I Was A Teenage Exocolonist
Initial release date: August 25, 2022
Developer: Northway Games
The player character can be customized to be more feminine, masculine, or androgynous, and the player can choose their pronouns and preferred gendered terms.
All romanceable characters can be dated regardless of their gender or the player's gender.
Tales of Aravorn: Seasons of The Wolf
Initial release date: November 14, 2014
Developer: Winter Wolves, Ratalaika Games, Celso Riva
Seasons of the Wolf is a blend of romance visual novel and turn-based RPG, set in the same world as Loren the Amazon Princess.
Two main characters (male/female), each has same-sex romance options.
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
Initial release date: May 8, 2018
Developer: Obsidian Entertainment, Red Cerberus
Pursue a rogue god over land and sea in the sequel to the multi-award-winning RPG Pillars of Eternity. Captain your ship on a dangerous voyage of discovery.
All companions are romanceable by any gender. Features a diverse cast, including non-binary characters and meaningful relationship quests.
The Outer Worlds
Initial release date: October 25, 2019
Developer: Obsidian Entertainment, Virtuos
Set in an alternate future, the game takes place in Halcyon, a distant star system colonized by megacorporations.
All companions are romanceable by any gender, with humorous and heartfelt writing.
Jade Empire
Initial release date: April 12, 2005
Developer: BioWare, Aspyr, LTI Gray Matter
The player—the Last Spirit Monk—can choose to play as either male or female. The player, regardless of gender, can romance Sky or Silk Fox. While only a male player can romance the Dawn Star, players can enter a ménage à trois with her and Silk Fox.
Coral Island
Initial release date: October 8, 2022
Developer: Stairway Games
A vibrant farming sim that puts inclusivity at its core, with diverse storylines and relationships for all characters.
My Time at Portia
Initial release date: January 23, 2018
Developer: Pathea
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions.
My Time at Portia allows the player character to date and marry any of the eligible bachelors or bachelorettes.
My Time at Sandrock
Initial release date: May 25, 2022
Developer: Pathea
My Time at Sandrock takes place in a wholesome post-apocalyptic world 300 years after the Day of Calamity destroyed most modern technologies.
Romanceable characters can be pursued regardless of gender.
Roots of Pacha
Initial release date: April 25, 2023
Developer: Soda Den
A farming sim set in the stone age where you develop the ideas that shaped humanity. Be a part of a thriving stone age community.
All the romance options are open regardless of your gender. In fact, there's a nonbinary option in the Character Customization screen at the start of the game.
World's Dawn
Initial release date: January 25, 2016
Developer: Wayward Prophet
The game asks the player their gender preference at the start of the game; there are three men and three women available in town, and your choice determines which (or all) of them are willing to fall in love and marry you. If the number of reviews stating "it's like Story of Seasons but you can be gay" are anything to go on, the gay option is at least as popular as straight.
FarmVille 2
Initial release date: April 17, 2014
Developer: Zynga
FarmVille 2 lets you earn a sweetheart to help on the farm, who you eventually get engaged to and marry. You are allowed to choose either sex as your partner, and have a family with him or her.
Verdant Skies
Initial release date: February 12, 2018
Developer: Howling Moon Software
Verdant Skies is a life simulation game born from a love for games like Harvest Moon and a desire to create something unique with modern gameplay and deep storytelling. Ensure the success of the colony as you make friends and pursue romance with a diverse cast of characters.
The main character's gender isn't set, and you can romance both male and female characters.
Boyfriend Dungeon
Initial release date: August 11, 2021
Developer: Kitfox Games
A unique dungeon crawler where your weapons are also your love interests. Features inclusive pronoun selection and diverse characters.
The player can choose between he/him, she/her, and they/them pronouns, and can date male, female, and non-binary characters.
Cassette Beasts
Initial release date: April 26, 2023
Developer: Bytten Studio
Collect awesome monsters to use during turn-based battles in this open-world RPG. Combine any two monster forms using Cassette Beasts' Fusion System.
All five human partners — Kayleigh, Eugene, Meredith, Felix and Viola — can be romanced regardless of the player character's gender.
Stardew Valley
Initial release date: February 26, 2016
Developer: The Secret Police Limited, ConcernedApe LLC, ConcernedApe
While romance options are present in nearly every RPG or simulation game, few do it as comfortably as Stardew Valley. It lets you date, marry, and bear children with one of 12 townspeople. If you marry someone of the same sex, you can adopt a child instead. But what makes Stardew Valley truly special in this regard is the genuine emotion put into each character. You're guaranteed a heartwarming relationship no matter who you set your sights on.
Postknight 2
Initial release date: December 2nd, 2021
Developer: Kurechii
Become a Postknight in this casual RPG adventure. Fight through nasty enemy-infested trails and deliver goods to the adorable people of Prism!
There are ten romance options- five female (Pearl, Morgan, Amethyst, Katrina, and Larielle) and five male (Jasper, Flint, Chris, Xander, and Rho'don). While the player character doesn't have a defined gender, they can romance any of the ten characters regardless.
Dungeon Dreams 2
Initial release date: October 5, 2022
Developer: DDreams Games
There are multiple same sex options, with the majority of the cast being lgbt+.
For Men: Bu Daisy, Kronos, Phidias (Fling), Rai, Tylker, Xander (fling).
For Women: Akane (fling), Alenna, Anrie, Aria, Emerald, Eniko, Har'Ravina, Kireina (fling), Lissbeth, Loryel, Maxine, Misaki, Mochi (fling), Quinn, Reyanna, Sakura, Sally, Taika (fling).
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
Initial release date: 21 October 2025
Developer: The Chinese Room
Players will be able to choose pronouns, with the character creators going beyond "male and female models".
Romances are not limited by player gender — you can pursue characters of any gender (several romanceable NPCs are men, women, and nonbinary/ambiguous types). Romance in this game often takes the form of "romantic feeding" and dialogue-based advances rather than large branching partner-specific questlines; responses depend on dialogue choices and NPC affinity.
Hero-U
Initial release date: July 10, 2018
Developer: Transolar Games, Silesia Games Sp. z o.o.
Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption is an epic - and humorous - fantasy adventure and role-playing game in which you take on the role of Shawn O'Conner.
The male protagonist can romance male characters, offering a same-sex romance path.
Gamedec
Initial release date: September 16, 2021
Developer: Anshar Studios
Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds.
Ken Zhou is the only romance option and can be romanced by any gender.
Eternights
Initial release date: September 12, 2023
Developer: Studio Sai
Eternights is a dating action game where you try to make the most out of life during the apocalypse. So you scavenge for supplies, explore dungeons... go on ...
The player character's love interests consist of several girls and one boy, Yohan.
Sometimes Always Monsters
Initial release date: 2 April 2020
Developer: Vagabond Dog
Following events from Always Sometimes Monsters, the player is a recently married author who joins a cross-country bus tour to promote their next novel. Along the way, there are vicious rumours claiming that the author is a total fraud. Players journey through five unique cities, meet fans and critics alike, and make friends with fellow busmates. Player choices help to unravel the conspiracy laid against the player character.
Always Sometimes Monsters
Initial release date: May 21, 2014
Developer: Vagabond Dog
The game puts players in the role of an author who receives notice that the love of their life is marrying someone else across the country within a month. After being evicted from their apartment on the east coast, players then head to the west coast in order to intercept the wedding and win back the love they lost.
You choose the gender of your protagonist and their romantic interest, offering a highly personal and reflective experience.
A House of Many Doors
Initial release date: February 3, 2017
Developer: Pixel Trickery
Explore the House, a parasite dimension that steals from other worlds, in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs.
Choose your character's gender expression and romance characters of various genders.
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator
Initial release date: July 20, 2017
Developer: Game Grumps
In this game, the player is able to date seven fathers. The player himself is the father of a teenage girl named Amanda. At the beginning of the game, the player is able to choose whether Amanda has another father or a mother, which is the ex-partner of the player character.
The player character can be transgender, as there is an option when creating the character to have a chest binder.
Final Fantasy XIV Online
Initial release date: August 27, 2013
Developer: Square Enix Business Division 5
MMORPG with rich storytelling. Features LGBTQ+ NPCs and allows players to marry other players of any gender through the Eternal Bond ceremony.
Mabinogi
Initial release date: June 22, 2004
Developer: Nexon, devCAT studio, NEXON Korea
Mabinogi is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game released by Nexon, and developed by devCAT studio. The name of the game is taken from the Welsh word Mabinogi, a Welsh anthology of legend, and the settings for the game are loosely based on Irish mythology.
The game has a marriage system that allows two player characters to obtain a few extra bonuses when near their spouses, as well as forming a family. The US servers allow for same sex marriages. The "Alban Knights Baltane Special Unit" content allows you to train up to 3 of 6 different squires (3 female, 3 male), and while not a full-blown romance you can go on dates with them. Although the player's gender doesn't affect the outcome of any scenario with the squires it does alter some dialogue with them.
Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony
Initial release date: October 29, 2009
Developer: Rockstar North
Set concurrently with the events of Grand Theft Auto IV and The Lost and Damned, the game follows Luis Fernando Lopez, a Dominican‑American former drug dealer who now works as bodyguard and business partner to nightclub impresario Anthony "Gay Tony" Prince. The narrative centers on Luis’s efforts to help Tony survive drug abuse, mounting debt, conflicts with Mafia families, and repeated assassination attempts, while also concluding the trilogy's "diamond" subplot.
Date Everything!
Initial release date: June 2025
Developer: Sassy Chap Games
The game revolves around the player character forming relationships with anthropomorphized versions of everyday objects around their house.
The player can pursue a romantic relationship with any character, regardless of their own gender or that of their potential partner.
Heroes of Legionwood
Initial release date: July 24, 2015
Developer: Dark Gaia Studios
An episodic post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG set in a world on the brink of annihilation with non-linear gameplay and far reaching choices.
The protagonist, male or female, can romance either Jeska or Vane.
Planet Stronghold
Initial release date: February 28, 2011
Developer: Winter Wolves, Celso Riva
Planet Stronghold is a sci-fi role-playing game with a turn-based combat system. You take the role of a young, new recruit that somehow gets assigned to the most well-known, and well-defended, human outpost in the whole galaxy: Planet Stronghold. As the story goes on, you'll have to choose a side in a a war that will change the destiny of the planet, and of humankind, forever. Featuring old-school turn based tactical battles, a dynamic plot that changes based on your choices, several possible solutions to each situation using various non-combat skills, Planet Stronghold delivers a very high replayability!
The game has three possible romance options for each gender, one of which is a same-sex relationship (Joshua and Prince Cliff, or Lisa and Michelle).
Fallen London
Initial release date: 2009
Developer: Failbetter Games
Fallen London, originally Echo Bazaar, is a browser-based interactive narrative game developed by Failbetter Games and set in "Fallen London", an alternative Victorian London with gothic overtones.
Your character can romance male and female partners, including a couple of threesomes.
Fire Emblem Engage
Initial release date: January 20, 2023
Developer: Intelligent Systems
It is the seventeenth installment in the Fire Emblem series and follows Alear, a dragon in human form, who awakens from a thousand-year slumber.
Characters are romanceable regardless of the selected gender of the player character.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Initial release date: July 26, 2019
Developer: Intelligent Systems, Koei Tecmo, Koei, Koei Tecmo Games
Byleth, the player character, can be male or female. Only some of Byleth's romance options are same-gender. The women that female Byleth can marry are Edelgard, Dorothea, Mercedes, Rhea, and Sothis. The men that male Byleth can marry are Lindhardt, Jeritza, and Yuri.
Undertale
Initial release date: September 15, 2015
Developer: Toby Fox
The player character of Undertale, Frisk is exclusively referred to using gender-neutral pronouns. They can also go on dates or flirt with characters regardless of their gender.
Ikenfell
Initial release date: August 31, 2020
Developer: Happy Ray Games
Isometric turn-based RPG Ikenfell draws upon elements of JRPGs, puzzle games, and adventure games to create an absorbing experience. There's a lot to love about it, including its accommodation for LGBTQ people in the game. There's no subtlety here; every character is part of the LGBTQ community in some way. What Ikenfell does well is portraying each character as a complex and unique person in a way that shows just how simple it is to include people regardless of their sexuality or gender.
Demon Gaze II
Initial release date: September 29, 2016
Developer: Experience Inc.
Demon Gaze 2 is a first-person dungeon crawler that combines exploration with automapping. The dungeons utilize random encounters as well as enemies that are visible. There are a number of different dungeons arrayed across Asteria, selectable from a map of the city.
The game allows you to date both male and female demons.
Pirates of the Burning Sea
Initial release date: January 22, 2008
Developer: Flying Lab Software
Pirates of the Burning Sea is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game previously developed by Flying Lab Software and Portalus Games, and currently supported by Vision Online Games.
In an early mission you get a choice of a number of different people of both genders that you can select to be your romantic interest later in the game with no gender restrictions. This can lead to amusing results as players who don't read the plot text then end up wondering why their character is suddenly gay.
The Last of Us Part 2
Initial release date: June 19, 2020
Developer: Naughty Dog
Ellie is one of the main characters and she is in a relationship with a woman named Dina. At the start of the game, it was revealed that Dina formerly dated Jesse.
Lev is a transgender boy and is hunted by the Seraphites, who misgender and deadname him frequently.
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
Initial release date: April 16, 2026
Developer: Nintendo
Players can create non-binary Miis, and can individually choose whether or not a Mii is attracted to male, female, or non-binary Miis.
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