“Everyone in This Story Is Already Dead”: Death Matters in Disco Elysium’s Apocalypse

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Contributors and Editors XI
5. Overture
6. Video Games and the Contemporary Apocalyptic Imagination 1
7. Essays
8. Frostpunk, the Apocalypse, and the “Enduring Temptation” of Ecofascism 29
9. The Missing Middle Class in The Outer Worlds 49
10. Masculine Apocalypses: Navigating Masculinity, Male Spaces, and Violence in Days Gone (2019) and The Last of Us Part II (2020) 73
11. Cities of the (Digital) Apocalypse – The Meeting of Video Games, Ruins, and Urban Studies 91
12. My Ruined Town: Fallout 4 Modding and Digital Storytelling 109
13. “I Am Making Everything New”: Animal Crossing as Postmillennial Apocalyptic Progress During the Covid Pandemic 131
14. “All Sound Will Be Muted. All Life Will Scream”: Music and Sound as Existential Resistance in Disco Elysium (2019) 145
15. The Two Broken Messiahs of Far Cry 5 159
16. “There Will be a Reckoning”: Galactic Apocalypse as Endgame in Stellaris 177
17. A Playlist for the Apocalypse: Popular Music in Death Stranding 193
18. Horizon Zero Dawn as Genre-Medium Coevolution 209
19. End Game: Determinism and Human Instrumentality in Apocalyptic Video Games 223
20. Anthroponyms, Apocalyptic Dualism, and Identity Formation in Post-Apocalyptic Video Games 239
21. Death Stranding, Connections, Timefall, and Our Interactive Past 257
22. Undead Ecosystems: Death Stranding and the Contemporary Video-Game Zombie 271
23. “Everyone in This Story Is Already Dead”: Death Matters in Disco Elysium’s Apocalypse 285
24. The Haunted Environment: Ellie’s Engagement through Retrospection 305
25. The End of Everything 319
26. “Pick Your Plasmid and Evolve!”: Individualization, Genetics, and Choice in BioShock 339
27. The Dystopia Industry: Video Games and the Commodification of Cultural Collapse 365
28. Video-Game Religion beyond the Anthropocene 385
29. Giving Pandemic a Face: Ecophobia in A Plague Tale: Innocence 401
30. Medieval Fantasy in Video Games and Apocalypse in Digital Culture 415
31. Coda
32. Apocalypticism Today 433
33. Bibliography
34. A Bibliography of Critical Scholarship on Post/Apocalyptic Video Games 451
35. Index 479