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Aphelion by DON'T NOD (Life is Strange) has completely bombed at launch — peaking at just 219 concurrent players on Steam before dying down to double digits. This is peak woke fatigue in gaming - players are done with heavy identity politics, pandering, and "modern audience" lectures instead of actual fun gameplay. Lead Writer Leigh Alexander — the "journalist" who wrote the 2014 Gamasutra article declaring "Gamers don't have to be your audience. Gamers are over" — is now watching her own words destroy the very industry she helped radicalize. Her involvement as lead writer on Aphelion has turned this sci-fi title into yet another casualty of the culture war. Brutal Steam charts, the bald black woman protagonist signalling, forced DEI over story, and why 2026 gamers are finally rejecting this deliberately ugly nonsense.
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