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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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

It's a little old at this point, but Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is quite friendly in terms of letting you build your character with essentially any combo of gender characteristics. It's also one of the few I've seen that directly includes they/them as an option for in game pronouns. It's only he/she/they as options, but it is there.

You have control over appearance that's good enough that you can fit almost any physical appearance you want in terms of gender presentation.

And, you have options for voices that include a pitch slider. So, while the voice acting is devoutly definitely going to skew towards what is traditionally perceived as male or female, the pitch control allows you to change it towards something more neutral, or even into the range where it can be perceived as the other represented gender.

I currently have two characters that were specifically built to be gender neutral in voice and appearance, after a discussion with a family member that's NB (which is an off topic story, and this is already long), and both were successful enough that the family member copied them.

The game is oldish now though, so it might not be what you're looking for in that regard. But it is easy to find on sale, allows for totally casual play (particularly after you finish the story), and does have a small but dedicated fan base, so you wouldn't have to play alone if you don't want to