Expansive (Non-Comprehensive) List of Playable LGBTQ+ Characters in Video Games
(details and personal rules/criteria are below the cut, along with individual notes; putting this disclaimer up top, though: this is strictly directly playable characters)
Ellie – The Last of Us: Left Behind, The Last of Us: Part II
lesbian (canon, in-game, explicit)
Billie Lurk – Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
bi woman (canon, in-game, explicit)
bi man (canon, in-game, explicit)
Athena – Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
lesbian (canon, in-game, semi-explicit)*1
non-binary (canon, in-game, explicit)
Bloodhound – Apex Legends
non-binary (canon, explicit)
Chloe Price – Life is Strange: Before the Storm
lesbian (canon, in-game, explicit)
Sean Diaz – Life is Strange 2
bi boy (canon, in-game, explicit)
trans woman (canon, in-game, semi-explicit)*2
Birdo – Mario Kart, Mario Party, Mario Sports
trans woman (canon, in-game, semi-explicit)
The Knight – Hollow Knight
non-binary/agender (canon, in-game, explicit)
Ryuji Sakamoto/Skull – Persona 5
gay or bi/pan (canon, semi-explicit)*4.5
Aigis – Persona 3 -FES-, Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, Persona 4: Arena, Persona 4: Arena -Ultimax-
bi woman (canon, in-game, explicit)
Elizabeth – Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, Persona 4: Arena, Persona 4: Arena -Ultimax-
bi woman (canon, in-game, explicit)
Kanji Tatsumi – Persona 4
gay (canon, in-game, explicit)
lesbian (canon, explicit)
Kung Jin – Mortal Kombat X
gay (canon, in-game, semi-explicit)
Mae Borowski – Night in the Woods
pan girl (canon, in-game, explicit)
Jacob Frye – Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate
pan non-binary boy (canon, in-game, explicit)
Amira Rashid – Monster Prom
pan girl (canon, in-game, explicit)
pan boy (canon, in-game, explicit)
Vicky Schmidt – Monster Prom
pan girl (canon, in-game, explicit)
Clementine – The Walking Dead: Season 2, The Walking Dead: The Final Season
bi girl (canon, in-game, explicit)
Javier Garcia – The Walking Dead: Season Three
bi man (canon, in-game, explicit)
Poison – Street Fighter, Final Fight Revenge
trans woman (canon, explicit)
(Protagonist) – Dream Daddy
gay or bi/pan and/or trans man (player-directed canon, in-game, explicit)*3
Ren Amamiya/Joker – Persona 5, Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
gay or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)*4
Tatsuya Suou - Persona 2: Innocent Sin
gay or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
Kotone Shiomi – Persona 3 -Portable-, Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
lesbian or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
Max Caulfield – Life is Strange
lesbian or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)*5
Ciri – The Witcher III: Wild Hunt
lesbian or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
The Hunter (Female) – Bloodborne
lesbian (player-determined canon, in-game, semi-explicit)*6
Corrin – Fire Emblem: Fates, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
gay/lesbian or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
Byleth – Fire Emblem: Three Houses
gay/lesbian or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
Kassandra – Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
lesbian or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
lesbian (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)*7
(Protagonist) – Vampire: The Masquerade -Bloodlines- 2
gay/lesbian or bi/pan and/or trans and/or non-binary (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
gay/lesbian or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
V – Cyberpunk 2077 (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
gay/lesbian or bi/pan and/or trans (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
Dovahkiin/Dragonborn – The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
gay/lesbian or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
The Warden – Dragon Age: Origins
gay/lesbian or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
Garret Hawke or Marian Hawke – Dragon Age II
gay/lesbian or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
The Inquisitor – Dragon Age: Inquisition
gay/lesbian or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
Courier – Fallout: New Vegas
gay/lesbian or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
Sole Survivor Nate – Fallout 4
bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
Sole Survivor Nora – Fallout 4
bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
John Shepard or Jane Shepard – Mass Effect
gay/lesbian or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
Sara Ryder – Mass Effect: Andromeda
lesbian or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
Scott Ryder – Mass Effect: Andromeda
gay or bi/pan (player-determined canon, in-game, explicit)
(Protagonist) – Undertale
non-binary (unconfirmed canon, in-game, semi-explicit)*8
non-binary (assumed canon)*9
ace (semi-canon, explicit)*10
Ike – Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Super Smash Bros.
gay (evidently canon, in-game, semi-explicit)*11
Wolf O'Donnell – Star Fox, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
gay (evidently canon, in-game)*12
Eagle – Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper/MAX, Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001
gay (evidently canon, in-game, semi-explicit)*13
Kat – Gravity Rush, Gravity Rush 2, PlayStation All-Stars -Battle Royale-
bi woman (interpretively canon, in-game)*14
Raven – Gravity Rush 2 [Another Story: The Ark of Time - Raven’s Choice]
lesbian (interpretively canon, in-game)*14
Shovel Knight – Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope
gay/lesbian and/or trans and/or non-binary (non-canon, in-game, explicit)*15
Alexios – Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
gay or bi/pan (non-canon, in-game, explicit)*16
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