The most objectionable, obscure commercially released games - Y'know, aside from woke stuff

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JFK Reloaded is probably worth a mention. It's not particularly degenerate even by the standards of 2004, but it was fairly controversial at the time of release, merely for the fact that you essentially play as Lee Harvey Oswald and are scored based on how accurately you recreate the assassination of the former U.S. President. It also released on the same day that Kennedy was assassinated, so it's clearly obvious that it was going for shock value as a form of free marketing. I think that most people have forgotten about it because there isn't much to the game. All you can do is replay the same short segment and go for a higher score.

Here's an old YouTube video of someone showing off the game if you're unfamiliar with it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=C5U5iu85oUM
Reminder the developer put up a bounty of $5,000 to see if whoever could get the closest to recreating Oswald's shot would win it.
Nobody could accurately recreate his shot.

Another game I was reminded of is White Chamber
A point and click horror game featuring a very Yu-Gi-Oh inspired artstyle mixed with a decrepit, fleshy, run-down space station that you have to figure out how to get out of. Don't see this one get talked about a whole lot.
 
lol, Harvester was an excellent game. definitely one of the unfortunately lesser-known gems of the old FMV adventure genre
Yeah, that was pretty neat actually, I wanna try it too but I'll probably just watch a LP.

sweet, thanks for the recommendations
Sure, you're welcom--HEY! :stress:

What gets me about these videos is how they always feel like they're trying really hard to come off as "I don't like this stuff and you shouldn't either!"

It's especially noticable whenever they talk about games involving rape or loli themes and they heavily overplay how gross and disturbing it is. And the whole time I'm just like "Dude, you're not fooling anyone."
What stands out to me is the guy had a more genuinely scathing tone when any of the white supremacist stuff came up than he did about the one with kids getting butchered. Really says a lot, typical libtard.
 
Commercially available is a loose definition now since online marketplaces count and distributors can skirt things far easier that way.

For something that you can buy a physical copy of and was available in actual stores, a lot of the Danganronpa series comes to mind. Particularly Ultra Despair Girls where one of the characters straight up just says 'Oh yeah I like younger girls. The younger the better', the plot is about a bunch of incredibly abused elementary school children (including one who faced sexual abuse), and there's a scene where for some reason a 16 year old girl is molested by a robot. This is kind of fresh in my mind since the tranny shooter today had an avatar of a character from the games.
 
Just don't look up the actor of Steve.
Chris accurately guessing was so hilarious.


The thing that pops out in my mind was a free PETA game where you get vivid depictions and descriptions of animal cruelty in a supposedly cutesy platformer. It was called Kitten squad.
I remember vividly downloading this for ps3 one day and being disgusted.

Also im playing as a good guy, but the new 40k Rogue Trader game is impressing me with how screwed up it can get and the choices available to you.
 
Some I don't see mentioned on the TLDW are Clock Tower 3, Rule of Rose, Mitchigan Report From Hell, and Fighting Vipers 2. I'll quickly go over them.

Clock Tower 3 was a PS2 sequel to the SNES point and click horror game. You play a young girl being chased by a killer. It was almost banned and I'm not sure why. I'm guessing it was you were technically a child. It also wasn't very good as a game by all accounts.


Rule of Rose was kind of similar. A child themed horror game. You played a teenager who is put through various trials by a bunch of sadistic kids. It's a collectors item these days, and as such is said to be one of the best horror games on PS2. The clips I saw of the game were really creepy.


Michigan was another horror game that I think was soft banned in places. I managed to get a copy, but the menus are broken so don't expect more than a casual playthrough from the PAL English release. You play a news camera man filming a monster outbreak. What stands out is the sex themes. You get points for not just filming monsters and gore, but upskirt shots and cleavage shots of the news caster. You could also sneak in on her while she's having a shower, but is FMV and you don't see anything. One of the memorable moments had a news caster turn into a monster with a mouth from her vag, which you then kill by dropping a garage door on it.

I might be making the game sound cooler than it is. But yeah, it's a broken, super jank, low budget horror game for nutters only.


Final game is something different from the others I mentioned. Fighting Vipers 2. It was a fighting game for the Dreamcast and Saturn. The idea is you had armour that could break during the fight, leaving you open to damage but also allowing you to do super moves. It was very minor in terms of controversy due to it's obscurity, but according to magazines at the time, people objected to the character Candy/Honey. Since you could see her underwear when you destroyed her armour, and her bio lists her age as 16. That's the age of consent in the UK.

It's very tame compared to the anime games of today with 1000 year old dragon lolis as Candy/Honey basically looks like a woman, or as much as Sega Saturn would allow.

(I'd post media, but KF is being spotty atm for me.)


Another game I was reminded of is White Chamber
I loved that game back in the day. One of the few point and click adventures I actually enjoyed. Great stuff.
 
I might be making the game sound cooler than it is. But yeah, it's a broken, super jank, low budget horror game for nutters only.
I've never played Michigan: Report from Hell (which, by the way, refers to Lake Michigan in Chicago, not the state) but the Audio Atrocities files are fantastic ("Ann...ANN...ANNNNNN...OH MY GAWD!"). The Audio Atrocities page has more--clearly it was supposed to be released in America but someone decided to spare everyone from the embarrassment.
 
joel from vinesauce has a pretty entertaining one
https://youtube.com/watch?v=56pN6QI7r0w
Hey thanks, I'll take a look.

For something that you can buy a physical copy of and was available in actual stores, a lot of the Danganronpa series comes to mind. Particularly Ultra Despair Girls where one of the characters straight up just says 'Oh yeah I like younger girls. The younger the better', the plot is about a bunch of incredibly abused elementary school children (including one who faced sexual abuse), and there's a scene where for some reason a 16 year old girl is molested by a robot. This is kind of fresh in my mind since the tranny shooter today had an avatar of a character from the games.
That's the one Danganronpa game I didn't really play, maybe they thought they could get away with pushing the envelope in a spinoff because I don't remember anything quite as indecent in the trilogy (aside from the whole teens being murdered thing, naturally).
 
Just don't look up the actor of Steve.
Every time people say something like this I do it anyway. Why do I never learn?

I watched a playthrough of Fun and that was the most edgetard shit I've ever seen. Also took the LPers only a couple of minutes to finish it, which he did twice in the space of the 7 minute video.
 
Every time people say something like this I do it anyway. Why do I never learn?

I watched a playthrough of Fun and that was the most edgetard shit I've ever seen. Also took the LPers only a couple of minutes to finish it, which he did twice in the space of the 7 minute video.
Harvester and Postal are actually good, but I'd be surprised if anything past "surface" isn't just a meme game.

If it helps, Steve's voice is a different guy.
 
The issue with "objectionable" games is that no matter what, it is still stuff being done to pixels rather than real life. This make it pale to comparison to films that either document/involve actual abuse, or books that document actual abuse.

It is also why moralists like to talk about video games, since no powerful people get criticised.
 
Fighting Vipers 2. It was a fighting game for the Dreamcast and Saturn
I had a bootleg copy of this game, God bless the 0-DRM dreamcast, and it was alright. I remember the armour breaking idea but had no idea one of the women was 16, though I was a teenager at the time so it probably never clicked with me.

Two disturbing games I remember from the CD-I days, which for those who don't know, the CD-I was basically a dvd player that played FMV games using a remote. Their version of Tetris had the best soundtrack of any Tetris game.

Anyway, the games were called Voyeur, where you played as a peeping tom looking in on another apartment building and, in a Hitchcockian manner, you witness a murder and need to solve it. The disturbing bit was how much sex was going on.

The other game was called 7th Guest, a proper dope puzzle game where you worked through a haunted mansion. The disturbing bit was something about sex, giving birth and murdering babies. I can't recall it properly as I saw it when I was a kid and i'm pretty sure my mind rejected it.

My parents were interested in the latest tech, but were nowhere near the likes of nerdish types of the 80s and 90s. They bought the CD-I thinking it was a family friendly console. Nope. Porn, snuff and child murder from top to bottom...with the exception of Tetris.
 
The issue with "objectionable" games is that no matter what, it is still stuff being done to pixels rather than real life. This make it pale to comparison to films that either document/involve actual abuse, or books that document actual abuse.

It is also why moralists like to talk about video games, since no powerful people get criticised.
It does like a relatively tame list compared to other media. Even the deeper levels are just an average trip to the wrong side of deviantart or 4chan. I don't want to brainstorm ways that video games could be as edgy as the most controversial films or books, but I'm sure it could be done.

I believe there's at least one arcade game with photos of very young "models" -- like strip poker or something. I don't think it's on this video's list, I don't remember the name, and I'm not going to look it up.
 
Rape Day:


It was almost released through Steam, but they pulled the listing at the last minute to stop it from being published through them.

It was sold for a very brief period of time through Humble, and was also subsequently pulled.

The creator tried to sell it directly through their site but they were quickly banned by all major payment processors.

The creator released it into the public domain since he could not find a way to actually sell it, so, it is free to download without breaking any laws.

Check to make sure it is legal in your country. Some Euro countries actually banned just downloading it.

The link above is only good for 72 hours.

Here are a few links discussing the controversy surrounding this game back when it was published in 2019:




 
I had a bootleg copy of this game, God bless the 0-DRM dreamcast, and it was alright. I remember the armour breaking idea but had no idea one of the women was 16, though I was a teenager at the time so it probably never clicked with me.
I don't know where in the game it's listed (if it's even mentioned at all, it could be something in the manual for all I know). As mentioned, she actually looks like a woman. I find the current crop of loli-bait "1000 year old dragon" type stuff far more objectional than that personally. In a way, it's like the reverse of that. They say obvious child characters are 1000 years old to avoid controversy, whereas Fighting Vipers scandal exists entirely because of some easy to miss trivia.

Anyway, the games were called Voyeur, where you played as a peeping tom looking in on another apartment building and, in a Hitchcockian manner, you witness a murder and need to solve it. The disturbing bit was how much sex was going on.
That sounds like a reverse of Night Trap. A game that was scandalous back in the day for it's sexual and violent FMV scenes. You're a security guard watching cameras for bad guys so you can trap them. I've never played it myself, but all the clips I've seen of the objectional scenes are really tame.
What's funny is that the re-release isn't censored as far as I know, but it got a Teen rating.

It was almost released through Steam, but they pulled the listing at the last minute to stop it from being published through them.

It was sold for a very brief period of time through Humble, and was also subsequently pulled.
There was a Pick-Up Artist FMV game that kept getting pulled years ago, but that seemed to be more because feminists didn't like it than any content in the game itself.

It does like a relatively tame list compared to other media.
That's also why it's fun. "Objectionable" games tend to be edgelord stuff like Rape Lay or Hatred.

One of the games on my backlog is BMX XXX. A Dave Mirra BMX sequel where between levels you get footage of stripers taking their tops off, and that was enough to get the game banned. I think it's still on Twitch's list of banned games. Imagine a film being banned from basically everywhere and is still taboo decades later because of a topless scene. People would think it's a joke.
 
Rule of Rose was kind of similar. A child themed horror game. You played a teenager who is put through various trials by a bunch of sadistic kids. It's a collectors item these days, and as such is said to be one of the best horror games on PS2. The clips I saw of the game were really creepy.
I own and have played a copy. I really ought to sell it, it's complete.

I can confirm there is nothing else like it from an aesthetics and a "what the fuck is this" standpoint, but it is extremely janky in the gameplay department.
 
Regarding Harvester:

If you’re still interested in trying it, it’s going for 99 cents on GOG right now.

As far as disturbing and slightly obscure games go, would you count I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream?

Point and click adventure game based on the Harlan Ellison story of the same name. The game is worth buying just for Ellison’s over the top performance as AM.

Game was fairly controversial by 1995 standards in the scenarios some of the characters faced, probably the two biggest standouts being Ellen having to face her past being raped in an elevator by a man wearing yellow, and Nimdok, a former Nazi who sold his parents out to the Third Reich and worked alongside Mengele
 
Rule of Rose is so fucking good. I think about it all the time, super memorable game. A shame the awful aspects of the gameplay ("mermaid" fight, namely) probably cost it a lot of players and fans. I think the outrage it got at release is funny when it's really pretty tame compared to other things that were already out there. Super fucked, sure, but more psychologically fucked than ripping-apart-babies-onscreen kind of fucked. And actually a pretty damn great story and tone. What a gem from such a classic era of horror gaming.

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Ew.
 
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