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many of them are not even tagged as lgbt , most have  multiple romantic intrests in which you can be straight/gay as per your preference.

So by your logic, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey is gay? Or for that matter 90% of big-name CRPGS made this century?

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well i haven't played any assassin's creed games but yes they are gay , also the main reason i found from the thread you mentioned was that there are a dozen of different tags for gay games , not just the lgbt tag.

Have you actually tried? There's also "LGBTQIA", with 1K games, "queer" with less than that, and "gay" with 1500.

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sorry dude but there are games which can be said that they are gay (not specifically gay focused) games.

for example https://mona-mae.itch.io/crown-of-exile

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Sorry, dude, but it looks to me like you're twisting the definition of what makes a game "gay" to complain about barely-there representation.

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i dunno bro , most romantic visual novels i have seen are gay furry novels which is annoying same with a lot of the nsfw games .

Dunno where you've been looking. I'd like to find more of those and keep running into otome instead.

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There's a difference between a game having homosexual themes and a game where same-sex relationships are an option.

With the former, the point of being gay is a main feature in terms of the game's themes. The LGBT stuff is there to tell... whatever it is the game is trying to say (I wouldn't know, since most of the games/stories I've seen all did the same story beats, so I expect nothing special for them). There's a bit of a gray area with this where some people will have same-sex relationships and not think them prominent enough to warrant tagging, treating it like a "them being gay doesn't matter" thing, but I wouldn't say one thing or the other without having any numbers...

With the latter, the entire point falls back into customization. By allowing the player character to romance NPCs of either gender, it allows for more customization options. If the player has the option to pick their gender at the start of the game (or doesn't specify), these relationship options exist regardless. Sure, it's not realistic for, like, 70% of the population of a town in some farming sim to be gay (and I'm not going to pull that whole "bUt rEaLiSm dOeSnT mAtTeR iN fAntAsY" shit or any similar argument since that's a stupid handwave), but there's not really a reason to restrict content that barely affects gameplay (usually marriage options are just cosmetics), so it's best to just not draw too much attention to any differentiations.

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