I romanced a hunky British man with a shotgun for a head in Polyarmory

Developer Scope Creeps warns, as I boot up Polyarmory: High Calibre Love, that the team is very much dedicated to the bit. The options menu makes that clear: alongside a toggle for BDSM clowns there are settings for those oh-so-scary pronouns. Turn on USA pronouns and the game swaps them in for things like BOSTON, APPLE PIE, EAGLE, and PROSECUTE FAUCI; you can also choose to have the game cross out anything that assigns you a gender.

The whole thing leans hard into satire. OxyOxspring, the same creator behind the racy photography game OnlyCans, puts players in the shoes of a doomsday prepper and gun‑nut conspiracy theorist who seems drugged up enough to imagine a shotgun as a hunky British bloke in a Kazuma Kiryu‑ass getup.

During the day you can chat up your arsenal — delectably named shotgun Rimington, revolver Viper, dommy mommy RPG Svetlana, and the joined‑at‑the‑hip SMGs Marsh and Mello — while listening to a “truth‑telling podcast” about tightened regulation or watching American television about chicken eggs.

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