Jade's Journey 2
Jade's Journey 2
Game
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Bury Me, My Love
Developer The Pixel Hunt, ARTE France, FIGS
Bury Me, My Love is a visual novel developed by The Pixel Hunt and published by Arte France. The story follows Syrian couple Nour and Majd as Nour tries to flee the Syrian civil war to Europe. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
98 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Aug 11, 2026 · last updated Oct 9, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
67
Fresh
54 positive · 27 negative
95% range 56–76%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 54 | 27 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
60 of 89 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
67% recommend · 55 yes, 27 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 82 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (127 of 184 positive).
Players praise the game's emotional storytelling and its focus on a real-world issue. [1][2][3] Some reviewers find the pacing slow and the lack of a skip function frustrating. [4][5][6] A few players criticize the game for presenting an unrealistic view of the refugee experience. [7][8][9]
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- [7]
As a Syrian guy, this game tells NOTHING of the real suffering of the Syrian refugees. In fact, it's trying to let people think that Syrian refugees had an amazing, full of fun adventure, running away from thier afflicted home. Everything in this game seem to go as planned, everything seem easy to do, and have zero consequences. People in Syria took months trying to run away from the war, facing the worst ever …
- [17]
Bury Me, My Love tries to tackle one of the big topics of our time - and fails miserably. The game lacks any kind of preface to introduce characters and their motives, the writing and therefore the conversations are inconsistent and feel stiff most of the time. The lack of meaningful conversation goes hand in hand, sadly, with the absence of artdesign. The drawings in the game are too few and too poorly made to …
- [1]
Bury Me, My Love is an Interactive Story where choices matter. It tells the story between a husband and wife (Majd and Nour) as Nour becomes a Syrian refugee trying to make it to Germany for asylum amidst the Syrian Civil War. The entire story takes place through text messages sent back and forth between the couple. You play as Majd, the husband and make choices about what to say to your wife as she makes her …
- [4]
Asylum seeker lore, Angela Merkel loves this game. Honestly, the story isn't too bad but the pacing is really slow for my liking. Also, the lack of manual saves is not particularly great, That means you will have to replay the game multiple times, worst of all, you can't even skip the dialogue. Positive review for the story itself and low price, just bear in mind you'll have a terrible time exploring every possible …
- [2]
Thought I was going to cry. I didn't, 'cause I managed to get a good ending on the first playthrough. I was excited for this and, although I was expecting a bit more...animated interaction at times, I'm not disappointed in any way. I think there are too few video games to openly talk about such actual issues without the use of metaphors or stuff like that. And it makes you feel things. And it makes you realize how …
Summarised from 34 of the 100 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
67% of the 82 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Bury Me, My Love. The complaint that keeps coming up: slow pacing and no skip function for repeated dialogue. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Pocket Gamer called it a "must-play" for its emotional storytelling, but criticised the Switch conversion. Polygon recommended it for its "brilliant storytelling". GameSpot praised it for exploring "uncharted territory", but criticised replaying choices to be tedious. At the British Academy Games Awards 2018, it was nominated for Best Mobile Game and Game Beyond Entertainment. It was nominated for Games for Impact at the 2017 Game Awards. At the International Mobile Game Awards 2018, it won Best Meaningful Play.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 98 · most liked firstAs a Syrian guy, this game tells NOTHING of the real suffering of the Syrian refugees. In fact, it's trying to let people think that Syrian refugees had an amazing, full of fun adventure, running away from thier afflicted home. Everything in this game seem to go as planned, everything seem easy to do, and have zero consequences. People in Syria took months trying to run away from the war, facing the worst ever ♥♥♥♥♥♥ things that could happen to any human beings. On the other side, our girl here…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The concept of an Interactive Fiction (IF) using phone texting was original and creative. Bravo! The story however was from a secondhand and limited only to a single source. Nour, a near-30 year old adult who acts like an adventure-seeking teenager at times, must either be the luckiest refugee to survive all the ordeals, or she has a destination compass. The game would have been a big hit if the gaming team did their homework and research into the flight of the refugees -- perhaps visiting…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Told my wife to stay in Syria. Took her mobile. Refunded the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bury Me, My Love tries to tackle one of the big topics of our time - and fails miserably. The game lacks any kind of preface to introduce characters and their motives, the writing and therefore the conversations are inconsistent and feel stiff most of the time. The lack of meaningful conversation goes hand in hand, sadly, with the absence of artdesign. The drawings in the game are too few and too poorly made to create any kind of emotion. I disagree with many of the reviews that the game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →God I miss premium mobile games. Pay for the game, play the game, no ads, no MTX. Florence. Bury Me My Love. Part Time UFO. Arkanoid vs Space Invaders. Desert Golfing. Ding Dong XL. DOOM FUCKING RPG. God bless Apple Arcade for keeping the sputtering flame alive. Too bad I'm on Android LOL.
positive · AI labelView post →Bury Me, My Love is an Interactive Story where choices matter. It tells the story between a husband and wife (Majd and Nour) as Nour becomes a Syrian refugee trying to make it to Germany for asylum amidst the Syrian Civil War. The entire story takes place through text messages sent back and forth between the couple. You play as Majd, the husband and make choices about what to say to your wife as she makes her journey all while you are still stuck in Homs, Syria. The trailer of this game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thought I was going to cry. I didn't, 'cause I managed to get a good ending on the first playthrough. I was excited for this and, although I was expecting a bit more...animated interaction at times, I'm not disappointed in any way. I think there are too few video games to openly talk about such actual issues without the use of metaphors or stuff like that. And it makes you feel things. And it makes you realize how dangerous it is, in fact, to see only one side of the story. The side that…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I backed Ithaca, a very promising game by @thepixelhunt.bsky.social (Bury Me, My Love, Wednesdays...) www.kickstarter.com/projects/ith...
neutral · AI labelView post →this is stupid, when I first read the description of the game I imagined a sad story and emotional events, but it's way far from that there's nothing in this "game" but useless dialogues between Nour and her husband.. Nour is a Syrian woman trying to escape her own country, home, family and everything to get to a safe country because there's a war in her country and people are dying every minute.. that's sad, but the dialogue doesn't represent how sad it is, instead, she and her husband keep…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Asylum seeker lore, Angela Merkel loves this game. Honestly, the story isn't too bad but the pacing is really slow for my liking. Also, the lack of manual saves is not particularly great, That means you will have to replay the game multiple times, worst of all, you can't even skip the dialogue. Positive review for the story itself and low price, just bear in mind you'll have a terrible time exploring every possible route.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not Syrian so I can't speak to what others are saying about the game being too pleasant and unrealistic when describing the refugee experience. As a gaming experience, however, I found it incredibly frustrating and annoying. During my first playthrough, I struggled to empathize with my character's wife, Nour, and didn't feel bad when she got arrested. She shifts the blame to her husband even though she is impulsive and impatient. I'm supposed to feel bad at her voice note but it was voiced…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has a very great educational purpose and shows the shocking stories of immigrants - in difference to what the media shows! It's emotional & educational. There are different paths you can choose - with lots of different endings, which makes it very interesting to play more times. I guess there are more than four endings. I highly recommend it!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As much as I'd like to see more games tell important stories like this that need to be shared, this one could have been done a lot better. The trailer is very misleading, there is no "gameplay", it's literally just text messaging between Nour and Majd, 95% of the dialogue is scripted and there's only occasional bifurcations thrown in. The story itself is pretty lacklustre, read an actual book by a refugee and you'll get a much better account of what a perilous journey really feels like, this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sorry, but I cannot recommend this. The pace of the story is too slow. There is no skip function or options to move the story faster, and I have to wait for the messages to be "typed out" one by one, even the ones that I picked among the choices given, with the exception if I click the "send" button each time, but I must do that actively. For the achievement hunters, you are really going to have to be super patient with this one!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Real and moving. This game is well-paced and gives the illusion that your choices are the choices of the characters, it flows naturally when you make decisions that shape Nour's fate. Play this and think about what's happening in our world.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to like it but it is just way to slow paced. I tried for 30 minutes but waiting for them to type and text a bunch of stuff takes way too long. I'm just watching videos until I don't hear any text noises anymore then scrolling back to see what was said so I can reply. A button to fast forward the conversation or make it go quicker would get a recommend for me but I'm like 90 minutes in and it is just dragging too much. I'll likely finish it eventually when I can find a youtube to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First off: I'm not Syrian, nor have I experienced anything depicted in this game, so I can't say how "accurate" the story is, though the developers have specified that it is based on migrants' accounts. I really enjoyed the narration and format of this game, as it gives us and deprives us of our agency on a whim, keeping us constantly on our toes. I have seen in other reviews that many did not appreciate the game on account of it being too "cheery" and unrealistic for such a topic. Depending…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bury Me, My Love feels like the sort of game that would click with me, but there was something about the gamification of refuges that just didn't sit right for me in the end. Initially I loved how humanising it was to be texting in a "real" human relationship, but as soon as I realised my responses changed the outcome, it started to feel far too gamey. It was even worse when finishing the game with a 'bad ending' I was suggested to restart and try to get Nour to safety. Bury Me, My Love…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Let's put aside for a moment the message from Bury me. Let's analyze it from a VN standpoint: it doesn't work. Phone conversations are inherently boring, they could have made them more interesting with images, videos, real photos, audio messages. There's none of this, just text message over text message, sometimes I would ALT-TAB to something else while the game went ahead and then I would read back what I missed. This is how it feels just a bunch of conversation you can read at your leisure.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bury Me, My Love is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. This mobile app is particularly distasteful as the developers seek to profit financially from the suffering and bloodshed in the Syrian refugee crisis. I checked a few times. This is not free, at the same time there's no indications that any of the proceeds of this game are going to any charity. Just lining the pockets of the developers and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game. The story is engaging, and I want to keep going in it. I only played one run though. I just cannot stand having to read at the speed that it's going. Can't skip anything, even if you read it already on some previous run. I think that's the point the creators were going for, but it really killed the game for me unfortunately.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Factor Rating Description Gameplay Loop 5 This is a short and sweet game that can be played during the course of a sitting, so obviously there's not too much to the "gameplay" as such. I do think a couple things could have been done to give it a slightly more engaging loop though. Basically, the whole experience is about communicating with a loved one through a chat, make dialogue choices that can lead to wildly different results, and affect your relationship…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a text adventure game where you play as Majd, guiding your Syrian migrant wife, Nour, as she tries to find her way to Europe safely. You communicate with her through a messaging app, and the storyline depends on the advice you give to her. This means there are multiple endings (the game claims to have 19 potential different endings). I experienced two endings with different paths I chose. The first one was bad, but the last one was good, in my opinion. I'm not sure if there are other good…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The story of a Syrian woman attempting to seek asylum in certain parts of Europe and her husband still in their homeland texting back to her ideas and guidance, with paths and characters met based on accounts developers have heard from real refugees or on what was going on at the time in the locations you visit. The framing of the story showing both the journey and the loved ones left behind still in a war torn environment. The interface uses a phone with text, pictures, emoji, as well as…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Easily the highlight of this year's Day of the Devs for me. The Pixel Hunt has never been afraid to ask hard questions and let players stew in them for a while (see Bury Me, My Love, The Wreck and Wednesdays), and Ithaca looks like it could be their most urgent and charged game yet.
neutral · AI labelView post →Got this game along with a bundle so I won't complain much. I think appreciate the game for being bold and rely only on text messages to tell its story with apparently many alternative endings (although I only played through one). On the downside though, this game really feels too long after a while and the basically non-existent gameplay doesn't help either. CONCLUSION: I like what it tries to do, but it really isn't engaging enough to support me through the whole game. ★½ out of 5
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got stuck because Nour stole an Italian woman's money and paperwork, so bringing it to a police station tragically ends the story and so does running away with it and to reverse this I need to start all over again. Aside from the two hours I wasted for nothing, this is poorly reflective of actual Syrian refugee life. I'm Egyptian, but I can guarantee you that finding asylum in a Schengen country as a Syrian refugee isn't as easy, adventurous or amusing as this game portrays it to be. This game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game just fell apart midway. It really had good momentum at the beginning, however somewhere it just started getting boring and non-sensical. The choices did feel like they mattered when making decisions but many of them were just redundant in the larger scheme of things. The game lacked a good background music, which I feel should've been an essential part for this 4 hour game. There are multiple endings for this game, but I don't see myself playing this game again for an alternate…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →meh mobile port of a meh game 2/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: + An engrossing, politically relevant, low-fi character-driven text adventure. + Genuinely tense and evocative despite the basic format. + Nice music. + Branching storyline. Cons: - Text sometimes disappears too quickly at the end of a day. - Could be more music during emotive moments. - Endings can be jarringly abrupt. An interesting experiment and a fine introduction to the visual novel format if you've never played it before. Not amazing, but it gets a lot of mileage out of its…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →’m a video game writer and worked on a few games you might have heard of such as Bury Me My Love, Haven or Road 96.
neutral · AI labelView post →When a game is entirely text based with no excitement, the writing and diverging plot lines need to be well supported and coherent. My ending was completely sudden and disjointed from the game that had preceded. No buildup or hint at all that the previous conversation's decision would lead to a game end. It's was really jarring and wholly unsatisfying - not because of the result, but because of how random it felt. It's an interesting concept, but the writing just seemed incoherent at the end.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hoped for a strong storyline with truly heartbreaking and terrifying moments, something that would spark real thoughts. Unfortunately, I didn’t get that. As for the gameplay – there basically isn’t any. As a player, you have almost no interactivity, aside from making a few choices in chat. About 95% of the game is just reading text messages from your wife, where she describes her rather casual journey to Europe, with some minor struggles like trying to find a smuggler.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I appreciate what they were going for here but 1) it doesn't play much like a game, even for an indie choice-based title, and a lack of fast-forward (at least for scenarios you've already done before) makes it a chore to try different endings. 2) it's too sanitized as a lot of people pointed out. Don't get me wrong, the game does have many 'bad' scenarios for Nour to get into, but there's a severe lack of rawness to her misery in terms of presentation that takes away from the cruelty that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A visual novel with an interesting topic. There are 2 things that I would improve about the game. 1. A fast forward button for parts that I've already seen - It makes secondary playthroughs a little bit of a slog but still enjoyable 2. It needs some background music. There is music but only in very specific points, I had to put of my own music in the background during secondary playthroughs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is highly racialized trash. The main location is so close to Armenia a country which they committed genocide against, so they shift the map so much so to the right to snip the Armenia out. shame don't support this trash. getting my money back, I will give my money to racists.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I failed in the first play after more than 1 hour of playing ( Point out a path for Nour to complete her journey ), Nour was arrested and sent me a very bad recording , forgive me :(( . I will use my butterfly effect ability to correct the mistake.Please wait for me ,Nour !
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This important game will need your support ! Ithaca is a narrative roadtrip RPG about climate resistance. It's made by the people behind "Bury Me, My Love", "The Wreck" and recently "Wednesdays" : all games handling real-world sensitive topics with a lot of maturity
neutral · AI labelView post →Summary: Highly recommended, to anyone who loves an interactive story and has a social conscience. (Needless to say, this review contains political "bias".) Main Plus Points: + Just wonderful story-telling in this game. From the first instant you start playing the interaction between Majd & Nour draws you in, and you feel connected to the characters and want them to succeed. + Text chain interaction dynamic works particularly well here to bring the characters' relationship to life * +…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am not Syrian. I have never been in the shoes of people who have gone through anything remotely similar to the events in this story. I cannot speak on how accurately it portrays events, however, I do know that it packages it in a much prettier box than reality. That being said; This is a nice little game that does give the ability to open conversations on difficult to approach subjects.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First of all, I didn't understand what "Women are dressed like ♥♥♥♥♥♥ here" meant for Turkey. Second, I played the whole game hoping Noura dies soon because she is very impulsive and childish. Poor Majd is the one who was left behind, probably with no money and Noura was still tripping and changing her mind all the time. It's a game worth playing if you don't expect it to feel like a game, it rather feels like a graphic novel that you can interact with.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing game. It can be a little slow at times, but it's very engaging and I ended up forming a strong emotional attachment to my wife.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[game stream going live (Bury Me, My Love)] Come hang out! We're playing Bury Me, My Love to start with, UFO 50's Barbuta later, and we'll vote on where to go from there. https://twitch.tv/muskwalker #Streaming #Twitch #PNGTuber #UFO50 #Barbuta #BuryMeMyLove
neutral · AI labelView post →"Bury Me, My Love" is a simulation-game which tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd, as Nour undertakes a perilous journey to safety in Europe. In the game you play as Majg and you can communicate with Nour and follow her journey, just as if you were chatting with her via WhatsApp. While texting with each other or sending emojis and pictures, you help Nour to overcome the hardships she will encounter. In total Nour could visit up to 50 diffrnet locations and reach reach 19…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A cool premise of a woman trying to escape from local turmoil in an Arab country to some European haven, told entirely through messages on her phone. Both the story and the execution are engaging, your choices do matter (I ended up in Stockholm and I'm sure there are many more endings), the art is nice, and the game doesn't overstay its welcome, 1-2 hours and you're done. What I liked most is the main character -- she comes off as a real live woman, fun and witty but not too much, often…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boring state-funded propaganda.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great educational value when you consider that this is a distilled narrative meant to touch on many different elements of the migrant refugee story. Do not think that this is one person's experience, but instead a narrative device to help the viewer understand different experiences of refugees.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The gameplay is just a dialogue tree, but the writing is solid throughout and the drawn aesthetic is nice.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great game, i love the title, so meaningful.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A cute little virtual novel-style game. Short and sweet with numerous endings, it is a nice little adventure of a Syrian refugee through the war-torn middle-east, and is meant to mirror the lives and trials of real-life refugees that experienced the very same. I think the modernist way of storytelling flows nicely throughout the game, and overall i really liked the touching story of two star crossed lovers worlds apart. 8/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Heartbreaking interactive movie is the best way to describe this game. Every choice you make will have an effect on your wife's fate as she tries to flee from Syria. Definitely worth playing more than once.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very sweet game. I'd love to know how many outcomes there are (I got 2)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →## Sisyphe's Backspace The **Divekick** of typing games that dares to ask if it's better to not type anything at all makes for a strong proof of concept that is better to talk about than to play. Click for more If you really need to say something, text it instead; and if you really need to text something, don't. There can be no stronger guidelines governing the use of SMS messaging than these commandments that accept the limits of a medium that prizes efficiency over intimacy. But for all…
neutral · AI labelView post →[game stream going live (Bury Me, My Love)] Come hang out! We're playing Bury Me, My Love to start with, UFO 50's Barbuta later, and we'll vote on where to go from there. https://twitch.tv/muskwalker #Streaming #Twitch #PNGTuber #UFO50 #Barbuta #BuryMeMyLove
neutral · AI labelView post →Striking examples of games that cover these topics are Papers Please, This War of Mine and Bury Me, My Love. See: www.unhcr.org/news/stories...
neutral · AI labelView post →Great for its emotional story, but for the most part you will just be staring at your pc screen/steam deck doing mostly nothing for hours except for a choice here and there. It would make a good book, but for the medium it is it's just too slow. It may have been better that way on the phone, but not as a game here.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is amazing. The storytelling is such a unique premise and the gameplay (format/UI via text messages) is such a distinct gameplay style. I love that there's a mixture of good, neutral, and negative endings depending on what choices you make during the game. The voice clips with each ending adds a nice touch as well to the game. Each pathway is maybe 1-3 hours of gameplay depending on how quickly you direct of your in-game girlfriend with the choices presented to you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The story is alright, it's a bare-bones look at the situations of refugees, specifically Syrians. It captures what should be the general feeling of a refugee and their loved ones awaiting every sign that that they're still alive.It's heartbreaking at times, and desperate most times. However, the game drags a lot. There is only music when something happens which means there's essentially no music. You have no option to fast forward the messages or skip to the next reply, even on a 2nd run. I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Excellent and touching visual novel about Nour, a Syrian refugee who tries to leave her home country (which is torn apart by civil war) and find a better life in Europe. You play as Majd, Nour's loving husband, who gives Nour encouragement and support so she can continue her journey. I've played this game on phone and on computer. I enjoyed the phone version immensely, and the characterisation in it is superb. The computer version is also very good, but I think the storylines have changed…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So this is the european visual novel, basically. Japaneese at least had one very good idea: you can skip through the dialogues that you've read in previous playthroughs. In this game you can't. 70% of the time you're just waiting for the sms reply. Bullcrap.
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