Animal protagonist

Creatures theme

The player character is a non-anthropomorphic animal.

704
games
100
platforms
Does not include humans, aliens, arthropods, worms or similar. Regardless of their scientific categorization among animals, simply due to their vastly different appearance (and colloquial distinction as different) and other features as well as allowing more easily to find games with such distinct beings.

In scientific terms, this excludes mostly animals of the Phylum Arthropoda.

Also, does NOT include anthropomorphic animals. For example: if it's a known quadruped, such as a cat, but it walks on two legs, uses its front legs/paws as if they were hands (operates a remote, handles a spatula, etc.), talks about what was on TV last night, etc.. chances are pretty high that you're looking at an anthropomorphised animal and not "just" an animal.

If in doubt whether your case is anthropomorphic or not, choose anthropomorphic as it's more likely or start a forum thread to discuss the matter (better to have it correct than maybe correct).
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Child group

Lagomorph protagonist

Games by year

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The first Animal protagonist video game was released in 1978.

Konami, Sega and THQ published most of these games.

Platforms

C64 66
Windows 54
Linux 44
ZX Spectrum 40
MS-DOS 34
Atari 400/800 28
GBC 23
VIC-20 23
GB 21
Arcade 19
PS2 19
Amstrad CPC 18
GBA 17
Atari 2600 14
Apple II E 14
Mega Drive 13
Wii 11
NES 11
MSX 11
BBC 10
PS 9
Mac OS X 9
Amiga 9
Nintendo DS 8
SNES 7
GameCube 7
C16/Plus4 6
Atari ST 6
Game Gear 6
TI99 6

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