UnReal World [SEP] narrative location
UnReal World
UnReal World is a roguelike survival freeware (shareware before 2013) video game set in Iron Age Finland. The first version of the game was released in 1992, and receives regular updates to this day. In 26 February 2016, the game was released on Steam.
Gameplay.
The game world features aspects from Finnish mythology and folklore. The player adopts one of ten Finnish cultures with occupations including fisherman, hermit, trapper or tradesman.
The game has both real time and turn-based elements
a myth: mythos as a means to explain the beginnings which escape history's narrative." The writings of the Chroniclers of the Indies depicted the exotic "new world" and their accounts of conquering strange new lands became accepted as history. These often fantastical stories helped to bring about a new aesthetic, which morphed into magical realism and "(as conceived by Alejo Carpentier) marvelous realism or lo real maravilloso. According to this aesthetic, unreal things are treated as if realistic and mundane, and mundane things as if unreal