Sometimes you play a game and can tell right away that it’s going to give you Thoughts™, but that wasn’t the case with Technotopia.  My time with it started out the same as any other game, doing my best to get absorbed into the world it crafted and gameplay mechanisms it implemented, all the while taking notes on the side to prepare for the inevitable review.  And then things changed.  The narrative beats slowly began to go off the rails and I went from raising an eyebrow occasionally to having one permanently cocked.  Futurist stories have the capacity to hold up a mirror to our current world or speculate on what tomorrow may bring, and yet Technotopia frequently feels like it gets so lost in critiquing what’s happening now that it forgets to provide that extra layer of futuristic abstraction.  This is less satire, and more someone stating their beliefs directly to the player.  And let me say, some of those beliefs are … questionable to say the least.