Many of these games are available to play online in a web browser but if you're looking for apps, you might find them on your phone's app store - be sure to check.
Your friend is passing along lots of news and evidence, but you have your suspicions. Your mission is to track down whatever information you can to uncover the truth, and spread the word!
Harmony Square is a game about fake news. The game’s setting is the idyllic Harmony Square, a small neighborhood mildly obsessed with democracy. You, the player, are hired as Chief Disinformation Officer. Over the course of 4 short levels, your job is to disturb the square’s peace and quiet by fomenting internal divisions and pitting its residents against each other.
Not a game, per se but...
"This two-week text message course will give you the knowledge and understanding you need to protect yourself and your community from online misinformation. You’ll learn why people create and share false and misleading content, commonly used tactics for spreading it, how to verify images and profiles, and how to talk about this with family and friends." It's Free.
It’s your first week at the new job at Troll Factory. Your task is to grow your influence on social media — by whatever means necessary. How many people can you reel in?
Troll Factory shows you first-hand how information operations work on social media. The goal of the game is to illustrate how fake news, emotive content and bot armies are utilized to affect moods, opinions and decision-making.
In Bad News, you take on the role of a fake news-monger. Drop all pretense of ethics and choose a path that builds your persona as an unscrupulous media magnate. But keep an eye on your ‘followers’ and ‘credibility’ meters. Your task is to get as many followers as you can while slowly building up fake credibility as a news site. But watch out: you lose if you tell obvious lies or disappoint your supporters!
Many sources compete for attention online, including partisan blogs and bogus sites posing as legitimate news organizations. It can be tough to know what to trust. So, what does “credibility” look like, and how can you recognize it?
This interactive narrative game is designed to get you thinking about misinformation and propaganda. You will be presented with many choices. That’s life. Your goal is not to “win” per se. There are fifteen or so possible endings. This is a game of discovery. Which campaigns of misinformation and propaganda will you choose? Which ending will you find? There is only one way to find out.
In this game, Cranky Uncle teaches you the rhetorical techniques and logical fallacies he uses to deny science. Climate change, evolution, vaccination, a round Earth - he's never met a science he wouldn't deny! The deeper you get into the game, the more resilient you become against misinformation.
