What are the most Marxist or at communist-friendly games?

All I know are

Marxist or AES-Positive

  • Disco Elysium
  • Atom RPG
  • Civilization 1-4
  • Metro Exodus
  • Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic
  • Red Faction Guerilla

Anti-Capitalist

  • Pathologic 2
  • Red-Dead Redemption 2
  • Fallout New Vegas
  • Hitman

Potentially Based

  • 35mm (Sergey Noskov, Sometimes You)
  • In the Rays of Light (Sergey Noskov, Sometimes You)
  • Frost Punk
  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Barret's a true revolutionary in the original too. He wasn't always one, but he has a rough past with Shinra and his anger at them got redirected towards the revolutionary project when he learned theory at an indigenous commune.

    • CellularArrest [any]
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      3 years ago

      I've heard one of the things lost in the original translations, Barret was a sad Marxist.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Ooh, I've never heard that. I know that FF7 was basically translated by one guy with a spreadsheet and a lot of coke.

        • CellularArrest [any]
          ·
          3 years ago

          I watched a video about it a while ago, a guy who speaks both English and Japanese fluently went through and played it in Japanese and went (more or less) line by line to explain the differences.

          He was extremely sympathetic to the guy you mentioned giving him the benefit of the doubt, and pointing out the massive amount of work Square gave him. He surmised the translator wanted to make Barret more "relatable" to Americans by making him an "angry black man" using the only context he had for black men. (Mr. T)

          In the Japanese texts they really hammer home that his anger is fueled by sadness and his worldview is even more explicitly leftist (I'm pretty sure he says most certainly Barret is a communist).