Expeditions: Conquistador is a great game, and indeed, you can play as a group of bloodthirsty racists out for gold - but you don't have to. I played it as a humane explorer who helped the oppressed natives overthrow their cruel Aztec overlords, but refrained from backstabbing them afterwards. Basically just establishing peaceful relations.
You've got a point about military shooters though (America's army etc.), but I don't play that kind of game, they're too propagandistic for my taste.
I didn't get that impression, but tbf I only played it once, as a "good" character.
The only thing that was pretty silly were all the female soldiers, apart from that the game didn't strike me as overly politically correct.

"Sees Tonight We Riot as a freebie on GOG"
"Claims the game"
"Sings The Internationale in front of his PC"
"Returns to his proletarian status in real life"

Cockstar only published the game and only published PS2/Xbox versions. Developer is independent from C*.
PC version is published by VIS (developer).

If anything, C* has 0 interest with re-releasing such games; they can't even still put Max Payne 1-2 and Manhunt 1-2 on their launcher.

You can play a a racist or misogynist or anything you want your character to be in Disco Elysium, but you have to turn him into that. He starts as a blank slate as he wake up with amnesia involving not just his life but the facts of the world too.

Thank you GOG, developers and publisher for the free game! Greatly appreciated!

From what I can see, this seems to be a pretty lighthearted game that doesn't take itself too seriously and as such I'd say it's far more harmless in its messaging than games where you're the protagonist of a real-world military or alphabet agency with the aim of defending some abstract "freedom" or subjectively defined "human rights" through military force. Some have criticized the game in light of recent Antifa and BLM riots but no one has actually referenced anything in the game's content that would directly relate to these organizations. Antifa and BLM are for that matter not true leftist groups as they are far more concerned with identity politics than with social equality and while they are in the news as of late in regards to rioting, they are neither the first nor last to resort to rioting due to social strife.

I actually see far more relation to the "Occupy Wall Street" movement as far as the political message of this game is concerned, more than anything else currently going on in the US. And while I'm not a proponent of communism, I'm even less so a proponent of unfettered neoliberalism and corporate capitalism - so in that sense I don't have a dog in this fight and I'm not particularly offended by socialist or communist-leaning factory workers kicking their capitalist employers' butts. And though I'm generally strongly against the insertion of political or social agendas in games, I make an exception when it's abstracted out of any current political events, i.e. when it's fictionalized, and it seems to me this game fits this bill of being removed from real-world politics while at the same time managing to be overtly political. That is, unless I've missed something about the game's content that has also been omitted in the criticisms in this thread....

The one aspect on which I would find reasons to criticize this game is not in relation to its overt political message but has to do with the whole "curation" aspect to GOG:s decisions of which games to include and which not. This game barely fits the bill strictly quality-wise to be included in a curated collection but then again neither do many other games readily available on GOG, so in that sense this game is far from the only exception to the curation rule - and at least they had a pretty straightforward incentive to make an exception in this case as they were able to offer it as a freebie .

To be honest, the game's advertising is what does it... Oh, hey, and did you see the flag?

I mean, sure, it's not BLM and Antifa, that's just a nice little strawman. It's also kind of like this other game i keep seeing getting bashed for transphobia when it's really unlikely that the dev has any knowledge of the whole movement in the west, seeing as they're japanese, so some harmless little joke got blown out of proportion.

Hey, a free game! Why not? Redeemed!

I presume this game is about the Capitol Hill incident, right? Power to the people!

EDIT: The graphics remind me a bit of "SWJ Riot: Troops vs Women (in Videogames)", which I believe would have been somewhat similar to this game, right?

indiegogo.com/projects/sjw-riot-troops-vs-women-in-video-game#/

Thank you Gog c: Will try it as soon as i can!

The game itself is very repetitive with very awkward controls - a combination of mouse and keyboard that makes no sense whatsoever! And no, there is no way to change them.
The game is basically going up to things and pressing the punch button with the occasional press of the shift key to get more violent commies and then repeat everything till you get sick of it.

Also has run of the mill trashy pixel graphics paired with a really annoying musical score.

The fact that it promotes a vile ideological message in the game is another matter. It basically promotes violence, that's what the call to "Direct action" means. Communism in all it's flavors is evil.

The moment I saw this game was being given away, I immediately thought I was in for a real stupidity overload in the dedicated thread.
As always, GOG users don't disappoint: I'm seeing all kind of imbecility, and the giveaway ain't even over yet!

Reading about the educated opinions of all this doctors in politics, philosophy and economy is fullfilling and satisfying.
(This was a joke. With the average intellignece here you can never know)

Thanks for the free game! And thanks for the laughs from folks triggered by this.

You do realise that Cultural Marxism is basically just Nazi propoganda repackaged for the modern day, right?

It wasn't called the National Socialist party for nothing. Even Fascisms father has ties back to Communism.
Communists and identity politics always turn on each other in the end.

Actually it pretty much was, the Nazi's used the name to get the working class man to vote for them, but none of their policies ever really lined up with true socialist/communist values and when they came to power, the Socialists and Communists were some of the first people sent to the concentration camps.

Now, as thrilliing as this discussion is, I will point out that this thread is meant to be about videogames, and as intreresting as a debate this is, it is also very off-topic and also I'm way too tired to get invested in online arguments at the moment