How those ultra woke games are always very positive on Steam?

[Cursed Life]

Are steam users gay?

[atms]

Originally posted by xxman:

Call me old fashion but if the game was good PEOPLE WOULD HAVE BOUGHT IT..

in ideal world? yes. Not in the world of reviewbombing and calling everything woke and DEI. Then any sales numbers comparisons are just not fair. People stopped having their own opinions. They would just listen to their favorite influencer and that's it.
And as much as I like Asmongold myself and his fights against DEI, he is not always right.

[LazyJoeBeard]

When the game sells poorly that means only a small amount of people can review it and the people who bought it usually bought it because they either like it or agree with the messages of the game and would rate it positive, that is why it has a positive review score, only their target audience which is very small bought it and had the ability to do reviews.

[Taweret]

The game is transparently woke, that means only woke gamers that enjoy this niche genre of visual novel/point-and-click adventure? will buy and play it. Chuds will not buy this game because they have at least 2 functioning brain cells to not waste money and fund something they dislike. They will rather spam forums for free and brag about how they are "winning".

[xxman]

Originally posted by atms:

Originally posted by xxman:

Call me old fashion but if the game was good PEOPLE WOULD HAVE BOUGHT IT..

in ideal world? yes. Not in the world of reviewbombing and calling everything woke and DEI. Then any sales numbers comparisons are just not fair. People stopped having their own opinions. They would just listen to their favorite influencer and that's it.
And as much as I like Asmongold myself and his fights against DEI, he is not always right.

You know people do the opposite right? If the game was good people would have reviewed positive bombed. There is no reason why if this game was good people wouldn’t and bought it. But people don’t, life is strange was successful but than they started to lose their audience. Why? Only degrading quality can explain that.

[atms]

sure sure. It still doesn't explain why do you all care so much about the game and studio?

[Taweret]

Originally posted by atms:

sure sure. It still doesn't explain why do you all care so much about the game and studio?

Anti-woke influencers are inciting their defamation campaign, as a result, the game gets more attention than it should. They are basically "anti-woke" activists that can be seen in any woke game Steam forum. Just based on my personal observation, it's the same faces.

[LazyJoeBeard]

Originally posted by atms:

sure sure. It still doesn't explain why do you all care so much about the game and studio?

They don't like it, that is the whole point of the thread, they are protesting against woke games and pointing out they cause loss of jobs and the closure of studios. If what I read is correct the studio is attempting to fire 60-70 employees but a union is actively attempting to prevent it, if this info is true the game flopped quite hard.

[atms]

Originally posted by Taweret:

Originally posted by atms:

sure sure. It still doesn't explain why do you all care so much about the game and studio?

Anti-woke influencers are inciting their defamation campaign, as a result, the game gets more attention than it should. They are basically "anti-woke" activists that can be seen in any woke game Steam forum. Just based on my personal observation, it's the same faces.

true, cringe though

[Gin51]

Its good that now only people that brought the game can do reviews because there some path3t!c people that would make fake reviews just to increase the negative ratings of a game without playing it...

[Gin51]

Originally posted by Taweret:

The game is transparently woke, that means only woke gamers that enjoy this niche genre of visual novel/point-and-click adventure? will buy and play it. Chuds will not buy this game because they have at least 2 functioning brain cells to not waste money and fund something they dislike. They will rather spam forums for free and brag about how they are "winning".

One question how spam forums and brag show that they have some functioning brain cells, Its show the opposite...

[admiral1018]

The review scores are positive because the audience for this game really enjoys this type of content. The problem is that that audience is a very small niche of gamers. The "modern audience" types who are very vocal on Twitter and Reddit are not gamers. They advocate for progressive content solely because they just want to see their message spread (and to irritate the "chuds"). but they never spend their money to support developers. This is something that has been proven time and time again.

Games like this will almost never be commercial hits. If this is taken into account and calibrated by treating them like an indie title with a small budget, that model can work. But putting AA-level resources into it is a sure-fire way to get a studio closed.

[FehiŸ]

Yes.

[herbstwerk]

Originally posted by LazyJoeBeard:

Originally posted by atms:

sure sure. It still doesn't explain why do you all care so much about the game and studio?

They don't like it, that is the whole point of the thread, they are protesting against woke games and pointing out they cause loss of jobs and the closure of studios. If what I read is correct the studio is attempting to fire 60-70 employees but a union is actively attempting to prevent it, if this info is true the game flopped quite hard.

It's 49 now, was 69 in October... seems the union had some success here.
https://www.stjv.fr/en/2025/02/struggle-pays-a-deal-was-found-at-dont-nod/

And it's fine and dandy to not like it and complain if an established franchise suddenly goes out of it's way to check some boxes and potentially pander. But this isn't the case here. It's also from an studio that has primarily made games falling in exactly this niche.

Everyone here complaining about how horrible all this woke stuff is is basically going out of their way to antagonize others or to brigade because of manufactured outrage by whatever YT/TTV "personality" they follow.

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[NoDurp]

It's pretty simple. If your game has a niche audience, regardless of if it's political stance, then those who enjoy that niche are the ones who buy it and judge it. The millions of people who don't enjoy the game placed their money elsewhere and were never going to waste there time buying it, forcing themselves to play a game they hate for 2hrs, all just to leave a bad review.

There are 3 general possibilities for games that receive tons of neg reviews.

1- Game gets review bombed because it went out of it's way to entice a specific crowd and it was worth it for them to hate on it (rare cases)

2- Game had mass appeal but flopped for any number of reasons and those masses who bought it, just didn't like it. (typical scenario)

3- Game is niche and most people wouldn't waste the time playing it except for those who enjoy the genre and thus the masses never leave a review. Hence the mostly positive reviews by a smaller set of players who were likely to enjoy it from the onset. (this game)

Just take a look at MHW, it's a flop based purely on Steam reviews, but there is more to the story. 1st clue is the fact that the sheer volume of reviews suggest that it did VERY well financially (without even having to look up the numbers).

2nd, the neg reviews appear to primarily be around performance rather than the game and are specific to PC gamers. While it might look like a flop compared to this game in regards to review score, it's very easy to see how it's a financial success.

Capcom can afford to keep their studio open as a direct result of the financial profit from MHW whereas DoNotNod might struggle to do so, despite the glowing reviews.