Multiple protagonists

Video game concept

Multiple protagonists is a game concept in which the story or campaign mode of the game has multiple playable characters.

234
games
48
platforms

Alternate names: Many protagonists, multiprotagonist

If a single player or multiple players can choose to control 2 or more characters that advance the story, this tag applies.

The first Multiple protagonists video game was released in 1981.

Image Works, Atari and Ocean published most of these games.

Parent group

Protagonist variants

Platforms

Windows 47
Linux 16
NES 12
MS-DOS 12
ZX Spectrum 11
Amiga 11
C64 10
Amstrad CPC 10
N64 9
Mac OS X 8
Atari 5200 7
X360 7
Atari ST 7
PS2 6
PS3 6
MSX 5
Apple II E 4
Famicom Disk System 4
Atari 400/800 3
Mega Drive 3
Xbox 3
Wii 2
SNES 2
GB 2
BeOS 2
Mac OS Classic 2
MSX2 2
Win3.1 1
3DS 1
Odyssey2 1

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