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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.
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.
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