Due to the character limit in the OP and time limit on editing posts, I attached a document in a zip file that has the most up-to-date version of the list.
Document Last Updated: 3/12/2024
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Taking inspiration from the TTRPG Guide to Woke Companies list, I decided to compile a list of video games that have wokeness in them in case you want to save some of your hard-earned money.
While people have their own definitions of what woke means (especially the finer details), for the sake of this thread, it will be referring to SJW and identity politics. Examples include, but is not limited to:
Stated Pronouns - either in character creation, a character stating which pronouns they prefer, or otherwise listed in the game.
Gender Identity - anything with transgender and non-binarys. Referring to male and females as "Type A and Type B" also qualifies.
Critical Race Theory
Diversity when it's forced or doesn't make sense.
The score will be defined as: None - Has no woke elements or the game/developer is anti-woke. Mild - Elements are easily ignorable as long as you're not too traditional/conservative or unless you're actively looking for it. At the lower end of the scale, it can be debatable. Medium - Might cause offense (like pronouns in character creation), but you can gloss over these elements. Heavy - Very difficult or impossible not to notice. The game's plot, mechanics, worldbuilding, and/or dialogue is heavily informed with wokeness, if not entirely revolving around it.
Everything here is WIP, so any feedback is appreciated. If you want to contribute, list the game and how it qualifies, preferably in neutral terms and with evidence. Any expansions to existing entries, corrections, or clarifications are also appreciated. If I'm quoting somebody else, text that is in bold are additional notes or corrections by me.
Developer
Game
Reasons
Score
References/Links
Pocket Pair
Palworld
Body Types replacing Male and Female. Developer said on Discord that it's because "Americans sometimes want to make very ugly characters."
Mild
Motive Studio
Dead Space (2023 Remake)
Gender-neutral bathrooms, white-to-black raceswapping, optional "content warnings" that either warns the player before an upcoming scene or hides the content despite being an M-rated game.
Medium
Ironwood Studios
Pacific Drive
26 LGBT stickers, including BLM, for customizing your car for representation. The game is set in the 1990s, making all of them except for the classic pride rainbow a case of anachronism.
Mild
Northway Games
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
An extensive list of content/trigger warnings in the main menu. The character creator starts with choosing pronouns for your MC and there's every identity topic in the actual game.
Heavy
Crystal Dynamics
Tomb Raider I–III Remastered (2024)
Added a content warning that basically accused the original developers of being racist. Censored Pierre DuPont’s Lady Luck bomber jacket of a topless woman with a red bikini and (debatably) a brick pattern looking like a Swastika despite claiming to leaving the content unaltered.
Medium
Bethesda
Starfield
Body Types replacing Male and Female and pronouns in character creation.
Medium
KIRA LLC
Lunacid
Added pronouns in character creation in the 1.0 update. Developer responded to the backlash by saying he added them out of spite for the Starfield pronoun controversy to piss people off and basically goes "I'm sorry I hurt your feelings."
In this case, the new game's lore explains how a bunch of Earth Dragons came from outer space and colonized Planet Avalice, enslaving the native Water Dragon populace in the process. Eventually, the Water Dragons got fed up with their poor treatment, and rebelled against the Earth Dragons in an all-out war. However, the Earth Dragons ended up victorious, and now Water Dragons are basically non-existent. This is a pretty blatant parallel to how European settlers colonized the American continent, and it only gets more painfully blatant from there.
See, the new villain is a Water Dragon from eons ago, and is now planning to exact revenge against the current crop of Earth Dragons. The whole ordeal is presented as if the surviving descendants are just as guilty for what their ancestors did. There's a huge scene about half-way where the Magister is revealed to be an Earth Dragon, and is confronted by the villains, and they make a big deal about how he must "pay" for his "crimes" that happened long ago. To top it off, it's all presented as if the villains actually have a valid point, and even Lilac gets into an argument with the Magister after they rescue him from that predicament.
So basically, the plot of the game could be summarized as the furry equivalent of White Guilt. But if you enjoyed the first game, and don't let that retardation bother you, then it's still a pretty decent game overall.
Also, there's these messages by an Earth Dragon who previously saw Water Dragons as "primitive savages," and how Earth Dragons brought them the gift of technology and medicine. Then, after being held hostage by them, she learned to love them as people, and winds up falling in lesbians with the game's primary villain, Merga.
So yeah, the game undoubtedly features colonization and racism as its central theme, with a small dose of LGBT in there for good measure, made by a tranny who lives in New York. It specifically tries to parallel its narrative towards how the United States rose as a nation, down to the fact that the Earth Dragons even hold an anniversary of when they came to Avalice, which is not unlike how Americans celebrate Independence Day. The protagonists eventually learn by reading books written by Water Dragons, as opposed to those written by Earth Dragons, that Merga is "justified" in her anger. Anger which she then uses to justify using a planet-destroying doomsday device against people who had nothing to do with the events she's angry about.
...I'm sorry, am I meant to feel sorry for the villain?
Updates gradually replaced gender with "physical frame, ""clothing preference," and gender-neutral pregnancy options, added pronouns and custom pronouns, top surgery scars and binders for teenagers and older, and more. Developers has stated that they refuse to consider options to disable this type of content.
I'd probably add Warframe to the "mild" category since that has both trans representation (Ticker, an NPC) and nonbinary representation (Xaku), but they're fairly minor nitpicks. Just... don't go to region chat for your own sanity.
It does have pride month-related stuff available exclusively during June, but they're just color palettes for customization or user avatars. The only egregious thing here was "replacing" the palette based on the original pride flag with the dindu troon flag (players who bought the original palette got to keep it), and a user avatar with that flag.
Played A LOT of Vampire Survivors, and the game is largely un-woke (attractive, if heavily pixelated, female characters, tons of ugly classic Castlevania-esque monsters for you to slaughter en-masse, etc.). Jim Sterling contribution is writing the monster compendium (the Bestiary), which is mostly his usual fart-huffing snark but not particularly "woke".
The only instance of wokery I've seen is the description for one of the unlockable characters, Giovanna Grana, which is clearly a barely-veiled reference to being a tranny:
"Giovanna resented being assigned Mage at birth, and proudly took up the way of the broom and pointed hat. Her sisters, who claim they want to “protect witches’ spaces,” have sworn to oppose her and all who fight by her side. Maybe one day they’ll accept that anybody can be a Sassy Witch if they truly want to be."
I'll just chalk this one up to the Italian developer creating a sexy witch character, and then letting Jim Sterling write whatever he wanted for her.
Starsector gets a MILD. There's a non-binary character, but it's accurate rep because they're a preening narcissist. The story itself is also entirely skippable, so while they're a plot-critical NPC, you can just avoid them by not playing the story. There's also two female characters that are close to each other, but they're not blatantly lesbians and act more like old friends.
A recent update also added a pronoun selector, however, it gets a pass because of how character creation works. You pick a name and a portrait, but some of the portraits are classified male and some are classified as female. Included in the portait lineup are several dudes with face-concealing helmets, and it's arbitrary which of those are male or female. I think it was added not just for "rep" but to get around some code they couldn't change for whatever reason.
It's probably a game limitation due to the sheer amount of character portraits where it's impossible to tell if someone is a man or a woman. It's way easier to just have two selectors instead of changing the available options based on a character portrait that's selected.
I was gonna suggest Medium for it. All of the gay stuff is avoidable, but it does have forced A and B.
For Racial stuff, its hard to say because its a fantasy world with many made up races so it doesnt make sense to knock it for having variety in that front.
You can also just murder anyone you dont like, which is points in my book.
The current developers of the game (same people as before under a different studio without Alex Ahad or Mike Z) recently imposed several censorship revisions on the animation frames, parts of the story art, the concept art, and went so far as to remove certain pieces of content that were originally put into the game as fundraiser rewards. Lots of people were really upset with these changes, and the developers justified it as "making the game less controversial and more inclusive."
Lead programmer/Engine desinger Mike Zaimont getting cancelled for talking about BDSM undertones with a woman who reached out to him about it on Twitter and decided he was making her uncomfortable. Currently involved in a lawsuit, claiming there was a conspiracy to out him from Lab Zero games and management tried to manipulate his actions knowing he has autism.
He also made a George Floyd reference while commentating on a live tournament, shortly after the incident occurred.
Most recent shitshow (8 months ago) was Reverge(the reformed dev team after Lab Zero shut down) censoring their own art. This includes:
Removing scenes such as a black guy being beaten by cops because it reminds retards of Saint George Floyd
Removing arm bands from an army of background characters because it reminds retards of fascism and nazis (That was the point)
Patching the official artbook to edit skirt lengths and cleavages despite one of the main themes is to make sexualised characters. (Art of the game was made by a hentai animator Zone). This is a Kickstarter milestone reward people paid for.
Removing the russian voice pack that people paid for. This was Mike Zaimonts caricature of a russian accent and mannerisms.
Devs down play it as "cleaning house". People were pissed that paid content was being censored. Oddly, a noticeable pro censorship sentiment emerged on the Skullgirls subreddit. They didn't have an actual argument on the matter. They just called anyone who complained a pedophile/you're not a real SG player/you're opinion isn't valid because you didn't play enough of the game.
You crash land on an alien planet, and you exploit the planet's resources with your pollution-spewing machinery while mowing down the ugly, unsophisticated, destructive brown locals with machine gun turrets.
No gender lecturing, and the only "woke-ish" message is that pollution is bad, if only because it makes the aliens more aggressive. But that can be compensated for with more artillery batteries and turrets.
Divinity Original Sin 2 is mild in my opinion. In the hundreds of hours I've played, I don't recall seeing any character or mob that could be identified as trans or non-binary, moreover, the character creation menu doesn't mention pronouns and the sex is identified via the usual sex symbols (,). As far as gay characters are concerned, there are only the sex workers in Driftwood who will fuck with you regardless of your sex, moreover, you can hold a gay relationship with another member of your party if you so choose; there are no sex scenes btw.
ArmA 3: None
There are no female player models by default. Women literally do not exist in the game universe, there's no homosexuals (despite being a military game!) and there's no trannies.
ArmA 3 Modding Community: Heavy
The community is filled with trannies and IP trannies to the point that the official Discord has an IP rights violation channel. Admin jannie Trannies go out of their way to crawl the workshop and report ripped assets in unlisted mods. There's based mods but they usually get removed immediately by the janny trannies. Tranny shit is so common there was a mod made that removed the trans pride flags from the popular NIArms mod. NIArms is made by a troon, naturally.
STALKER (SoC, CoP, CS): None
Basically Tarkov's dad. Women don't exist in the Zone and surprisingly there's no Pidors around despite it being in the Ukraine.
Retro 1960s Britain. Everybody is White except for one half pajeeta whose father was a colonial general and who is also a villain character. Only men are policemen, blue collar workers, basically only men are seen doing men’s jobs. There are only two gay characters and they’re walking gay jokes that wear fruity sailor suits. A female character is portrayed as a maneater. She’s a scientist while also being portrayed as a girly girl fashionista/sex symbol and that contrast is played both for laughs and for drama.
Not for Broadcast has a gender neutral named protagonist and some gay couples, but it also portrays some of those gays as really fruity. The story has jokes that are kind of pro-lockdown and what not, but on the whole the story has beats that seem to be subtly anti-Globohomo, like the villains being radical socialists corrupting a democracy, the villains promoting antinatalist propaganda through a troupe of gay performers, Not-Alex Jones being right, Not-Kanye being right, and the villains murdering old people through Canadian style medical euthanasia.
The VR port is heavily censored at Oculus/Facebook's request and with the approval of Capcom to "update the game for modern audiences." Several flirty and suggestive lines, such as Luis' flirting with Ashley in the cabin, Leon's assertion that "there's no sex discrimination around here," and Leon trying to get Hunnigan on a date in the end were cut. This negatively affects a couple scenes.
For example, Ashley snaps at Luis for making a rude comment in the original, whereas in the VR port she randomly snaps at him for no reason at all, making her look like a total jackass.
Speaking of which. Resident Evil 4 (None) Resident Evil 4 VR (medium) and Resident Evil 4 Remake (mild/medium).
The original RE4 was 20 years ago. RE4 VR cut any scenes with sarcasm or flirting including the entire post credits scene, and made your hands disappear if you move them close to Ashley. Resident Evil 4 Remake cut a lot of content, made characters ugly, and recast a popular character with a diversity hire that can't act.
The first thing that happens is in an early mission where some multiracial street gang is robbing a gun club. Peter goes on a ridiculous anti-gun tirade about how gun clubs don’t belong in the city and how we need “complement clubs” instead. Yeah Peter, it’s real easy for you to say that no one needs guns when you’re a superhero that can eat bullets and punch through brick walls. This is also said when, just a couple years prior in the first game, thousands of killers, rapists, and terrorists flooded the city and crippled its infrastructure. Not the mention the neofascist militias roving the city, detaining civilians in camps, and the supervillains unleashing toxic nerve agents on the population.
Then, Peter gets cucked hard by MJ (who is now a butterface), she refuses to move in with him so she can “focus on her career” and then gives Harry a kiss on the cheek (and Peter a kiss on the cheek too rather than the lips).
Not long after, Harry offers Peter a job at Oscorps new science facility, which is focused on utopian liberal projects like developing GMO crops (oh, and the game has a throwaway line about these GMO crops being “ethical”) and climate engineering.
I skipped around a bit and then stumbled on the YouTuber doing an early side mission where you have to solve a puzzle at a collection of “BIPOC” murals. Yes, the game drops that word multiple times, and it’s pronunciation in the game is enough to make me physically ill. [...] Keep in mind that this is just based on the first 2 or so hours of the game.
[...] Other woke elements: JJ Jameson is even more of a “conservative wackjob” caricature, all of the villains or soon-to-be villains so far are white males, the principal of Miles school is a sassy black woman with no hair, the game forces a deaf black girl with zero personality as Miles love interest.
EDIT: For those coming across this thread just now: Yes, there is even more wokeness as the game goes on. The college fair Miles goes to has a Planned Parenthood booth advertising abortion services to teenagers. There's an entire mission where Miles is simping for Black Cat and helping her escape with her girlfriend to Paris. Ukraine flags everywhere. The Spanish language version uses gender neutral words that don't exist in Spanish. There are pride flags everywhere, such as when you first go into the science center and look at the scientists' desks. There are lots of other woke details in the environment like all gender bathrooms. Characters have been uglified, Mary Jane in particular looks like she just got a facial reconstruction from Mr. Magoo.
[...] Also, since the splashes are random, It's not a guarantee that you'll even see it. Since it's 11 splashes out of a possible 446. A 2.47% chance of seeing one of those splashes, but it does add up the more you play.
Two homosexual relationships (the two Royal Guards, Alphys and Undyne). The Spare method for the former and the Pacifist run as a whole requires that they start dating, but it's fine as long as you're not too traditional/conservative.
Mild
Gears For Breakfast
A Hat In Time
One of the books you can find is titled "Proof of Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism," with every pages being blank. A trans flag was added in one of the levels of the second DLC (Nyakuza Metro + Online Party) despite the game being set in a fictional universe.
Mild
Matt Makes Games (later renamed to Maddy Makes Games)
Celeste
Farewell DLC heavily implies in the ending that the protagonist, Madeline, is transgender. Confirmed in an article by the developer, but admits that he didn't know at the time while developing the base game and didn't initially design the protagonist as one.
HypnoSpace Outlaw by No More Robots. I'd rate it as Mild. The core gameplay loop revolves around browsing webpages in the style of Dot-com Boom-era user-created pages, and acting as a janitor who does it for free. However, there are a few characters implied to be on the LGBT spectrum, as evidenced by their use of "HS Lifestyles" tags.
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous has some mild wokeshit in it. One of the NPCs turns out to be a MtF tranny, there’s a handful of gay and lesbian characters/party members but it never really hits you over the head with it.
Pizza Tower (developed and published by Tour De Pizza): None
Pizza Tower is a 2D platformer inspired by the Wario Land series and the cartoons of the 90s in which you play as a fat and balding Italian chef who has to climb a tower and defeat its owner to save his failing pizzeria. There are 5 floors with 4 levels (besides the 5th floor which has 3) and a boss stage on each of them. The goal of every level (besides WAR) is to destroy the pillar and then come back to the entrance in a limited amount of time with an altered route. While doing this the player can gain extra score by collecting Toppins (they also give 10$ each and it's important because money unlocks boss stages which are necessary in order to progress to the next floor), entering secret bonus stages (3 per level) collecting the janitor and unlocking the door to the secret treasure (1 per level) and keeping the combo by defeating enemies.
There is no dialogue in this game, only NPCs that tell jokes or "lore". Some enemy designs made terminally online retards seethe because they were "harmful stereotpyes" (please read the first sentence of the first paragraph again) Some claimed this is an anti semitic stereotype, even though it's based of Ebenezer Scrooge
The developer (McPig) didn't bow to those claims. He was also a channer who would talk about his game on /agdg/ and he made some edgy jokes in his discord (that he closed after the official games release, which was a very wise decision considering the somewhat loud minority of weirdos that latch onto this game)
He did somewhat apologize but mostly because he didn't find it funny
There was also a schizo from the Sharty who used to spam /v/ threads saying that McPig was allegedly supporting Keffals during #DropKiwiFarms but this is literally a lie and no proof has ever surfaced. It has been theorized that xe did this because xer pizzasona (one of many characters that could appear at the end of bonus stages, a patreon incentive) wasn't added due to him being a huge sperg in the discord. The character in question But besides the weirder people in the community there is nothing woke about this gameand it's an amazing experience which i wholeheartedly recommend.
Deep Rock Galactic (Developed by Ghost Ship Games, published by Coffee Stain Publishing): Mild
Deep Rock Galactic or DRG in short is an fps game that can be played solo or in co-op (up to 4 people). There are several modes with different objectives, but in each mission you'll be interrupted by hordes of bug aliens that you have to kill using your weapons. You can also mine the resources that you'll find during missions in order to get gold, nitra (necessary for ammo refills) or other ores that are required for weapon upgrades and cosmetics.
The game doesn't have a global ban system nor are there any chat filters, so you can spam "nigger" in chat as long as the lobby host is fine with it. The steam community page is not as lenient on moderation however, with most of the moderation being handled by one guy called "Dwarfurious":
As you can see, he types like your typical reddit mod and is a proud warrior against bigotry. Out of 753 awards he recieved, 141 of them are clowns (18,7%) Sticking to the game only though, there aren't many woke parts. Despite the game being out for 6 years, there aren't any LGBTQAIP2+ themed cosmetics. However, in the lobby you can find a screen called "Employee of the month" in which one of the members from their discord gets featured with their discord name and profile picture featured. Coincidentally, during June 2023 this was the featured user:
There are also masks and hand sanitizers in the lobby, this is related to the rockpox mechanic of the game that was introduced in season 3, but the implication is still there.
Luckily it's not too in the face and you can ignore it pretty easily
Going to drop Ubisoft's For Honor here; it's looking at Medium or Heavy, personally, but I'll let you guys decide.
Well, you wouldn't think the game is all that woke at first glance; unfortunately, wokeshit even managed to infest this one. The devs have been putting a bunch of crap on the setting over the past few years, both story-wise and with playable characters. To elaborate:
Several years back, Ubisoft's devs decided it would be a great idea to drop the current story - about the Knight, Vikings, and Samurai fighting each other in a three-way war for survival, with the Chinese Wu Lin being an outside group that joined in - and instead focus on diversity. The new/current story is focused on two factions; the first, Horkos, is an incredibly wealthy cult of warriors from all factions that looks to establish an endless war, led by the all-female Warmongers, a collection of knights based on Apollyon. Resisting them are the Chimera faction, a collection of warriors from all of the different factions led by the Gryphons, who are always male and use techniques and styles from all factions. Compounding this is Draconite; a mythical alchemical source that pretty much throws all pretext of realism out the window and basically gives people who use it superpowers and magic. Both Horkos and Chimera are basically in a full-fledged war over who can control more of it.
Of course, the shit doesn't stop there; following the release of both Warmonger and Gryphon heroes, the devs released the Kyoshin, which was a samurai hero that was supposedly always male but looked a bit too feminine at points; basically, a lot of the face models for Kyoshin look like troons. The fact that you could dye their hair a rainbow of colors didn't help with that image...
Of course, the Kyoshin are admittedly a bit tame compared to what came next; the devs really started swinging for the gutters with a 5th new faction, the Outlanders; warriors from places that the devs otherwise couldn't fit into the prior four factions.
The first hero released was the Pirate, which was an always female collection of Chinese pirate captains that basically got involved because they really wanted to loot the place. Admittedly, not quite the biggest of deal-breakers - they were based on an actual pirate, Zheng Yi Sao - but the character really does come across as the stereotypical "girlboss" shit that infesting a lot of works these days, and some of the fashion is... questionable, especially with the dyable hair on the second pic:
Following the release of the Pirate, we got a new story; this detailing a Viking jarl - Bolthorn - that somehow made his way to Egypt, and met/befriended one of the locals, Neferkha, a Medjay and last of the line of Egyptian kings. The two conversed, with the Medjay revealing an ancient Scarab Bracelet that was supposedly cursed; Bolthron, desperately looking for something to bring prosperity to his people, ended up stealing the bracelet, unleashing some sort of curse that turned his skin black and scaley.
Meet Bolthron, everyone. Fun fact: according to Ubisoft, this skin is supposed to be super accurate and respectful to the Vikings.
Learning of the theft, Neferkha and a bunch of other Medjay all followed the jarl back to Heathmore to swipe the bracelet back, apparently to "spare the innocent people there of the curse". Naturally, they succeed but decide to stay in Heathmore for a while for... reasons - becoming the second Outlander hero - while Bolthorn is stuck with the cursed skin for the rest of his life, being completely cast out from society.
By the way, this is what the Medjay all look like; you can't adjust the skin color, either. You can choose the race of every other hero - including Lawbringer, who's skin you can't even see - but Medjay must always be black.
Following this, the story went a bit back to the Horkos faction, who promptly ended up attacking Saudi Arabia. Apparently, following the Calamity 1000 years prior, the place was completely cut off from the outside world; subsequently, the Muslims were able to create a perfectly peaceful and harmonious society, even learning to use Astrology to see into the future, led by a Sultana. Naturally, the Horkos faction wants this ability for themselves, so they send Commander Ravier - a character whose design was deliberately based on a Christian king - and her men to raze the country to the ground, assassinate the Sultana, and steal the Arabian secret to seeing into the future.
Commander Ravier:
Anyways, the raid didn't exactly go unnoticed; the Sultana promptly sent the Afeera, an all-female group of warriors serving as the royal guard, to head to Heathmore and steal the main treasure Ravier and co. stole: an Astrolabe. Once again, the Afeera succeed in their mission, and promptly start working with the Chimera alliance against the Horkos faction.
Afeera warrior base design:
Of course, the party doesn't stop there; following the disastrous Saudi Arabia campaign, the Horkos cult started looking westward, somehow discovering that there was another continent on the other side of the ocean. They looked to plunder this new land for wealth and resources, so they sent Conquistador Vela and her men to plunder and loot the country.
Upon arrival, Vela and co. discovered the Aztecs, who also survived the calamity and managed to create a similarly peaceful society free from conflict, even assimilating other cultures in the process. Naturally, Vela and her group loot and pillage the entire area, swiping a ton of valuables and even capturing one of the Aztec warriors as a prisoner, before heading back to Heathmoore. Of course, the Aztecs weren't happy about this, so they somehow managed to create enough ships to send a massive chunk of their Ocelotl warriors over to Heathmoore, looking for revenge. Evidently, I do think they managed to kill Vela and co., but the Aztecs decide to stay in Heathmoore anyway, getting involved in the war for... some reason, Ubi wasn't all that clear on this.
Lastly, as of most recently, the Horkos cult made a push north, into Viking territory, to go after a collection of Chimera warriors that had been in the area. During one of the skirmishes, of the Chimera heads, the Highlander Maddox, made the decision to defect to Horkos after he and his men were trapped and basically left to die. Becoming one of Horkos's best fighters in a short period, Maddox and co. started recruiting the local populace into Horkos, with the whole event both in-universe and out-of-universe questioning concepts of loyalty and whether Maddox and co. were really in the wrong, given the circumstances.
Of course, Ubi didn't want there to be any form of moral greyness in the situation, so they followed up on this by introducing the Varangian Guard. Said Guard is all-female mercenary group known for being blindly loyal that was hired and led by Maddox's niece (who somehow managed to learn new fighting style and language and become captain of a group of mercs in about a month) and promptly went after the guy. Maddox and co. were near-instantly defeated, Maddox himself was made out to be a coward, traitor, and idiot by his girlboss niece, and the Varangian Guard became a new Viking hero option.
There are a few other bits I know I'm missing about the story, like the female Inquisitor character who betrayed her order because she felt they were becoming "too extreme" - and was naturally seen in the right for it - but I think I managed to nail most of the main story beats of the current For Honor lore. Anybody know anything I missed, feel free to let me know.
Now, admittedly, this story stuff can be ignored; it's entirely possible to just play the game and do well without ever seeing anything about the recent lore. Of course, since Ubi loves to make events explicitly surrounding said lore, like changing to map to reflect said event, it can be rather difficult to avoid.
The rather toxic community does not help matters; players love to make their characters into these rainbow abominations with pride flags everywhere and such, and the constant witch hunting of "nazis" in the community - basically anyone with an emblem that could "trigger" someone or fought a bit too well against a troon - makes avoidance even more difficult.
Rainbow Six Siege is heavy. There's at least two tranny characters (MTF troon Osa and FTM pooner Tubarao), the game is inherently about diversity, a bunch of characters were designed to be homos like Flores, while others like Pulse (heh) and Caveira were turned gay. The two troons make no effort to pass and I knew on reveal the FTM was a troon. Also the community is extremely faggy.
Vermintide/Vermintide 2: None. Warhammer as Warhammer was meant to be, aside from the fact that the game plays it excessively safe when it comes to stylization.
Darktide: Mild. Unlike Vermintide, DT has a character creator with "body type" instead of sex. Apart from that, there is no pronoun shenanigans or faggot cosmetics. All the characters present as the correct sex, including the tech priest.
Goat Simulator 3 (Medium): Gay marriage, rainbow flag next to a picture of a guy suggestively eating a hotdog, rainbow pride saber accessory, percentage of 'dark' NPCs spawned is at least half.
It Takes Two (None): This is a recent EA published game about relationships. Surprisingly very wholesome, the only minor potentially lefty take is the stay-at-home dad.
Street Fighter 6 (Medium): Diverse and ugly characters throughout the story mode. Might reflect something like New York City, but I don't know if this something to strive for. There is a nonbinary/gay nigger moderator character that turns up for two or three cutscenes and sometimes hangs around in the player lobbies. Completely necessary. The female characters look...not that great. Cammy's redesign is surprisingly ok. She, Chun-Li and Juri look alright. The worst offenders are probably Kimberly and Marisa. Kimberly was apparently designed with some black consultants and looks almost like a bad caricature. Marisa leans into the muscle mommy trend and would have been fine but her face and body lean too heavy into the masculine look. And in the story mode, she is also Bi.
Guilty Gear Strive (Medium): Changes to the designs of certain characters might be debatable, like in the case of I-No. There were some sexual innuendos from older games missing from my understanding. Testament is probably also debatable, but no idea really. The biggest issue was the whole Bridget debacle. The character is a boy, but now "identifies" as a woman. Developers leant into this heavily.
The story revolves around a child named Niko running away from home because his parents (primarily his mother) doesn't like their child becoming non-binary. It tries to paint her as the bad guy for being worried about what's happening to her son and trying to find him after he runs off.
Lies of P (NEOWIZ): None. There was the potential for some nonsense considering the protagonist looks like a pretty boy twink but I suppose Koreans didn't have any of it. Had the good graces to make Sophia conventionally attractive.
Highfleet (Konstantin Koshutin): None. You play as the heir to the empire leading a fleet to crush a breakaway republic. There's a single named woman, and she isn't some girlboss. If you so desire you can conquer Gerat through nuclear force and enslave prisoners of war. There's no homosexuality, transsexuality, or anything like that at all.
Signalis (Rose Engine): Medium/Heavy: The only couples are lesbian ones, and the central plot of the game is fulfilling the final request as the PC's lesbian lover, and the game starts with a trigger warning. Despite all that, I don't know if it quite qualifies for Heavy, as it doesn't really beat you over the head with it or mention homophobia at all, your lover's final request is to kill her, every single character in the game is white, and the game portrays communism in a purely negative light. The fanbase is oozing with trannies though, so I'll let OP decide which category it falls under.
Medium: setting has a lot of in-your-face wokeness, but it doesn't necessarily endorse it. Body/Voice typeA/B and gay romances. A long multi mission racing sidequest revolves around a vindictive murderous transwoman and her troon flag monster truck.
A lot of PoC but they aren't all paragons of virtue. Cynical tone but a strong anti-cap message pushed by the deuteragonist.
There is also a large troon flag inside the car on the center console, so even in first person mode you have to look at it. Also, the street racing quests let you take your own car, except for one in the middle where it forces you to take the tranny truck for no reason, so there is no escape from the pride. On another note, that tranny character is the only person in Cyberpunk 2077 who doesn't have any augments, which is dumb because in a setting where people can rebuild their whole body to be what ever they want, it would naturally cater to trannys. But this character is such a special snowflake that they said no to augments and went with a good ol' stink ditch and bathtub hormones.
Does the fact that the creators are trannies factor into its rating? Because if so, I would submit Galaxy Trail, who made the Freedom Planet games. In that case, Steven DiDuro trooned out during the development of the second game and became "Sabrina DiDuro." Also, the second game's plot is some serious White Guilt bullshit that I went into detail here.
This alone shuts down all troonguments. Pal with a BENIS needs to INSEMINATE a Pal with a VAGINA in order for them to have BABS (from an egg).
How does a Fox lay eggs? Uhh, iunno, I had a D- in biology.
Also the game has zero (0) shitskins (every character is hwite, including Le Exotic Twink Man), no girlbosses, no trannies, and features a Pal which literally exists only to FUCK. IMO you should add a "negligible" score.
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This alone shuts down all troonguments. Pal with a BENIS needs to INSEMINATE a Pal with a VAGINA in order for them to have BABS (from an egg).
How does a Fox lay eggs? Uhh, iunno, I had a D- in biology.
Also the game has zero (0) shitskins (every character is hwite, including Le Exotic Twink Man), no girlbosses, no trannies, and features a Pal which literally exists only to FUCK. IMO you should add a "negligible" score.
No tolerence. Even a Type A and Type B is nonsensical when older games had Male and Female body options. Hence the difference in Soulsborne games customization label before Elden Ring adopted the TypeA/B label.
I'd maybe agree if the player character was not a cardboard cutout. Your appearance, sex and overall behavior do not matter at all. In fact, humans aren't even assigned a sex in the game, probably to prevent you from using them in the breeding pen.
Just as another point against Pacific Drive: every other sticker in the game has to be searched for first while all the legbutt/dindu stickers are available from the start, and the game itself is set in the 90s so all the flags other than the classic pride rainbow are anachronisms.
I'd probably add Warframe to the "mild" category since that has both trans representation (Ticker, an NPC) and nonbinary representation (Xaku), but they're fairly minor nitpicks. Just... don't go to region chat for your own sanity.
I think Pacific Drive should be in the Medium category, but that's nitpicking.
My suggestions. I don't play these games, and I don't have the evidence to hand.
Starfield by Bethesda. Pronouns on character creation.
Lunacid. Pronouns in character creation and might include hidden trans flags? Not sure on this one. Dev said he included them to "own the chuds".
Tomb Raider 1 and 2 Remaster. Starts with a warning about how the game offensive but is left intact. This is false as textures were edited, including a brick pattern and a bosses pin up jacket.
Suggestion for a new category. Localization. There's a whole thread about how games are being censored during localization. Might be worth adding to the list?
I played Pacific Drive from start to finish and the fag flags are about the only woke thing in the game. They are hidden away in an optional function of the game (the detail machine) and on top of that, they are just stickers and those are really small and only show up on the rear window (note that the back window can only hold 2 stickers).
There is also a gay relationship between 2 of the male voices in the game but it's not obvious until you reach about the end of the game where the two male characters say "I love you" to each other when one of them is about to sacrifice himself to an instability storm while keeping things powered on. Before that event, the characters act like a scientist and an assistant with no undertones or whatever but maybe I am just not good at sussing out the gay undertones or something.
I don't recall seeing any trigger or content warnings.
Undertale and Deltarune probably falls squarely in the Medium catagory, Deltarune even higher because not only does it feature gay lesbians, but Toby has gone on to incorporate gender-neutral/non-binary pronoun crap for the main character Kris you play as, even though he is very clearly a dude. In Undertale you could argue that Frisk appears as gender-neutral since they are meant to act as a vessel for the player to project themselves on, but in Deltarune it's a bit harder to do that when Kris clearly looks more masculine and has a bit more going on to him than what Frisk was in the first game.
Does the fact that the creators are trannies factor into its rating? Because if so, I would submit Galaxy Trail, who made the Freedom Planet games. In that case, Steven DiDuro trooned out during the development of the second game and became "Sabrina DiDuro." Also, the second game's plot is some serious White Guilt bullshit that I went into detail here.
Undertale and Deltarune probably falls squarely in the Medium catagory, Deltarune even higher because not only does it feature gay lesbians, but Toby has gone on to incorporate gender-neutral/non-binary pronoun crap for the main character Kris you play as, even though he is very clearly a dude. In Undertale you could argue that Frisk appears as gender-neutral since they are meant to act as a vessel for the player to project themselves on, but in Deltarune it's a bit harder to do that when Kris clearly looks more masculine and has a bit more going on to him than what Frisk was in the first game.
Ah, I was wondering whether this would come up.
I'd like to dispute a few things here. I was actually going to suggest an "adjacent" category for them above mild.
The reason the main character in UNDERTALE is sexually ambiguous is because the fact that they *aren't* you is somewhat of an obscure spoiler.
The two instances of homosexual relationships are the the only woke parts of the original UNDERTALE. The flawed "message" is debatable but I really don't think you're supposed to take it too seriously.
The mess surrounding Kris is indeed stupid but my MatPat theory is that it's appeasement if a certain ship gains any credance. Also, Suselle being canon is up in the air even if it's Toby's fetish.
There's some cringe lines from the new guest writers but you can spot the difference instantly. It really doesn't fit in well.
I'm under no illusion here. Toby quite clearly has those sensibilities and the people he hangs around are far more vocal about it ...but if Toby was actively trying to use these games as mouthpieces, wouldn't it be far more blatant?
Sims 4 is an obvious High, you're shown the ugliest shit before you even get off the title screen.
Sims 1 and 2 are fine because they're too old to have this stuff. I'm not sure about 3 because while it started fairly normal, at the end of its life it had "Lesbians with a biological child in the 1930s world".
The new version of Harvest Moon older titles allow players to add their preferred pronouns or have the same sex marriage and somehow still get a newborn baby in the end. The nuisance also more noticeable during Valentine's day or White day, specifically on Back to Nature and a Wonderful Life. Mild rating?
Trinity Fusion has gay characters. Your MC and one of the commando guys aboard the spaceship. The controls are jank and I hated the time I spent playing through it so I'm not going to check this info.
MC is lesbian x3. You converse between 3 parallel dimensions and you're trying to fuse them together to not mess up the time stream or something. At the end, you fuse the dimensions together and this nobody chick gets smashed by a pillar. MC goes "I loved her" and cries about it.
IIRC there was no lead up or anything, MC just says that and the final cutscene has flowers or her grave. Literal nobody NPC who didn't contribute to the story.
Wokeness?
Main characters are all female, most of the supporting characters are female and the one straight male character betrays the rest of the crew.
I suppose it's mild, but I'd rank it medium cause it just gets thrown into your face. You can't really avoid the end scene where your MC professes their love cause it's unskippable.
Digital Extremes MILD, it has gay shit that basically never comes up unless you interact with the community.
Xaku is my current main and is a frame made up of the torn up pieces of random frames on top of a skeleton. I refer to him as a he in game and nobody gives me shit for it, and if people want to have a hissy fit this is what passes as non binary in Warframe, I am fine if this is their representation instead of some faggot with rainbow hair. Warframes are animated corpses of nano metal that fight against space shrimp using nether magic, none of them should be gendered to begin with.
Instead we should be shitting on the gay artists for Warframe that design shit like this. Warframe is pretty fun and while its made by dirty Canadians, its totally (((free))) and you are can to shit on it to your hearts content in the Warframe thread with us!
Gearbox in HEAVY. I played Tiny Tinas Wonderlands last year and it was full of tranny shit.
Bethesda in MEDIUM-HEAVY as well. Fallout 76 has every flag in the gay rainbow, you can even place them in world. It leads to really funny interactions some times because you can form Gay hunt groups and run around griefing people with the Gay flag avatars.
I havnt played it in a while but remember that Jim Stephanie Sterling is one of the writers for Vampire Survivors, I am sure theres insane tranny shit in there.
I was gonna suggest Medium for it. All of the gay stuff is avoidable, but it does have forced A and B.
For Racial stuff, its hard to say because its a fantasy world with many made up races so it doesnt make sense to knock it for having variety in that front.
You can also just murder anyone you dont like, which is points in my book.
but Toby has gone on to incorporate gender-neutral/non-binary pronoun crap for the main character Kris you play as, even though he is very clearly a dude
The main character has always been androgenous, nobody has ever called him he or she in either game. Its not for tranny reasons, Kris isnt non-binary he's whatever gender the player is.
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). As far as gay characters are concerned, there are only the sex workers in Driftwood who will fuck with you regardless of your sex, moreover, you can hold a gay relationship with another member of your party if you so choose; there are no sex scenes btw.
