The Grand Bureaucratic Adventure of recognised refugees in Greece (video game)

Recognised refugees in Greece are called to navigate a complex, exhausting and often self-defeating process of obtaining documents required for access to a series of basic rights.

Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) endeavours to capture this difficulty in its respective annual reports. This year, we also illustrate this quagmire of procedures through a video game. The video game follows the Great Bureaucratic Adventure of two recognised refugees who have recently been returned to Greece from another European country.

Recognised refugees who are returned to Greece after having built a dignified life in another European country often find themselves suddenly landed at a Greek airport without documents and without any support.

For the purposes of the game, various problems have been simplified, while it is impossible to capture the sense of entrapment, endless waiting without prospect and being pushed into survival on the margins.