Valve Remains Silent As Racist Plantation Sim Game Trolls Everyone
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Steam guidelines claim to ban 'content that is patently offensive or intended to shock or disgust viewers'

On May 12, a developer going by FzzyBzzy released the wildly racist slavery simulation game Plantation Simulator onto Steam.

It’s a top-down sim game in which you play as a Southern plantation owner forcing a number of Black slaves to grow crops under threat of being beaten. That’s it. That was the game.

For the first week or so this game was live, it mostly flew under the radar. No reviews, no players really, according to SteamDB. But around May 20-21, it started picking up.

Reviews began to trickle in, the vast majority of them positive, containing racist commentary, and largely written by people who had played for less than half an hour. For context, the game’s concurrent player peak was 109 individuals last night.

Posted later in the day yesterday, the 1.2 update changed the Black slave characters in the game to white people. A further update not long after changed the whipping animation to a string of hearts, put bikinis on the slave characters, and updated the mature content description to, “In this game, your friends wear bikinis and you can give them little kissies.”

We’ve reached out to Valve for comment twice now about Plantation Simulator and haven’t heard back, and the game remains on the Steam store at the time this piece was published.

    • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      35·
      13 days ago

      The creator, FzzyBzzy, who bills themselves on Twitter/X now as “Creator of the worst games known to humanity :3”, seems gleeful about all of this. In their announcement of the second update last night, they wrote, “Hi gamers! We’ve listened, and we heard YOU! We’ve fixed ALL the issues you’ve been wanting! We’ve added hearts and little kisses for your friends as you become the best new age plantation owner ever! Good Luck! And Keep Gaming!!! UwU.” Their tone on X is similar, up to and including a troll post just a few hours ago in which they “announce” their studio is closing and that they are laying off 200 employees.

      Sounds like a legendary troll

      • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        95·
        13 days ago

        I’d have to look at the rest of their stuff before really deciding. I mean, all in all, they still made mechanics where you whip slaves and shit, thats fucked up, even if it is for a joke.

          • Nelots@piefed.zipEnglish
            5·
            13 days ago

            And you can make furniture and hats out of people! To be fair though, there is no whipping slaves in the game. You can threaten them, scare the hell out of them by putting skulls on spikes, lobotomize them, cut off their legs and install permanent pain-inducing shit into their brains (the closest to actual torture you can get), etc., but you can’t whip them. RimWorld is really interesting in that sense because it somewhat shows the strange and inconsistent limits of what people are willing to accept in their game.

          • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
            48·
            13 days ago

            I’d have to go find it, pretty sure theres mad evidence the RimWorld devs are chuds anyway. Sad.