Ooh, big comment, thank you!
I knew the politics stuff would be polarizing for some people. The game is meant to be set in a near-reality 2021 and occasionally references real events. One of the main intents of the Big Brain guys was to make an intentionally stupid strawman type parody that the player will get annoyed with on a meta level and therefore enjoy seeing them get bullied. The other intent is to communicate at the start of the game "hey the writer's a silly leftist so you should expect this from time to time, head out now if you're not a fan." I get why some people don't want to see these kinda things in games, but I enjoy it so that's what I made!
The other real-life references are there because it's what people would be bringing up in the setting, i.e. the apocalypse starts around the same time Stranger Things season 4 comes out in their universe (A year earlier than ours since it was delayed by COVID in real life) so naturally it'll be the first thing Amber thinks of. I try to keep them fairly small in scope so that people who don't get what it's riffing on aren't left confused, the demon's really only similar to Vecna in the way Amber's dreamscape makes them appear visually and not in terms of their actual characterization. It's just what Amber was thinking of!
I'm planning to up the frequency of enemies Amber can eat as the game progresses, at the start she doesn't have the capacity for anything big but she's getting there >:)