IGF finalist descriptions

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LOST AT SEA, 1803
the good ship
"OBRA DINN"
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Built 1796, London ~ 800 tons, 18ft draught
Captain R. WITTEREL ~ Crew 51 men
Last voyage to Orient ~ Cape rendezvous unmet
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Contact East India Cy. London Office
for enquiries or testimony
An Insurance Adventure with Minimal Color
In 1802, the merchant ship Obra Dinn set out from London for the Orient with over 200 tons of trade goods. Six months later it hadn't met its rendezvous point at the Cape of Good Hope and was declared lost at sea.

Early this morning of October 14th, 1807, the Obra Dinn drifted into port at Falmouth with damaged sails and no visible crew. As insurance investigator for the East India Company's London Office, dispatch immediately to Falmouth, find means to board the ship, and prepare an assessment of damages.

"Do Not Feed the Monkeys" is a unique, digital voyeur simulator. Spy on people through dozens of hacked surveillance cameras (aka "cages") and pry into their lives using the information you find about them.

Will you be able to make a living while you get more and more "cages"? Will you help the watched people (aka the "monkeys") or will you harm them? Or maybe you'll stick to rule number one, do not interact with the people you spy on? Remember: Do Not Feed the Monkeys!

Sleeptime Computing, a new technology allowing users to browse the internet while they sleep, has captured the world's imagination. Hypnospace is the first and most popular Sleeptime service, and they've accepted your application to serve as an Enforcer. As the uncertainties of a new millenium consume the bustling digital metropolis, will you use your new post to help your fellow Hypnospace Citizens or slam them with violations to amass a HypnoCoin fortune?

Minit is a peculiar little adventure played sixty seconds at a time. Journey outside the comfort of your home to help unusual folk, uncover countless secrets, and overcome dangerous foes, all in hopes of lifting a rather unfortunate curse that ends each day after just one minute. Minit is a collaboration between Kitty Calis, Jan Willem Nijman, Jukio Kallio & Dominik Johann.

Noita is a magical action rogue-lite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've crafted yourself.

Opus Magnum is an open-ended puzzle game where players design and build machines that carry out alchemical processes using a variety of components.

ETHEREAL is full of hand-crafted navigation puzzles, where you have to find your way within an intricate and abstract level, using different kinds of mechanics that allows you to modify the environment or the direction of your character movement. Each corner of its world has been carefully designed to communicate without any text and expose a novel puzzle to solve without time pressure, evoking an introspective state of mind.

Mirror Drop is a psychedelic 3D puzzle game where you maneuver a reflective sphere in a world full of mirrors, over-saturated colors, and infinities. Each level contains three puzzles and a hidden exit, set against 100% raytraced alien geometry.

Alto's Odyssey is an endless sandboarding adventure set against a beautiful and ever-changing natural landscape. As a followup to the critically acclaimed endless snowboarder Alto's Adventure, Alto's Odyssey is designed to be enjoyed by returning players and newcomers alike.

The game features fluid physics-based gameplay, procedurally generated environments, and dynamic lighting and weather effects. Odyssey seeks to expand and build upon feelings of being alone in nature, but also of stepping outside of one's comfort zone and exploring the world beyond.

The creative direction for the series has always been to try and boil down the essence of immersion and provide players with a small window into a much larger world – a place they can escape to for even just a few moments during the day, and experience a living, breathing environment with it's own hidden surprises, including a variety of natural phenomena and wildlife.

Odyssey, like it's predecessor, continues to resonate strongly with a diverse audience from across the world, inspiring fans to reach out with their own artwork and messages of gratitude, including a number of truly touching testimonials from players who tell us how the game has helped them to cope with anxiety or grief, connect with a child with learning difficulties, or simply provide a moment of calm in their otherwise stressful lives.

Imagine a place where everything that is lost and forgotten goes; old toys, letters, single socks. The Forgotten Lands is a magical world inhabited by Forgotlings; creatures composed of mislaid objects longing to be remembered again.

Forgotton Anne is a seamless cinematic adventure with a focus on meaningful storytelling and light puzzle platforming. You are Anne, the enforcer who keeps order in the Forgotten Lands, as she sets out to squash a rebellion that might prevent her master, Bonku, and herself from returning to the human world...

Just Shapes & Beats, the game about shapes, and beats. Once nominated for the most self-explanatory game title of all time, and didn't win.

It's a quirky 4 player coop musical bullet hell. The entire gameplay revolves around the music, as all the geometrical enemy patterns are orchestrated to it. It's what it says it is, just shapes, and beats.

Basically, it's a love letter to all the awesome chiptune musicians out there, an homage to their work in videogame form.

A world which at first glance seems familiar, but is never quite right. Something shifts under the surface. A twitch, a flicker, and then nothing. You've been caught smuggling VHS tapes across the border. You have instructions to kill the proprietor of the old diner. You've found yourself lost in the woods among the remains of cursed industry. Three intersecting threads take you on a journey through a cruel fever dream world.

Paratopic is a narrative, horror-tinged adventure game. An experiment in non-linear, fragmented storytelling and in leveraging filmic techniques that are unusual in interactive media. It aims to be both an adventure and a mood-piece, building a liminal, unsettling tone.

- A diverse range of hand-crafted, detailed environments awash with nuanced world building and storytelling.
- Dynamic and varied narrative vignettes and situations. Acts of violence, driving cars, placid photography and a host of off-kilter characters to meet.
- A subtly dynamic soundscape composed from over an hour of bespoke tracks. Through glitched, burbling sound design and a soundtrack that harks back to late 90s FM and tracker audio, the ambience of Paratopic warps and segues as you journey through the world.

Moss is a single-player action-adventure puzzle game and new IP tailor-made for the VR platform. It takes classic components of a great game—compelling characters, gripping combat, and captivating world exploration—and combines them with the exciting opportunities of virtual reality.

In Moss, players meet Quill, a mouse with dreams of greatness. While exploring the woods, she finds a mysterious Glass Relic and an ancient magic is awakened. With her uncle now in danger, Quill must embark on an epic journey—and she needs you there by her side. Together, you'll travel to forgotten realms, solve challenging puzzles, and battle menacing enemies. Alone, no one can conquer what you're up against. But united, you just may defeat even the darkest of villains. Immerse yourself in the world of Moss to help write the story of a hero in the making.

Dicey Dungeons is, at its heart, a deckbuilding RPG - you fight monsters, find better loot, and level up your hero - but with one important twist: dice rolling! Wait, no, come back! It's better than it sounds!

Learn to master six different characters, each with its own unique play style - ranging from the push-your-luck-and-risk-it-all Robot, to the swaggering just-smash-stuff Warrior, to the carefully laid plans of the Witch.

"Do Not Feed the Monkeys" is a unique, digital voyeur simulator. Spy on people through dozens of hacked surveillance cameras (aka "cages") and pry into their lives using the information you find about them.

Will you be able to make a living while you get more and more "cages"? Will you help the watched people (aka the "monkeys") or will you harm them? Or maybe you'll stick to rule number one, do not interact with the people you spy on? Remember: Do Not Feed the Monkeys!

The golf game for people who hate golf.

Genital Jousting is a fully narrated physics game about a penis named John, and his quest to find a date for his upcoming high school reunion.

It is a story about learning and unlearning what it means to be a man.

"The island… It was my prison.
For ages, I roamed the land, helpless, looking for a way out…
… And then, they arrived."

A group of shaman apprentices set foot on the shores of a sacred island to be initiated to magic. As they progress through the wilderness, looking for the "Seers", their spirit-guides, they realize they're not alone.

Who is this strange horned woman they are seeing in their dreams?

Seers Isle is an interactive graphic novel for PC, Mac & Linux. It will be released in September 2018. It's a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters.
One year ago, a demon possessed you; forcing you to tear a trail of bloodshed through New York City. Your salvation finally comes in the form of the Unavowed – an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil.

You are free, but your world is in tatters. You have no home, no friends, and are wanted by the police. Your old life is gone, but perhaps you can start a new one. Join the ranks of the Unavowed, and fight against the oncoming darkness.
A musical adventure where you use singing to save the world! Play as a silly bard who embarks on a globe-trotting journey to learn about the mysterious Earthsong, said to be able to prevent the universe's imminent end. Along the way there's a huge cast of characters to meet, puzzles to solve and songs to sing!

In Wandersong you're a walking musical instrument, and you use song to interact with everything. Different things respond to your music in different ways, so it's up to you to sing your songs, unlock the world's secrets and make new friends!

WATCH ME JUMP is a digital story of scandal and betrayal, played out in four quarters. As WNBA all-star Audra Bee Mills, the player will have to navigate through the dialogue, shaping Audra's personality along the way through the choices made.

WATCH ME JUMP is the first video game from award-winning playwright Jeremy Gable, and is adapted from his play of the same name. The player takes the role of Audra Bee Mills, who is about to become the highest paid women's basketball player in the world. But on the night before playoffs, a scandal threatens to overturn everything she has worked for. And Audra has to figure out how to get through the night without losing either her dignity or her career.


"Black Room," is a browser-based, narrative game about falling asleep while on your computer, on the internet. You play as an insomniac on the verge of sleep, moving through shifting states of consciousness. Hallucinatory, pixelated visions of landscapes filled with sprites ripped directly from the arcade/NES/SNES video games of your childhood appear and disappear as you click through fragile internet spaces. Point-n-click mini games are scattered throughout the narrative. Often interrupted, you continually return to the Black Room, a meditation technique your mother taught you for falling asleep, visualizing black flowers in a black vase on a black table in the center of a black room.

This game, conceived as a feminist dungeon crawler, features a majority female cast of video game sprites from the 1970s-current day. This work seeks to bring these characters together to form new narratives: Chun Li reposes elegantly in a desert oasis filled with flamingos; Catwoman languidly cartwheels across the nighttime beaches of Coney Island; Jennifer Simpson, the lead character from Clock Tower, runs endlessly through the brightly pixelated fantasy landscapes of the Oregon Trail. These narratives appear as "Strange Visions," to the player, induced by shifting stages of wakefulness.

A grail quest in a sequentially deteriorating game
A procedural first person collage
A downward spiral in increasing capital
A fever dream of absolution in virtual worlds
An exploration of broken promises
An exploration of broken promises
An exploration of broken promises

Circle-0 is a game that will break and crash. It is a game of beautiful messes and catastrophes. Every interaction you have with the game leads to its inevitable destruction. In a world where games are praised for their tight controls and systemic elegance, Circle-0 outright rebels against stability, comprehensibility, and coherence. And yet, with dizzying array of items and potential interactions, it rewards curiosity with unpredictable and delightful results.

Cowabunga cheese freaks! Do you like long wait times? Reading rules? Harsh punishments? We have good news for you! The eCheese Zone is a crowd punishment party game. Make new friends as you collectively struggle to follow basic directions! Becoming a point of communal gathering, you only have so many hours to win before the game shuts itself off, leaving you and everyone else itching for the next gathering to try again. Are you a big enough cheese fan to beat… the eCheese Zone?

Mirror Drop is a psychedelic 3D puzzle game where you maneuver a reflective sphere in a world full of mirrors, over-saturated colors, and infinities. Each level contains three puzzles and a hidden exit, set against 100% raytraced alien geometry.

A ghost catches the bus home.

En Garde! is a swashbuckling action-adventure game set in the 17th century. Play as an impetuous swordswoman and fight with panache to defend your family's honor!
Humiliate your opponents with your rapier, your taunts and acrobatic moves, and use any object of the environment to your advantage!
The game is powered by Unreal Engine 4 and can be downloaded for free!

En Garde! was made as a student graduation project by a team of 8 students from Supinfogame Rubika, France (full credits list and contact info on the itch.io page).

In this case, a small sloth has been haunted for weeks by a mysterious ghost that nobody can seem to track down. There's a mystery afoot, and the only one who can solve it is the renowned investigator known simply as The Detective. Finding clues and questioning suspects is just part of the job for such an experienced frog, but this case is a tough nut to crack.

Play as The Detective in this thrilling adventure, and solve the mystery of THE HAUNTED ISLAND! Meet a kooky cast of characters, with clues and quests to help you on your way.

Grace Bruxner Presents: The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game is a 3D narrative mystery game on PC and Mac.
Feel-good game for children of all ages, It's Paper Guy! invites you to explore a world entirely made of paper, full of life and cuteness, and to cut it as you please!
Discover the cute hand-drawn aesthetic of Paper Guy's lively world, solve simple puzzles, and enjoy the innocent pleasure of cutting paper!

a game about capturing time through the contemplative gaze of long exposure photography. it is finding beauty in an ever-changing space where time passes with you and through you.

Sole is a surreal adventure game where you play as the only source of light in a world shrouded in darkness. Wander through uninhabited environments, painting the land with light as you uncover its mysterious past. Explore the remnants of great cities and discover the history of an ancient civilization on your journey to restore life to an abandoned world.

After abandoning her high-powered tech career and a mysterious three-year absence, Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey resurfaces working as a proxy for a virtual counseling app called Eliza. Her job consists solely of reading a script provided to her in real-time by an AI, leaving her no autonomy over what she says. Is Eliza a technological marvel that brings therapy to those who otherwise couldn't access it? Or is it an ineffective replacement and another way for technology companies to gain control over our lives?

As she reconnects with people from her past and gets to know the ordinary people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, Evelyn finds herself caught in the middle between differing sides of the argument— and as she begins to question everything about her past life and future purpose in the world, it becomes clear she must confront the turmoil and darkness inside.

Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of hawk peak provincial park. Follow the marked trails or explore the backcountry as you make your way to the summit. Along the way, meet other hikers, discover hidden treasures, and take in the world around you.

It's a lovely day in the village, and you are a horrible goose.

Untitled Goose Game is a slapstick-stealth-sandbox, where you are a goose let loose on an unsuspecting village. Make your way around town, from peoples' back gardens to the high street shops to the village green, setting up pranks, stealing hats, honking a lot, and generally ruining everyone's day.

Featuring:
• A horrible goose (that's you)
• A town full of people just trying to get on with their day (you hate them)
• A dedicated honk button (!!!)

A mutant soap opera where small-town gossip meets the supernatural...

MUTAZIONE is an adventure game where the juicy personal drama is just as important as the high-stakes adventure part of the story.

Explore the community as 15-year-old Kai as she travels to the strange and secretive community of Mutazione to care for her ailing grandfather, Nonno.

Make new friends; plant musical gardens; attend BBQs, band nights and boat trips; and embark on a final spiritual journey to save everyone from the strange darkness at the heart of it all.

Over 100 years ago, the meteor "Moon Dragon" struck a tropical holiday resort. Most of the inhabitants perished, while those who survived began to show strange mutations... The rescue missions quickly retreated, and those who remained in the mutating environment founded the small and isolated community of Mutazione.

Fast-forward to modern day, where you play as 15-year-old Kai as she travels to Mutazione to help nurse her dying grandfather back to health. But things aren't as simple as they seem... Nonno has other plans for Kai; secrets and betrayals simmer under the friendly community's surface; and there's a creepy bird-like figure who keeps on appearing in Kai's dreams.

They can survive an apocalyptic meteor strike, but can they survive their small-town drama?

We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Rescue a mysterious island from a mind-warping plague! Nano Dust infects the islanders of New Theland, distorting their emotions and desires. You play as Nova, a Nano Cleaner who must explore the island, seeking out the sick and shrinking inside their bodies to suction up the Dust.

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust combines the thrilling scale and cinematic storytelling of 3D games with the tight design and easy-to-pick-up satisfaction of 2D Zelda-like adventures. With art that re-imagines the PS1 and N64 era, explore 3D cities, valleys, and wastelands then shrink into the varied 2D mindscapes of characters, from snowy, aurora-lit valleys to perilous volcanic construction sites!

Knights and Bikes is a hand-painted action-adventure for 1 or 2 players, set on a British island in the 1980s.

It's a coming-of-age story starring Nessa & Demelza, exploring the coasts of Penfurzy on their trusty bikes, looking for a legendary lost treasure in a Goonies-inspired tale of excitement, danger, fun and friendship.

The two new friends, along with their pet-goose and the pickled-head of an undead knight, form the Penfurzy Rebel Bicycle Club, and are ready for anything this adventure throws at them. They pedal into danger to face threats head-on with frisbees, water-balloons, video game controllers and the powerful beats of an amplified boom-box.

Along the way they'll stuff their pockets with trinkets and barter for bike upgrades, spurring them onward down the island's country lanes, windswept beaches, deep forests, modern attractions and ancient ruins.

Together their friendship will create an adventure as big as their imaginations.

The game is by Rex Crowle, (Creative Director: Tearaway/Tearaway-Unfolded, Art & Design: LittleBigPlanet) and by Moo You (Gameplay Programmer: Ratchet & Clank and LittleBigPlanet). Audio design by Kenny Young (Audio Lead: Tearaway & LittleBigPlanet) and with a musical score by Daniel Pemberton (Composer: The Man From Uncle, Steve Jobs, King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword)

Inspired by BioShock and System Shock 2, Void Bastards is a revolutionary new strategy-shooter that will test your wits as well as exercise your aim. Can you lead the misfit prisoners of the Void Ark through the derelict spaceships and myriad dangers of the Sargasso Nebula?

Creature in the Well is a top-down, pinball-inspired, hack-and-slash dungeon crawler. As the last remaining BOT-C unit, venture deep into a desert mountain to restore power to an ancient facility, haunted by a desperate Creature. Uncover and upgrade powerful gear in order to free the city of Mirage from a deadly sandstorm.

Features
– Pinball with swords: Charge up energy orbs, then bounce and ricochet them to reactivate dormant machinery and stop the sandstorm.
– Defeat the Creature: Escape the many challenges set by the Creature and confront it in intricate, skillful battles.
– Dungeon-crawler: Delve deeper into the mountain as you unlock eight hand-crafted dungeons, each filled with unique gameplay themes, unlockables, and secrets to uncover.
– Over 20 unique items: Customize your playstyle with upgradeable weapons and clothing that change how you play the game.

Eastward is an adventure game with RPG elements, set in a beautifully detailed decaying world, where society is starting to collapse as the human population shrinks to an all-time low. As the world around falls to ruin, you play as a hardworking digger John, who must guide a mysterious girl named Sam through dangerous decaying cities, inhabited by strange monsters, and even stranger people! Inspired by 90s Japanese animation, the visual style of Eastward has been brought to life using a combination of a modern, innovative 3D lighting system and a rich retro-pixel artwork.

FEATURES
- Single player, dual character adventure RPG with puzzle-solving and dungeon elements
- Join John and Sam in their emotional journey across a world falling to ruin
- Meet a quirky cast of characters and encounter strange monsters and distant cities
- Beautifully rich pixel art style, created using a combination of modern 3D lighting and retro-pixel style artwork
- Soundtrack composed by Joel Corelitz (Hohokum, The Unfinished Swan, The Tomorrow Children, Gorogoa), with sound design from Irish studio, Hyperduck Soundworks

In a realm of perpetual evil, a single stone could change everything. Stone Story RPG puts you on a path to unite 9 magic stones and restore the light. With animations rendered entirely in plain text in ASCII-art style, a stunning sound track and an assemblage of game mechanics arranged through learning theory, Stone Story reconstructs the RPG formula with great temerity.

Observation is a mysterious sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station's artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Players assume the role of S.A.M. by operating the station's control systems, cameras, and tools to assist Emma in discovering what is happening to the station, the vanished crew, and S.A.M. himself.

Feel like solving three-dimensional riddles to a frenetic electronic soundtrack? Let Vectronom inject its colorful madness into your life! It's easy to get into the groove but can you stick to the beat?

A CAPTIVATING ATMOSPHERE
Welcome to the psychedelic world of Vectronom: experience waves of color and a pulsing geometric path that changes with the beat... All set to a hypnotic electronic soundtrack. There's only one thing to do: turn up the volume and go with the flow.

SOLVE PUZZLES AT THE SPEED OF SOUND
Find your path through an ever-changing world, keeping the rhythm with every move you make. Think it sounds easy? The highly intuitive and addictive gameplay will keep you moving through daunting challenges... But how long will you last when the challenges get trickier and trickier? Better play to find out!

PLAY ON YOUR OWN OR WITH FRIENDS
Set off on a solo campaign with just your headphones for company, or invite a few friends to join the party! ♪ UNTZ! UNTZ! UNTZ! ♪

Co-produced and published by ARTE, Vectronom is the first video game from independent studio Ludopium. The prototype was developed in the Franco-German accelerator program Spielfabrique. The game has already won several awards, including "Best Game" at the Indie Arena Booth at Gamescom 2018 and GDC's "Best in Play" 2019.

FEATURES
A challenging solo campaign that will completely entrance you
A drop-in, drop-out multiplayer mode that will hypnotize your friends
Colorful and atmospheric levels with a powerful electronic soundtrack
Hobby composer can sync their own tracks with the game by connecting an analog synthesizer to the headphone output.
BONUS: the game is compatible with digital dance mats and MIDI instruments, so it won't just be your fingertips showing off their best moves!

London, 1592. A great plague sweeps through the capital. When doctors flee the city in fear, a hero rises. His name is Simon Forman, "Doctor" of Astrology, Astronomy and Physick. Not only does he have the power to cure the sick, he can find their lost pets and predict their futures! All by reading the movements of the stars.
But when the plague ends, Forman's problems begin. The real doctors return to London and they will stop at nothing to bring him down...

Play as 'Doctor' Simon Forman - unlicensed medical professional and astrologer - and help him win a medical licence. Astrologaster is a narrative-based comedy game.

Explore Forman's life, his work, and his relationships with his clients. Make story choices by performing astrological readings. Choose strategically or make decisions just for fun - but be aware that your choices will have consequences (and unpredictable side effects!)

13 clients come to see you 5-7 times seeking advice for personal, professional and medical problems. By examining the stars in the sky, you diagnose and determine answers for your clients' problems. As well as affecting the storyline, these choices will alter your clients' satisfaction levels. Satisfied clients will write you letters of recommendation, and with enough of these letters you can obtain a medical licence from the University of Cambridge.

So-called "real" (licensed) doctors call Forman a quack and fraud. Help Forman prove these medical establishment elitists wrong!


Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.

Just you and your bike - take it on a thrilling ride down an unspoiled mountain landscape. Make your way through thick forests, narrow trails and wild rivers. Race, jump, slide and try not to crash - all the way from the peak to the valley!

Elsinore turns William Shakespeare's classic tragedy Hamlet into a time-looping story in the vein of Groundhog Day or Majora's Mask. As Ophelia, the player lives through the tragedy of Hamlet over and over again, trying to find ways to alter the fate of her friends and family. The game's simulation tracks what every character in the play knows and believes, and uses that information to choose what "scene" will happen next. While the actual scenes are hand written, this allows Elsinore to dynamically respond to all sorts of player actions in exciting and often unpredictable ways.

There have been a few other games to take on Hamlet, and most have taken a comedic approach. But in Elsinore, most of the actions the player can take only lead to more tragedy, and while each outcome can give you a better understanding of the world and the characters that inhabit it, something will always be lost for everything gained. Elsinore challenges the player to make the most of unwinnable situations—and choose what is most important to them.

Patrick's Parabox is a puzzle game about playing with recursion and infinities by pushing boxes into and out of each other. Each box contains its own 2-dimensional space that other boxes can enter and exit, creating ever deeper layers of boxes-within-boxes. This unique system gives rise to mind-bending puzzles which require a whole new way of thinking.

As the game progresses, the player slowly uncovers the full depth of the system. In situations where a box contains itself, you can use infinite recursion to your advantage to accomplish intricate feats. Elegant consequences emerge as the player delves into deeper layers of the system.

Heaven's Vault is an archaeological narrative adventure with an entire hieroglyphic language to decipher. Sail the rivers of the Nebula, uncover ancient artefacts, locate lost ruins and learn the language of the Ancients as you piece together five thousand years' worth of forgotten history. But be warned, every choice you make, big or small, and every translation, correct or incorrect, can spin the story off in an entirely new direction.

Mixing thousands of frames of hand-drawn character art with lush 3D backgrounds, Heaven's Vault tells a unique story every time you play, with new secrets to discover, new alliances, new consequences and new inscriptions to translate as your understanding of Ancient grows. This is highly-replayable, long-form interactive storytelling, from the creators of 80 Days.

"Wide Ocean, Big Jacket" is a new, narrative exploration game by Turnfollow and published by Tender Claws.

Aunt Cloanne and Uncle Brad are in their mid-thirties and have never had children. Wrangled into a camping trip with their 13-year-old niece, Mord, and her shy new boyfriend, they'll get a taste of the life they thought they didn't want.

Take part in a classic camping trip: Roast hot dogs on the fire, go birdwatching, tell ghost stories, grab a beverage from the cooler and do cartwheels on the beach.

Experience crucial moments in the family's relationships, the peaks and valleys of love young and old, and everything in-between. The story of "Wide Ocean, Big Jacket" is funny, tender and at times tense, but always warm and true.

LIONKILLER is a choose-your-own-adventure game made in Twine. Play as Hua Mulan, a young lesbian who is conscripted into the First Opium War against the British Empire. Run a flower shop, kiss a girl, shoot a matchlock rifle, and uncover a military conspiracy! Your actions will lead you to one out of four different endings. Will you get the girl, or will you die an inglorious death?

Content warnings for misogyny, mentions of drug use, mild sexual content, and descriptions of violence.

Tales From Off-Peak City is set in the same universe as both The Norwood Suite and Off-Peak, Cosmo D's previous games.

It's a hazy Sunday morning on the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street. Caetano Grosso, a former saxophone player and longtime pizza-maker, is just getting his pizza oven warmed up. Orders are trickling in, and he needs someone to help with the deliveries. You sense an opportunity, but unbeknownst to him, what you're really after is his old saxophone, and you're going to get it one way or another. Your pursuit will set off a chain of events across the neighborhood, taking you deep into the hidden worlds and private lives of the people living there.

Tales From Off-Peak City is a first-person adventure game series, all set on, around, and under a single street corner. Filled with memorable characters and the spaces they inhabit, the game provides an open-ended world full of secrets and hidden agendas. Building on the gameplay foundations of Off-Peak and The Norwood Suite, players will explore the streets and its surroundings, make pizzas, take photos, push buttons, open drawers they're not supposed to, and lose themselves inside the atmospheric musical score that integrates itself directly into the game world.

Volume 1: Caetano's Slice is the first game of many in the anthology of Tales. While each 'Volume' is its own self-contained story and experience, taken together, they build towards the larger over-arching narrative of what's really going on at the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street and what role you ultimately play in its fate.

Infini is a psychedelic puzzle adventure in which you play as Hope falling endlessly in a mind-bending wraparound space.

Infini takes place in a world where concepts are personified. Hope is trapped in Infinity and is trying to escape. During his quest, Hope will interact with several other concepts such as Time, Poetry, War, Memory and Technology.

The Space Between by Christoph Frey is a surreal short narrative experience in three acts about the walls we build for us.

The architect Martin Melanson, commissioned to build a theater, meets a woman named Clara, outside of his apartment complex at night. Attracted to each other, they visit the theater's building site.
While they explore the unfinished stage, surrounded by scaffolds and lost in thoughts, reality slowly fades, where the curtain opens and a dark play about closeness and separation begins.

The game's drawn-out, static nature, embedded in blurred PS1 visuals, supports its surreal plot and dialogues to create a dreamlike 40 - 50 minute experience, that should be played in one sitting.

a game about boredom and self-pity.
it's about me, mostly.
you walk around and press the 'interact button'.
sorry i made this

(Content Warning: This game deals with themes of mental illness, self harm and suicide.)

"The reality of it is... we went back and forth for twenty years, with everything, the family... until the both of us grew too old. You see, if it had been for me, I'd be returning anew! It's like a chasm, something that attracts me, you know?"

Promesa is a walking simulator in which the viewer moves through memories, dreams and fantasies, exploring the narrative created by the images that emerge when you listen to someone else.

Song of Bloom is an intensive narrative puzzle game.
Intensive, as a mashup of styles and interactions, to mirror the protagonist's emotional world.
Narrative, as a playful comment on our culture, with all its benefits and mistakes.

It's not a story, told behind a screen, it rather IS the story. It plays with the expectations of the player, and animates them to playfully explore the scenes. The game makes use of the whole device: It begins as a game, mainly controlled with known touch gestures, developing into something that is controlled through the whole device – gyroscope, volume buttons, charging cable.

In "The Longing" the player controls a little shade, who is told to keep watch of a sleeping king for 400 days until he awakens. The catch: These 400 days count down in real-time!

The game is a unique mix of idle- and adventure game, which makes excessive use of time as a game mechanic.

A thousand worlds surround our own, composed of bits and bytes. When they die, where do they go; what secrets do they hide? Stumble ye, wayfarer, through the wreckage of a dead MMO.

PAGAN: Autogeny is an experimental first person open world role playing game set in the digital ruins of a largely abandoned MMORPG. It is heavily inspired by long-forgotten bargain-bin 1990s adventure games, and by a general ethos of user-hostile design. Features include:

> Over 100 acres of lovingly handcrafted playable space

> An increasingly esoteric series of secret endings

> Five major zones + a litany of hidden areas

> Four idiosyncratic repeatable boss fights

> Over 7000 possible gear combinations

> Five strange and eldritch skills

> Very cursed gender_magick()

Good luck, wayfarer, and God Speed.

"A Juggler's Tale" is an atmospheric 3D sidescroller set in a medieval puppet theater play.

The string puppet Abby flees from her captors into freedom and adventure: a world of beauty and wonder - but also danger! She finds herself in a war-torn, medieval fairytale, surrounded by ravaged, starving citizens and hunted by the relentless cut-throat, Tonda. Who can she trust? Can she avoid the traps and betrayal? Despite dangling from her threads, Abby learns that she can still influence her destiny - if only by winning over the audience.

Help Abby navigate a traumatized, yet hauntingly beautiful world. Lead her forward through riddles and around traps, evade her pursuers and find - perhaps - freedom!

Forgotten is a first-person, narrative-rich game about the struggles of living with Alzheimer's and slowly losing oneself in the familiar surroundings of the home. You live out the daily life of a person with Alzheimer's. As you play you might realize that things are not where you left them, time might have elapsed, and you may not wholly recognize where you are. Family members will visit you, but you might find yourself losing the thread of conversation and losing track of who they are to you. Each day you get to collect pictures to put in a collage to try to make sense of the world around you.

This emotionally expressive game explores the feelings of social isolation and confusion of those living with Alzheimer's disease.

Neon Beats is a 2D side view platformer game in which the player will evolve in different levels that are rhythmed by catchy musics. Avoid obstacles and navigate your way through each level to beat your high scores.

In the near future, human life has become perfect. Every aspect of life and existence has reached perfection. BORE DOME is a magical pill from the future, giving humans the option of experiencing imperfection and moments of mediocrity. BORE DOME can be consumed as entertainment, medicine, or as a document of something exotic, distant and extinct.

BORE DOME is a video game simulating boring, mundane, unhinged, weird, uncomfortable and awkward human experiences. In this first person exploration game containing puzzle elements, the player traverses through a series of levels / rooms / pills that contain characters, artifacts and objects. The player has a repertoire of abilities that are inspired by real life senses like seeing, smelling, hearing, etc but also other skills such as crying. The objective is to "solve" each room and open the door to the next one, but at the same time observe and experience each given situation.

Ypres, 1915. World War One is raging in Europe. Four french soldiers have just arrived in Ypres, Belgium. As their leader, you will learn to know them, as they go through tragic events, in an ever-crumbling trench.

Nothing in Sight is a narrative-management game, where you have to take care of four characters.

College dropout Mae Borowski returns home to the crumbling former mining town of Possum Springs seeking to resume her aimless former life and reconnect with the friends she left behind. But things aren't the same. Home seems different now and her friends have grown and changed. Leaves are falling and the wind is growing colder. Strange things are happening as the light fades.

And there's something in the woods.

NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world. After a successful Kickstarter it's being made by Infinite Fall, a teamup of Alec Holowka (Aquaria), Scott Benson (Late Night Work Club), and Bethany Hockenberry.

I created this game
For a certain kind of person
To hurt them

Enter the wacky & whimsical world of Uurnog Uurnlimited, where you have only one goal: find your way around the world, and steal all the animals! Why?
Because they're adorable, and because video games.

Uurnog Uurnlimited is a delightfully silly 2D platformer inspired by games like Super Mario Bros. 2, Lyle in Cube Sector, and Dyad. Play single-player or co-op, explore the world through its many mysterious doors, solve puzzles and gather the items and animals needed in your Save Room. Careful though — the Save Room also saves your mistakes (urr nurr!)

What else does it have, you ask? Chaotic neutral NPCs that can mess with your game! Algorithmic music that adapts to the gameplay!

It's uurnbelievable! It's uurnexplainable! It's Uurnog Uurnlimited!

Baba Is You, winner of Nordic Game Jam 2017, is a puzzle game where the rules of the game are present as physical object in the level, allowing you to alter the rules and game logic as a part of solving the puzzles.

Imagine you wake up in the morning to having your favorite breakfast stolen by an overgrown bully. It sucks, but true heroes never give up. And who's more heroic than an angry hair-ball with a silly orange hat?

CHUCHEL is an upcoming comedy adventure game from Amanita Design, the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost, where fun is number one. Help Chuchel to chase down the mysterious villain and retrieve his cherished cherry! Outsmart the Pool Monster, escape frenzied Pac-Men and master the bird race. Join forces with Chuchel's buddy Kekel and show the mischievous Chrchel that stealing cherries is wrong.

The reward? A hearty situational humor, wild music and sounds by the band DVA and hundreds of hilarious animations that warm up even the coldest of souls. Plus cherries.

Celeste is a platformer about climbing a mountain, from the creators of TowerFall. Explore a sprawling mountain with over 600 levels bursting with secrets, across 8 unique chapters. Unlock a hardcore B-Sides for each chapter, with completely new levels that will push your climbing skills to the limit.

Madeline can air-dash and climb any surface to gain ground. Controls are simple and accessible, but super tight and expressive with layers of depth to master. Deaths are sudden and respawns are fast. You'll die a lot, but you'll learn something every time.

Meet peculiar characters and climb through a character-driven story of confronting your self-doubt to find yourself, set in the present-day Pacific Northwest. Uncover the mystery of the mountain's power and outrun your reflection on your journey to reach the top.

Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings. Play as Cuphead or Mugman (in single player or local co-op) as you traverse strange worlds, acquire new weapons, learn powerful super moves, and discover hidden secrets while you try to pay your debt back to the devil!

ECHO is a Third-Person Science Fiction Adventure.

After a century in stasis the girl En arrives at her destination: A Palace out of legend, a marvel of the old civilization eons gone, still awaiting its first human occupants. Out here, using forgotten technologies, she hopes to bring back a life that shouldn't have been lost. But nothing could prepare her for what she'll face in the ancient halls below.

The experience starts as a character driven journey of discovery, but as it unfolds it evolves into something altogether more punishing. The Palace studies everything you do, everything you are, to use it against you. Gameplay revolves around stealth, action and manipulation, as you face off against the ultimate enemy: Yourself.


Luna is a tactile, interactive fairytale about a young Bird who swallows the last piece of the waning Moon and is blown far from home. Players must untangle the Bird's memories, revealing plants and animals it has encountered before. By planting and cultivating plants within terrariums, players bring life back to the moonless world. The Bird will meet other animals along its journey, who can help guide it home. Available for PC and VR platforms alike, Luna is a unique experience that is equal parts musical toy, creativity tool, and animated, interactive fairy-tale.

The Gardens Between is a breathtaking puzzle game where best friends, Arina and Frendt, find themselves in a surreal world of garden islands.

Traverse back and forwards in time to discover each garden's secrets and reveal a story about friendship, childhood and growing up.

Welcome to Planet Fuck You!

It's a real planet, look it up.

Everything in Tormentor❌Punisher can be killed in one hit, including bosses and yourself. Bosses change the shape of the arena, conjuring rooms and traps to make it more hellish and brutal. Demons adjust to your play style and punish you accordingly. Explore and discover new ways of killing enemies to gain cool upgrades. Reload your machine gun by firing your shotgun. Yeah, you read that right.

Kill, destroy, fuck up demons, rack up combos, get upgrades by performing unique kills, and try to survive the constant onslaught. Oh, and look good to your friends by smashing their scores on the leaderboards.

Got It? Good. Let's Fucking Do This!

Features:

- Fast-paced gameplay that will make the bones in your hands shatter!!!
- Random order boss spawns featuring fun champions such as BIGBONES, GUTSHANK and PRIESTESS!
- Leaderboards to prove you're better than the rest of the world, or at least your friends!
- Undo demons with your besties in local co-op!
- An eardrum rupturing original soundtrack!
- Intense sound design with gurgling demons and all that shit!
- Crunchy comic book-inspired visuals!
- An annoying Twerp demon celebrating your demise!

Vignettes is a casual but unique exploration game without text or characters, where objects shapeshift as you spin them around to wander through a kaleidoscope of different moods and settings. Accessible and colorful, it is an experience for all to enjoy, filled with playful interactions and hidden secrets.

It is an oddity that asks players to look at things from a different angle, mixing whimsy visuals and playful interactions with a sense of surprise and discovery, quietly threading an untold narrative. Players explore an organic map of objects scattered across the different areas of the game, each with its distinctive color palette and hidden puzzles.

You are a slugcat. The world around you is full of danger, and you must face it alone. Separated from your family in a devastating flood, you must hunt for food and shelter between terrifying torrential downpours that threaten to drown all life. Climb through the ruins of an ancient civilization, evade the jaws of vicious predators, and discover new lands teeming with strange creatures and buried mysteries. Find your family before death finds you!

Inspired by the simplicity and aesthetics of 16-bit classics, this survival platformer requires fast-paced sneaking, both upon your own prey and past the jaws of hungry predators. Each ravenous foe in your path will be cunning, vicious and always on the hunt – eager to sink their teeth into you, or even each other. As a small, soft slugcat you must to rely on stealth and wit rather than force: learn the ecosystem and turn their strengths to your advantage. Maybe then you can survive… Rain World!

Sneak, climb, and pounce your way through a dynamic, ever-changing ecosystem of predators and prey

Explore a vast world of over 1600 handmade rooms, spanning 12 diverse regions filled with ancient secrets and undiscovered dangers

Nimble movements and procedurally generated animation gives slugcat a natural fluidity of movement and unique sense of weight

Intense, primal predator encounters will challenge your reflexes

Limited resources and the constant, impending threat of rain will test your nerve

The remnants of human civilization are threatened by gigantic creatures breeding beneath the earth. You must control powerful mechs from the future to hold off this alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game from the makers of FTL.

SHENZHEN I/O is an open-ended programming puzzle game that challenges players to build circuits using a variety of components. Inspired by real-world electronics engineering, the game takes players on a journey to a near-future Shenzhen, the electronics manufacturing capital of the world.

From the creative team behind Hohokum and Frobisher Says, Wilmot's Warehouse is a game set in the 1980s in a storage facility on the A5, between Daventry and Hinkley.

You are Wilmot, the employee at A5 Logistics who is responsible for organising and storing all of the products in the warehouse. These products arrive in a random jumble from the back of a lorry, and must later be located and handed to your co-workers when the service hatch opens.

This is a game for people who like organising things. Do you sort you record collection by genre or alphabetically? Perhaps you have arranged your bookshelves by spine colour? Sorting a load of things into some kind of order that makes sense to you. How you arrange your warehouse is entirely up to you: just be sure to remember where everything is, or your boss CJ will give you a stern dressing-down!

In the days before automatic stock keeping, organising things was a vital human skill. Many videogames offer us moments engaged this kind of activity but this is a whole game focused on it. Finding the optimal arrangement can be compelling, satisfying, even therapeutic.

There are 500 products, all manner of upgrades and some sublime electronic music to listen to while you decide whether wellington boots belong in the footwear section, or with the umbrellas.

Tacoma is the next game from the creators of Gone Home, and carries on that tradition of detailed, immersive interactive storytelling in a richly-imagined speculative fiction setting.

The year is 2088 as you set foot aboard Lunar Transfer Station Tacoma. Your mission: to retrieve the station's advanced AI, ODIN, and return it to its rightful owners. As you go about your mission, you'll explore how the station's crew lived and worked, unraveling the mystery of what really happened to them, and finding clues that form a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.

At the heart of Tacoma is the facility's digital surveillance system, which has captured 3D recordings of pivotal moments in the crew's life on the station. As you explore, echoes of these captured moments surround you. You'll use your ability to rewind, fast-forward, and move through the physical space of these complex, interwoven scenes to interactively examine events from every angle, reconstructing the multi-layered narrative as you explore, adding up to a uniquely player-driven story exploration experience.

Attentat 1942 is a unique video game that tells the story of Nazi occupation from the perspective of those who experienced it firsthand. The game is built on dialogues with survivors, interactive comics, and authentic historical footage. You will speak to eyewitnesses, live their memories, and discover the untold story of your family.

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a single-player narrative game about traveling and telling stories, set in an America inspired by folklore and the Great Depression. Unlike other narrative games, however, WTWTLW is structured not as a single central narrative, but as a collection of short stories. While wandering, the player will meet 16 different characters, each of whom was written by a different writer. The stories share the theme of the failure of the American Dream, especially as it relates to those outside the mainstream of American society. The player, cursed to wander the land as the personification of Folk culture, takes on the task of spreading folktales and helping them grow, as well as collecting the life stories of the characters they meet.

The game has both a 3D overworld that the player wanders, having various adventures, and 2D conversation scenes between the player and the characters. In small branching choice sequences scattered around the world, the player collects stories on a variety of topics, and then trades those over the campfire with the characters encountered to learn more about their lives and their personal stories. Over time, these stories that the player scatters around will be passed from person to person and grow in the telling, becoming better (although less true). Through all this, the player must maintain their health and other resources against the difficulties of the hobo life. If the player can earn the trust and see the true inner selves of all 16 of the characters, their assigned task is over and they can rest.

Butterfly Soup is a baseball-themed visual novel about gay Asian American girls falling in love. Players experience an interactive coming-of-age story in four acts -- each from the perspective of a different teenager facing her own struggles.

Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!

In development since 1993, TAROTICA VOO DOO is a Japanese ESCAPE ROOM adventure with fully hand-drawn animation (with a mouse!). Despite its simple controls (directional keys and spacebar only), the game overturns the modern logic for how a video game plays. Much like you are picking up a game for the first time again, you will have to rediscover the basics, and apply them to the game's deceivingly intuitive puzzles and rhythmical combat.

You, equipped with nothing but a sword and shield, climb the cliff to a haunted mansion on a hill. A plane is en route to crash-land into the mansion, and you are the only hope to save the family inside. Unfortunately, today happens to be the family's memorial dinner day, and evacuation before they have had their fill is not an option. What's more, there is a horde of monsters and obstacles in between you and getting the family to safety. Get in, navigate the mansion's bizarre challenges, make dinner, and save the day.

The main window is a top-down map view of the mansion, where you can move the cursor to search for and select objects in your current room. New areas reveal themselves as you unlock doors and explore. In the upper-right is a zoomed-in view of objects that you interact with and enemies that you fight. Your character is displayed in the bottom-right, where you can transition between defense and attack position. You will be challenged repeatedly by the battles and likely die, but fortunately you can quickly retry without losing progress as many times as you would like. There are no upgrades or leveling up, so conquering the challenges is entirely up to your own wit and persistence.

10 Mississippi is a stop motion game about a day's routine, played over and over and over and over again. Exploring life's interstitial moments - drinking a cup of coffee or waiting during the morning commute or composing an email to an old friend - the player learns more and more about the character, despite every day remaining exactly the same.

10 Mississippi plays with the taboo of film envy in games, crafting an experience by browsing through kinetic photographs. Played from a first-person perspective, each photograph is an intimate invitation to a lonely 20-something woman's world.

The game features the song "Full Screen" by Adult Mom.

A Mortician's Tale is a narrative-driven death positive video game where you play as a mortician tasked with running a funeral home—preparing the cadavers of the deceased (via embalming or cremation), attending their funerals and listening to their loved ones' stories, and running the business.

COSMIC TOP SECRET is an adventure game in 6 levels. It is a true story played on mobile and probably also PC (decided in nov. 2017). The story is driven by the characters and so are the mechanics. Expect more than 7 hours in a surreal environment and vision of the director.

When 'T' grew up, her mother and father kept her safe. But in secret they also kept the country safe. As cold war warriors, fighting the Red Menace, they hid their real identities – even from their own daughter. T was 39 before she stumbled upon the truth.

This zine is a collection of life experiences, commentary on struggle, and oddly enough my own version of a power-fantasy. I have come to think that we have a backward idea of power, and perception of strength. We always have, and I think this is a byproduct of a historically patriarchal system. From religion, to politics, to economics, power is viewed as how many people you can subjugate. Respect is how many people fear you because of your power. How you can get what you want at the expense of others, how you are the biggest dog in the dog-eat-dog world that we have created for ourselves...
Our popular entertainment has always drawn from this point of view. It's simply fact. You use your power to hurt your enemies and eliminate them.
We don't really have a concept, in our culture, or discussion about alternative views of power from a survivor's standpoint. How is it like for survivors? Are people that live with trauma strong? Are people with mental disorders, or PTSD strong? Why is suicide seen as selfish and weak, when the person that lived with it got as far as they did? We don't popularly view survivors, victims, traumas, etc, as strength. It is a weakness, and I don't like that. I think this is because we have created a culture where we cannot really ever move past pain. We don't teach people how to heal, to overcome, or be powerful. We teach people to be perpetual survivors. We live with pain, but no way of transcending it. I think a lot of this can be credited to how we view "strength". I don't think the icon, epitome, of strength should be how many people you can hurt, conquer, overcome, but how much of this abuse you can overcome. How long you can live with what happened to you. How strong you are for being here. How powerful you are for being strong because you have no other option but to be strong.
Surviving is one thing, but living with it is an entirely different fight, and I think this is where examples of real strength are.
If approached from this point of view then it is an obvious conclusion that you should be celebrated simply for being here.
You are normal for your imperfections, and the way you cope. You are the hero in the story of your life, and you have every right to be proud.
These are a collection of very abstract life experiences, things I felt while going through hard times, and how I felt, or moved on, afterward.
A lot of it is presented via humor, or creates ridiculous circumstances, because I feel like life is ridiculous. It's one damn thing after the other and after a while there's nothing left to do but laugh at it. Humor is what helps take the edge off, perhaps even create a platform for transcendence. Either way, it has been cathartic.

KIDS is an experimental project, dealing with the dynamics of crowds.

KIDS is the second collaboration of director and animator Michael Frei and game designer Mario von Rickenbach after their award-winning game Plug & Play.

IO Interloper is a desktop-based corporate espionage hacking game. Your goal is to infiltrate an office building and steal valuable company secrets -- all from behind a computer terminal thousands of miles away. Fly drones, peer through security cameras, invade secure databases, and log out without a trace. Your clients are depending on you.

Assume the role of a praying mantis in a relationship. Constantly torn between their mutual love and the instinct to have sex – which could lead to the male mantis's death – the couple are now on the verge of making a decision. Assume the role of either of the lovers, and try to keep their relationship in balance. Do your best to convey your feelings in a situation with no solution.

Renowned tween detective, Penny Blue, has taken YOU, her goody-two-shoes babysitter under her wing as an apprentice (against your will) to solve a murder mystery. Penny is gutsy, and has a love for action and intrigue! But…she is not the brightest, and is easily exasperated by hard work. That's where you come in, the brains of the operation!

Explore a grand hotel and interview interesting characters, both full of secrets. And of course, catch the murderer! One fair warning…don't get your britches in a knot when Penny takes all the credit in the end, as usual.

Penny Blue Finds a Clue is a comedic, first person, narrative-based detective adventure game. Our high concept was "Nancy Drew meets Grim Fandango." The game features off-the-wall, original storytelling and a unique art style; traditionally animated 2D characters in a wonky, cartoonish 3D environment. The game was created in Unreal Engine 4.

Lost and separated in an abandoned castle set in a frozen wasteland. Your only possession left is a walkie-talkie, with a familiar voice on the other end. Can the both of you find your way out in time?

In We Were Here two players are trapped inside an abandoned castle. Player One is confined to a small secluded part of the castle. Player Two roams the castle trying to find Player One. Every room challenges your wits and ability to communicate clearly, using only your voice. There is no other way to communicate with each other, so make sure you have a microphone ready!
Are you ready to find out how well you and your friends work together? If you like living on the edge, try playing it with a complete stranger!

'We Were Here' tells the story of two travelers separated from each other and locked away in different parts of the mysterious 'Castle Rock'. Their only way of communication is a walkie talkie, with which the players have to guide each other through brain-breaking puzzles through the castle. 'We Were Here' is a unique 2-player online co-op puzzle game with both an interesting story and aspects you might recognize from escape rooms.

Guardian of the Gears is a 3D, puzzle adventure game where you navigate and control an interactive environment in order to breathe life back into a decaying world. There are two main design pillars: puzzle challenges navigated by using the moving environment, and world exploration that leads to discovery. At the highest level, the player must make their way throughout the levels by solving these puzzles, eventually reaching the final boss. Ancient Clockworks keep the world moving, without them there is no life. The Disruptor coveted the Clockworks' power and will do anything to obtain it. If the Clockworks are stripped of their energy, the world will decay. The ancient Guardians were tasked with the protection of the Clockworks. The Disruptor can only be defeated by being sent back through portal from which it came.