Games with Anthros

[Sagt]

Are you aware of any video games that feature anthropomorphic animals as the main characters? Please, do tell. If you can find a trailer to go with the name, that would be great too (Edit: Don't feel obliged to post a trailer link, though)

My contribution:

Ori and the Blind Forest. A 2014 platformer with the main character being an alien-looking cat. The game itself is pretty fun, and the music is great.

Spoiler: Trailer

Rachet and Clank (PS4). It's a pretty well-known franchise that focuses on a "Lombax" named Rachet, and all of his space adventures. But yeah, it's basically a third-person shooter and platformer in a sci-fi setting.

Spoiler: Trailer

 

[Sarachaga]

Starbound features quite a bunch of different anthro races. All the playable characters aren't anthros but I guess it still counts.
Here's the trailer:

 

[Crimcyan]

Skyrim with khajiit but you can also mod other anthros into the game

Any sonic game

Crash

There's a huge list of them that I could keep going but I will save the rest for someone else

 

[Baalf]

Rivals of Aether, since Ori and the Blind Forest came up, is an anthro Smash Brothers game with some very tight gameplay. ...Is posting a trailer required, or is it optional?

I'd love to see some good modern games with anthros.

 

[Sagt]

Just remembered another game I saw a while back on Steam called Armello. I haven't played it yet, so I can't really comment on the gameplay, but it seems like a 4X genre of game.

Spoiler: Trailer

 

[Dongding]

Starfox? Needs no trailer as there's like 500 billion of them out now... we all know the one that matters.

 

[Yakamaru]

Guild Wars 2.
Stellaris.
Impossible Creatures?

Only the ones at the top of my head that have Anthro characters.

 

[Dongding]

You can play as the dog in Jet Force Gemini. That was a good F-ing game.

EDIT: OOH! OOH! Conker's Bad Fur Day. :3

 

[Amiir]

What about Sly POOPer?

 

[Fuzzylumkin]

man... no one mentioned Brutal: paws of fury, for the sega system. loved that game, you can find a windows emulated version now.

 

[Stratelier]

How about putting any video links in spoiler tags? Condenses the look of this topic without losing information, especially if you want it to resemble a list that people can easily search.

Back in the PS2 era was a lesser-known platformer called Scaler, wherein a boy is transported to another world and turned into a bipedal lizard (who might otherwise resemble a cross between Gex and Spyro). It was a decent game ... I should probably try loading up my old save file and see if I can unlock anything for 100-percenting it. (I'm also a sucker for concept art galleries.)

Spoiler: official trailer

 

[Sagt]

How about putting any video links in spoiler tags? Condenses the look of this topic without losing information, especially if you want it to resemble a list that people can easily search.

Back in the PS2 era was a lesser-known platformer called Scaler, wherein a boy is transported to another world and turned into a bipedal lizard (who might otherwise resemble a cross between Gex and Spyro). It was a decent game ... I should probably try loading up my old save file and see if I can unlock anything for 100-percenting it. (I'm also a sucker for concept art galleries.)

Spoiler: official trailer

Good idea, I'll edit my posts.

By the way, I should clarify that I'm not too bothered about whether or not a post has a trailer linked, I just thought it could be interesting. Really, don't feel obliged to post a trailer if you can't find one, or for any other reason, though.

 

[Baalf]

man... no one mentioned Brutal: paws of fury, for the sega system. loved that game, you can find a windows emulated version now.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Do NOT, under any circumstances, play the Sega 32X game. The original (at least the one I played on the SNES) is playable, but the Sega 32X game is so bad it makes a lot of Pirated fighting games look like gold.

How about putting any video links in spoiler tags? Condenses the look of this topic without losing information, especially if you want it to resemble a list that people can easily search.

Back in the PS2 era was a lesser-known platformer called Scaler, wherein a boy is transported to another world and turned into a bipedal lizard (who might otherwise resemble a cross between Gex and Spyro). It was a decent game ... I should probably try loading up my old save file and see if I can unlock anything for 100-percenting it. (I'm also a sucker for concept art galleries.)

Spoiler: official trailer

I have that game. I've yet to finish it. It seems to be a low budget game, but the gameplay's solid. You know, Yooka actually kind of reminds me of Scaler. ...Though Scaler's arguably a better game.

 

[Eleven-lyc]

There's a somewhat recent little gem out there by the name of The Wolf Among Us, a noir comic-book styled game. It's a bit more of a point-and-click mystery than a typical game, but the premise is certainly an anthropomorphic one, and based on a DC comic I hear.
It's set in a world where storybook characters secretly exist in the real world, often animal characters, that must disguise themselves as humans using potions called Glamours. A bit like MiB, come to think of it. It's interesting to see such characters painted in an adult–noir light.

 

[Butt_Ghost]

The Master of Orion series has Anthro bear, cat, reptile and avian races. It's another 4X genre game. There's been a recent reboot but it was pretty poorly received.

 

[Baalf]

Speaking of recent, anyone know of any good recent anthro games?

There was a Divinity game released reccently that, I think, has a Lizard playable race (or at the very least a playable preset Lizard character) but I don't know for certain. It's got good reviews, though.

 

[Shadowsquall]

Some of these are pretty popular already but I'll list them for completeness.

As main character:

• Banjo-Kazooie series: Bear/bird duo in a fairly old collectathon platformer. (Kinda abandoned series now)
• Yooka-Laylee series: Chameleon in platformr. Spiritual sequel to Banjo-Kazooie
• Klonoa series: Cat (?) in a platformed. (Abandoned series)
• Freedom Planet: Dragon, cat and dog in 2-D platformer
• Pokémon series
  • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series: 1 out of 12 pokemon chosen based on behaviour questions, in a dungeon crawler game. All pokemon talk.
  • Pokkén Tournament: Pokémon roster fighting 2d/3d stage
• Ookami: Sun goddess as wolf in action game
• Yoshi series: Dinosaur in platformer
• Spyro series: Good assortment
• World of Warcraft: Worgen (Werewolf), Tauren (Cow), Draenei (Space goat), Pandaren (Panda), maybe more in the upcoming expansion. MMORPG
• BLESS: Wolf-human, panther-human. MMORPG

There are many, many games where they are playable but are not main characters. Here are a few notable ones

• Shining series: RPG, At least one playable, usually a wolf
• Breath of Fire series: RPG, At least one playable, usually a wolf
• Dragon ball series: typically fighter. Eventually that jackal and maybe wolf trio.
• Sdorica: Puzzle RPG, Tiger, Bear
• Nekojishi: Lion, Panther, Cat

And of course, gatcha-like games like Digimon Links, Sengoku puzzle! Animal Daigassen, Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho, Tokyo Afterschool Summoners, Fight League, Wander Crown, Blazing Odyssey, Puzzle & Dragons, Monster Strike, and so on.

 

[Sagt]

Okami is another one. It's about a decade old, but they recently released an updated, high-definition version of the game for console, and the same should be done for PC sometime this December. It has stellar reviews, so it's worth checking out if you haven't already done so.

Spoiler: Trailer

 

[Stratelier]

I wouldn't consider Okami anthro specifically, but yep, you get to play as a wolf goddess.

 

[TheArchiver]

The art style is not quite to my liking, but I do appreciate the concept. Resident Evil 4's oddly satisfying inventory system as a full fledged puzzler is....nothing short of brilliant.

 

[Mikazuki Marazhu]

This is quite an interesting piece of game because only one person worked on this game in the span of 4 years

 

[ChromaticRabbit]

(I noticed these indie titles, but haven't played any of them yet... but I just bought Night in the Woods.)

The Crown of Leaves (coming 2018?) (by these amazing creators: Userpage of Lingrimm -- Fur Affinity [dot] net )

Night in the Woods (Weird Autumn Edition) (Original Feb 2017, this extension due out Dec 13th)

( I think you can safely buy the version that's on sale on steam today rather than wait for December 13th 2017, because: "Owners of the PC release of the game will receive this upgraded version for free." )

Unlucky Seven (Coming 2018)

 

[Butt_Ghost]

Worth mentioning: Exile and Avernum have character options for a reptile and feline race.
Portal to Avernum

The series is a bit hard to talk about since Avernum is a reboot of Exile and then Avernum also went on to reboot under the same name. It's a long-running turn-based indie RPG and one of the few Apple PC-centered game series(though it's always had a Windows port). I'd describe it as the turn-based answer to The Elder Scrolls: It's a fantasy RPG with some pretty good lore, open world and has a lot of similar stats and features. Exile had a survival element to it that was thrown out when it was rebooted as Avernum. Good intros to the series are Avernum 2: Crystal Souls (either version, but I prefer the original just for the graphical difference) and Blades of Avernum.

The anthros are featured in every game in the series, but only the second installments and onwards (of each reboot, which is where things get confusing) allows the player to recruit the anthro races as party members. In Exile 1, Avernum 1 and the remade Avernum: Escape from the Pit they're only used as NPCs.

 

[Baalf]

I can't believe this didn't come up yet, but the game Ever Oasis is a Zelda-esque game that has anthro lizard and rabbit-like playable characters, as well as a race of fat scorpion-cyclopses. Ever Oasis is a pretty good game, though people often criticize it's replayability.

 

[Xenial-Lynx]

My favorites are Armello, Rivals of Aether, and Tooth and Tail.
Armello is a digital board game, in which 4 players compete to take the crown after the king has fallen to dark magic.

Tooth and Tail is an RTS. Each player commands a small army of animals, who use technology found in the WWI/Russian revolution era.

Rivals of Aether is a fighting game similar to the Super Smash Bros. series.