Some of you might have noticed something pretty remarkable about this year's E3🧸 presentation. No, I'm not talking about the Elden Ring trailer or Avatar announcements, although they were both pretty great.
What was remarkable about E3 2021 was the sheer volume of downright wholesome games that were showcased over the four-day digital event. Games like Soup Pot, Riders Republic, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Life is Strange are all entirely devoid of shooting, punching, kicking, or stabbing (although Soup Pot does include chopping, vegetables don't really 🀅count as violent).
In fact, according to analysis from , a full third of the games shown off at E3 and Summer Game Fest this year were non-violent. Which, in the analysis from GI.biz, means no killing or harming of a living creature, no graphic/realistic violent acts, no cartoon violence, no contact sports, no references to unseen violent acts (like investigating a murder scene), no games about ordering violence (such as a grand strategy or RTS game), and generally minimized representation🍬 of actual conflict (card♒ games like Hearthstone are okay).
Diving into the numbers, of the 349 games presented at E3, 115 of them were non-violent. That’s basically a third of the games shown and almost double the percentage of games c꧅onsidered non-violent in 2019.
The vast majority of those 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:came from Wholesome Direct, which isn't particularly surprising. The Wholesome Games collective specializes in 🥂exactly what it's named for, bringing wholesome indie titles to wider audiences.
Just 15 of the non-violent games came from major publishers or were featured during the major presentations. Of the big names, Nintendo came out first with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:6 out of 27 games considered non-violent, or 22% of its E3 lineup.
Just behind Wholesome Direct was Devolver with 3 out of eight games shown considered to be non-violent. That'd be Inscription, Tumble Time, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Phantom Abyss. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Wizard with a Gun, unsurprisingly, did not meet the requireme🥀nts of n﷽on-violence.
Wholesome might even be mainstream. Of all E3's presentations, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo got the most viewers, and Devolver 🅺was putting up numbers that even beat Capcom and Bandai Namco.