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A page for the group investigating video games and The Waste Land.


==Games which directly and consciously reference The Waste Land==
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Fallen London
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Failbetter Games
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The Recurring Dreams storylets are entitled The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, and What the Thunder Said.
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The Waste Land
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Fledermaus
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An open world, role-playing action adventure title based around the story described in <i>The Waste Land.</i>
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==Games which indirectly, accidentally, and/or thematically reference The Waste Land (includes references to Eliot's other works):==
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Fable I/II/III
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Lionhead Studios
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Monsters called Hollow Men appear. See: T.S. Eliot's poem <i>The Hollow Men.</i>
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Spec Ops: The Line
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2K Games (2012)
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Fragmented narrative structure, similar themes of violence, rebirth and fragmented experience
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Silent Hill franchise
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Konami (1999-current)
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Fragmented, the hanged man tarot card reference, bilingual hidden messages, etc.
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Winter Voices
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inner seas
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Themes of loss and fragmentation of memory; death of the fathers and simultaneous emancipation and abandonment of the children.
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Fallout franchise
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Interplay Entertainment
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In Fallout: New Vegas, the quest We Will All Go Together is named for a song by Tom Lehrer, which refers to the total destruction of life through war. The Fallout New Vegas NCR propaganda posters resemble propaganda from WWI and WWII.
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Walking Dead
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Telltale Games
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Themes of living death; zombies used as metaphors for the mental states of humans
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Dishonored
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Bethesda Studios (2012)
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Fragmentary experience, themes of war and rebirth, industrialization vs. the old world
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Shadowrun Returns
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Harebrained Schemes (2013)
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Post-war societal upheaval, fragmented world and experience, lost memories, a history that haunts the present. Living death. This is especially apparent in the main plot line known simply as "Dead Man's Switch".
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      The Binding of Isaac
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      Independently produced--Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl
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      The hanged man/themes of hanging and suicide/living death/shell shock and trauma
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      Kingdom Hearts
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      Square Enix
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      Archival construction; inclusion of elements in a manner similar to The Waste Land; theme of fragmentation and memories
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