Let's Sperg Games worth playing despite woke reputation?

[Grub]

I liked Celeste even though the entire game is pretty much an allegory for trooning out. The only other overtly woke game I've played is Timespinner but that game was shit.

 

[Eleventyish]

Symphony of War has a completely average story and characters, with the female version of the main character being an obvious tranny self-insert, but man it is fun.

It's a 16-32 bit Fire Emblem rip off, but with Ogre Battle style squad management instead of solo fighters. Very fun. No charisma and alignment micro bullshit.

 

[Safir]

The game is condemned as woke for the high crime of ...having a mixed race relationship.

This the first time I've seen anyone claim that Stardew Valley is a woke game, and it's for an incredibly retarded reason. Holy shit. It's a game where you fish, grow plants and raise animals and befriend villagers, for God's sake.

Stardew Valley has potential gay relationships, with a visual indicator that you're not enough of a completionist (the game is not a sandbox, it's essentially about completionist, esp. as of the recent update) if you don't "romance" every single character. It also has gay adoption and post-birth abortion body horror (and that in a game whose developed . It's therefore bad for kids, who might stumble into a fag relationship just fucking around doing stupid shit.

Signalis kinda has the reputation of being a woke game, but that's mostly because of its fan base, who are obsessed with making yuri content involving the main char and her love interest.

The main char and her female love interest, from what I've heard. SO this narrows it down to three possibilities:

• dyke game for dykes
• coom game for men
• woke

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I nominate Shovel Knight (although I'm not up to date on it).
In the original version, every important character, except the hero's love interest, was male. When I played, they just added the option to switch individual characters' sex, prominently featuring the group settings "default" (no faggotry) and "opposite" (girl fighting girls and rescuing boy, played as a joke and still no faggotry). At that point I'd say the game would be mostly ok for children and the possibility of faggotry could be ascribed by parents to developer stupidity. Last I heard, they added a separate setting for pronouns, including genderspecial pronouns, that don't have to match the body, which makes the game Not For Children.
But an adult (probably -- maybe they added other soyshit) can just not touch the settings and enjoy a non-woke playthrough (ideally by pirating the game).

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

I liked Celeste even though the entire game is pretty much an allegory for trooning out.

Celeste has good music. But wasn't the trooning out thing retconned by the creator to curry favor?

 

[eDove]

Fear & Hunger, for sure. I haven't touched the sequel because it seems like it's been totally plagued. But if you ignore the fanbase at all costs, that first game is an incredible experience.

It's rife with fucked up themes, including homosexual situations. So, of course, the violently autistic teenage "fans" who found out about the game through YouTube videos just think: "wow, that's so deep, scary, and hot," and they've made the whole game about that.

 

[Grub]

Celeste has good music. But wasn't the trooning out thing retconned by the creator to curry favor?

I dunno. Probably but unlike the matrix, Celeste really does give the vibe that it was made by someone mentally disturbed.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

I love bugsnax and it's woke as fuck but the story kinda unintentionally undermines it. Out of the 13 grumpuses theres two gay guys in a relationship, two lesbians in a relationship, and a non-binary. Five out of thirteen are different flavors of fag and most of the men are incompetent especially the husband in the only straight relationship. The thing is that the crux of the story is that every character in the game is a complete fuck up, so yeah there's a non binary but it's an asshole who everyone hates and does unethical experiments on people and there's a gay couple but ones a paranoid conspiracy skitzo who thinks there partner an idiot and constantly talks down to them and lies to "protect them". Basically all the woke shit gets balanced out by the fact there all intentionally pieces of shit who would rather run away to some desolate island full of weird food insects and risk dying than actually deal with there problems. theres also a burger who says "bunger!" Over and over so that already makes it worth putting up the gays and the they/them bullshit.

 

[Exit fullscreen button]

The main char and her female love interest, from what I've heard. SO this narrows it down to three possibilities:

• dyke game for dykes
• coom game for men
• woke

None of these actually. It's basically isometric silent hill 2, with androids, taking place in space east germany. The main char's partner only shows up very briefly right at the end, and in only the secret ending do you do anything remotely romantic with her (the two characters dance for like 10 seconds), with no sexual themes whatsoever. It's an unironically good game, if you like survival horror.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/signalis.188768/
There even is a thread on the game itself, but it mostly focuses on its fanbase because they're absolute weirdos.

The Game
Signalis is a Isometric Survival Horror Game that wears its influences on its sleeves, Eva, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Lovecraft, The King in Yellow, and hell even has a System Shock Reference in there too. I almost don't want to talk too much about the game, it is truly worth a playthrough if it sounds interesting to you. Pirate it, buy it from a key reseller, commit tax fraud to buy it, however you get it I truly recommend you give it a shot in spite of the Devs or fanbase.

 

[Coolio55]

I nominate Shovel Knight (although I'm not up to date on it).
In the original version, every important character, except the hero's love interest, was male. When I played, they just added the option to switch individual characters' sex, prominently featuring the group settings "default" (no faggotry) and "opposite" (girl fighting girls and rescuing boy, played as a joke and still no faggotry). At that point I'd say the game would be mostly ok for children and the possibility of faggotry could be ascribed by parents to developer stupidity. Last I heard, they added a separate setting for pronouns, including genderspecial pronouns, that don't have to match the body, which makes the game Not For Children.
But an adult (probably -- maybe they added other soyshit) can just not touch the settings and enjoy a non-woke playthrough (ideally by pirating the game).

IIRC they've done some other sweet baby shit recently but that genderswap feature actually sounds really fun even if it was made for retarded reasons.
Yaght Club has a lot of ex-Wayforward staff and you can turn their game into another Shantae. Brilliant.

 

[The Ugly One]

Ultrakill, which has an infamously troon infested fanbase but is still a really well done FPS.

"I realized I'm transgender because I like things women like and men don't, such as first-person shooters with fake-retro graphics where you blast zombies into fountains of blood with superpowered weapons."

 

[starborn427614]

I love bugsnax and it's woke as fuck but the story kinda unintentionally undermines it. Out of the 13 grumpuses theres two gay guys in a relationship, two lesbians in a relationship, and a non-binary. 5 out of thirteen are different flavors of fag and most of the men are incompetent especially the husband in the only straight relationship. The thing is that the crux of the story is that every character in the game is a complete fuck up, so yeah there's a non binary but it's an asshole who everyone hates and does unethical experiments on people and there's a gay couple but ones a paranoid conspiracy skitzo who thinks there partner an idiot and constantly talks down to them and lies to "protect them". Basically all the woke shit gets balanced out by the fact there all intentionally pieces of shit who would rather run away to some desolate island full of weird food insects and risk dying than actually deal with there problems. There's also a burger who says "bunger!" Over and over so that already makes it worth putting up the gays and the they/them bullshit.

Basically, they wrote actual characters instead of stereotypes.

 

[I.B. Niggin]

Based on the very thread here, I'll say Disco Elysium.

I went in originally expecting forced woke nonsense and extreme amounts of fart huffing but I left with a totally engrossing experience and charmed by many different characters, the soundtrack, and the atmosphere.

Goddamn shame we'll never have anything like again at this point.

 

[analrapist]

Celeste has good music. But wasn't the trooning out thing retconned by the creator to curry favor?

Originally, the allegory was alleged to be about depression, which I guess is close enough to be portable to trannyland. I bought it then, as I was doing battle with depression myself at the time. The troon stuff happened after my purchase, which was hella pissoff.

 

[Neodanthril]

I'll start with the most obvious one. Stardew Valley.

I'm surprised no one has modded out the fag and nigger stuff, the black guy isn't black coded at all so you wouldn't have to change any dialogue and changing the skin color on a sprite sheet is easy as pie. Fag stuff could be very easily modded out too. It is funny that the black character is by far the most hated npc in the game by the community.

On topic, you could make a case that ion fury ( formerly titled ion maiden but the band iron maiden were faggots and threatened litigation) is woke in that the player character is female, but it is fun if doomclones are your thing. I hear 3d realms screwed people over on a collectors edition of the game though, so be aware of that

 

[BrodyDaMan]

Based on the very thread here, I'll say Disco Elysium.

I went in originally expecting forced woke nonsense and extreme amounts of fart huffing but I left with a totally engrossing experience and charmed by many different characters, the soundtrack, and the atmosphere.

Goddamn shame we'll never have anything like again at this point.

I agree. Anthony on Amarna Forum posted a fantastic analysis of the game.

[I don't know if I've ever seen a lucid explanation of what Disco Elysium is about, which is very simple. It's always these breathless wistful lamentations by people who wish they were capable of being moved by "OHRT" but clearly aren't.

Disco Elysium is a hopepunk work made by relatively intelligent people who still want to be leftist but know that it's over. Or perhaps Joever. The game's conceit is to suggest that all politics are silly and distracting and absurd and that if we could all just lo-fi crunchy hopepunk bodega in the moment our penises off none of this shit would just fuckin matter, you know?

Parts of it work quite well without any need for further scrutiny on my part. Nothing sinister beneath it. Just good. I think the game looks nice and distinct, handles seamlessly, I enjoy the way it handles like an isometric RPG with no combat focused on rich interactions with a small area and cast. It does a good job of creating a sense that you're really interacting with people. Especially the protagonist's partner.


What's intended to be the tone and primary takeaway of the game is a kind of stoic desperation, bravura in the face of grief over the poor prospects of the human condition. But what's really going on, and you can almost feel that *they know this too*, is that it's their vision which is specifically sick and dying. This game takes on a new kind of poignancy viewed as a kind of swansong of 21st century leftism. A last stand for the sake of dignity. Which is actually very thematically in line with the content of the game and its narrative. Morons say that it's tragic and ironic that a game about fighting late capitalism got destroyed by corpos, but that's not the story here. The story is that artfags with leftist sympathies wanted to make something that resonated with how they feel about the world, and decided that it had to be a story about hopelessness and despair because they believe in a failed dead-end. The game's intentions could be read as cynical, but because I like that one music track so much, I'm going to choose to pity these people.

Disco Elysium is where the top minds of leftism were at right before the ones who wanted to still be cool threw in the towel and started lifting thoughts straight from Moldbug and Costin.

There's your media literate reading of this game. And probably the only one that exists.

 

[Judge Dredd]

(Ninja'd but posting anyway)

I heard it also has faggotry, and some degree of communist themes or something like that.

For communist themes, none that I've seen. I've not finished it yet. It's a very long game, I'm 50 hours in and I'm about 35% of the way through? It's hard to say because every time I think I've seen everything another layer opens up.

The intro has you working for a soulless megacorp named Joja. You're depressed so you open a letter your late grandfarther left you, turns out you inherited a farm. Early on Joja opens a super market in the village and you can choose to side with the local shop or Joja. Joja are portrayed as the bad guys, but you can side with them if you want.

It was getting the woke label because everyone is bi and there's like, one or two rando nobody NPCs that allude to being gay.

And the female characters were ugly. I want to say there were girlbosses with side shaves, but I never played it.

Like, I get it, some people want to have same-sex romances or play as a weird race or character. Having the option to do that might be a plus to other people and that's fine. As long the devs don't prioritize it over important mechanics, and the woke garbage is easy to ignore, or is inserted into the world in a believable way, it's possible for it to not worsen the experience.

One of my major gripes with woke is how it's killed some of the fun stuff. In the same way any modern day game with anthros gets condemned for being "furry", there's no option to hot female characters without being taken as a side in the culture war. And that's before we get into actual fetish bait like the hot lesbians like Fear Effect 2. I feel that kind of stuff is broad enough to be appreciated by everybody, but is also not really done these days.

And as I mentioned in the game dev thread recently, it's almost impossible to include anything without some fanbase construing it as fetish bait. Pretty much every Mario power up is met with a bunch of horny art and "they knew exactly what they were doing..." comments, as if Nintendo deliberately made peach turn into an elephant because they're chubby chasers or into transformation fetish or whatever.

Based on the very thread here, I'll say Disco Elysium.

I hear two conflicting versions.
1. The game is pro communist and allows you play a fash bashing commie.
2. The game is anti communist, and while you can do a commie playthrough, it makes it clear it's a failed ideology.
Which one (if any) is true I don't know.


Thread Tax: I've not played Lunacid, but I heard it was great, right up until an update where the dev added pronouns to own the chuds. Even more jarring because it's supposed to be a Kings Field throwback.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

I never really felt that Baldur's Gate 3 was "woke" because it's actually a really good game

I would like to play BG3 if you could tone down the thirst of some of the characters.

 

[Tari]

Celeste has good music. But wasn't the trooning out thing retconned by the creator to curry favor?

Yes (partially).
It's an allegory for overcoming depression and then it got retconned into getting over the depression of dysphoria.

1. The game is pro communist and allows you play a fash bashing commie.
2. The game is anti communist, and while you can do a commie playthrough, it makes it clear it's a failed ideology.
Which one (if any) is true I don't know.

From Wikipedia:

Robert Kurvitz (born 8 October 1984) is an Estonian novelist, video game designer, and musician. He was the lead writer and designer of the 2019 video game Disco Elysium as a founding member of the ZA/UM cultural association and the eponymous video game development company that grew out of it.

Kurvitz has a green-gold bust of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin on his writing desk, which he claimed formerly belonged to Estonian communist writer Juhan Smuul.

I'm surprised no one has modded out the fag and nigger stuff, the black guy isn't black coded at all so you wouldn't have to change any dialogue and changing the skin color on a sprite sheet is easy as pie. Fag stuff could be very easily modded out too. It is funny that the black character is by far the most hated npc in the game by the community.

People have, the mod just got removed from mod sites because they can't have anything that's actually fun. Iirc the based stuff is on /vg/?

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

I never really felt that Baldur's Gate 3 was "woke" because it's actually a really good game

I feel act three is when the game gets a stick up its own ass and start sucking black cock with no sign of stopping.

Pathfinder, Wrath of the rightness suffers from the same deal with blacks, trannis and gays being there just to fit a quota but not as bad as BG3. thankfully, there is a mod that fixes that.

https://rpghq.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2191-wokeless-wrath-1-6c-pathfinder-wrath-of-the-righteous

 

[I'm Retarded?]

I never really felt that Baldur's Gate 3 was "woke" because it's actually a really good game

Yeah I think it's not so much woke as it is crowded by weirdos, hence said weirdos rallying around the druid/bearsex guy during the testing phase.

BG3 is a bit of a mixed bag. while it's true that the more disgusting parts of its fanbase initially showed up for the bear sex, it's also true that Larian has gone to great lengths to stuff it with more hackneyed romance, chronically thirsty NPCs, and awkward videogame sex than even a BioWare game. their previous games had some of this shit too, yes, but even Original Sin 2 didn't shove it in your face nearly as hard and as often as BG3 does. it's obvious to me that a bunch of troons and coomers were folded in during the development process, as Larian ballooned in size and attached several satellite studios and contractors to get it done. I've been a Larian fan since Divine Divinity, and a Baldur's Gate fan since the 90s, but despite BG3 being a dream game on paper, I bounced off of it very quickly due to the nauseatingly horny vibe. maybe I'll go back to it in the future, but it feels too much like a Dragon Age game to me. I dread their next project.

I liked Celeste even though the entire game is pretty much an allegory for trooning out. The only other overtly woke game I've played is Timespinner but that game was shit.

Celeste has good music. But wasn't the trooning out thing retconned by the creator to curry favor?

not necessarily to curry favor, but because the creator himself trooned out, and since everything in a troon's life story has to be retconned as a journey to troondom, Celeste's creator claimed post-trooning that the game's themes of self-searching were akshually about questioning gender identity

The main char and her female love interest, from what I've heard. SO this narrows it down to three possibilities:

• dyke game for dykes
• coom game for men
• woke

incorrect. the game takes place in a cyber hell future space dystopia, every part of its story is a horror element. the main character is an android of questionable sanity. the love element only exists as a motivation for her to do horrible shit. there's no pro-rainbow shit, no coom, no woke. it's a pretty fucked up horror story in which everyone is having a bad time.

thread tax:

being an obscure boomer shooter, Supplice hasn't really attracted a lot of attention. but a notable amount of the attention it has attracted is negative due to its "woke" themes. aside from the mystery meat protag, the story contains all kinds of bullshit such as pronouns next to every character's name, constant elevation of same-sex relationships with almost no hetero characters in sight, villains being almost exclusively authoritative men, unironic use of terms like "trauma dumping", even light tankie rhetoric and union fetishizing. I call it Millennials in Space. luckily, all that cringe is hidden behind optional data consoles you have absolutely no incentive to interact with whatsoever. the game itself is absolutely fantastic and very well-made - one of the best shooters in the genre IMO, even though it's still in early access (the core gameplay itself is complete, they're just adding episodes to the campaign). it really feels like the writer is just some asshole who's been tacked onto the project and has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the team's work. highly recommend - just skip the optional consoles, or take their contents with a grain of salt.