Shell shock, survival in a war-struck town, violation of human rights, and difficult moral dilemmas: This is how war games have shifted from being an escapist celebration of unscrupulous killing to a significant tool for coping with reality… and even criticizing the war game industry...

The ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine is threatening to change the global status quo and set the world back a few decades in many ways, from geopolitical relations and peace to trade and the economy....