Emily: Displaced

Emily: Displaced

Bossa Studios · July 26, 2016 · Adventure, Indie, Visual Novel

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About Emily: Displaced

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Emily: Displaced puts you in the shoes of a young girl navigating survival and difficult choices as her home country descends into violent conflict. Your decisions shape her story across three different endings, exploring how war uniquely impacts the most vulnerable through hand-drawn visuals and an emotionally grounded narrative.

Emily: Displaced is a choice-based visual novel about how children can be affected by war. You play Emily as her life is thrown in to chaos after a violent uprising in her home country. Children like Emily.

Children like Emily are the most vulnerable in a conflict situation.
The decisions you make playing Emily: Displaced can subtly influence the direction of the story, in a changing and unpredictable world.

Made in four days as part of the game jam for War Child.

Key Features / How to play


  • Choice based narrative
  • Emotional story, evocative setting
  • Beautiful hand drawn art
  • 3 different endings

Studio Message/Creators


Emily: Displaced — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

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Emily: Displaced is a short visual novel about a child navigating life during wartime that players praise for its emotional impact and thoughtful portrayal of powerlessness and societal issues, though some find the story less engaging on its own merits. The game effectively conveys how a child's choices mainly affect how others perceive them rather than changing circumstances, creating a realistic depiction of limited agency during conflict.

Recommended Nov 24, 2016
If you haven't bought the Help Bundle then please do.
9 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 1, 2017
This game will pull on some heart-strings and really make you think about society as a whole, especially in the contexts of war and how we help others. If you're an emotional soul like me, this game WILL get you, so be prepared to feel like hell. Also if you're an animal lover...you might not want to play this game.
6 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 13, 2024
Short anti-war visual novel game. Love that they mention your choices have little consequence, this being a war & you being a child. Very good depiction, well done.
4 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 29, 2021
I bought this game within the 'HELP: The Game' bundle, a charity bundle for supporting children who are suffering from the effects of war. I was moved by the charity, and interested to see how they'd handle such a sensitive subject with only4 days for the project. This is the first game of the bundle I've played and I'm extremely impressed. I was surprised by which behaviours could lead to different routes, but it felt quite realistic. The idea of your choices only effecting how others see you and thus might direct your life was an extremely powerful way to show the vulnerability and powerlessness of childhood alone, even without it being a child struggling through civil war. While actively striving to get a different route in a game is nothing like the actual struggle to reach asylum or a safe zone, I felt it was a good implementation of multiple ending VN narrative, to give some element of that feeling of striving and struggling for a destination, when you're unsure how ideal that ending might be, and how safe it'll be. And ultimately, whether it'd even be possible to call it home, or is it just another unsafe pitstop full of uncertainty and stress. I think the tone, delivery …
4 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 7, 2023
We follow Emily's life in this visual novel, it has 3 endings and i implore you to find them all
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 11, 2026
Short, not very interesting story. But the bundle's for charity so you might want it.

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