Name some politically relevant video games

So, out of curiosity, can any of you name some video games that, no matter how old they are, are practically relevant in this modern political climate? Here are a few I can think of.

Beyond Good and Evil - 2003

Okay, the game came out during the time of the Bush administration, but looking back on this as I replayed the game (on PC, also have the PS2 version), there is still quite the relevancy given that in the game the Alpha Section have been close with the DomZ, which sounds like a theme relevant to a certain investigation on a current president and his (and/or his teams) dealings with a hostile anti-American nation.

Wolfenstein reboots - 2014, 2017

An alternate universe where the Nazi's win and run the western world is a little more close to home than it should be, especially after Charlottesville. Worse yet, like Far Cry 5, Wolfenstein II was even hit by controversy from the alt-right over it's marketing, which Bethesda just decides to run with anyway.

Metal Wolf Chaos

A game where the President rides a mech suit trying to stop a coup launched by his Vice President. Amazing game, made by FROM Software the dudes who make Dark Souls.

The only games I know are the Infocom games A Mind Forever Voyaging, Trinity, and Bureaucracy, all of which involve politics and nuclear warfare at the time.

Bioshock 1, 2, and 3.

Explores worlds in which laissez faire capitalism, socialism, and nationalism are taken to extremes.

As a complete package, they can be seen as an exploration of the dangers of allowing ideology to override pragmatism.

Mass Effect Trilogy

The Geth storyline explores the dangers and ethics of creating a true AI that is able to become a sentient being. Musk and Hawking are currently advocating caution and regulation in this area.

Deus Ex seems to have actually increased it's relevance with time due to it's themes of media power and the ability of money to buy power.

Half life 2. Can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet. With the whole citizens being held captive in this dystopian future by this 1984-esque leader Dr Breen. Even a group called the Resistance.

Papers Please.

@phbz: A dystopian document thriller?

I'm already bored, but it definitely fits!

Bioshock is an absolute. I don't remember the sequel being as blatantly political as the first though.

@mattbbpl: It's a fantastic game.

@Solaryellow: The new devs took the easy way out narratively and made it the antithesis of the first.

The original was all about Andrew Ryan's worship of "the individual." The sequel was about Sofia Lamb's genuflection before, "the collective."

During the first five minutes of the original, Ryan was complaining about the United States, Soviet Union and I believe the Catholic Church. They didn't allow for any doubt.

@Solaryellow: Yeah, Bioshock was echoing a specific individual's ideology (Ayn Rand) so it was able to delve into greater specifics (the Catholic Church being particularly important in the quote you mention to establish it as more than an anti-government philosophy).

@mattbbpl: Paper Please is an excellent game. It’s out on PC and iOS now, IIRC. Definitely recommend it.

@perfect_blue: I believe you, and the reviews when I looked it up bear that out.

But it's probably something I'll never play, tbh. It's just not something that grabs me enough to devote the time to it.

Democracy The Game

I ran luckylucius's ideal utopia in one game. Since he "wins" every argument concering politics on this site, I cant go wrong following his agenda.

The results speak for themselves.

He is right, I got so many achievements in that run.

@Maroxad: It's just not adequately accounting for the booming growth that will make the policies pay for themselves.

As some has already mentioned Papers Please is a good game

Another one is Orwell , not a bad game.

world in conflict is a cold war WW3 game where the United States fighting the Russians who invaded US soil. It's a pretty good game that made me wish massive studios done more RTS games when Ubisoft bought them

Is that decent? They gave it away free last month, but I haven't fired it up yet beyond the tutorial.

Anno 2205. It is a game about a nakedly corporatist quest for domination that ends when you have established a total monopoly on all goods and services. In your quest for power you are likely to rain down anywhere from dozens to hundreds of nukes on your enemies.

You are however a corporation not a government, so you need a way to explain why having small upstart companies with the power to burn their enemies in nuclear fury is a good plan. Particularly when they start slamming the big red button during very minor engagements. So the game slathers everything in environmentalism and pseudo-socialist rhetoric. It works in current year, why not 2205?

In the end corporations are given absolute power in exchange for their promise of unlimited free energy. Unlimited free energy for themselves of course. Anyone else who wants it should probably start strip mining valuable ore so they have something to trade. Unless of course they want to continue killing mother earth with their evil solar, wind, and hydroelectric power.

Tropico: the government in that game is a satire of real world government, and the real world government has become as ludicrous as the government in that game.

Warhammer 40k: Trump supporters' zealotry and fanaticism for their leader matches that of a Space Marine's for the Immortal Emperor. Burn the liberal. Kill the immigrant. Purge the media. FOR THE EMPEROR TRUMP!

Prison Architect provides some good social commentary on lobbying, money in government, and for-profit prison systems

Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus is just full of pro-patriot, anti-nationalist zeal. It's great! I mean that's what the whole fight is: good guys fighting for country, people, and morality; bad guys fighting for government/party/system.

My man, it is one of the best RTS games in recent memory. And Alec Baldwin narrates! The singleplayer is fantastic, and the multiplayer was actually really fun (which is saying a lot, b/c I generally don't enjoy RTS multiplayer).

Free or not, it's worth picking up.

So what you're saying is, you enjoyed playing as the environmentalist faction :P

@mattbbpl: omg I can't believe I forgot Deus Ex (specifically the original). That game is borderline prophetic.

No One Lives Forever

and actual honest to god, female lead. It also makes fun of the spy genre bad story telling

Obviously SimCity. No matter how much infrastructure I invest in people always complain.