Andy Szidon said:
This isn't supposed to be a historical sim. From what I saw, it's a mix of economics and GTA, with a historical setting. Also, I'm betting that exploitation and disciplining is referring to more like extortion and beating up people and torture. Also, this seems to be advertising to the wrong market for a BDSM game, there are no unnappropriate pictures hare at all.
I'm assuming
what you saw is the trailer, which pretty much showed a navigation screen and the choose-your-weapon screen. There's very little one can really infer from that.
But the themes are dark colors and Wilhelm screaming. That sounds like a BDSM fantasy to me.
Mind you, I don't think this is going to be BDSM as it is actually practiced, but a vehicle for simulated nonconsensual abuse. Still, from a game perspective, this is going for a more visceral appeal than one towards competitive skill.
I can't imagine how this would be at all comparable to GTA, though. It's not like mutinying or hijacking vessels appears as a significant part of this game.
And when it comes to games with AO content, teasers and trailers for such usually don't show the content in question.[footnote]I should also note that AO games aren't necessarily porn games, but games that include explicit sexual content. Two sex scenes in
Farenheit made it AO (in the US) until they released
Indigo Prophecy, with the scenes removed. And
Singles: Flirt Up Your Life was AO without bolted-in mosaic censorship. It was an anatomically-correct
The Sims with rather clinical (and conservative) courtship, foreplay and sex-under-sheets.[/footnote]
But it really comes off as more of a pitch than a game itself. Note that there's no actual play indicated. For all we know it comes down to
The captive is secured in the pit. Flog? (y/n)