The Communist Manifesto is now a playable visual novel on Steam, and the service is apparently recommending it to players and listing it amongst their new releases.
The "game" features the entirety of Karl Marx's diatribe on the merits of a society built purely on the vice of covetousness.
The game also has the following features, which are sure to get gamers all excited:
Choose whether to ask Engels for footnotes.
Track your completion of the glossary to unlock extra features.
Unlock and view images of the authors, drawings of them, and sketches by Engels.
The reviews are as mixed as our society.
Some people love it.
Some hate it.
But some write awe-inspiring reviews like this:
A few great quotes from above:
Sry m8, this is the closest you'll ever get to installing a virus made of failure.
You don't play this game, you endure it.
Bro wrote economic theory the same way TikTokers give life advice...from a mattress they don't own.
Karl Marx, the philosophical equivalent of a welfare queen with a printing press, drops into your screen like a ghost of ideas that should've stayed dead. One image. One speaker. One failed ideology. It's like Stalin made a PowerPoint.
You click "next" while being force-fed 19th-century fanfic about killing landlords, all written by a guy who never paid rent in his life.
No action, no drama, just you and a fat dead bearded dude trying to sell you a system that killed more people than smallpox with an axe.
And what do you get for finishing it? Just the existential dread of realizing you spent an hour of your life letting a broke philosopher whisper in your ear like it's ASMR for the terminally naïve.
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The game sounds horrible: even more horrible than having to read the accursed text back in college.
In contrast, what looks like a fun game is the yet-to-be-released Westmen from Studio DynoStorm, at least if this one scene is any indication anyway:
Shout out to Not the Bee user @gwen42 for the heads up about this story.
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