{
"post": {
"title": "Looking for a game THAT IS ONLY character customization",
"selftext": "that's it, i don't want the rest of the game, has anyone actually made a game like this? (or software thats easy to learn and use) Yes, i'm serious, but generally looking for a software or game that allows you to change outfit, model, perhaps even rpg-esq skills, and then make another character.",
"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/gamingsuggestions/comments/14ufzjx/looking_for_a_game_that_is_only_character/"
},
"comments": [
{
"body": "Barbie magical fashion",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Vouching for this one"
}
]
},
{
"body": "Have you ever tried to use [Heroforge](https://www.heroforge.com)?\n\nIt is meant to be tabletop miniature designer, but it is quite close to what you describe.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "checking it out, seems very in depth"
},
{
"body": "Thank you!! I could not remember what this site was called, and I was about to lose my mind not finding it! 😫"
},
{
"body": "Seconding this"
},
{
"body": "Absolutely fell in love with this at one point, huge recommend"
}
]
},
{
"body": "Saints Row Boss Factory"
},
{
"body": "Sims 4 trial lets you do that"
},
{
"body": "Hey that could actually be a cool idea for a game where you make heroes for hire to sell to people based on how good the character you made is.\n\nMaybe you could even get requests where you have to meet certain requirements. As you progress through the game you unlock more customization options. \n\nAs for reccomendations, it is a real game too but Soul Calibur has a great character creator that I honestly spend more time in than the actual fighting pary of the game. You can just sit there making character after character for hours.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "I'd buy that game in a heartbeat"
},
{
"body": "com3d2 is kind of like that"
}
]
},
{
"body": "Remember when you could buy the creature creator from Spore before the actual game came out? Well there's that I guess"
},
{
"body": "Newgrounds dress up games?"
},
{
"body": "You asked for a game that is only character customization OP, so here you go:\n\n\n*Koikatsu Party.*\n\nA game that basically entirely consists of character customization.\n\nYou were warned.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "There actually *is* gameplay in Koikatsu Party but, inexplicably, you have to download an external patch to play it. On purchase, the game locks out the actual game until you've downloaded the patch.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Probably to circumvent national laws in countries with strict nudity/sexual content censorship laws instead of having to deploy two separate versions. Just don't deploy the patch in countries where it is a no-no.\n\nLots of eroge do that on Steam. However, most of them just censor the action with stickers and the like and the patch just removes the censorship."
}
]
},
{
"body": "Honey Select by the same developer also exists for an aesthetic that's less anime. It has some pretty robust scene creation/posing tools as well."
}
]
},
{
"body": "The Style Savvy games, though you'll have to emulate them. Also any number of phone in app purchase games. Nikki comes to mind, so does Time Princess."
},
{
"body": "I don’t know a game that is just this, but you could do this with the Sims games creating sims/households \n\nThere are a lot of mods for it as well",
"replies": [
{
"body": "The Sims 1 released the character creator as standalone too, as kinda a demo.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "I am pretty sure there was one for sims 4 before it was released too"
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "The Sims 4. Yeah technically that's not the whole game, but it's easy to spend hours and hours just on Create A Sim. And there are tons of custom assets for it."
},
{
"body": "MetaHuman?",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Idk why no one else has said this. It’s perfect",
"replies": [
{
"body": "cause theres barely any outfit",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Yeah, that’s annoying but it’s one of the most in depth people creators. It’s not for clothing. It’s for making hyper realistic human models"
}
]
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "Well, they're not games exactly but they are software/websites:\n\n1. Heromachine used to let you make characters in 2D comic book style. No idea if it is still around.\n2. HeroForge lets you design your own miniature figures. Lots of customization options."
},
{
"body": "Mii channel on the wii"
},
{
"body": "The Saints Row demos are free and do this."
},
{
"body": "Most wrestling games have very deep create a wrestler modes, literally hours of time for a single wrestler."
},
{
"body": "Metahuman. It’s like this unreal thing that allows you to create almost life like people and customize them to your heart’s content"
},
{
"body": "Black Desert Online"
},
{
"body": "WWE 2K22/23. I only semi jest with these titles. CAWs (create a wrestler) are not amazing but can have some fun creating loads of characters then upload them for others to use"
},
{
"body": "There’s probably a decent amount of mobile games like that"
},
{
"body": "The Sims 4, specially if you put mods on it, level of customization of that game is ridiculous when using mods, you can create pretty much anything..."
},
{
"body": "Learn how to use blender and make your characters and poses and stuff, I used to play the sims when I was young, I enjoyed the house designing aspect of the game, then I studied architecture and learned the programs to model houses and it was the best decision I ever made, my job literally feels like I’m playing a game."
},
{
"body": "I pretty much use soul caliber XI as a character creation game and it is super fun",
"replies": [
{
"body": "That’s what i did with Soul Caliber IV, as a kid."
}
]
},
{
"body": "Just out of interest: Why not just make characters in existing RPG or Sim type games, and then never proceed to the main game?",
"replies": [
{
"body": "waste of hard drive space for the extra content, but also feels kinda wasteful if spending money on the actual game portion of it but never playing; yeah always have the option to start the game but i just wanna make a character"
}
]
},
{
"body": "More of a niche interest, but [Innawoods is a character creation \"game\".](https://innawoods.net/)",
"replies": [
{
"body": "still cool as fck, just checked it out"
},
{
"body": "YES I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS MY WHOLE LIFE THANK YOU"
},
{
"body": "this is amazing thank you"
}
]
},
{
"body": "Crusader Kings 3, the only counterpart is you cannot change the clothes but the game has a deep DNA system, you can modify everything in your character from physical appearance to personality, there are like 70 or so traits you can use and the body editor is one of the best imo. The rest of the game is also worth playing if you are in the mood to go past the character creator some day.\n\nEdit: There's a sub where people share his creations and some people request to create some irl people in game so if you get bored you can still get in the sub and complete some requests from people. The name of the sub is something like r/ck3dna or something like that I cannot remember now but if you ask in CK3 sub someone will know for sure."
},
{
"body": "Dress Up Barbie?"
},
{
"body": "Warframe, the end game is exactly what you are looking for."
},
{
"body": "The Sims 4"
},
{
"body": "Not quite sure if there are any. But, if you have an Xbox, perhaps you could try Volleyball Tournament in Paradise. It has a customization section where you can change outfits, mix and match top and bottoms, change the color of pretty much everything, or even set a color combination of your own. It has a 1 week trial so nothing to lose."
},
{
"body": "Closest I know is something like SoulCalibur character creation. I bought SC6 specifically because of the character creation and that’s pretty much all I do in the game."
},
{
"body": "Maybe Spore? But there you create your own creatures which can evolve."
},
{
"body": "Dungeons and Dragons"
},
{
"body": "Phantasy Star Online New Genesis (a hell of a name)\n\nIt's an open world game with various quests and such to do, but that's mostly going to be for getting money.\n\nThe character customization system is incredibly detailed. Accessories can be put almost anywhere, and then change their direction, size, color. The only thing is you need to get the accessories, so you'll need to farm gold or spend real money.\n\nBut I spent hours on hours perfecting my character designs, and I've seen some truly impressive stuff online.\n\nI stopped playing a while ago, but I saw they added home bases or something in the latest update, so I guess you can decorate your house too"
},
{
"body": "Mod Skyrim, roleplay as smith / enchanter.\n\nAlternatively guild war 2 has so much character customization and every outfit can be dyed I think it could be hard to beat the sheer variety of outfits you can potentially create with that system."
},
{
"body": "Sims 3 & 4"
},
{
"body": "How has noone mentioned BDO? Not what you're looking for but definitely a very detailed character creator.\nOr play any japanese RPG really 😅",
"replies": [
{
"body": "whats the full name ?",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Black Desert Online"
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "Will definitely be checking back in. My fiance let's me customize all his characters but I'd love to just be able to do it over and over. I can tell you that you definitely should not play Skyrim for this unless you enjoy creating characters with kind of a weird vibe.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "i love skyrim, but man the character creation is lacking lmao. but the mods after downloading for more styles is awesome, spent 100+ hours soley on that lol"
}
]
},
{
"body": "fuse! its literally just a platform to make 3d characters to use in animation/games etc. its on steam.\n\nI believe its main drawback is you can’t export the characters without paying but if all you want is to make them then that shouldnt be a problem\n\nedit: also, saints row boss factory. also just a character creator, and some of the characters people have copied on there look pretty damn good so it seems like it has a lot of options, and Im pretty sure it’s free"
},
{
"body": "The demo to the newer saints row game was literally just this. I believe it was called like boss creator or some shit?"
},
{
"body": "Love Nikki. The lore is surprisingly dark for a dress up game.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "dude yes, i remember playing this for a while, forgot the name of the app cuz i deleted it for space"
},
{
"body": "Love Nikki costs too much money. When I played it felt like it charged for every little thing."
},
{
"body": "I've spent so much time on Love Nikki but it takes me forever to move onto another level sometimes because the suits cost a lot of materials that you can only get a few times a day."
}
]
},
{
"body": "The princess maker genre."
},
{
"body": "Sims with lots of mods n cc can be fun to play like this"
},
{
"body": "Board game but Roll Player fits your criteria. The premise of the game is to roll the best stats, background, and class for a DnD character. Obviously a little more to it than just that, but the entire game is devoted to making a character."
},
{
"body": "APB Reloaded is all about awesome character customization and vehicle customization (even better than Saints Row or Star Trek Online), and mediocre boring pvp."
},
{
"body": "has anyone mentioned everskies already? its pixel art but like really good quality pixel art. the main thing is just designing ur avatar. theres no gameplay at all.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "hi sorry just realized this thread is 9 mo old lol so hopefully u have found a good game now lmao"
}
]
},
{
"body": "huh"
},
{
"body": "Zepeto is a good one. Kind of like sims in a way with the customization if you hit avatar but you can’t save any of your designs unless you but it or screenshot."
},
{
"body": "Saints Row Boss Factory. It’s not the whole game, it’s just the character creation."
},
{
"body": "So many good suggestions, bookmark comment 😄"
},
{
"body": "So fucking glad I’m not the only person who neeeeds this"
},
{
"body": "Hero Forge is amazing. Another one is MASS Builder. MASS Builder is basically a mech customizer. It is VERY detailed and really good. There is a game but you honestly don't even need to play it though you can if you want."
}
]
}