Game is art. Too bad the artform is largely reactionary and creatively bankrupt, making it reactionary art. At best, you have select games that are progressive. And to counter this, I can point to entire genres (H-games, gacha bulllshit, war crime simulators) that are completely irredeemable. I think having an entire game genre that preys upon and financially ruins people with addictive personalities is completely fucked. When's the last time you've heard a song or a movie materially ruin someone's life like a gacha game?

Beyond the irredeemably reactionary genres, they are plenty of fascist and reactionary games as well. But the reverse is completely untrue: there's no such thing as a revolutionary game. The closest is probably Thatcher's Techbase or Fursan al-Aqsa. I do not know any other artform that simultaneously has irredeemably reactionary genres without revolutionary genres to at least balance things out. Where's the game equivalent of constructivism or socialist realism? When even an otherwise good game like Stardew Valley peddles in warcrime apologia despite having no reason to do so whatsoever, I knew I need to begin divesting in this crappy artform.

Let's take painting as an example. Reactionary paintings include loli shit and fascist propaganda from fascist regimes like Nazi Germany and cringey online communities like /pol/. Revolutionary paintings include social realist paintings and art made during the Cultural Revolution. You could argue that the reactionary paintings outnumber the revolutionary paintings, but there's at least something. There's reactionary and revolutionary (and everything else in between) paintings being painted everyday. Games have nothing. It's not the fact that reactionary games exist (we live in a reactionary society, which means most art that comes from that society, games included, will be reactionary), but it's the complete absence of revolutionary games that cause me to give up on the genre.

Besides painting, let's consider another artform: poetry. I could think of plenty of revolutionary poems, poems written by Mao and Ho, poems written by Black Panthers like Huey Newton or Assata Shakur, poems written by Palestinians who yearn for the destruction of the Zionist entity and the liberation of Palestine. If anything, it's to poetry's credit that I can't think of reactionary poems, certainly not reactionary poem genres. I guess there's that unfortunate poem by Lovecraft called "On the Creation of N-words." When I think of a reactionary poem, I think of some medieval romance that shits on the peasantry and sucks off the king.