Tenderfoot Tactics becomes successful after joining BDS campaign against Xbox

Tenderfoot Tactics

A few days ago, we covered the removal of Tenderfoot Tactics from Xbox by its developer to protest the alleged partnership between Microsoft and Israeli’s security services. In the days since, the game has received an outpouring of financial support from gamers.

Posting on social media platform Bluesky (the developer’s main social media platform after having deleted their X account), badru said, “The last two days we made more money on Steam than anytime in the past 2 years. The support is unexpected and heartwarming. Thank you.”

He added, “Divestment is not profitable, though. If it were, we wouldn’t have to fight for it. Our society is completely driven by profit-seeking, and that’s the problem.”

While Tenderfoot Tactics received positive reviews prior to the boycott, it had not sold enough copies to be considered very financially successful. That is, until the game was removed from Xbox store in order to show solidarity with the Palestinian movement.

Tenderfoot Tactics was originally released for Windows PC and Mac (via Steamback in 2020 and later got console ports for Xbox and Switch in 2024.

This surge in popularity of games by openly pro-Palestine developers has been going on for at least three years. Last year, we spoke exclusively with Nidal Nijim, the developer of a pro-Palestine shooter. Here is what he said when we asked him if the controversy helped his sales:

Nidal Nijm: “Yes, indeed, the controversy of my game acted like a double sided blade. On one side this is a reason why my game did not get proper coverage from other gaming websites…But on the other side, this is the biggest selling point of my game, like, hey here we have the “Anti-COD” game, the opposite of mainstream media kind of shooter game, a game which allows you to play as “terrorists” (because terrorism is a very subjective matter, broad in scope, a man’s terrorist can be another man’s hero). And this was the reason why my game made in the spotlights of many, many news websites – the biggest spike moment was after this post here, from Libs of TikTok, one very well and famous Zionist and pro-Israel Influencer. Her post reached more than 3 millions of views.

I said to myself since neither IGN, Gamespot and other big games will never cover my game, I need to do the marketing by myself LOL. So I sent a message trolling Petrilla on his twitter and this fucking asshole falled in my “trap”. He contacted Libs of TikTok which made her post about my game on Twitter, and her post reached 3 millions views.”

Read the rest of our interview here. Meanwhile, Tenderfoot Tactics is still available on Windows PC (via Steam) and Switch.

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