These include Watch Dogs 2, to the most recent Deus Ex games, and a few that even make it a core theme, such as Grand Theft Auto 5 (both in the game’s story and in its real-world success) or the recently-released Disco Elysium.īut as I write this in November 2019, as scientists declare a climate emergency and the world’s biggest philanthropist fretted that his money might be taxed away, the game that most holistically describes our current moment is Obsidian Entertainment’s The Outer Worlds.
At this point there’s no shortage of games that make rising wealth inequality a background detail or subplot. It’s a conversation that video games have been gradually, almost abashedly, inching their way into for years now. More and more people seem to be awakening to the degree to which the big choices in their lives - what they do, who they love, where they live, if they live -are influenced (or dictated to them outright) by the impersonal forces of economics that Adam Smith dubbed the “ invisible hand.” As the internet lights itself on fire over the question of how best (or if) to provide health care to millions in the U.S., and as billionaires weigh in on the horror of possibly having slightly fewer billions, it’s fair to say that the field of economics is currently having A Moment.
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