The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

Star Wars fandom is weird because you see just how much of the population doesn't actually know or care much about politics, but picks teams from narrative fragments, aesthetics, & attitudes. There really are a ton of folks who are like "the empire rocks, rebels are p--sies"

The biggest problem with representing or exploring nationalist/fascist tendencies in video games is that a fuck ton of the politics-ignorant and not-ethically-motivated audience is just like "that sounds like a reasonable pitch, sure, I'm rooting for those dudes."

What would you do differently if you had to represent fascism as bad to such an audience? I'm considering making an anti-fascist video game at some point but this is one of my big worries, that the more nakedly I present fascism the more it will function like real fascism does

A part of fascism that I've always found fascinating, underexplored, and impossible to make look good is its reliance on narratives based on insecurities over objective reality. Maybe that can be a core theme for your fascists?