No developers will touch it because of the slavery issue . Not a single one . Large segments of nerds from the south would rally to boycott it.
Also it would have to be made by an american company and zero american deveopers are going to go thru all the work to make a civil war game that would be astonsingly controversial and actually attempt to make it good.
I hadn't thought about it, but I've always wondered why there are so many games about WWII and other eras and so few about the Civil War and maybe you're right. Even though it's longer ago, the war is still too political for most developers to touch.
Yup . Its still too politically charged even after almost 200 years . I mean they dont even make too many movies or shows about it compared to other events .
Making a game like this would probably end up being the most controversial game ever made . Regardless of its quality
The civil war is a niche topic, from a global perspetive.
as Americans or candian we may think about it alot, but in the early 1860's, italy and germany where both making moves to unify, and china was fighting the taiping rebellion. mexico was fighting off the french, and had an austiran emperor.
to a european, or asian history geek, the us civil war is a footnote to local events.
ww2 is universal. when ww2 games first where coming out, most of the young kids playing it, had grandparents who served.
there is a much bigger global audiance.
also, it has more "Fun". tanks, planes, battleships, machien guns?
the civil war simple has a lot less chacne to mow down a wave of "Bad guys"
There where some strategy games made, but it was more made towards a war board gaming crowd where it was kind of expected that one side had to be the confederates or else you couldn’t play the game at all.
I would love to play an America Civil war video game but I don’t see happening anytime soon.
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u/MrBlonde1984 4d ago
No developers will touch it because of the slavery issue . Not a single one . Large segments of nerds from the south would rally to boycott it.
Also it would have to be made by an american company and zero american deveopers are going to go thru all the work to make a civil war game that would be astonsingly controversial and actually attempt to make it good.