Just in case anyone’s not sure how to find cool games on Steam:

  1. Visit Woke Content Detector
  2. Click “Not Recommended”
  3. Enjoy :)

For added entertainment, they sometimes Don’t Get It and what they say is “subtle” is, in fact, right in your face.

e.g. they say Monster Hunter Wilds is “subtly pro-climate action” which is like saying a tungsten cube is “slightly hefty” or Life Is Strange is “a little bit gay”

(Tagged for NSFW for sexual content in review descriptions.)

  • kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Wall-E game review:

    Has obvious pro-environmentalist and anti-consumerist themes (hypocritical). Robots have arbitrarily coded gender with the “female” shown to be more “advanced.”

    This has to be a parody… right?

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      Has obvious pro-environmentalist and anti-consumerist themes (hypocritical).

      I mean… yeah.

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    remember when they reviewed disco elysium?

    Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Features multiple LGBTQ+ characters including the player character. Heavy social commentary regarding communism. Whether pro or anti is unclear.

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      Features multiple LGBTQ+ characters including the player character.

      I haven’t played Disco Elysium, but it strikes me as the type of game where you’re character would only be gay if you choose to do so.

      “There was a dialog option to either ask a man out on a date or say goodbye. I clicked the asked him out on a date and the game forced me to flirt with another man! This is so woke!”

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        I haven’t played Disco Elysium, but it strikes me as the type of game where you’re character would only be gay if you choose to do so.

        Conservatives don’t want to let you even have the choice to be gay in fictional settings.

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          Admitting gay people exist is an attack on the political identity. Reality has a liberal bias.

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            Oh they know gay people exist, they just don’t want them to exist, or at the very least, bury themselves into the closet and have kids in a heterosexual passing relationship anyway because they believe that is more important than anything.

            They see media not as a reflection of reality, but as a way to enforce an ideal “reality”, hence why they’re threatened by women doing things and gays and trans people existing. In their world, queers don’t exist, women are barefoot, pregnant and tied to the kitchen sink, and men are manly to the point of homoeroticism.

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            reality has a liberal¹ bias

            And so I declare a crusade against it!

            ¹in the fascist sense of the word, which includes everyone between Emma Goldman and Joe biden

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    This is a real world example of why media literacy matters.

    Most common reasons for being woke:

    • Gay people
    • Gay people getting married
    • Player can be gay or trans
    • Non-white people
    • Player is non-white
    • Strong women
    • Socialism

    Their “non-woke” approved games include Bayonetta, Tropico, The Witcher, and Final Fantasy XII.

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      Bayonetta - the one where both the protagonist and primary antagonist are a strong woman with magical powers? That Bayonetta? The one whose soundtrack and art style was designed to be primarily feminine?

      Also, I’d be willing to bet they don’t consider The Witcher as woke because it has lots of nudity, with the male main character being able to boink a whole bunch of NPCs.

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      100% couldn’t agree more.

      We have an indie game they declared “woke” because it has a non-binary main character. That main character is a half drawn stick figure. Never drawn with pants or a dress, or even two arms (they have just one).

      But this half drawn childrens stick figures with no identifiable gender is too “woke” for this person.

      Media literacy is indeed dead.

      Edit: Name of our game is INK INSIDE.

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    OMORI

    No woke themes or negative depiction of Christianity. However, the main character, Omori, is a “hikikomori” or “shut-in”. According to Japanese government data, there are about 1 million such people, or less than 1% of the population. As such, NOT RECOMMENDED.

    Woah, a minority? This dude is FRAGILE.

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      imagine being afraid of the abstract concept of a minority.

      such a specific phobia, must be less than 1% of the population.

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          Christians are about 30% of the population. white Christian male protagonist must be about less than 10% of the population, literally unplayable.

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      Excuse me what??? Yime Nikki is literally one of the biggest entries for indie games, it inspired a shit ton of games like Ib or Undertale, and its protagonist is (alledegly) a hikikomori.

      This people just can’t play anything with a charac that is not normative huh, what a bunch of misserables

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      If they’re going with that, then all games should portray Chinese and Indian characters only to not be “woke” since they’re the majority.

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        They are doing it on a per-country basis. For example, they are OK with everyone being Japanese if the game is explicitly set in Japan.

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    Assassin’s creed liberation: The player character is an improbable WOC assassin who fights to free slaves in French Louisiana.

    As opposed to the totally realistic depiction of white male assassins in the franchise.

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      As opposed to the totally realistic depiction of white male assassins in the franchise.

      What white males? The arab, the native american, the italian, the greek and egyptian?

      oh, the one that was set in victorian england? Also the many others I missed because I stopped giving a shit after 3 and they ran all their goodwill into the ground?

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        I love how murican white racism is just xenophobia. “White? But that person with a #FDEFE5 skin is from a Mediterranean country!!!”

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          I love how murican white racism is just xenophobia. “

          I’m not american. Italians and other south Europeans/Mediterraneans were considered non-white and discriminated in the past; if you are against “wokeness” than you should also be against considering Italians as white, since they are accepted due to trends of social progress and integration. Thus, Mediterraneans should be considered persons of colour for DEI non DEI purposes.

          I do not care if they are or are not white, do not harbor ill will towards them, and don’t consider myself particularly white either (ethnic Turk). I do want to deny people who seek to gain cachet by pretending to be part of a “better” (their perspective, not mine) race to further their own social standing, because I want them to realise these systems and viewpoints oppress others, and people like them.

          Also; if Mediterraneans from southern europe are considered white, why not Mediterraneans from northern africa? Those parts of the coasts of the Mediterranean were also in the roman/etc empires, what’s wrong with those places? Why do they not get to share in the legacy of rome and western civilization?

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            if Mediterraneans from southern europe are considered white, why not Mediterraneans from northern africa?

            Because the whole discrimination/racism thing is moronic and not rooted in rationality? I get where you’re coming from but they don’t care at all.

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        Not sure I get the point of your comment but Ezio is white, yes. If I gave enough of a fuck I’d argue that Alexios is, too. There are also like 3 english dudes, and the viking.

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    I considered joining the discussion on Steam with a big “Thank you for giving me all these woke games to play” post. But then I saw that you can only post if you join the Steam group.

    I do not want that stain on my steam profile, so I did not do it.

    If anyone else is already part of that group, please feel free to troll the shit out of them 😁

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      Better to just be silent and use the list as a recommendation. If they got aware of us using the list for recommends to buy, they’d lock it or whatever.

      Always check though if it’s really “woke” or just something they don’t like that’s not per se gay/cool. If the makers themselves are indeed queer, chances are it’s what we would consider cool.

      A few games that I could recommend to anyone blindly:

      • Celeste
      • Hades (and also Hades II)
      • Fallout: New Vegas
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    These groups are so sad. Imagine all the cultural enrichment and great gameplay they’re missing out on because they trust the word of a terminally-online doofus that huge swathes of games are dangerous to play because of their sticky psychological rootkit-like messages about not hating marginalised people.

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    My favourite part of the detector is the multiple futa porn games marked as Not Recommended for “hermaphroditic sexual content”.

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    That list sucks. Every game is not recommended. These people are literally the most miserable people and have no games to play.

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    Lmfao the mask comes off in some of these. Dredge is woke because “black woman has job in 1900s Europe” 🤣