The reason everyone should put this on their list is that it is the best example of gameplay having a thesis statement. The fact that it never openly states the thing that the gameplay is pointing at, YET the point remains extremely explicit, is perfect. Also, the fact that it’s a little brain teaser that also ends up justifying fascism is also perfect. Also it takes like an hour to complete.
If you haven’t played it: The goal of the game is to provide post-hoc justification for genocide. You start from a thesis about how a population of people died, then you work backwards to justify that thesis by moving the population around, splitting it, and basically manipulating data. Your thesis is always “they just naturally died out” but it becomes clear that they were actually murdered by your people, and you’re doing the academic work that obscures that fact. The key is that you do all of this in a backwards timeline, and in that way it makes sense, but at the end of every level it plays the timeline forwards and it becomes clear that it’s nonsense.
since it’s impossible to google now: Opera Omnia | increpare games