KF Guide to Woke Games

[Hermiöne Granger]

The latest COD from Activision, or should we just call them Activism from now on.

 

[Jace on ice]

Freedom Wars Remastered censors references to gender/sex in the character customization.
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This is even more retarded than your typical Sweet Baby shenanigans because Freedom Wars is an extremely niche game series.

The only people who would possibly be interested in buying this are the hardcore weebs into panty shots and underboob.

I'd say they probably alienated 95% of potential buyers here.

 

[Asian tech support]

Game: Witchfire
Developer: The Astronauts
Year: 2023 EGS Early Access, 2024 Steam Early Access
Rating: None
Based single player game about a one man crusade against a witch. No mention of current year nonsense. Rating subject to change based on how the game ends up portraying the Catholic Church. As it stands currently, the Church are the good guys, if amoral in the actions they take to achieve their ends.

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

Anyone got any knowledge of a game called "Small Saga"? It's supposed to be a Moss-esqe game where you control a group of mice in a sewer system in London; you wouldn't think that there would be a ton of wokeshit crammed in, but from what I've read there's a TON. From what I can gather, all the MCs are some flavor of fag, one of the characters has an ACAB skill ("All Guards Are Busted" in-game), and the story is (apparently) constantly propagandizing socialist/anarchist crap in your face. The majority of enemies in the game are all some flavor of right-wing stereotypes; Clan Grey, made up of grey-furred squirrels, is a bunch of redneck gunslingers that have been exterminating a native populace of red squirrels and whose motto is part of the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance, on top of disparaging copies of Trump and Christopher Columbus. Likewise, from what I've been told, there's a bunch of crap about climate change and similar as well.

That said, though; has anyone actually played/reviewed the game in-full to see how bad it really is? I admit that the game itself looked interesting, but the apparent political obsession has diluted my interest; that said, all my info is secondhand from sources like Tv Tropes, so I haven't been able to comb over the game in full myself. Anyone got a proper grasp?

 

[Silver Higgs]

i don't understand people who support the whole "type A, type B" shit, how do they not feel dehumanized?

Woke mentality is extremely bitter and spiteful, sometimes they do stuff like this just out of spite, to anger people that are not like them just to show that they can, even though is nonsensical and sometimes against their own worldview.

 

[Baraadmirer]

Woke mentality is extremely bitter and spiteful, sometimes they do stuff like this just out of spite, to anger people that are not like them just to show that they can, even though is nonsensical and sometimes against their own worldview.

I'm surprised I haven't heard of any infighting between which one should be considered A or B. "Why is the masculine one always A?! Is the feminine one second-class???!!! REEEEEEEE"

 

[Activelo]

Updated the list again.

Anyone got any knowledge of a game called "Small Saga"? It's supposed to be a Moss-esqe game where you control a group of mice in a sewer system in London; you wouldn't think that there would be a ton of wokeshit crammed in, but from what I've read there's a TON. From what I can gather, all the MCs are some flavor of fag, one of the characters has an ACAB skill ("All Guards Are Busted" in-game), and the story is (apparently) constantly propagandizing socialist/anarchist crap in your face. The majority of enemies in the game are all some flavor of right-wing stereotypes; Clan Grey, made up of grey-furred squirrels, is a bunch of redneck gunslingers that have been exterminating a native populace of red squirrels and whose motto is part of the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance, on top of disparaging copies of Trump and Christopher Columbus. Likewise, from what I've been told, there's a bunch of crap about climate change and similar as well.

That said, though; has anyone actually played/reviewed the game in-full to see how bad it really is? I admit that the game itself looked interesting, but the apparent political obsession has diluted my interest; that said, all my info is secondhand from sources like Tv Tropes, so I haven't been able to comb over the game in full myself. Anyone got a proper grasp?

It's already on the list, which I copy and pasted from elsewhere, and ranked Heavy.

Spoiler: Spoilers if you care

* Filled with LGBT characters:

• A major antagonist, Aquila, is non-binary with they/them pronouns and says that gender is arbitrary and a distraction. He later mentions humanity being "bigots who spit upon those they deem queer or degenerate" as part of the reason why he plans on nuking them.
• Siobhan, your first party member after the prologue, is non-binary as well. She's uncomfortable being called a "young lady" at the beginning of the game, Verm says to Leo that she's "not a lady," uses they/them pronouns after a time skip (while under Aquila's wing, mind you), and eventually tells Nemain in her side quest that she's not a girl anymore.
• The fight with Nemain being partially motivated because of his beliefs on sticking to gender roles and tells Siobhan afterwards that her father would've been proud of her regardless of gender or lack thereof.
• Bruce is gay and has a boyfriend, Anton, who constantly refers to the former as "lapa," meaning either paw or darling.
• Gwen is bisexual, which got her locked up in Sky Garden since she tried to flirt with Lamia, a female stoat.
• Bree, a male rodent, mentions at the end of the game that he plans on proposing to Stilton, another male rodent.
• Verm says that he never gave romance much thought and doesn't think he'll ever like anyone that way. He is stated by the developer to be asexual.

* AGAB graffiti in Murida, obviously being the equivalent of "All Cops Are Bastards" or ACAB.

* The tonal whiplash after you get to Sky Garden, something that even positive reviewers on Steam noted. The game is so blatant and heavy-handed with the place under Clan Grey's rule being an allegory for "America under Donald Trump's presidency is a Nazi regime" that it stopped just short giving its ruler, Josh, a blonde wig and orange tan:

• Clan Grey's historical explorer when they first arrived is named Christoph.
• The second half of Josh's description of the clan's symbol is very similar to the US' pledge of allegiance with a couple words switched out.
• The symbol for Clan Red, on the other hand, is a rainbow field of flowers. Clan Grey got rid of it, saying that it represented "weakness and degeneracy."
• They lock people up and/or execute them for being "degenerate" and, in Bruce's case, just for being a red colored squirrel in Clan Red (which they genocided in the past and had their home torched.)
• Red armbands and Nazi-looking uniforms for the Clan Grey soldiers.
• Josh mentioning that he went to the Cailleach thinking she'd tell him how to "make Sky Garden great again."
• The dialogue for one of the soldiers, Hank, being mostly being about fallacies and the protagonists fighting him (in the middle of a coup, for context) is proof that they couldn't win a "civil debate."
• Even at a baseline surface level, the writing takes a very noticeable shift to modern-day internet lingo. Some dialogue includes "muh heritage" "sus" "beyond cringe" "lolololol" "uwu softboi" among others. Unlike Aquila, who understands human writing and has a smartphone, this isn't even handwaved with a throwaway line or something.
• After the coup, a newspaper headline in Murida says "Clan Grey canceled! Sky Garden Goes Woke!", leading the reader to say that they "certainly have an angle."

The developer responded on the game's discussion forum on Steam claiming that the modern-day writing is a case of "anachronism", that he considers the game "woke.", and stated on his Cohost that he opted to make the optional scene where you explain Deleuze and Guattari's postmodern philosophy to a fascist squirrel as dull and unrewarding as possible since he doesn’t want the ‘debate a fascist’ scene to be flippant or harmful.”

Adding onto this to answer the anarchism part, it's explicitly stated in the "debate a fascist" scene and at the end of the game that Sky Garden and Murida are better off without leaders, kings, etc, and people can rule themselves, and this is presented as a good thing. IIRC, the climate change part is when Aquila rants about how bad humanity is, and he's only presented as wrong about nothing being worth saving and resorting to using a bomb on the city.

The dev also said that he considers all games to be political in an AMA.

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

@Activelo Thanks for the notice; looked over the list myself, I somehow missed the game already being on there.

Fucking hell, the game sounds like a trashfire! Disappointing really; from what little I heard, it does have a decent idea for a world, but the political shit completely ruins it. Ah well; least it saves me some time and money.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

@Activelo Thanks for the notice; looked over the list myself, I somehow missed the game already being on there.

Fucking hell, the game sounds like a trashfire! Disappointing really; from what little I heard, it does have a decent idea for a world, but the political shit completely ruins it. Ah well; least it saves me some time and money.

Apparently the dev might have trooned out somewhere between the Demo & the release, so you get this kind of shit a lot. In fact, someone on the Quirky Indie RPGs thread even played this game.

 

[Bebepine]

i don't understand people who support the whole "type A, type B" shit, how do they not feel dehumanized?

I like to assume Japanese Sony do it because they think Americans are so retarded that they don’t understand what biological sex is so they’re like let’s rename them Type A, Type B which is virtually the same as having XX or XY.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

Intravenous: None
It's a pretty interesting top-down stealth/shooter hybrid. The story revolves around the main character avenging his brother's death after they got ambushed by a bunch of junkies and the police didn't lift a finger to find his brother's killer. There's a few twists and turns, betrayals and conspiracies but the story isn't really that important or overly complex, the focus is on the gameplay. Haven't played the sequel but I doubt they'd suddenly inject wokeshit into it, especially since the dev team is just a single Russian-Lithuainian dude.

 

[Backpack Knight]

Alien: Dark Descent Medium

All the women are competent and in managerial positions:
Chief Engineer of Otago? Female with short cropped hair
Chief Medical Officer of Otago? A man! Never mind, that character dies and is replaced by competent woman psychologist.
Sherriff of the Lethe town? Competent woman who was really close to finding out the Aliens were around until they killed her in a heroic fashion.
Weyland-Yutani Colony Director? Evil competent woman.

There is a couple of storyline female characters that die but they are usually portrayed as good at their jobs; unlike the men.

In the beginning all the men are dismissive of the STRONG female protagonist as she discovers that aliens were in her space station.

Most of the competent men die in the story, unless you want your troopers to die. At the end of the game only the major female characters survive. Which is on brand for Alien but sort of leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

The only reason I have not put this game on Heavy is because I haven't seen a lot of social justice stuff, just women being oddly prominent in male oriented job positions (outside of the Weyland-Yutani lady). That and most of the male characters being incompetent or pushed into the back for a female to take his place in the story.

 

[NerdShamer]

All the women are competent and in managerial positions

Yeah, you forgot to add the sarcastic dropship pilot to that list.

But it's just one of those things where people more or less die fighting before they're replaced, except for that scientist, fuck him. Plus, the guy aboard the space station was probably in on the cult, iirc

 

[Activelo]

Game: VLADiK BRUTAL
Developer: Brutal Software
Score: None

Reason: It's basically Russian Half-Life and it's made by one guy. While it's flawed, I did not see anything woke. It leans towards anti-woke as the minigames in the Narkos bonus section involve you defending yourself from being raped by naked faggots. I don't speak Russian, but the only Steam review mentioning the minigames claims it's "offensive homophobic propaganda depicting gay people as a disease or monsters."

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The Roottrees are Dead is Heavy.

The game is about exploring a family tree using internet circa 2000 with finding the identity of each person a la' Obra Dinn. It seems relatively well written without breaking the immersion too badly but it goes exponentially worse as it goes on. Among the things it does are:
* Miscegenation: At least two cases of it, one is very in your face (a campaign poster of a white pregnant woman and her black husband) that I really fucking doubt it would have actually resulted in the woman winning 30 years ago. Also a reference to the family occasionally fucking niggers 40 years ago and how they are better than the deep south for it.
* Feminism: Not too hard but you have the usual women being more moral and men being sexist.
* Fake evangelist: Because it's literally the easiest demonization against Christianity.
* CONSPIRACY THEORIES ARE BAD - YOU ARE A CONSPIRACY THEORIST FOR LETTING CORPORATIONS PUT CHEMICALS IN YOUR FOOD. TRUST THE SCIENCE!

All those would have put the game in medium and not being that noticeable considering it's very few of the family members. However, the final puzzle in the game, where you need to find the dark family secret is what veers it off. The secret that the game seemingly been building up to is that the family had a disowned gay son that's been cut out of the inheritance for it. Besides being incredibly retarded (you can't disappear a 16 year old) and they somehow let the son and his fuckbuddy (which they allow to still work in the farm!) to raise a baby girl together, which is pretty unthinkable even for today. The game ends with a full on speech on how being homophobic is bad and how the standard family unit is totally unfair and how you should unearth your grandpa and burn his remains in the town square for being racist/sexist/homophobic.

Really ruins an overall well made puzzle game and breaks what could have been a good whodunnit mystery in favour of appealing to the woke mob.

There is a NG+ that seems to double down on how the traditional looking family actually fucks everyone and everything but I doubt I'll play it.

 

[Iodine]

I personally don't consider the interracial stuff by itself to be woke. IMO, it doesn't really seem forced or out-of-place in these games since they take place in the modern day. Only the Quarry seems to qualify.

Granted, I hate racemixing and mutts more than the average Kiwi, but I think these are worth mentioning in the game list, even if the game won't qualify for a Medium or Heavy rating because of it. The reasoning that "it's a diverse modern setting" could apply to devs that include homos, trannies and girlbosses in their games as well, but we all know that the inclusion and spotlighting of those characters is fully intentional. Unless we're talking about that bug in the Sims demo that caused the AI to trigger a lesbian relationship, games don't include "diversity" by accident. It's fully intentional because the devs approve of it and think it's a positive addition to their game. There are enough games out there that I'd like to avoid giving my money to these kinds of devs.

There are also many situations where prominent interracial relationships would be a red flag for wokeness, like:

• It's the only option the game allows or is presented as the best option even when there are other characters in the setting (same as forced gay romances)
• Interracial relationships are presented in a more positive light than same-race relationships (same as girlboss/all women in the universe are capable and all men are idiots)
• The only interracial relationships you see in the game are non-white/white, especially black male/white female, with few to no other types of interracial relationships
• Mutt kids are presented as cuter and better than white kids
• Racial justice shit like BLM posters or characters bitching about raycism is in other parts of the game
• The developers and publishers have a repeated trend of games that feature a disproportionately high number of interracial relationships and correspondingly low number of same-race relationships

 

[Activelo]

Game: Lords of the Fallen (2023)
Developer: HEXWORKS
Score: None

Reason: Originally had body types A and B instead of gender. However, this was changed in the v.1.7.73 patch after the CEO of the developer's publisher, Marek Tyminski of CI Games, ran a poll about it on X (formally known as Twitter) and over 88% of almost 50,000 users voted in support of having male and female instead of body types.

Before the patch:

After the patch:

 

[Jotch]

Game: Lords of the Fallen (2023)
Developer: HEXWORKS
Score: None

Reason: Originally had body types A and B instead of gender. However, this was changed in the v.1.7.73 patch after the CEO of the developer's publisher, Marek Tyminski of CI Games, ran a poll about it on X (formally known as Twitter) and over 88% of almost 50,000 users voted in support of having male and female instead of body types.
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What the heck was "None" going to result in?

 

[Transbian Fluffer]

What the heck was "None" going to result in?

Non binary of course

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

Originally had body types A and B instead of gender. However, this was changed in the v.1.7.73 patch after the CEO of the developer's publisher, Marek Tyminski of CI Games, ran a poll about it on X (formally known as Twitter) and over 88% of almost 50,000 users voted in support of having male and female instead of body types.

This just reeks of "please buy our game." Instead of sincere change.

E: server timeout killed out the rest of my message.
This game came out in 2023 and was dogshit. Nobody liked it.
They have spent the last year trying to make it better but nobody cares about it anymore.
This is just pandering in an attempt to get people to look at it.
If the wind was blowing the other way they'd go back to Type A/B immediately.