Bury me, my Love 12+
Love has no borders
Plug In Digital
Designed for iPad
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- £2.49
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Description
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.
Bury me, my Love is a Text Messaging Adventure game about Nour, a Syrian migrant trying to find her way to Europe. Her husband Majd, who remains behind in Syria, communicates with Nour through a messaging app, advising her as best he can so that she reaches her destination safely.
“Bury me, my love” is a Syrian goodbye phrase that roughly means, “Take care, don’t even think about dying before I do.” This phrase takes on a deeper meaning as Majd says it to his wife, Nour, as she undertakes her perilous journey to reach Europe.
A co-production from ARTE, the European cultural network, with The Pixel Hunt and Figs.
***A game in an instant messaging app
As Majd, you can communicate with Nour and follow her journey, just as if you were chatting with her via WhatsApp. You will text each other and exchange emojis, pics and selfies, relevant links…
*** Multiple narrative routes to discover
By reading instant messages and choosing response options, players help Nour overcome the hardships she will encounter.
Your choices in Bury me, my Love truly impact on the story, with Nour able to visit 50 different locations and reach 19 potential different endings with widely divergent outcomes.
*** Based on real-life events
Bury me, my Love is a “reality-inspired game”, a documented fiction that draws inspiration directly from real-world events. The original idea stems from an article written by Le Monde journalist, Lucie Soullier, telling the story of Dana, a young Syrian woman who fled her country and is now living in Germany.
Winner of the best meaningful play - 14TH IMGA
Game Beyond Entertainment - BAFTA
Best Emotional mobile & handheld game - Emotional Games Awards
Best Work - Japan Prize 2018
This experience may affect the sensitivity of younger people.
What’s New
Version 1.8
Crash fix
Ratings and Reviews
Great idea but incredibly slow
I appreciate the idea, but for a game with multiple endings and not a lot of interaction, it would be nice if we could skip or fast forward dialogue already seen, or go back to a previous moment. I just spent 40 minutes trying to get to where I was, on the fastest settings possible (because while the real time mechanic is powerful, who has all that time?) and the game ended after a couple of choices. Please consider adding a way to make it easier to go through these routes, because I can’t imagine going through the same thing over and over again at a snails pace in order to experience all parts of the story. I will probably just leave it for now and hope this will be implemented some day.
Great game, but buggy engine
This is a wonderful game, very thoughtful and teaches me about a struggle and an area of the world I’m not familiar with.
By and large the dialogue is well written (the occasional autocorrect humour could be a little more occasional, and I don’t always feel the offered emoji quite fit what I would say). The pictures add another level of depth and beauty to the game.
But there are problems with the engine. Scrolling can break the rendering of the text balloons, making it feel quite fragile.
At least once with a picture I thought I’d locked the game because I couldn’t exit it (it turns out there was a very hard to see ‘X’ in the top left. So not actually a bug, just a slight UX problem.)
But the worst thing is that having just ended the game a second time, the concluding audio will not play - this is very frustrating!
Please continue to work on this lovely game, and fix up some of the bugs that detract from it being enjoyed as it should!
Amazing story
The actual narrative is amazing and really immersive but it’s got minor problems like the map is really clunky and hard to navigate. Also when you go to read texts from previous days it only allows u to see the last few which is quite Annoying because u can’t really read through ur past decisions. Also it would be amazing if you could implement some sort of money tracking system.I would also appreciate some sort of ending library that tells me how many of the ending I have got and so I can listen to some on my older endings just so I know whether I’ve gotten all the endings or not.
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Information
- Provider
- Plug In Digital
- Size
- 199.5 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with the Apple M1 chip.
- Languages
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French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Copyright
- 2017 © ARTE France - The Pixel Hunt - Figs
- Price
- £2.49
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.