where an impoverished young woman is trying to sell herself into slavery and the game presents the most ethical outcome as helping her negotiate a better contract for her indentured servitude?
Looking back those games were Fukuyama'd as shit, jfc
where an impoverished young woman is trying to sell herself into slavery and the game presents the most ethical outcome as helping her negotiate a better contract for her indentured servitude?
Looking back those games were Fukuyama'd as shit, jfc
This sort of capitalist realist nonsense is why in all my own sci-fi games, global communism has been achieved
I don't say it outright, I just deliberately don't mention things like money or corporations
My partner’s reading a smutty fae novel where most of the 7 fae courts are feudal and the human world is feudal, but there’s 1 court that’s just exists in… a modern capitalist city? It’s portrayed like, oh this one court is so advanced and wealthy compared to the other ones because it was allowed to flourish! And flourishing happens to involve the standardization of wage labor, commodity fetishism, and the requirement of having money in order to obtain food. Imagine otherwise feudal fae, but their landlords are modern landlords instead of feudal ones.
I'm all for recommendations. It's depressing to me that even sci-fi games on the more hopeful side (Stellaris and... that's it) are still confined within the logic of capitalism. There's an intergalactic market and an equivalent of the UN (and all that entails) and everything.
Since you've so kindly given me an opening to plug my work, I recommend checking out Genepet and Xenologist! I also made Dark Cosmos, but that one's a lot more on the depressing side (still no capitalism, though).
Thanks. will try. I dig the late 80s retro game aesthetic.