10 Video Games That Punish You For Caring
1. Frostpunk
In the new ice age of 11 Bit Studios' Frostpunk, suffering, hunger, and illness are the new baseline for living. Your one and only goal is survival - at any cost. Caring about your citizens will likely just get everyone killed.
One of the most brutal and unforgiving survival games ever made, Frostpunk is nothing but a constant stream of bitterly tough decisions. Trying to save everyone is impossible. Before you know it, one compassionate act can snowball into a series of catastrophic failures - keeping everyone warm drains your power and fuel faster than it can be replaced; keeping everyone well-fed will deplete your food stores and result in starvation; providing children with an education will halve your potential workforce; compensating the crippled and sick will engender violent envy in your workforce.
To simply keep your restless populace working as a well-oiled machine is to ensure mankind's survival at their own expense, rallying them under oppressive fascism or theocracy - essentially gaslighting, coercing, or forcing them into working to death for an ideal.
If you aren't prepared to bear the guilt of sacrificing men, women, and even children for the greater good - you aren't ready to play Frostpunk.