Title. Need some examples of games that had lefty politics and leanings and weren't too ashamed to hide it. Platform/country of origin is irrelevant. I know about FF7's support for ecoterrorism, and even the nuance about the people caught up in the middle, and there's plenty of games that take an anti-corporate stance, but that can be easily brushed aside.

I'm specifically interested in this era as it's when games first acquired the ability to become fully immersive in their narratives with the adoption of multimedia melding into the core gameplay loop via the use of full motion video, voice acting, detailed images and so on.

Reminder: all games are political; even abstract puzzle games.

  • Straight_Depth [they/them]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    Yeah, verisimilitude used in the application of immersion. And on the topic of its use in the transmission of their relative politics, I'm sure there's some more detailed Gramscian take that I'm probably not well-read enough to draw a conclusion upon, but I'll leave it there.