10 great video games about the meaning of life

Love, death, romance, regret - video games can tell us about all of these things and more. Here are our favourite examples

We don't often look to video games when we're feeling confused about life, the universe or anything else. This is traditionally a medium of escape, the place you come to forget about the world and blow stuff up for a few minutes.

But it's not always that way. Since the beginning, games have also been a place to experiment with what it means to be human. When you think about it, it's obvious: no other medium allows us to interact with and explore the possibilities of existence like games do.