Tell Us: What’s Libertarian About Your Favorite Video Games?

June’s issue of Reason
magazine will be exploring the most popular recreational pastime in
America (and several other countries as well) – video games! Many
Gen-Xers have grown up with video games, and video games have grown
up alongside of them to become a cultural and marketplace
juggernaut. In “Video Game Nation” we’ll be analyzing what it all
means, looking at how self-described gamers describe their
political leanings, tracking games’ growth as a form of expression,
documenting the moral panics surrounding games in the days of yore,
exploring what we can learn about economics from games, and
interviewing a game-loving congressman who rallied his community to
fight some bad Internet-related legislation. We’re planning several
game-related videos as well.

We know there plenty of gamers among the Reason crowd, so we
want to incorporate your experiences with games if we can. Are
there games that you love that you find particularly libertarian?
What makes them so libertarian? Sound off in the comments, and
we’ll pick some cogent or interesting choices to go along with our
package. You can go back as far as you like in game history. If you
want to make the case that Q-Bert argues for looser
borders and freer immigration policies, more power to you. Think
outside the box, or the pyramid of boxes, as the case may be.

If you need to refresh your memory, check out Peter Suderman’s
2013
list of video games all libertarians should play. What would
you add?