Games like Project Syria

Remember how cinematic and emotional Project Syria felt at its best? These games are worth a look next.

Blackbox
Blackbox is an emotional rollercoaster ride through the childhood memories of Sami, a Syrian boy, who shares personal stories of happiness and joy intertwined with unspeakable moments of sadness and remorse.
Cinematic, Emotional, Dark
83% of 23 Steam reviews are positiveFree
DeathTolls Experience
With DeathTolls Experience, virtual reality artist Ali Eslami is seeking to resensitize the general public to the reality behind the abstract statistics on the hundreds of thousands of deaths in the Middle East.
Cinematic, Emotional, Dark
92% of 24 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Emily: Displaced
A choice-based visual novel about a child affected by war
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
90% of 10 Steam reviews are positive
Ukraine War Stories
Three visual novels about the first months of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, told from the civilian side. You play a retired engineer in Hostomel, a teenager in occupied Bucha and a surgeon under siege in Mariupol, keeping the people around you alive. Every story is built from eyewitness accounts, and every choice costs something.
Cinematic, Emotional, Dark
87% of 1,088 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Perspectives: Aleppo-Helsinki
What would it feel like if Helsinki was the city of Aleppo and you were there? What kind of possibilities does virtual reality offer to journalism?Aleppo-Helsinki is an immersive journalism pilot project developed together with Yle (Finnish Broadcasting Company).
Cinematic, Emotional, Dark
74% of 34 Steam reviews are positiveFree
21 Days
21 Days is a simulation adventure game in which you experience the life of a Syrian refugee. Though you escaped the war in Syria, your family still has a hard journey ahead of them. Over 21 days, you must manage money, time, hunger and mental status. For yourself, and for the hope of saving your family.
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
79% of 52 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
It Could Have Been Me
A journey from Afganistan to Sweden. Experience 26 documentary stories and 5 surreal worlds in VR. Rap from Emilia Carapic (Bac Nini)Voices from experiencers during the Night of Culture in Lund, where over 80 people tried the experience:"The coolest thing I've seen!
Cinematic, Emotional, Story-driven
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Bury Me, My Love
Bury me, my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd, as Nour undertakes a perilous journey to safety in Europe.
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
73% of 129 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Displaced
Your mission: lead a group of civilians out of the war-torn country.
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
49% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe
‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of refugees travelling from Africa to Europe. It is a story inspired by true events.
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
85% of 122 Steam reviews are positive$7.49
93, Kuindzhi
A short, heavy first-person story about Artyom, an 18-year-old from Donbas who volunteers in Mariupol in March 2022, after his father is sent to the front. He never picks up a weapon. What carries him, and you, is sound, memory and an argument with himself that you help settle.
Cinematic, Emotional, Dark
93% of 7,123 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9Free
This War of Mine
You are not the soldier. You are the civilians hiding from him, in a shelled apartment with no food and snipers outside. It is bleak, tense and hard to put down.
Emotional, Dark, Story-driven
92% of 89,572 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,213$1.99

Hidden gems like Project Syria

93, Kuindzhi

Walk through Mariupol in March 2022 as an unarmed volunteer, listening, remembering and deciding how Artyom argues himself forward.

Free

My Child Lebensborn Remastered

Adopt a war child in postwar Norway, manage each scarce day and answer the hard questions a bullied kid asks about a past they never chose.

$3.99

Torn Away

Torn Away is an award winning interactive story with a unique blend of adventure games, side-scrollers, and cinematic first-person levels.

$14.99

Glory To The Heroes™

Fight as one soldier on real battlefields, where a bad loadout or one wrong step can cost you everything you carried in.

$29.99

Ukraine War Stories

Play as civilians trapped by the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, in three visual novels based on eyewitness accounts.

Free

We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe

‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of…

$7.49

A Flicker of Light

In this visual novel, experience the story of Ethan Syfran, who by an accident got him and his family caught in a whirlpool of crime in a…

$4.99

Nuclear War Simulator

Nuclear war simulator is a detailed realistic simulation and visualization of large-scale nuclear conflicts with a focus on humanitarian consequences.

$29.99

Path Out

Path Out is an autobiographical narrative game following the real journey of Abdullah Karam, a young Syrian escaping the civil war in 2014.

Free

Power & Revolution 2023 Edition

Take charge of any nation on Earth in 2023 and steer its economy, laws and wars as you see fit.

$24.99

Bury Me, My Love

Bury me, my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd, as Nour undertakes a perilous journey to safety in Europe.

$4.99

Syrian Warfare

Command a small, battle-worn force through a real war story, where keeping your veterans alive matters more than any single mission.

$13.99

Newest games like Project Syria

Glory To The Heroes™

Fight as one soldier on real battlefields, where a bad loadout or one wrong step can cost you everything you carried in.

$29.99

SAVE AMANI

SAVE AMANI is a war adventure game. Players help a child named AMANI escape danger by solving puzzles.

$2.19

93, Kuindzhi

Walk through Mariupol in March 2022 as an unarmed volunteer, listening, remembering and deciding how Artyom argues himself forward.

Free

The Caribou Trail

The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive.

$12.99

Ukrainian Warfare: Gostomel Heroes

Lead squads whose lives carry over between missions, keep them supplied and fight through a serious retelling of the war's first days.

$14.99

Vladimir

Vladimir is a game in which I tried to convey my feelings about what is happening in my country right now.

$0.99

Grove of the Felled Olives

Grove of the Felled Olives is a free virtual memorial dedicated to the over 60,000 humans killed in Gaza between Oct '23 and July '25.

Free

Vribyss Refuge™ Metamorphosis

Vribyss Refuge Metamorphosis is a small fantasy walking simulator about a refugee seeking out others who've also been displaced because of…

$1.99

Fire from the sky: Cagliari 1943 VR

Fire from the Sky: Cagliari 1943 VR is an immersive experience that transports you to the dramatic days of the Allied bombings over Cagliari during…

Free

Back to Dust - Hold it Together

You and your daughter are in a conflict zone and running low on food, you must travel to the border and try to enter the neighboring country.

$6.99

My Little Sister Callie

My Little Sister Callie is a visual novel about a brother helping his little sister to adapt to life outside of a refugee camp.

$0.99

STAY ALIVE MY SON (VR): A True Story About A Father's Relentless Search For His Son

Winner of the Producer's Guild Innovation Award, Stay Alive My Son is a virtual reality feature based on a true story of a Cambodian genocide…

$19.99