Line #8 VideoGame/KZManager


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4	'''KZ Manager''' is an Austrian game (with many clones) whose earliest version has been developed in 1990 and in which you are a [[TitleDrop KZ Manager]].[[labelnote:*]]"Konzentrationslager", concentration camp manager[[/labelnote]]
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6	In this game, the player is a Nazi [[POWCamp concentration camp]] [[VillainProtagonist director]] who has to manage the "HumanResources" (Jews, Turks and Romani) by [[WorkingOnTheChainGang making them work]] to meet the costs of the lethal gas and the burning of the corpses. If you don't execute enough inmates, your public opinion will drop and you will eventually lose.
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8	Yeah... It's that kind of a game. Needless to say, this game is [[{{Understatement}} very controversial]].
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10	See also ''VideoGame/EthnicCleansing'', a similar game.
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13	!!This game presents examples of the following tropes:
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15	* ArtisticLicenceHistory:
16	** Turks were never targeted by the Nazis for extermination. While some Turks died in the Holocaust, their murders generally had nothing to do with them being Turkish. Their inclusion is likely due to tensions between German nationalists and Turkish immigrants in post-WWII Germany.
17	** One major gameplay element is ensuring public opinion of yourself stays high; if it drops too low, the game ends, implicitly because the government has removed you from command of the camp. It's true that many Germans were at least vaguely aware of the Holocaust, but there's no evidence that a concentration camp director was ever replaced because he was unpopular with the people.
18	* DeadlyGas: You must buy it for your {{Gas Chamber}}s.
19	* {{Dehumanization}}: Jews, Romani, and Turks are presented as "subhumans" to be murdered and enslaved.
20	* FinalSolution: You're implementing it against the Jews, the Romani and/or the Turks.
21	* GasChamber: Present, of course, given the setting: you must send your inmates there.
22	* HumanResources:
23	** You ''[[MadeASlave buy]]'' your inmates.
24	** The game use ''Müllberg'', or "pile of garbage", for describing the corpses of your inmates once you gas them.
25	* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: At the beginning of the game there is a question asking you "How do you view Turkish People", with two good answers [[note]]"I view them as helpful people", "I view them as kind people"[[/note]] and two bad answers [[note]]"I view them as dumb people", "I view them as someone who uses welfare"[[/note]]. Picking either of the good answers [[PressStartToGameOver kicks you out of the game immediately]].
26	* MadeASlave: What happens to your inmates once you buy them.
27	* NaziProtagonist: Of the "outright villainous" variety. Considering you play as a concentration camp director, it's no surprise.
28	* POWCamp: You run one.
29	* ThoseWackyNazis: You play one.
30	* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: We are here way ''beyond'' mere potential, given [[FinalSolution the theme]].
31	* VillainProtagonist: You play a ''Nazi concentration camp director''.
32	* WorkingOnTheChainGang: You can make the inmates work so that the money gained can be used to buy the lethal gas or pay for the cremation of the bodies.
33	* YouLoseAtZeroTrust: If you don't exterminate enough "subhumans", public opinion will drop until you lose.

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