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A delightfully polarizing term for women who game.

This is a community space for ladies to hang out, talk about gaming, and game together. We also discuss topics around women in geek culture and debrief about experiences that occur as a result of their gender.

Or you know, just post some bad ass makeup tutorials inspired by video games. We like that stuff here!

Folks of all genders and identities welcome to join discussions here!

FAQ -https://www.reddit.com/r/GirlGamers/wiki/index

"Girl Gamer"

A delightfully polarizing term for women who game.

This is a community space for ladies to hang out, talk about gaming, and game together. We also discuss topics around women in geek culture and debrief about experiences that occur as a result of their gender.

Or you know, just post some bad ass makeup tutorials inspired by video games. We like that stuff here!

Folks of all genders and identities welcome to join discussions here!

Community

For game-specific /r/GirlGamers subreddits, check out our multireddit

Rules

  1. Be civil and keep it on-topic. Follow Reddiquette. Do not attack other posters or post discriminatory content (ex: racism, transphobia). The banhammer is stronger on posts from non-regulars who cannot be civil in controversial posts.

  2. No posts from men targeting women. We highly discourage posts recruiting or targeting women from those who identify as male. As this is a subreddit specifically for women, men using this subreddit to look for people to play with is explicitly disallowed. There are other subreddits that are open to LFG from everyone, but this is not one of them. We also ask that men do not lead discussions or asking of questions. They are welcome to participate within discussions.

  3. No posts that should be in one of our weekly threads. Looking for Group and self-promotion posts are allowed only in their respective megathreads. The Self-Promotion post goes live on Tuesdays , Looking For Discord on Thursday, and the Find a Friend post goes live on Fridays. Battlestation posts are only allowed on Saturdays or Sundays. No posts that consist only of an introduction.

  4. Please label triggering content. Posts & comments that include potentially triggering content of a violent and/or sexual nature, including screenshots of text, must be marked as such with a warning at the beginning of your post/comment or spoiler/NSFW tags, as appropriate.

DEVELOPERS

We love to highlight games and products whose staff is diverse. Developers wishing to promote their games must contact mods for permission before doing so, explaining their game and the diversity of the staff. Failing to do so will result in post removal.

RESEARCHERS

We are not currently taking requests to conduct surveys, interviews, or observations here.

GIVEAWAYS

If you are doing a contest requiring entry (e.g. best comment), a specific deadline is required. PM the winner(s) with the key(s), edit the post declaring the winners, and PM the mods so we can flair the thread. If no entry is required, post the keys in an image and delete the thread when all keys are gone.

SPOILERS

Tag spoilers. Post titles should say [SPOILER] and comments should use the following format:

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The cake is a lie. >!The cake is a lie.!<

Weekly Megathreads

Tuesday: Self-Promotion - Share your own content, communities (ex: Discord), or projects.

Wednesday: What're You Playing? - Discuss what's been on your gaming docket this past week.

Friday: Find a Friend Friday - Search for other community members playing your game.

Saturday/Sunday: Battlestation Weekends - Post your awesome battlestations on the subreddit!

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Spent my Halloween playing Dragon Age! As a fan of the franchise I'm so glad the wait is over. Here's my Rook <3

2 Comments
2024/11/01
02:07 UTC

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Veilguard, no Female walk animations?

I just started playing Veilguard 😊 It's a small pet peeve, but I'm always a little sad if my Gal character has to walk like she got a package between her legs. Might be because I picked Warrior? Love the game already btw, don't get me wrong 🤩

5 Comments
2024/11/01
00:53 UTC

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New Steam Deck! But it's so plaaaaain

Anyone who has a pretty one, show it off! I just got mine and would love to see how you've decorated yours!

4 Comments
2024/11/01
00:53 UTC

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This is Faelynn, my Rook✨

This is Faelynn, I love the character creator in Veilguard so much!! She took me an embarrassingly long time to make 😂 She’s a mage btw ✨

0 Comments
2024/10/31
23:58 UTC

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I was searching for dragon age reviews and came across this video and was curious to see what she had to say and every single word that came out of her mouth was so xenophobic and it makes me so mad to see other women being like this and the rest of her videos are just as bigoted and hateful

Title, I’d have better words to say but I’m genuinely just shocked and too upset to spare time venting about someone like her, I reported her channel and hopefully some of you can as well

47 Comments
2024/10/31
23:52 UTC

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Games like house flipper but cuter and more polished?

Not the sims 😬

I tried getting into house flipper but it’s got a lot of jank. Your pov will be 6 feet tall sometimes and 3 feet other times. I tried messing with fov and it didn’t help. I play on console so no mods. The controls also aren’t great.

I’m currently playing two point hospital and I love the gameplay. But there’s not a lot of focus on colors, decor, etc.

I wish I liked the sims, but as soon as I’ve built something, I’m bored.

3 Comments
2024/10/31
22:49 UTC

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Game Recommendation for a Older, Yoga, Art Lady

I wanna make a friend explore PC gaming especially visual novel genre because my friend is a 70 years old yoga instructor who is not fond of or have experience with technology. But she can computer better than any of her friends or many younger than her but i would like an easy game to ease her into it. So i would like a recommendation for a game that is low effort, one she can save and get back to it anytime. I like visual novels for this especially something with great visuals and sound. But any recommendation appriciated

10 Comments
2024/10/31
21:40 UTC

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Sharing my Rook 😭 I love her so much already

Altho I dunno what to call her. Shes a mage.

Game: Dragon Age - Veilguard

4 Comments
2024/10/31
20:47 UTC

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Gaming chairs for short adult women?

I'm looking for help finding a decent gaming chair that will work for me. I'm 5'3" with short little legs that dangle off the ground with standard gaming chairs.

I was looking at the Secret Lab extra extra small Titan chair, and it looks good with a seat height of 12-14". However, it's made for kids and has a weight limit of 150 lbs. I'd want something a little beefier since I'm about 165 lbs.

I haven't been able to find any good options. Is there a version of the Titan chair that's XS instead of XXS? Because if so I can't find it, and the Titan Evo Small's seat height is too big at 17.7-20.5".

I think ideally I'd want a seat height around 13-15". I'm also open to other recommendations that aren't from Secret Lab

10 Comments
2024/10/31
17:53 UTC

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Made my Rook (only took me an hour 😅)

I almost always play as a dwarf when the option exists and I always make my hair pink, but I generally try to make the PC look like me. I feel like she looks sad tho 😂 I can’t French braid myself, but my girl’s hair needs to be out of the way for fighting 😤

17 Comments
2024/10/31
17:26 UTC

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I get so frustrated when some people don't understand how regional pricing and not available to buy works

Genuinely every now and then I come across some discussions about regional pricing for games and consoles or limited availability in certain countries or someone in real life not understanding how it works.

The most recent example, I have mentioned i have gifted my friend a copy of the game she wanted to play (AC mirage), but was not able to buy as the game is not available for purchase in our home country. Even if you try to use key resellers the keys would not activate, so the only way for my friend to play it was for me to steam gift her the copy of the game. The person I mentioned it to just couldn't wrap their mind around why my friend couldn't purchase the game themselves or wouldn't activate the key despite multiple explanations.

Another example - when witcher 3 just came out I bought it for like a tenner on steam due to regional pricing and the game being cheaper in my region. Some people were annoyed and found it unfair and tried to argue that games should be the same price everywhere, completely ignoring the differences in minimum salaries between the countries (my home country has a minimum of around 150£ and where I live now it is over 1100£ a month).

This just makes me feel like anders and want to blow up, especially after some people abusing the system which resulted in a lot of regional prices to go up.

22 Comments
2024/10/31
16:07 UTC

3

Akko M1 V5 Mechanical keyboard, what do you think about? 🌸

1 Comment
2024/10/31
15:29 UTC

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DragonAge Veilguard is not for me...

I don't think this game is what I have been looking for.

I wanted to play an action RPG with immersive gameplay and story, but this game is not really that.

I don't have many friends to ask about games like this but can you guys please recommend me a good RPG?

I've been pretty immersed in the League of Legends lore for a while, but I've heard that the RPG that they were developing is not coming out anytime soon.

14 Comments
2024/10/31
00:10 UTC

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My boyfriend doesn’t defend me when we play online games, and it makes me feel terrible. Am I overreacting?

Me and my boyfriend like to play OW2 a lot, and sometimes I like to try out new characters in the unranked part of the game. Naturally, since i’m new at them I tend to be inconsistent and not great at the character everytime. Tonight I played a character that was a sniper and so despite winning 2 games at her, the third game I preformed terribly. People in my team started to berate me in the chat and my boyfriend said nothing. I also stated in the chat that I was learning this character but continued to get verbally abused. I asked my boyfriend why won’t he say anything because often times he’ll defend himself. He responded by saying “Oh that’s why I mute and turn off chat”. I replied with saying yes but someone is being mean to me why are you not saying anything as my boyfriend?

He continues to say “Oh that’s why I don’t play this character, because she’s so inconsistent.” and “I’m just trying to play the game, ignore them.” I feel like he blames me for being verbally abused and continues to say nothing all the while other strangers come in to defend me in chat. I get so upset that I close the game, and he continues to play the game himself.

Everytime he plays this game it’s like he’s a different person, he also has such huge temper with the game. Am I overreacting? I almost cried and I don’t know why I’m so frustrated but it feels so isolating and that he wouldn’t defend me if people in real life talk badly about me…..

just looking for advice

33 Comments
2024/10/31
07:58 UTC

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Searching for games like Outer Wilds or Chants of Sennaar

Hey ! I loved Outer Wilds and I'm playing Chants of Sennaar, enjoying it so much ! Do you know any other games where you're basically just exploring and figuring things out ?? I wanted to play one with my GF to share such a great experience (and also because two brains are better than one ahah)

17 Comments
2024/10/31
12:12 UTC

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Might have to leave Reddit for a bit, seriously

68 Comments
2024/10/31
10:41 UTC

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Looking for Discord Thursdays

The Rules:

Please use this thread for sharing or searching for discords: for example, community discords, looking for a specific game's discord, etc.

We ask that users only share inclusive groups so that all of our members are welcome. Additionally, Rule 2 still applies for male identifying users.

Due to the internet being kinda a shitty place for the most part, we highly discourage the posting of direct links to servers (especially smaller community servers), and instead recommend you posting an ad for people to message you for a link!

14 Comments
2024/10/31
05:00 UTC

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Going through IVF, need good distraction games!

I’m about to head into my second IVF cycle 🫠and I’m looking for good games to play that are addictive, consuming, distracting, etc. Ideally on switch or steam deck compatible but we’ve got a PS5 too. Does it need to be a stress free game? Idk, no one seems to really know what’s going on in the fertility world. Last round I played Zelda Echoes of Wisdom which was a great distraction (wish it was longer though). I’m pretty open game-wise, but some of my recent favorites have been: Horizon Zero Dawn (+ Forbidden West), Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, Pikmin 4, Overwatch 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Moonstone Island, Dave the Diver, Tiny Glade, Cattails 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Animal Crossing. I like puzzles, story, cute stuff, sneaky stuff, exploring, action, little bit of everything to be honest as long as I can get addicted lol. Any recommendations, vibes, or helpful tips are welcome 💖

74 Comments
2024/10/31
00:02 UTC

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Looking for kid-friendly female gaming YouTubers

I have a friend in an interesting situation. They're nonbinary, and use they/them. Their husband, is, well, a man. Their sons apparently keep referring to their grandmothers and others who exclusively use she/her by they/them pronouns. This is less than ideal.

I suggested that they add more women to the media that their kids consume. One of the areas of media they consume that neither of us knows a lot about is gaming YouTube. Do you all have any suggestions that would be suitable for that age range? Particularly ones who play games with protagonists who use she/her, to get practice with seeing those pronouns used.

7 Comments
2024/10/30
22:35 UTC

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In preparation for tomorrow's premiere of DA:V, I drew my canon inquisitor! Are you excited as I am for this game?

4 Comments
2024/10/30
21:56 UTC

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My husband and I were playing and apparently I got stuck in a trash can.

I

40 Comments
2024/10/30
20:15 UTC

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The Sims 4 Life & Death DLC actually look like a lot of fun!

I feel like a lot of the DLC for the Sims 4 over the years have been rather lacking. Either it's too specific and fits into a certain playstyle but this pack seems like "evergreen" content just like Seasons.

18 Comments
2024/10/30
19:07 UTC

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Andaran atish'an. Veilguard is out tomorrow!

Heyyyy Dragon Age Veilguard is out tomorrow and I am so excited! After complaining/struggling with inquisition over the last few days, I can finally admit that I was wrong and this group was right. The DLCs were amazing and I thoroughly enjoyed the game as a whole. It definitely picked up and I enjoyed the second half of the game much better.

Anyway, Veilguard is out tomorrow and I've been avoiding main reddit groups and youtube videos galore because I want to go in pretty much blind. I've researched briefly enough to know what class/faction/race I wanna be, but otherwise I've avoided all reviews and spoilers. There's too much negativity and criticism going on around the game and I personally want to avoid that shit and just "enjoy the game" as it comes (ie not influenced by other peoples issues/opinions).

This is pretty much just a kind of "one more sleep until Christmas/veilguard releases" kinda post.

I'm super psyched!

Are we ready?!

Solas 👀 I'm coming for you, bro.

49 Comments
2024/10/30
19:00 UTC

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Baldur's Gate 3 fans are something else

This made me laugh more than it should

24 Comments
2024/10/30
17:40 UTC

0

Anyone here plays Last Remains?

Is it good?

0 Comments
2024/10/30
17:32 UTC

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What are some unproblematic games you didn't like/hated?

Most of the games people seem to not like come from studios or IPs that are either sexist, have shady practices, toxic fanbases, hundreds of dlcs that would cost several thousand to get instead of releasing a complete game, and so on.

My question is what are the games you didn't like or hated that don't have questionable content or come from studios that are not problematic and have a relatively healthy fanbase?

Personally I didn't enjoy outer wilds. I have tried so many times to get into it but it just wouldn't click and would bore me. So while it is something I might recommend to people, it is not something I would want to play again myself as I was left pretty disappointed.

Another one is pillars of eternity 2 deadfire. While they improved on everything from the first game, I feel the story received a massive downgrade as it just feels empty compared to the first game, so completing it kinda turned into a chore.

142 Comments
2024/10/30
13:51 UTC

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