![]() When you arrive in the quaint town, you meet a cast of villagers, learn to fish and farm, uncover the town’s history, and maybe find a romantic partner. ![]() ![]() As the protagonist, you begin as a corporate cog at the brink of burning out, before escaping city life and moving to your deceased grandfather’s farm. The game pits a community living in the eponymous Stardew Valley against Joja Mart, a massive corporation with a logo reminiscent of Amazon’s. Post-apocalyptic games like Horizon Zero Dawn don’t break away from currency either metal shards act as cash traded for weapons, armor, and supplies.Įven the most community-centered games can default to using currency as a way to measure value and success-like the farming simulator Stardew Valley. Wins in FIFA’s Ultimate Team reward you with coins, which are used to buy more players to build a better team-which you can do more quickly if you spend real money via microtransactions. Pokémon games give you money when you win battles. Money, and the accumulation of it, is often core to a game’s mechanic. This is Controller, a column by Chris Karnadi on looking at the world and its discontents through the lens of video games.
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