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Survival video games tend to come in two main flavors:
-"cold," which are about being a white person mourning the loss of the "civilized" world
-"hot," which are about being a white person killing Indigenous people and trying to get back to the "civilized" world
-"cold," which are about being a white person mourning the loss of the "civilized" world
-"hot," which are about being a white person killing Indigenous people and trying to get back to the "civilized" world
seems like the industry could do better than this (I say as a person who tends to enjoy this genre)
Cold games would include The Long Dark and Frostpunk. Hot games would include The Forest and Green Hell
P.S. I haven& #39;t thought this through *at all*
I say they could do better because 1.) The anti-Indigenous rhetoric of these games really sucks, even when they& #39;re self-aware (Green Hell tries hard to make sure you know the Amazonia tribe you fight aren& #39;t bad, just scared),
And 2.) The survival genre rarely tries to imagine an actual alternative to Western modernity. Survival is always only a "getting through" and never a "building towards." They& #39;re fundamentally very conservative.
The Flame in the Flood is cold. Factorio is hot.
