Have you tried The Renaissance? It has 2 separate story lines, one with a male MC sub and another with a female MC Domme. It's very early in development but is already one of my favorites and the new update should be on F95 "soon"
I’ll just write a list of games where FemMC is dominant:
For fantasy, I'm a lot more tolerant about historical "errors" than historical fiction, but I expect it's workable when it's relevant for the plot, world building or mechanics. Like, as I said in that linked post, if you want orcs to win a pitched battle, don't make them chippendale orcs and the humans armoured like 14th century knights.Besides what Mister_M said, Shadow over Meridia also has a domme protagonist, although she is not a very harsh domme and the game is lezdom-only. (and AI art, so it's not for everyone even though I really like it
As for most Americans not understanding how feudal vassalage actually worked, meh, I guess add that to the garagantuan pile of historical facts they (and by extension most fantasy universes) get wrong! (alongside all fantasy towns having stupidly-broad streets, the architecture being bleak and colourless af when it should be anything but, women always wielding bows, when in actuality bows, especially longbows, require the most muscle mass and stregth to use properly and therefore real historical female warriors were least likely to be archers and more likely to wield crossbows or even two-handed swords etc)
I think I just got used to fantasy universes missing a lot of the nuance of how actual historical societies worked, (it's also rare that you even see mercantilistic city-states run by plutarchic "Signorias" like Genoa, Florence, Venice etc, or other republics/trading city-states like Novgorod or north German cities in the Hanseatic league - it's almost always monarchies, and never complicated semi-elective monarchies with convoluted politics like what the Holy Roman Empire had, but always just boring agnatic primogeniture ones where power is so centralised in the hands of the king they look more like 18th century absolute monarchies than any medieval state...
Also fun that you mention "Jus Prime Noctis" in particular as a myth, as I think I remember reading in Engels's "Origins of the family, Private Property and the State" that he believed the custom was practiced in Aragon (Catholic kingdom in northern Spain that included the Basque country) and in a couple other places with Celtic heritage. I'm not sure whether Engels' claim was based on bogus sources, (he was writing in the 19th century after all, and I think he gave some contemporary German historian as his source for that claim, so he might've just been wrong) or whether he was right but this practice (of the liege lord sleeping with the wife of any of his vassal peasants before they did) was only a localized phenomenon in some regions before the 1500s. (like Aragon) This I genuinely don't know, but if you want I'll search for, give you the specific quote by Engels, and you can tell me whether he was full of bullshit on this one or not!
Tbf I'm not that much of a medievalist myself (in fact I sorta disllike the middle ages in Europe as a time of religious dogmatism, sectarianism, censorship, infighting, horrible sanitation and hygiene standards - just read about the "Erfurt Latrinensturz" if you haven't yet, as it's honestly hillarious -, and in general very little scientific and artistic progress. I guess you'd probably expect this from an atheistic communist like myself, but yeah, I pretty much prefer any historical setting, from ancient times to the European renaissance or Enlightenment, over the middle ages) and I would like it if fantasy universes took more creative license and depicted more unique societies that do not necessarily copy the mold of European feudalism. I'd like it if more fantasy books/series/RPGs or what have you took more inspiration from historical systems other than feudalism, such as Imperial China's, Golden Age Islam with its iqta system, (which wasn't inheritance-based nor included serfdom) or even maybe from how Mesoamerican or South East Asian buddhist empires (like the Khmer or Majapahit) worked.
Alas, as you pointed out, many fantasy games and YA novels (don't get me started on YA novels as I hate them and their simplistic-ass cookie cutter liberal plots with a passion
Anyway, have a great weekend and feel free to DM me if you want to exchange more ideas about fantasy, vassalage, history or whatever, as I just realized I ranted for over 90% of this message on topics unrelated to femdom, so I'll stop here!
Thanks, I'll keep in mind that Inheritance has a female MC now. Is it still grindy?
Thanks for the suggestion, didn't know this game. So the domme is a second main protagonist?Have you tried The Renaissance? It has 2 separate story lines, one with a male MC sub and another with a female MC Domme. It's very early in development but is already one of my favorites and the new update should be on F95 "soon"
https://thef95zone.info/threads/the-renaissance-v0-1-miron-hfg.170707/
Big thanks for the suggestions! Oh yeah, actually played most of those. I'll sure try Uni, I thought it was mostly femsub. I stopped playing Luna's Fall From Grace cause of the forced submission segments.
Unfortunately I don't know. I don't really play the games with female protagonists, and I dropped Inheritance very long time ago, cause of a rather maledommy setup.
For the record, Basque Country has never actually been a part of the Kingdom of Aragon. South-Western Basque Country has been annexed by Castile-Léon around 1200. While Ferdinand II of Aragon claimed the crown of the predominantly Basque Kingdom of Navarre through his second marriage to Germaine of Foix, he was already the de-facto ruler of Castile at the time (through his first marriage to Isabella I of Castile) and the Crown of Navarre remained separate from the Crown of Aragon, though Upper Navarre would eventually end up in a personal union with both Castile and Aragon, being ultimately integrated into the Kingdom of Spain.
On the Historical musings segment:
Oh the woes of playing femdom games as a dominant woman! In a way I think it's really sad that 90% of the femdom games we know and love are mainly targeted at us male subs.
(even a game like KG that is actually made by a dominant woman!) I mean, come on, wouldn't the femdom thing to do be for us to mostly make games for dominant women??? So much for fetishistic ideological consistency! Unfortunately yes. I can vouch for the Renaissance being a good game, especially if you enjoyed Moving Down or Vicious Circle femdom edition by the same dev, (he goes into some pretty dark themes in Moving Down, in some ways darker than Darktoz games, just to let you know in advance if you haven't tried Miron HFG games before) but the domme is the second main protagonist. However, I think she gets almost as much screentime as the male MC, and their separate narrative arks do not intersect at all thus far, so if you only want to see her part of the plot I guess you could technically just skip through his content.
Moving Down, a very long complete game by the same dev, also has both a male sub and a domme as protagonists, and it takes place in the same universe, (the Renaissance is kind of a sequel to it, and there are recurring characters from Moving Down that show up in it) so you might want to also try that one either before or after the Renaissance.
The current version of Renaissance has no actual femdom content to speak of (except for the brief Megan/Robert cunnilingus scene, perhaps). In fact, most NSFW scenes so far are pretty much maledom. However, knowing this is a sequel to Vicious Circle and Moving Down, I would certainly expect a great deal of femdom content in the future updates.
Thanks for the correction and sorry for the mistake! It seems that hours of playing Crusader Kings II and III doth not make a good replacement for studying actual history!
It does - the public version just got upgraded (I got the update early as I'm a patreon at the moment), and there are at least 2 (I'd actually say 3, even though one of them is short) femdom scenes on the female MC path with Oscar! (although there's certainly far more of that in Moving Down and Vicious circle...) Have you tried 0.1 yet? Based on your comment I think you've only played 0.05
Again, for the record, the Basques are an ethnolinguistic group very distinct from the Celts. The Basques are the descendants pre-Indo-European inhabitants of Iberia, whose ancestors have been living there long before the Celts arrived.
Yep, I've only played 0.05. But I will probably give it a little more time... MironY is a great dev and I love his other works, but The Renaissance still seems to be in the very early stage of development. I'm sure it will be another masterpiece eventually, though I felt somewhat uncomfortable being force-fed graphical maledom content.
Unpopular opinion but Miron's games are not really femdom. I just find myself sorry for the poor idiot MC and can't enjoy them.The Renaissance has been updated on F95
The male sub MC path is progressing at a slow burn, but the female Domme MC path is getting interesting.
https://thef95zone.info/threads/the-renaissance-v0-1-miron-hfg.170707/
Can't say I liked that myself either, and there is another maledom scene with Lana in 0.1 too. In a way I like the fact that this protagonist is far less likable and therefore far less pitiable than the ones in Miron's other games (in fact here are my thoughts after I first played 0.05)
, but I agree it is a bit furstrating that there is no way to avoid the maledom scenes. They are somewhat needed for world and narrative-building, but I guess it'd be nice if he included a toggle to be able to automatically skip those scenes.
On the brighter side I don't think we'll have to wait much longer till the femdom starts dropping on the male MC's ego like a cement truck, so if you give it a couple updates till you play it again it might be more satisfying then!I also am sorry for the MC in Moving Down and Vicious Circle, and they're quite dark and hardcore femdom games, so they certainly aren't for everyone, but I can assure you they fall under Aseratrix's very specific definition of femdom (the author of this list) and under pretty much any objective definition of it. They are femdom, but it's perfectly understandable if they're not your cup of tea!
To each their own, I guess. Personally, I have enjoyed both Vicious Circle and Moving Down very much, even though those games may not be everyone's cup of tea. Yes, the plot is kind of dark and brutal, often going into non-con territory, which, I would imagine, might make many people uncomfortable. But it still fits the definition of “female domination”.
I'm all for painting the MC as an unlikable misogynist in the dialogs, but I would rather opt out of seeing the actual renders of NSFW maledom scenes.
Kinda fun how close both of our replies to mytest111 were, even though I made that edit to my post almost simutaneously to your post that answered him...
Great minds think alikeKinda fun how close both of our replies to mytest111 were, even though I made that edit to my post almost simutaneously to your post that answered him...
I agree with this but not because the MC is an unlucky sap or an idiot. While it can kind of suck to feel like you can't relate to a MC in a game, you can still have women dominate weak men and do so quite cruelly. It's non-reciprocal and excessively cruel femdom, as opposed to consensual gentle femdom, but that's still technically femdom. A lot of sub men would also be into RPing as a submissive protagonist or would enjoy seeing women absolutely destroy a man(men).
