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| 2019 || Disco Elysium || CRPG || | | 2019 || Disco Elysium || CRPG || | ||
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| 2020 || Tonight We Riot || Action, Arcade, Beat'em up || | | 2020 || Tonight We Riot || Action, Arcade, Beat'em up || | ||
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|Half-Earth Socialism | |||
|Ecological simulation | |||
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==Molleindustria== | ==Molleindustria== | ||
Italian game developer that makes web and desktop games about topics like corporations, imperialism, politics, and being a wage laborer. Got into some controversy over directly targeting certain corporations through games like ''McDonald's Videogame'' and ''Phone Story'', the latter of which got banned from the Apple iTunes Store. Released the very popular web game ''[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Oiligarchy Oiligarchy]'' in 2008, which shows the lengths that oil companies go to so as to maximize profits, including lobbying politicians to make them friendly to Big Oil, passing legislation to hush opposition under the guise of "anti-terrorism", and even invading other countries while ironically actually terrorizing the locals. | Italian game developer that makes web and desktop games about topics like corporations, imperialism, politics, and being a wage laborer. Got into some controversy over directly targeting certain corporations through games like ''McDonald's Videogame'' and ''Phone Story'', the latter of which got banned from the [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] iTunes Store. Released the very popular web game ''[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Oiligarchy Oiligarchy]'' in 2008, which shows the lengths that oil companies go to so as to maximize profits, including lobbying politicians to make them friendly to Big Oil, passing legislation to hush opposition under the guise of "anti-terrorism", and even invading other countries while ironically actually terrorizing the locals. | ||
===External links=== | ===External links=== | ||
* [https://www.molleindustria.org/oiligarchy-postmortem/ Full developer explanation of the game] | * [https://www.molleindustria.org/oiligarchy-postmortem/ Full developer explanation of the game] | ||
Revision as of 18:52, 27 March 2024
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The following is a list of video games with leftist themes or a leftist bent.
| Year | Title | Genre | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Disco Elysium | CRPG | |
| 2020 | Tonight We Riot | Action, Arcade, Beat'em up | |
| 2022 | Half-Earth Socialism | Ecological simulation |
Molleindustria
Italian game developer that makes web and desktop games about topics like corporations, imperialism, politics, and being a wage laborer. Got into some controversy over directly targeting certain corporations through games like McDonald's Videogame and Phone Story, the latter of which got banned from the Apple iTunes Store. Released the very popular web game Oiligarchy in 2008, which shows the lengths that oil companies go to so as to maximize profits, including lobbying politicians to make them friendly to Big Oil, passing legislation to hush opposition under the guise of "anti-terrorism", and even invading other countries while ironically actually terrorizing the locals.