Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 10:34 am
Dot's Home – Casual Game Review
Dot's Home is a Casual game from JoLu Productions Inc., first launched in 19th November 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 383+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dot's Home Stand Out
"Dot's Home" is a single-player, 2D, narrative-driven video game that follows a young Black woman in Detroit living in her grandmother’s beloved home, as she travels through time to relive key moments in her family’s history where race, place, and home collide in difficult choices.
As an interactive experience, "Dot's Home" allows players to see the harmful systems that dictate our relationship to race and place, through the eyes of those that are most impacted. By inserting the player into scenarios where they have to make choices about how and where to live in the midst of redlining, urban renewal, and gentrification, we ask a fundamental question: “How did your family end up where they are today, and how much choice did they really have in that journey?”
"Dot's Home" is a production of the Rise-Home Stories project: a creative collaboration between multimedia storytellers and housing and land justice advocates who have come together over the course of three years, to reimagine the past, present, and future of our communities by transforming the stories we tell about them.
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dot's Home is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Updated to a patched version of Unity to address the recent Unity security vulnerability.
Download & Availability
Dot's Home is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Im absolutely amazed with how thoughtful and sweet this was. It made us miss our grandma it made us think of our grandparents we miss them both. We absolutely would play it again if it was longer.
This game is so fun we love how it was like a book/movie/novel pls make more if the series.
Great story would love to hear more.
Dots home is a fun game about renting, homeownership, and home loans. Players decisions do have an effect on the stories conclusion. Our favorite parts were the art style and newspaper clips.The game is can be finished in under 3 hours or less. An area for improvement would the pamphlets section. More guidance and flexibility to approach that aspect would have helpful. Overall its a fun game and educational. We recommend checking out.
This is amazing game and very well executed game we love it.
Dots Home is a deeply impactful and thought-provoking mobile game that masterfully blends storytelling, history, and social awareness. Developed by the Detroit-based Rise-Home Stories Project, this narrative-driven game follows Dot, a young Black woman who embarks on a time-traveling journey to uncover the history of housing discrimination, racial inequity, and systemic injustices that have shaped her familys past and present. With its rich storytelling, engaging gameplay, and educational significance, Dots Home is a must-play for those who appreciate history, social justice, and immersive storytelling.
This is by far the most empowering game we've ever played. We love the story, and how this has multiple endings. But most importantly, this game sends a powerful message. What a great way to start off BHM.
You did your big one with this one, its really underrated.
This game is challenging and has a interesting storyline. It offer a lot of options.
Apparently, Im dumber than the average bear, at least when it comes to games. We don't understand how Im supposed to do things and it kinda annoys us. How hard would it be to include very precise instructions? We understand whats supposed to happen but have no idea how. This game gives us a brief look at some of the characters, a key being pulled from a pocket, a pathway, Grandma we click on new game and go nowhere. Oh well. We just wont play games.
Its definitely for kids maybe 8 years and older that can understand and read not at 4 years old. It could be better. The outcome is the same. After we played twice that was it we deleted it. It has potential. Needs work. Could discuss how they saved and bought a house. Discuss fixed vs arm mortgage. Ect.
Super fun loved how im able to make our own choices. Ive been searching for games like this for ever now thats we found it just makes us happy.and this game we sgreat for people who gets bored easily like us.
We cannot believe this game is free. Im gonna make everyone we know play it. 11/10 storytelling.
This game does a great job at showing housing discrimination towards POC. It really makes you think about which choices to pick because there isnt really a correct answer. Its short and straight to the point. If you want a little insight about this topic then this is a great choice.
We finished this in about an hour or so. Needs more content. This is a great way for people to learn about what other cultures in their communities go through, and helps instill determination not to allow it to continue. Make more! Sooooo much more.
This is a great game and really opened our eyes even further to what the African American community had/has to deal with. Its honestly one of the games that Ill remember for a while. Made us cry.
So this game is like amazing! At the start it didint make sense to us, but than we started understanding the controls. Its so fun. We finished half of the levels in 1 hour. We totally recommend to people who like adventures games.
This game is more about ethical choices than solving puzzles. It's a great opportunity to talk with young people about consequences and the ramifications of our actions. Graphics and soundtrack are great. We wish this was much much longer- would have been 5 stars.
We love the fact that our MC is a natural-hair Black woman. The story has a lot of history and shows struggles that Black and Brown people have been through and continue to go through. While the game off to a great start, the gameplay is boring. Theres no purpose of the backpack items. You arent able to examine the deed. The dialogue doesnt change regardless of your choices.
It does a really good job of showing how housing discrimination works throughout the years esp in America. The transitions from time periods were clear cut and engrossing. The past has a slight dreamlike quality to it just in the same way as the mc is affected by it, and we get to kinda feel how it is for her too. The asthma thing really got us thinking. The art was top notch and we could play through it all in an hour or so. The story was interesting. Reading the paper and how it changed through generations but also stayed the same, showed how things dont just end. History does repeat itself and we can have a hand in making sure that doesnt happen. Why would there be a need to flip a home if the neighborhood was invested in properly so that everything was functioning and beautiful for its residents? But well that doesnt turn a profit, does it? It really highlighted things to show the guy, real estate agent? Murphy dude. How the grandfather was basically exactly like him, zero change. Spoilers *** Im confused how if the home was sold, in the ending we chose, how did the grandma get to keep living there?? As thats what it said happened afaik.
We loved what the game was trying to accomplish and felt it did exactly what was intended. It made us think, we sat and thought about what decisions to make carefully because it made us think about our own position right now. The news was very insightful as well. We appreciated it and love the artwork as well. We should have more games like this to help educate our people on other topics as well.
The game is about some tough hitting history that is presented in an immersive and emotional setting. A must play! It would be interesting to see more history lessons in this format.
Made it all the way to organizing posters and cant get past it. Very fun game.
This game is so engaging and such a well written and interesting story. We loved it a lot. We wish it went on for longer! We restarted it as soon as we got to the end, hoping to look at how different decisions could shape up. Thank you for such a beautiful little game, please make more! This is amazing.
As a sheltered White man with an invisible disability, nothing has made it so clear that a community is essential in todays age. This exact thing is happening to our house, and to our neighborhood. We are glad we went through with this game, because social studies and history were always difficult for us. This is a work of art and needs to be played by every generation, in order to keep the positivity up. You need to build your supporters, and pass the torch. Godspeed everyone.
Honestly loved it. Beautiful art and music.
This game filled us with guilt and self-hatred for our whiteness. Thank you so much. We know that its our fault and we are so grateful that a person of color saw it in their heart to educate us (which is NOT their job) about her or his oppression at the hands of bad whites. Thank you!!! 5 stars. Im so sorry about slavery. PS. Neighborhoods should all be integrated. We all get along real good with those of other cultural backgrounds, just like in the movies.
The details in this story are immaculate. With the issues of Poc, and immigrants, amazing story line! 10/10.
We love the art,the plot,EVERYTHING.
Dots home is the best and greatest game we ever played and we played the first time and we actually beaten it the first time.
Okay first of all this game is op! We love the graphics. The sounds are easy on the ears and calming. The amount of effort put in every Details is breathtaking. The design of the characters and the background are amazing. This game is really good. We loved every second.
Us gusto mucho lo complete el juego us dio tristeza en el final.
This game is amazing! It was short, but had so must history behing our people. We're impressed with the historical and cultural accuracy. Love it love it love it.
Ok we're playing, but an aspect of this game that we think this game nails on the head is that the pursuit of constantly getting richer can separate you from the people that matter in your life… And leave you open to manipulation. If you wanna speedrun the good ending, rent, stick with Amos, and rent to the Tawfiqs. It's not money that makes a good life, it's people. Oh, and having grown up in "well-to-do" environments. The neutral and bad endings about the kids being too well behaved and the police notices of noise complaints, of people keeping to themselves… It's horrible and depressing. Having a strong community and an environment where you can actually walk outside and greet neighbors… That's what really matters in life.
Im nowhere near finished. Matter of fact, we only had about 5 minutes of gameplay before we had to put it down. We didnt realize we had such PTSD. We wish we could say im too young to have experienced this but we were a witness to this just in 2014. Seeing Dot go thru it, makes us want to jump thru the screen and turn this into a fighting game. To stop more people from going thru it. Except its the other way around this is just a gameI have to fight IRL.. The fight is real.
We really learned something with this game. Thank you for reaching/teaching us.
Very enjoyable! Wish it were longer it was so good.
Beatifully designed and the informational storylines are superb! We really enjoy the relaxed game play. Well Done.
The game is pretty cool. We like the concept of it and we finished it in about an hour and a half. It would be nice if there were different challenges so that game is longer. Also, it would've been nice to go back to the grandparent's past in South Carolina to make choices there.
We loved the game! The graphics were really good and we loved how you could make choices. We somehow chose the correct options to get the best ending so we completed the game in about 90 minutes. You can look at the other two endings without having to go through it again if you want to, which we liked. So if you want a cool, pretty and short-ish game, this is perfect.
We love this game! The graphics were very nice. It was easy to move around. You have to really look around and think about the choices you make and how they affect the future. We wish the game was longer. We hope you guys make other stories or continue that. It was great.
We have finished this a few times and am still a bit in awe. It is more like a good story/game combo but still enjoyable. It offers a different perspective not often shared or explained but isnt super lesson or text book driven. Its a great reminder how every choice has outcomes and consequences regardless of what you choose.
This game is so beautiful and really brings out the poverty of colored and immigrated folks when looking for a home for their families. It shows that when youre looking out for each other instead of the profit, it leads to even greater blessings. Though, the profit may be rewarding as well. We would like to applaud the game developers and storytellers for the opportunity of making this game free to play with a fully developed storyline. No adds, beautiful plot, as well as a cherishing message. 10/10.
We were not expecting a game we actually like for years now we been getting stupid games no story nothing just! This is far the best game not only for educational purposes but the game please keep it going.
Quick help, we dont know what to do after the man talks to her outside..where do we go, what do we do its not letting us go anywhere but that spot.
This game is AWESOME. We love how a game finally has African American characters, a story line that is a common true story for many of us. The choices are important and you have to think them thorough. Theres no ads and nothing you have to pay for. The story is beautiful and we love it.
Super cute story, not many choices because theres only 3 possible endings but we dont mind! Good if youre looking for a short game, we finished in 1 day.
We stuck on the part where dot has to throw away the pamphlet but where is the trash to do it.
We loved the art style of this game and also felt like we learned a bunch about the history of segregation, white flight, and gentrification in many US cities. The game was educational without feeling preachy! The characters were well-designed and relatable.
This is a great game with a great concept but it leaves you hanging! We want to play more.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.6
- Size: 337.64 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: JoLu Productions Inc.
Last updated: 4th December 2025 | Genre: Casual | Developer: JoLu Productions Inc.