´after the bombardment, we went outside; it looked like it had snowed, everywhere, white dust, glass, & flapping curtains in the broken windows´

On October 13th 1944 at 11am in the morning, the first of a series of 15 allied bombardments fell on the small, Dutch border town of Venlo, in Limburg.

The British allies were trying to push the Germans back across the border and take out the bridge across the Maas, that otherwise might allow the enemy to regain access to liberated territory on the Blerick side.

The family of the local community doctor was one of many civilian families trapped in cellars across the area, as the air raids and shelling continued into a cruel winter.

October 13th is a user-protagonist VR experience, that puts You in the shoes of one of the doctor's children.

Follow your own personal story through the last days of the war, in occupied territory.

Witness first-hand the resourcefulness, resilience, terror and hope that it takes to survive when war takes over your world. And understand better what makes people desperate and determined enough, to leave everything they have, and set out on foot in search of a safer, better life.