10 Video Games That Pose Extremely Deep Questions
4. Almost Any RPG Ever
If there's one genre that can be boiled down to a single theme, it'd be RPGs.
Mass Effect, Fallout, Dragon Age, The Outer Worlds, The Elder Scrolls, Undertale, Vampyr, as different as all of these games are, they all ask the player the same central question: Who do you want to be?
Take Vampyr for example. You can do your duty as a doctor and try to cure the vampire virus plaguing humanity, or you can embrace the demon within and terrorize both the living and the dead. The same principle applies to a majority of RPGs. What the genre does more so than any other is allow you to be the hero, the villain, or anything in between.
The opportunity to escape to a different place and be a different person is a huge reason people play video games. Escapism however isn't as simple of a concept as we make it out to be. Rather, when we escape into another person it's a reflection of who we desire to be deep down inside.
It's not just a matter of who you want to be in the game, but in the real world too. So, once again, who do you want to be?