History AmbiguousGender / VideoGames

* ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'': Thanks to their appearance, Leo's gender had been under discussion since ''Tekken 6'' came out. WordOfGod says the character was made to be loved by fans regardless of gender. On August 19, 2011, Katsuhiro Harada, the director/producer of the series, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvzFEKWzN8k officially stated that Leo was assigned-female-at-birth and their real name is Eleonor.]]

* Ball Guy in ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' always wears a Poké Ball-shaped mascot suit head. Their League Card switches back and forth between using masculine and feminine pronouns to refer to them, and also mentions that their gender is unknown -- although the fact that the card seems to have been written by Ball Guy themselves may mean they just are trying to make themselves more mysterious than necessary. Nonetheless, in official materials such as strategy guides and websites, they're consistently referred to with they/them pronouns. In ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'', their voice is rather deep and masculine, but they’re still referred to with gender-neutral pronouns.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' has [[BirdPeople Roc]], Vandham's blade. The game's code lists everyone by either 0 or 1 depending on their gender, with 0 being males and 1 being females, but Roc's code lists them as 2. Although they have a masculine voice and colorful plumage (something that only male birds usually have), they have a sack around their neck to give it a fluffy appearance and it makes them look more feminine.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'': Thanks to their appearance, Leo's gender had been under discussion since Tekken 6 came out. WordOfGod says the character was made to be loved by fans regardless of gender. On August 19, 2011, Katsuhiro Harada, the director/producer of the series, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvzFEKWzN8k officially stated that Leo was assigned-female-at-birth and their real name is Eleonor.]]
** In their debut game, Leo can equip male and female customization items (though on the other hand, you can't equip them with costumes that reveal the torso, both male and female), can be affected by all gender-specific throws, and is placed in the male section of the Tekken 6 art book. A few characters in the Scenario Campaign call them a boy, and the Tekken Comic outright refers to them as male all throughout (including by their own internal narration, indicating that the author either wasn't informed, or was leading readers off the trail). Some translations of ''Tag 2'' even mistakenly refer to them as a boy.
** The official [[http://tk7.tekken.com/fighters/leo Tekken 7]] website, along with the game's Story Mode itself, refer to Leo as "he" again, for whatever reason, but also gives both male and female clothing options for customization. [[ShrugofGod Harada's stance]] on this as of late is that Leo's gender is entirely up to the player.
** [[https://tekken.com/fighters/leo ''Tekken 8'']] once again makes it ambiguous.

* The unnamed blacksmith deity in the reveal trailer for ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' by Creator/FromSoftware was assumed by some viewers to be two different people, since they look wildly different from different angles and camerashots, depending on the lighting. A full-body view of them from the back is mostly androgynous, with closeups varying between more masculine and more feminine. [[spoiler:The figure is revealed to be Marika ''[[TwoAliasesOneName and]]'' Radagon, when they were destroying then repairing the Elden Ring.]]

* Very common in ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' and its sequel. Most [=NPC=] races use the same model for both male and female characters, and most of the time you can't tell the difference until they actually speak. The ogres are the most egregious example, as all ogres have the appearance of horned, muscular male humanoids, but half of them, even the shirtless ones, are female. Even the charr and asura, two player character races in ''Guild Wars 2'', use the same body type for both genders, though the faces are more masculine or feminine-looking depending on the gender.

* Revan in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' is never referred to in the game as male or female because [[spoiler:Revan is the player character, which can be male or female depending on the player's selection at the beginning]]. There is one line of dialogue, spoken by Juhani, that refers to Revan as female, but this was an error in the coding that missed an if/then note earlier in the game. Other characters, particularly Canderous, use male pronouns to refer to Revan [[note]] A bit of brilliance in retrospect; Canderous's native language of Mando'a rarely uses gender specifiers. As for Juhani? She was fully intended as Bioware's first GayOption and much of her female-oriented dialogue stayed in during the first release, making her appear bisexual until the later patch fixed it and she was indeed confirmed lesbian. [[/note]] -- which is canon, as confirmed by ''The New Essential Chronology''. [[note]] This was a controversial call at the time, and so the Exile was canonized as female to placate the fanbase. Creator/BioWare later hung a big, fat lampshade on the whole thing by having the Revanites in VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic state that Revan's gender isn't clear in the old texts.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' has [[BirdPeople Roc]], Vandham’s blade. The game’s code lists everyone by either 0 or 1 depending on their gender, with 0 being males and 1 being females, but Roc’s code lists them as 2. Although they have a masculine voice and colorful plumage (something that only male birds usually have), they have a sack around their neck to give it a fluffy appearance and it makes them look more feminine.

* Revan in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' is never referred to in the game as male or female because [[spoiler:Revan is the player character, which can be male or female depending on the player's selection at the beginning]]. There is one line of dialogue, spoken by Juahni, that refers to Revan as female, but this was an error in the coding that missed an if/then note earlier in the game. Other characters, particularly Canderous, use male pronouns to refer to Revan [[note]] A bit of brilliance in retrospect; Canderous's native language of Mando'a rarely uses gender specifiers. As for Juhani? She was fully intended as Bioware's first GayOption and much of her female-oriented dialogue stayed in during the first release, making her appear bisexual until the later patch fixed it and she was indeed confirmed lesbian. [[/note]] -- which is canon, as confirmed by ''The New Essential Chronology''. [[note]] This was a controversial call at the time, and so the Exile was canonized as female to placate the fanbase. Creator/BioWare later hung a big, fat lampshade on the whole thing by having the Revanites in VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic state that Revan's gender isn't clear in the old texts.[[/note]]

* In ''VideoGame/AlterEgo2018'', the player’s gender is never revealed and is simply referred to as "The Wanderer." Even the picture of the wanderer in the books is androgynous.

* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'': It is impossible to determine what gender [[TeamPet Kohaku]] is, thanks to its androgynous voice and its using its name in place of a first-person pronoun. It is confirmed to be ''male''.