DevZen Podcast

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1984

Orwell invented the vocabulary every dystopian work still borrows

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All Quiet on the Western Front

The anti-war novel — inside the trenches of WWI with no glory, only mud

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The Stranger

Camus's absurdist masterpiece — Meursault's radical indifference as a philosophical statement

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Black Mirror

Brooker's anthology of technology-enabled social collapse

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Spec Ops: The Line

A third-person shooter that becomes an indictment of the genre and its players

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Disco Elysium

A detective RPG that turns ideology into stats and philosophy into dialogue

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NieR: Automata

Yoko Taro's meditation on existence, meaning, and androids who choose to feel

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Cyberpunk 2077

Night City is late-stage capitalism as a playground and a warning

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Apocalypse Now

Coppola's hallucinatory vision of Vietnam as a journey into the heart of darkness