Dot's Home

Rise-Home Stories Project

About this game

DOT’S HOME is a single-player, 2D, narrative-driven video game that follows a young Black woman in Detroit living in her grandmother’s beloved home, as she travels through time to relive key moments in her family’s history where race, place, and home collide in difficult choices.

As an interactive experience, DOT’S HOME allows players to see the harmful systems that dictate our relationship to race and place, through the eyes of those that are most impacted. By inserting the player into scenarios where they have to make choices about how and where to live in the midst of redlining, urban renewal, and gentrification, we ask a fundamental question: “How did your family end up where they are today, and how much choice did they really have in that journey?”

DOT’S HOME is a production of the Rise-Home Stories project: a creative collaboration between multimedia storytellers and housing and land justice advocates who have come together over the course of three years, to reimagine the past, present, and future of our communities by transforming the stories we tell about them.

Ratings and reviews

lovely little game with a wonderful and important message, which really hit home especially as a Black woman who deeply relates to the issues explored in the story. it's less of a game for entertainment or fun and more of an educational journey, but i can tell that a lot of time went into this project as it was very well made. overall i really enjoyed the experience!

An incredible game with a relatable female protagonist, who travels back in time due to a magical key. She experiences what her community was like way back, and her parents struggle to live their best life. Marvelous visuals, easy enough controls, interesting story and overall decent app design. Great job to the developers of this game!!!👍🏾👏🏾

The graphic, dialogue and Interaction are good. This game taught me something after getting the 'bad' ending. But why does it also automatically unlock the other 2 ending? Wasn't I suppose to play it again to unlock it?

What's new

- Updated target SDK to API level 34