Thomas Grønvoll

Northern Norwegian video game scholar and critic, working with video games as narratives, who talks and writes about video games as art. Co-wrote "Spillerom 2020-2022" and "Tid for spill 2024-2026", the Norwegian government's strategies for video games.

Far Cry 5 – Refusing its own politics

by Thomas Grønvoll | Critique

Far Cry 5 (Ubisoft Montreal & Ubisoft Toronto, 2018) gives the Far Cry series a well-deserved break from colonial and oriental tropes about the savage barbarians and the western savior. The game delivers a rural, right-wing power fantasy that leans into MAGA and...