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Digital Compass Review
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Posted: 3 months ago.
Author: @GeekDadGamer.
Overview
Digital Compass is an adventure game set in a fictional fantasy town. You choose from a series of eight young characters facing tough decisions about civic life: social media, homework, popularity, sports and romance to name a few.
Play involves selecting one of the characters and making choices to guide them through their digital dilemmas. You make a series of choices that have both obvious and less obvious consequences. Novel for these sorts of games, at any time you can pull up a map of the decisions you have made to trace how things turned out.
Although the game is focused squarely on education rather than entertainment, and older children might find it heavy-handed, the quality of the product makes it stand out. The characters are well fleshed out, the graphics engaging and all the dialogue is fully voiced.
The result is an innovative way for children to explore how decisions made in their digital lives can affect their relationships and futures. The varied story paths and multiple decision points encourage students to play repeatedly in order to explore alternative courses of action.
Play involves selecting one of the characters and making choices to guide them through their digital dilemmas. You make a series of choices that have both obvious and less obvious consequences. Novel for these sorts of games, at any time you can pull up a map of the decisions you have made to trace how things turned out.
Although the game is focused squarely on education rather than entertainment, and older children might find it heavy-handed, the quality of the product makes it stand out. The characters are well fleshed out, the graphics engaging and all the dialogue is fully voiced.
The result is an innovative way for children to explore how decisions made in their digital lives can affect their relationships and futures. The varied story paths and multiple decision points encourage students to play repeatedly in order to explore alternative courses of action.
Game Details
Content Rating: PEGI 7
Skill Rating: 9-12 year-olds
Release Date: 07/08/2015, updated in 2019
Price: Free
Platforms: Web
Genres: Narrative and Puzzle
Developer: Common Sense Ed (@CommonSenseEd)
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Commitment
Duration: It takes between 5 minutes and 10 minutes to play a round of this game. Each play through takes around 10 minutes, but it's worth playing each story multiple times to see how it plays out. Each character has 9 endings, 23 decision points, 32 paths and 50 stories.
Players: This is a single player game.
Players: This is a single player game.
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Skill Rating
This game is enjoyed by 9-12 year-olds as it's a good match for their ability and maturity. The simple play and set-up scenarios mean this works well for young players. The skill to play is in understanding the questions and processing implications.
Accessibility
We haven't documented accessibility features for this game yet. Our Digital Compass Accessibility Report details system-wide settings that may help, and suggests similar games with accessibility features. Tweet the developer (@CommonSenseEd) to let them know about our Accessibility Questionnaire.
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