There are a number of thematic points at work: However, also remember that there is a civil war going on, so your newspaper has a certain importance – and mid-way through the game, you get rebels turning up, asking for your help. Remember that you work in an authoritarian state, and as such are extremely expendable. In each case, you need to ask yourself – “does this article make the incumbent Government look good or bad?”, since you can make the Government look very good or very bad, using exactly the same initial menu. The trick is deciding which stories, since your choices impact the Government’s popularity, as well as the readership of your newspaper. On the surface, all you have to do as editor is choose which stories out of a news-feed menu to publish… a mere matter of clicking and dragging. While its simplicity ultimately limits its game-play value – to be fair, it was developed in a mere forty-eight hours – The Republia Times manages a lot at the thematic level. It’s a short and simple free-to-play browser game, where you get to play a newspaper editor in an authoritarian state in the middle of a civil war. Time for a review of another amusingly political video-game: The Republia Times.Īs a background, The Republia Times was created by the same developer responsible for the more famous Papers Please.
Then I did The ReDistricting Game (2007), the availability of which has, alas, suffered with the demise of Flash. Many moons ago, I reviewed the original Crisis in the Kremlin (1991) and its 2017 re-make.
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