Category: Narrative themes
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We Are the Caretakers
Developer: Heart Shaped Games LLCPublisher: Heart Shaped Games LLCRelease Year: 2023Platform: WIN, Xbox OneGenre: Strategy, RPGTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black Characters, Black Cultural Traditions, Politics/ Ideology/History, Narrative Themes, Mechanics We Are The Caretakers is a 3D grand strategy RPG set in a post-apocalyptic afrofuturist world. Recruit, train and manage a secret faction of high-tech protectors (“The…
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Grand Theft Auto V
Developer: Rockstar Games, Rockstar NorthPublisher: Rockstar GamesRelease Year: 2013Platform: PS3, PS4, WIN, Xbox 360, Xbox OneGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Black NPCs, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Politics/Ideology/History, Narrative Themes, Anti-Blackness/Regressive Characterizations, Mechanics, Fandom/Community, Reception Grand Theft Auto V is an open world game set in Los Santos, a sprawling sun-soaked metropolis struggling to stay afloat…
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Mafia III
Developer: Hangar 13Publisher: 2K GamesRelease Year: 2016Platform: Mac, PS4, WIN, Xbox OneGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting, Black Cultural Traditions, Politics/Ideology/History, Narrative Themes, Black NPCs, Intersectionality, Fandom/Community/Reception, Anti-Blackness, Mechanics Set in New Bordeaux that is surging with change in response to the Civil Rights movement, Lincoln Clay is double-crossed and left for…
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Afro Samurai
Developer: Bandai NamcoPublisher: Bandai NamcoRelease Year: 2009Platform: PS3, Xbox 360Genre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black Characters, Black Cultural Traditions, Narrative Themes, Voice Acting/Motion Capture Loosely based on the manga and anime series, Afro Samurai is a 3D brawler with platforming elements where you follow Afro Samurai, a master swordsman, as he fights to become the…