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In the run up to the launch of MGSV, and with the outpouring of hype and love on social media, it reminded me that this series has a very strong female following.

Something I noticed years ago, from forum posts to fan sites and blogs, and its not necessarily a genre that would typical conjured up in "Games What women like" lists.
Though metal gear has never simply been a just a stealth title.

What other (quality) games have large female followings?
For example the Assassins Creed series has always had an apparently strong female following, and now (7?) games in you get to play as a female in a mainstream title. For a bit at least

From the perspective of the FGC, Street fighter... well it doesn't have a strong female presence at all.
Oddly enough, Dead or Alive seems to be the most popular, despite or perhaps completely due to, well.. everything.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Final Fantasy games.

 

[Icyflamez96]

Final Fantasy and Nintendo games. Well mainly Zelda.

 

[viewtiful_dru]

Might be cliche, but Animal Crossing?

 

[enigmatic_alex44]

Just from my experience, the Final Fantasy series and games like Virtue's Last Reward and the Danganronpa games seem to have larger female audiences.

 

[Jamix012]

I hear Tales of has an active female fan base.

 

[Kade]

I know a loooot of girls who are into Bethesda RPGs. Like, really into them.

 

[Data West]

Kind of cheating answers because a lot are from the anime's fanbase that crosses over but Sengoku Basara and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure in Japan.

 

[Acquiescence]

I've encountered a lot of female LittleBigPlanet players on my travels.

 

[sixteen-bit]

FFX

 

[Philippo]

iirc Tales have a rather big female fanbase.

 

[MrRoflWaffles]

Pretty sure women play all kinds of games.
They may be less vocal, but they still play a huge variety of titles, just as blokes do.

 

[buddha0991]

Persona (Megaten as a whole does, but Persona definitely is the entry way to a lot of people regardless of who they are) and Danganronpa

Uncharted maybe

 

[Icyflamez96]

I've encountered a lot of female LittleBigPlanet players on my travels.

This too.

 

[Napalm_Frank]

Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy from what I have seen.

Also women are the most passionate about some mobile games like Candy Crush.

 

[ultron87]

All my female friends seem to love the Dragon Age games. I do also, but they realllllly love them.

 

[SwiftDeath]

From personal experience so anecdotal

• Zelda
• Final Fantasy
• Skyrim
• Mass Effect
• Splatoon

 

[Strangelove77]

Call of Duty, Battlefield and Halo. Probably.

 

[RyougaSaotome]

Can't speak for the western fanbase, but Tales' Japanese fanbase leans largely female, especially in terms of merchandise sales.

 

[Golgo 13]

Every woman I've ever dated has loved Mario games (even though none of them have cared for gaming in general), and that's more than a few

 

[Phu]

I always kinda felt like Professor Layton had a large female following.

 

[Kenzodielocke]

Dragon Age, maybe ??

but I think generally fantasy rpg's are very liked by female gamers.

 

[BaronMonstro]

Weird, I've never really thought of MGS as having much of a female fan base in particular.

The main ones that come to mind for me are stuff like The Sims, Animal Crossing, World of Warcraft, Bioware RPGs and Bethesda RPGs.

 

[tait269]

Tomb Raider, Uncharted, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, FF and MGS

 

[Neff]

If British chicks play console games, then Resident Evil is always among them.

 

[GlamFM]

Sims.

Ms sister and my mother (!) used to play it a lot.

 

[Marceles]

Might be cliche, but Animal Crossing?

Was going to say this and the Sims. Maybe Minecraft?

 

[patapuf]

Many "life manager games". The sims, animal crossing, harvest moon ect.

wRPG's with character creators seem pretty popular as well.

 

[James Scott]

I think Zelda has had a large female audience from my experience. I imagine Animal Crossing does too.
Sims type games too.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

Pretty sure Dragon Age series and Bioware in general has quite the female following.

Much to the chagrin of a very vocal playerbase.

 

[pinkurocket]

Pokémans.

 

[Huw_Dawson]

Animal Crossing!

 

[Newtype-001]

Ill Echo Tales of

Spoiler

but for events >.>

"Players of the Tales of series are 70% male and 30% female in Japan, but for events like this it's about 90% female," series producer Hideo Baba tells me at the end of the first day. "Women tend to be more interested in the story and the characters, while men are more interested in the games themselves and messing around with game hardware. So when their favorite game character appears on stage, the sound of screaming female fans is really something."

http://m.uk.ign.com/articles/2014/06/26/why-90-of-fans-at-tales-of-festival-are-female

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

World of Warcraft

 

[Reset]

Tales of

 

[buddha0991]

oh right I forgot about Mass Effect!

Also the two big ones of a certain genre, the Warriors series (Dynasty Warriors) and Sengoku Basara

 

[Veldin]

World of Warcraft I would think.

 

[mrjohill]

Mass effect

 

[D4Danger]

every game

 

[Busaiku]

Speaking anecdotally, but most RPGs.

 

[Sagely]

From experience, I'm tempted to say Devil May Cry and Mass Effect. Most of the DMC fans I knew in real life were girls and women - a small sample of course!

 

[Horp]

At least in sweden CS has always been quite popular with women. Totally anecdotal ofc but my fiance pretty much only plays CS:GO and Planetside 2. And she's pretty damn good too

Edit:
And WoW too. Lots of females play(ed) wow

 

[mollipen]

All my female friends seem to love the Dragon Age games. I do also, but they realllllly love them.

It's because the offer the chance to play kick-ass female heroines who are on an equal level to their male counterparts, and in which you get to have a nice level of control of who they are and how they act.

The first Mass Effect was my first shot at Bioware's stuff, and I fell in love with it pretty quickly. Definitely happened again with DAI.

 

[Dennis]

I wonder what the gender breakdown for the Sims franchise is. My impression is that it may have a larger female than male fanbase.

 

[Zalman]

Nintendo games in general. Zelda, Animal Crossing, Pokémon...

Also, The Sims.

 

[many places]

I hear Tales of has an active female fan base.

iirc Tales have a rather big female fanbase.

true

 

[Mesoian]

Dragon Age and Mass Effect.

 

[tuna_love]

Most games

 

[Skii]

Call of Duty.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

wrpgs