Played a bunch of Landlord's Super 0 ▲ Laura Michet 2 hours ago · 8 min read1627 words · Life · hide · 0 comments Landlord's Super is fascinating - it's an incredibly fiddly construction game where you build shitty, low-rent homes and then rent them out to tenants in a tiny town meant to represent Thatcher-era Bristol, UK. The game begins with a text monologue where an older family member lectures you on the morals of the time - greed, sneakiness, "getting your bit," making sure you get ahead. You then select your character model by determining what type of immigrant your father was - a migrant from the Caribbean, or a "displaced person." Beneath both of these sequences, the player watches various construction tools and bits of furniture float by in a pool of undulating black ooze. It's not particularly subtle! After getting through this opening, I was certain that the game would be a mocking satire of 80s capitalism. BRITAIN IN THE 1980S WAS HEADED IN A RADICAL NEW DIRECTION. YOUR FATHERS IMMIGRATION DOCUMENTS READ "HMT WINDRUSH" YOUR FATHERS IMMIGRATION DOCUMENTS READ "DISPLACED PERSONS" You… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.