Fate of the World is certainly more challenging and perhaps honest, although less aspirational. climate induced mass famine and social breakdown is a near inevitability in vanilla Fate of The World. I reallu reccomend the rebalance mod touted in the steam discussions.

In the tabletop world, my wife and I have recently been playing "Daybreak" - akin to Pandemic, but focused on climate change.

The box blurb calls it a "hopeful vision of the near future" but in practice that sense of hope ends up being heavily salted with "holy crap, this is hard".

Came here to say exactly this.