Philosophy Through the Controller: What Video Games Teach Us About Ethics, Mortality, and Meaning

The article explores how video games function as interactive philosophy courses, placing players inside ethical dilemmas rather than having them observe from a distance. Drawing on titles like Planescape: Torment, This War of Mine, and The Witcher, it argues that player agency and narrative transportation create moral experiences more impactful than traditional thought experiments. Research on narrative transportation theory supports the claim that immersive game choices produce lasting changes in real-world attitudes and beliefs.