Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise is, as Andy Chalk wrote last year, "clearly a game with something to say". The deckbuilding RPG is particularly interested in the rich and powerful, and getting revenge on the billionaires destroying the world. It's deeply anti-capitalist and political, but developer Speculative Agency received funding from Microsoft, which puts it in an awkward position.
In December, we called 2025 "Microsoft's year of shame" after it killed off games and studios left and right, snuggled up to Donald Trump, went all-in on AI and supplied tech to the military—not just the US military, but the Israeli Defense Force as well, which human rights organisations and a UN commission of enquiry have accused of committing genocide.
