History AmbiguouslyGay / VideoGames

* Kenji Setoh from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo''. A HeManWomanHater with a penchant for pink bowling shirts, he started to fear and despise women (or, as he says, [[CatchPhrase feminists]]) after having sex with his then-girlfriend and believing that she sapped his life force. The writers put here and there some little innuendo in his conversations with male protagonist Hisao, and the background music from the bad ending with him and Hisao is the same one that appears during the sex scenes with the girls. Originally the writers intended Kenji to be Hisao's GayOption, but this idea was scrapped because of time and other constraints.

'''A Administrivia/{{No Recent Examples|please}} rule applies to this trope'''. Examples for any games released as episodes shouldn't be added for '''3 months''' after the ambiguity is introduced (or until end of season, if the game uses that approach). This is to allow time for the story to develop the character and resolve ambiguity. There is no waiting time for non-episodic works.

** [[spoiler: During the side mission 'The Artists Way', protagonist Arthur Morgan meets with artist Charles Châtenay, an artist who specialised in obscene artworks of a sexual nature. At one point Châtenay even dresses as a women as a disguise in order to escape the angry locals. He asks the the player to help him catch a boat in Saint Denis. At one point during this mission, he grabs Arthur, and kisses him to avoid detection. Although it could be played for laughs, this event, along with his close relationship with Arthur (a character well-known for his attractiveness) implies he might bisexual. ]]

** Bill Williamson is heavily implied to be gay which was never implied in the [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption first game]]. Arthur, the protagonist, says in one of his journal entries from before the game starts that he knows Bill is living with some sort of big secret but doesn't push it because it's not his secret to tell. You can find his discharge papers from the army around camp and one of the reasons he got kicked out was "deviancy". In an early mission, Arthur and one of the other characters talk about how [[ItMakesSenseInContext couples with similar names don't work out.]] Specifically about one of the other guys, Lenny, having a crush on a girl named Jenny. The other examples he uses are "Arthur and Martha" and "Bill and Phil". In a bar fight, Arthur asks if he's fighting a guy or kissing him. He's also implied to have a crush on a guy at camp, someone else points it out and there's a random event where Bill tries to force him to drink out of his beer bottle. If you intervene, Bill says "Can’t two men enjoy a drink in peace?" and tries to get him to come back. There's also some antagonizing dialogue where you tell Jack Marston he doesn't look like a Marston but he does look like a Williamson, if John Marston is standing nearby he'll say that Bill doesn't swing that way.

** Herlock Sholmes of ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'' leans strongly into the common AlternateCharacterInterpretation of Sherlock Holmes as gay more than most incarnations, presenting him as one of [[HasTwoMommies Iris's two daddies]] prone to camp mannerisms and [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace getting touchy with other men]]. Even the famous photo of "that woman" on his mantlepiece plays into it when Iris reveals that it isn't of [[ImpliedLoveInterest Irene Adler]] at all--it's [[WholesomeCrossdresser Sholmes in drag]].

* Daniil Dankovsky from ''Videogame/{{Pathologic}}. One of the locals, Eva Yan, who is a very attractive young woman shows interest in Daniil but most of Daniil's dialogue options ignore all the flirting he receives from her. It's left ambiguous if it's because he chooses to ignore her advances or if it's because he simply doesn't notice when he's being flirted with. On the other hand he's extremely interested in Artemy Burakh, this is less noticeable in the bachelor route but in the haruspex route Artemy may receive multiple letters from Daniil a day. Daniil also offers Artemy the option to sleep in his bed, although sleeping in another characters bed is always possible, Daniil is just the only one to offer him this option out loud. Daniil is also described as dandy by some of the other locals.

* Kiyotaka Ishimaru from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' displays a complete lack of interest in girls, coupled with a ''barely'' subtextual attraction to his best friend/sworn brother Mondo Owada. As the "Ultimate Moral Compass" he's keen to enforce a rule that boys and girls basically interact as little as possible and ''certainly'' never get the opportunity to pair off alone, but he's notably keen to get himself into any situation where he gets to strip off with another boy. Whether he's a covert {{Hypocrite}} or just oblivious to the implications of his own behaviour is not quite clear; but his absolute devotion to Mondo once they become friends is extremely hard ''not'' to read as indicative of some very sexual/romantic feelings, at least on Taka's part. His reaction to [[spoiler:Mondo's guilt and execution in Case 2 is ''extremely'' suggestive: he's clearly more than willing to literally die on the hill of Mondo's innocence even as it becomes more and more improbable (and indeed he does in the [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation stage play version]]), and several other characters remark that his complete [[HeroicBSOD breakdown]] after Mondo's death certainly reads like he lost someone he was in love with. His later [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane spiritual merging]] with Mondo even includes a pretty overtly romantic line where Taka-as-Ishida refers to Mondo as his/their "soul".]]

* ''VideoGame/TheSims'' has an odd take on this. Until sexual orientation options were added to [[VideoGame/TheSims4 the fourth game]] in 2022, ''nobody'' was straight by default. The player could have their character enter a relationship with ''any'' other character of an appropriate age, regardless of their genders, meaning the player decides their character's sexual preference when they do so. But there were no explicitly LGBTQ+ pre-made characters until a late add-on for ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' introduced the first same-gender couple in the games[[note]]Although tie-in comics and advertising materials actually beat the games to it for the franchise as a whole![[/note]], which began an increasing trend towards including explicitly LBGTQ+ Sims in the series going forward. However, before that, there were some pre-made characters who fit this trope:
** ''VideoGame/TheSims2'' gives us roommates Mitch Indie and Max Flexor, who are able to enter romantic reactions when first played, but won't automatically; Nervous Subject, who usually rejects flirts from women and may be autonomously attracted to men.
** Prior to the ''Roaring Heights'' add-on introducing an explicitly lesbian couple, ''The Sims 3'' gives us Gobias Koffi, said to prefer male company and unable to find the right woman; Alma Drill and Blaise Kindle, who are roommates who even have a pushed-together bed made of two beds; and most obviously, Viktor Valquist and Jesper Sandstrom, who, though called just best friends, are described as doing everything together, strike a pose only used for romantic couples in their family bio picture, and the adopted daughter of one of them even has the surname of [[PortmanteauCoupleName Valstrom]].

* ''VideoGame/TheSims'' has an odd take on this. Until sexual orientation options were added to [[VideoGame/TheSims4 the fourth game]] in 2022, ''nobody'' was straight by default. The player could have their character enter a relationship with ''any'' other character of an appropriate age, regardless of their genders, meaning the player decides their character's sexual preference when they do so. But there were no pre-made characters in same-gender relationships until a late add-on for ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' introduced the first same-gender couple in the games[[note]]Although tie-in comics and advertising materials actually beat the games to it for the franchise as a whole![[/note]], which began an increasing trend towards including explicitly LBGTQ+ Sims in the series going forward. However, before that, there were some pre-made characters who fit this trope:

* ''VideoGame/TheSims'' has an odd take on this. Until sexual orientation options were added to [[VideoGame/TheSims4 the fourth game]] in 2022, ''nobody'' was straight by default. The player could have their character enter a relationship with ''any'' other character of an appropriate age, regardless of their genders, meaning the player decides their character's sexual preference when they do so. But there were no pre-made characters in same-gender relationships until a late add-on for ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' introduced the first lesbian couple in the games, which began an increasing trend towards including explicitly LBGTQ+ Sims in the franchise going forward. However, there were still some pre-made characters who fit this trope:

** Prior to the ''Roaring Heights'' add-on, ''The Sims 3'' gives us Gobias Koffi, said to prefer male company and unable to find the right woman; Alma Drill and Blaise Kindle, who are roommates who even have a pushed-together bed made of two beds; and most obviously, Viktor Valquist and Jesper Sandstrom, who, though called just best friends, are described as doing everything together, strike a pose only used for romantic couples in their family bio picture, and the adopted daughter of one of them even has the surname of [[PortmanteauCoupleName Valstrom]].

* ''VideoGame/TheSims'' has an odd take on this. Until sexual orientation options were added to [[VideoGames/TheSims4 the fourth game]] in 2022, ''nobody'' was straight by default. The player could have their character enter a relationship with ''any'' other character of an appropriate age, regardless of their genders, meaning the player decides their character's sexual preference when they do so. But there were no pre-made characters in same-gender relationships until a late add-on for ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' introduced the first lesbian couple in the games, which began an increasing trend towards including explicitly LBGTQ+ Sims in the franchise going forward. However, there were still some pre-made characters who fit this trope:

* ''VideoGame/TheSims'' has an odd take on this. In these games, NO characters are straight by default. The player can have their character enter a relationship with ''any'' other character, regardless of their genders, meaning the player decides their character's sexual preference when they do so. In games, though, there are some pre-made characters who have been pointed out. ''VideoGame/{{The Sims 2}}'' gives us roommates Mitch Indie and Max Flexor, who are able to enter romantic reactions when first played, but won't automatically; Nervous Subject, who usually rejects flirts from women and may be autonomously attracted to men. ''VideoGame/{{The Sims 3}}'' gives us Gobias Koffi, said to prefer male company and unable to find the right woman; Alma Drill and Blaise Kindle, who are roommates who even have a pushed-together bed made of two beds; and most obviously, Viktor Valquist and Jesper Sandstrom, who, though called just best friends, are described as doing everything together, and the adopted daughter of one of them even has the surname of Valstrom.

* Kiyotaka Ishimaru from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' displays a complete lack of interest in girls, coupled with a ''barely'' subtextual attraction to his best friend/sworn brother Mondo Owada. As the "Ultimate Moral Compass" he's keen to enforce a rule that boys and girls basically interact as little as possible and ''certainly'' never get the opportunity to pair off alone, but he's notably keen to get himself into any situation where he gets to strip off with another boy. Whether he's a covert {{Hypocrite}} or just oblivious to the implications of his own behaviour is not quite clear; but his absolute devotion to Mondo once they become friends is extremely hard ''not'' to read as indicative of some very sexual/romantic feelings, at least on Taka's part. His reaction to [[spoiler:Mondo's guilt and execution in Case 2 is ''extremely'' suggestive: he's clearly more than willing to literally die on the hill of Mondo's innocence even as it becomes more and more improbable (and indeed he does in the [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation stage play version]]), and several other characters remark that his complete HeroicBSOD after Mondo's death certainly reads like he lost someone he was in love with. His later [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane spiritual merging]] with Mondo even includes a pretty overtly romantic line where Taka-as-Ishida refers to Mondo as his/their "soul".]]

* Kiyotaka Ishimaru from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' displays a complete lack of interest in girls, coupled with a ''barely'' subtextual attraction to his best friend/sworn brother Mondo Owada. As the "Ultimate Moral Compass" he's keen to enforce a rule that boys and girls basically interact as little as possible and ''certainly'' never get the opportunity to pair off alone, but he's notably keen to get himself into any situation where he gets to strip off with another boy. Whether he's a covert {{Hypocrite}} or just oblivious to the implications of his own behaviour is not quite clear; but his absolute devotion to Mondo once they become friends is extremely hard ''not'' to read as indicative of some very sexual/romantic feelings, at least on Taka's part. His reaction to [[spoiler:Mondo's guilt and execution in Case 2 is ''extremely'' suggestive: he's clearly more than willing to literally die on the hill of Mondo's innocence even as it becomes more and more improbable (and indeed he does in the [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation stage play version]]), and several other characters remark that his complete HeroicBSOD after Mondo's death certainly reads like he lost someone he was in love with. His later [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane spiritual merging]] with Mondo even includes a pretty unambiguously romantic line where Taka-as-Ishida refers to Mondo as his/their "soul".]]

* Kiyotaka Ishimaru from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' displays a complete lack of interest in any of the girls, coupled with a ''barely'' subtextual attraction to his best friend/sworn brother Mondo Owada. As the "Ultimate Moral Compass" he's keen to enforce a rule that boys and girls basically interact as little as possible and ''certainly'' never get the opportunity to pair off alone, but he's notably keen to get himself into any situation where he gets to strip off with another boy. Whether he's a {{Hypocrite}} or just oblivious to the implications of his own behaviour is not quite clear; but his absolute devotion to Mondo once they become friends is extremely hard ''not'' to read as indicative of some very sexual/romantic feelings, at least on Taka's part. His reaction to [[spoiler:Mondo's guilt and execution in Case 2 is ''extremely'' suggestive: he's clearly more than willing to literally die on the hill of Mondo's innocence even as it becomes more and more improbable (and indeed he does in the [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation stage play version]]), and several other characters remark that his complete HeroicBSOD after Mondo's death certainly reads like he lost someone he was in love with. His later [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane spiritual merging]] with Mondo even includes a pretty unambiguously romantic line where Taka-as-Ishida refers to Mondo as his/their "soul".]]

** Franziska von Karma, whose family Miles was adopted into, comes around the other way as Ambigiously Lesbian. She has short hair and a shorter temper, and enjoys using her whip to deal pain to men who get in her way -- but around women she can actually be very tender and caring (barring certain exceptions like Lotta Hart).

** Franziska von Karma, whose family Miles was adopted into, comes around the other way as Ambigiously Lesbian. She has short hair and a shorter temper, and enjoys using [[WhipItGood her whip]] to deal pain to men who get in her way -- but around women she can actually be very tender and caring (barring certain exceptions like Lotta Hart).

** Maya Fey never had shown any romantic interest in any guy (her relationship with Phoenix is clearly stated to be LikeBrotherAndSister) but she ''does'' have a moment when in ''Justice For All'' she claims that "even she wants confess her love" for Regina. She's also one of two people to call Iris beautiful, with the other having a pretty clear crush on her.

** [[HeterosexualLifePartners Mórag and Brighid]] from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' have some LesYay moments throughout the game. It even comes full circle when [[spoiler: Mórag realizes that she’s the only Driver in the party (besides Tora, who isn’t even a driver in the traditional sense) who isn’t a Flesh Eater or Blade Eater, and Brighid offers some of her core crystal to her. She declines.]]

** Lanz from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3''. He’s always looking for tough people to take on, and has a very muscular appearance. He’s never been shown to be sexually interested in women, and has a {{Bromance}}-like friendship with Sena. Lanz also acts like a {{Tsundere}} when he’s around other male characters, such as [[GadgeteerGenius Valdi]] and [[TokenHeroicOrc Triton]].

** Lanz from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3''. He’s always looking for tough people to take on, and has a very muscular appearance. He’s never been shows to be sexually interested in women, and has a {{Bromance}}-like friendship with Sena. Lanz also acts like a {{Tsundere}} when he’s around other male characters, such as [[GadgeteerGenius Valdi]] and [[TokenHeroicOrc Triton]].

* Male [[{{Bishonen}} Blood Elves]] in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', though more as a joke than anything. Not only is this a joke among the players but many of the male Blood Elves' /emotes, particularity /joke, dab in this trope. Then there's Martek's tale in the quest "The Day that Deathwing Came: What Really Happened." Ironically, male Blood Elves are larger and more muscular then the average real-life male; it's just that males of the other races, including humans, are cartoonishly muscular.
* [[HeterosexualLifePartners Mórag and Brighid]] from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' have some LesYay moments throughout the game. It even comes full circle when [[spoiler: Mórag realizes that she’s the only Driver in the party (besides Tora, who isn’t even a driver in the traditional sense) who isn’t a Flesh Eater or Blade Eater, and Brighid offers some of her core crystal to her. She declines.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheSims'' has an odd take on this. In these games, NO characters are straight by default. The player can have his or her character enter a relationship with ''any'' other character, regardless of their genders, meaning the player decides their sexual preference when he does so. In games, though, there are some pre-made characters who have been pointed out. ''VideoGame/{{The Sims 2}}'' gives us roommates Mitch Indie and Max Flexor, who are able to enter romantic reactions when first played, but won't automatically; Nervous Subject, who usually rejects flirts from women and may be autonomously attracted to men. ''VideoGame/{{The Sims 3}}'' gives us Gobias Koffi, said to prefer male company and unable to find the right woman; Alma Drill and Blaise Kindle, who are roommates who even have a pushed-together bed made of two beds; and most obviously, Viktor Valquist and Jesper Sandstrom, who, though called just best friends, are described as doing everything together, and the adopted daughter of one of them even has the surname of Valstrom.