The recently released independent video game Little Red Lie wants players to get real about their money problems.

It's an exploration of a rock-bottom social and political reality that you wake up in every day

And while the vision is bleak, it's an important one that couldn't have more relevance to those wading through the ever-increasing financial inequality that's eating away at our middle classes. The game interweaves the narratives of two characters that never meet, but experience opposite ends of the economic spectrum.

As a whole, Little Red Lie is a research-heavy, character-driven exploration of a system where "the richest and the worst among us increasingly seem to get away with basically everything." And the richer they get, the more others on the economic spectrum get vital lifelines ripped away from them.

Read the source article at Mashable

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Jess is an LA-based writer and entertainment reporter.