Blogger Seamus Young discovered that in recent years there has been a gap between game ratings from critics and gamers themselves.
The UNZ portal, which hascontroversial reputation for promoting white nationalism. Its authors came to the conclusion that critics often overrate games for the sake of tolerance. As examples, journalists cite Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, which critics rated 86 points and players rated 67, and Far Cry 5 (78 versus 61). The authors of the resource claim that the games criticize racist views, backwardness and religiosity. But their gameplay is unremarkable.
In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (83 vs. 67), for example, allegedly noticeable references to the Black Lives Matter movement in defense of African Americans. In this case, the game has microtransactions. In Fallout 4 (84 vs. 55), there were hints of the slave transportation system before the US Civil War, but the gameplay in it looked faded.