The Worst Wokest Video Game Ever Made Dustborn

 The Worst Wokest Game Ever” Dustborn

YouTuber Smash JT reacted to the game’s trailer and the interview in a video titled “Dustborn: The Most WOKE Game Ever Releases Next Month…” stating, 

“That’s what this game basis its premise upon. Words are used as weapons and have the power to change minds and this is used politically to push the agenda within the game.”

He also detailed, “It kind off feels like the developers of the game are sending some sort of subliminal message to the gamers like, ‘Hey, learn how to use words to fight against people and get your ideologies pushed across to them, which is exactly what gamers have been rejecting since gaming became a thing ever.”

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Later in his video, he questioned, “How many people are going to out of their way to pay to play this woke garbage? 

Honestly, looking at it for what it is and knowing what I know about it and based off of what’s transpired by the other games before it, I don’t see this game getting anywhere close to even 500 players. 

And that in itself is going to be such an epic fail that the studio is not only going to be reeling from it, but potentially closing down because of it

Dustborn is written as though its creators heard complaints like "Keep politics out of games" and defiantly went in the opposite direction. 

It is one of the most overtly political and, more specifically, unapologetically leftist games I've ever played, and that uncommonly brazen setup makes its early hours very interesting, but it falls apart in the second half due to monotonous combat and a final few chapters that undo the stronger first half.

I can't say there was one exact moment that turned me away from the group. In hindsight, it feels like it was more of a slow burn. 

The game's earliest of its 15 or so hours are heavy on the world-building and I found much of it fascinating. Dustborn plays with an alternate history in which JFK's wife, Jackie, was killed in Dealey Plaza instead of him. 

This caused Kennedy to crack down on crime with a new national police force called Justice, which, in a manner reminiscent of the slow-boiled frog, reshaped the country for the worse without it ever being obvious enough to inspire a strong resistanceStart writing...