I don't know if they'd be better or worse but I'm convinced Soviet gaming would be different. My basis for this assertion is that there is a ton of late-Soviet cinema that only got made because the motives behind filmmaking in the late Soviet era were very different from Hollywood and projects often got green-lit because someone thought they had artistic merit or something rather than that they'd produce a huge financial return.
I don't know if they'd be better or worse but I'm convinced Soviet gaming would be different. My basis for this assertion is that there is a ton of late-Soviet cinema that only got made because the motives behind filmmaking in the late Soviet era were very different from Hollywood and projects often got green-lit because someone thought they had artistic merit or something rather than that they'd produce a huge financial return.