So, there's Outer Worlds.

Dishonoured would be if it wasn't all about saving the monarchy.

Anyone played We Happy Few? Trying to decide whether to buy it.

Disco Elysium - cos you can do fuckin whatever.

  • Azarova [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Hearts of Iron IV has a vibrant modding scene that allows you to play all sorts of leftist alternate histories. I'd say the stand out mods are The New Order: Last Days of Europe, Cold War: Iron Curtain, and Kaiserreich. Road to '56 is hit or miss with some people but adds a ton of content (of varying quality) to a lot of nations with most having a socialist path.

    If you're into political strategy games, all the things made by Kremlingames are good and cheap, if a bit janky. Crisis in the Kremlin has you playing the Soviet Union through the late 80's to 90's. Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall focuses on the Warsaw Pact countries trying to survive the same period, with DLC that adds content for Albania, the DPRK, and Cuba. China: Mao's Legacy is similar to the rest but set in China starting in 76 and going to 85.

    • Dyno [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Cheers for this. I've played basically just Kaiserreich a thousand times and couldn't be bothered looking into whether there were any other good alternate history mods.

      • Azarova [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I probably should've said something in the original post but The New Order is pretty unique, it's kind of a visual novel with grand strategy elements in that theres a huge focus on long, very well written events to guide the story. Even though it takes place in a post Nazi "victory" (in quotes because even in victory, everyone, even inside the reich, is suffering) there are lots of leftist paths in the warlord states that make up the former Soviet Union and some in a couple other countries such as England.