Obviously no game comes close to DE, but listen to some of these quotes from the latest patch:

"The first panel, named Hell, depicts a fragment of urban life on Earth: a dark sub-level - you can't really call it a street - lit by angry fires that have nothing left to consume.

Nothing can thrive or grow down there, nothing but pale, malnourished castaways, clinging to life with the tenacity of despair.

Far above is a glimpse of a railway overpass, its warning lights unable to pierce the darkness below. Higher still are the towers, reaching for the polluted sky, and the silvery traffic network between them.

The bottom dwellers dream of landing a factory job and taking a train to work one day; the wage-slaves riding the trains are driven by the fear of ending up at the bottom and the dream of making it into one of those towers; and in the towers, an empty man surrounded by nothing but material possessions yearns for death."

But also this at the end:

"You'll never know if things were as bleak as the panels paint it, but the colonists needed to believe their ancestors made the right call escaping hellish Old Earth and setting out for the paradise of New Eden."

I'll include some basic politics from the game which won't be spoilers since it's spelled out for you at the beginning of the game to set up the world. You live on a colony ship on its way to colonize Proxima Centauri. It was launched by religious nut jobs, but several decades into the journey there was a communist-coded people's rebellion and now there's 3 factions vying for control of the ship: the traditionalist religious people who were previously in complete control, the rebels who exert a lot of control over their followers, and the new religious order who wants to take control from the previous one. Besides that the game also gets your opinions on xenophobia and violence.

Anyway I always like seeing descriptions of our society like this in video games. Even if it's not explicitly based, I feel like exposing g*mers to this kind of political analysis will help make them less chuddy.

  • Boisterous [he/him]
    hexagon
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    1 year ago

    Well once I get through Colony Ship I'll have to check it out. Thanks!