Last week, I reported on the upcoming release of a game called "PRAGMATA," which tells a story set on the moon in the future. A man is stranded on a moon base where the security AI has gone crazy, and he must make it out alive and report the event to his superiors on Earth. After a lunar quake, the AI attacks him, but luckily, he runs into an android that has the appearance and characteristics of a small girl around five or six.
Together, the two attempt to solve the mystery of the rogue AI, the lunar quakes, and get back to Earth safely. As they do, the two develop something of a father/daughter relationship... and this has all the usual suspects absolutely furious.
The main accusation being thrown at people, particularly men who play this video game and enjoy it, is that they're only playing this because they find the little girl attractive or have some deep-seated desire to sexualize her.
Read: A New Video Game Nicknamed 'Dad Simulator' Has People Shrieking With Rage
The game has been out now for almost a week, and I can tell you personally that this game isn't just fun; it's a devastating blow to the anti-natalist movement and anyone who looks down on men as father figures.
Capcom, the game's publisher, has announced that it's already sold over one million copies, and it's easy to see why. The game is a brand new IP, not a reboot or remake, it doesn't try to shove microtransactions in your face, and its gameplay is creative and easy to pick up while still giving you that difficulty edge that makes it interesting yet available to anyone to play.
But if that was all there was to it, it wouldn't remotely be a big story. What has people raving about it is the two main characters in the game, Hugh and Diana, the father/adopted daughter duo that has taken the world by storm.
The game doesn't just have the two on an adventure; it actually simulates a father/daughter relationship in the quiet moments between the action. There is a hub that the two can go to that allows you to upgrade your weapons, suit, and Diana's hacking ability, but it also acts as a sort of daycare that allows you to utilize technology to give Diana toys, playground equipment, and paper and crayons. With this, she'll engage in playful activities like any normal child, and will even present you with pictures she drew of your time together and hang them around the shelter.
You can even participate in some of the games she plays, one of which is giving her a water gun and letting her play as the action hero while you play a monster.
In #Pragmata you can give an adorable child a toy gun and she’ll want to shoot the bad guys with you. #GameoftheYear pic.twitter.com/YY1io6WPvB
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) April 19, 2026
The rumor going around is that Capcom and the Japanese government are working together to try to get Japanese people to want children, and if that's the case, then many are knowingly embracing the "psy-op" with gusto. However, as you would already guess without even me having to tell you, anything depicting children in a positive light, especially from the perspective of a man taking care of a little girl, is being denounced in every negative way you can think of.
For instance, Hasan Piker, the Democrats' current "it boy," denounced the game as a fantasy for lonely losers.
Twitch Streamer Hasan Piker gives his take on Capcom's Pragmata.
— Leigha Sapienti (@Leigha_Sapienti) April 19, 2026
Hasan States: " So what's really interesting about this is all of these unfuckable losers in the gaming sphere always talk about starting families, and stuff. And I don't understand why this has become a thing… pic.twitter.com/G7HH4qFDnW
Twitch Streamer Hasan Piker gives his take on Capcom's Pragmata.
Hasan States: " So what's really interesting about this is all of these unfuckable losers in the gaming sphere always talk about starting families, and stuff. And I don't understand why this has become a thing that they care about.
Like, if you are a gamer, you should care about things that you can actually experience. You should care about things that you actually enjoy, right? If you are a fucking lonely gamer who has never been around with a woman and will never have sex with a woman, why do you care? Like, what do you care about, having children or like riding for having children? "
Others, like this OnlyFans creator with no children, who believes success is getting someone to look at your naked body in compromising positions for a subscription fee, are attacking people as "ignorant" for enjoying watching a child simply play and engage in their natural curiosity, telling everyone they shouldn't base their decision to have children on their enjoyment of a video game.
Watching a fictional kid play with toys for a few seconds and thinking that’s what it’s like raising an actual human being is probably a sign you have zero idea what it really looks like being a parent and should not base your decision off of a video game character. https://t.co/b3upPIdD8X
— 𝓔𝓶 ♡ (@emkenobi) April 19, 2026
Any good point she's making here is buried underneath her obvious life choice of being an online porn star over choosing to be a wife and mother. Hilariously, many of the dads on X are the ones coming in and correcting her, telling her that watching your child play and learn is one of the chief joys of having children, and far outweighs the difficulty they present.
You don't have to dig deep to find these people, but I want to present one final one. As I stated earlier, the main accusation towards men who are enjoying this game is that they're just pedophiles disguising their sexual interest in a small girl as fatherly affection or the natural masculine urge to protect the precious and innocent. Mary Morgan, who often appears on Timcast, said this:
lots of strange reactions to this game. let’s clear some things up:
— mary morgan (@maryarchived) April 20, 2026
childless men do not have paternal instincts the way that childless women have maternal instincts (we observe this even in the way little girls play vs. little boys).
men first experience paternal instincts… https://t.co/1PCQgzbqOp
lots of strange reactions to this game. let’s clear some things up:
childless men do not have paternal instincts the way that childless women have maternal instincts (we observe this even in the way little girls play vs. little boys).
men first experience paternal instincts once they have their own children - and typically, those paternal instincts are only ever felt for their own children, and no one else’s.
men are not nurturers. men don’t gush over cute kids in public. men don’t have baby fever. if a man wants to possess a child for any reason other than it being a product of his own lineage, he is likely a predator.
and you’d be taking the feminist/radical gender abolitionist position to protest any of the above points.
this should explain why a “dad simulator” game marketed to mostly childless men gives people the creeps.
This is, of course, biologically incorrect. Men experience the desire to be fathers just as women experience the desire to be mothers. The maternal urge looks different from the paternal one, but fatherhood is a biologically ingrained desire. The accusation that men do not experience the desire to protect other children who aren't their own is also demonstrably false, and can be seen pretty plainly in everything from the way men behave in professions where protection and rescue are the name of the game, as well as historical figures like Sir Nicholas Winton, a man who famously saved hundreds of children from Nazi Germany despite being single and havning no children of his own.
Never mind the fact that the film "Sound of Freedom" was a movie about real men rescuing children stuck in the sex slave trade.
The game is doing more to upset the decades and decades of anti-natalist, anti-fatherhood programming pushed on the public than any movement or movie has done in some time, and if all the right people are mad about it, then it's only proof that they're scared it might actually reverse programming, and that people will start wanting to get married and have children again.
