You can find better Metroidvanias than Iconoclasts, but what you won't find is another metroidvania-style game that is so invested in the ways people treat their labor, their neighbors, and their gods. The fact that the game isn't riddled with so many power-ups and resources to obtain is part of the point: in a world so ravaged by our greed, stubbornness, and zealous indifference, what more can we hope to obtain from this dying land?

I wish more games endeavored to tell such a captivating narrative. I also wish the people playing games put more thought into the stories they're experiencing. A medium with this many dystopias deserves to have a few more stories dedicated to how they got that way.