Welcome to FatWorld

FATWORLD constructs a small-scale society in which players decide what to eat, how much to exercise, what foods should be sold and what regulations should be imposed to determine their own health and that of their community. The game’s goal is not to tell people what to eat or how to exercise, but to demonstrate the complex, interwoven relationships between nutrition, obesity and social factors like budgets, the physical environment, food subsidies and government policy. FATWORLD is a game for adults and teens, but it can also serve as a starting point for discussions with children about nutrition, health and socioeconomics.

“The main social change we’re interested in stimulating through the game is the idea that personal responsibility should not be the primary answer,” said FATWORLD lead designer and Persuasive Games co-founder Dr. Ian Bogost. “We need higher-order interventions, including certain regulations, to really change our collective well-being.”