Questions about using games and simulations to teach about genocide and other historical horrors are not new.
Davis and other critics point to Freedom!, a 20th-century computer game with a similar narrative arc as Flight to Freedom that was developed by the creators of the wildly popular Oregon Trailfranchise. That game prompted a lawsuit by parents of an 11-year-old black student who said their son was humiliated by his peers when the game was used in his classroom. Freedom! was eventually pulled from the market.
The Anti-Defamation League has also “strongly cautioned” against using simulation activities, online or otherwise, to teach about the Holocaust.