How Thinking Like A Historian Can Help You Understand Games, From The Witcher 3 To Assassin’s Creed

There has been a lot of discussion recently in games about historical accuracy. We’ve seen a number of articles debating the absence of people of color in The Witcher 3 as well as essays criticizing Apple’s decision to remove games featuring the Confederate battle flag from the App Store. Most of this discussion treats historical accuracy as something close to gospel, beyond reproach or change. There were never people of color in the medieval, Eastern European milieu from which The Witcher is drawn. There were always Confederate battle flags in the American Civil War. For most people, using “never” and “always” with regard to history seems natural. If any field of knowledge can offer such certainty, it must be history, right?

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