Based on the above list, games featuring post-apocalyptic settings, gay characters, traps, bishōnen, fan-service, historically inspired or alternate history settings, settings accurate to how the world outside of the Chinese government states it, loot boxes, gacha, games depicting gambling, games with Twitch or live-stream integration, smoking, drinking, tattoos, games featuring any military or nation other than China in a favorable light, positive depictions of evil mythological creatures, defeating gods, depicting Nazis, real world religions, games from Japan, and games with an anime art-style would all be forbidden.
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loot boxes - so basically everything with multiplayer component
gacha - good riddance
gambling - even as side mini-games? basically everything
Twitch or live-stream integration - Is that thing? That's something that's usually a console feature.
smoking - Can't really thing about any non-western series that features smoking
drinking - Bars are kind of stable background in any setting so basically everything
tattoos - basically everything
games featuring any military or nation other than China in a favorable light - basically all FPS
positive depictions of evil mythological creatures - basically most of jRPGs that experiment
defeating god - basically all jRPGs
depicting Nazis - in case any FPS managed to slip through
real world religions - basically everything
games from Japan - how specific
games with an anime art-style - in case games from Japan wasn't specific enough.
Can anyone seriously think of any game that can go through this extinction filter? All I can think of is Sports games.
Games that come with bribes addressed to local Chinese official?