I think you'll find that most games, if not all, released before 2016 do not broach most of the contemporary issues that annoy you in particular.
I like Paradox games like Crusader Kings and Stellaris. They allow for political gameplay without focusing on the contemporary hot-button issues that bother you.
If you are looking for modern RPG releases, consider Elden Ring, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Mount and Blade II, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Dark Souls III, or Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
Look, when I wrote that original post, I was mostly thinking of how I have zero desire to play Disco Elysium because I don't think being lectured by Marxists for 50 hours on material I'm already familiar with makes for a particularly interesting week. Thus, I do not intend to play the alleged "greatest RPG of all time" Disco Elysium. I also don't feel the need to demand my views be accounted for in the work.
I must be getting old, because the idea that games "released before 2016" did not broach contemporary issues (or were not accused of doing so regardless of reality) is so off-base that reading you claim that actually made me laugh out loud.
Games did not suddenly start getting political, or getting accused of being political, in 2016. Since the dawn of the medium there have been people looking at video games and trying to say "This game is on MY SIDE so it's good" or "This game is on THE OTHER SIDE so it's bad." It has forever been the most obnoxiously overused and often misapplied criticism levied at the medium (and in fact this probably generalizes to ANY medium.) It's the refuge of dimwits and a mindtrap that short-circuits critical thinking. "I don't have to actually experience the media or think about it because it's written by OTHER SIDE and thus I assume it's bad."
Case in point, you are really depriving yourself by not playing Disco Elysium. I have no idea whether the writers are actually marxists or not, but if they are it's not like Disco Elysium is some bland piece of propaganda. It is genuinely some of the best writing I've seen in a video game, in a world that feels very real (As a sort of weird alternate universe that went through similar political spasms that ours did in WW2) that incorporates some genuinely creepy paranormal horror elements. Armed with the foreknowledge that the writers are communists, you can probably detect some communist sympathy in the game, but it is definitely not blatant and it's not like they gloss over the real world examples of communism going badly; I distinctly remember a moment in the game where you come across a wall full of bullet holes (because dissidents had been told to stand against it and be shot) and they were very open that the communists had done this. And it is about so much else than simply politics besides; murder, mystery, heartbreak. I am hardly a communist myself, but it is absolutely a shame to think 'writers are marxists, therefore bad' when it comes to this game.
