Image credit: Origame Digital

You might remember 2021's Umurangi Generation , developed by Māori studio Origame Digital. It placed its focus on its first-person photography system as much as its very direct anti-colonial and anti-neoliberal criticism, stemming partly from the Australian government's mishandling of COVID and the bushfires that spread across the country in 2020. Origame's second game, the newly-released Penguin Colony , is just as direct in its anti-colonial theming, with its target being the ongoing Palestinian genocide by Israel, and the games industry at large for its silence.

Penguin Colony is, to boil it down to its simplest nature, a sort of walking simulator in which your playable penguins take a trip through an Antarctic consumed by Lovecraftian nightmares, in a riff on At the Mountains of Madness.…