The Things We Lost in the Flood is a videogame that forces players to reckon with their own self-involvement in the face of overwhelming ecological disaster.
, the environmentally existential new videogame from Awkward Silence Games, I came across a message in a bottle written by another player. This had happened many times during my time in the game, but this one consumed me: it confirmed that there was an ending to a game I’d otherwise deemed hopelessly cyclical, and was ready to give up on.
forces players to reckon with their own self-involvement in the face of overwhelming ecological disaster. The game reveals how a mass catastrophe like climate change prompts individual reflection despite the imperative for stronger community action to solve a crisis.unaware of the game’s larger structure. You could just spend an afternoon with its immersive sound design and minimalist pixel art, picking up random bottles with heartfelt confessions and groan-inducing jokes and sending your own.
That ambiguity is pivotal to the environmental message, though. Climate change poses an epistemological problem: how do we confront and communicate the severity of the ecological disaster we are living through when its impacts will outlive humanity and its origins are intrinsically tied to us? gestures toward these questions by recognizing that we don’t have the answers to climate change despite wanting to solve them—despite needing to solve them.
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