Fallout has a grim/bleak/desolate aesthetic but is chock full of quirky stuff! And also horrifying stuff. But that may be because it was pretty much my first exposure to the idea of radiation as a tiny An, and radiation is FUCKING TERRIFYING.
Minecraft is also a really bleak game, if you look at it right. Because you wake up alone in a wilderness overrun by undead every single night, you basically have to re-create civilization with your own hands, the only intelligent creatures around seem to be decidedly nonhuman and their whole villages can die off over the course of a night if they get mobbed by zombies, the caves are littered with the decaying evidence of a previous civilization, and then there's this.
Basically, stealth post-apocalyptic worlds and worlds that are post-apocalyptic but offer a more complex emotional landscape than grimdark are lovely things.
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Minecraft is also a really bleak game, if you look at it right. Because you wake up alone in a wilderness overrun by undead every single night, you basically have to re-create civilization with your own hands, the only intelligent creatures around seem to be decidedly nonhuman and their whole villages can die off over the course of a night if they get mobbed by zombies, the caves are littered with the decaying evidence of a previous civilization, and then there's this.
Basically, stealth post-apocalyptic worlds and worlds that are post-apocalyptic but offer a more complex emotional landscape than grimdark are lovely things.