I enjoy the premise of the game but to me the message seems to be blatantly anti communist, but I have not yet played it. Any thoughts on this?

  • EldritchMayo [he/him,comrade/them]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    Yes, the country from what I have seen doesn’t seem communist, but to me even without googling I knew what it was trying to represent. It’s pretty blatant that it’s imitating the eastern bloc, aesthetically at least, although I think it’s more of caricature of it than reality. The whole sex thing is pretty transphobic imo. It would be a better mechanic if the regime was explicitly fascist, who have been historically transphobic, and perhaps incorporating moral problems into that by forcing you to choose between sending someone to prison for being trans or feeding your family. That would probably also be a controversial mechanic, but the point I’m trying to make is that the game should try and comment on fascism’s inherently evil fixation on trans people. On the other hand I’d be worried if that flew over actual gamer’s heads who would be like “haha deport trans people” or something, not considering the moral implications of such actions

    • unperson [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      You could headcanon it as "What if the Hungarian Uprising succeed but also I was a transphobe".