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B-side gaming is a community focused on alternative gaming. Like FOSS games, indie games, hobby games, homebrew. Additionally ROM Hacks, mods and game assets are allowed.

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The main focus of this community are Foss games, Homebrew games, demakes and indie or one-person hobby games. Demos or tech demos are also welcome.
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"Why does Valve allows this?": Indie dev laments losing Overwhelmingly Positive Steam review score to off-topic rant, replies "please never, ever play any of our games" (www.gamesradar.com)

submitted 5 months ago by falseprophet@piefed.social to c/Bside@fedia.io

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As Rose shared on Bluesky, Little Rocket Lab "had an Overwhelmingly Positive score on Steam, then these two reviews rolled in." (From the score averages on Steam, I gather this was specifically the game's recent review score.) The negative reviews in question complain of a "woke game" that "also has Muslims," and claim there's "too much forced politics" and that it "only took me 15 minutes to start getting force-fed DEI nonsense."

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[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Of the sixty-five negative reviews, three in "helpful" section of the past 30 days have the "anti-woke" flavor to them. And the recent reviews are still overwhelmingly positive.

There's quite a few critiques of the time aspect as well as a perceived clunkiness of mechanics, though. I did play the demo a little while ago, and while I did enjoy myself, I would have to say those constructive critiques have hit it on the nose for why someone might not want to play the game. It does have an interesting premise, and definitely has a cozy feel to it... but it still feels a bit bare right now. And while I didn't get to the more advanced transport stuff, from what I saw and had to do, it did look like it would start to get frustrating.

All in all, probably best not to focus on one or two obnoxious trolls just looking for attention and focus more on the constructive criticism.