Just in case anyone’s not sure how to find cool games on Steam:
- Visit Woke Content Detector
- Click “Not Recommended”
- 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.)
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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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No, they are that stupid
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.
To be fair, part of what I love about the game is they rag on everyone, communists, fascists, liberals. If Chapo Trap House didn’t do the original voices I may not have known as well.
It’s pretty clearly pro communist, just messy as hell
It’s just not uncritically so.
And nobody who isn’t one would have been able to write half those characters.
The Deserter and the infra-communist study group, plus Everett Clair?
One thing I love about the game is that while you’re given many opportunities to give pro-communist opinions, Harry himself is a little too much of a fuckup to translate it to meaningful political sentiment. no matter what he espouses, he’s a miserable man reaching for ideology for his own ego’s sake, and that’s worthy of critique regardless of the specific ideology.
editing to add: this contrasts well with Kim, a centrist/Moralist, the ideology the writing seems to have the most disdain for. Kim himself, however, is very consistently sympathetic. In context, his decisions are not driven by ideology outside of the basic belief that the RCM is legitimate and beneficial. Outside of that he’s open to critique but only really cares to respond to it as it pertains to the case, because that is the primary context where his opinion actually matters. It creates a very likable and righteous character in a political position the game is arguably most critical of.
Yes! It’s so good!
And it definitely hates communists in ways only a communist could.
The communist study group was amazing. I didn’t meet them in my first play through, because I was too much of a noncommittal ~~centrist liberal ~~ moralist, but I made sure to go extra hard commie on my second run.
I laughed so much, because they reminded me so much of people I literally know. No-one I know directly lines up with the characters; it’s more like if we took the commie essence out of all my friends, distilled it down and then crafted two characters out of it. It feels almost cliché, but it’s not an inauthentic depiction
‘What are you doing?’
‘Infra-communism.’
Doubly amazing because by the physics of the setting it could actually be a thing
I haven’t played in years, and I already knew going in, so I couldn’t really judge if I could have figured it out or not.
It read like a better version of some shit I would’ve written.
Edgy literary probably queer communists.
Like the very nature of what the cops even are (supposed to be) in that part of that setting is Utopian.
ACAB (except Kim Kitsuragi)
wait what’s the story with the original voices?
Before the Final Cut release, the people from Chapo Trap House voiced some of the characters. Back then it had much less voice acting though.
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!”
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.
Admitting gay people exist is an attack on the political identity. Reality has a liberal bias.
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.
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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Adding that one to my wishlist, it looks lovely. Too bad it’s not on GOG
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Good to know! Sometimes dev abandon their itch.io pages, so you can only get the most updated version of a game on steam
The dev is on Fedi, they are already working on a new game so I doubt they’ll update Kitsune Tails more
https://wokedetector.cirnoslab.me/ someone made a website that compares the list to your steam library
I just tested myself and burst out laughing. Apparently Surviving Mars is woke because the little models of the colonists are too diverse 🤣
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cool, only 7% of my playtime and 20% of games are not woke
I only got slightly woke. Rookie stats. Got it get up to full woke.
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.
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.
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.
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
Elden Ring
Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Uses body type in place of biological sex during character creation.They only made it to the character creator. Nothing about the gender-changing Goddess, the way you can marry Ranni and she doesn’t care about your gender or the way that no character blinks when you change your body type in the middle of the game.
There’s also nothing about colonialism, racism, or genocide being portrait as being bad, but they aren’t very media literate.
As funny as it is to meme on these douchebags. There are some disturbing entries.
Strange Horticulture
Slightly Woke
Contains subtly anti-patriarchy messaging. The npc Faye was raised by her mother who ran away once Faye’s father hit her. ‘Once is enough. When he struck her it finally broke the hold he had over her’According to these people, escaping abuse is not okay.
On this website you can more easily search through the list.
Cool game detector
My favourite part of the detector is the multiple futa porn games marked as Not Recommended for “hermaphroditic sexual content”.
They had to check, of course.
“My Wife Sucked a Futanari’s Toes” 💀
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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.
This is beyond parody lmaoooOne of my favourite games (Transport Fever 2) was declared non-woke. I will hearby name every station after a Queer person, event, or thing. Not even God can stop me.
When everything is woke, nothing is.
Lmfao the mask comes off in some of these. Dredge is woke because “black woman has job in 1900s Europe” 🤣
I follow Woke Content Detector to find great games.
Not Recommended that are fantastic, too name a few;
- Hunt
- Dredge
- Citizen Sleeper
- Not Tonight
A recommended game is simply based on not having “woke”.
The best review is for Space Marine 2. https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Woke_Content_Detector/discussions/1/4763207947399842071/
The initial pitch:
-Your squad in this game consists of a black man and an Asian man instead of being all-white like the first. Clear DEI positioning. Two of the multiplayer classes is also black with no option to choose a different ethnicity, only to cover his head with a helmet and pretend he isn’t (which doesn’t count). There is no explanation for this. The Asian man in the campaign in particular treats the white protagonist with suspicion, though he comes to trust them by the end of the game.
-Main guard commander is female (a position usually occupied by males), but defers to the all-male Astartes. Mixed point since the main Guard character was female in the first game but wasn’t a full commander unlike the Major here.
-The Imperial Guard present in the game also has women on the frontlines in combat gear.
-At least one of the developers is on record of having pro-woke opinions. https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/12/13/warhammer-40000-space-marine-ii-senior-writers-support-for-defunding-police-and-blacklisting-cis-white-men-sparks-concerns-over-games-narrative-creative-director-insists-team-will-honor-lor/
-The Warhammer franchise in general has been noted for going woke with the introduction of female Custodes, previously also an all-male faction.
Some counterpoints that I don’t feel overwrite the woke sentiment but are worth mentioning:
-The enemies of the game are either inhuman insect-like monsters or humans who have fallen to worship of a god of change. While change may include a certain change (transgenderism), that mainly falls into the purview of another Chaos God in the lore that is not present; the game therefore avoids killing transgenders/hermaphrodites/what have you but that cannot be considered to make it woke on its own due to them not being present in the game at all.
-The protagonist is a white man, and so are his superiors. The Astartes are general are an all-male faction, but the recent decision to include other races when previous depictions were all-white with no explanation is a red flag.
Any addditonal points or opinions?
EDIT: Okay, so there are external lore factors I was not aware of. Thank you for letting me know.
I say leave it open in case someone finds something more definitive to mark it as woke, since there might have been something I missed.
The confirmation of why Space Marine 2 is “woke”:
For the record, I’ve held off on adding this game until I get a better understanding of the lore. I don’t know much about Warhammer 40K so trying to research this game has felt like venturing into a quagmire.
Every discussion I’ve seen about the diversity in this game has just been people arguing over the lore.
All that being said, this game will likely be added as not recommended.
Here’s where I currently stand:
It seems to me there are lore explanations for why the space marines would be ethnically diverse. On the other hand, the diversity seen in this game appears to be improbably diverse (artificial).
The support squad (Valius’s squad) has the exact same ethnic diversity as Titus’s: 1 white, 1 black, 1 asian.
Unless the Ultramarines have a diversity quota for 3-man teams, that seems extremely unlikely. Even when you account for the large pool of recruits from many different worlds. If anything, it suggests the Ultramarines do have a diversity quota.
Furthermore, while there was a female front-line combatant who worked with the space marines in the first game (2nd Lt. Mira), she was a junior officer who became the most senior officer still alive due to heavy casualties. By contrast, this game features Major Sarkaana, a female officer who is not just a front-line combatant, but a senior officer as well.
Major Sarkaana is much older than Lt. Mira was, so it is possible she has simply been in war for a long time. However, this too is unlikely. Not only do these wars have extremely high attrition rates, they push humanity to the brink (hence the necessity of the space marines). I find it rather hard to believe a woman fighting on the front-lines of such a war would be able to (on merit) stay alive and rise through the ranks.
Possible? Maybe. Probable? I don’t think so.
I’m still looking into the game so let me know what you guys think.
Addendum:
Major Sarkaana introduces herself as a member of the 8th Cadian regiment. From what I’ve read, the Cadian Shock Troops are considered the most elite members of the Imperial Guard. Without technological enhancement, I don’t see how a woman could possibly be among the most elite front-line combatants of the entire Astra Militarum.
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Assassin’s Creed NOT RECOMMENDED Contains a disclaimer about multi cultural develipment
Prototype WARNING Parents of main character are divorced
Prototype 2 NOT RECOMMENDED Main character is black
Solo Downhill Racing RECOMMENDED Straight, white male character rides a BMX bike alone in different terrain
