I am... not good at this game. The connections and actions that you create in The Nation seem so paralyzing and permanent. I felt panic when everything flew out of my hands. The very hands that I had seen with my own eyes put entire nations into choke-holds. Orwell gives the player so much power and confidence in their Godlike ability to oversee all, but it cannot account for human error. You cannot perfectly predict the future or how someone may act, and so Orwell shows you through your own actions why this age of information that we have all come into is so scary. That the human elements of power and control are faulty, and that no one is worthy of control. Especially not you. A good game with a damn good message.

Reviewed on Apr 01, 2023


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