Steam, lemmy and reddit are currently creaming themselves over a game which devs makes multiple really cringe “jokes” about slavery and exploitation. Read the steam page descriptions.
Those “pals” are clearly antropomorphised creatures being dogwhistle for humans. And if you read the game reviews, even the g*mers are not lost on that fact (just they love that):
If Tem-Tem died in a month but this gets to live longer, that’s my proof that God is dead and crackers killed Her
Lmao. I totally forgot about TemTem.