GameTech: Video games with an environmental theme 

As April is Earth Month, here are a few titles that provide gaming fun, as well as touching on relevant themes 
GameTech: Video games with an environmental theme 

Beyond Blue: a game set in the sea, co-produced by BBC Studios

1. Okami 

Remember the Nintendo Wii? There was nothing more satisfying than using the Wii’s motion controller to brush nature into life in Okami, one of the greatest games of the 2000s. Although Okami was designed like a Zelda title, spanning a 60-hour adventure, the core mechanic involved drawing circles around poisoned fauna to restore life and bloom. Watching flowers burst into life on a dead tree was nothing short of spiritual.

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