Games You Can’t Win explores “empathy” gaming, a new video game movement in which developers are sharing some of their most intimate or traumatic personal experiences through artful, documentary-style video games. Using a combination of intimate verité footage and video capture from the games, the short film tells the stories of three developer and the personal experiences that inspired their game.

Cameraperson
2016
6.7/10

Life in a Day
2011
7.2/10

Elstree 1976
2015
6.1/10

Video Games: The Movie
2014
6.1/10

Indie Game: The Movie
2012
7.5/10

Heart of a Dog
2015
6.5/10

Atari: Game Over
2014
6.6/10

Extremis
2016
7.0/10

Fuck
2006
6.4/10

Naqoyqatsi
2002
6.1/10

Embrace
2016
6.5/10

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020
8.1/10

Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
2022
7.0/10

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
6.7/10

In the Realms of the Unreal
2004
7.1/10

Sidney
2022
7.6/10

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
2017
7.5/10

Frida
2024
6.7/10

Aquaman: Heroines of Atlantis
2019
6.2/10

Love, Marilyn
2013
6.6/10
HERO
2021
9/10