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Unironically it has a lot of opportunities to not be a lib in the game. It’s not communist by any means, but you gotta hand it to them you definitely get to kill cops, klan, and loser southerners. I’ve never played Atomic Heart but I remember the talk around it was that the aesthetics were cool but still lib at heart.
Atomic Heart is basically just lib in the sense that it doesn't really care about politics at all. It's set in a communist society but that doesn't really matter, because it's the robot apocalypse anyway.
Which is pretty cool tbh, a game set in a communist society that doesn't constantly monologue at you about how communism no food social credit corruption tyranny is a pretty positive step.
I guess I have to give it a try because I can’t really see how a game like that wouldn’t just blame all the bad things happening to you on the communist society that made the robots.
Granted I haven't actually finished the game so maybe it takes a turn like that eventually. But I got pretty deep into it and as far as I could tell that's not the angle they were approaching it from
Interesting. I might have to pick it up then.