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...
Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart of the Forest Released in 2020 by the Polish indie studio Different Tales (co-founded by former The Witcher designers), Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart of the Forest is a narrative-driven visual novel RPG....
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,...
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,...
Mörk Borg Pelle Nilsson. Art by Johan Nohr. Free League Publishing and the Stockholm Kartell, 2021. 1–5 players plus a Game Master | Variable | Adult Mörk Borg is a Swedish horror tabletop...
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...
Daybreak Daybreak is a cooperative board game that models technological, political and social responses to climate change. It was designed by Pandemic creator Matt Leacock and Matteo Menapace. Throughout the game,...
Snowpiercer (Movie) Snowpiercer is a 2013 post-apocalyptic movie by Bong Joon-ho based on the French graphic novel “Le Transperceneige” by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. The movie takes place in...
Snowpiercer (TV series) Snowpiercer is an American dystopian and post-apocalyptic show based on a non-stop moving train circling the world carrying the remains on the human species onboard. Seven years ago, the entire...
When Rivers Were Trails When Rivers Were Trails is a 2D point-and-click adventure game in which Oregon Trail meets Where the Water Tastes Like Wine. An Anishinaabeg in the 1890’s is displaced from their traditional territory in Minnesota...
Half-Earth Socialism Based on the book of Troy Vetesse and Drew Pendergrass, Half-Earth Socialism is a free videogame in which you are tasked with governing the world, reducing humanity greenhouse gas emissions,...
SpaceBuzz The non-profit SpaceBuzz educational foundation is inspired by the ‘Overview Effect’ (see below), that—until recently—only astronauts in space were able to experience. SpaceBuzz wants to enable 10-12 year old children...
In the Heights In the Heights centers on a variety of characters living in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, on the northern tip of Manhattan. At the center of the show is Usnavi,...
Honeyland The last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood....
Lazzaro Felice “This is the tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination....
Okja Okja (2017) is a film made by filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho, who is also known for his environmental film Snowpiercer (2013). Okja tells the story of Mija and her genetically modified...
The Trouble With Nature The Trouble With Nature (2020) is an independent film that reimagines philosopher Edmund Burke's journey into the mountains. It teaches an ecofeminist lessen to viewers: it portrays beautiful landscapes and a woman's soulful connection with nature, and makes fun of a narcissistic man's mastery of magnificent nature.
Sleepless / Repeat Until Death A Mongolian miner takes his sick daughter away from the heavily polluted city to see the shaman. Upon finding a new home with the reindeer herders in the forest, he...
The Elder Scrolls The Elder Scrolls is primarily a fantasy video game series. The franchise has an active modding community, which is a site for discourse and debate over environmental and ecological issues.
Fairphone Fairphone is a company that builds smartphones using responsibly sourced material. The project offers a way to study the Empire of digital culture through a decolonial lens that addresses the longer histories of oppression and exploitation.
Elysium Elysium tells the story of a future where the Earth has been driven to the brink of ruin, where the very wealthy have retreated to living on a man-made luxurious space station. The film touches upon multiple important issues such as health care, immigration, economic inequality, and environmental decay.
Phone Story Phone Story is a game for smartphone devices that attempts to provoke a critical reflection on its own technological platform. The game seeks to make players into situated subjects aware of their place in the chain of power relations and the footprints of colonialism in our current global age.
Star Trek Star Trek is an American science fiction franchise, that actively uses their storylines to explore contemporary political and social issues. They often focus on diplomacy across cultures and promoting collaborative approaches to problem-solving.
Eagle Creek Wildfire The photography, which was popularized through a retweet by The Wire’s David Simon on Twitter, shows golfers playing while the Eagle Creek forest fires rage in the background. The photo...
