sasuke12: I am assuming that as a conservative christian you want "CLEAN" games that don't have any political agendas or subversive nonsense in them.
4-vektor: It’s kind of ironic that you assume that OP doesn’t want “political agendas” or “subversive nonsense” in them, and then you list some games that are at their core about political and societal agendas and surbversive ideas.
*sacrifice
*apocalypse (if the book of revelations isn’t about political and societal agendas, then I don’t know)
*gene manipulation
*human cloning
*mechanical and cybernetic enhancement/manipulation of humans
*artificial intelligence and transferring consciousness to hardware, man-made artificial immortality (not very Christian)
*manipulating populations on a global scale
And the most baffling part you mention is
* Christian themes about helping
good people...
Which is some supply side Jesus level understanding of Christianity or Catholicism in particular.
And the whole killing people thing is also not so much in the vein of “love thy enemy”, nor very “clean”, unless we still apply the value system of the early crusades from almost a millenium ago where killing infidels was a good thing by definition. ;)
By no means I’m criticizing these games. They’re actually good, and e.g. Deus Ex is on my all-time favorite list. But these games or games in general contain a lot of “subversive” and political “agendas”, even if sometimes only by implication.
the world did change a lot since the crusades. the value of a life went upwards. A death sentence, even for the worst committers, is not favorable anymore though i still can't completely get my head around the wants and the needs and what is expected explained in law... We do appreciate life in all of its forms, we don't take someone else their life but we do try to contain life that is a danger for our own ways even if it means to strap that one up for life medicating the .... but that is personal of course.
In a sense the way the game is developed and by whom would be the major decider is this one is or is not suitable for