It is a farm simulation game, but it is full of subversive propaganda. The main story is about cleaning the pollution off the island and forcing the evil corporation to leave. The inhabitants of the island are diverse as you can get. Half the island is homosexual and your character can engage in homosexuality as well.
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While the mega corp in Stardew Valley is painted negatively, the game literally lets you side with it, which then allows you to shortcut quite a bit of content unlocks with gold instead of goods bundles. It also has distinct cutscenes for when you do that, such as showing a work crew fixing the bridge instead of a bunch of forest sprites. There are no negative gameplay consequences for going this route. In fact, it has an achievement so you must do this at least once to 100% the game.
And on the romance side, multiple characters are canonically straight, none are canonically gay. All the marriage candidates are "Playersexual", so the only fag in town is the player (maybe), which gives a fag ratio roughly in line with real life.
Well that's why the game isn't shutout as a completely woke game comparatively. Because its not 100% on rails in that regard and you can make those choices, even though the entire "fandom" has already determined all the morality of it (such as Clint being an evil incel). And I think the non-corpo path really downplays how awful the "local shop" is by the same principles it shits on the corpo for.
The point wasn't that Stardew was horrifically bad for that, its that its all been done already by Stardew in a much better way so there is nothing left going for it.
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