Games such as “Death from Above” aim to stir up pro-Ukrainian sentiment
, too, but they have made clear that theirs is entertainment with a purpose. A portion of the proceeds from “Death from Above” will be donated to Ukrainian charities.s in Ukraine. That game turns players into tractor drivers; they are tasked with stealing Russian equipment. Like “Death from Above”, “Ukrainian Farmy” is inspired by viral footage of the same phenomenon. Meanwhile “What’s Up in a Kharkiv Bomb Shelter” tries to offer players insights into the experience of bombardment.
Some war-inspired productions are silly. The point of “Sunflower Slap” is in the name: players swipe their phone screens to hit Mr Putin across the face with Ukraine’s national flower. Some are macabre. In “Zero Losses”, a forthcoming game, players are members of a support battalion for the occupying forces. They do not fight, but fulfil administrative tasks, such as collecting the bodies of dead Russian soldiers and incinerating them.
The gameplay in “Death from Above” is rich. But Hendrik Lesser, chief executive of Remote Control Productions, a Munich-based entertainment company , says that the game is not an attempt to glorify violence. The choice of drone piloting puts players at a remove from the impact of their attacks; there is no gore. The missions are not modelled on real battlefields in Ukraine, nor do they involve any actual Russian military units.
There is a satirical aspect to proceedings, too. In a side mission, you must retrieve washing machines that Russian soldiers have stolen to harvest computer chips. The aesthetic is cartoonish rather than realistic. The wanted posters of Mr Putin allow gamers to “improve” them by drawing on a toothbrush moustache and devilish red pupils. At one point players must attack a Russian warship—when defeated, it sinks into a field of sunflowers.
So far, the response has been positive. Antytila, a Ukrainian rock band, composed a song especially for the game and the accompanying video was watched on YouTube more than 1m times in the week after the game’s release. The reviews have been enthusiastic, with people expressing gratitude for the opportunity to play a part in the war effort, if only in their imagination. “Bringing justice to invaders one grenade at a time,” one user wrote.
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