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This week's EGS giveaway game is some pure ideology (hexbear.net)
submitted 7 months ago by buckykat@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net
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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!

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[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 36 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

The weird thing about Papers Please is that it's not from Eastern Europe like these 1984 authoritarian gommulism bad games usually are.

[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 19 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago

Yeah it's just blatantly dishonest, they're pissing on you and helpfully explaining that it's merely raining ammonia-rich water.

[-] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

Have to make it about fake evil European country because Americans can't point to Singapore on a map.

[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

It will surely win twenty quintrillion awards and be praised relentlessly for 15 years for how effectively it savages the commienist totalitarians.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

On the bright side it's going free 3 weeks after release so it must not be all that successful

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I feel like I played this game years ago? Yeah it came out in 2016 lol

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

Oh I see, the "release date" is just when it was added to egs

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

There are games that legitimately are released for free day one on EGS, Cygni: All Guns Blazing was one a while ago.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

Being a landlord is bad

sicko-yes

But only in a "totalitarian country"

sicko-no

[-] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

Also it's like maybe the Stasi would have been a less nosy if you guys had been less Nazi, IDK.

[-] buh@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

average airbnb owner

[-] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago

England, the video game

[-] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 2 points 7 months ago

No non state-installed landlord has ever reported tennants for crimes like the wrong political alignment, the wrong sexuality, or growing the wrong plant.

Bad things only happen when the department of evil spying makes them happen.

this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2024
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