With this narrative-driven game, you can explore key moments in a family's history through interactive choices about race and place. Includes storytelling, historical scenarios, and decision-making features.
AppRecs review analysis
AppRecs rating 4.7. Trustworthiness 80 out of 100. Review manipulation risk 23 out of 100. Based on a review sample analyzed.
★★★★☆
4.7
AppRecs Rating
Ratings breakdown
5 star
83%
4 star
7%
3 star
4%
2 star
2%
1 star
4%
What to know
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Low review manipulation risk
23% review manipulation risk
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Credible reviews
80% trustworthiness score from analyzed reviews
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High user satisfaction
83% of sampled ratings are 5 stars
About Dot's Home
"Dot's Home" is a single-player, 2D, narrative-driven video game that follows a young Black woman in Detroit living in her grandmother’s beloved home, as she travels through time to relive key moments in her family’s history where race, place, and home collide in difficult choices.
As an interactive experience, "Dot's Home" allows players to see the harmful systems that dictate our relationship to race and place, through the eyes of those that are most impacted. By inserting the player into scenarios where they have to make choices about how and where to live in the midst of redlining, urban renewal, and gentrification, we ask a fundamental question: “How did your family end up where they are today, and how much choice did they really have in that journey?”
"Dot's Home" is a production of the Rise-Home Stories project: a creative collaboration between multimedia storytellers and housing and land justice advocates who have come together over the course of three years, to reimagine the past, present, and future of our communities by transforming the stories we tell about them.
As an interactive experience, "Dot's Home" allows players to see the harmful systems that dictate our relationship to race and place, through the eyes of those that are most impacted. By inserting the player into scenarios where they have to make choices about how and where to live in the midst of redlining, urban renewal, and gentrification, we ask a fundamental question: “How did your family end up where they are today, and how much choice did they really have in that journey?”
"Dot's Home" is a production of the Rise-Home Stories project: a creative collaboration between multimedia storytellers and housing and land justice advocates who have come together over the course of three years, to reimagine the past, present, and future of our communities by transforming the stories we tell about them.
