I found the gender neutral option to be incredibly refreshing, particularly when a fair amount of my friends are transgender & it’s unnecessarily difficult to navigate the real world. If video games are about escapism, this enlightened handling of gender is quite the respite. I can’t think of a single other video game to offer such a solution, despite how customizable many of them seem in other ways. How many iterations of Sims go by without a single thought towards complex gender. Afterall, Sims is a game where you can be polyamorous and bisexual (which Fallen London also offers as options…assuming you never get married), i’d love to see more games handle gender as elegantly as Fallen London does.
Well in Fallen London, it pays to be as flexible as a Rubbery Man’s tentacles.