Follow the Money: Skyless Game Studios' Financial Crime Training Game

Follow the Money puts the player in charge of a virtual corruption case that keeps widening. What starts as one offense turns into several crimes and schemes, and the investigator has to decide which tool fits each step. The skills covered are gathering evidence, tracing transactions, filing mutual legal assistance requests and seizing assets through forfeiture.

It is built as a point-and-click investigation for Windows and Mac OS. Players can draw on a wide range of investigative techniques, and the case moves forward only when they apply them correctly, which discourages trial-and-error clicking. At the end of a case the game scores the quality of the charges brought and the value of the assets recovered, so two trainees can compare results.

The intended audience is government agents around the world who handle public-sector corruption, fraud and money laundering.

Skyless Game Studios was founded in 2012 to build games for social, educational and philanthropic causes. Its method is to partner with subject experts first and design the game around their cause. Follow the Money is the studio's flagship project.

The expert partner is Repatriation Group International, a nonprofit based outside Philadelphia that trains and assists developing countries in fighting corruption and recovering stolen assets. Its founders have more than 50 years of combined experience training officials in anti-corruption and anti-money laundering work. The game grew out of their view that existing training in this field offers little hands-on practice, scales poorly and is hard to customize.

As of November 2026 the studio's website is online and lists Follow the Money first among its games. Next to it sit LifeLeap, a charity runner about healthcare supplies for young people in the developing world, and AssembleIt, a two-player puzzle game for children with autism and their families. The game's page still gives 2016 as the release date and describes the studio as developing it with Repatriation Group International. It shows the partner biographies, but it has no download, purchase or play link.

The partner's own website is also online. Its navigation lists projects, a corruption tree and downloadable resources. Whether the game was ever released to agencies cannot be confirmed from either site.