There is no question over the last 10 years the quality and production level of Chinese developed games has seem to sky rocket. Many of these games even being free to play. But honestly I haven’t played a single one. For the same reasons I refused to download TikTok.
China is a well known surveillance state. I worry downloading and playing these games especially on a PC or mobile phone would just be a huge privacy risk.
Am I being to paranoid ? Are there some regulations I’m not aware of that might protect me anyway ?
I feel like I’m missing out on some really high quality visually striking games because of it
They have CIA they have espionage they have all sorts of things. They don’t have full state owned media. They don’t get by default access to your data. Companies can and have refused.
To say China and the US are the same for their citizens is just stupid …
Why would it matter if they’re not the same?
Both can be surveillance states, but in different points on the spectrum.
Just because country A is worse than country B doesnt make country B good.
Both countries are surveillance states that shouldnt be trusted.
The main thing is that OP is not chinese, is american and is worried about Chinese surveillance and not american one.
They aren’t the same, the US is far worse. Why is it bad for media to be publicly owned, in a country where the working classes control the state? In the US Empire, the CIA and NSA already spy on everyone, and capitalists control all media and the state.
Keywords: NSA, Edward Snowden, United States v. Moalin
Keyword: Palantir.
Oh you sweet summer child. The US government is the preeminent surveillance state. Just last week they reauthorized warrantless wiretaps for US citizens. After 9/11 they began collecting all digital communication and storing it forever. Look up Edward Snowden like the other comment suggested.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/30/fisa-warrantless-spying-renewal-congress
The CIA literally controls like most important universities and papers the world over, they have infinite money, welcome to the site 💀
I don’t disagree that centralization of information gathering is a bigger concern of many fragmented data collectors. Sure the US is a large surveillance state, but it takes a lot of energy and coordination to integrate all these disparate systems. The risk of China is that by having state involvement in all businesses, that integration can happen at all stages of development. But generally I think fighting for data privacy is worth it regardless of company/country.
As for Chinese games, I generally avoid them because they’re gatcha games or heavily astroturfed. I still feel burned from “My Time at Portia”. It had so many positive reviews and was compared to stardew Valley, but the game was janky and felt like a poorly implemented single player mmo.