I feel like no one has mentioned Urban Chaos till now. I friggin loved that game! The hacks too!
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looks nice AND hacks?, im in
A bit late to the thread, but I just wanted to say Beyond Two Souls recently had its 10 year anniversary, if that counts as old.
Venetica
A roleplaying game with a female hero and an interesting story:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/338140/Venetica__Gold_Edition/
another classic i totally forgot existed, thanks for reminding me
Most of my suggestions were already mentioned, but PN03 & darkened skye come to mind.
Pedantry aside, if you count the option of selecting a female character, trickstyle, borderlands, super mario bros 2, vigilante 8 second offense, tony hawk 3 (4, underground and probably any in this series but I haven't played them lol)
pn03 looks like bayonetta and vanquish got it going, looks itneresting
Erica
The Syberia Series
The Longest Journey
Gone Home
Virginia
What remains of Edith Finch
Beyond Good and Evil
Gabriel Knight 3 has shared protagonists that you switch between; one is a woman.
Likewise some of the Broken Sword series
Talos Principle is either non-gendered or whatever you want the protagonist to be.
The first Blair Witch game from 2000
Everyone's gone to the Rapture
Also, holla at whoever said "No One Lives Forever"; that game rules.
Metroid!
Siberia 100%.
Oni Parasite Eve X-Blades
Actually not from older generations, but Tacoma and Deliver Us The Moon are a few years old and both are short, sweet space-related narrative games with a female protagonist.
- Monster World IV
- Twinkle Tail
- If Tomb Raider is old enough for you
- Contra
- Touho
- another game I played (forgot the name, will edit later)
- most games where you could choose between 2 or more playable characters
Now that I think of it, the only not oversexualised female protagonists in retro games (I can think of rn) are from japanese titles. The USSR didn't import video games and Europe and the US were just too conservative ig.