Carla is a writer from Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, now based in Atlanta. She’s an Emory alum with both a BA and MA in English, but more importantly, she’s a Pisces with lots of opinions about video games.

In the world of life-simulation games, death has always played a curious role, granting a genre that is otherwise fairly cheery a more morbid tone. Deaths in life-simulators can be tragic, situational ...