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Exanima

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April 29, 2015
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TL;DR Verdict

Exanima earns a 0/10 woke score by delivering pure physics-driven dungeon crawling and traditional fantasy lore with zero identity politics or social messaging.

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Detailed Analysis

Exanima is a 2015 physics-driven isometric dungeon crawler set in a dark low-fantasy underworld.

Its story unfolds through scattered parchments describing traditional fantasy elements: an earth-mother figure whose lifeblood was sought by ancestors, an underworld Guardian sending demons, missing villagers, templars, and a proctor investigating kidnappings under royal authority. No romance systems, queer relationships, identity exploration, or social commentary appear in plot summaries, character descriptions, or lore documents.

Character creation offers binary male/female selection with minor mechanical differences in body proportions; customization covers height, age, skin tone, hair, and facial hair without pronoun options, body-type A/B replacements, or gender-fluid mechanics. Developer Bare Mettle Entertainment has focused exclusively on simulation, AI roles, and emergent gameplay across years of diaries, with zero statements on DEI, representation mandates, or activist intent.

No controversies involve progressive themes; player complaints center on development pace. The provided screenshots reinforce this: standard fantasy combat scenes, a female armored protagonist, and lore text about ancestral digging and the Guardian contain no modern ideological framing.

Key Factors

  • Traditional dark fantasy lore with no identity politics or systemic-oppression narratives
  • Binary gender options in character creation serving mechanical simulation only
  • Complete absence of LGBTQ+ characters, romance systems, or developer DEI statements
  • Developer emphasis on physics, AI, and emergent gameplay rather than messaging

Methodology: Each score synthesizes audience discourse, critic and aggregator reception, and press coverage — weighed against the work itself, not any single source.

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We've run a full content analysis on Exanima and scored it 0/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.

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What kind of woke content is in Exanima?

Our analysis checks for themes like identity politics, race-swapping, gender ideology, environmental activism, anti-religious messaging, and other progressive agenda elements. The score breakdown above shows which specific categories were flagged and how heavily they factor into Exanima's overall score.

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