We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe

我无法用文字描述就像文中的主角一样，有时候只能妥协

没想到骨折了，老早想玩了

作者的笔触很好地描绘了难民面对的种种困苦，国际社会应当真心地去停下这一次次的人道主义危机。

文笔很棒，设计简约，阅读舒服，1小时体验评分。8/10，推荐可入。

We, the Refugees: Ticket to Europe is a visual novel that has you take role of Polish journalist who comes to Egypt to write a book about refugees seeking way to Europe, by joining group of them being smuggled. It has a rich narrative of branching paths, that will test you based on your decisions, often commenting on the way you play your character (I chuckled a bit when the game reacted to a choice of summarizing the way refugees are being transported as "antiintimacy" by labeling the protagonist as "intellectual masturbator"), and is not afraid of just killing you if you make bad choices. Admittingly, I do not find most appeal in the close to life genre with no speculative or supernatural elements (if I want that I can read or listen about things that did actually happen, which have far more actual humanity), and I found the prospect of playing a white guy merely reporting on lives of refugees far less relatable than if I was allowed to see the world through the perspective of a real refugee. It feels both lazy and condescending. As if the decision was made to focus on a white guy either because his perspective was easier to write or the creators were afraid white gamers are too stupid to put themselves in shoes of actual refugees. The protagonist comes off as incredibly tone-deaf at best and cynically self-serving at worst, putting people's lifes at risk to boost his own ego, then feeling sorry for himself later. I understand that this choice was made out of creator's humbling experience trying to research lives of refugees and realized he will enver understand them, merely can talk about them. But I feel in such case much better option would be to hire few actual refugees and base the story on their reali experience. More costly, harder to implement and likely troubling to even find someone willing to lend their life to this project? Yes. But it would make for a more honest story. That issue is large enough that it became my big gripe with the game and ended undermining the message and the game itself.

想起来这个游戏有点像我在做的项目，这大概就是所谓的历史教育游戏

如你所见，我很喜欢这款游戏，但我并没有获得这款游戏全成就的想法。好像有种感觉，这是个单向线，是个不可改变的选择过程，而我已经得到了我选择出的结局，便不再能忍受让难民重新经历一遍痛苦。

Picked this up for just $1.49 at 90% off of its $15 full price in the 2025 Winter sale. So far I completed the beginning fifteen minutes for the second time after having completed the free demo and it's been completely worth picking up the full game. That first fifteen minutes even changed a little bit as this is a choices matter title and I really like that. Definitely recommend playing both the free demo and picking up the full game on sale and will update this review once I invest more time into it. It's a game perfect for picking up and putting down, just as you would a book.