Your role as the player is that of the emergent bourgeoisie. You begin with primitive accumulation, claiming land and resources to establish your first modes of production, seizing the means of production from the wilderness.

You can interpret the entire world of Faxanadu as a society in the throes of a classic Marxist crisis. It all starts with a material, economic disaster: a meteor poisons the World Tree's water.

In The Guild 3, you begin as a direct producer, perhaps a baker or blacksmith. You own your tools and control your craft's entire process, embodying the pre-capitalist artisan.

So here's kind of an interesting angle when you look at this game. I was one of the sad sacks of shit that bought this thing for like $2 to try with my son's VR headset. I can see what they were going for, but they didn't deliver.

They don't all have easy theory to parse :). Enjoy the meme though. #marxism #videogames #capitalism #socialist

Not familiar with this game cuz I don't play many RTSs and I had to kind of look up with the basis of the point of the game was. However it really has to be said that Desert Kingdoms is actually a perfect model for how feudalism collapsed and created capitalism. #rts #marxism #theory #steam #games

So both these game are rich in applicable theory.
It's not just about the meme's text, but what the games themselves show us about power.

#ff6 #chronotrigger #theory #marxism

Let's connect the theory directly to the game Atmocity. The parallels are in its mechanics. The game's core idea is building a dense, vertical city. This isn't just a visual style; it's the perfect metaphor for the class hierarchy.
#capitalism #atmocity

In Ys I, on the stone bridge, Adol (the everyman) meets Feena and Reah (the priestess elite). Their alliance against darkness shows how class barriers must be broken for progress. #ClassStruggle, #Marxism, #GamingTheSystem, #VideoGames, #PixelArt, #RPG, #Ys, #HistoricalMaterialism, #LeftistGamers