Want a game with badass female protagonist.

[Gingerbread Demon]

Most of my games have male leads...

I want a game with a badass female lead for PC. Something where you play with the same character from start to finish.

I'd love some recommendations if anyone has any good titles they can name. I play on steam mainly but also have Origin which I sometimes use for things like Mass Effect, and I have all of those.

AMD FX 6300 hex core
Radeon R9 380 4gig
16gig RAM
MSI 970 gaming mobo.

 

[Space Coast]

Any of the reboot timeline Tomb Raider games (though I've only played the first one).
Technically speaking, any Bethesda RPG, or any RPG with character creation for that matter.
Valkyria Chronicles has a lot of good female characters, but a male lead - but the mechanics of gameplay render his lead-ness kinda moot.

 

[Taylirious]

In World Of Warcraft I am a female badass! Nevermind I am an expansion behind.

 

[USS Triumphant]

I just watched my wife play through "Life Is Strange", and I'd say the main character, Max, is pretty much a bad ass, although more in a real life way (except for her power) and less in a shades wearing motorcycle riding kicks ass and chews bubble gum stereotype kind of way. The first portion of the game, "Chapter 1", is free on Steam right now, too, so you could give it a shot with no risk.

Catherine The Great is usually a bit of a bad ass in the Civilization games, and you play her all the way from 4000 BC up to the present. But if you're playing *as* her, you'd practically never actually *see* her, so I'm not sure this is remotely what you're looking for.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I just watched my wife play through "Life Is Strange", and I'd say the main character, Max, is pretty much a bad ass, although more in a real life way (except for her power) and less in a shades wearing motorcycle riding kicks ass and chews bubble gum stereotype kind of way. The first portion of the game, "Chapter 1", is free on Steam right now, too, so you could give it a shot with no risk.

Catherine The Great is usually a bit of a bad ass in the Civilization games, and you play her all the way from 4000 BC up to the present. But if you're playing *as* her, you'd practically never actually *see* her, so I'm not sure this is remotely what you're looking for.

I played Life Is Strange and liked it.

I have both "Tomb Raider 2013" and "Rise Of The Tomb Raider" and both of those are good games. Not sure if my current system will let me have fun with the two new ones. Specs seem a bit high.

I am going to get Velvet Assassin on steam.

I am debating refunding Dreamfall The Longest Journey. The camera and controls are super wonky with keyboard and mouse. It's frustrated me a little.

 

[Evil Twin]

My recommendation would be playing through the Saints Row games with a female boss.

Velvet Assassin is crap. I wanted to like it, but ended up uninstalling it after 3 levels or so.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

My recommendation would be playing through the Saints Row games with a female boss.

Velvet Assassin is crap. I wanted to like it, but ended up uninstalling it after 3 levels or so.

Oh shit....... I just got it. haha.

I have all the saints row games and love them to bits. Excited for Agents Of Mayhem.

 

[John Clark]

I'm finding Velvet Assassin difficult, but I suck at stealth games.

I hear good things about Mirrors Edge and Dishonored 2 (Demo is available of that and I might give it a spin) and you could always give the Dragon Age games a try.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'm finding Velvet Assassin difficult, but I suck at stealth games.

I hear good things about Mirrors Edge and Dishonored 2 (Demo is available of that and I might give it a spin) and you could always give the Dragon Age games a try.

Dishonored 2 has had issues with PC optimization.. Also similar issues on consoles. Not sure if they've patched any of it. But right now it's back to full price so I'm passing on it.

I refunded Dreamfall The Longest Journey but now after watching videos I regret that. Might have to go get it again later. Some of the gameplay looked fun.

 

[John Clark]

I'd heard about the optimization issues, but at some point might give the demo a try anyway. (I'm not in any rush). From what Steam is indicating, it's about 20gigs to download so that might be an issue for people on metered downloads. Might give Fallout 4 a go too.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'd heard about the optimization issues, but at some point might give the demo a try anyway. (I'm not in any rush). From what Steam is indicating, it's about 20gigs to download so that might be an issue for people on metered downloads. Might give Fallout 4 a go too.

I'm on steam right now where is the link to download the Dishonored 2 demo says only April 6 so it must have expired?

 

[John Clark]

I'm on steam right now where is the link to download the Dishonored 2 demo says only April 6 so it must have expired?

For me, in steam, the download demo button is just under "is this game relevent to you" and it seems to start alright. On the right next to purchase

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

For me, in steam, the download demo button is just under "is this game relevent to you" and it seems to start alright. On the right next to purchase

Thank you. I will have another look I must have not seen that.

EDIT: Demo has started to download.

Odd screen for this in steam.

 

[Mr Soak]

Standard screen for demos.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Standard screen for demos.

Ok thanks.

 

[Jeyl]

The new Tomb Raider games are certainly a dead lock. They have more character growth than any of the previous Tomb Raider games, and Lara feels like she's earned her toughness.

I would also recommend some BioWare games. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Mass Effect, Dragon Age. All have options where you can create a female character and pretty much decide what kind of a character they'll turn out in the end. Dragon Age: Origins probably has the most variety.

Shantae: The Half Genie series features a very memorable female lead in the form of the title character. While the games can be difficult at times, they do have a lot going for them with wonderful character designs, animation and solid game play.

 

[Reverend]

Technically all the Homeworld games have female protagonists, but they're RTS's so it's more a case of occasional female voice-over. They are however on sale right now, so there's that.

One of the better videogame female protagonists in recent years IMO is Clementine in Telltale's 'The Walking Dead', though you only play as her in the second season and really need to play the first one as well to grasp what's going on (haven't played season 3 yet, but the buzz on it seems a bit tepid to say the least.) Still, highly recommended either way.

Just about any RPG that includes character full customisation is a no-brainer. Not just the Bioware games (though they're clearly the gold standard for this) but also the likes of the Shadowrun games, Fallout, Skyrim etc.

Failing all that, it might be worth just browsing through Steam's "female protagonist" user tag, though I suspect you'll have to dig through a lot of cheap anime visual novels to find the gems.

 

[Mr Soak]

No One Lives Forever 1 & 2, if you can scrounge up a copy and get it to work.

For a 60s value of badass, I guess.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Technically all the Homeworld games have female protagonists, but they're RTS's so it's more a case of occasional female voice-over. They are however on sale right now, so there's that.

One of the better videogame female protagonists in recent years IMO is Clementine in Telltale's 'The Walking Dead', though you only play as her in the second season and really need to play the first one as well to grasp what's going on (haven't played season 3 yet, but the buzz on it seems a bit tepid to say the least.) Still, highly recommended either way.

Just about any RPG that includes character full customisation is a no-brainer. Not just the Bioware games (though they're clearly the gold standard for this) but also the likes of the Shadowrun games, Fallout, Skyrim etc.

Failing all that, it might be worth just browsing through Steam's "female protagonist" user tag, though I suspect you'll have to dig through a lot of cheap anime visual novels to find the gems.

There's a shit ton of anime games on there.

I'll revisit the new Tomb Raider games if they will run on my system decently.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

No One Lives Forever 1 & 2, if you can scrounge up a copy and get it to work.

For a 60s value of badass, I guess.

I have those but yeah. I did manage to get 2 to work in Windows 10 but it took a lot of tweaking and even then the graphics really bugged out on me especially on the snow levels at the Russian part of the game.

NOLF was so much fun I was pissed off they never did a part 3. That's also part of the reason I was trying to get XP working again on my other SSD to play NOLF, alas that project didn't quite go to plan.