This course aims to explore these overlooked narratives, focusing on how refugee camps—emerging as a massive and enduring phenomenon in the post-World War I world—have been represented in video games across history. By analyzing games that engage with the experiences of displacement, encampment, and survival, we will examine how refugee camps are portrayed in video games, often as marginal or forgotten spaces, despite their central role in understanding the humanitarian consequences of conflict. While video games featuring armed combat—particularly first- and third-person shooters—have dominated the industry, emphasizing battlefield heroics, only a small fraction of war-themed games engage with the lived realities of refugees or depict camps as significant virtual spaces.