A slow burn, but ultimately well worth it.

I’ve played similar games that simulate a chat interface and work in real time, but this game impressed me. The choices you make actually matter and appear to change the path Nour takes as she attempts to travel into Europe. The game generally checks in a few times a day and never felt annoying. You can switch it to real time if you’re more interested in flying through, but the story is better told in small chunks. It’s hard not to sympathize with Nour and the plight of many like her. I felt like I understood the situation of many refugees a little better after playing this game.

Buggy implement, railroaded story

This game is interesting in concept and well written to some extent, but it ended up railroading me into a ending that I thought I had been carefully avoiding with every choice I had made. The end result was an unsatisfying story that made no sense narratively. At a technical level, this game presents itself as a simple text message interface which should be the easiest thing in the world for a game to implement—iOS has built in support for scrolling views after all—but it’s completely broken: attempting to scroll back to read what happened previously jitters and jumps around, text is drawn stacked on top of other text making it impossible to read, there are huge gaps between text bubbles requiring you to scroll multiple screen lengths, sometimes it is solid black, etc. The game is basically playable but there’s no way to read the story that came before.

Amazing

This game is amazing you get to go through a journey that feels so real, like half the time i had like MAJOR anxiety when she wouldn’t answer me and I’m actually waiting for her to text me back right now and I love how you actually have to put your phone down and continue with life until she actually texts you back and I think the waiting factor is really cool because it gives you something to think about and you don’t get an answer right on the spot. But I also love how you get to through this journey with Nour and be there for her throughout her long journey and I just really love this game☺️😊😆☀️❤️

Educational and suspenseful

This game helped me understand and sympathize with Syrian refugees in a way that a regular essay couldn't have conveyed. Since I played over the course of two weeks, I got attached to Nour and I was sad when the game ended. I have no personal experience with refugees, but Nour's choices seem realistic and she has to make lots of risky decisions. I love the fact that there are multiple endings... but I'm not sure if I have the emotional strength to play again! Great job.

Worth revisiting with a new format

I really wanted to love this game for its smart dialogue, multimedia use, and relevancy to real-world scenarios that expand cultural knowledge. While all those things were amazing, polished, and well-executed, the fact is that the text-interface rendered the game lifeless and tedious. In-game choices could be as vapid as choosing which emoji to send, and the consequences for your choices were almost random. I cared less and less when the main character checked-in via text, and when I reached one ending, I didn’t think the game had enough replay value to try again. For the price it’s worth it merely for the great scripting, but the game did not hold my interest.

Glitchy and no longer opens

I’ve been playing and enjoying this interactive novel but suddenly I can no longer start it up. It immediately crashes. I’m on iOS 14.2 on a XS Max. Things were going okay and now it just refuses to open. Before this I noticed a ton of crashes when using the map feature, and sometimes the text messages would get jittery, weirdly space out, or go missing altogether. The real time functionality is inconsistent too, as are the notifications. This really needs to get sorted out because it’s a lovely and important story many need to hear.

(Almost) there! Literally so close… 😞🤧

This game is an extremely slow burner. If you go along with the actual days that it makes you wait. I found out online that there are 19 possible different endings and I don’t have the energy to do so but the ending that I got wasn’t satisfactory you play for a long time and it kinda just like sizzles out like a sparkler it’s not really worth the hype. I don’t think unless you get a good ending I guess I just didn’t but I tried my best and things were just not as awesome as I thought the ending would be.

Pretty interesting

Fun to type with your bae. Super cool that the chat goes in real time. And for those who don’t like that, can just turn it off. Story takes a while to take off, but I like chatting with Nour, because he/she feels so lifelike! But I do get pretty annoyed at the lack of options sometimes. I’ll wind up sending an emoji even though I hate those things just because I want more variety in what I say. A lot of it leads down the same path too. You do make big choices, but the big choices are rare. I understand its based off a real life conversation, but I don’t want my fate to be set in stone from the get-go. The beauty of these types of games, is you make your way to the end, and depending on the choices you’ve made you can have completely missed scenes or unlock totally new ones that others didn’t experience. The game does do this, but seldom. Still had fun playing.

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