SHOTACORE GAMES
Games where you play as a little boy
Last updated: 2022-12-17
"Regular" shota games:
You play as a little boy during most or all of the game
- A Boy and His Blob
- Alex Kidd
- Alice Mare
- Animal Crossing
- Ape Escape
- Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale
- Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg
- Boku no Natsuyasumi
- Bramble: the Mountain King
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
- Chiki Chiki Boys (Arcade)
- Coca-Cola Kid
- Commander Keen
- Contact
- Devil Children (SMT spin-off)
- Disgaea (1, 3, 6 and D2)
- Drawn to Life
- Elebits: the Adventures of Kai and Zero
- End Roll
- Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
- FNaF: Security Breach
- Fragile Dreams
- Ghoulboy
- GiFTPiA
- Graffiti Kingdom
- Hearth of Darkness
- ICO
- Inazuma Eleven
- Kid Dracula
- Kid Icarus
- Life is Strange 2
- Little King's Story
- Little Nightmares II
- Marvelous: Mōhitotsu no Takarajima
- Megaman
- Monster Hunter Stories
- MOTHER/Earthbound
- Ni no Kuni I & II
- Okage: Shadow King
- OMORI
- Pokémon (most of them)
- Professor Layton
- Psychonauts
- Quest 64
- Quest: Brian's Journey
- Scribblenauts
- Splatoon
- The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit (free prequel to LiS 2)
- The Frog For Whom the Bell Tolls (the game where Prince Sablé, the assist trophy in smash that turns into a frog and a snake, comes from)
- The Last Guardian
- Tails Adventure
- Vexx
- Wonder Boy
- Wonder Project J
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2
- Yo-Kai Watch
- Zack and Wiki
- Zelda (separate by game?)
Kemoshota games:
Games where the protagonist is a young anthropomorphic male (known as furry or kemono)
- Fuga: Melodies of Steel
- Klonoa
- Oneshot
Licensed games:
Games based on an existing franchise of anime, comics, cartoons, etc.
- Astro Boy
- Blue Dragon
- Dragon Ball Advance Adventure
- Little Nemo (there are two different licensed games with the same name)
- Zatch Bell!
Shota Lite
Games where shotas are playable but not the protagonists
- Blazblue [Carl Clover]
- Daemon Bride [Noah]
- Fatal fury (Real Bout Fatal Fury, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special: Dominated Mind) [Jin Chonshu, Jin Chonrei]
- Garou: Mark of the wolves [Hokutomaru]
- Guilty Gear (starting from XX) [Bridget]
- Marvel vs Capcon (1 and 2) [Megaman]
- Persona 4 Arena [Noah]
- Power instinct (2, Gogetsuji Legends, Matrimelee, Goketsuji Ichizoku Senzo Kuyou) [Kintaro, Hikaru, Takumi]
- Spectral vs generation [Erile]
- Samurai Deeper Kyo (licensed game) [Sasuke]
- Samurai Shodow [Shizumaru]
- The King of Fighters ('99 to 2002) [Bao]
Borderline shota
Games where the protagonist may look too old to qualify as "shota" to some people
- Azure Striker Gunvolt
- Breath of Fire IV
- DJ Boy
- Friday Night Funkin'
- Kingdom Hearts
- Star Tropics
- The World Ends with You
- Midnight Wanderers (part of the Three Wonders 3-in-1 game)