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Wayward Souls scores 0/10 for wokeness by locking players into seven traditional fantasy heroes with classic combat styles and personal story interludes, free of identity politics or activist framing. It delivers pure roguelike tower-crawling focused on mystery and progression.
Wayward Souls features seven fixed heroes—Blythe the Warrior, Abbie the Mage, Renee the Rogue, Cyril the Adventurer, Hassan the Spellsword, Svala the Cultist, and the Paladin—each locked into traditional fantasy archetypes with distinct combat styles and personal story interludes inside a cursed tower.
The narrative centers on roguelike progression through randomized dungeons, equipment upgrades, and monster encounters drawn from 90s action-RPG influences, with no character creation, romance systems, or identity-focused arcs. This structure keeps the premise centered on mystery and individual backstories rather than contemporary social themes. The indie developer Rocketcat Games has issued no statements on DEI initiatives, activist causes, or representation mandates, and searches for related controversies or content yield no results. The absence of gender or sexuality swaps, pronoun options, or normalization of modern identity elements leaves the game free of ideological overlays, allowing the core tower-crawling loop and character-driven interludes to stand on their own without external framing.
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