Persistent readers will be well aware that I’ve been writing about some of the titles to come out of the recent Indie Games Night Market. Three of them, High Tide, Out of Sorts, and Torchlit, were among my favorite tabletop experiences of 2024.

Chris Lawrence’s Propaganda represents a different manner of showing from the Night Market, both tonally and in terms of polish. Where that previous trio had been fashioned to a high sheen, functioning almost like an audition — and indeed, two of them have since been picked up by publishers — Propaganda is an act of unsettlement. It is the most starkly “indie” of these indie games, confronting players with difficult questions about the media we regularly consume.

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