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We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe

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We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe
Description
We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe is an interactive fiction adventure game about refugees, set in contemporary Europe and North Africa. Illustrated with dreamlike comic-book graphics. Inspired by true events - the creators actually visited a refugee camp, interviewed dozens of refugees and m...
Genre:
Adventure - Simulation - Detective-mystery
Tags:
Adventure, Story Rich, 2D, Simulation, Choices Matter, show 8 more... Multiple Endings, Emotional, Choose Your Own Adventure, Modern, Detective-mystery, Politics, Text-Based, Philosophical
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2023, Act Zero, ...
System requirements
Windows 7, 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, OpenGL 2.0 or DirectX 9.0c, 2 GB available space...
Time to beat
5.5 hMain
-- Main + Sides
-- Completionist
5.5 h All Styles

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Description

We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe is an interactive fiction adventure game about refugees, set in contemporary Europe and North Africa. Illustrated with dreamlike comic-book graphics. Inspired by true events - the creators actually visited a refugee camp, interviewed dozens of refugees and made their stories the foundation of the game.

Key Features

  • 10 hours of gameplay in a single playthrough
  • About 30 hours of content in total
  • Thousands of dialogue choices!
  • Great replayability - multiple paths allowing for up to 3 unique playthroughs
  • Hundreds of tags describing your character & items
  • Over 100 Achievements - special Notes to collect and then use in your reportage
  • About 20 NPCs to meet & learn their stories
  • 5 countries to visit & a sea to cross
  • 90 minutes of original soundtrack
  • Almost 100 hand-drawn illustrations

Story

It’s the beginning of the year 2020. You are a frustrated thirty-something wannabe writer from Warsaw who decides to make something out of himself. You will amaze the literary world with your earth-shattering book about refugees. It will inspire crowds and galvanize hearts, and expand minds, and change the world in all the right ways.

Before you prepare your Pulitzer Prize acceptance speech, there is only the trivial matter of actually travelling to Africa to gather some notes for the story. You have an ingenious plan to smuggle yourself onto one of the illegal boats that travel to Europe from the shores of Africa while pretending to be a refugee yourself. Surely nothing can go wrong and you are NOT completely out of your depth. Surely.



Developers support the refugee cause

5% of We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe profits will be donated to charities helping refugees. The first 2.5% goes to the Hope Project - Greek volunteers who helped us meet refugees in person during research. The other half will go to other humanitarian organisation we will choose together with our community.

The uniqueness of We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe

A Modern, Relevant Setting
The game concerns the refugee crisis at Europe’s southern borders, a very real problem we have been facing for several years.

A Richly Woven story
The complex, multi-layered script comprises nearly 2 million characters, the equivalent of 3-4 novels. Meaningful choices and consequences split the plot into parallel paths, which enables players to meet new characters and discover new storylines during their second and third playthroughs.

A relatable perspective on a complex topic
The protagonist is a European who tries to enter the world of the refugees as an outsider. The game deliberately plays on the cliché of “a white male’s journey to an exoticized world” and subverts it.

Multi-level, original narrative
The game is metacontextual - it is not only a reportage about refugees, but also an interactive fiction game presenting the very process of creating a reportage. This way, the player discovers both the player discovers both the refugees’ journey and a writer’s challenges of exploring the subject.

Authenticity and Factuality
Based on true events, the writing process was preceded by a series of interviews with refugees who were familiar with the concept for the game. To make this possible, the writers team visited the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, where the prototype of the game was presented to refugees and volunteers. The script was also reviewed by experts from relevant NGOs.

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Time to beat
5.5 hMain
-- Main + Sides
-- Completionist
5.5 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Adventure - Simulation - Detective-mystery
Tags:
Adventure, Story Rich, 2D, Simulation, Choices Matter, show 8 more... Multiple Endings, Emotional, Choose Your Own Adventure, Modern, Detective-mystery, Politics, Text-Based, Philosophical
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
{{'2023-05-01T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Company:
Act Zero / Act Zero
Size:
647 MB
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Overall most helpful review

Posted on: October 26, 2024

FT337mZn

Games: Reviews: 2

Wasted effort

"We. The Refugees" is a disappointing attempt at gamifying African migration to Europe, marred by historical inaccuracies, cultural insensitivity, and simplistic gameplay. It reduces complex human interactions to mere background noise, treating European cultures as scenery while presenting a sanitized view of migration that lacks educational value or entertainment depth. With bland mechanics, a one-sided narrative, and missed opportunities for meaningful engagement, this game not only fails to educate but also risks perpetuating harmful myths about migration, making it a regrettable choice for anyone seeking a thoughtful exploration of this current theme.

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Posted on: May 2, 2023

Salmanasar

Games: 680 Reviews: 5

Don't judge the game by its title.

Most people that are taking issue with the title/migrants would actually be surprised how mature and nuanced this game is. Sure, most of the people you meet here are "the good guys", BUT nobody pretends it's the only truth about refugees. You'd be surprised how often this game tells you about humanitarian scams, terrorists hiding alongside migrants, young african guys seeking just an easy life in Europe, valid concerns about "opening borders" for everyone... if you're expecting only "the leftist propaganda", you'd be very disappointed. Overall, I think the story is really nice. It starts a bit goofy and naive (looking for smugglers in a shopping mall or breaking your back while helping in charity), but it gets serious pretty soon. There's A LOT of choices that affect your journey, so there's a high replay value. As for the gameplay, it's your typical choose your own adventure/visual novel style of game. Unfortunately there are still some typos and minor bugs here and there, but I hope everything will be patched up soon. It has a unique artstyle, almost like a high-quality comic book. I'm not as big of a fan of the music, but it fits the gameplay, I guess. Overall, I think this game is worth checking out. For me, it's 4,5/5. If you're still not convinced, there's a demo on steam that covers a big chunk of the first act of the story.

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Posted on: November 22, 2025

Andele3025

Games: 128 Reviews: 1

Unrealistic

Steam via friends, so wanted to share review here. As title says, even ignoring the american slop nonsense of writing, the main event track is very unrealistic, as there no option for the roaches and literal terrorist (that has lines about hijacking the boat pre-storm) to all be gunned down by the navy guard in the adriatic or bludgeoned into fertilizer. Title should have said "USUK perspective: scams and RNG luck featuring subhuman life forms path to french italy". Also there are newgrounds and HTML website games with 80x more written content with actual narrative impact with a equal lack of gameplay that somehow try to eat less memory when run on chrome then this heap of disk waste (that may be related to the inventory).

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Posted on: August 6, 2024

brabeheart

Games: 63 Reviews: 2

Dreadful

Offensively bad and badly offensive.

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Posted on: April 20, 2025

millycat

Games: 632 Reviews: 9

Not a game but a subversive propaganda.

This propaganda / subversive game is suppose to make European people feel good about their ethnic and cultural genocide accomplished through mass immigration. Funny how it's never WE. THE REFUGEES: Ticket to Saudi Arabia, Ticket to Israel, or Ticket to China.

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