural system with her alter Hitomi, who is a transgender man.
  • The Player Character, STΔRLIGHT's producer, is a woman who can reveal she's also sapphic in an optional dialogue choice, much to the elation of the group.
• An Outcry: The playable character is an anxious non-binrary shut-in and their closest friend and neighbor is a trans woman.
• Overwatch: Video game about reuniting heroes battling villains in a Hero Shooter; there are several playable LGBTQ characters in the roster:
  • In the comic "Reflections," it is unveiled that Tracer is a lesbian and has a girlfriend.
  • Likewise, in the short story "Bastet," Soldier: 76 is depicted as gay and having been in a previous relationship with a man.
  • As part of Pride Month in 2023, a new short story called "As You Are" was released. In this story, Pharah openly identifies as a lesbian, while Baptiste reveals his attraction to men, with an accompanying blog post clarifying him as bisexual.
  • Lifeweaver was announced as pansexual when the hero was introduced, marking a notable first for Overwatch in terms of not revealing a character's sexual orientation through supplemental material.
  • Venture was announced in BlizzCon 2023, months ahead of schedule before their release, with Blizzard confirming right off the bat that they were set to be the game's first nonbinary hero.
  • A few lore-based omnics are nonbinary, including Lynx Seventeen of the "Searching" comic, and Nameless of "Ramattra: Reflections".
• Paleo Pines: Several characters go by they/them pronouns, and there's a long-running sidequest about helping a major NPC with her same-gender crush.
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: Vivian, a secondary character who becomes one of Mario's partners after a Heel–Face Turn, is depicted as a trans woman in most versions of the game (save for the English and German localizations). Much of her initial arc revolves around learning to stand up to her openly transphobic sisters.
• Pathfinder: Kingmaker: Romance options include one straight relationship each for male and female PCs, and a bisexual polyamorous male-female couple who can be romanced individually or possibly together. The Wild Cards DLC adds a pair of bisexual tiefling twins who can also be romanced together. Additionally party members Linzi and Amiri, though not romanceable, have noticeable Homoerotic Subtext with other female characters; Linzi was confirmed to be gay by one of the writers in a Reddit Q&A. It is also possible to set your character to present as either sex but use voice acting of the opposite sex.
• Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous: Romance options include a straight male, a gay male, a pansexual male, two straight females, and Arueshalae—a succubus who is trying to mend her ways. Additionally the Courtly Love route with Queen Galfrey is available to PCs of both genders. As with the previous game, it is possible to set your character to present as either sex but use voice acting of the opposite sex. Outside the Player Party, Anevia and Irabeth Tirabade are a female-female couple (with Anevia also being a post-op trans woman), and in some of his endings, Sosiel Vaenic hooks up with his tabletop canon partner Aron Kir (who is otherwise Demoted to Extra as a consequence of Sosiel being made a party member in this adaptation).
• Persona
  • The Persona 2 duology features several LGBTQ+ characters both in the main cast and among the NPCs. Protagonist Tatsuya and party member Yukino are bisexual, party member Jun is Tatsuya's Gay Option, Anna and Noriko are lesbians — which actually becomes plot relevant in Eternal Punishment as Noriko is enough of a Yandere to kill people who insulted Anna — and among the NPCs we have homosexual, asexual, transgender, and even an intersex individual — the last of which having a major effect in gameplay. None of them are portrayed in a negative light for their identity or preferences — though some are villains — but since the game takes place in 90s Japan, there is a bit of questioning from some characters regarding the subject.
  • Persona 3: The Female Protagonist in Portable is bisexual/pansexual as she can romance Aigis and/or Elizabeth, both of whom are female, in addition to the male romance options.
  • Persona 4 features Kanji Tatsumi who's struggling with the possibility that he's attracted to men and whose level in the Shadow World focuses on homoerotic themes and imagery.
• Potionomics: Protagonist Sylvia is able to romance characters regardless of their gender, one of which is the non-binary Quinn. Mint also mentions having two dads.
• Princess Remedy: The titular character is at least a lesbian in the first game, with Frallan. It also has the possibly of marrying anything that can be interacted with, and the second game allows dating anything that needs to be cured.
• Psychonauts 2: Helmut Fullbear and Bob Zanotto, two members of the Psychic 6, were two men who were married before the former seemingly died in the Battle of Grulovia. But he's not really dead, as his brain survived. Once you manage to beat Bob Zanotto's level, the two of them reunite.
• The Quarry: Out of the main cast, Dylan is gay and has a crush on the bisexual Ryan. The two characters see multiple opportunities to bond and flirt over their scenes together, although they're separated for the second half of the game before any possibility of a relationship can develop any further.
• Read Only Memories: There are gender-nonconforming main character options, a non-binary non-player character, and gay non-player characters.
• The Red Strings Club: The player character, Donovan, is a gay bartender and Knowledge Broker who is dating Brandeis, a hacker.
• Remothered: Broken Porcelain: Protagonists Celeste/Jennifer and Linn are a lesbian couple. Retroactively, this extends to the first game since in that game, they were appearing under aliases: Celeste/Jennifer being the narrator Madame Svenska, and Linn being the protagonist of the first game, Rosemary Reed.
• Roots of Pacha:
  • Besides all the love interests being romanceable regardless of your player character's gender^note in fact, instead of pronouns, you get to choose between three different body types, allowing open interpretation of your character's gender identity, you can date as many of them as you want without your initial partner getting jealous of you.
  • Jukk is raised by his two moms, Okka and Jizu, while the player character's adoptive grandfather Igrork also once fell in love with another man when he was younger.
• Scratchin' Melodii: The main character Melodii is nonbinary, referenced when they walk out of a restroom marked with a music note during "Greese Poppin'", and uses any pronouns.
• Signs of the Sojourner: Alexis, one of the shopkeepers you regularly meet on your travels, goes by "they/them" pronouns.
• Silver Falls Gaiden: Deathly Delusion Destroyers and Ruby River: Gus Ironcock is desperately searching for his husband Cooper, who has disappeared in the Lovecraft Country forest surrounding Silver Falls. Georgia, one of the secondary characters, is also a LGBTQIA+ character, but the game doesn't go into specifics aside from the two of them commiserating over how people judge them for their orientations.
• Small Saga: Members of the party include Gwen, a queer female rat arrested for flirting with a female stoat in a homophobic territory, and Bruce, a male red squirrel with a hamster boyfriend he hugs in tense situations.
• Smile for Me: Several of the supporting characters are queer: Lulia is a lesbian, Gillis and Randy exchange love poems, Parsley is 'uninterested in women', and Tim Tam is nonbinary.
• Sofia?: Protagonists Crow and Fio are in a queer relationship, with Crow being a transgender man, and Fio being AMAB nonbinary (but, according to Word of God, he self-describes himself as a "boy outside the box", since there wasn't much mainstream awareness of gender identity in the year the game is set). The antagonist, Icarus, is intersex and doesn't identify with any particular gender or sexuality.
• Spiritfarer: Stella's lesbian aunt Summer was married to Rose in her past life.
• Splatoon 3: Acht (aka Dedf1sh), one half of the Side Order DLC's Mission Control and a Sanitized Octoling whose memories were restored, is nonbinary. On the more ambigious end, Pearl and Marina are heavily implied to be in a lesbian relationship, far more than their first appearance in Splatoon 2.
• Star Wars: The Old Republic: A male-male flirtation was available in the Imperial Rise of the Hutt Cartel storyline, and beginning with Shadow of Revan, all romances have been available to PCs of both playable sexes, with some returning class story companions getting retconned to be bisexual.
• Stardew Valley, all the potential love interests can be romanced by either gender, there's special dialogue for certain characters mentioning how they've never experienced attraction to a individual of their same gender before.
  • In Stardew Valley Expanded, a very popular unofficial expansion mod, Scarlett is revealed to be living with her dad and his husband. Also the non-binary child Morgan comes to live in the town on year 3.
  • In Ridgeside Village, another popular expansion mod, one of the romanceable bachelors, Sean, is a transgender man.
• Among your regular customers in Sticky Business, Marc is dating Pedro after the former lost his wife a year ago, while Dawn and Daisy move in and start their own sticker shop after hooking up in a chance encounter at the café.
• Street Fighter has two unambiguously LGBTQIA+ characters; the rest of the series has had inconsistent LGBTQIA+ representation, stemming from cultural differences/localization issues: Zangief from Street Fighter II has been Ambiguously Gay, but some games portray him as straight. Likewise, Juri (from Street Fighter IV) is Ambiguously Bi. Poison (coming in from the Final Fight series) was intended to be a transgender woman, but she has gone from cisgender to transgender and back several times. Seth (introduced in Street Fighter IV) is a transhuman cyborg that was male but in Street Fighter V, he is now in a female body. He is still referred to as male, though some characters refer to him with gender-neutral terms.
  • Street Fighter: Eagle is a gay man (modeled after the flamboyant Freddie Mercury), though this wasn't made explicit until Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium with some of his win quotes.
  • Street Fighter 6: The game introduces Marisa, a bisexual woman who proudly admits that gender is no issue to her when it comes to finding a partner.
• Sugary Spire: In this Pizza Tower fangame, both Pizzelle and minor character Yello are trans, while Big Bad Coneball, is genderfluid and okay with any pronouns. In addition, the game's official website reveals that Pizzelle has a wife.
• Super Lesbian Animal RPG: Many of the major characters are LGBTQIA+; for example, the protagonists consist of three lesbians and one bisexual, two of whom are transgender, and there are also nonbinary supporting characters.
• Super Mario Bros. 2: The game marks the debut of Birdo, who is transgender and serves as a Recurring Boss facing Mario and his friends in the name of her master Wart.
  • BS Super Mario USA: A "sequel" to the original game that features Birdo once again as a Recurring Boss.
• Them's Fightin' Herds: Cashmere, one of the game's only two shopkeepers, has an obvious attraction towards one of the game's heroes, Oleander (despite the fact the former is a reindeer while the later is a unicorn), and flirts with her in most of Cash's unique dialogue with her. It's ambiguous whether Oleander feels the same way, but certain promotional material and few Ship Teasing moments in-game (to varying degrees of subtlety) imply that she does.
• Thirsty Suitors: The player character, Jala, is bi/pan and is confronted throughout the game by former suitors, male and female.
• Timespinner: Most of the primary characters are some variety of LGBTQIA+, with the protagonist Lunais herself being bisexual.
• Tokyo Afterschool Summoners: Most of the cast are burly, muscular gay men.
• Undertale includes several nonbinary characters and a romance plot between two women, one of whom is bisexual. There are also two queer male side characters whose Sparing method involves getting them to confess their feelings for each other, after which they become a couple; and two characters implied to be a trans man and woman respectively via Adopting the Gender Binary.
• Unpacking: One of the characters who moves in with the protagonist is a lesbian, as shown in one of her underwear that you help her unpack, which has rainbow pride colors. The protagonist, who is possibly bisexual since she breaks up with her boyfriend in the 5th level, dates/marries her new roommate and has a child with her at the end of the game.
• The Walking Dead (Telltale):
  • The Walking Dead: Season Three: There is a bisexual male player character and a gay male secondary character (the two can flirt in one scene, but they don't develop a romance).
  • The Walking Dead: Season Four: There is a bisexual female main character, lesbian secondary character, another character who doubles as a Gay Option, minor antagonist who becomes the main antagonist in episode four.
• Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader: Not unexpectedly considering it was developed by Owlcat Games, known for including a variety of love interests for all preferences in their earlier Pathfinder-based CRPGs. There is one straight option each for male and female PCs, plus two bisexual female options and one bisexual male option. As with Owlcat's earlier games, you can give your PC a body and voice of opposite sexes.
• The Wizard Sniffer: One of the main characters is a drag queen, whose father disproves. Another is implied to be asexual.
• Wunderling: Dash is a female cow with a massive crush on the also female witch Kohlrabi. She's also implied to develop a crush on the Wunderling in the postgame, which potentially makes her bisexual depending on if the Wunderling has a gender and what it is.
• Xenoblade Chronicles: Several party members and supporting characters throughout the series are queer:
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 1: Alvis, a major supporting character, has the appearance of an effeminate man and uses masculine pronouns, but in-game dialogue from Melia (as well as a post-release guidebook) points to him being genderqueer, which is later made explicit in a sequel where it is stated his original form was nonbinary, making Alvis himself either nonbinary or a binary trans man.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 2: One of the major story Blades, Roc, is nonbinary, as evidenced both by the internal code and is shown in concept art to have an intersex form, although he uses he/him pronouns in the localization. One of the unlockable Blades, Sheba, is a Lipstick Lesbian. It's also very strongly implied in a specific New Game Plus animation that Nia, Pyra, and Mythra are bisexual and developed romantic feelings for each other in addition to Rex.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3: One of the recruitable heroes in the main quest is Juniper, a nonbinary archer who goes by they/them.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed: One of the party members is A, who has the appearance of a woman but is conspicuously never referred to with pronouns of any kind whatsoever, and is the most recent manifestation of the Core Crystal Ontos, who is explicitly described as being nonbinary in gender. Furthermore, it's established that A is on some level the same person as Alvis from Xenoblade Chronicles 1, who was described as male in that game, with the process by which Alvis became A being distinct from but nevertheless akin to a form of supernatural gender transition, making Alvis at the bare minimum some form of genderqueer.

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