Just in case anyone’s not sure how to find cool games on Steam:
- Visit Woke Content Detector
- Click “Not Recommended”
- Enjoy :)
For added entertainment, they sometimes Don’t Get It and what they say is “subtle” is, in fact, right in your face.
e.g. they say Monster Hunter Wilds is “subtly pro-climate action” which is like saying a tungsten cube is “slightly hefty” or Life Is Strange is “a little bit gay”
(Tagged for NSFW for sexual content in review descriptions.)
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This is beyond parody lmaoooLmfao the mask comes off in some of these. Dredge is woke because “black woman has job in 1900s Europe” 🤣
OMORI
No woke themes or negative depiction of Christianity. However, the main character, Omori, is a “hikikomori” or “shut-in”. According to Japanese government data, there are about 1 million such people, or less than 1% of the population. As such, NOT RECOMMENDED.
Woah, a minority? This dude is FRAGILE.
Excuse me what??? Yime Nikki is literally one of the biggest entries for indie games, it inspired a shit ton of games like Ib or Undertale, and its protagonist is (alledegly) a hikikomori.
This people just can’t play anything with a charac that is not normative huh, what a bunch of misserables
If they’re going with that, then all games should portray Chinese and Indian characters only to not be “woke” since they’re the majority.
They are doing it on a per-country basis. For example, they are OK with everyone being Japanese if the game is explicitly set in Japan.
imagine being afraid of the abstract concept of a minority.
such a specific phobia, must be less than 1% of the population.
eVeRyOnE iN mY GaMeS BeTtEr Be LiKe At LeAsT 30 % Of ThE PoPuLaTiOn! EvEn If I’m In tHe ToP 1 % Of fRaGiLe MeN MySeLf!
Christians are about 30% of the population. white Christian male protagonist must be about less than 10% of the population, literally unplayable.
this is how i find out the metal slug games are on a deep discount
That list sucks. Every game is not recommended. These people are literally the most miserable people and have no games to play.
Wall-E game review:
Has obvious pro-environmentalist and anti-consumerist themes (hypocritical). Robots have arbitrarily coded gender with the “female” shown to be more “advanced.”
This has to be a parody… right?
Poe’s Law suggests that there is literally no way to know. The Steam discussions (I strongly suggest you do not venture into them) suggest a roughly 50/50 split.
Has obvious pro-environmentalist and anti-consumerist themes (hypocritical).
I mean… yeah.
No, they are that stupid
This is a real world example of why media literacy matters.
Most common reasons for being woke:
- Gay people
- Gay people getting married
- Player can be gay or trans
- Non-white people
- Player is non-white
- Strong women
- Socialism
Their “non-woke” approved games include Bayonetta, Tropico, The Witcher, and Final Fantasy XII.
Bayonetta - the one where both the protagonist and primary antagonist are a strong woman with magical powers? That Bayonetta? The one whose soundtrack and art style was designed to be primarily feminine?
Also, I’d be willing to bet they don’t consider The Witcher as woke because it has lots of nudity, with the male main character being able to boink a whole bunch of NPCs.
Bayonetta - the one where both the protagonist and primary antagonist are a strong woman with magical powers? That Bayonetta? The one whose soundtrack and art style was designed to be primarily feminine?
yea but she’s hot, so clearly it isn’t woke /s
By “Strong Women” I think they mean “non sexualised Women”.
100% couldn’t agree more.
We have an indie game they declared “woke” because it has a non-binary main character. That main character is a half drawn stick figure. Never drawn with pants or a dress, or even two arms (they have just one).
But this half drawn childrens stick figures with no identifiable gender is too “woke” for this person.
Media literacy is indeed dead.
Edit: Name of our game is INK INSIDE.
Elden Ring
Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Uses body type in place of biological sex during character creation.They only made it to the character creator. Nothing about the gender-changing Goddess, the way you can marry Ranni and she doesn’t care about your gender or the way that no character blinks when you change your body type in the middle of the game.
There’s also nothing about colonialism, racism, or genocide being portrait as being bad, but they aren’t very media literate.
As funny as it is to meme on these douchebags. There are some disturbing entries.
Strange Horticulture
Slightly Woke
Contains subtly anti-patriarchy messaging. The npc Faye was raised by her mother who ran away once Faye’s father hit her. ‘Once is enough. When he struck her it finally broke the hold he had over her’According to these people, escaping abuse is not okay.
On this website you can more easily search through the list.
remember when they reviewed disco elysium?
Contains overtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Features multiple LGBTQ+ characters including the player character. Heavy social commentary regarding communism. Whether pro or anti is unclear.
To be fair, part of what I love about the game is they rag on everyone, communists, fascists, liberals. If Chapo Trap House didn’t do the original voices I may not have known as well.
It’s pretty clearly pro communist, just messy as hell
It’s just not uncritically so.
And nobody who isn’t one would have been able to write half those characters.
The Deserter and the infra-communist study group, plus Everett Clair?
One thing I love about the game is that while you’re given many opportunities to give pro-communist opinions, Harry himself is a little too much of a fuckup to translate it to meaningful political sentiment. no matter what he espouses, he’s a miserable man reaching for ideology for his own ego’s sake, and that’s worthy of critique regardless of the specific ideology.
editing to add: this contrasts well with Kim, a centrist/Moralist, the ideology the writing seems to have the most disdain for. Kim himself, however, is very consistently sympathetic. In context, his decisions are not driven by ideology outside of the basic belief that the RCM is legitimate and beneficial. Outside of that he’s open to critique but only really cares to respond to it as it pertains to the case, because that is the primary context where his opinion actually matters. It creates a very likable and righteous character in a political position the game is arguably most critical of.
Yes! It’s so good!
And it definitely hates communists in ways only a communist could.
The communist study group was amazing. I didn’t meet them in my first play through, because I was too much of a noncommittal ~~centrist liberal ~~ moralist, but I made sure to go extra hard commie on my second run.
I laughed so much, because they reminded me so much of people I literally know. No-one I know directly lines up with the characters; it’s more like if we took the commie essence out of all my friends, distilled it down and then crafted two characters out of it. It feels almost cliché, but it’s not an inauthentic depiction
‘What are you doing?’
‘Infra-communism.’
Doubly amazing because by the physics of the setting it could actually be a thing
I haven’t played in years, and I already knew going in, so I couldn’t really judge if I could have figured it out or not.
It read like a better version of some shit I would’ve written.
Edgy literary probably queer communists.
Like the very nature of what the cops even are (supposed to be) in that part of that setting is Utopian.
ACAB (except Kim Kitsuragi)
wait what’s the story with the original voices?
Before the Final Cut release, the people from Chapo Trap House voiced some of the characters. Back then it had much less voice acting though.
Features multiple LGBTQ+ characters including the player character.
I haven’t played Disco Elysium, but it strikes me as the type of game where you’re character would only be gay if you choose to do so.
“There was a dialog option to either ask a man out on a date or say goodbye. I clicked the asked him out on a date and the game forced me to flirt with another man! This is so woke!”
I haven’t played Disco Elysium, but it strikes me as the type of game where you’re character would only be gay if you choose to do so.
Conservatives don’t want to let you even have the choice to be gay in fictional settings.
Because they are so tempted to choose them.
Admitting gay people exist is an attack on the political identity. Reality has a liberal bias.
reality has a liberal¹ bias
And so I declare a crusade against it!
¹in the fascist sense of the word, which includes everyone between Emma Goldman and Joe biden
Oh they know gay people exist, they just don’t want them to exist, or at the very least, bury themselves into the closet and have kids in a heterosexual passing relationship anyway because they believe that is more important than anything.
They see media not as a reflection of reality, but as a way to enforce an ideal “reality”, hence why they’re threatened by women doing things and gays and trans people existing. In their world, queers don’t exist, women are barefoot, pregnant and tied to the kitchen sink, and men are manly to the point of homoeroticism.
Reported the curator for offensive.
“This dude is like. Fuuuuuuuckin lame.”
I only found out about Kitsune Tails, a very gay Super Mario game with fox girls, thanks to WCD.
They truly are doing the gods’ work. <3
Adding that one to my wishlist, it looks lovely. Too bad it’s not on GOG
It’s on Itchio if you want a DRM-free version to keep forever, https://eniko.itch.io/kitsunetails
Good to know! Sometimes dev abandon their itch.io pages, so you can only get the most updated version of a game on steam
The dev is on Fedi, they are already working on a new game so I doubt they’ll update Kitsune Tails more
https://wokedetector.cirnoslab.me/ someone made a website that compares the list to your steam library
I just tested myself and burst out laughing. Apparently Surviving Mars is woke because the little models of the colonists are too diverse 🤣
Holy shit I think I might be woke
Only 619 of my games were rated, but my Steam library has over 4,000 games. Dude needs to review more woke games so I can get a better indicator of my wokeness level. 😆
By the way, only 11.55% of my rated games were not woke. 23.58% were woke, and 64.87% were slightly woke.
I’m definitely using this curator to find some good “woke” games from now on.
cool, only 7% of my playtime and 20% of games are not woke
I only got slightly woke. Rookie stats. Got it get up to full woke.
According to raw numbers 16.44% of my profile is “Slightly Woke…” but according to my playtime 34.99% of my playtime makes me “WOKE!!!”
So, I guess I’m woke by action, not necessarily intention.
However
Sierra Knox is implied to be a lesbian.
I’m never playing Hitman again. Woke trash.
My favourite part of the detector is the multiple futa porn games marked as Not Recommended for “hermaphroditic sexual content”.
Fun tangentially-related fact: when Weird Al performs Albuquerque live nowadays, he takes a break mid-song to apologise for using the word “hermaphrodite” and explain what he intended. It’s the longest song in his repertoire and giving the band a break mid-song is very handy too. :)
They had to check, of course.
“My Wife Sucked a Futanari’s Toes” 💀
Assassin’s creed liberation: The player character is an improbable WOC assassin who fights to free slaves in French Louisiana.
As opposed to the totally realistic depiction of white male assassins in the franchise.
As opposed to the totally realistic depiction of white male assassins in the franchise.
What white males? The arab, the native american, the italian, the greek and egyptian?
oh, the one that was set in victorian england? Also the many others I missed because I stopped giving a shit after 3 and they ran all their goodwill into the ground?
I love how murican white racism is just xenophobia. “White? But that person with a
#FDEFE5skin is from a Mediterranean country!!!”I love how murican white racism is just xenophobia. “
I’m not american. Italians and other south Europeans/Mediterraneans were considered non-white and discriminated in the past; if you are against “wokeness” than you should also be against considering Italians as white, since they are accepted due to trends of social progress and integration. Thus, Mediterraneans should be considered persons of colour for DEI non DEI purposes.
I do not care if they are or are not white, do not harbor ill will towards them, and don’t consider myself particularly white either (ethnic Turk). I do want to deny people who seek to gain cachet by pretending to be part of a “better” (their perspective, not mine) race to further their own social standing, because I want them to realise these systems and viewpoints oppress others, and people like them.
Also; if Mediterraneans from southern europe are considered white, why not Mediterraneans from northern africa? Those parts of the coasts of the Mediterranean were also in the roman/etc empires, what’s wrong with those places? Why do they not get to share in the legacy of rome and western civilization?
if Mediterraneans from southern europe are considered white, why not Mediterraneans from northern africa?
Because the whole discrimination/racism thing is moronic and not rooted in rationality? I get where you’re coming from but they don’t care at all.
Not sure I get the point of your comment but Ezio is white, yes. If I gave enough of a fuck I’d argue that Alexios is, too. There are also like 3 english dudes, and the viking.
please see the reply above
These groups are so sad. Imagine all the cultural enrichment and great gameplay they’re missing out on because they trust the word of a terminally-online doofus that huge swathes of games are dangerous to play because of their sticky psychological rootkit-like messages about not hating marginalised people.
