Title. Need some examples of games that had lefty politics and leanings and weren't too ashamed to hide it. Platform/country of origin is irrelevant. I know about FF7's support for ecoterrorism, and even the nuance about the people caught up in the middle, and there's plenty of games that take an anti-corporate stance, but that can be easily brushed aside.
I'm specifically interested in this era as it's when games first acquired the ability to become fully immersive in their narratives with the adoption of multimedia melding into the core gameplay loop via the use of full motion video, voice acting, detailed images and so on.
Reminder: all games are political; even abstract puzzle games.
Been sitting here for a while trying to remember the story of Xenogears and what the politics actually were..
I remember a distinct criticism of religious politics and creationism theory lurking somewhere, but it has been a very long time
Yeah, the big church organization in the game is revealed to be a tool to control people for the "empire"
and they turned the poor into food
Gonna do this from memory, because being wrong is fun...
spoiler
A rogue sentient planetary siege weapon brokes loose while being transported through space... either be used or to be destroyed.
The captain of the ship tries to self destruct and kill the weapon but only manages to critically damage it. The remains of the weapon and enough genetic material hit a habitable planet that the weapon begins to rebuild itself. A part of that rebuilding is to create "humanity" from scratch.
The technologically advanced society that seems to be pulling the strings behind the scenes in the current period is guided by a group of religious zealots. Their religion is part of the programming from the weapon's self repair project.
I can't remember too much the politics of the game, just the "xenogenisis" and "religion as a literal part of the programming of living beings that serves the purpose of making those beings nothing more than literal cogs in a literal machine."