Short, voted descriptions for community tags. Hover a tag on a thread to see the official text.
gender bender — A character’s perceived gender is altered.
Gender Bending — This game involves transgender, transvestite characters, characters who actively transgresses, or "bends," expected gender roles, and/or situations about them as an important part of the story.
gender change — A character’s sex or gender changes.
Gender Swap — Sexual content/relationship with a character who undergoes a gender transformation, often by magical means, or when the player undergoes a similar process
Genderbent Sex — This tag is intended to be used in games featuring characters who have sexual intercourse scenes while not in their original sex. This usually happens after a character is transformed through magical, high-tec or mundane medical means from male into female or vice versa. For the tag to apply, the transformation must be complete.
Genetic Research — Highly advanced research into genetics, DNR and/or clonning is displayed in the game.
Genie Hero — Djinns, or Jinn, are supernatural creatures from Middle-East lore. In Mideast fairytales, they are powerful spirits who have been enslaved and bound to a magical item inside of which some can be trapped. They can chose to be invisible or take various forms, including plants, animals, items, which then can make anthropomorphic.
Genital Piercing — This visual novel features at least one character with a genital piercing or genital jewellery. Genital piercing is a form of body piercing. It involves piercing a part of the genitalia, thus creating a suitable place for wearing different types of jewellery. Nevertheless, the term may also be used pars pro toto to indicate all body piercings in the area of anus, perineum, genitals and mons.
genius — Character personality or condition: genius.
Genocide — This visual novel contains references to or scenes of murder targeted at a specific ethnic or ideological group.
Genre Savvy Protagonist — Protagonist is genre savvy, meaning he compares his situation to that of a movie/book/video game/visual novel hero and draws conclusions from that.
Genre Shift — This game suddenly switches into a wildly different genre later on in the story. For example, it might start as a school comedy then later turns into a space opera or mecha or apocalyptic sci fi, etc., you get the idea. Games of this type are usually misleadingly advertised. More info on genre shift.
Genshin Impact — These games feature characters from the franchise Genshin Impact.
Gentle Protagonist — The protagonist of this story is gentle, and usually treats other people with care, politeness, and taking their feelings into account. He or she values more the well being of his or her partner than his or her own, and won't make any advances unless it's consensual.
Giant Spider — Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. Please use this tag only for monsters and not for existing species of spiders.
Girl x Girl Romance — This game contains romance between girls. Please note that this does not necessarily mean that there are any sexual scenes, for that use the Lesbian Sex tag.
Girl x Girl Romance Only — This game focuses on girl/girl relationships, with a female protagonist and only female heroines to pursue.
Girls' Frontline — This visual novel is set in the same universe, or features characters from Girls' Frontline.