Other game recreate a time periods' architecture and culture so you can explore it first hand. In Return of the Obra Dinn you revisit the moment of death of 60 sailors on an ancient ship and use evidence to piece together their identity and what happened. In Heaven’s Vault you play an archaeologist translating an ancient alien language whose decrypting weaves through an unfolding drama. There are other games that introduce historical techniques and tools. Treasures of the Aegean is a Tin Tin-style tomb raiding adventure game with a surprisingly accurate bronze age Aegean civilisation. The Forgotten City is a mystery adventure set in the final days of a cursed Roman city. Through the Darkest of Times is a strategy game that conveys the sombre mood of the dark period of history between January 1933 and May 1945. Or, like in This War of Mine, what is was like for those caught up in conflict as civilians.īeyond warfare, games offer a wide array of accurate depictions of different civilisations and eras. This might also be offering the player to experience battles not from the perspective of the victors. This might be something as simple as accurately creating period-appropriate weapons and uniforms, like in War Thunder or Enlisted. There are, however, all sorts of games that use history as more than window dressing. Many games do treat historic periods or military battles to embellish the visuals with a realism. Video games are sometimes criticised for pillaged historical cultural contexts as places to pitch their shooting battles.

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