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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One of my favourite games (Transport Fever 2) was declared non-woke. I will hearby name every station after a Queer person, event, or thing. Not even God can stop me.
this is how i find out the metal slug games are on a deep discount
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. :)
“My Wife Sucked a Futanari’s Toes” 💀
They had to check, of course.
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
I follow Woke Content Detector to find great games.
Not Recommended that are fantastic, too name a few;
- Hunt
- Dredge
- Citizen Sleeper
- Not Tonight
A recommended game is simply based on not having “woke”.
The best review is for Space Marine 2. https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Woke_Content_Detector/discussions/1/4763207947399842071/
The initial pitch:
-Your squad in this game consists of a black man and an Asian man instead of being all-white like the first. Clear DEI positioning. Two of the multiplayer classes is also black with no option to choose a different ethnicity, only to cover his head with a helmet and pretend he isn’t (which doesn’t count). There is no explanation for this. The Asian man in the campaign in particular treats the white protagonist with suspicion, though he comes to trust them by the end of the game.
-Main guard commander is female (a position usually occupied by males), but defers to the all-male Astartes. Mixed point since the main Guard character was female in the first game but wasn’t a full commander unlike the Major here.
-The Imperial Guard present in the game also has women on the frontlines in combat gear.
-At least one of the developers is on record of having pro-woke opinions. https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/12/13/warhammer-40000-space-marine-ii-senior-writers-support-for-defunding-police-and-blacklisting-cis-white-men-sparks-concerns-over-games-narrative-creative-director-insists-team-will-honor-lor/
-The Warhammer franchise in general has been noted for going woke with the introduction of female Custodes, previously also an all-male faction.
Some counterpoints that I don’t feel overwrite the woke sentiment but are worth mentioning:
-The enemies of the game are either inhuman insect-like monsters or humans who have fallen to worship of a god of change. While change may include a certain change (transgenderism), that mainly falls into the purview of another Chaos God in the lore that is not present; the game therefore avoids killing transgenders/hermaphrodites/what have you but that cannot be considered to make it woke on its own due to them not being present in the game at all.
-The protagonist is a white man, and so are his superiors. The Astartes are general are an all-male faction, but the recent decision to include other races when previous depictions were all-white with no explanation is a red flag.
Any addditonal points or opinions?
EDIT: Okay, so there are external lore factors I was not aware of. Thank you for letting me know.
I say leave it open in case someone finds something more definitive to mark it as woke, since there might have been something I missed.
The confirmation of why Space Marine 2 is “woke”:
For the record, I’ve held off on adding this game until I get a better understanding of the lore. I don’t know much about Warhammer 40K so trying to research this game has felt like venturing into a quagmire.
Every discussion I’ve seen about the diversity in this game has just been people arguing over the lore.
All that being said, this game will likely be added as not recommended.
Here’s where I currently stand:
It seems to me there are lore explanations for why the space marines would be ethnically diverse. On the other hand, the diversity seen in this game appears to be improbably diverse (artificial).
The support squad (Valius’s squad) has the exact same ethnic diversity as Titus’s: 1 white, 1 black, 1 asian.
Unless the Ultramarines have a diversity quota for 3-man teams, that seems extremely unlikely. Even when you account for the large pool of recruits from many different worlds. If anything, it suggests the Ultramarines do have a diversity quota.
Furthermore, while there was a female front-line combatant who worked with the space marines in the first game (2nd Lt. Mira), she was a junior officer who became the most senior officer still alive due to heavy casualties. By contrast, this game features Major Sarkaana, a female officer who is not just a front-line combatant, but a senior officer as well.
Major Sarkaana is much older than Lt. Mira was, so it is possible she has simply been in war for a long time. However, this too is unlikely. Not only do these wars have extremely high attrition rates, they push humanity to the brink (hence the necessity of the space marines). I find it rather hard to believe a woman fighting on the front-lines of such a war would be able to (on merit) stay alive and rise through the ranks.
Possible? Maybe. Probable? I don’t think so.
I’m still looking into the game so let me know what you guys think.
Addendum:
Major Sarkaana introduces herself as a member of the 8th Cadian regiment. From what I’ve read, the Cadian Shock Troops are considered the most elite members of the Imperial Guard. Without technological enhancement, I don’t see how a woman could possibly be among the most elite front-line combatants of the entire Astra Militarum.
Not Tonight was a superb game and I really need to play it again
Dredge is woke? I don’t want to ask why to avoid spoilers for others. But I’m kind of at a loss to as why.
But yeah, it seems like that’s a good source of great games haha.
Maybe the woman mechanic on the beginning island is “unrealistic for the time period/setting”?
Just be. Ffs. How fragile are these CHUDS?
Dredge has a black women mechanic in a game that is based on the 1920s. Completely ignoring the fact that the game is completely fictional in a world that is flooded and has horrors beyond human comprehension.
Oh yeah. I didn’t think about that. Ffs though, why do people care about this shit (being woke).
I considered joining the discussion on Steam with a big “Thank you for giving me all these woke games to play” post. But then I saw that you can only post if you join the Steam group.
I do not want that stain on my steam profile, so I did not do it.
If anyone else is already part of that group, please feel free to troll the shit out of them 😁
I thought about joining and trolling the shit out of them. I would point every game to make it woke.
If Counter Strike Go is woke because:
Contains overtly pro-DEI messaging. Features multiple female agent skins, including a female Navy Seal and female SWAT officers. Vypa is more muscular than most male operators.
Then Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 which is not woke should be woke because: the Soviets have both woman commander and a woman special forces sniper, the Allied Nations have woman special forces, two women commanders, and finally the Empire of the Rising Sun has two women commanders and a woman special forces soldier.
I would’ve started with the easy ones before moving onto truly absurd ones. Bejeweled? Woke. Solitaire? Woke.
Better to just be silent and use the list as a recommendation. If they got aware of us using the list for recommends to buy, they’d lock it or whatever.
Always check though if it’s really “woke” or just something they don’t like that’s not per se gay/cool. If the makers themselves are indeed queer, chances are it’s what we would consider cool.
A few games that I could recommend to anyone blindly:
- Celeste
- Hades (and also Hades II)
- Fallout: New Vegas
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
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.
No, they are that stupid
Has obvious pro-environmentalist and anti-consumerist themes (hypocritical).
I mean… yeah.
https://wokedetector.cirnoslab.me/ someone made a website that compares the list to your steam library
cool, only 7% of my playtime and 20% of games are not woke
Holy shit I think I might be woke
I only got slightly woke. Rookie stats. Got it get up to full 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.
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.
Reported the curator for offensive.
“This dude is like. Fuuuuuuuckin lame.”
Cool game detector
When everything is woke, nothing is.
This is beyond parody lmaoooremember 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.
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.
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?
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)
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.
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.
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.
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
That list sucks. Every game is not recommended. These people are literally the most miserable people and have no games to play.
