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I mean…books have been doing this for a while. No need to make it a game. Look at 1984 and see some parallels. Book was written 75 years ago but covers things like:
1984 is a bit of a cliche, but it has a lot of relevant discussion of modern issues in it.
Also Brave New World where everyone is too absorbed in entertainment and drugs to realize how fucked everything is, and Fahrenheit 451 because, y’know censorship.
Not exactly modern, and maybe a bit cartoonish, but given how old these books are it’s remarkable how relevant they still are.
Point is, doesn’t have to be a video game. Books are cheaper to produce and tend to need less financial incentive to be written. So you get better content.
Having read them all at some time in the past, I feel like, while they capture a lot of modern problems and are scaringly accurate in many of the predictions they make, they still don't create this "everyday" feeling.
Brave New World is probably closest to capturing what I'm looking for, even though it too opens immediately with a dystopian picture.
The thing is, it would be interesting to explore, in any form of art really, this progression from feeling completely normal about what happens to figuring out what everything actually means, which could lead to people questioning and investigating things in real life.