Video Game Box Art

The Border House Blog (a fantastic gaming blog) is encouraging people to restart a meme from a little while ago. I didn’t really have a venue to post for it then, so it’s exciting to get to contribute now! This resurrected meme asks female gamers what game covers they’d seen that made them think “I wanna play that!” rather than the plethora of box art that seems to say “Beware! No respect for anyone but white dudes here!”

Game Covers Women Want to See

Yudhishthira’s Dice asks:
Ladies, what RPG covers (or interiors) have you seen that involve a woman in the art that make you say, “I want to play that” or, just as good “I want to play her.” Or that make you feel like it is a game you could like, or be included in by a group of guys you’d never met and whose maturity you didn’t necessarily know?
Rules of the meme, by :tekanji
1.Copy the text of the original challenge from Yudhishthira’s Dice and give a proper link attribution.
2.Copy these rules exactly (including any links).
3.Find images of game covers (interiors are okay, too) that make you want to play the game. Any kind of game — video game, card game, tabletop RPG, etc — is fine. Post them and include a short (or long) explanation on why the image makes/made you want to play the game.
4.The original challenge is about finding out what women think about how game art is marketed and therefore it is targeted at women. I’d like to keep it that way, please.
5.You can tag as many or as few people as you want. You do not need to be tagged to participate in the meme.
6.When you make your post, please post the link on this thread so we can all see what others have said.



One of the first games I remember wanting to play from the box art alone is American McGee’s Alice I love all things Alice, so the idea of Alice taking up the Vorpal Blade (because what else are you going to call something sharp and stabbity in an Alice game?!) and going to town on some of the weird stuff in Wonderland was pretty cool! Showing her with the bloodstained apron and the nearly skeletal Cheshire Cat was a pretty clear indicator that All Was Not Well in Wonderland. I was in early high school when I first saw this, so getting to play a young woman was sweet as well.




More recently Spore caught my eye. I’m a sucker for odd critters and games where I get to build and create things. That’s really all it took to get me interested in this one.















Mount and Blade: Warband
Yeah, I know it's anexpansion to an exsisting game, but what’s not to love about this? Badass woman (in realistic armor that actually covers the important parts!) on a horse looking like she’s about to badass all up in your face? Yeah, sign me up for that.