Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface 1
4. Video Game Ecologies and Culture: An Introduction 7
5. Gaming Past the Anthropocene: Relationality, Kinship, and Capitalist Ruins in Song of Bloom, Never Alone, and World of Goo 23
6. A Contract with a Leviathan: Abyssal Ecologies in Subnautica 45
7. Subnautica, Flow, and the Shackles of Convention 71
8. Fractured Worlds in Video Games: The Coloniality of Power in Narrative Tropes and Game Mechanics 89
9. Recording Nature in Alba: A Wildlife Adventure and Season: A Letter to the Future 109
10. On (In)Fertile Ground: Postapocalypse and the Maternal in The Last of Us Part II, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Horizon Forbidden West 127
11. Disruptive Imaginations: Chronotopic Time Loops and Environmental Agency in Sky: Children of the Light 147
12. Feeling Nature: Ludoaffective Dissonance and Harmony in Survival Video Games 165
13. Postscript: Playing at the End of a World 183
14. List of Contributors 193
15. Index 195