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Content: Unrated.

Medium: Computer game. 

About: You are a dog (Canis lupus familiaris). Protect your human in a haunted forest.

Content: Unrated.

Medium: Computer game. Platformer. "The game uses the [constructed] language 'toki pona' in some places. This is to give most players the vibe of an imported game where you cant read anything, but you figure it out anyways. (you do not need to know the language to play)"

About: You are a small rodent-like mammal. Run from dinosaurs during the great extinction.

Vibe: Spooky, mysterious, retro

About: You are a North American opossum (Didelphis virginiana). As a programmer 'possum, you need to find the bugs in the code, and luckily you eat bugs for breakfast.

Keywords: mammal, marsupial, anthropomorphic

In this TTRPG about a family camping trip, you can play as a family member or as their dog (Canis lupus familiaris).

Keywords: mammal, canine, domesticated, non-anthropomorphic

Medium: Tabletop role-playing game for 2-3 players and one game master. Character creation and adventure with dice rolling and dice stacking.

About: You are a cat (Felis catus). All the cats in your clowder have opted to get prosthetic claws that use futuristic technology to grant you powers. Use them to go on a cyberpunk heist.

Keywords: mammal, feline, domesticated, feral anthropomorphic

Content: Unrated.

Medium: Solo TTRPG.

About: You are a dung beetle (Scarabaeinae). Rolling a dung ball is your job that you do for a living. Will you fight for your worker's rights?

Keywords: invertebrate, insect, wild, feral anthropomorphic

Content: Unrated.

Medium: Computer game.

About: You are a dung beetle (Scarabaeinae).

Keywords: invertebrate, insect, wild, non-anthropomorphic

Content: Rated G.

Medium: Letter-writing game for two players.

About: You are a mouse (Mus musculus) writing to your roommate, the human who moved into your cottage.

Keywords: mammal, rodent, mice, wild, anthropomorphic

Content: Rated G.

Medium: Physical game for two players.

About: You are a raccoon (Procyon lotor). Show your love for one another as you sort through the recycling.

Keywords: mammal, carnivora, wild

Medium: TTRPG for two players, no GM.

About: You are a badger (Taxidea taxus) and a coyote (Canis latrans). You are friends who cooperate together to get food. The players can talk, but your animals can't talk in-game, so you have to figure out other ways to communicate and work together.

Keywords: mammal, carnivora, mustelid, canine, canid, wild, hunt, non-anthropomorphic

Content: Unrated. Body horror and death.

Medium: Interactive fiction created with Twine.

About: You are a parasitic wasp. You're looking for someone to love and share the joy of parenthood with: someone to lay your eggs in, which will kill them. This game was recommended by Dialog Tree: A Dating Sim Zine as a weird and well-crafted example of the genre.

Keywords: invertebrate, insect, anthropomorphic

Content: Rated G.

Medium: Solo journaling TTRPG.

Length: The instructions are two pages long, including cover.

Story: "You are a hermit crab [Paguroidea] who has grown out of their shell. It is time to find a new one, however scary that may be." This is a metaphor for transition.

Keywords: invertebrate, crustacean, marine, wild, non-anthropomorphic

Vibe: Reflective, anticipatory, cute.

Content: Rated G.

Medium: Computer game. It can run in your web browser. This game is complete and playable, but it's listed as in development because the creator had more ideas about what to do with it.

Story: You are a bat. Eat fruit and bugs in your forest... which is being cut down. This game is based on science facts about bats and their importance in the environment.

Keywords: mammal, chiroptera, wild, flying, non-anthropomorphic, life cycle

Content: Rated G.

Medium: A computer desktop utility. This isn't a game, but I feel like it belongs with the animal protagonist games.

About: "Replace your ordinary mouse cursor with its eternal nemesis: the cat paw." (Felis catus.)

Keywords: mammal, feline, felid, domesticated, non-anthropomorphic

Vibe: Whimsical.

Content: Rated G.

Medium: Computer game.

About: You are a house cat (Felis catus). Knock things off shelves and make an adorable pest of yourself to wake up your human.

Keywords: mammal, feline, felid, domesticated, non-anthropomorphic

Vibe: whimsical, mischief

Content: Rated PG just because of one swear word on page 7. Otherwise this is completely the sort of game that my most fun teachers might have handed out when I was a kid.

Medium: A solo journaling tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG).

Story: You are a bittern, a bird with a long neck. Cause mischief for the humans who visit your wetland, and deal with the consequences. As a player, you learn about the relationships between plants, animals, and humans in wetlands in Aotearoa. The author of this game is indigenous to that place. Any money from this or his other games will go to his top surgery fund.

Keywords: bird, avian, heron, wild, feral anthropomorphic

Vibe: Mischief, wistful, fun. Tongue-in-cheek grouchiness. Each play-through reaches a happy ending and a positive message about nature and the humans who protect and restore natural places. An antidote to environmental misanthropy.

Content: Rated G. Meant for young children.

About: You are a mouse (Mus musculus). Explore and learn about nature.

Keywords: mammal, rodent, wild, mildly anthropomorphic

You are a cat (Felis catus). A tabletop role-playing game inspired by the Warrior Cats series.

Keywords: mammal, feline, domesticated, feral anthropomorphic

A solo journaling TTRPG about being a hungry house cat (Felis catus).

Keywords: mammal, feline, domesticated

Content: Unrated.

Medium: Micro-TTRPG.

Story: You are a cat (Felis catus), and also a divinely-empowered god-king who rules over a city.

Keywords: mammal, feline, domesticated, anthropomorphic, fantasy

Content: Unrated. Content warning that this goes into depth about the death of an animal, based on a historically real and ethically questionable science experiment on a dog.

Medium: Collaborative storytelling. Reviews say the game design is solid and structured well.

Story: You are a dog (Canis lupus familiaris). Each player plays as an aspect of a dog as she dies in space.

Keywords: mammal, canine, canid, domesticated, non-anthropomorphic

Vibe: Very sad, painful, devastating.

Content: Rated G. Friendly for all ages, though it is about animals eating one another and laying eggs.

Medium: Computer game. It runs in your web browser.

Story: You are a European paper wasp (Polistes dominula). Forage and build your hive. This is realistic and based on research about that species.

Keywords: invertebrate, insect, wild, non-anthropomorphic, life cycle

Content: Rated G, as far as I've seen.

Medium: Computer game.

Story: You are a coyote (Canis latrans). The forests and meadows around you are replaced with an urban landscape. Adapt to survive your new environment.

Keywords: mammal, canine, canid, wild, non-anthropomorphic

Content: Rated PG because of mentions of blood and animal reproduction, though it would be acceptable in a children's science class.

Medium: A short interactive fiction story created in Twine.

Story: You are a tick (Ixodidae). This game is a mostly accurate description of the life cycle of these arachnids. It wonders what their perspective might be like. Ticks are deaf and blind, and can spend years waiting for a mammal to pass by so that they can drink blood.

Keywords: invertebrate, arachnid, wild, non-anthropomorphic, life cycle

Vibe: Patience, anticipation. Terse, clinical. Repetitive.

Content: Rated G. Friendly for all ages.

Medium: Computer game. A platform adventure designed to be very accessible for beginners, young children, and people with disabilities. It also has bonus levels to challenge the most experienced gamers.

Story: You are a cat (Felis catus). You can customize your color and wear hats and masks. You collect bubbles that give you different powers.

Keywords: mammal, feline, domesticated

Content: Rated G. Friendly for all ages. Content warnings for eating animals (but not in a graphic way).

Medium: Computer game.

Duration: About ten minutes for a play through. Play more times to beat your score or find hidden surprises.

Story: You are a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis). Eat lots of berries and fish so you're ready to hibernate for winter. This game has goofy physics so that you clumsily bump into things with your face to eat them.

Keywords: mammal, ursine, wild, non-anthropomorphic

Vibe: Silly, laugh-out-loud funny.

Content: Rated G. Friendly for all ages. Content warning that it's about eating animals and regurgitating (throwing up) food, though. Both of those are cartoony and not shown in a particularly gross way.

Medium: Computer game.

Story: You are a Western sandpiper (Calidris mauri). As the surf goes in and out, run on the beach and pick up some food for your babies.

Keywords: bird, wild, non-anthropomorphic

Vibe: Cute, silly. Go fast!!!

Content: Rated G.

Medium: One-page tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG).

Story: You are magical house cats (Felis catus) tasked with keeping a magical library safe and helping its patrons—so long as those patrons aren’t planning to end the world.

Keywords: mammal, feline, domesticated, fantasy, feral anthropomorphic

Content: Unrated. I haven't played this yet, but I get the impression that it would be rated G and friendly for all ages, right?

Medium: Computer game. Stealth.

Story: You are a horrible goose (Anser answer domesticus). Your goal is to gleefully annoy, pester, and inconvenience the villagers.

Keywords: bird, poultry, domesticated, non-anthropomorphic

Vibe: Comedy mischief.

Content: Rated G. Friendly for all ages. Wild animals die or eat each other.

Medium: Horizontal scrolling platform game.

Duration: Each play is a few minutes, but it gets longer as you get better at staying alive. Much replay value.

Story: You are a dinosaur, small and fast, running away from where the extinction meteorite hit.

Keywords: extinct, prehistoric, bird, reptile, non-anthropomorphic

Vibe: Fast-paced, anxious.