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This week's EGS giveaway game is some pure ideology
(hexbear.net)
The game's blurb:
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
Imagine the horrible communist dystopia of a really nosy landlord, something that can only happen in a Totalitarian Authoritarian country!
Lmao this is the exact same fucking drivel as Papers Please making up fake east bloc countries rather than making a game about ICE and the US border.
Game devs are forever stuck shadowboxing the frightful hobgoblin rather than producing art against the dominant capitalist order.
This fucking shit isn't even up to date, you're doing three stooges stasi schemes from the 70s and 80s rather than doing anything remotely commenting on the complete and total surveillance world that has been built around us digitally.
It will surely win twenty quintrillion awards and be praised relentlessly for 15 years for how effectively it savages the commienist totalitarians.
On the bright side it's going free 3 weeks after release so it must not be all that successful
There are games that legitimately are released for free day one on EGS, Cygni: All Guns Blazing was one a while ago.