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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.
The weird thing about Papers Please is that it's not from Eastern Europe like these 1984 authoritarian gommulism bad games usually are.
It's fucking insane that he cites having to travel between Singapore and the US for work repeatedly as inspiring the idea for a passport inspector game, and then he makes it about Communism.
Ideal American swine artist brain.
I've seen libs argue that it's not really about communism, just a fictional authoritarian country.
Which happens to be clearly Eastern European and full of the usual Eastern Bloc cliches.
Yeah it's just blatantly dishonest, they're pissing on you and helpfully explaining that it's merely raining ammonia-rich water.