For instance, the Civ games are basically Whig History: The Game, presenting liberal capitalism as the ideal end point for all societies. It even includes uncivilized “barbarian tribes” whose sole purpose is to be exterminated so you can take their land for the glory of capitalism.


Exactly like it goes beyond mere bootlicking and puts you in control of a reactionary death squad trying desperately to reinscribe the borders and material relations which defined pre-collapse capitalism and just kind of assumes the player would agree with all of it.