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I’m on the lookout for games where a courageous and elegant princess defends her beloved kingdom from invaders and eventually rises to become queen. Some great examples that fit this theme are Ashelia Dalmasca from Final Fantasy XII and Yggdra Yuril Artwaltz from Yggdra Union.

I asked this question about a year ago and received some fantastic suggestions—thank you to everyone who helped! Now I’m eager to discover new games in this genre. If you know of any titles where a princess embarks on such a journey, I’d love to hear your recommendations.

And for anyone with similar interests, feel free to check out this link for more!

https://www.reddit.com/r/GirlGamers/s/PqTlfeuUm4

Thanks in advance, can’t wait to see what you all recommend!

Sorry if this has been asked before. I'm a casual gamer, mostly Final Fantasy, Stardew, Mario and Zelda, but I've gotten really into Skyrim. I'm finished with it now and now I've got an itch I can't scratch -- I'm looking for a game similar (but not another Elder Scrolls game) that has an open world and lets you take your time (at least a little bit!). Bonus if you can play as a female character.

I keep googling but I can't figure out what the closest game to something like this would be. Games are expensive, otherwise I'd just try them all.

I was kind of skeptical for s Somaz but it’s so good. It reminds me of alien isolation. I don’t know why or maybe it’s because of the robots and just all vibe. I don’t know it’s just but it’s fun. It’s like it. It’s it’s scary but it’s not too scary. It’s interesting. It’s like oh I want to know more and we got to know more and I’m like what the fuck is going on I haven’t finished it so don’t spoil it but I like it. I really like the game so yeah thanks for recommendation. But it’s good. I don’t really really looking forward to alien the new game on Ps 5 but I don’t have Ps5 . I don’t know if it’s worth getting ps5 five just to buy or just to play I think it may not.

Hint to any other baby GirlGamers out there: Gris is a great game to learn how to use a controller on.

After a bunch of recommendations to try Gris, I first tried playing it on my phone. Very frustrating! I had been going back and forth about getting a steam deck, but realized I should take baby steps. So I got an Xbox controller (Black Friday sale!), hooked it up to my PC, and now am playing Gris and learning controller basics at the same time. It's been great!

So my problem is, I'd like to chat with people I'm playing with regularly, but I feel super awkward using a mic. I'm always the only woman there. I just don't feel like I fit in when there's a lot of manly joking going on lol. I feel I'm so bad at that. I also feel so awkward, do I have to say bye to everyone always when I leave, to people I barely know? I honestly don't understand how these things work. How do you shy girls do it? Is it okay to just be kinda quiet and talk about the game when necessary, and just fade into the background? Idk. But I'd actually want to talk more.

(Edit: I'm talking about playstation and shooting games, anything with small teams of 1-5)

I am planning on getting my husband a second monitor for Christmas. He plays old school RuneScape on PC. He has a second monitor currently but the quality is terrible. I’m not familiar with playing on PC so I’m not really sure what I’m looking for when I’m looking at monitors.

What is a good, affordable monitor you would recommend for PC gaming?

Hi everyone,

So i played my whole life on playstation but i wanna get into pc gaming. Tho i have no idea of what to look for, all the names are kinda overwhelming, gpu, rtx, cpu, etc.

I mostly play aaa titles, my budget would be around 1500.

Can anyone help me what i have to look for to get raytracing, stable fps, and qood quality to play the newest games.

(Also sorry my english isnt the best)

Would really appreciate any help. Ive looked so much online and on pc sites , and forums, but my head is already turning 😅

Hi, I've read a few threads about chairs, but one thing I haven't noticed comments on the cushioning. That is the main reason why I think I want a gaming chair rather than a standard office chair. I don't think I have ever sat in a standard office type chair which was anywhere near as comfortable as a Corsair chair I used in an Airbnb. But that is the only recent-ish gaming chair I've tried. There was some things about it which were still not ideal, but which I don't remember terribly clearly unfortunately.

Gaming chairs also seem relatively more affordable than executive/ Mastermind style chairs

Basically, I would like it to be as cushioned as on a sofa, but sitting up at a desk in something with a high back that goes slightly above head level. I don't usually like extra cushions, so prefer those detachable, or not supplied especially at the head level. I'm long waisted with short legs, so need something with a seat that goes low, but has a high back suitable for a more average height person.

Is there anything like this on sale in the UK?

Lately, the Viccy 3 bug has bit me hard. Like... The only game i've played the past 3 weeks hard. Unfortunately for me, it seems like games built around diplomacy work better with real people, and I'm not brave enough to try public lobbies after playing in one too many public HOI4 games. There's the HeyItsCara server, of course! But I'm trying to find other femme/queer spaces for these games that might host games or something? 👀

Looking for suggestions on a wireless headset with mic for PC. Bonus if can be cross compatible with PS5 and Xbox. I also wear glasses so any comments on comfort with glasses would be amazing. I’m very new to the PC gaming world but chat on discord voice a lot, so a good mic is a necessity. Wireless because I ruined my wired pair by rolling on the cord and dragging it. 🥲 Also hurts when you get up and forget you’re wearing it and it rips off your head lmfao.

Also doesn't want me to lose.

My boyfriend and I recently started playing League of Legends (< 1 month ago). We originally started playing bot games, but I've recently been playing games against people in non-ranked draft/Freeplay because I find it fun since people are less predictable than bots.

My boyfriend would prefer not to play with people. I have a suspicion that he was burned out in the past in chat (he may have tried out the game > 10 years ago or something similar) since he always tells me to mute the chat. However, he also seems bummed out whenever I/we lose. He insists on just playing bot games, or more favorably custom games on teams of bots. He doesn't like losing, and seems bothered when I lose. I don't mind losing, I still have fun.

While I can find enjoyment in playing those types of games, I do get tired of them.

I want to play together with him, but I've been finding enjoyment in bot/custom games when I can try out a new champion in the free rotation.

How do I keep it up at the point where I've tried out all the champions? Any suggestions of approaching this issue?

Edit: Thank you all for your suggestions! Just wanted to elaborate and say that he doesn't like it when I lose even if he isn't playing. He doesn't say anything, but gets kind of bummed out and pouty if he finds out. I'll bring it up with him.

Also wanted to say his favorite champion to play right now is Yuumi. He loves cats (and all animals love him), even though he's deathly allergic.

Also, he loves difficult games (Souls games, old school obscure games with frustrating mechanics/lack of clear instructions/direction, etc), but doesn't play games any more because when he starts playing a game, he doesn't do anything else (like 20-hrs a day for 7 days straight) until he's done with the game. He's been actively avoiding Baldur's Gate 3 (I told him if we're still together when we're 70 years old, we HAVE to play it, if for nothing else than to help me avoid spoiling all the plot points :D). Luckily hasn't done that with LoL, but maybe he's just not into this game. I'll bring that up with him as well and see if I should stop asking him to play with me.

Thanks again!

I started playing SUPERVIVE when it went into OBT a few weeks ago.

It's instantly become my main game.

I like to describe it as team jungling, meets Dota 2 Turbo teamfights, meets APEX Legends style BR(especially the maps). Something about the way they combined everything feels so oddly satisfying.

It's the most fun I've ever had playing a BR, but I'd definitely prefer to play in a group. It's a 4 Player team for Squads.

The game has essentially completely replaced Dota, League, SMITE, APEX, and Fortnite all in one go for me.

I'm currently Playing Myth and Elluna the most.

I don’t have other women to talk to who are gamers and I really need to vent and get some advice, maybe see if anyone else here has gone through anything similar?

I think I might be in the older minority of this sub but I would welcome any help.

I just turned 43 in October. I don’t think I have super significant life changes going on, but my older daughter started college this fall, and my younger is about to turn 17 tomorrow. I don’t have an official diagnosis but I feel like I’ve been starting perimenopause because I get hot flashes occasionally over the last few months.

I’ve been in therapy since February for trauma and C-PTSD that mostly began in my early 20s and I’m on an antidepressant.

The reason I’m writing this post is concern that I might be starting to have a midlife crisis. There is a part of this (that I believe is due to being a gamer for most of my life) that centers around gaming and my worries for the future.

In this case, I played mostly MMORPGs for a significant chunk of my life and kind of ignored single player games. Recently I suddenly became interested in experiencing all the single player games I might have missed while I was busy playing online multiplayer games instead.

I watched tons of YouTube videos to find games I might like and created a HUGE backlog of games I would like to play. I mean some 600-700 games.

But because it’s so large I’ve now started having decision paralysis in regard to what to play. And I’ve wondered if I should cut out games that don’t have great rating scores from players, even though I might enjoy them personally. I’m hyper concerned about starting the wrong game and wasting time I could be spending playing something good.

I have this huge paranoia about wasting time, thinking that I only have so much left and I want to experience all the good games before I die.

Last night I had this thought that I could potentially live another 43 years so why am I freaking out about time wasted? I guess it’s the thought somewhere in my head that says well I could die tomorrow and never get to play these great games because I wasted my time on bad ones and how do I differentiate them?

Maybe this all sounds like a stupid thing to be worried about, but I would very much appreciate some advice. How would/did you deal with something similar? How do you decide what to play?

TLDR: Old lady potentially going through a midlife crisis and part of it revolves around gaming and being worried I’m wasting too much time in bad games and will die before I get to play all the good ones, wonders how to get over it and know what games to choose.

This is a rant, mainly due to amount of comments I have been coming across recently where people purchase a key for the game on a third party or authorised website and don't get the key straight away or get something else instead.

I just wonder when they will realise the only way to be sure you are getting a specific game and on time is buying directly from the store (steam, epic, gog, ubisoft, ea, eshop for switch, Xbox store, ps store), and getting a game somewhere else may very well result in the keys not being available or delayed, even the store is authorised to sell the said keys. And when you mention it - they get angry at you as if it is you holding the key hostage.

Keep coming across this issue with humble choice where people don't reveal or claim the games straight away and then complain about a key for either a very popular game or very niche indie game not being available or end up being expired.

Sorry this is probably going to be a bit triggering to hear but I just want to rant about this.

I was streaming Far Cry 5 in my discord channel while voice chatting with some friends. And one of the guys commented on how unrealistic it is that everyone in the game is a badass woman. I tried explaining that the whole area is at war and the women have to protect themselves and their town etc. And not everyone in the game is a woman anyway, not even half like it would be.

Then at one point I put a guy in my team and he went "Finally a man". And there was a woman torturing a bad guy and he was like, "yeah that's right get a woman to do all the torturing." (Then laughed in a demeaning way.) I mentioned that I had just bought Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora earlier and he said "I bet Avatar is just going to be the same. Everyone will be a woman.

I explained to him that I'm a woman and I like seeing other women be badass in games. He said, it's ok to have women but having every woman be badass in a game is wrong. And he mentioned Duke Nukem, another game I streamed, and how that did it right because it had strippers in it. He tried debating more but I had enough and kicked him out.

Hello :)
I'm an office manager for a game studio and one of our teams (girls only team!) is working on a hidden object puzzle game.

I was tasked with finding influencers, be it streamers or Youtubers, who might want to help us promote the game when the time comes.

Please recommend your favorite influencers who might be interested!

My gamertag has been Kay1Raider since as long as I can remember… but it’s honestly a boring bot name and I want to change it.

My name is Karissa / Kay so that could be incorporated I want a clever/punny name that’s maybe a little girly??

Please help!!!

Hi girls,

I have played in stalker for about couple of hours. I like the game, but I just wonder if things I have seen are the bugs or it is how the game is supposed to function, and its me being dumb.

What I have experienced so far:

1. NPCs do not take damage from each other. As far as I remember, they supposed to be able to hurt each other or am I wrong? I saw some animals attacking people, and I wanted just to see who would win, so they ended up fighting for 10 min straight without a single NPC dying...
2. Plot-releated NPCs can just randomly die in front of me. (Maybe spoilers ahead>!) Idk what is that guy name in english, as I play in ukranian, but there is a stalker that you are send to kill and take artefacts from him. I have found him. We talked with him, he asked me to help him to run away. But I decided to kill him, he killed me. I restarted from the same save point near the building he was in. And when I came to him, he was already dying on the ground, so I just finished him. Which is...wierd??? So basically he just randomly died for no reason, even tho by the timing he was supposed to be alive, and I did not have a chance to even talk to him.!<

Have you experienced something similar? And how do you like the game so far in general?

In search of a white gaming headset. Budget $100.

The best I'm seeing is a HyperX Cloud but I don't see any white ones I'm in love with aestheticly. Am I asking too much and need to increase my budget?

Looking for recommendations please <3

I play tf2 and when people learn I’m a girl they just get weird, awkward, or harass me 😭 I hate it so much. how are u supposed to make friends online because I don’t really have any in general and it makes me sad. When I try to meet people it always goes bad 💀

Hey! Not really a gamer but my daughter (9 year old) is. Looking to get her a cute, wireless headset for Christmas. I see that most cute ones are wired. Anyone have any recommendations for wireless ones? She loves pink and cats but from what I’ve looked at, they aren’t too great quality or aren’t gaming headsets per se. She has an iPad, access to a PC and a Nintendo Switch so also anything compatible with all 3 devices. Any and all recommendations are helpful and appreciated!

So I’ve been holding onto a 4090 for a little over a year now because I was so nervous about upgrading - I’ve never done any upgrading before or removing of parts from my PC and I love it so much the way it already was (4080 super). A few days ago I just decided to give it a go and it went great! It’s a chonky brick but it’s able to play games at 4K on ultra with zero issues. Very happy I decided to give it a go!

(I think this counts as a battlestation, if not I apologize.)