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Papers, please. This was dystopian but it still felt like it captured the banality of some of communism's negative side rather than just creating moustache twirling villains.
While Papers Please is very good, it has more in common with nations in a post-soviet balkanisation than a communist nation. The banality is very present in modern western government as well, and the inability to afford medicine for your child is something that is ripped straight from the modern USA. It is a great approximation of what people imagine due to media conditioning, and that makes it very easy to role-play within the game and really enjoy it.
All in all, amazing game, amazing soundtrack, not really indicative.
While the game is pretty fun and the banality is the point, I feel like it doesn't have a lot of things to say about communism itself. You can swap it out for any failing country and it would just work the same.
At least it's realistic. Communism always fails.