Games for Global Challenges
The games
Discover student-designed games about the challenges shaping our world. Select a game to read its pitch and find the playing guides.
Active Intellect
Want to race your friends to the best AI? Want to be surprised by the crises at hand and learn to react quickly to them? Want to challenge yourself and your views about AI? Then this game is the perfect place to start!
View Game →Active Intellect
The pitch
This game aims to raise awareness among high school students about the personal and global impacts of Artificial Intelligence. Inspired by their own daily choices and discussions around AI in academic and personal life, the developers design the game to help younger students understand AI as a system—making its hidden feedback loops, skill-development drawbacks, and broader risks tangible and relatable.
Meet the designers- Derval Gibney-Sheridan
- Hana Baťová
- Natália Gaburová
- Quinn Kawasaki
- Eléonore Bouvier d'Yvoire
Chance or Choice
Players move across a world map answering questions about barriers to quality education. Under time pressure, they place bets based on their confidence.
View Game →Chance or Choice
The pitch
How much does birthplace shape your educational opportunities? In Chance or Choice?, players explore unequal access to and quality of education around the world. Through gameplay, they discover how systems, geography, and chance influence educational outcomes and gain a deeper understanding of the scale and impact of global educational inequality.
Meet the designers- Virág Sipka
- Maja Wnuk
- Gerard Russomano Magdalena
- Jagieło
- Hannah van den Brink
Crisis Averted... or is it?
The game combines negotiation, communication, ethical dilemmas, and role-play to stimulate the real-life uncertainty and pressure involved in crisis governance.
View Game →Crisis Averted... or is it?
The pitch
Ever faced a choice between bad and worse? Governments do this constantly. In Crisis Averted or Is It?, players become crisis management teams inspired by the UN and Dutch governance. Negotiate fast-paced crises in fictional Glumendall, where every decision has its consequences and determines whether the state survives, collapses, or prospers.
Meet the designers- Giorgia Vaccaro
- Minna Pūre
- Luiza Reis
- Martina Mongelli
- Tera Sarwan
Energy Islands
Energy Island is a strategic island management game where players react to random events, oversee a budget, and make high-pressure decisions to transition their island from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
View Game →Energy Islands
The pitch
Energy Island is a board game where players work both together and against each other to manage an energy transition on their own island. Players must reduce their dependence on fossil fuels by making strategic decisions and investing in renewable energy.
In many isolated communities, relying on imported fossil fuels is a real issue. Rising prices, conflict, and geography can make energy expensive and unreliable. Fossil fuels can also create environmental problems that affect communities and ecosystems. While renewable energy is often seen as an obvious solution, transitioning away from fossil fuels is more complex than it seems. Energy Island moves beyond textbook explanations and lets players experience these challenges themselves. Players must react to random events, manage money, and make important choices under pressure.
Through Energy Island, players will learn that energy transitions involve difficult decisions and real-world trade-offs in a fun and competitive setting.
Meet the designers- Vicker Echevin
- Millie Virki
- Irina Mihaela Alexandru
- Zoey Groen
- Leonardo Modly Hurst
Korrupsi
In this social deduction and strategy game players take on the roles of civilians, journalists, and corrupt elites in a tense struggle over truth, power, and survival.
View Game →Korrupsi
The pitch
Have you ever wondered what it is like to live under a corrupt government? Did it cross your mind how to break out of the system? If you think these questions sound intriguing, Korrupsi will be the game for you! In this social deduction and strategy game players take on the roles of civilians, journalists, and corrupt elites in a tense struggle over truth, power, and survival. Through discussion, voting, and deception, they must uncover hidden corruption before it spreads beyond control.
Meet the designers- Anna Szofi Szabó
- Sofie Gurli Ulverud Solheim
- Sarina Niboshi
- Noé Schwartz
- Maryia Rezkaya
No Time to be slow
This game is important because it makes a difficult global issue tangible and personal. Instead of just reading about biodiversity loss, players live it.
View Game →No Time to be slow
The pitch
No Time to Be Slow is a competitive board game tackling biodiversity loss. Four players take different roles as: the company, spy, NGO, or local, to either save, or destroy the endangered pygmy sloth. Through challenges, players see how small choices reduce environmental destruction.
Time is ticking…
What choices will you make?
Meet the designers- Clémentine Lucas-Cantos
- Eabha McNally
- Klára Nýdrlová
- Victor Jacobus Meijers
Safe Lake Crisis
In this cooperative game, players act as citizens balancing personal interests against the common good to save their town’s vital lake from industrial depletion.
View Game →Safe Lake Crisis
The pitch
Save yourself or the Lake? An energy company is draining your town's water, but you can choose to stop it! Vote for the proposal that saves your community, but at your own expense. Water is running out, and the hardest part is agreeing on how to save it.
Meet the designers- Mathilde Appleby
- Lily Weeks
- Simon Delattre
- Nuño Castedo Oliván
- Léo Faure
Slippery Slope
This educational game for ages 15+ lets players explore how politicians and media exploit personal fears to build manipulative narratives.
View Game →Slippery Slope
The pitch
A roleplaying game about xenophobia and persuasion. A group of immigrants will be introduced into the quiet town of Slippendorp, unless the Mayor manages to manipulate his townspeople… And the clock is ticking. Converse, educate, and listen to the Mayor’s powerful words… With “Slippery Slope,” you can learn to think critically and deconstruct the narratives that plague the politics of today.
Meet the designers- Sebastien Gamel
- Anna Gwizdak
- Manuela Lietaer
- Elsa Ortuño Blanco
- Gustavo Romio Accioli
Strategies and Straits
Experience how maritime chokepoint disruptions impact global trade and energy, as you forge alliances and navigate unpredictable geopolitical crises to secure vital shipping lanes.
View Game →Strategies and Straits
The pitch
Our game introduces to players the mechanism behind the disruption of maritime chokepoints and how it influences global shipping, international trade and energy supply. The player's goals are to build alliances with friendly states, to ensure smooth trade but also to cope with unpredictable geopolitical occurrences. Are you ready to navigate these dangerous and unpredictable passages in the most strategic way possible?
Meet the designers- Lily Maud Page Pinheiro
- Philippa Anna Karamat
- Caitlin Baltussen
- Anna Paula Zier Anna Frieda Nico Brünner
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