April was #SAAM (Sexual Assault Awareness Month) but it's not too late to share these games about #consent with the students in your life.
These prosocial video games were intentionally designed to teach the meaning & importance of consent. All are free, contain no ads, and respect your privacy.
Some of these consent games are appropriate for all ages, most for middle or high school students, and a few have content warnings.
All can be played in your web browser and many can be downloaded from an app store. All are currently free and have no ads.
More information about consent and these consent games is available on our consent games blog.
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ADRIFT is appropriate for all ages.
In ADRIFT the player controls a member of an interstellar salvage crew exploring an abandoned spaceship. The player is tasked with rescuing the ship's AI. They can succeed, but only if they follow the simple rules of consent.
A free downloadable parent guide (PDF) is available for ADRIFT.
Did you know?
ADRIFT was featured at the MOD. museum in Australia. A life-size version of the game was created for an exhibition called 'Hedonism'.
How to Blorrble-Blobble is appropriate for middle school and up.
This upbeat game teaches about consent through the framework of learning about how to dance. Not all games about consent need to talk about sex and How to Blorrble-Blobble is proof of that!
FYI: This game was the basis for the game Rispek Danis, a game about consent developed for youth living in Vanuatu.
Crossing Boundaries is appropriate for high school and up.
This fun travel game addresses consent in various ways -- including consent in situations not involving dating relationships. Crossing Boundaries follows the adventures of three students who have just graduated and are travelling around the world. As they travel, their adventures lead to many encounters involving consent and the variety of ways that it applies in everyday situations.
Crossing Boundaries also includes the in-game Snog a Frog where the player will play against the other characters to see who can win at this short, but fun mini-game!
Rispek Danis (meaning "the Respect Dance" in English) is a game in Bislama developed for ni-Vanuatu youth. The game is culturally appropriate with characters, scenes, and dialogue reflecting life on Vanuatu. Rispek Danis was developed in collaboration with World Vision Vanuatu.
Did you know?
Rispek Danis was a 2019 Games for Change Awards finalist in the category of Most Significant Impact!
(This game is also available in English as 'The Respect Dance' but for those who speak Bislama this original version is much more authentic. The English version was created only to share with attendees at the 2019 Games for Change Festival.)
This English-language game is based on Rispek Danis which is only available in the language Bislama.
This English version was created to share with attendees at the 2019 Games for Change Festival where Rispek Danis was featured as a finalist for Most Significant Impact.
Content Warning: Not appropriate for all ages or all players.
Stuck in a Dark Place includes some potentially upsetting scenes. The OPTIONS menu allows players to skip these scenes if they prefer. This game is generally intended for mature high school students and up.
Stuck in a Dark Place covers many scenarios where consent applies. The game does so by following one person's story as they reflect on their past from a prison cell.
Stuck in a Dark Place also includes an Educator's Mode which allows teachers & students to begin the game at a specific chapter for classroom discussions.
Note: Although individual chapters can be played alone, we highly recomend playing the entire game first in order to appreciate the context of the individual scenes.
Content Warning: Not appropriate for all ages or players.
A Thousand Cuts is generally appropriate for mature high school students and college students.
A Thousand Cuts is a provocative, well-written, texting game about finding justice on a college campus. The player advances the story by deciding how to respond to text messages. As they navigate through the story they find themselves also navigating the Title IX process and campus culture.
Writer and game designer Elizabeth Ballou has this to say about the game she created:
"'A Thousand Cuts' is a game about finding justice for on-campus sexual assault. When two students realize they've been assaulted by the same person, they connect over text messages. As Rosa, pick and choose your responses to a cast of characters who each play a role in holding Duane accountable - or not."
