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  • Anvilicious: This game isn't exactly subtle in its negative portrayal of capitalism, in fact it absolutely embraces this fact and turns it up to eleven, with the main villain being almost comically evil to the point of not caring at all about the people he employs, and his complete inability to compromise his profits just to de-escalate the situation.
  • Catharsis Factor: Getting to tear down Whippleton's empire piece by piece. The game even uses it as a sales-point in its advertisement!
    "The unique catharsis that comes from throat-punching a billionaire ghoul who would rather watch the world and everyone on it burn than lose a tax break."
  • Genius Bonus: The bomb weapon is called the Haymarket, which only historians would truly be able to understand. It refers to an incident during an anarchist rally in Chicago where a bomb was thrown at policemen, which ultimately led to eight anarchists being convicted (though no one knows for certain who threw the bomb).
  • No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: This game is unashamed in its pro-socialist, anti-capitalist message, and unsurprisingly attracted the ire of some of the conservatives it is criticizing. For instance, National Review, a prominent conservative publication in the USA, posted a review which praised the game's gameplay but denigrated its message, and accused the developers of hypocrisy in working with corporate publishers to sell the game on Steam and Switch (which if you know how Socialism is actually meant to work rather than how most Americans thinks it works makes the review all the more amusing). The developers then linked the review on its Steam store page.

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