A game where you can play through most of the game with a female protagonist. In many of these games, you can choose a male protagonist as well. This category exists because even having the option to choose a female lead in a video game was very rare before the 2010s.
Games where the player can create their own female character are not included.
Golden Axe
Amiga 1990@75
Rod-Land
Amiga 1991@926
Aliens
Arcade 1990@421
Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode III
Arcade 1991@1889
Elevator Action Returns
Arcade 1994@1815
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
CP System 1993@247
Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness
CP System II 1995@263
Battle Circuit
CP System II 1997@2053
Metroid Prime
GameCube 2002@34
Undercover Cops
Irem M92 Family 1992@1129
Metroid
NES 1986@1271
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins
PlayStation 1998@78
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
PlayStation 1999@236
Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins
PlayStation 2000@79
Silent Hill 3
PlayStation 2 2003@490
Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven
PlayStation 2 2003@68
Tenchu: Fatal Shadows
PlayStation 2 2004@44
Never Alone
PlayStation 4 2014@2244
Horizon Zero Dawn
PlayStation 4 2017@1908
Resident Evil 2
PlayStation 4 2019@2091
Sayonara Wild Hearts
PlayStation 4 2019@2376
Golden Axe
SEGA Genesis 1989@784
Contra: Hard Corps
SEGA Genesis 1994@1476
Super Metroid
SNES 1994@115
Alien Syndrome
System 16 1987@1726
Golden Axe
System 16 1989@3189
Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder
System 32 1992@774
Bayonetta 2
WiiU 2014@1220
Ion Fury
Windows 2019@2262
Deathsmiles: Deluxe Edition
Xbox 360 2007@272
Mirror's Edge
Xbox 360 2008@112
Borderlands
Xbox 360 2009@133
Bayonetta
Xbox 360 2010@157
Borderlands 2
Xbox 360 2012@466
Gears 5
Xbox One 2019@2272