Video games permeate our everyday existence. They immerse players in fascinating gameworlds and
exciting experiences often inviting them in various ways to reflect on the enacted events.
Gerald Farca explores the genre of dystopian video games and the player's aesthetic response to
their nightmarish gameworlds. Players he argues will gradually come to see similarities
between the virtual dystopia and their own 'offline' environment thus learning to stay wary of
social and political developments. In his analysis Farca draws from a variety of research
fields such as literary theory and game studies combining them into a coherent theory of
aesthetic response to dystopian games.
