10 interesting video games about immigration

This year is the 10th anniversary of Lucas Pope's wrenching game about being a border officer in the functional communist country of Arstotzka, deciding when to turn desperate people away and when to risk your job but save your conscience by letting them slip by. It remains an impactful and illuminating exploration of how documentation can save or cost lives, and the moral and human cost of border enforcement. Your wife, Nour, has finally decided to risk getting out of Syria as the bombs keep falling – but you must stay behind, to look after your mother and grandfather. In this game, you are not the person fleeing but the person trying to survive back home, waiting for text message updates or an occasional photo and doing your best to give good advice from afar. An affecting work of interactive fiction told through the medium of the smartphone.