Games Archive

"Class Struggle" reflects the real struggle between the classes in our society. The object of the game is to win the revolution...ultimately. Until then, classes—represented by different players—advance around the board, making and breaking alliances, and picking up strengths and weaknesses that determine the outcome of the elections and general strikes which occur along the way." - Game Description

"Urban Ministries of Durham serves over 6,000 people every year. But you'd never need help, right? Over 14 million Americans are unemployed. Now imagine you are one of them. Your savings are gone, you've lost your house, and you're down to your last $1000. Can you make it through the month?" - Spent

"Whip the Vote is a Congress simulator, inspired by House of Cards, where you play as the Whip for the Democratic Party. You're prodded on by President Hessell and opposed by your rival, the Republican Whip, as you work towards passing Democrat supported Bills, killing Republican supported Bills and securing more seats in Congress for the Democrats during Elections." - Official Game Page

"The Landlord's Game is a board game patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie as U.S. Patent 748,626. It is a realty and taxation game, which is considered to be the direct inspiration for the board game Monopoly...The set had rules for two different games, anti-monopolist and a monopolist. The anti-monopolist rules reward all during wealth creation while the monopolist rules had the goal of forming monopolies and forcing opponents out of the game. A win in the anti-monopolist, or Single Tax version and later called by Magie as "Prosperity Game", was when the player having the lowest monetary amount has double his original stake" - Wikipedia

"Foldit is a revolutionary crowdsourcing computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research...With all the things proteins do to keep our bodies functioning and healthy, they can be involved in disease in many different ways. The more we know about how certain proteins fold, the better new proteins we can design to combat the disease-related proteins and cure the diseases. Below, we list three diseases that represent different ways that proteins can be involved in disease." - Foldit

"The Seagull Strikes Back game was launched to promote [WWF's] Stop overfishing petition." - The Seagull Strikes Back

"BioHarmonious makes the player responsible for the fate of two interconnected planets.  The Manufactured Planet, a place of clockwork machinery and choking smog, is on the verge of collapse, and its sister planet, the lush and diverse Natural Planet, will die along with it unless something is done.  Through a process of “bioharmony,” scientists from the Manufactured Planet are able to integrate the flora and fauna of the Natural Planet into their machines to improve the environment of their home world." - BioHarmonius

"In the spring and the fall, many birds fly long distances in search of food, water, shelter and space: the same basic things that you need to survive...In this game you will try to help your flock migrate safely by learning how choices you make each and every day around your home, school, and neighborhood can affect the fate of these migrating birds - in both positive and negative ways. " - Mission: Migration

"Maersk takes you on a quest for one of today’s most indispensable resources – oil. You will go on a subsurface journey, exploring the underground and getting to the heart of one of the world’s most vital and challenging business." - Quest For Oil

"Imagine a world where non-renewable resources, such as coal and oil, are in short supply! What can we do now to prepare for this future event? In this JASON Digital Lab, you will create a new energy portfolio for a city. Research new sources of energy and take another look at renewable and inexhaustible sources that were once considered “alternative” such as sunlight and wind. If you can help your city move forward into the future, you’ll be featured on our competitive leaderboards!" - Energy City

"Using an interactive air pollution simulator to control the air quality in Smog City 2, you can see how individual choices, environmental factors, and different types of land use affect air pollution. In Smog City 2 you are in charge - so whether your visit is a healthy or unhealthy experience depends on the decisions that you make. " - Smog City 2

"CEO2 is a game that puts players in the role of a CEO in one of four major industries from 2010 to 2030. CEO2 was designed to raise awareness about the need for business leaders to balance their concerns for profit and climate change, and the options available to them." – CEO2

"Characters and alien wildlife are brought to life through a rigorous simulation and the game plays out as a tug-of-war between humans and nature on a planet full of opportunities and dangers. Understanding the alien environment is crucial – the resources you discover will provide a number of production options making you able to adapt when food gets scarce and equipment breaks." – Unclaimed World

"In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travellers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The objective of the game is to keep the population alive and grow it into a successful culture." – Banished

"The future is in your hands! You are president of the European Nations and must tackle global climate change from 2000 to 2100. You choose Europe's policies and try to persuade competing regional blocs to reduce their carbon emissions" – BBC Climate Challenge

"Players meet Expert Engineer characters and experience the great diversity of the field. Conversations with these experts and engaging interactive activities allow players to explore ways engineers design and build systems to harness renewable energy sources as alternatives to burning fossil fuels. Players take on the role of Engineers, working together designing and building energy solutions to save the world." – Power

"Take the role of the FDA inspectors in a world of increasingly numerous food imports and increasingly unmanagable risk. Your charge: try to protect the country from contaminants in foreign food imports using extremely limited resources." – Food Import Folly

"Endgame: Syria is a free interactive exploration of events unfolding in Syria today. It is a news-game; a simulation that uses interactivity to explore a real world event." – Endgame: Syria

"Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment." – Depression Quest

"A journal game about the six months of my life when I made the decision to begin hormone replacement therapy." – Dys4ia

"Darfur is Dying is a narrative-based simulation where the user, from the perspective of a displaced Darfurian, negotiates forces that threaten the survival of his or her refugee camp." – Darfur is Dying

"A half-true story about half-truths. You play as a semi-fictional version of me, on a night that changed my life forever. Choose your (my?) words wisely. Every character will remember everything you say -- or don't say..." – Coming Out Simulator 2014

"The player navigates through a playground as an autistic child with auditory hypersensitivity. Proximity to loud children causes sensory overload for the player, impacting cognitive functions." – Auti-Sim

"And the Moment Is Gone is an experimental game about regrets, insecurities, internal monologues and the moments of life you relive over and over." – And the Moment Is Gone

"Enjoy your walk. Interact with your surroundings. Or don't. Have a forgotten, but hopefully not forgetful, experience." – Alz

"Actual Sunlight is a short interactive story about love, depression and the corporation. The game puts you in the role of Evan Winter, a young professional in Toronto, as he moves through three distinct periods of his life. The story is linear, unavoidable and (hopefully) thought-provoking. You experience his perceptions, fall under the consequences of his decisions, and meet everyone who didn’t change him." – Actual Sunlight

"Disasters triggered by natural disasters destroy lives and livelihoods. They affect millions of people every year, rich or poor. With your help, we can reduce human, physical and financial cost of disasters by understanding the risks and applying the best methods of prevention and mitigation. Your role in the game is to plan and construct a safer environment for your population. You must assess the disaster risk and try to limit the damage when natural hazards strike." - Stop Disasters!

"RIZK takes place on an alien landscape, the objective being to grow your plant using the resources you find. How you source energy and defend your plant awakens the resident plants, which threaten your plant’s health." - RIZK

"The Riverbed is a first-person interactive experience: Part game - part story. The fictional murder-mystery takes place in a land devastated by water scarcity. The setting, history and character archetypes are based on real-world cases like the Aral Sea and Colorado River." - The Riverbed

"The Garbage Dreams game, developed to complement the award-winning documentary, is intended to illustrate how recycling not only makes ecological sense, but economic sense too." - Garbage Dreams

"Phone Story is an educational game about the dark side of your favorite smart phone. Follow your phone's journey around the world and fight the market forces in a spiral of planned obsolescence." - Phone Story

"Outcasted is a stand-alone first-person-simulation for mac and PC that tries to establish a consciousness towards the social exclusion that homeless people experience every day. You slip into the role of a person that is living and penhandling on the streets of an average western city. The main task is to beg from the passing pedestrians in order to receive monetary or material attention. As you find yourself being ignored by most of the passer-by‘s, your goal is to find someone who is willing to start a conversation in order to learn about the reasons and circumstances that were responsible for your situation." - Developer

"Mainichi (Japanese for “everyday”) conveys some of the social struggles the developer faces daily as a mixed transgender woman by recreating...

"Fort McMurray, the heart of the Canadian oil industry, is the scene for a groundbreaking fusion of documentary and video game. The creators, web pioneers NFB and Arte with contributions by journalists from Süddeutsche.de and Le Monde, put you in their own shoes. Their mission is your mission: to unravel the interests that lurk behind the appearance of success, wealth and happiness..."