{"id":376826,"date":"2026-09-03T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=376826"},"modified":"2026-09-03T03:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T10:44:31","slug":"this-game-about-killing-nazis-in-the-second-world-war-isnt-political-according-to-its-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/this-game-about-killing-nazis-in-the-second-world-war-isnt-political-according-to-its-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"This game about killing Nazis in the Second World War \u201cisn&#8217;t political,\u201d according to its developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most interesting games announced for 2026 is Nekome: Nazi Hunter, a game, literally, about killing Nazis. <strong>In it we play as Vano, a young Romani man who, in true <em>Inglourious Basterds<\/em> fashion, after seeing the Nazis kill his entire family decides to take revenge on them in the most direct way possible<\/strong>. That gives us a gameplay experience as intense as it is politically charged.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Political, but not much<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Except that in an interview with the online outlet But Why Tho? its developers, Probably Monsters, denied that their game has any political element to it. A<strong>ccording to Kay Willis, production lead on the game, \u201cthere&#8217;s something really interesting about the psychology behind cathartic games and things like that. That said, we&#8217;re not making a political game or anything\u201d<\/strong>. They added that they don&#8217;t intend to make any kind of political statement with their game.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How you can make a game about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/a-video-game-about-killing-nazis-is-announced-and-the-steam-forums-fill-up-with-angry-nazis-about-the-title\" rel=\"noopener\">killing Nazi soldiers<\/a> with a young Romani man whose family has been murdered without talking about politics is beyond us, because it seems impossible \u2014it&#8217;s always going to say something about what&#8217;s happening; it&#8217;s going to judge one side or the other and what they have or haven&#8217;t done during the game\u2014, but it&#8217;s what its developers say.<strong> And while everyone should make up their own mind about this take on the game, there&#8217;s no doubt that many people will feel disappointed to learn that the developers of the Nazi-killing game don&#8217;t think anything in particular about the Nazis<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most interesting games announced for 2026 is Nekome: Nazi Hunter, a game, literally, about killing Nazis. In it we play as Vano, a young Romani man who, in true Inglourious Basterds fashion, after seeing the Nazis kill his entire family decides to take revenge on them in the most direct way possible. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/this-game-about-killing-nazis-in-the-second-world-war-isnt-political-according-to-its-developers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This game about killing Nazis in the Second World War \u201cisn&#8217;t political,\u201d according to its developers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9268,"featured_media":376825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-376826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376827,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376826\/revisions\/376827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376826"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=376826"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=376826"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=376826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}