From 'Night in the Woods' to 'Bioshock: Infinite,' these games aren't all about escapism but the horrors of a capitalist world.
It can be hard to have hope in the face of the world, especially recently, and a lot of media offers us a chance to escape from it. Video games especially are a genre built on giving players a feeling of empowerment by giving them the opportunity to make a tangible change, even if it only exists in the realm of the game.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Disco Elysium This game follows an amnesiac drunken cop trying to solve a murder and fix his memory . The game starts quite literally at rock bottom with the main character waking up from a multi-day bender with no memory of anything, not even his own name. Despite his amnesia, he’s got a job to do: solving a murder in a forgotten, dying part of a massive city. The world of this game is bleak but we see human resilience in many of its forms here.
Kentucky Route Zero Kentucky Route Zero offers a quiet look at the dying state of Americana. This game is a meditation on rural life and its decay in the face of the shifting whims of capital. Our main character is a man named Conway trying to deliver a piece of furniture to an obscure location that he’s having trouble tracking down.
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