GameRant had an interesting article about the reboot being more ecologically inclined. A reboot of the game is up and coming and should be playable on Xbox and Windows. The original game came out in 2000 and fell into the genre of sci-fi. Perfect Dark by Microsoft’s The Initiative and Crystal Dynamics. Video Games Get Serious About Climate Change by DW.What Final Fantasy VII Says About Environmentalism by Forrest Brown at Stories for Earth (a member of our Discord).The Tragedy of GJ237b by Ben Lehman (Medium)-a roleplaying game for no players.
Solarpunk-Inspired Tabletop RPGs for Fans of Marvel’s Black Panther.Observing Nature by In the Lobby, which talks about nature and animals in Pokémon.How Video Games Are Joining the Fight to Save the Planet by UN Environment Programme (UNEP).How Final Fantasy VII Radicalized a Generation of Climate Warriors by Ars Technica.Children’s games: NOAA for some educational and fun resources as well as Make Use Of for a good list.Battlefield 2042 Dev Says Climate Apocalypse Is For Gameplay Reasons, Not Social Commentary by IGN.20 Incredible Environmental Games from the Last Decade by Chaos Theory Games.Newly added on February 21, 2022: an article from Screenrant about solarpunk-inspired TTRPGs as well our addition of these games in the tabletop RPG section.
Think of this article as a starting sample, and feel free to leave a comment and link with more information if you want me to add a game. I know that there’s a lot out there, and I haven’t covered it all yet.
I’ll update the lists below often, so check back for more recommendations. So it is important to try to be aware of e-waste issues, energy use, and other consumption problems when buying and playing games. It’s hard to estimate how much electricity gamers consume since it varies based on how often a gamer plays, what platforms they use and how energy efficient their devices are. Gaming itself generates its own environmental problems, though, whether as e-waste or as contributing to a country’s carbon footprint. DW, in Can Video Games Inspire Climate Action? states: Note that while games can teach about environmental issues, including climate change, and can place the player into an immersive, natural simulated world, the gaming industry can also generates its own problems. The games are broken into a few categories, which might overlap: first person-shooters, MMOs, narrative, puzzle-platformers and other strategy, RPG and adventure, simulation, and tabletop (including D&D, map, board, and card games). While some games lean toward environmental lessons and strategize ways to reconstruct ecological systems, others beautifully immerse the player into an explorative world where nature and wilderness are key to survival.
Thanks to so many wonderful game suggestions (primarily video games, but not all) from the Rewilding Our Stories community, we have a new eco-gaming section here at Dragonfly.