I mean…books have been doing this for a while. No need to make it a game. Look at 1984 and see some parallels. Book was written 75 years ago but covers things like:
- information sources being constantly edited (far before things like Twitter were able to remove posts)
- constant wars where people are resigned to always being at war
- language being modified so people can’t even express what the problems they’re experiencing are (like how certain terms like CRT are being erased from schooling)
- the every day shmoe being complicit in it while just receiving orders from someone he’s never met editing news articles he knows nothing about (like everyone stuck in the “machine” as it were).
1984 is a bit of a cliche, but it has a lot of relevant discussion of modern issues in it.
Also Brave New World where everyone is too absorbed in entertainment and drugs to realize how fucked everything is, and Fahrenheit 451 because, y’know censorship.
Not exactly modern, and maybe a bit cartoonish, but given how old these books are it’s remarkable how relevant they still are.
Point is, doesn’t have to be a video game. Books are cheaper to produce and tend to need less financial incentive to be written. So you get better content.
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