Games for Change
Games for Change curates digital and non-digital games that engage contemporary social issues in a meaningful way. The list below contains over 150 games from the Games for Change Community including past G4C Awards nominees and winners.
https://www.gamesforchange.org/games/
Most titles not on IGDB are educational tools or VR experiences.
Not on IGDB:
1000 Cut Journey [Stanford University Virtual Human Interaction Lab, 2018]
Alpha Beat Cancer [Mukutu Game Studio, 2016]
Another Dream [Ado Ato Pictures, 2019]
Antura and the Letters [Cologne Game Lab, Wixel Studios, Video Games Without Borders, 2018]
Apollo [Team Apollo, 2019]
At Play in the Cosmos [W.W. Norton, GEAR Learning, Learning Games Network, 2017]
Awavena [Technicolor Experience Center, 2019]
BBC Earth: Life in VR - California Coast [Preloaded, 2018]
Can't Wait to Learn Uganda [War Child Holland, 2021]
Cards Against Calamity [1st Playable Productions & the Environmental Law Institute, 2018]
Cast Your Vote [iCivics, 2019]
Children Do Not Play War [VILD Studio]
Clouds Over Sidra [Gabo Arora & Chris Milk, UNVR, Within, 2015]
Datak - A Serious Game About Personal Data [RTS and DNA Studios, 2017]
DragonBox BIG Number [DragonBox, 2016]
DragonBox Numbers [DragonBox, 2016]
Erase All Kittens [Dee Saigal, Leonie Van Der Linder, 2017]
Escape to the Future [Open Lab, Newcastle University, 2019]
Fake it to Make it [Amanda Warner, 2017]
Fold [University of Washington, 2008]
Funexpected Math [Funexpected LTD, 2019]
Gamer Girl [RIT's School of Interactive Games and Media, 2019]
Growing Up Ojibwe [Eleanore Falck, Oneida, 2018]
Half the Sky Movement: The Game [Frima Studio, 2013]
Harmony Square [Bad News, DROG, Gusmanson, 2020]
Healing Spaces [Gabriela Purri R. Gomes, 2018]
Heirloom [Abby Sherlock, Kathryn Yu]
HoloAnatomy [Case Western Reserve University, 2016]
HoloTour [Microsoft, 2016]
Homestay [National Film Board of Canada, 2018]
Invite Only VR: A Vaping Prevention Game [play4REAL Lab at Yale University, PreviewLabs Inc., 2019]
Lutaw [Yellow Boat of Hope & Oculus VR for Good, 2020]
Meeting a Monster [Life After Hate]
Mightier [Mightier, 2019]
Mission US: City of Immigrants [THIRTEEN/WNET New York Public Media, Electric Funstuff, American Social History Project, 2015]
Mission US: For Crown or Colony? [Thirteen]
MyoBeatz [PlayBionic, 2018]
NewsFeed Defenders [iCivics, 2018]
Night of the Living Debt [Learning Games Lab, NM State University, 2016]
NOVA's Evolution Lab [NOVA, 2015]
Once Upon A Sea [Blimey and Intuitive Pictures, 2021]
Overview [Orbital Views, 2018]
Pandemic by Prisms [Prisms of Reality, Inc., 2021]
Project Discovery Exoplanets [CCP, MMOS, University of Geneva, 2017]
PRY [Tender Claws]
Quandary [FableVision Studios, Learning Games Network, 2012]
Rayha's Poem [Gordon Lee and Mostafa Haque, 2018]
Re-Mission 2 [HopeLab, 2013]
Resilience [Sungrazer Studio, 2020]
Rispek Danid [Jennifer Ann's Group, 2018]
Save the Park [Schell Games, 2016]
Slice Fractions 2 [Ululab, 2018]
Superbetter [Superbetter Labs, 2012]
Syndesi [SYNDESI Team]
Syrian Journey [BBC, 2015]
Take Pause [Take-Pause]
Tendar [Tender Claws, 2018]
Terminal 3 [1RIC, 2018]
The Cat in the Hat Builds That [PBS Kids, 2018]
The Holy City [Nimrod Shanit, 2019]
Tracking Ida [Lishan AZ]
Travelling While Black [Felix & Paul Studios, 2019]
Tree [New Reality Company, 2017]
Upstander [Aha and WOW]
World Rescue [ZU Digital and UNESCO MGIEPP, 2017]
https://www.gamesforchange.org/games/
Most titles not on IGDB are educational tools or VR experiences.
Not on IGDB:
1000 Cut Journey [Stanford University Virtual Human Interaction Lab, 2018]
Alpha Beat Cancer [Mukutu Game Studio, 2016]
Another Dream [Ado Ato Pictures, 2019]
Antura and the Letters [Cologne Game Lab, Wixel Studios, Video Games Without Borders, 2018]
Apollo [Team Apollo, 2019]
At Play in the Cosmos [W.W. Norton, GEAR Learning, Learning Games Network, 2017]
Awavena [Technicolor Experience Center, 2019]
BBC Earth: Life in VR - California Coast [Preloaded, 2018]
Can't Wait to Learn Uganda [War Child Holland, 2021]
Cards Against Calamity [1st Playable Productions & the Environmental Law Institute, 2018]
Cast Your Vote [iCivics, 2019]
Children Do Not Play War [VILD Studio]
Clouds Over Sidra [Gabo Arora & Chris Milk, UNVR, Within, 2015]
Datak - A Serious Game About Personal Data [RTS and DNA Studios, 2017]
DragonBox BIG Number [DragonBox, 2016]
DragonBox Numbers [DragonBox, 2016]
Erase All Kittens [Dee Saigal, Leonie Van Der Linder, 2017]
Escape to the Future [Open Lab, Newcastle University, 2019]
Fake it to Make it [Amanda Warner, 2017]
Fold [University of Washington, 2008]
Funexpected Math [Funexpected LTD, 2019]
Gamer Girl [RIT's School of Interactive Games and Media, 2019]
Growing Up Ojibwe [Eleanore Falck, Oneida, 2018]
Half the Sky Movement: The Game [Frima Studio, 2013]
Harmony Square [Bad News, DROG, Gusmanson, 2020]
Healing Spaces [Gabriela Purri R. Gomes, 2018]
Heirloom [Abby Sherlock, Kathryn Yu]
HoloAnatomy [Case Western Reserve University, 2016]
HoloTour [Microsoft, 2016]
Homestay [National Film Board of Canada, 2018]
Invite Only VR: A Vaping Prevention Game [play4REAL Lab at Yale University, PreviewLabs Inc., 2019]
Lutaw [Yellow Boat of Hope & Oculus VR for Good, 2020]
Meeting a Monster [Life After Hate]
Mightier [Mightier, 2019]
Mission US: City of Immigrants [THIRTEEN/WNET New York Public Media, Electric Funstuff, American Social History Project, 2015]
Mission US: For Crown or Colony? [Thirteen]
MyoBeatz [PlayBionic, 2018]
NewsFeed Defenders [iCivics, 2018]
Night of the Living Debt [Learning Games Lab, NM State University, 2016]
NOVA's Evolution Lab [NOVA, 2015]
Once Upon A Sea [Blimey and Intuitive Pictures, 2021]
Overview [Orbital Views, 2018]
Pandemic by Prisms [Prisms of Reality, Inc., 2021]
Project Discovery Exoplanets [CCP, MMOS, University of Geneva, 2017]
PRY [Tender Claws]
Quandary [FableVision Studios, Learning Games Network, 2012]
Rayha's Poem [Gordon Lee and Mostafa Haque, 2018]
Re-Mission 2 [HopeLab, 2013]
Resilience [Sungrazer Studio, 2020]
Rispek Danid [Jennifer Ann's Group, 2018]
Save the Park [Schell Games, 2016]
Slice Fractions 2 [Ululab, 2018]
Superbetter [Superbetter Labs, 2012]
Syndesi [SYNDESI Team]
Syrian Journey [BBC, 2015]
Take Pause [Take-Pause]
Tendar [Tender Claws, 2018]
Terminal 3 [1RIC, 2018]
The Cat in the Hat Builds That [PBS Kids, 2018]
The Holy City [Nimrod Shanit, 2019]
Tracking Ida [Lishan AZ]
Travelling While Black [Felix & Paul Studios, 2019]
Tree [New Reality Company, 2017]
Upstander [Aha and WOW]
World Rescue [ZU Digital and UNESCO MGIEPP, 2017]
DeemonAndGames
1 year ago
Having said that, it's kinda funny and jarring to see the Rabbids amongst the rest, but I digress.
Excellent list!