I get that there are apparently certain leftwing themes in Deus Ex, but the underlying explanations that are given for why things are like they are and what motivates the various groups are an incoherent conspiracy theory. Maybe I'm being too serious, but if we are thinking about why chuds look at certain games and take weird, non-leftwing messages from them, I think one of the reasons is because a lot of rightwing conspiracy theories utilise people's latent sense that our world is wrong and they are getting fucked over. They just direct people towards conspiracies instead of socialist critique. If games do that, then they aren't genuinely leftwing imo. Even if they utilise a counter-cultural aesthetic