Art reflects the anxieties of the era. Cold War nuclear tension inspired the creation of everything from the alien invasion flicks of the 1950s to Atari’s hit 1980 coin-op Missile Command. Now, with anxieties increasingly focused on the climate crisis, it’s only natural that game developers would respond. Bleak forecasts of catastrophic sea-level rises have inspired both Highwater, a forthcoming turn-based PC strategy adventure made by Demagog Studio in Serbia, and Vile Monarch’s Floodland, a PC city-builder launched in November that puts you in charge of scattered survivors attempting to rebuild society from whatever scraps
