Citizen Sleeper, like Norco and Disco Elysium before it, explores the melancholy realism of living under global capitalism, writes ckunzelman.
, if only because the former two are some of the only narrative games to capture the narrative vibes and moods of the latter.
The work of melancholy realism in videogame narrative borrows heavily from the mood of Mark Fisher’s now-classic, a book that made a short, compelling case about how capitalism forecloses the future by asserting itself as a natural, given parameter in all of our lives. Fisher’s book, incredibly influential among the millennial set who encountered it on-and-after its publication in 2009, holds onto a kind of undefeated hopelessness in the face of the operations of global capitalism.
’s network and the obscure and natural machinery that feeds the mystery of what actually undergirds human life on the space station. The realism of these games is that this strange existence will go on after you, that the world fundamentally does not need human life to succeed; the melancholy is that you will never understand it, will never be fulfilled in it, even if you can be stunned into wonder by the numinous mystery that borders on Mystery.
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