Ambiguously Bi / Video Games

Ambiguously Bi characters in Video Games.

A No Recent Examples 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 not 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.

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• In 2Dark, Sylvia Scarlett may or may not be in a physical relationship with her companion and fellow kid taxidermist Elisa: however, she definitely has the hots for Ernest Miguele, the boss of the next level, as made clear by the love letter you find in his hospice.
• A3:
  • Azuma is fond of making suggestive, flirty-sounding comments around both the female main character and the other male troupe members and it's never entirely clear how much of these comments is him being serious and how much is him trolling people. There's also how he used to be a professional cuddler who literally slept with both female and male clients; it's not confirmed if he ever "slept" with them in the other sense too, but not debunked either.
  • Taichi constantly talks about how much he wants a girlfriend but his first love was Yuki, a crossdressing boy he mistook for a girl when they were younger, and even when he doesn't know that Yuki is the "girl" he fell in love with, he's still quite eager to please him and help him with his sewing. When Taichi tells Kazunari that he wants to go to a party full of girls in one of their coin-earning chats, Kazunari teasingly asks him if he should get a bunch of girls who look like Yuki which visibly flusters Taichi.
• In AI: The Somnium Files, Renju Okiura is initially introduced as the ex-husband of the game's first victim, a woman named Shoko Nadami. The two were married for around eight years and have been divorced for the past four, and the two had one daughter, Mizuki. However: It's later shown that their marriage was deeply troubled, with both being emotionally distant from both each other and their daughter, with Shoko being downright abusive. Both were independently wealthy prior to their marriage, which, coupled with their lack of devotion to each other, suggests the possibility that their marriage may have been about business or convenience rather than one that was ever built on love. Meanwhile, post-divorce, Renju is shown to have entered into an unambiguous (and, from what little is seen of it, genuinely happy) relationship with the male computer scientist Pewter. Thus, the ambiguity ultimately ends up falling on the side of whether or not Renju ever experienced opposite-sex attraction instead of same-sex attraction.
• The Blackwell Series: Joey's a Chivalrous Pervert and was very much in love with Lauren Blackwell, but a flashback in Epiphany implies that he also had feelings for his former assistant, Danny Marconi (who he died protecting). Madeline picks up on this very quickly.
  Madeline: Danny Marconi is important to you, is he not? Your energy... your aura, if you will... it changes when you speak of him. So tell us.... what is Danny to you?
  Joey: (agitated) I have no idea what you're talking about.
  Madeline: You know precisely what I am talking about.
• BlazBlue has Jin Kisaragi, whose speech patterns grow very disturbing in a Does This Remind You of Anything? kind of way whenever he gets the chance to talk to his dear 'niisan'. It's established in Continuum Shift though that there is something between him and Tsubaki, but that doesn't stop the Ho Yay moments with Ragna.
• Bully:
  • Jimmy can date just about every girl in the game and can also kiss a select few boys if the player elects to. During a cutscene, Pinky Gauthier mentions that there are rumors about this floating around the school.
  • A few of Peanut Romano's Enemy Chatter lines indicate that he's crushing on both Lola Lombardi and her boyfriend, Johnny Vincent. He's pretty conflicted about it.
    "Johnny's too good for Lola..."
    "What does Lola see in Johnny?"
    "What can I do to please Johnny— I mean Lola! No, I mean..."
  • Vance Medici can be seen flirting with girls but is also one of the boys Jimmy can date.
  • Another Gay Option is Gord Vendome, who's very flamboyant and camp but also dates Lola at one point.
• Cyberpunk 2077:
  • Kerry is only romanceable by male V yet his bedroom has some female undergarments scattered about and his private emails reveal he has an ex-wife and child. Word of God confirmed Kerry is in fact bi but he's only attracted to male V because he reminds him of Johnny.
  • Both Panam and River are generally considered to be heterosexual romance options, but due to the flexible character creator, they are actually available to any V with the right body type. This means that, for example, River will be attracted to V if he has male pronouns, a male voice, a masculine face, and a penis, just as long as he doesn’t have a buff, masculine body. The only real requirement is a feminine body with breasts. Whether this is meant to be viewed as part of their sexuality, or a result of changes made during development (the gender fluidity of the character creator was reportedly added later on) is unclear.
  • If you choose to accompany Takemura during his recon mission in "Gimme Danger", he'll text you about your conversation on the roof after the quest is completed. And in response, V, regardless of gender, can actually offer to keep Takemura company. Takemura unfortunately turns you down, though he replies that he's honored and then texts back, "Under other circumstances...", implying that he may just have taken V up on that offer if things were different.
  • Johnny is only depicted flirting or having sex with women in-game and even states during the "Holdin' On" quest that he didn't sleep with Kerry because "he had a dick." However, according to the Official Cyberpunk 2077 Game Guide (which actually reuses text from an in-game shard), Johnny has indeed slept with every member of SAMURAI— thus canonically disproving the implications that he only likes women. There is also a rare interaction at a gay strip club in which Johnny will say that he got a lap dance from a man.
• Death Stranding: Die-Hardman's emotional confession at the end of the game, where he tells the truth about Cliff, features a line "and I loved him, as much as I did her", her being Bridget. It's unclear if he's saying this in a platonic or romantic way, but it definitely can be read as either/or.
• The protagonist in Disco Elysium has a female ex and is clearly attracted to Klaasje, but develops a blatant crush on the Smoker on the Balcony and also has multiple opportunities to self-identify as a "f***" (the only word censored in the game, as if the protagonist's own mind is trying to filter it out). The player may have the opportunity of allowing the protagonist to spend eight in-game hours working out if he is part of "the homo-sexual underground", but the only reward for doing so is for the protagonist to declare that he has stopped obsessing over his own sexuality (and a funny conversation with Kim about it).
• Dragalia Lost: Elisanne is shown to have a crush on Euden, but there are implications that she may have a feeling for women as well. Alex and Julietta are heavily implied to be in love with her, and Elisanne has a very close bond with them both. It is unclear if she reciprocates their feelings.
• Android 21, the Big Bad of the Dragon Ball video game, Dragon Ball Fighterz; her final Link Event with the Earthling Soul has been noted to sound quite Ship Tease-y. That said, outside of a single instance that was more than likely a translation error, the Earthling Soul is not given a canonical gender. Her first interaction with 18 in her story mode also has 21 calling 18 beautiful while having painstakingly recreated 18's original battle outfit, enthusing over how cute it is. 21 later expresses adoration for how 18 motivates herself in regards to her family, expressing that she would like to be part of a family that is cared for like 18 cares for hers (prompting 18 to ask 21 to stop swooning over her).
• Dynasty Warriors: Zhang seems to play this trope to its extreme given his hyper-flamboyant attitude and intense attraction towards anyone he finds beautiful, elegant, refined, etc.
• Final Fantasy XIII:
  • Vanille and especially Fang; while they get the majority of their shipping with each other, Vanille gets significant shipping with Hope — to the point of appearing upset when he makes her think he likes her, only to reveal he was joking — and Fang receives several moments with Snow (despite him having a canon love interest in Serah) and Lightning (in a flirty Battle Couple, Slap-Slap-Kiss, sense) before, and even after, she is reunited with Vanille.
  • Lightning receives about an equal amount of shipping moments with Fang and Hope and has no canon love interest.
• Fire Emblem:
  • Legault from Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade occasionally makes remarks that could lead to certain assumptions being made about him in his conversations with Lloyd, Matthew, and Heath... but then again, he makes similar remarks to Isadora.
  • Florina is afraid of men, yet lived with Lyn for a time on the Sacaean plains, and tells Lyn "Oh, I do so love you!" She can also marry Hector if she gets an 'A' level support with him.
  • Lucia of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance is extremely close to Elincia, yet she also has Belligerent Sexual Tension with Bastian.
  • Ike shows all the female allies he has with the same level of professionalism as the other men in his troop, regardless of how much they obviously like him. And in his ending, he may be accompanied by one of two guys to quest for other civilizations. A character in Awakening implies that he is Ike's descendant, though in what way is made ambiguous, as a wife is never mentioned, and his sister can marry and possibly bear collateral descendants.
  • Similarly, Camilla from Fates can only marry men. However, she's incredibly possessive of her retainers (both of whom are female), particularly Selena (who happens to be the aforementioned Severa under an alias) and the (potentially female) Avatar. Her rather flirty-sounding dialogue with Corrin is also unchanged regardless of whether you're playing as male or female.
  • Fire Emblem: Three Houses has multiple characters that fall under this trope.
    • Manuela. While not a same-sex romance option for the Player Character, she still occasionally flirts with them if they're female and has a paired ending with the actually bi Dorothea that can be taken as romantic.
    • While Ferdinand has several paired endings with women that end in marriage, his support chain and paired ending with Hubert contain quite a bit of subtext, including an A+ support where Ferdinand implicitly agrees to "fancying" Hubert while blushing.
    • Likewise, while Hubert can romance any of the Black Eagle girls, Shamir, or a female Byleth, he seems to take an interest in Ferdinand. Notably, his A+ support with Ferdinand is one of the only two where Hubert blushes.
    • Petra isn't a romance option for a female Byleth, but her paired ending with the actually-bi Dorothea mentions that Dorothea "became the person that Petra loved most."
    • Ashe has multiple paired endings with women that end in marriage, but he also seems quite close to Dedue, even worrying more about him than Dimitri's horrible death on the Verdant Wind and Silver Snow routes. His paired ending with Caspar can also be potentially read as romantic.
    • Annette has several romantic endings with men, but her support chain and paired ending with the actually-bi Mercedes can be read as romantic.
    • Dimitri can only be romanced by a female Byleth, but he treats both genders the same regardless, Ship Tease and all. His paired ending with Dedue mentions that they acted more like family in private, but whether this means like brothers or lovers is left to interpretation.
    • And, of course, Dedue himself has several paired endings with women that end in marriage... But his interactions with Ashe and Dimitri can very easily be read as romantic.
    • Sylvain is an infamous skirt-chaser but is strongly implied to be bisexual. He doesn't exactly deny it when Flayn brings up a rumor that he hits on both men and women, he seems eager to settle down with Felix in their Azure Moon paired ending and their support uses more romantic language in the Japanese version. In the Japanese version, he hit on a man disguised as a woman at a festival, and he also flirts with Ashe a bit, even suggesting that Ashe might have fallen for him.
  • Made even less ambiguous with Three Hopes as he falls for Yuri due to Dude Looks Like a Lady but when informed of the truth he doesn't skip a beat in admitting he's fine with that.
    • Felix has several paired endings with women that end in romance (especially on the Azure Moon route), but he also seems willing to settle down with Sylvain, in addition to their support having more romantic language in Japanese. In both the localized and Japanese version of their Azure Moon paired ending, they become so close as to pass away on the same day in their later years. Notably, the ending makes no mention of either marrying anyone else. His paired ending with Dimitri can also be interpreted as Felix having romantic feelings for him, since when Dimitri passes away, Felix is even more grief-stricken than the queen. Keep in mind that Dimitri has no plans to abolish the Crest system, unlike Edelgard, and presumably had to marry in order to continue the Blaiddyd bloodline.
    • Lysithea only has explicitly romantic endings with men in Three Houses but, in the Japanese version of the game, she calls Leonie her perfect husband in one of their support conversations. Moreover, in Three Hopes she gets very flustered and noticeably blushes when she gets a compliment from female Shez during one of their support conversations.
• Fire Emblem Engage:
  • Once she switches to the good side, Ivy appears particularly more smitten with Alear than most people do, though the trope can be played straight only if Alear is female. In Fire Emblem Heroes, however, the ambiguousness becomes more ambiguous since Ivy hails from the world where her Alear is female and displays no less of a need to have Alear for all for herself (and says so under her breath when she couldn't arrive at Askr sooner than Alear did).
  • Nel, a character introduced in the Fell Xenologue DLC. Nel was in love with the Alear of her world before the latter died fighting that world's Sombron, and can gradually develop feelings for the main universe's Alear, who is of the opposite gender.
• Food Fantasy: Chocolate is a flirtatious man that will hit on the player and invite them to his bedroom regardless of gender. Although he is mentioned to be a casanova, the gender of the people he hits on is never really specified. In canon, there is quite some Ship Tease with the also male Coffee, leaving ambiguous what is exactly he attracted to but leaning towards confirming he is interested in men.
• Pops up a lot in the Grand Theft Auto series
  • Cross-franchise recurring character Lazlow is implied to be either a closeted gay man, a Camp Straight sex pest, or most likely, just a Depraved Bisexual.
  • In Grand Theft Auto III, Maria Latore and Asuka Kasen are in a relationship, but also flirt with Claude at different points.
  • In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas CJ can date several women, but in the local multiplayer mode, can kiss the NPC the other player controls, which can be a man, and after helping OG Loc get revenge on a guy Loc was in an ambiguous relationship with in prison, CJ comments "Hey, I like a nice mustache myself" which can be seen as either Gay Bravado or a Cassandra Truth.
  • Trevor Phillips in Grand Theft Auto V is shown to be a Depraved Bisexual but also conflicted about admitting having any romantic feelings for men.
• Guild Wars 2:
  • In this game, character dialogue varies based on the race and profession you choose for your Player Character, but (barring a few very specific situations) not with gender. So if a character flirts with the player character, they will flirt with the player character regardless of what gender they are.
  • Canach in particular does this with Sylvari player characters during Heart of Thorns.
• Hiveswap: Many side comments made by Joey suggest that she may possibly be attracted to other girls despite her current stated crush being a boy. In particular, when examining Pa's scantily clad blue woman lamps she gets rather flustered, thinks about how she idolizes Clarissa a lot, and quickly loses focus when thinking about Dot from ReBoot when going over other shows she enjoys. Her Hot Steppin' poster is also a bit suspect, along with her blushing when thinking about how cool a female TV show character is. Given her age and reaction to learning Xefros is a boy who is attracted to another boy she could also be read as Ambiguously Gay and unaware of it yet. She is also extremely flustered by Elwurd's flirting, as well as very receptive of it, though she also seems surprised to learn that it was flirting when Xefros suggests using it to their advantage.
• League of Legends:
  • Akali, in canon Runeterra, has expressed attraction to Kayn (before realizing what a weirdo he is). Meanwhile in the K/DA-verse, she and Seraphine share several moments of deep bonding that coencide with Sera performing a cover of a sapphic love song, hinting at an attraction between the two. Then you have Akali's close bond with Star Guardian Kai'sa which borders on a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship and a former writer outright confirming that their relationship is meant to be queer.
  • Miss Fortune, the Bounty Hunter, teases and flirts with men and women, and it's mentioned that several members of her cadre were past lovers, but it's unspecified exactly which of the men or women were in that overlap. Given how her persona is mostly a means to an end to get what she wants, it's not even clear whether her flirtiness is actually representative of her sexuality, or if it's just to mess with people in public.
  • Samira mentions, in some of her voice lines,, that she's been in relationships in the past, but doesn't specify her partner's pronouns, leaving things up for interpretation.
  • Udyr, the Spirit Walker, had a relationship with a Freljordian woman, Kalkia, and warmly regards her memory following her death, making an oath to protect her daughter, Sejuani, as if she were his own. Later on, he developed a close partnership with Lee Sin, the Blind Monk, having spent an excursion in Lee Sin's native Ionia to protect the land from the Noxian invasion. While Kalkia is explicitly described as Udyr's former lover, Udyr repeatedly refers to Lee Sin as "my spirit", and he regards to both with equally intimate fondness, though actual romantic feelings with the latter are still unconfirmed.
• Chloe from Life Is Strange is unambiguously attracted to girls and has had many casual relationships with boys in the past. What's ambiguous is whether she is still attracted to men, or if it was just a phase prior to figuring out her sexuality. Some of her dialogue suggests that she lost her interest in men after meeting Rachel, but other moments (her interaction with Max's Hot Teacher in particular) leave room for doubt.
• Like a Dragon:
  • Goro Majima is obviously interested in women, yet also has an unusually strong devotion to his blood brother, Taiga Saejima, that spans over twenty-five years of separation, and doggedly pursues Kazuma Kiryu attempting to fight with him, but takes it to such extremes (even dressing up as a woman in a hostess club at one point) that he comes off as being a Stalker with a Crush. There was also one occasion when he forced his boss, Daigo, to crossdress in the midst of a zombie apocalypse so that they could pretend to be a couple, and seemed to be oddly eager to actually have sex with him.
  • Speaking of Daigo, though he's first introduced sitting in a hostess club surrounded by women, there's his very ambiguous relationship with his underling, Yoshitaka Mine, who out and out admits that Daigo is the only person he ever genuinely loved, and his long-standing fixation on his old high school classmate, Tatsuo Shinada, which ends up coming off like a first crush.
• Megadimension Neptunia VII
  • Neptune as Purple Heart, who appreciates the magazines Steamax scattered towards them to distract the party (which the game implies the contents are for straight men; oh and yes, it actually works) yet at the same time ends up teasing Steamax himself, who is very shy around women even though he's a robot.
  • Speaking of Steamax, he ends up suggesting this with Uni, who befriends him and begrudgingly admits she's touched by the revelation he has a crush on her while still continuing the bucket-loads of Les Yay with Nepgear that has been present from previous games. Notably, both Nepgear and Steamax are the only non-Lastation characters Uni's ever allowed in her room.
• Metal Gear Solid:
  • After the events of MGS1, Snake and Meryl were a couple, although it didn't last. Afterwards he started living together with Otacon, and raised an adoptive child together with him. In MGS2, Snake can take photos of scantily clad posters of both men and women alike, and if you show the photos, Otacon will remark that the male ones explain a lot about Snake's past behavior, Not That There's Anything Wrong with That. Which implies it's far from the first time Snake has visibly perved on another man.
  • Otacon shown some rather evident attraction to women like Sniper Wolf and Naomi, but he also has some Homoerotic Subtext with Snake.
  • Kazuhira Miller is a notorious womaniser, but he also seems attracted to Big Boss: he asks him out on a date, and when Big Boss orders him to choose between "him or the women" after he was caught having a romance with a female recruit, Kaz asks "why can't I have both?!"
  • Venom Snake has a lot of Ship Tease with Quiet, a female sniper, but also with Kazuhira Miller. The camera keeps framing their faces very close together whenever they talk, and according to Word of God, this was intentional and Hideo Kojima, the game's director, kept insisting on it despite his team's concerns.
• Tanzy from Octopath Traveler II had a male lover before the start of the game and is currently very devoted to Mindt/Arcanette. She constantly refers to Mindt/Arcanette as a "goddess" and does anything she asks her to do. However, because she started her current relationship almost immediately after the death of her fiancé, it's unclear if Tanzy truly would've been attracted to Mindt/Arcanette otherwise, or if she was simply reacting that strongly to the trauma.
• PaRappa the Rapper's plot is about PaRappa trying to prove he can be boyfriend material for his female love interest, Sunny Funny. The sequel's second stage has PaRappa practicing "romantic karate" with his male friend PJ Berri to prove to Sunny he's not a baby. The moves performed in romantic karate include holding hands, kissing, hugging and dancing with your partner, which PaRappa all does with enthusiasm.
• Persona 3:
  • The PSP remake allows you to play as a female protagonist. The relationship between the canon male protagonist and Aigis is a major part of the game, and some romantic tension is thrown in it as well. Absolutely none of this is changed for the female protagonist (naturally, she can hook up with three of your four male party members and is the target of two of her male Social Links' affections), and it's highlighted in Aigis's Social Link in that additional Gayngst is added on her part.
  • Yukari develops a crush on the male protagonist and can be romanced by him, though her relationship with the female protagonist shares just enough dialogue to suggest that she might see her the same way. She also becomes very emotionally dependent on Mitsuru after the protagonist's death. And speaking of Mitsuru, she considers eloping with either version of the protagonist, before dumping her arranged fiancé because he insulted them.
• Persona 4:
  • Kanji Tatsumi. His Shadow aside, he has a crush on Naoto Shirogane throughout the course of the game — thing is, Naoto is thought to be male at first, yet when it's found out that she's female, Kanji's crush still remains, and he's relieved to discover that Naoto was a girl the entire time. He blushes at the sight of Yukiko and Chie in swimsuits and displays a small crush on Chihiro Fushimi.
  • Yosuke and the protagonist are Heterosexual Life-Partners, and he canonically has a crush on Saki, but Dummied Out dialogue suggests he was originally planned as the protagonist's Gay Option. On top of all that, In Persona 4: Arena he seems to have crushes on Mitsuru, Labrys and Akihiko.
  • Teddie acts very flirty towards the protagonist, and kissed Kanji while drunk at the kings game. He also enjoyed cross-dressing as he dressed up as Alice during the school crossdressing contest and he picked out an outfit for his human form to wear that looked camp. However, he's usually hitting on women whenever he gets the chance to.
  • The P4 hero can be played this way. There's nothing stopping you from romancing any of the girls while flirting with Kanji, Teddie, and Yosuke, only the latter of whom will have a problem with it. Not to mention Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth allowing you to do the same with the P3 hero, with other characters noticing how they seem drawn to one another.
• Persona 5:
  • Yusuke's entire sexuality is up for grabs, as he claims his interest in the human body is purely for aesthetics. He shows interest in seeing both Ann and the protagonist in the buff, and not very professionally either. That said, he shows a similar interest in a pair of lobsters, and shows an aversion to romance at times. That said, Matthew Mercer, Yusuke's English VA has expressed that he does believe Yusuke to be bisexual. On the other hand, in Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight he mentions that he appreciates feminine beauty in all its forms and appears somewhat annoyed when Ryuji tries to indirectly ask him if he is gay.
  • Futaba develops a crush on the protagonist even without being romanced, yet enjoys the kinkiness of the other female party members' costumes.
  • Joker, the protagonist himself, can only enter romantic relationships with his female confidants but shows hints of flirting in certain dialogue options for his conversations with Yusuke, Ryuji, and Akechi.
  • Ryuji in general. His interactions with Joker are at times questionable at best. Then what happens on Valentine's Day between them...
• Pokémon:
  • Elesa from Pokémon Black and White and Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 throws a kiss at you no matter what your gender is. She's also pretty close to Skyla and gravitates exclusively towards Join Avenue shops with a "dazzlingly cute girl".
  • Shauna from Pokémon X and Y has dialogue with the protagonist that sounds like Ship Tease, no matter whether you play as Calem or Serena.
  • Serena herself, as the player character. Apart from the Ship Tease she gets with Shauna, Calem as the rival is pretty devoted to her, too, especially with their conversation on Victory Road.
  • In Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Matt constantly goes on about how devoted he is to Archie in a way that makes it sound like he has feelings for his boss. However, he also makes several comments about how impressed he is with the player character, regardless of whether you choose the boy or the girl.
  • Shelly's somewhat teasing remarks and Courtney's... fixation with the player remain unchanged regardless of gender, but nothing is ever definitively stated with them.
  • Lillie from Pokémon Sun and Moon also has a bit of this. She has Ship Tease with the protagonist regardless of gender and reacts to the posing of Ms. Fanservice Olivia.
  • Nemona from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet makes several comments about the player character that make her sound like a Clingy Jealous Girl, such as them "never needing another trainer" and telling Geeta that she better not steal their attention away from her, regardless of the player's gender. Arven also butts in during a conversation between Nemona and Penny during the trek through Area Zero about their relationships with the main character that makes him come off as jealous, again regardless of the player's gender. Finally, Carmine and Kieran in The Teal Mask both get several lines towards the player character that sound shippy, such as Kieran being impressed by them dressing up for the festival and Carmine's rather emotional goodbye scene, that remain unchanged regardless of the main character's gender. However, none of them have anything official stated one way or the other.
• Pyre: The Reader has a full-on Ambiguous Sexuality: There's some ship tease between them with Sandra and Jodariel. It's possible for the Reader to express their attraction for Jodariel at one point, so the Reader's sexuality can vary depending on the gender chosen, and there's also the fact that player can change their gender identity at any point during the game.
• In the third Rayman game, Globox was depicted very... strangely, to say the least. In one boss fight, he shouts "Hey! Get your hands off of MY Rayman!"; if he's punched during gameplay one of the things he says is "I'm a lover, not a fighter!"; and near the beginning, he hugs Rayman so closely and tightly that another character is compelled to ask "Hey, you got room for a third?". That's not even covering his dream about pregnancy and maternal attitude towards the main villain... And yet if plot points of the game and previous interpretations of the character are anything to go by, he is quite clearly attracted to other females of his species.
  • Murfy, as depicted in this same game, is also this trope. It's unclear whether his "joke"-flirting with Rayman is a joke or not (and in some languages he uses affectionate pet names). He also jokingly asks, as mentioned above, if Rayman and Globox "got room for a third" in their hug. But he also expresses disappointment that he wasn't cast as the love interest of a busty actress as promised by the director, and mentions his poor luck with the ladies of the Fairy Council, bitterly referring to them as "wacky spinsters."
• Red Dead Redemption 2:
  • Dutch and Hosea. Dutch has a lover in Molly (he also had a longtime female partner named Annabelle who was killed some time ago) and Hosea's a widower, but their relationship is intimate in a way not seen between other men in the series. When there's a party at camp in Chapter 2, they can be seen talking off on their own and holding hands◊. If Arthur tries to talk to them, they get annoyed and tell him to buzz off. They can be seen holding hands again in an out of bounds cutscene as well. The two are explicitly called Arthur's dads a few times in the game, and Arthur can tell them that everyone sees them "reading" and that they "confuse the hell" out of him. Hosea's death is also part of what pushes Dutch over the edge into his Sanity Slippage.
  • There's also Charles Châtenay, an artist who Arthur meets in Saint Denis who specializes in obscene artworks of a sexual nature. It's implied from one woman gushing to her husband about Charles' work in his gallery that his portraits are all of people he's bedded, making the inclusion of a man named Henry all the more interesting. He also seems to relish the attention he gets when two men catcall him from a boat, and has no qualms about initiating a Fake-Out Make-Out with Arthur to avoid being noticed by someone he's suspicious about.
• Carlos of Rune Factory 3. There are a few incest jokes about him and his sister, he mentions that he couldn't be tied down to just one woman, and will react positively if you wear the "girly" cologne. However, a lot of his talks with the player make him seem like he's flirting. Give him his favorite gift on his birthday, and he'll ask to kiss you.
• Saints Row:
  • The Boss, especially if you play as a female character. Many of the things she says to Shaundi and Kinzie come off as flirtatious and mentions stripper poles quite often (male strippers usually don't pole dance, unless she's talking about a different kind of "pole"). She does say that she likes men... while disguised as Cyrus Temple, so she probably just said that to make people think he's gay regardless of whether or not she actually likes them herself. The Russian female voice, however, is very thirsty for Pierce and proclaims that she wants to make love to him in front of a live studio audience. In Saints Row IV all crew members except Keith David can be romanced regardless of your character's gender, removing the ambiguity.
  • Matt Miller has an unhealthy obsession with Nyte Blayde, whose titular protagonist is a sexy male vampire, but has a girlfriend in Saints Row: The Third and mentioned having crushes on Kinzie and Asha in IV. The ambiguity is removed in the How the Saints Saved Christmas DLC, with him asking Santa for both a Nyte Blayde body pillow and a Bloody Canoness body pillow.
• Custom female characters in Soul Calibur 5 with the "Femme Fatale" voice option. Their dialogue consists of a lot of flirtatious quotes, which they'll use whatever the gender of their opponent.
• Story of Seasons:
  • Harvest Moon DS Cute:
    • All of the "Special Girls". They can become just as smitten with you when you're playing as a girl as they did when you were playing as Pete. The Japanese version has a gay marriage system for them under the guise of a "Best Friends" system. Everyone calls you "best friends" but you have the exact same dialogue as in the boy version, you can have a child with them, and you go through the same courting rituals (Heart Events and all).
    • The Goddess is this even without the Best Friend System. She and the Witch Princess are both available love interests to the male hero but have a Foe Romance Subtext filled relationship. The Goddess' notorious apathy toward you when she's your wife doesn't help.
    • The Mineral Town girls. They are very friendly with the main character after you befriend them, like visiting your house for play dates, and they even have moments with NPCs. But they can also be married in Spear Counterpart.
  • Gray in Friends of Mineral Town blushes and acts nervous when shown the Blue Feather (an item used to propose) by the male protagonist, but he also is in love with Mary and can be married in the Distaff Counterpart game.
• Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2:
  • Lynn flirts with protagonist whether they're a boy or a girl, though it's rather ambiguous if it's teasing or not.
  • Aera reacts to Lynn wanting to kiss her rather suspiciously but also has Ship Tease with boys.
• Super Mario Bros.: Luigi is campy and shows attraction to Prince Peasley. Still he's the Implied Love Interest to Daisy and has shown attraction to several female characters in varying continuities.
• All Tale of Food food spirits are male, but they have romantically and even sexually suggestive interactions with the Player Character whether they're male or female, and this is not to mention the occasional suggestive interactions with each other or with NPCs.
  Buddha-Jumps-Over-the-Wall: Male or female, as long as it's someone beautiful, one should appreciate them.
• Tales Series:
  • Tales of Vesperia:
    • Estelle has a pretty obvious Bodyguard Crush on Yuri, although she also has way, way too much Ship Tease with Rita for it simply to be called "subtext". While Vesperia is pretty platonic on the whole, some of their moments blur that line. They also get an in-universe Portmanteau Couple Name.
    • Yuri himself gets this — and so does his Childhood Friend Flynn who appears to be the target of Yuri's affection, even seeming to return it. Those two are a major reason why Vesperia has its own Ho Yay page and you could make a drinking game out of the times Yuri (especially early on) brings up Flynn randomly in such a way to make you wonder. Yuri also can make some comments towards Raven who...doesn't seem to mind too much.
  • Tales of Berseria:
    • Velvet is a rare case where both sides are roughly the same level of ambiguous. It's implied she had a crush on Arthur back in her younger years, as Magilou correctly deduced (based on Velvet's surprise and corresponding blush) that Velvet once liked a guy who "was always on the other side of the door, so you could only look at his feet." The anime also plays it up a bit by having her flirt more obviously with Rokurou, but the game itself has her teasing Laphicet about how "I didn't cover my eyes" when she got an eye-full from Rokurou at the bath scene in the Bonus Dungeon, and her frequent checking of him out when he's training even as she admits she has no reason to by the third time. On the girl side, many of her interactions with Eleanor also veer into Les Yay given their status as Heterosexual Life-Partners, such as her happily offering to massage Eleanor with sunscreen in a summer DLC skit, but it's Velvet's relationship with Niko that seals it. She once remarked how she'd marry Niko if she were a guy; Niko said the same to her. In Melchior's illusions in Aball, it's revealed her version of an ideal life has (a very affectionate) Niko refusing to marry anyone or even leave the village until Velvet returns, and that's with Velvet in full awareness of Niko having a crush on a young male vet who works out of town.
    • Eleanor's Ship Tease is almost exclusively with Velvet and she turns down the surprising number of men who propose to her, but she does have a few moments with Laphicet when Bienfu is teasing them.
• Tomb Raider (2013): Lara herself is a case of this. Obviously she has a lot intimacy with Samantha whom she adores and in the climax gives her overtly sensual Bridal Carry when saving her from Mathias. Yet Lara has a lot of affection for Alex as well explicitly referring him as sweet and even kisses him before he dies (worth noting Lara aimed for his lips, but Alex turns his head and she gets his cheek instead). The game’s writer Rihanna Pratchett did initially intend for Lara and Sam to be a couple but unfortunately Executive Meddling got involved Sam became The Not-Love Interest instead, leading to said ambiguity which sadly wasn’t cleared up in following sequels since Sam is Put on the Bus and Lara has no romantic moments with any other characters.
• Uncharted:
  • Nathan Drake likes to half-jokingly compliment people on their backsides and flirt with them, whether male or female.
  • Chloe Frazer is known to have had a sexual relationship with Nate in Among Thieves, but in The Lost Legacy, she constantly bickers with Nadine Ross, fusses over her well-being, and calls her affectionate nicknames like "honey" and "dear".
• Undertale: Papyrus claims that Mettaton is his "favorite sexy rectangle", and, while he ultimately turns them down, he makes zero comment on the player character's Ambiguous Gender when he thinks they're asking him on a date. Though it's hard to tell how much he means either one, considering Word of God on his ditziness.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3: While it's all but confirmed that Rex had children with Pyra, Mythra, and Nia, the exact relationship between them isn't clearly defined. It's possible that Rex simply was the connecting factor between the ladies, however Nia at least gets some Ship Tease with both Pyra and Mythra in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, flitatiously clinging to the former in Tantal and outright saying that latter had a "nice bod". The general consensus is that all four are in a mutual polyamorus relationship, with only Pyra and Mythra not having romantic feels for each other on account of being sisters.

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