I don't have a lot of time to play game these days. I usually play games like Cities Skylines where it's easy to pause and exit. I basically have 1-4 hours to game a week - depending on the week. But ever since coming out trans, I've wondered if there was a game that casually was affirming. I realize I could play an RPG where you can design your character, but most of those games have you spend 2 hours designing and then you never really look at the character again. Baldur's Gate was a lot of fun, but it's a little too deep to play casually on the side. I strongly prefer a non-NSFW game. I realize a lot of NSFW games exist on Steam that do explore trans concepts (I assume), but I'm looking for a more positive, gentle, affirmation.

But I don't want to knock down too many ideas! What do you play?

Edit: I realize I made it sound like I've excluded all RPGs which I don't want to be the case since - inherently - anything affirming will have some RPG element to it. I just don't think first-person RPGs really work since I spend most of my time looking at my hands and I don't get to see my character.

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Personally:

Stardew Valley
Skyrim / Oblivion
Unpacking
Gone Home (admittedly this was more relevant to me as a lesbian)
Life is Strange
Long Dark (survivalist game, esp. relevant to my pre-transition state of mind, but also feminist themes and switched gender perspectives make this more trans-coded for me)

Stereotypically:

Celeste is specifically a transfem game
Fallout New Vegas is a stereotypical transfem game
TF2 is pretty popular with transfems
Minecraft

Also, worth mentioning Sims, I played that more when I was younger but it's a common favorite among women and girls.

[–] will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Of course, how could I forget Celeste!

[–] captainjaneway@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just finished the first climb of the mountain. Awesome game. So stressful though lol

[–] will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Congrats!

It's been a few years now, but I remember mostly finding the frequent checkpoints and quick respawning made it mostly unstressful for me. There were some very exciting sequences however. Maybe I should try it again

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