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

interactive story where choices matter, with 3 different endings. cute story, but very basic. not a lot to interact with in the world except newspapers for background info on what's happening. can finish a playthrough of the story within an hour.

It was a cute and fun game. A bit short but I loved it none the less.

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!!!👍🏾👏🏾

What’s new

- Updated to a patched version of Unity 6 to address the recent Unity security vulnerability.