I wish cozy games weren't so woke, they all use identical themes, wow corpos bad like I haven't seen that a thousand times already. I hate that I like this genre because of how shitty most of it is. Pass. Also the character designs make me nauseous, why is a massive gunt an option in the character creator?
Yeah, there's a lot of cute, cozy and "wholesome" games that I'd love to play that are just infested with TQ+ characters. It's inescapable. At least Stardew is relatively free from it, all things considered.
I've had my eye on
Coral Island and
Fields of Mistria, and both just scream woke, "safe" and unproblematic. But both games also really cater to me as a woman looking to play low energy games with maybe a romantic subplot that isn't explicit but warms my soul, if that makes sense.
It sucks, man. VNs like GVH are all too common if you aren't playing Japanese VNs. Hell, you'll find plenty of politically aware/woke VNs
with an animu style made by western devs, games that have solid, conventionally attractive characters that at a glance don't appear to be woke.
You can't fucking escape the brainrot if a game genre even hints at potentially being comfy, cozy or "made for women" because all three words equate to "queer coded" and "by queers, for queers".
I also will NEVER understand people wanting to make ugly, obese or disabled characters in a piece of escapist media. Wheelchairs aren't cool or fun. Being stuck in one is a hindrance and surely it must be depressing to not be able to escape it, even in fiction? I'm ugly, I'm obese, I don't want to play as me in a video game when I spend the rest of my time being obese and ugly.
That gunt slider screams fetish material to me.