It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt.

As a rule, Introversion’s output oscillates rapidly between exultant and sobering – Uplink invokes both tension and terror from the humble progress bar, while Darwinia’s corrupted themepark vibe only makes the plight of its pixellated citizens more ghastly – but none more than Defcon.

Never has impending thermonuclear war been so relaxing. Then jubilant.

Then terrifying.