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What's the wokest game? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by insurgentrat@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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No really, like what game is just trying so hard to be the most up to date, inclusive, socially and politically sensitive game in existence. Answers that would have been true at the time are good to.

There's always been games trying to force socialisation on gamers :p bioware rpgs often had discriminated against characters for example.

But I am not interested in any old game that's trying its corporate approved best. I want to see the extremes of itchio or whatever.

EDIT: I'm serious, I want like the game that would exist of you wrung all the discourse out of tumblr and put it in a game. Not "a few good takes" something that takes every opportunity to make some point about how it is good media with good politics and values. The sort of game that the frothing-mouthed gamers on twitter think the industry is always one boycott away from producing. Someone, somewhere, must have made something so earnest it deserves recognition.

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

"I would purify you too, Watcher..."

I don't remember the full quote but that convo about "purifying" the Dyrwood is where the Nietzscheanism of the Magran cult gives way to someone who just wants to slaughter minorities (especially Glanfathans).

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I think there's important differences between religious fanaticism, which has propped up purges and genocides, and fascism which is uses fantaticism and fanatics but which is state centered and a sort of anti-politics/rejection of beliefs and institutions.

He's a true believer who actually worked with a real god and is now shunned by it, desperately trying to prove his genocidal faith. He doesn't really believe in a state or any sort of greater order except his god, hence his lone wanderings.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Is the apocalyptic, Siege-type, sleeper cells and lone wolves style of fascism not still fascism?

If someone has a vehement disgust and intolerance for foreigners and colonized peoples and religious minorities and experimental science (animancy) and "undesirables", mixed with an ethos of the strong dominating the weak, I think that clearly refers to fascism as much as any allegory in the game.

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 1 points 5 hours ago

I'd have to replay it and see if my interpretation has changed over the years.