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Bury me, my Love
You play Majd, who stays in Syria while his wife Nour tries to reach safety in Europe. You read her messages and decide how to reply. The phone screen puts you in the position of someone trying to help from far away, with only the details she’s had time to send.
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Path Out (2017)
Released
Abdullah Karam recounts leaving Syria in 2014, and you play a younger version of him traveling from Hama toward the Turkish border. His video interruptions tell you what he remembers about the people and places you’ve just seen. That makes the game feel like listening to someone tell their story while you walk through it.
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The Waiting Game (2018)
Released
Choose one of five asylum seekers and follow their case through the U.S. system. Advancing through days of waiting gives the short bursts of news or paperwork their weight. ProPublica, WNYC, and Playmatics based the stories on real case files, withholding some details to protect the people involved.
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NORTH (2016)
Released
You arrive in an unfamiliar city and try to understand what it expects of someone seeking asylum. Letters to your sister help make sense of the strange tasks and customs you encounter. This short science fiction game lets you sit with the confusion of having your future depend on rules that nobody has clearly explained.
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Walk in My Shoes
Play through the story of Sifa from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Hassan from Syria, or Senait from Eritrea. Each faces decisions about leaving home and what to do along the way. The three perspectives give this browser game room to show how people make different choices even when safety is what they all need.
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Road 96 (2021)
7.4/10on IGDB
Released
Young hitchhikers try to leave the fictional country of Petria. Who you meet and which roadside episodes you see change from run to run, so you hear about life under the regime through several encounters before you see the border itself. The road trip gives the place a character of its own.
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Life Is Strange 2 (2018)
7.7/10on IGDB
Released
Sixteen-year-old Sean takes his brother Daniel on the road toward Mexico after a tragedy near Seattle. You make choices as Sean while Daniel watches and learns from him. The complete season gives that relationship time to change as the boys move through places where they have little reason to expect a welcome.
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Cloud Chasers (2015)
Released
Francisco and Amelia leave their farm hoping to reach a world above the clouds. Every step through the desert costs water. Amelia can fly a glider to collect more from the clouds, and the people they meet give the choices along the way consequences that go beyond keeping the canteen full.
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Home Behind (2016)
5.0/10on IGDB
Released
A father searches for his missing daughter after war destroys their village. The encounters change between runs, while food, water, illness, and the weather set the pace of each attempt. It’s a fictional survival story built around the compromises a person makes when it’s too dangerous to return home.
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Not Tonight 2 (2022)
5.5/10on IGDB
Released
Three friends have to get Eduardo’s documents to Miami after he’s detained in an alternate United States. The journey turns odd jobs and document checks into time pressure. Its dark comedy works best when the rules are absurd and the friends still take the job of getting there seriously.
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We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe (2023)
Released
A would-be reporter from Warsaw goes to North Africa to write about people trying to reach Europe. The illustrated game lets you choose what he asks and whose account he follows. His ambition keeps you aware of who is telling the story, even as the people he meets offer their own reasons for traveling.
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The Migrant Trail (2014)
Released
One side of this documentary companion game follows people crossing the Sonoran Desert from Mexico into the United States. Another follows a U.S. Border Patrol agent. The developers combine drawn settings with documentary photographs and footage, putting the human cost of the journey in view whichever account you follow.
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1378(km)
This 2010 multiplayer modification uses the Source Engine to depict the former inner-German border. You can play as someone trying to leave East Germany or as a guard under orders. Jens M. Stober used plans from 1976 to reconstruct the border installations. Playing both sides shows how differently the rules apply in the same place.
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