r/GirlGamers

I play all kinds of games, but I love cozy games, and I’ve noticed that in all the ones I’m in the subs for, every now and then a man will make a post telling everyone that they’re a man who didn’t expect to like said game and now they’re obsessed with it and are wondering if that’s okay or if they’re weird for liking it.

I get really annoyed by these types of posts for a couple reasons, the main reason being that I honestly find it offensive as a woman that men come into a space dominated by women to ask if liking the thing they also love makes him weird. If a woman says she plays GTA, no one bats an eye, but a man says he plays Infinity Nikki and that’s weird? It reminds me of these Madonna lyrics:

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short
Wear shirts and boots 'cause it's okay to be a boy
But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading
'Cause you think that being a girl is degrading

The other reason it bothers me, is because what is the purpose of making these posts? Do you want a cookie or something? Like is it performative feminism? They could just join the discussions in the community without announcing themselves as men. Plenty of men DO do that. And if they’re truly concerned about being perceived as weird, why ask other women? Why not go into male dominated communities and ask that same question? It just makes me think they’re looking for a pat on the back for announcing to the world that they’re “brave” enough to play a girl game.

This suuuuuuuucks. Just a bummer through and through. I enjoyed his YouTube essays and his presence on MinnMax. whyyyyyyyyyy does it have to be like this. blergh.

(to be clear, I'm bummed out about learning this about Jacob, not about the way MinnMax reacted.)

I'm 20 now and I feel like I never got to have a childhood (for many reasons, most of them trauma), and to cope, I want to play a game like an RPG or adventure game or something where you just get to be a kid, to sort of fill in that hole in my soul a little bit and give me a bit of that experience, even if it's synthetic. I've been rewatching Ghibli movies recently, like Totoro, Ponyo, and Kiki's delivery service, and those do help in this way, so I'm wondering if there are any video games that could achieve the same?

Doesn't have to be ultra realistic, fantasy is fine, but I'd like it to at least be sort of grounded in reality if that makes sense. I just need it to be immersive, so like third or first person view is ideal. also a character customizer so i can make a self-insert would be good. Appreciate any suggestions<3

EDIT: basically if Natsu-mon: 20th Century Summer Kid had a girl as the protagonist, it would be PERFECT. that's the kinda game i'm looking for i think :>

I got the game on sale to play something light-hearted and idk, if I am tripping? I really like it and the game seems quite fun (like a box of assorted chocolate candies) but in the same time it feels weirdly… mean. Your character is portrayed as a total looser, your virtual coworker makes fun of you all the time, and a lot of characters are plain rude or just yell at you a lot.

I mean I get it that it tries to encompass a lot of different personalities (well, on a shallow level), but I tried to find the inanimal for Mateo and had to sit through 4 sessions of literal screaming to close up Harper&Dirk story so I could ask about it and be ignored again (found the inanimal at the windowsill but really that wasn’t the initial direction of the game). The Ducky character just plain screamed and called me names at every encounter and it turned out I had to “take it” and tolerate it to reveal she was a traumatized character.  A lot of characters just treat you off the bat as a poor looser that needs all the help you can and it somehow supposed to be funny but as a constantly recurring motive, it's just not. There is a number of characters you have no choice to tell them no (not even because they gonna hate you, just there is no option), like I accidentally got into the dialog with the safe character and she keeps calling you names with no options to tell her to stop that (cool if you’re into, I am not, I ended up closing the game via alt+F4).

Idk, I clearly can see it’s not the type of game to expect depth from, but I am a bit baffled on the amount of times it managed to make me feel uncomfortable while on paper it’s very consent-friendly and open-minded. It’s like it feels like if you’re not down with everything thrown at you, you get the short end of the stick. It is still more fun than unpleasant, but I just wonder is it me being too sensitive or the game has issues?

So, ive been working hard at making dresses for ladies, finding ways to add playfull tassles, lace and velvets.. and in comes Prudence...

"Make me look sad and uncomfortable for cheap!" okay... i create a burlap and salmon cotton dress.. I figured, sure, the dress is already bad enough, ill just do the stitches really well, so at least ill be less ashamed if she tells anyone I made it. The horror..

I am about to finish and get the "customer will be unhappy" prompt.. what? the quality has to be at maximum 70... but my global average quality is 99, and for this dress 100. so, i rip all the stitching apart and go american psycho on the stitching.. the amount of times the machine jammed was horriffic..

Mind you, in real life i have a similar ancient model of sewing machine upstairs, and shes my precious.. it physically hurt.. someone make prudence go away please...

https://preview.redd.it/3ag0tnlq8gth1.png?width=313&format=png&auto=webp&s=a02f7a4778124b29c929d122be725651b8728c2e

Hi! Does anyone have some good recommendations for a cooking/farming game possibly with seasons at all? Maybe run a shop or restaurant? TIA!

Hi... I'm having a hard time finding good brands that make linear gaming keyboards in cute colors. I'm looking for lilac colored ones, and I'm trying to stay away from Razer since I still haven't forgiven them for the whole nagging girlfriend ad (maybe I'm being petty, but I'm also justifying it because Synapse sometimes, like, freaks out and takes a ton of RAM randomly). I found one on Logitech, but it doesn't come in linear switches (at least right now), so I'm struggling right now, as my mechanical keyboard just starts to slowly die as it doesn't respond as fast as it used to, etc. Help please :(

What the title says!

Whats the most fancy, elaborate dresses youve made? Or what dress are you particularly proud of?

Personally, i just finished this dress for someone.

https://preview.redd.it/jmq3s6eabhth1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=8afb6f27731de06653fc171ebe78f2e6524d71b0