Of the games I can remember ...
S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is one of the best first person shooters ever. Made from a Russian perspective, you find yourself battling NATO troops. Doesn’t sound too right-wing, does it?
One of the most popular games ever, Skyrim, allows you to fight against the empire or fight with the empire, your choice. That’s hardly right wing.
The Fallout series feature survival in a nuclear wasteland. Is survival only a right wing thing?
Another popular title is Bioshock, where George Washington is featured as a bigoted, loony right winger. This doesn’t do much for the author’s narrative.
We may have to go meta, outside individual games to make any sense of the article’s conclusion. Action games feature fighting against various forces and oppressors. Compared to the leftist belief that all cultures, forces, and oppressors are equal, fighting successfully rewards white male supremacy, the only group incapable of being oppressed, the meme goes. The left would shout kumbaya as the mutant wolves eat the player and end the game.
Maybe video games look right wing because to win the game, the player has to do something, and that’s incompatible with being a ward of the state.
The Housers, who created the Grand Theft Auto games, are self-proclaimed socialists (though, I notice they haven’t given away any of their $100s of millions) and their games are filled with potshots at the right. Far Cry V is pretty much an assault on Christianity and traditional values (I say with some degree of ignorance, never having played it, but the left-wing Dallas Morning News even acknowledges it). The developers of Wolfenstein II certainly acted like their game was set in a “Trumpian” America.
Unfortunately, the triple-A titles have become as infected with left-wing ideology as Hollywood’s big movies.
You should try Metro 3033 and Metro First Light. Made by Russians, fighting a (post nuke) war between rebels (you), nazis, and Reds (communists). FPS, of course ;^)
AND... don’t forget Half Life and Half Life 2 :)