undertale

ddlc

katawa shoujo

little misfortune

hellblade: senua's sacrifice

parasite eve

depending on "old" but horizon zero dawn

like a dragon 5 (Haruka is a protag)

I feel like no one has mentioned Urban Chaos till now. I friggin loved that game! The hacks too!

Actually not from older generations, but Tacoma and Deliver Us The Moon are a few years old and both are short, sweet space-related narrative games with a female protagonist.

A bit late to the thread, but I just wanted to say Beyond Two Souls recently had its 10 year anniversary, if that counts as old.

Siberia 100%.

Oni Parasite Eve X-Blades

• Monster World IV
• Twinkle Tail
• If Tomb Raider is old enough for you
• Contra
• Touho
• another game I played (forgot the name, will edit later)
• most games where you could choose between 2 or more playable characters

Now that I think of it, the only not oversexualised female protagonists in retro games (I can think of rn) are from japanese titles. The USSR didn't import video games and Europe and the US were just too conservative ig.