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Wandersong! You play as a Bard who has to save the world through music and singing. Minimal combat and absolutely wonderful storyline that will make you cry tears of joy.
A bit of a wilder rec would be Cassette Beasts, which is basically Pokémon but better and has really nice optional romances. Very combat focused tho.
Cassette Beasts is great. So great I got the OST on both Vinyl... And cassette tape, of course 😆.
Never tried Wandersong, gonna have to add it to my playlist.
Oh, also the Life is Strange games are great.
I enjoyed the first one very much.
The latest one is one of the worst, most awkward, uninspired, terribly written, bullshit games I’ve ever seen, though. It’s absolutely hilarious.
Oh yes, definitely avoid the last one, Double Exposure.
But Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, by the same dev as the first Life is Strange is supposed to be decent. But I want to wait until all episodes are available before I play that.
I've heard a lot of good things about VA-11 Hall-A. Haven't played it myself, but it looks like you play as a bartender in a cyberpunk-esque world and talk to the partons in your bar to get to know what's going on in both the world and their personal lives
In the same kind of game you got "Coffee Talk" (and its sequel), which works way better with a controller than VA-11 Hall-A does.
Unfortunately the story author died, which is a shame.
The first life is strange game. I suppose there is technically a violent part but it's not a game based on violence.
I already knew the struggles that women have to endure that most men don't. But playing this game really put that into perspective, with how immersed I became. By the end of the game, I felt emotionally wreck.
Very much a "girly" game, just in an entirely different sense.
Exactly this. Life is strange will make you feel like a teenage girl solving a mystery. Its awesome.
And the best part is that this game is good no matter what. Older straight white dude? No problem. Still fun and interesting. It shows how well done it was.
Agreed, I played it the first time when I was 26, and I'm a straight Swiss and German man. Freaking love playing as Max. I played it two more times after that, and also the Chloe focused prequel.
Well there’s lot of shovelware girly games out there. Your best bet would be cozy games https://cozygamereviews.com/cozy-games-on-steam/ maybe try a dating sim or two? The KFC Dating sim https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121910/I_Love_You_Colonel_Sanders_A_Finger_Lickin_Good_Dating_Simulator/ is free and one my absolute favorites. Granted, it’s stupid, it’s cheesy, it’s anime, it’s taking itself a little bit too serious, but I like it. One of my friends recently loved house flipper 2 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1190970/House_Flipper_2/ a game where you clean houses, sell them, later even get to design your own houses. Also one of my new favorite cozy feel good games is little kitty big city https://store.steampowered.com/app/1177980/Little_Kitty_Big_City/ I just love the writing and the atmosphere of this game! Oh, and the Style-Boutique game series on the Nintendo 3 DS! If you know a tech savvy person who can Mod a 2DS or 3DS you can get the console for cheap and put the game on there from the internet. My wife and one of my coworkers loved these games!
[I totally want to start a thread about how Red Dead Redemption (GTA but it’s the wild wild west-era with cowboys) has the best horse riding experience in any game until now and how a horse riding game with the mechanics would be amazing, but I’ll just plant this seed here and hope for some game-dev to see it.]
Can second Little Kitty, Big City, but would recommend getting it on sale. There's not a whole of content or replayability for the regular price, imo.
Check out Windstorm! It’s an upcoming game that is basically what you describe, just set in Mongolia.
A lot of !cozygames@lemmy.world and !lifesimulation@lemmy.world games would fit. !otomegames@ani.social are romance visual novels aimed at women interested in men and a lot would fit too.
!infinitynikki@discuss.tchncs.de is an open world dressup game very marketed at women and has that soft pink color scheme, warning for being a F2P gacha game although you can progress without ever spending money. I usually avoid gacha but gameplay is legitimately good and "good gameplay," "high budget," and "for women" is a combination this game hits that I do not see too often in video games. (Other commenter is right there is a lot of girly shovelware.) There is combat, but it's definitely not the main focus. Very soft and pink. You might also like Beglitched (DEFINITELY pink and soft), and Style Savvy for Nintendo DS. I have been meaning to play both of those so I can't offer perspective on if they fill the romance ask, though Beglitched has combat. You might also enjoy Slime Rancher, also lots of pink and soft. Although it's also not combat-free it's not the main point either. Cattails was fun, kind of like Stardew but with cats instead, although as with Stardew combat does exist (though if I recall correctly it's optional and not the main focus).
Now probably my recommendation least like what you are asking for: I love the Touhou Project series. Don't let the male-dominated fandom and the tons of sexualized art of the characters fool you, the games don't sexualize the characters at all—I would feel very comfortable showing them to a 5 year old or Grandma. It is basically a bunch of superpowered women from Japanese mythology/folklore shooting very pretty lasers at each other. The focus is actually combat here, but I figured I'd give it a mention. Not specifically aimed at women but it's not not aimed at us either. Lovely music too.
Source: am girly girl who also plays video games
Peggle! It's a very fun and unique brickbreaker with lots of silly and cute characters, art, and music.
Not super girly/pink overall, but can be enjoyed by pretty much anyone.
Check out Flower by ThatGameCompany
Well, all of their game would fit to be honest 😆. Journey, Flow, even Sky if you are into cute social MMOish game.
Lovers in a dangerous spacetime? It's pink I guess.
Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
Very fun and puzzly and you get to play as Zelda this time.
Already mentioned.
Not yet mentioned (at least that I saw)
Potionomics
Monster Prom
Emily is Away
Potionomics!
Fantastic story, voice acting and mechanics. It's such an odd mix of deck building, crafting and VN romance. Yet it delivered on all fronts with a solid character writing that kept surprising me.
Don’t know if this fits the bill for you or not but my partner occasionally falls into the clutches of the Sims on their laptop. They’ve customized their installation with lots of outfit + hairstyle mods and expansions, so you kinda get to make it your own
I'll add Spiritfarer. It's not "pink" per se, but it's a much more "happy feelings" game. It's about taking lost sould and ferrying them on your ship, talking to them about their lives and feelings, and you can give them hugs of course.
Throwing in a recommendation for Tiny Glade. Not so much a game as a sandbox where you make small cottages, towns, or castles. Lots of options in photo mode for showing off your creations.
A recent one is Wanderstop, loved the vibes on that one. If you want to read more I wrote up some demo impressions here: https://lemmy.world/post/26452334
Hello Kitty Adventure Island is the game my friends and I use when we want something that isn't a shooter
Highly recommend Haven. Has some combat but it's very minimal and it's mostly slice of life focused on the romance of a pair of runaways.
Not really "pink", and lacks romance, but very pleasant: Dave the Diver. Cozy-ish game with nifty characters. Only thing would be I don't know if you meant "no/minimal combat" because you don't want the mechanics or the vibes. Dave has not particularly challenging combat mechanics, and paw patrol levels of violence levels (although you are catching and eating fish).
If you like park builders, Zoo Tycoon is cozy as hell. Beware the DLC trap though. You can get the base game with a lot of meat pretty cheap, but the DLCs are like $10+ each and not really a good value IMO. But the game has a great vibe with some really neat mechanics that try and imitate real conservation efforts.
What would check the boxes through a "Hot Topic" lens is Promise Mascot Agency. Surprisingly wholesome, completely off the wall, combat is all card/deck builder based... I... it's a hard one to describe.
Doughnut county checks all the boxes but is rather short. Katamari if you haven't done it.
I hear good things about, but have not played: Naiad, Tempopo.
Gourdlets.
Easy recommends if you liked Stardew Valley.
Weird recommends would be My time at Portia/Sandrock. They absolutely have combat, but have romance systems and a cuter aesthetic. Even the enemies are derpy/cute.
My partner’s been playing Fields of Mistria and the art direction looks like it’s Game Boy Advanced era which is kinda neat.
She’s always complaining about forgetting to put the chickens away xD
Doki Doki Literature Club
Great game, but definitely pay attention to the warnings the game gives the player, not only in the game itself but also on its Steam/download page.
Again, amazing game. But not a game for recommendation without a warning of its extremely heavy and violent content.
You could try Animal Well. Dark yet pastel-oriented colorschemes. Minimal "combat" but more of a puzzle and exploration style of gameplay. More mysterious than scary. Mild peril. Not romantic in the slightest, but very original.
I feel like Lost Records: Bloom & Rage that came out recently might be a candidate? I haven't played it myself because I don't think I'm the target audience but it seems like sort of what you're looking for?
Flock is an underplayed cozy game with no combat. You are a bird and you find other birds, sometimes not birds, to join your flock and fly around. It's completely chill and enjoys a really soft color palette (pink for sure but also purples, pale orange skies, blues, etc.)