
I strongly recommend the 2007 game Spec Ops: The Line to all you gumshoes
This game starts off like a regular, unexceptional cover shooter from 2012. Set in Dubai, there is some kind of guerrilla uprising that you are called in to investigate and you're of course ambushed by some poorly armed locals. Pretty quickly though you start to see that you are up against >!American military personnel!< and realize that there is something much bigger going on.
The game starts to reveal itself as heavily inspired by Heart of Darkness and is a dark parody of 2010s era Call of Duty type games that have you going into a mission "under orders" and then basically being forced to commit atrocities, then justifying it to yourself. The game doesn't give you any agency, it just makes you do a bunch of horrible shit while the main character tries to justify it to himself and eventually goes kind of insane. It's almost as if the "No Russian" COD MW2 mission was a full length game except with big psychedelic sequences interwoven about the horrors of war.
There are lots of spooks in the narrative too including the CIA, it's quite the game. I have never seen anything like it and I'm really surprised when I searched this forum's history there were no mentions of it. I want to be more spoilery on a 2012 game but I really think it's worth it to play it.
Also its 2012 not 2007 that header is a typo.
It's been delisted everywhere, ostensibly for licensing issues but it is pretty subversive, but you can download it for free on archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/spec-ops-the-line_202402