Migration isn’t usually covered on these pages, not because I’m scared to have a voice, but it seldom comes up in games. That is until Songs of Travel was revealed – a story of ‘how various migrants have found their place in the world’.
From Causa Creations, this interactive animated graphic novel follows five individuals and tells their story of seeking new beginnings in Europe. Regardless of where each person comes from, they share the same themes as everybody else: hopes, dreams… and the things we treasure most.
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Illustrated by Syrian artist Jack Gutmann and scored by Northern Irish composer Elaine Agnew, Songs of Travel features the following narratives:
- Light, a non-binary Syrian refugee who arrives in Vienna after years of hardship and war in Syria and the United Arab Emirates.
- Vân, the daughter of a Vietnamese contract worker who grew up in East-Germany and who must deal with the duality of being Vietnamese-German.
- Michele, the son of Francesco Cicora, an Italian coal miner who died in the great mining disaster of Marcinelle 1956 in Belgium.
- Hasan, who came to Austria at the age of 1, when his mother moved there from Istanbul, Turkey.
- Olya, a Ukrainian lawyer and a refugee who has had to flee twice: first when she left her home of Donetsk in 2014 and fled to Kyiv, and then when she fled from Ukraine once war erupted in 2022.
Here’s the trailer:
There isn’t a release date for Songs of Travel, nor can I point you toward a Steam store page, as it’ll be coming to iOS and Android. When the deets flow in, I’ll be sure to update you.
