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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Keza MacDonald and Keith Stuart

10 interesting video games about immigration

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Hoping for a new life … Grand Theft Auto IV. Photograph: Rockstar

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This year is the 10th anniversary of Lucas Pope’s wrenching game about being a border officer in the functional communist country of Arstotzka, deciding when to turn desperate people away and when to risk your job but save your conscience by letting them slip by. It remains an impactful and illuminating exploration of how documentation can save or cost lives, and the moral and human cost of border enforcement.

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