swap_horiz Actual Sunlight Alternatives

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Twine (used for serious narrative games)

Twine is an open-source tool enabling creators to design and develop interactive narratives without coding experience. I...

Narrative Open Source Browser Platform

9.5 Brilliant

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Cart Life

Cart Life is an independent retail and life-simulation game created by Richard Hofmeier. It follows street vendors tryin...

Simulation INDIE Social Commentary Awareness

9.2 Excellent

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Zombies, Run!

Zombies, Run! is a mobile game designed to motivate runners through an engaging narrative. Players become members of a v...

Fitness Health Running Mobile

9.1 Excellent

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SPENT (Urban Ministries)

SPENT simulates the realities of living with severe financial hardship. This browser-based serious game tasks players wi...

Education Browser Awareness Poverty

8.8 Great

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Every Day the Same Dream

Every Day the Same Dream is a short, browser-based art game released in 2009 by developer Paolo Pedercini under his stud...

Narrative Alienation Art Game Labor

8.8 Great

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Bury Me, My Love

Bury Me, My Love is a mobile serious game exploring the experiences of a Syrian refugee seeking asylum in Europe. Develo...

Mobile Narrative Education Refugee

8.7 Great

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That Dragon, Cancer

Created by Ryan Green and Josh Larson in 2016, That Dragon, Cancer is an autobiographical video game chronicling a fathe...

Health Narrative Grief Cancer

8.6 Great

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EndeavorRx

EndeavorRx is a digital therapeutic software developed by Akili Interactive for the treatment of attention deficit hyper...

Health Cognitive Fda Cleared Pediatric

8.3 Great

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September 12th

September 12th: A Toy World is a 2003 political newsgame created by Uruguayan game designer and theorist Gonzalo Frasca....

Browser Social Impact Awareness Anti War

8.3 Great

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Brain Age

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! is a Nintendo DS educational puzzle game developed and published by Ninten...

Health Training Nintendo Video Game

8.1 Great

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Floreo VR

Floreo VR is an applied virtual reality platform designed to help autistic and other neurodivergent people practice soci...

Health VR Therapy Autism

8.1 Great

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11-11: Memories Retold

11-11: Memories Retold is a 2018 narrative adventure game developed by Aardman Animations and DigixArt that portrays the...

Narrative History Education Wwi

8.1 Great

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World Without Oil

World Without Oil is a 2007 serious game and alternate reality game created by Jane McGonigal and Ken Eklund. It present...

Social Impact Awareness Energy Alternate Reality

8.1 Great

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mySugr

mySugr is a digital health application designed to assist individuals with managing both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Fou...

Health Mobile Management Diabetes

8.0 Great

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Classcraft

Launched in 2011 by Shawn Young, Classcraft is a Canadian edtech platform that applies gamification principles to K-12 e...

RPG Education K12 Gamification

7.9 Good

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Go Viral!

Go Viral! is a 2020 browser game from Cambridge researchers, DROG, and the UK Cabinet Office that teaches resistance to...

Health Education Browser Misinformation

7.9 Good

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SPARX

SPARX is a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) based serious game developed in New Zealand to help adolescents manage sym...

Health Youth Cbt Depression

7.7 Good

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Depression Quest

Depression Quest is a text-based interactive fiction work created by Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, and Isaac Schankler and...

Health Mental Health Awareness Depression

7.4 Good

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Papo & Yo

Papo & Yo is a 2012 puzzle-platform video game developed by Minority Media and directed by Vander Caballero. It follows...

Health Narrative Child Abuse Addiction

7.4 Good

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Smoke and Mirrors

Smoke and Mirrors is an educational serious game created for youth tobacco-use prevention. Its central subject is the wa...

Health Education K 12 Awareness

6.4 Fair