Mar 2, 2020
6 min read
The Best Hopepunk Video Games to Survive the Darkest Timeline
It’s 2020, and the world is burning. Climate disaster is on the horizon, children are being kept in cages, and nationalism is on the rise across the globe. Violent acts of terror are being committed daily against marginalized groups. Everything is sucksauce.
Although it was a genre long before, the 90’s saw the rise of the grimdark genre. Defined by dystopias that are often violent and amoral, the genre continued to thrive into the 21st century. Game of Thrones, Dredd, District 9, and a score of indie films were fixated on…
