Bury me, my Love

released on Oct 26, 2017

Bury me, my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd, as Nour undertakes a perilous journey to safety in Europe. Bury me, my Love is a Text Messaging Adventure game about Nour, a Syrian migrant trying to find her way to Europe. Her husband Majd, who remains behind in Syria, communicates with Nour through a messaging app, advising her as best he can so that she reaches her destination safely. “Bury me, my love” is a Syrian goodbye phrase that roughly means, “Take care, don’t even think about dying before I do.” This phrase takes on a deeper meaning as Majd says it to his wife, Nour, as she undertakes her perilous journey to reach Europe. A co-production from ARTE, the European cultural network, with The Pixel Hunt and Figs.


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It's a good game, but the Switch version is not the ideal way to play this. It crashed a lot and it also doesn't have the same effect. When you play this on a mobile device you have to wait real time for replies. On Switch the game just fast forwards when there's a passage of time.

Otherwise it was an engaging experience. Again, just get it on a different system, mobile if possible. It is better.

The central relationship is strong, but the husband (your character) is a bit too naïve regarding the surrounding circumstances which ultimately affects the depth of the central relationship. These moments are meant to provide a basic level of education about the Syrian civil war and the Europe's refusal to help migrants and refugees and, while I think they do succeed at that, it prevents more genuine, tender moments from happening.

There's also something lost with the game's translation onto Switch. On mobile devices, the time spent between conversations is real world time which really adds to the tenseness and anxiety inducing nature of the narrative. On Switch, these conversation gaps are just a black screen with the date and time of day quickly progressing. But even if the Switch is your only platform to check this out on, I'd still really recommend playing through it.

Got this for free, played through it for a few hours and got a few bad endings. The writing was really effective and tense and I would like to go back to get a proper ending eventually.

Impression d'être un peu passé à côté de la portée et du vrai intérêt de l'expérience en l'ayant fait sur Switch, compte tenu de certains aménagements a l’expérience. Ça reste un jeu à faire et je dirais même d’importance, brillamment écrit et très touchant surtout.

I ghosted her just like other people do ghost me on Tinder