Our world is becoming a dystopia day by day. Just look at the prices, wars, AI, and assassination attempts on presidents… If that’s the case, we should be prepared for a dystopian future. How so? By playing the best dystopian video games of course! Can read about it too but games are much more fun.
Dystopia is an anti-utopia setting where there is a community or society that is doing extremely bad in terms of living conditions, poverty, violence, and liberty.
We all know what it’s like from media productions such as Black Mirror, The Handmaid’s Tale, Blade Runner, Hunger Games, Mad Max, Fallout, etc. Or even real-life news… And today we’ll discuss the best representations of dystopias in video games. Dystopia theme goes very well with survival, horror, and role-playing games.
Top 15 games taking place in a dystopian environment:
1. Half Life 2
2. Papers, Please
3. We Happy Few
4. Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
5. Bioshock
6. Dishonored
7. Beholder
8. Not For Broadcast
9. Not Tonight 2
10. Song of Farca
11. Deus Ex
12. Pathologic 2
Dystopian rural society.