There's an Alex Jones game on Steam, and it's just as much of an embarrassment as you'd expect

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InfoWars host Alex Jones now has agame on Steam⁠—the same Alex Jones who fundraised for and attended the January 6 protests that led to the storming of the US Capitol building and whoowes $1.5 billionto the families of murdered children over defamation.

The best thing I can say about the Alex Jones game is that it took me about 36 minutes to beat, well within Steam’s two-hour refund window. Also, fair is fair, the pixel art is bafflingly competent⁠—it has a kind of “corporate indie” look, something you might see in the okayest Steam releases of the mid-2010s. Otherwise? It’s kind of a piece of dogshit, and quality aside, it’s an embarrassment for the platform.

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AJ:NWOW is a low-effort riff on Metal Slug. You can only aim directly up and down or side to side despite the game only supporting analogue stick movement and no d-pad controls⁠—it has a fiddly imprecision leaving you flailing about like somebody having a Garry’s Mod freakout. Add in some persistent input lag alongside mysterious and ineffable hitboxes and you’ve got a real sloppy piece of work. Thankfully it’s so easy and generous with lives you can just choke it down like you’re dry-swallowing one of InfoWars' dubious nootropics.

That’s about the extent of Jones' capacity to laugh at himself though. Instead of facing his true greatest foes like alimony payments or the Sandy Hook parents, you get these lazy caricatures of Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, George Soros, the Clintons, you get the idea.

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Alex Jones game on “Epstein Island”

And man, there are funny ways to make fun of Bill Clinton but the quip “I did not have sexual relations with that saxophone” is not one of them. He repeats that line and like two others ad nauseam during his boss fight on Little St. James Island, referred to as “Epstein Island” in-game, as if the devs don’t trust their audience. Forget the Reddit front page, this crap is Imgur circa 2011: “I tip my hat to you sir, you win one(1) internets today!”

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It feels fruitless to talk about giving and receiving offence when it comes to a guy and fanbase for whom that’s kinda the point, but I do have to shout out the one time my general tired disgust rose into something more acute: the level where you mow down homeless people throwing shit at you in San Francisco. Stay classy, man.

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Alex Jones gameplay vs. “Wicked Witch of the West Wing”

I don’t know either, but this thing probably shouldn’t be on Steam. The tension of thousands of low-quality games releasing on the platform and Valve’s uniquely laissez faire moderation is one of the Big Conversations of PC gaming, and it’s one that I don’t think will ever reach a definitive conclusion.

I do know that I generally prefer Valve’s approach to other tech giants' ceaseless, fruitless fidgeting with their moderation policies. Twitch constantlypassing judgment on new types of implied nuditythat either are or are not okay to appease the most annoying men on the planet, or YouTube’s arcanede- and re-monetizing of speedrun history videosfor alleged adult content with no internal consistency. Give me a deluge of really bad hentai visual novels with genuinely incredible stuff like Cruelty Squad bubbling to the surface here and there any day of the week.

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Alex Jones game with Tucker Carlson stand in

That being said, Alex Jones:NWOW has less value than a free Flash game while asking for about $20. Those dudes leaving le epic troll positive reviews have absolutely called better games with more to offer “scams.” What’s more, I’d argue this game is in pretty clear violation of entries from Valve’s guidelines forwhat you shouldn’t publish on Steam, namely:

Whatever the case, I’m worse off for the 36 minutes I spent with AJ:NWOW, and I don’t recommend playing it even if you’re just going to refund it. Jones and InfoWars remain banned off most major social networks and digital storefronts, including Apple, YouTube, Spotify, and Facebook, though he was recently reinstated on Twitter,a bastion of quality direction and moderation. If everyone’s disallowing something, allowing it is a statement whether it’s intended to be or not—not in support of Jones' warped worldview, but perhaps for the same notion of ‘platform neutrality’ that Spotify has used in response to criticism of its relationship with Joe Rogan. Even Spotify won’t touch Jones, though.

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