Best Female Protagonist Games on Steam
Games led by a woman or girl as the central playable character.
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1Portal 2 - The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Apr 18, 2011
In this game, you can…
- hit a chapter title that literally says "this is the part where he kills you" as the game turns it into a set-piece
- bounce across chambers with repulsion gel, build insane speed with propulsion gel, then paint walls to make new portal surfaces
- play co-op where each robot has its own portal gun, and your solution can break the bridge your partner is standing on
- wake up from long-term stasis, get guided by a friendly AI, and then have the main villain come back online
- use portals to redirect lasers, light bridges, and tractor beams through moving machinery to power your way forward
- chain portals to fling yourself over pits, launch cubes onto buttons, and keep extending the same trick into bigger gaps
- replay co-op stages for least time and least portals, racing friends as they knock you off the leaderboard
- drop into community-made test chambers and keep getting brand-new puzzles long after the story ends
2The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition - Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.
Oct 27, 2016
In this game, you can…
- turn into a werewolf or vampire lord, feed on enemies, blot out the sun, then summon a skeleton horse and a zombie dragon.
- join a crime syndicate, sell your soul to an evil god, kill the boss, then enlist in a hitman cult.
- join one side of a civil war, change your mind midstream, switch sides, and help wipe out your old allies.
- start on an execution block, then escape when a dragon attacks.
- marry someone, adopt kids, build a house, then head out to fight dragons again.
- go to a magic college, find a dangerous artifact, stop a power grab, and end up running the place.
- shout with dragon power to blast enemies apart and even ride dragons.
3Tomb Raider Game of the Year - Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
Mar 4, 2013
In this game, you can…
- upgrade your bow into fire arrows and napalm arrows that change how fights play out.
- chain climbing-axe routes, rope arrows, and rope ascenders to open new vertical paths through cliffs, ruins, and hidden areas.
- craft and scavenge upgrades until your weapons evolve into heavier gear like an automatic rifle with a grenade launcher.
- survive a shipwrecking storm and scramble to reunite with your crew while the island's people, animals, and ancient forces hunt you down.
- silently pick off guards with a bow from treetops at night.
- find hidden tombs that each play like their own puzzle space, tucked off the main survival route.
- escape collapsing set pieces where planes crash, villages tumble, and you keep pushing forward through the destruction.
- hunt animals for food and tackle survival side objectives like blowing up old sea mines.
4It Takes Two - Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Mar 25, 2021
In this game, you can…
- pilot a pair of underpants.
- dj a night club inside an air conditioning vent for a crowd of living glow sticks.
- stop the story to play mini-games where you can electrocute the other player.
- fly a plane made of underpants later on.
- use a magnet turret to shoot magnets and turn a wall into a huge co-op traversal puzzle.
- fight through a shooter chapter where one player stuns enemies with goop while the other ignites bugs with flares.
- drop into an isometric hack-and-slash chapter where one player is a wizard and the other is a knight.
- get shrunk into dolls so a bed, a book, and a tiny pond become massive obstacles you have to climb and cross together.
5Detroit: Become Human - Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Jun 18, 2020
In this game, you can…
- get a main character killed early, and the story just keeps going without them.
- open the game and have the main-menu hostess talk to you about your choices and react if you got someone killed.
- lead a robot uprising by turning workers into rebels, painting messages on walls, and choosing whether your movement stays peaceful or turns violent.
- reconstruct a crime scene from scattered clues and then interrogate a suspect with whatever story you built.
- talk your way through a hostage negotiation while every timed reply can push someone toward living or dying.
- be a housekeeper doing chores, then get yanked straight into a life-or-death escape in the same chapter.
- choose to disobey your orders to protect a child, and watch that one act reshape what your character even is.
- finish a chapter, see a branching flowchart of everything you didn't do, and replay to unlock a totally different chain of scenes.
6Resident Evil 2 - A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.
Jan 24, 2019
In this game, you can…
- board up first-floor windows so zombies stop climbing in for good.
- walk instead of run because some enemies track you by sound, and sprinting can get you jumped.
- cripple zombies by cutting their legs with a knife, then pull that same knife back out of them to reuse it.
- be hunted through the police station by Mr. X, who can show up mid-map-check and force you to run.
- shoot enemies until limbs come off and bodies pile up physically, with other zombies stumbling over the mess.
- spin items in your inventory to reveal hidden mechanisms, turning a "key item" into something usable.
- watch rooms turn blue on the map when you've collected everything inside, so you can route-plan with confidence.
- play two campaigns where Leon and Claire get different weapons, characters, scenes, and unique final bosses.
7Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition - The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
Sep 14, 2017
In this game, you can…
- teleport 30 corpses into a boss room, then detonate them all at once to erase the boss.
- eat body parts as an elf to gain the dead person's memories and quest-changing visions.
- rip someone's face off, then wear it to use their identity.
- throw death fog barrels at living enemies to kill them instantly, while undead allies can stand in it safely.
- turn water into an electrified stun pool, or freeze wet ground so enemies slip and get knocked down.
- teleport enemies into hazards, drag archers into melee, or fling someone far away to break an encounter.
- talk to animals and get full conversations, like a chicken insisting he's a mighty wizard.
- set up ambushes by keeping some party members out of combat while others start the fight, then spring the trap.
8Portal - Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Oct 10, 2007
In this game, you can…
- fall into a portal to build speed, then explode out the other across impossible gaps.
- watch a simple cube become a lifesaver when it blocks a deadly energy ball for you.
- solve fights without shooting by redirecting enemies and danger through portals and props.
- place a blue portal and an orange portal to make an instant entrance and exit.
- use portals to turn a drop into a slingshot, launch onto a ledge, grab a cube midair, and land on a button before a hazard triggers.
- hear an AI narrate and taunt you the whole time, like the facility is watching and lying.
- tip over a turret that looked terrifying and it just collapses and stops.
- rip pieces off the final boss, carry each one to an incinerator, and repeat the cycle three times to finish it.
9Resident Evil Requiem - Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
Feb 26, 2026
In this game, you can…
- deal with zombies who keep weird routines, like singing, cleaning, turning off lights, or getting mad if you "make a mess."
- collect blood from zombies to craft a formula, then inject it to stop certain enemies from mutating into something worse.
- parry a missile with a hatchet, then keep moving like nothing happened.
- switch between first-person and third-person whenever you want, even mid-play, to see different details and handle fights differently.
- run a brutal opening stretch where you crouch, scout for supplies, and avoid fights because one wrong move gets you killed.
- make every save count with scarce ammo and craftable ink ribbons, sometimes leaving items behind and returning when you have space.
- parry attacks with a hatchet, sharpen it mid-fight, and keep fighting like it's just part of the routine.
- return to the ruined Raccoon City and walk through the post-nuke police station as an explorable area.
- hit a final code choice where you either release Elpis to try saving Leon, or destroy it without knowing if it's a cure or a weapon.
10Life is Strange - Episode 1 - Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Jan 29, 2015
In this game, you can…
- rewind a classroom shooting to stop it and save the target.
- rewind time to preview a choice, watch the reaction, then redo it before you commit.
- end the story by choosing to save one person or sacrifice an entire town.
- set up the room, trigger a mess, then rewind so the objects stay positioned for what you need next.
- engineer paint to spill on a bully blocking your way, then rewind to choose whether to expose her or befriend her.
- reunite with a childhood friend you just saved, then follow a storm vision to a lighthouse and start chasing a tornado mystery.
- sit on a bed, swing, or bench and just watch the world in silence while music plays.
