The mobile game Utter Us has two objectives: to make you destroy mycosis and other plaques of endometriosis. And above all, to bring to the fore the health problems that women face, and which are too often ignored.
Your missions, if you accept them, will be as follows: help Léa get rid of her fungal infections, destroy Élodie’s endometriosis plaques, and remove Catherine’s fibroids with a scalpel. Luckily, you don’t need medical skills to do this in Utter Usa free mobile game developed by research teams and developers with a specific goal: to raise awareness among players of poorly understood health issues.
You can play Utter Us for free on iPhone or Android.
Utter Us makes you fight the evil from within
If the gameplay and the story are very simple (you just have to click on the critters you want to destroy), the game is still addictive. It must be said that the prospect of being able to attack endometriosis (whether you have it or not), even virtually, is particularly attractive. Especially if you are currently in pain. I see it as a way to return the favor, in the end. There isn’t really a final boss or even a real progression, but we especially appreciate the prospect of being able to attack mycosis.
Utter Us was born in November 2019, during a game jam organized by the ComPaRe association (“community of patients for research”). The principle of this event was simple: the participating teams had 48 hours to create the most beautiful video game to raise public awareness of clinical research “, explains the site ofUtter Us. The project around the game is simple: inform about women’s health problems. The latter are indeed too often ignored by the scientific community.
“ The problem is gender bias in research: less is known about women than about men explains the game in the introduction. And the direct consequence of this bias is terrible for women, who regularly suffer from delayed diagnosis because of this lack, and do not receive the right treatment at the right time. This is particularly true in the case of endometriosis, and this when one woman in ten is affected in France.
Utter Us has therefore made it its mission to demystify endometriosis, fibroids and mycosis, and ” to popularize it by providing medical and scientific explanations at each level “. And it works: in the mini game Vagina Invaders, we learn that although 75% of women are affected by yeast infections, there is still very little research done on this subject. In Fibrozor, that women tell their doctor about their fibroid problem on average 4 years after the onset of symptoms, and in Monstruations, that endometriosis does not only affect the uterus, but can also develop in the bladder and the intestine.