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.
Bit of an odd suggestion, and not really one for the transmasc folk but Satisfactory’s Pioneer (player character) has a more feminine body shape. You can’t change the body shape except through mods and the only mod I found to swap the player model makes it a protogen.
I found it affirming to immediately have a player character that matched me pretty well without having to customize anything.
Side note for Bauldur’s Gate 3: https://baldursgate3.game/mods/#/m/chubby-female-dragonborn1
I do love Satisfactory for that reason. I love the femme/androgynous character design. I mostly spend time trying to build a perfectly efficient forge but I run out of patience after I get the coal stage - which I realize is super early in the game lol
The answer for me was
Despite it’s impression, satisfactory is a make your own fun game. Treat it like Minecraft and it will open itself to you.