How do you review cruelty squad?
What even is there to say about a game so seemingly uncaring of it's outward perception?

In a literal sense Cruelty Squad is an anti-capitalist immersive sim set in a latest-stage corporatocracy where the cryptobros won and you're forced speculatively gamble on human organs as a side-hustle to cover you rent. That is an explanation of what cruelty squad is and you could just play it as such, enjoying the intricately designed 3D environments and gameplay, but that doesn't really capture the anger that cruelty squad conveys.

A viscous hatred towards the gig-economy manifested in the barest form holding no pretense of what makes acceptable art, compressed by a global pandemic and subsequent lockdown into a barely palatable expression of discontent and trauma with the systems that dictate our lives. I keep coming back to this game every few months because I am so enamored with it, maybe a way to relive that moment of fear and isolation when the world felt like it was closing in, or a means of catharsis against the political and economic realities the game reflects. I'm not sure, but when playing cruelty squad I can't help but feel it understands the uneasiness in the world, and that is an emotional reaction I feel for few other pieces of media