Indie City-Building Games Finally Reckon With Climate Change

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Indie City-Building Games Finally Reckon With Climate Change
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City- and empire-builders like Cities: Skylines totally simplify the climate crisis, if they address it at all. A new wave of titles are far more complex.

Simulation games now routinely engage with climate change, but usually from a place of wish fulfillment.lets players use magical future technology to terraform the Red Planet into a new Eden, creating a backup home in case Earth is ravaged beyond redemption.

“Alternate reality allows us to push the levers pressuring societies to extremes that wouldn’t really be possible in a realistic setting,”design director Jakub Stokalski tells WIRED. “And what happens to large groups of people under pressure—that’s truly the theme.”depicts efforts to prepare for disaster even as large swathes of society deny it’s coming., the question was what you will sacrifice to ensure a chance for a future,” Stokalski says. “But not for yourself; for other people.

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