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On The Revolutionary Potential of Automation Games (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (18 children)

Both celebrate industrialization and the exploitation of the natural world as heroic undertakings without any regard to the value of nature.

Knowing what I know today about the environmental destruction caused by industry (up to and including the global climate crisis), I have decided to skip these games. Even though the core gameplay loop of management & expansion very much appeals to me.

Thinking of checking out Terra Nil. Has anyone here played that?

[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Sounds like Eco may be for you. It’s definitely not the same management and production chain thing but some of that, and I ended up liking it more than I expected

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