Seems like no one's read any kind of literary criticism. It's not that bad, and moreover, it's a pretty positive indicator that the medium is being taken more s

Seems like no one's read any kind of literary criticism. It's not that bad, and moreover, it's a pretty positive indicator that the medium is being taken more seriously. You may disagree with how successful the endeavour was, but having video games place the player within a cruel system and force them to make alienated and morally ambiguous choices is an interesting and valid criticism of the way these systems play out in real life. Papers Please is another pretty good example. The article does decent job at evaluating how effective Prison Architect is as social commentary, in my opinion. It can hardly be accused of reaching too far if this commentary was one of the intentions of the devs themselves. Commenters here would do well to reread pg's hierarchy of disagreement, and actually engage with the points that are made.