When it comes to creating art, people throughout history have often centered their work around the hopes, fears, and criticisms about aspects of society and culture. This is no different in video games, with many titles serving as cautionary tales for a world where capitalism is left unchecked and greed is allowed to take hold. They take many different shapes, like polluted environments, corporate feudal systems, 1984-esque mass surveillance, and perpetual war for resources reaching nuclear levels.