There’s an old adage that says, “Don’t judge another man until you’ve walked a mile in his boots.”

“ICED!,” a new video game produced by the nonprofit group Breakthrough, invites you to do just that.

The game allows its players to experience life as one of five characters, all with different immigration statuses: a Japanese student, a green card holder, an undocumented alien, an asylum seeker and an immigrant who mistakenly believes she’s a U.S. citizen. The setting is a city that resembles New York City and the object of the game is to keep a low profile in order to avoid deportation.

“There are very few methodologies out there where you actually get to put yourself in the skin of someone else,” says Mallika Dutt, executive director of Breakthrough. “A video game really communicates with a much, much larger audience.”

“ICED! (I Can End Deportation)” is the brainchild of Heidi Boisvert and Natalia Rodriguez who approached Breakthrough, a New York-based human rights organization, and asked them for help with developing the game program.

The game will become available for free download at www.breakthrough.tv in November.