In the end, Custer’s Revenge is not a game worth playing. It is a historical artifact worth remembering only as a lesson: that technology without ethics is just a machine for making bad ideas into interactive reality.
Martin later defended the game, claiming it was intended as a "satire" of Custer's historical recklessness and that the sex was "consensual." This defense was widely rejected. By naming the female character "Revenge" and setting it immediately after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the game invoked the real-life trauma of the Washita Massacre and the systematic abuse of Indigenous women. game custer revenge
Women's groups, including the National Organization for Women (NOW), condemned the game for trivializing sexual violence. Native American advocacy groups, such as the American Indian Movement (AIM), protested the depiction of a historical villain as a hero and the reduction of an Indigenous woman to a trophy. In the end, Custer’s Revenge is not a game worth playing