Green Media Mediography – Utrecht University

The Circular Maring World

Developed by the Polish educational organisation Fundacja Edukacyjna Nausika as part of the EU Erasmus+ program, The Circular Maring World translates anthropologist Roy Rappaport’s influential ethnographic study Pigs for the...

Rebirth

Rebirth by Reiner Knizia, which won the prestigious Kennerspiel des Jahres award in Germany in 2026, presents an unusual take on the ‘solarpunk’ imaginary and on post-extractive resettlement. The game...

Koi

Players create their own Japanese-inspired koi ponds, gradually adding water, shoreline, vegetation, water lilies, koi, lanterns, and other features. Players alternate between acquiring resources and cards and using them to...

Mycelia

Mycelia is a deck-building board game with a natural theme: mushrooms. Each player has their own game board containing 20 dewdrops. You win the game by getting rid of all...

Netelland

Netelland, created by composer Eva Beunk and installation artist Adrian Gutzelnig in collaboration with the Gaudeamus Festival and Stichting Op Wacht, is an immersive, site-specific performance set in the speculative...

Spirit Island

Spirit Island is widely recognized not just as a well designed cooperative strategy game but as a deliberate counter-narrative to the neo-colonial exploration and exploitation gameplay inherent in classic games...

Blue Planet (TTRPG series)

Originally published in 1997 by Biohazard Games and recently revived with Blue Planet: Recontact, Blue Planet is widely considered a pioneering and successful example of ‘hard’ eco-science fiction in the...

Climate Cooldown

Climate Cooldown is a cooperative educational board game designed for 2–4 players (though the game is scalable for larger groups in classrooms). Over the course of up to five rounds,...

Post Growth Toolkit: The Game

Developed by the art and research collective Disnovation.org, Post Growth Toolkit: The Game is a tactical intervention into how we conceptualize the climate crisis. Most commercial environmental simulation games like...

Plastic Island

Plastic Island, developed by the Indonesia-based “Ecogames” collective, is an educational board game that thematizes combating plastic pollution. Participants clean and upcycle trash, enhancing the ocean’s health; the game (like...

Future Energy

Future Energy, designed by Emanuele Ornella and published by Queen Games, is officially part of Queen Games’ Green Planet series, a line of games explicitly dedicated to themes of sustainability...

Canopy: Evergreen

While its predecessor, Canopy, focused on the lush, dense tropical rainforest, Evergreen shifts the focus to a temperate forest ecosystem. In a functioning ecosystem, plants and animals rely on each...

Circular City – the board game

Conceived and developed through a cross-border partnership between the municipality of Prato (Italy), the municipality of Taichung (Taiwan), and ARCO (Action Research for Co-Development) at the University of Florence, “Circular...

Reduce, Reuse, Revolt

From the itch.io website: “The news doesn’t even mention it anymore. The rising temperatures, mass migrations, dirty water, acid rain–none of it. It’s all bought and paid for by corporations,...

Ecology: The Game of Man and Nature

From the Science History Institute website: “Ecology: The Game of Man and Nature was published in 1970 by Urban Systems, a consulting and research firm, whose president, Richard H. Rosen,...

Forest Shuffle

Over the course of the game, each player grows a forest by placing different tree species and arranging other plants, animals, and fungi around them. The game ends once...

Earth Rising: 20 Years to Transform Our World

Earth Rising: 20 Years to Transform Our World is a cooperative board game for 1 to 6 players. Each player takes on a role such as activist, scientist, politician, or...

New Angeles

New Angeles, set in the Android universe, is a bustling industrial hub that depends on constant resource extraction and distribution to function. Each player controls a megacorporation, competing to earn...

Flourish

Players design and cultivate a personal garden over the course of four rounds of play, gradually building a tableau of flower beds, trees, ornamental features, and bee hives that form...

Kelp: Shark vs Octopus

Kelp is a two-player asymmetrical game that offers players a unique opportunity to delve into the natural world of Pyjama Sharks and Common Octopuses, set in a South African kelp forest....

Carbon City Zero

Carbon City Zero: World Edition is a collaborative deck-building game for 1-4 people (aged 8+), in which players develop a sustainable city by greening transport, transforming industries, getting citizens on...

Keep Cool

With Keep Cool, each player takes a role within global climate politics. You have to put through economic interests – e.g., of the USA and its partners or of the Developing...

Happy Shoppers

Chloé Wake and Paul Wake (Frank and Alex Games). Self-published, 2024. Free to download. 3+ players | 20–40 minutes | Adult Happy Shoppers: A New and Most Disgusting Game for...

Catan

Klaus Teuber. Catan GmbH, 1995. 3–4 Players | 60-120 Mins | Age 10+ Catan, designed by Klaus Teuber, is a multiplayer game in which players compete to create the dominant...