While many of these climate changed-focused games focus on depicting the dire future that experts predict if we refuse to radically alter our behavior patterns, others are a bit more traditional in their approach. So perhaps it’s no surprise that as the all-too-real climate change crisis continues to creep towards a breaking point-even as the ongoing public health disaster known as COVID-19 eclipses it in the public imagination-video game developers are taking steps to systematize the ways that rising sea levels or other ecological catastrophes might overwhelm us in the coming years. From the bombed-out nuclear wasteland of Washington, DC in Fallout 3to the flooded Hyrule of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, popular games have explored the concept of the apocalypse with both goofy humor and stark seriousness, often revealing unpleasant truths in the process.
Last year's Beyond Blue took gamers deep underwater in the name of conservation.įor decades now, video games have concerned themselves with the end of things.
