2021 Competition Entrants

by A.M. Darke feat. Tajaé Keith, Nick Yonge, and Seren Sensei
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'Ye or Nay? is a polemical take on the classic game Guess Who?, where all of the characters are Black men, and half of them are Kanye West. Eschewing the binarized identities of its predecessor, 'Ye or Nay? allows us to examine the language we use to describe and differentiate Black men: What does "brown skin" mean when all of the subjects are brown?

'Ye or Nay? also wrestles with the issue of the problematic fave, providing a critical analysis of popular Black men from a position of cultural subjectivity. What has each given and taken from The Culture? Can we love our icons while still holding them accountable? Is it a call out, or a genuine expression of our care, our pain, our disappointment, and, our love, because we are always rooting for everybody Black, even when everybody Black ain't rooting for us?

by Pangolin Park
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1-800 SUPER // The crisis hotline for helpless heroes and vicious villains. A story-driven premium game for iOS. Your advice will lead to peace and freedom or to mayhem and chaos!

As a hotline operator for 1-800 SUPER you are giving advice to superheroes and villains, which are coping with everyday problems, as well as questions of life and death. 1-800 SUPER plays like a randomized interactive audio-drama: You accept calls and messages from your clients, listen to them complaining about their lives or give them urgent advice in the middle of a fight with their arch-nemesis. You also follow the heroes' and villain's social media feeds and collect information about all these quirky characters inhabiting the game world - who knows what it will be good for…?

*** More than 15 English and German speakers, 20+ superheroes and villains, thrilling subplots & an exciting story. All served up with a lot of dark humour, cinematic sound design and an original ambient soundtrack. Nominated for "Best Sound" at German Developer Innovation Prize***

by Terrible Posture Games, Inc
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Join the ongoing adventures of developers at the "world's worst video game studio", Shovelworks Studios, as they endure antics both absurd and topical.

Part animated show, part game, 3 out of 10 is the first playable sitcom. We're 99% sure that's true. You can tell us if we're wrong.

by Lightning Rod Games
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In a world of folding paper, there are two sides to every story

Lightning Rod Games presents A Fold Apart: an award-winning puzzle game that explores the emotional rollercoaster of a long-distance relationship — in a world of folding paper!

Featuring:
- A relatable, true-to-life story of a long-distance relationship.
- Over fifty handcrafted paper folding puzzles.
- Beautiful 3D graphics with a tactile, "homemade" paper aesthetic.
- The ability to choose the couple that best represents you!

by Starry Starry
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A Guidebook to Babel is an adventure game set in the afterlife. Make use of the butterfly effect mechanic to solve the puzzles you'll encounter along the way and unravel the secret surrounding your presence aboard.

by Colestia
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A Hand With Many Fingers is a first-person investigative thriller. While searching through a dusty CIA archive you uncover a real Cold War conspiracy. Every document you find has new leads to research. But the archive might not be as empty as you think…

- Slowly unravel a thrilling historical conspiracy
- Discover new clues through careful archival research
- Assemble your theories using corkboard and twine
- Experience a story of creeping paranoia

by Party for Introverts
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"A Lozenge" is a short interactive story about motion sickness, dedicated to children of divorce. In the format of a 10-minute visual novel, it lets the player join Lucy and Michelle on their mother-daughter road trip.

They will play as Lucy, a newly separated mother of a 9-year old, Michelle. They will hear Lucy's thoughts, feel her doubts and anxieties and help her comfort her daughter by making occasional dialogue choices.

by Draknek & Friends
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From some of the best puzzle designers in the world comes A Monster's Expedition, an adorable and relaxing open world puzzle adventure for monsters who love to learn about humans!

By pushing trees over to create pathways, you'll explore hundreds of islands near and far to learn about the history of "humanity".
Immerse yourself in human culture with all-new exhibits from the "Human Englandland" dig site, each accompanied with expert insights*!
*Insights is not a legally binding term and may or may not include idle speculation, rumour and hearsay.

by Spare Parts Oasis
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Your plan was simple: steal a giant, crawling mech, also known as a nauticrawl, evade capture, and make a break for freedom. Find clues to unravel your whereabouts, but know - this is only the first of your many problems... this hunk of metal was never meant to be operated by your kind.

To go further, you will have to explore the giant machine from top to bottom to learn the steps necessary to make it move. Pull levers, flip switches, and experiment with everything. But beware of what other dangers lie beyond the horizon…

A Rogue Escape is a more tactile, experience-driven VR re-imagination of Spare Parts Oasis' first title: Nauticrawl. The player anticipated VR adventure offers a fresh and highly immersive experience for new and existing fans alike!

by UpRoom Games
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A Token War combines deckbuilding and turn based strategy into a novel and challenging rogue-lite experience. Build a unique Collection of Tokens, battle across five distinct regions, upgrade your Stronghold and learn powerful spells to defeat a combination of random and designed encounters. You can also challenge your friends (or enemies) to a local versus battles using a shared draft pool of Tokens.

by Abstrrkt
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A free turn-based city-building strategy game for Android.

You lead a stranded expedition on their way home. You build, research and fight to overcome all obstacles on that way.

by Abyssmal Games / Synodic Arc
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Abyss of Neptune is a survival horror game set in the deep seas of the Bermuda Triangle. You are sent to investigate a mysterious underwater signal, but there is more to it than what meets the eye. Do you have what it takes to survive the abyss?

by Nova-box
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Across the Grooves is an interactive graphic novel for PC/Mac/Linux & Nintendo Switch, set in a magical-realism universe, where your decisions affect the destiny of Alice, the main character, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past.

Alice lives an uneventful life. She's in a long term relationship, has a stable office job and a nice apartment in the center of Bordeaux. One day, Ulysse, her ex-lover, comes back into her life through an old vinyl record she receives in the mail. When she puts it for a spin on turntable, she is thrown back into her own past, forced to relive old events. When she comes back to the present, her reality has changed.

Determined to bring her life back on track, Alice packs up and embarks on a hunt across Europe, following the tracks of Ulysse while trying to uncover the origins of the record. However, her journey gradually turns into a quest of self-discovery as she explores new parallel realities each time she puts the needle in the groove.

by Adam Stępiński
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2D multiplayer space strategy.

Collecting resources from planets and building ships.

2 coop campaigns and 2 single player campaigns + 16 skirmish maps.

At start player has one planet and has to capture other to gain money. If the player captures "connection" between two planets, this connection also earns money and enemy ships can steal conneciton's money by crossing it, so player must defend not only his or her planets, but also connections between them.

by Dragon Slumber
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AETHERNAUT is a first person puzzle game in the vein of Portal and Talos Principle. Set in a claustrophobic steampunk world, you must solve puzzle rooms using light, sensors, portals and time travel to gather the aether vials and access the core of the Construct.

Throughout, you are guided by Doctor Louis Cornell who explains how the Construct came to be abandoned and why you were chosen to help save it. Soon however, unsettling voices start creeping into your mind, warning you against the doctor and pleading for your help.

Can you solve the puzzle of the Construct before its too late?

by Quaking Aspen Studio
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After arriving at college, Joyce struggles with a yet-undiagnosed panic disorder while attempting to find direction and acceptance among their peers.

His panic disorder distorts the world around them, rendering an otherwise friendly world overwhelming and horrific.

In search of respite, they stumble across his campus's art studio and begins to make peace with themself.

by The Wandering Band
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The first "sky city builder," Airborne Kingdom combines free-roam exploration, nodal storytelling, and sim-style management into a soothing and experiential style of gameplay, entrusting players to oversee a growing city in the clouds. Players gradually expand their kingdom while navigating an array of gorgeous biomes and long-since-scattered civilizations below, ultimately unearthing buried secrets and rediscovering a lost world.

by Bacronym
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This is a game where you play as a window seat passenger for the real-time duration of a long-haul commercial flight across the Atlantic.

Airplane Mode's gameplay explores the airline travel experience down to every last detail—from the design of your seat and the seatback in front of you, to the contents of your carry-on bag and smartphone hard drive, to the behaviors of cabin crew and other passengers. The circumstances of your flight will change every time you play. Simply put, Airplane Mode is the most realistic flight simulation ever created. Sit back, relax, and enjoy.

by Lowlande4k, cfTempest, Pixel Noise, @mobypixel, Retrotitan, Billy
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An arcade-style flight combat game.

Shoot enemies, collect powerups, and stop the evil ship from destroying the funky future!

by Nil Knight
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Airwaves is a collection of four short stories in the form of a radio operator simulator game. The player plays as a family of radio operators in a fictional contemporary China. The stories span three generations through decades of turmoil, starting from the Korean War, followed by the Great Leap Forward, to Cultural Revolution and Sino-Soviet Border Conflicts, and ends with the 1989 pro-democracy movements. The family narrative intertwines with short stories inspired by Mo Yan and Yu Hua's hallucinatory realism writings. The player is required to decipher morse code and cryptic messages, preferably on a notebook to advance.

The game's deliberately tactile and difficult progression signifies the personal narrative in contrast with the overwhelming institutional narratives. Each story tells a tale of its generational trauma from collective memories. The use of realistic pixel art in conjunction with the magical realist narrative stresses the fuzziness and myths that come with memories about historical events. It is about the pain and suffering and hope and perseverance experienced by marginalized people living in rural China.

by Laputa Labs
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Alan's Automaton Workshop is an steampunk themed open-ended programming puzzle game.

Start a new business with Alan Turing and his groundbreaking innovation: the Turing Machine. By composing nodes and arrows with various hardware devices, players are able to build unique automatons and solve all kinds of problems from clients.

by USC Games
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Alma is a 2D interactive narrative that puts players in the role of Alma, a Cuban nurse, working at South Florida's Pediatric Hospital. It is a case study that examines the unseen emotional burden of healthcare workers in our modern day care system, culturally, politically and emotionally. While Alma is tending to other people's children at work, she must also tend to her own child at home. Alma is a story of self-care and the struggle to find balance in an imbalanced life. Through the lens of a pediatric world, players are pushed to experience the difficulties of work-life balance and make decisions that society often takes for granted. This project aims to shed light, build meaningful engagement and propose solutions for how contemporary audiences can significantly improve the work life balance of healthcare employees. It is a game that draws from disciplines of experimental design, narrative medicine and compassionate care. Players must not only steer Alma clear of decisions that may jeopardize both her work life and home life but they have to also re-evaluate how their own life may be caught at a similar crossroads. In the end, Alma is an interactive story that asks users to look inward and to critique their own relation with self-care and challenges others to practice compassion selflessly.

by Function Unknown
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Alpha Particle is a sci-fi action game about a defenceless particle that has to overcome it's obstacles creatively.

A particle awakes in a strange existence as a newly created entity, it must find purpose and direction, discover and uncover the meaning of its existence whilst traveling to various space stations in the quest to become Alpha Particle. But what happens when it becomes Alpha Particle is the one piece of information that keeps eluding it. And the only way to find out is to become what it's destined to be… Alpha Particle.

Abilities, powerups (Microns) and Particle abilities will aid it on it's way. Wit and intelligence will secure it's survival!

by Fortspinnung Games
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Amazed is a maze/puzzle game for Windows.

by Joy Manufacturing Co. LLC
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In this romantic, revolutionary visual novel, you are a woman of fashion in 18th century Paris who's been mysteriously abandoned by their fiancé. Seize love, wealth, and power, by any means necessary, in an adventure where your choices change the course of history.

by Grey Alien Games & Jim Rossignol
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Ancient Enemy is an RPG Card Battler where you blast distorted enemies in turn-based combat.Make interesting tactical decisions as you battle distorted enemies and overcome challenging puzzles. Face a horde of deadly enemies, each one emerging from a world in which evil has already triumphed. You must not only endure, but also rebuild your powers to vanquish evil and fight one last duel against your monstrous nemesis!

Travel through a scarred landscape with dozens of atmospheric levels, draw power from the Earth, and struggle for the soul of the world itself. Test your skills against a host of foes in unique solitaire-style turn-based combat!

The latest evolution of an inventive card game design from Grey Alien Games, Ancient Enemy is an atmospheric adventure aimed at fans of Darkest Dungeon and Slay The Spire.

by JohnLee Cooper
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And Other Stories is a mixed media mess of bitsy, unity, photography, sprite work, and more.
Play through 4 slice of life stories simultaneously, with your attention jumping every which way.
Control 4 bitsy narrative games simultaneously, like one of those puzzle games where you control guys at the same time, but the puzzle is just being able to process multiple narratives at once.
The unity frame reacts to all 4 of the stories with audio and visual feedback, reinforcing some of the motifs and themes of the four stories. The stories are also sometimes visually connected along the borders.

by ThinkingStars
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ANNO: Mutationem is an action-adventure game with RPG elements set in a cyberpunk world, featuring a unique mix of pixelated 2D & 3D graphic style with a rich, dark and bizarre plot.

by Saturnine Games
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Antipole DX is a fast-paced, retro action-platformer -- using gravity manipulation!

Join our mysterious space outlaw, as he explores an "abandoned" spacecraft in hopes of finding his next meal ticket. Little does he know, the ship isn't deserted like he thought, and now his only hope is to master the power of the mighty gravity-manipulating device: the Antipole.

by regeneration_studio
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Once upon a time,there is a curse spreaded on this land.If people are infected with this disease and exposed to the sunlight,their body will get lignification gradually.Legend has it that those who cross the ancient ruins and arrive at the land on the other side can find out the antidote. In order to cure sister of disease,brother goes on an adventure with her.

by Team Aquaritus
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Eugene is a mad scientist with a mad problem: there's a chemical in the water that's endangering the fish! Thus, Eugene decides to solve this problem the only logical way--shrink himself down to fish size and explore his aquarium while mind-controlling random fish to do his bidding.

A 3D Action Puzzle Game culminating with a deadly shark encounter, Aquaritus allows you to explore an aquarium as a shrunken mad-scientist while using his mind control device on fish and sea creatures. Consume (that's right, drink) the chemical as you go and increase your swimming abilities to escape.

by ELSIF GAMES
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A single-button infinite-runner arachno-pacifist metroidvania!

Trapped in a haunted house! Your only goal is to escape. Unfortunately you can't (or won't) turn around.

Collect a boot for each foot to unlock new abilities. Avoid obstacles and navigate tricky environments. Don't let any barrier stand in your way!

by Handshake Firm
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The great guardian statue is attacked! Its spirit energy released and its protective powers broken, the ground shatters across the land: mountainous chunks of earth begin rising up into the atmosphere.

Traverse the sky in this open-air platformer featuring elegant, fluid movement and swift combat. Play as a mysterious assassin-like wielder of spirit energy to strike down enemies, restore the great guardian statue and return the land to the earth.

Features:
- Fluid, open-air combat with a satisfying slash
- Beautifully hand-crafted environments and animations
- Fight sword-wielding Frogs, spell-casting Sorcerers, and earth-crushing Golems on your path to restoring the Great Guardian Statue

by Shalev Moran
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Archipelago is a "cyclical adventure game", served in bite-sized daily levels. Each real-world day has its own unique level, and players return to levels week after week to uncover more secrets. It tells the story of a traveler searching for a home in an island country, inspired by my experience leaving my birth country and immigrating to Denmark.

Archipelago blends the "daily challenge" design of modern casual games with traditional adventure game narrative design in order to tell a different kind of story and create a new kind of relationship with players. Its inspirations include religious lectionaries and other cyclical storytelling traditions, Ursula Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, and issues such as migration, memory and ecology.

by Best Trip Team
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Set in the cold, deadly void of space, Aria is a story-based VR experience where you are placed in a pod to escape a catastrophic explosion on your spaceship. You must succeed in getting back to the Earth by flying to a space station and asking for help. The AI assistant, Aria, acts as your guide in activating and navigating your escape pod to its destination, and to your safe recovery.

by Hermanos Magia and Leap Game Studios
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Help a man travel through his dreams, as he must learn to accept his own death. Arrog is an enigmatic puzzle adventure game featuring hand-drawn art and set in a black-and-white world with color accents.

by Funselektor Labs Inc.
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art of rally is a stylized rally experience from the creator of Absolute Drift.

Race across the world through colorful and stylized environments in top-down view.
Compete for first place in the leaderboards with daily and weekly challenges.
Will you master the art of rally?

by Bird Bath Games
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Atomicrops is an action roguelite farming simulator. Armed with your hoe, a watering pail, and a simple peashooter, you must grow mutated crops - atomicrops - to feed the local town… and make a hefty profit. Defend your land from the mutant pests and bandits that invade nightly to ravage your fields.

Court and wed townsfolk to fight and farm by your side. Gather upgrades and rescue captured farm
animals to increase productivity, profits and power. Develop your farmhouse for persistent bonuses
across playthroughs to help secure your place on the leaderboards.

by Atomic Lollypop
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Atrius Star is a bullet hell roguelite with challenging AI, fun weapons, monster infighting, and speed running. Fly in on your helicopter, fight the monsters, and save the princess of Atrius from the evil scientist Dral.

by Breaking Walls
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AWAY: The Survival Series is a 3rd-person adventure game that takes you on a sugar glider's journey to save its family.

Step into your own personal nature documentary as you explore a vibrant world brimming with life. Every step of your story will take you deeper into the wild, where you will face new environments, new animals, and new challenges. But beware of the dangers that lie ahead...

by Little Squid Studios
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After the world shatters, your direction becomes unclear. Through these broken paths, conquer obstacles, hazards, and puzzles with your new-found ability to flip the world. Piece together what remains by relying on the friends you encounter along the way and taking advantage of their strengths to find where your own truly lie. Reveal the truth, take back control, and reconcile with who you are -- or what you've become, in this journey of friendship, identity, and growth.

by Evgeni Puzankov
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An absurd workplace tragedy.

You hire a baby. What can go wrong?

A short powerless adventure.

by Sophie Capeci, Astradur Larusson (Developers), Ashkan Dabbagh, Sychelle Yanda (Producers)
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There are four dead bodies in the woods. You have to dispose of them. Explore your surroundings and find out about the deaths of these unfortunate hikers, who killed them, and why.

First-person walking sim where you drag corpses to different hiding places. A narrative-led experience with horror and mystery elements and a touch of absurdity.

by Monothetic LLC
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Beacon follows the journey of interstellar mercenary Freja Akiyama, stuck in an endless search for her distress beacon after crash landing onto an unknown planet. With her Clone Bay stuck in an automatic printing cycle, death is only a minor setback. Each life you'll not only find weapons and items to help you; you'll also be collecting DNA from the enemies you defeat. After your inevitable death you're given the opportunity to alter your genome, allowing you to change your statistics and gain gameplay-altering physical mutations for your next clone's life.

In the search for your Beacon, new questions arise; just how many clones of Freja are there? How long has she been stuck in an infinite cycle of survival? How much of her humanity will be sacrificed before escaping?

by Bassware Games
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Beat Blitz is a simple, one button rhythm platformer that gives the player the feeling of being at rave as they hurtle through unique obstacles and flashing neon lights. Each level contains white orbs called "beats" that play a single note when collected. Collecting "beats" in each level will create a melody that plays on top of increasingly complex backing tracks.

by Balancing Monkey Games Limited (R)
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Before We Leave is a non-violent city building game set in your own cozy corner of the universe. Rediscover and rebuild civilization. Create a multi-planet resource network. Overcome ancient challenges and fend off hungry space whales.

Your Peeps have spent generations underground. They've missed the caress of sun on skin, the squelch of soil between toes, the tickle of flies on noses. They emerge, full of wonder, but with no idea how to grow anything - except potatoes. Start rebuilding their lost civilisation by providing shelter, discovering ancient technology, and expanding your reborn society to other continents and planets.

But the universe is not safe. Ancient, ancestral guardians demand attention and challenge your settlements - it's up to you to deter these threats that hamper your progress and disturb your newfound peace.

Play, chill out, and expand the fabric of your reborn society at your own pace while creating your own solar system of rehabilitated planets. Just watch out for those pesky Space Whales.

by Anahid Attaran, Ioannis Koutsoukidis
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Behind the Seas is an interactive visual novel about home and immigration, inspired by true stories.

Reera is living a life she loves in a country not similar to so many others with its unique beauties and also full of difficulties. Finally, seeking a normal life, Reera decides to immigrate and leaves everything she loves behind. But can she find a normal happy life when her heart is left behind? When she no longer has a "Home"?

Narrative, design, art and development by Anahid Attaran.
Code by Ioannis Koutsoukidis.

Trailer's Music by Musician/Artist: Marjan Farsad - Khooneye Ma (Our Home)

by Mind Monsters Games
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Described as Lifeline meets Lord of the Rings, Betwixt is a story-rich RPG that takes you on a journey through a dream reality where the only way to survive is to face yourself. You play as a lone figure stranded in the In-Between - a strange parallel world that shapeshifts to reflect your emotions and make real what you think. With the help of a mysterious guide, you embark on an epic adventure to escape the In-Between and in the process learn to take control of your own story.

By fusing fantasy with psychology, Betwixt aims to re-imagine games as a vehicle for positive change in the world. Our pioneering approach combines play, creativity and science to make mental resilience epic.

by E-Line Media
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Beyond Blue is a single-player narrative adventure that takes you deep into our planet's beating blue heart.

Set in the near future, Beyond Blue explores the mysteries of our ocean through the eyes of Mirai, a deep-sea explorer and scientist. Become a part of a newly-formed research team using groundbreaking technologies to see, hear, and interact with the ocean in a more meaningful way than has ever been attempted.

Features:
Throughout eight different dives you'll explore the untouched world of our ocean and use technology at the edge of our understanding - tracking sea creatures, unraveling mysteries, and interacting with the ocean like never before
Experience an evocative narrative with full voice cast - Anna Akana (YouTube), Mira Furlan (Lost, Babylon 5), Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Black Sails, Hotel Rwanda), and Ally Maki (Toy Story 4)
Listen to a captivating and entertaining soundtrack featuring an original score and music from Miles Davis, The Flaming Lips, The Edisons, and more
Unlock sixteen unique mini-documentaries called Ocean Insights that feature original footage and interviews with science's leading ocean experts
Take beautiful pictures to share using the brand new Photo Mode, featuring dozens of filters, lens settings, and more

Embracing the same inclusive development process that was used to create Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna), E-Line's BAFTA award-winning game about Alaska Native culture, the company partnered with BBC Studios (developers of the acclaimed Blue Planet II), OceanX Media, world-class game makers, and some of science's leading ocean experts to craft an experience that reflects the awesome wonder and unbounded mystery that infuses our planet's beating blue heart.

by ADH-X2 Studios
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Big Time Battle is a quiz-based, interactive fiction game designed to test your knowledge of the moves, positions, and scenarios commonly used in professional wrestling.

There are five match types to choose from: Standard, Submission, Ladder, Cage, and Death Match.

Preceding each of the matches are brief story vignettes that set up individual confrontations with your opponent. These stories will change based on the choices you make.

Once your match begins, you will be presented with various choices on how to deal with your opponent. The correct choices will lead to victory. Incorrect choices can cause serious damage and can even cost you the match.

by NExT Studios
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Biped is a physics-based 3D co-op action-adventure game with a strong focus on moment-to-moment collaboration between two players.

Two little biped robots, Aku and Sila, will walk side by side and embark on a fun and bonding journey to accomplish their mission on planet Earth.

INNOVATIVE & SIMPLE CONTROLS
No buttons! You control the 2 legs of a biped with two joysticks, which allow you to perform all the actions from basic walking and skating to more advanced moves like driving and woodcutting.

TWO-PLAYER CO-OP
Although the game can be played solo, it's most enjoyable when you grab a friend or a family member and play the coop mode. You will need to communicate and coordinate your moves and conquer challenges together. Find out how good a pair you truly are.

FUN ENVIRONMENT
Your adventure will take you to many beautiful and mysterious location on the planet. Explore secrets in forests, valleys, waterfalls and icy mountains and find your way through the puzzling paths that lead to the planetary beacons.

PAIR YOUR LOOKS
Collect treasures and buy a cute hat! Dress up your biped the way you like. Better yet, match your look with your partner and become the most dazzling adventurers in this epic quest.

by Morteshka
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"Black Book" is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.

by Historiated Games
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Blackhaven is a first-person standalone narrative game where players take the role of Kendra Turner,¬ a sophomore at a historically black college interning at the Blackhaven Hall Historical Society. This museum is the historic site of a ruined 18th century estate that burned during a spectacular Revolutionary War battle, and was the home of Thomas Harwood, an American Founding Father. As Kendra follows her curiosity though the museum's exhibits and archives, she finds cracks in Blackhaven's official story and uncovers a trail of secrets and misdeeds that spans centuries and may determine her future.

by The Game Band
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Blaseball is an absurdist-horror fantasy baseball game where Fans gamble to remake the league in their image. When you partake in Blaseball, you're a Fan. All Fans watch the same games together on the website, just like they would watch a live sport in a stadium. Gambling is allowed and encouraged, though the money isn't real. Fans bet virtual currency on simulated games that unfold over the course of a week-long season.

Fans spend their winnings on power-ups to increase payouts or on Votes for the weekly Election. Every Sunday, Fans Vote to change the teams, the rosters, and even the rules of the game. The Election results hint at what the next season will bring.

Outside of the game, Fans are creating staggering amounts of art, writing backstories for every player, and recording full-length Blaseball EPs. Blaseball offers infinite head canons and Fans are encouraged to share their unique vision of the league. The community engages on Discord and Twitter, where they watch games and cheer for their favorite teams together, organize in-game collective actions, role play as in-universe characters and champion causes they care about.

Blaseball is unapologetically justice-focused, and we use our platform to support causes we believe in.

by SmallBigSquare
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BLASK 2 is a unique puzzle game where you control the environment
in order to hit all the goal markers with lasers.
Each shape acts as a room made of mirrors. By combining
and rotating each shape, a player can control where the laser beam
points.

by Get Up Games
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Fight for survival in Blazing Sails, a pirate battle royale game! Create your own unique pirate and ship. Band together with other players to command your mighty vessel. Navigate land and sea for loot, resources, unique weapons and ship upgrades. Sink every other ship to win the skirmish!

by Lo-Fi People
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Blind Drive is an audio-based, black comedy arcade action game.

You're blindfolded and going against traffic. Cars rushing past, angry drivers yelling at you. Cops on your tail. And you can't see a thing!

Play as Donnie, trying to make a quick buck in a scientific study but quickly finding himself in over his head, cuffed to the wheel and driving blindfolded. Plus he's late for dinner with Grandma.

by Paper Cult
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Betrayed and left for dead, Mr. Wolf is hell-bent on finding his killer and enacting revenge - alone, and vastly outnumbered. Thankfully for Mr. Wolf, the world is your weapon in Bloodroots - a relentless action game that unfolds across the sprawling Weird West. You'll choreograph spectacular, ultra-violent combos by making use of everything around you, from hatchets, to ladders, to...carrots? It's improvise or die, as Mr. Wolf fights his way to the center of the mystery: why was he betrayed?

by Faun Lily Studios
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A competitive gardening game.
Plant and throw seeds with friends in a pixel art styled action game!

Follow Skip, the energetic mouse lemur, as he progresses to become the Bloom Barrage festival champion.
Compete in various fun objectives to learn planting, skill-shots, and power-ups with Serena, the helpful panda.
Overcome challenges posed by Thoreau, the grumpy iguana and Connie, the sly lynx.
Level up and unlock seed equipment to increase seed projectile speed, plant growth rate, and player movement speed.
10+ hours of game-play
Co-Op – up to 2 players

3 Game Modes
Dodge – hit your opponent with seeds until they run out of hearts.
Race – plant flowers and bring them to your planter boxes faster than your opponent.
Design – draw a picture using flowers.

Multiplayer
WIFI- local area network (not over internet)
Story – play co-op with up to 2 players
Versus – play versus mode with up to 4 players
Cross-Play – iOS to Android supported

by Studio Gauntlet
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Cheer! Cooperate! Construct!

Bonkies is a jolly couch co-op (1-4 players) party game about cooperation, space construction, and the joys of colonizing the solar system as a team of monkeys.

You and your prime mates will be tasked with raising all sorts of quirky constructions on distant planets, by stacking blocks so they fit a given outline. To do so, you will have to team up with other space-faring animals and master the use of your trusty apequipment - a banana-fuelled jetpack and a powerful robo-arm.

by DANG!
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Boomerang X is a first-person, acrobatic arena shooter that has players soaring through the air, slicing through waves of dark creatures, and performing tricks to access devastating powers to blast away foes. Use a magical boomerang to slingshot yourself through the remnants of a ruined civilization and destroy the evil that destroyed them - before its too late. Cut through waves of enemies and progress ever deeper into the depths of this doomed civilization on the hunt for the source behind this horde of nightmares.

by Guanpeng Chen
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A Retro-Future Dystopian Adventure

In the early 21st century, as the environment on earth continues to deteriorate and untainted food sources become extremely difficult to find, a global famine has turned long-held civilizations upside down. Since then, food-centric sovereignty has been established, where the governments are in charge of the acquisition and distribution of food for their people, with all borders closed for security reasons.

Now the year is 2036. In the city of Iden, every piece of food entering resident areas must pass a required set of tests, executed by skilled government workers. You, as one of the newly-recruited food inspectors, will need to carry out your duty 24/7 alone in a booth. Even though it is considered one of the most desired occupations in Iden, what you want from it is a bit different — an escape from this blockaded city.

Features:
- Challenge a series of food inspection missions that will put your skills and strategies to the test.
- Live a solitary life in a booth and spend hard-earned wages on post-cultural gems or lottery tickets.
- Enjoy an atmospheric and characteristic soundtrack that is exclusive to high class Iden citizens.
- Meet with a dozen of dull or interesting people who may be a help, a threat, or something else to you.
- Experience an immersive, carefully crafted branching story where you get to choose, sometimes.

by Leander Edler-Golla
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Tool-assisted speedrun: The game! "Bots Are Stupid" is a 2D game where you try to maneuver robots through different platforming levels. It sets itself apart from conventional platformers by offering an alternative, more precise way of user input. Instead of directly controlling the character's movement, the player has to write a set of simple instructions telling their robot what to do. The bot will then follow those instructions precisely and maybe (or maybe not) finish the level.

The commands for the robots are designed to be as simple as possible in order to make the game accessible to anyone. This means that you are not required to have any prior programming/tech knowledge to be able to "program" the bots. The game might have some educational value by introducing players to the very basics of scripting/programming in a playful way.

There's also a global leaderboard, which allows players to compete with each other to get the best solutions for each level as well as an editor, which lets players create and share custom levels.

by Kitfox Games
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Romance your swords! Capture the hearts of weapons to level them up in this "shack-and-slash" dungeon crawling adventure.

Boyfriend Dungeon is a lighthearted jab at most commercial dating or dungeon-oriented games, which historically exclusively focus on the heterosexual male experience at the cost of all else. By centering sincere inclusivity and pairing it with humor and wit, the core of dungeons and dating is subverted into a more timely commentary.

by Awe Interactive
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BPM is a rhythm-action FPS rogue-like where you must shoot, jump and dodge to the beat of an epic rock soundtrack. Delve into a randomly generated dungeon where one missed note can lead to your death. Gain game-changing abilities and loot powerful weaponry to defeat your ancient enemy: Nidhogg.

In BPM, all of your actions and the actions of your enemies are tied to the beat of the music. Your enemies perform a dance-like sequence of attacks to an epic rock opera. BPM is inspired by retro shooters of the 90's. It is fast, frenetic and rhythmical. You can double jump, dash, rocket jump and bunny hop to evade your opponents.

by Dimfrost Studio
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Bramble: The Mountain King is an adventure game with horror elements, taking place deep within the world of old Scandinavian folklore.

In Bramble, you play as a young boy lost in a magical fantasy world together with his elder sister. Soon after arriving there, your sister is kidnapped by a monstrous troll, and you end up alone on a perilous journey to find her and save yourself...

by Puthir Learning
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A 3D domino world for children 5 and above. Dominoes are powerful tools for Mathematical Thinking and numeracy. They are also simple like Lego blocks in that they offer infinite possibilities to create joyful learning experiences.

The current release of Breakroom Dominoes includes one game (Cluck Cluck a slightly modified version of Chicken Foot dominoes) played with 3 Bot opponents. We are working on adding as many domino games as possible and make it multiplayer with social capabilities.

The pandemic has increased the screen time for most young children. However, most games are not suitable for young children. They have incentives and twitch based gameplay that is not good for younger children if played excessively. With Breakroom dominoes we intend to make the video game experience as close to the real life experience of playing Domino games with friends.

by Porta Play
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Dead are returning from their graves! If crash landing behind enemy lines was already a challenging experience for our squad of vagabonds, they sure as Hell didn't sign up for this kind of insane, supernatural encounter, a three-sided fight for survival against both the living and the undead. Yet now it is upon them to discover the source of this occult magic in the war-ridden land that they find themselves in, and hopefully eliminate it before hordes of zombies spread all over the world. But how does one retain their sanity when facing enemies that have been spat out of hell?

Booze is the answer! With the steady supply of a highly flammable mix of questionable ingredients brought to you directly from Izkor, our heroes will have no problem marching all the way to Hell and back, so long as there are plenty of enemies to kill. So, make sure that everyone is drunk and fully armed as they are going to have hordes of enemies to kill and a mind-bending occult mystery to solve!

by Young Horses
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Bugsnax takes you on a whimsical adventure to Snaktooth Island, home of the legendary half-bug half-snack creatures, Bugsnax. Invited by intrepid explorer Elizabert Megafig, you arrive to discover your host nowhere to be found, her camp in shambles, and her followers scattered across the island alone... and hungry!

It's up to you to solve the mysteries of Snaktooth Island: What happened to Lizbert? What are Bugsnax and where do they come from? But most of all, why do they taste SO GOOD?

by Géraud Zucchini
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Take control of a bush and challenge your friends in a hide and seek game up to 4 players. Move when the night is dark and use the day as an opportunity to observe and beat your opponents. Use the secrets of nature to your advantage and prepare for surprises: every game and every forest is different. Only one bush will survive... And do not forget to drop a fart from time to time, it's a lethal weapon.

- A unique hide and seek game mixing action, observation and humor: it's like a multiplayer spot the difference!
- Easy to play, there is only one button to attack. But only the most observants will win.
- Each game comes with a new randomly generated forest!
- 4 ecosystems with their own dangers to master and turn against your opponents.

by Brendan Roarty
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Carve the slopes of the Bunny Hill at a bone shattering break neck pace to overcome your cute animal competition in this fast paced skiing game. Choose from a cast of 8 unique characters to secure your shot at the crown. Dodge bushes, jump hoops, and tag flags to reach speeds unimaginable.

Bunny Hill is about going fast, and crashing into things. Speed multipliers scale infinitely, and it is up to you to find the best line on the procedurally generated terrain. With local split-screen multiplayer, Bunny Hill can be enjoyed by racing against your friends or the clock!

by Null Reference Studio
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Burn Me Twice is a narrative adventure that combines investigation segments, in which you can explore the enigmatic town of Düstenburg, with trials that will test your knowledge about the case.

by funsworkings
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A digital playground where you can drag and drop images from your computer to plant flowers, grow vines, start fires and upload color into an expansive network of butterflowers! Uncover the memories of a past user as you explore the evolving space of the ecosystem and breathe new life from your files and interactions with the terrain.

'neueagent' is born from the videogame's lifecycle, a naïve artificial intelligence constructed from data collected through engagement with the principal mechanics, the room state and files added/removed. Through the language of videogames, neueagent resembles user profiles that are generated from data collection and surveillance malpractices online from behemoth corporations in the form of a customized avatar with variable stats. Environment design parallels the intoxicating, disorienting field of digitized color and noise, endless feedback loops and micro-interactions of the Internet that we consume. All interaction is recorded, serialized, mutated, cloned and used to inform a blurred, jarring version of ourselves that lives in data banks in far-away locales.

I have left that space but can see the phantom, serialized form there now - looped actions unfeeling, limiting - run infinite - between frames they are mutated then re-compiled — 60fps

by Subliminal
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Button City is a narrative adventure about a fox and his friends on a high jinks filled escapade to save the local arcade from being shut down by a greedy fat cat.

Enter a quirky world of pastel colors, spunky animals, rockin' arcade games, and floating diorama islands. Make friends, play arcade games, solve puzzles, and complete quests around town as you follow a story about friendship, growing up, and saving the things that are important to you.

by LookUp Games at DADIU 2020
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Twenty years ago, the skies of Brazil were completely covered by colorful balloons until 1998 where balloons became illegal punished with up to 3 years of prison. To this day, balloon crews are persecuted by police.

Cai Cai Balão is a fast paced parkour-lite racing game in which the player completes intense missions in a fictional urban city in Brazil. The player must escape aggressive police officers, snipers, dogs and other obstacles in order to become the FIRST to catch a giant hot air balloon that will earn him respect from the baloeiro families and status as the most notorious balloon hunter.

by Out of the Blue
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Call of the Sea is an otherworldly tale of mystery and love set in the 1930s South Pacific. Explore a lush island paradise, solve puzzles and unlock secrets in the hunt for your husband's missing expedition.

It is 1934, in the far reaches of the South Pacific. Norah has crossed the ocean following the trail of her missing husband's expedition and finds herself on a lush island paradise - a nameless, forgotten place, dotted with the remnants of a lost civilization. What strange secrets does it hold, and what might Norah unearth in her quest for the truth?

by Sunhead Games
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Carto is a charming adventure game wrapped around a unique, world-altering puzzle mechanic. Use this power to explore mysterious lands, help a quirky cast of characters, and guide Carto on her journey back to her family.

by Devil's Cider Games
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You are tasked with helping a colony ship full of space-faring cats deal with a mysterious disease outbreak! Watch for symptoms such as sneezing, headaches, sweating and more but beware some symptoms may be the result of pre-existing conditions. As the cats go about their personal business try and find the sick, use testing to confirm you suspicions and isolate the sick to prevent the spread.

​Will you act fast and stop the spread of this disease? Or will it spread unchecked and ravage your Cat Colony...

by ARTillery
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Catie in MeowmeowLand is a beautiful classical point-and-click adventure game set in a bizarre world of cats and ludicrous characters.

The game of Catie in MeowmeowLand is an allusion to Alice in Wonderland story, full of bizarre puzzles and humorous situations.

The player will play through +24 beautiful 2D hand-drawn sceneries, watch +100 funny characters and more then 2 hours of charmingly crafted 2D animations.

by Philipp Lehner
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Catty & Batty is a cute casual couch co-op puzzle game, inspired by Tower Defense and Lemmings!

Team up with another player and build a path to guide spirits home, all the way through 30 levels, featuring a hand-drawn, black and white art style, an original soundtrack and dozens of new sounds.

by Delve Interactive
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CHANGE is an emotional homeless survival experience set in a randomly generated city with rogue-like elements. Explore, survive, earn perks, find items and kindness to develop your character and escape to a new life.

by Et Al Games
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A puzzle game about living structures that evolve every time you move.

In Changes you push cells to reshape the world and discover wonderful transformations; even mistakes can produce beautiful results. From three simple rules emerge levels that each tell a unique story; some stories are tragic, others epic, and a few are pretty cute.

There are no gated areas or hidden levels: everything is unlocked from the beginning for you to explore. Levels are accompanied by dynamic music that responds to your actions. The world is also decorated with poems, bits of history, and developer commentary.

by Vittgen Inc.
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"Chasing Light is a game that tries to dismantle and revolutionize games, and it's a work that proves that games are great art."

What is a game? What should a game consist of? How should the game be? 'Chasing Light' is the process of the question and the story of the seven days of exploring the physical properties of the game and uncovering the inner world of human beings and society.

You will become a game crew and create a game called 'Chase Light'. Controlling the director and producer, you make a lot of decisions in the process of game production: the choice of music and sound effects, the number of enemies, the speed of enemy input and attack...there are many pending issues that you need to decide on. So, think about what you need to make a game that people will love. Your own journey awaits its birth in 'Chasing Light'.

The world of Chasing Light, and our lives are like a vast ocean full of reefs where no destination exists. From there, where would you like to go?

by buho
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《Chef Chen》 is a multiplayer cooperative game, where you can cook demons in another worlds with many stunts and enjoy foods with good friend together. The game supports up to 4 players, let's work together to make delicious dishes!

The chef Lao Chen comes to an another world by chance. He encounters a group of hungry animals, and sees only demon bodies all around there, but under chef Lao Chen's skillful hands, he is able to cook them into delicious dishes! That can help his animal friends, who were almost starved to death, to replenish their strength and magic power on the adventure.

Would you like to sit down with your friends and have a nice meal? Play the role of Chef Lao Chen and put your talents to good use as you and your friends defeat the demon. Let's cook a meal together, and then sit down to enjoy the delicious food together.

by Philip Drobar
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Chestnut Grove is a short first-person experience portraying life during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
It has a focus on atmosphere and mood and features light puzzles and environmental interactions. It's the first game project by Philip Drobar.

by Fowers Games
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Chiasm blends mind-bending time and spatial puzzles with a unique, pensive aesthetic. Chiasmus is an ancient rhetorical device that restates previous concepts in reverse order—that's what you'll grappling with in Chiasm.

Time here is a freeway, if you switch lanes, you will be headed backwards.

Time is inverted on the other side of the barrier. When you cross over, that side is now going forward, and your previous side is now flowing backwards. Watch your previous self work backwards through your actions. Other objects also have their own frame of reference, adding layers to the puzzles. Each level asks the player to consider how time flows.

by The Chicory Team
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Chicory: A Colorful Tale is a top-down adventure game about a dog wielding a magic brush! Use the painting powers to explore, solve puzzles, help your animal friends and restore color to the world.

The Brush is a one-of-a-kind artifact that can color the world. Naturally, it needs a wielder, a master artist responsible for all colors and for passing the brush down. The current wielder, Chicory, is immensely talented and beloved by all... until all the color in the land vanishes, and her with it! I guess that leaves it up to you, her number one fan, to take up the brush and fill in for her. Hmm... good luck!

by Luminous
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The Circle Empires universe is made of interconnected circles, each containing loot to plunder and foes to defeat. You are the god-like leader of your tiny kingdom, hungry for power. Use your skills to hunt down increasingly powerful enemies and expand your empire. The game world changes every time you play - no two games are the same. And... you can grow pumpkins!

Circle Empires: Rivals is the sequel to the original award-winning real-time strategy game enjoyed by more than 300,000 players worldwide. Rivals adds, besides new content and game modes, a long-requested feature: Multiplayer! Fast-paced action and hundreds of different units combined with a procedurally-generated world of circles to make every session exciting and unique. You'll have to devise new strategies and clever tactics to defeat your enemies, harvest resources and increase your power – alone or online with friends!

by SomaSim
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Start a crime syndicate from nothing, and grow it into a well-oiled money machine. Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Smuggle goods from out of town and bribe the police to look the other way. Grow a powerful crew and keep your rivals under your thumb. Eliminate competition and rule the city. But most importantly, keep the money flowing.

The year is 1920, the start of Prohibition in the USA. With congressional action, a huge segment of the national economy becomes illegal overnight: bars and saloons are ordered to close, distilleries and breweries go quiet, distributors shut down. But a new era is dawning: a gilded age for smugglers, black markets, illegal manufacture, and organized crime. This is where you come in: a new arrival in the city at the dawn of Prohibition, with ambitions of striking it big. Behind many of the city's facades, people are building makeshift distilleries, secret loading docks, nighttime speakeasies. Work your way into this network, and the world will be yours.

by ELYSIUM
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CLOSER - anagnorisis is a creative adventure game.
This is a game with distinctive art and gameplay. It contains a lot of creative designs.
The game tries to make it interesting without fighting. Players need to think about how to accomplish by "winning by cleverness".

Each section of the game will have a different experience and gameplay, so that players can experience freshness in every part, and can think about emotional cues of the current mood of the character.
Throughout the game, players need to avoid crisis brought by the enemy, and use some knowledge to deal with the challenges of solving puzzles.

by ION LANDS
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A neon-noir story in a rain-drenched cyberpunk metropolis. It's your first night on the job working for the Cloudpunk delivery service. Two rules: Don't miss a delivery and don't ask what's in the package.

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Your name is Rania. This is your first night working for Cloudpunk, the semi-legal delivery company based in the sprawling city of Nivalis. You go everywhere, from the Marrow below to the spires that pierce the grey clouds high above before scraping the edge of the troposphere. No delivery job is too dangerous, and no one is faster than a Cloudpunk driver.

In this story-based exploration game, you will meet a diverse range of characters including androids, AI and unscrupulous humans at every level of society. Everyone has a story, and in the course of one night in Nivalis, everything will change.

by Toge Productions
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Coffee Talk is a game about listening to people's problems and helping them by serving up a warm drink out of the ingredients you have in stock. It is a game that depicts lives as humanly as possible, while having a cast that is more than just humans.

Immerse yourself in the stories of alternative-Seattle inhabitants, ranging from a dramatic love story between an elf and a succubus, an alien trying to understand humans' lives, and many others modern readers will find strongly echo the world around them.

by PRODUCER : T. SIMON GAME ART : M. CADORET ; S. CHHUON . S. MICHON ; F. LE NORMAND GAME DESIGN : A. THIEBAUT ; M. HUSSON GAME DESIGN & PROGRAMMING : S. RAYMONDAUD ; H. DOMMERGUES GAME PROGRAMMING : E. FARMAN MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN : B. BELOT
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Several players drive a convoy from the beginning to the end of the level. Made up of a locomotive and cars, it can be equipped with modules that have different uses (defence cannons, mortars...).
Players will need to collect energy to fuel the locomotive and be able to travel throughout the level.
Beware of enemy hordes trying to destroy the convoy!

by Daniel Ferguson
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You've woken up feeling Completely Stretchy and Uncomfortably Sticky. Explore the vibrant Grombi Isles using your new found floppy abilities such as your stretchy arm, sticky fingers, and more! Talk to the eccentric inhabitants and participate in their playful activities. You may even piece together the story of The Grombi Isles.

Completely Stretchy and Uncomfortably Sticky is a short, first person surreal and cartoony experience. Players are encouraged to explore, chat, and play. The Isles are filled with strange characters all with something to say, so make sure you listen carefully!

by Catchweight Studio
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During the First World War, a lone French soldier must navigate twisted trenches, scavenge for limited supplies and solve complex puzzles - all whilst fighting for survival in the midst of mankind's most brutal and horrifying conflict. Dive into the madness of war. Engage in brutal combat against enemy soldiers, manage limited supplies, and solve complex puzzles in order to locate your missing-in-action brother. CONSCRIPT is a new take on the classic survival horror genre, set in the trenches of the First World War. Inspired by Resident Evil and Silent Hill, it blends punishing and classic gameplay mechanics of the genre to deliver a cohesive and tense survival horror experience.

by Tim Sheinman
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Conspiracy! is a sophisticated detective game that takes you into the heart of the deep state. It asks you to take on the role of conspiracy theorist solving a deep mystery through cross-referencing, close examination, and real-world research.

An innovative and immersive game, it is also an urgent satire of the moment we are in.

Featuring acclaimed journalist Jon Ronson, it features a diverse voice cast, exploring psychologically and politically nuanced areas.


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Control: Override is a puzzle game where you must juggle control between the environment and yourself.
Defy Physics.
Solve puzzles .
Terminate the rogue AI.

But should you?

by Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis with Cinq-Mars Media
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Copy Editor is an addicting game which teaches Regular Expressions, commonly used in computer science and language theory. RegExp patterns direct search operations and manage text. While you will no doubt learn valuable RegEx skills, the game focuses on tactics and lateral thinking with rewarding logic puzzles.

In Copy Editor, review public-domain works and make changes to the text building on new Regular Expressions with each level. Use characters, scripts, and sequences to align your "Input" with the "Objective." Begin the game with a few expressions and gather skills in combining operations.

Your wacky and demanding publishers will be providing you hints in a fake Chat Box along the way. The Chat gives you additional options to select your level, find RegExp tips, and access Help if you are completely baffled. Copy Editor includes RegEx Help, linked to the open source "Regular Expressions 101" in GitHub.

Whether you are new to using Regular Expressions or want to test your proficiency, Copy Editor promises a fun and challenging puzzle experience.

by Big Sir Games
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Welcome to the fast-paced world of interstellar gas station management! As the newest employee of Cosmo's Quickstop, it's your job to provide stellar customer service to the strangest creatures in the galaxy. From pumping gas to cleaning the glorp room, every wacky, time-based minigame presents a distinct and frantic challenge to keep customers happy. Your skills in multitasking will be your keys to success. Customize and build up your Quickstop to suit the ever-changing needs of your customers, all while satisfying your boss' demands for more profit and overcoming your rival's constant meddling. Feel overwhelmed? Team up with a friend in split-screen, local co-op mode, or fly solo if you think you have what it takes to run the most popular pitstop along Route 66 Million!

by Elliot Herriman
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Cover Me In Leaves is an experimental work of interactive horror fiction, about bright minds, and the end of all things. Fresh out of high school, with no prospects or aspirations, you've remained here in your small town. Everyone you knew and loved has moved on for better things. You're alone. So you get your first tattoo.

And then the trees start calling.

by Spry Fox
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Welcome to Cozy Grove, a life-sim game about camping on a haunted, ever-changing island. As a Spirit Scout, you'll wander the island's forest each day, finding new hidden secrets and helping soothe the local ghosts. With a little time and a lot of crafting, you'll bring color and joy back to Cozy Grove!

by Amanita Design
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The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.

From the creators of indie classics Machinarium and Samorost comes Creaks, a new immersive puzzle game that delights the senses with its hand-painted visuals, precise animation, eerie sounds, and an eclectic original score from Hidden Orchestra. Proceed at your own pace at figuring out the solutions to dozens of carefully designed puzzles, explore the mansion for hidden paintings and uncover the great secret.

by CreatorCrate Games
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You're the prototype for a brand new appliance, a 3d printer that can make ANYTHING. The only problem? You'd rather be free. CreatorCrate is an intense action platformer with roguelike elements. It's full of electrified death traps, terrifying murderbots, and passenger pigeons.

Fight to stay alive while everything around you is on fire, exploding, or shooting lasers. Think on your feet to outsmart complex systems of traps. Experience the wonder of a hard sci-fi setting rarely seen in games: a massive circular space station. Gravity shifts as you explore, from the freedom of floating in Zero G to the terror of being brutally flung into space at the outer edge. You can never trust your expectations in this labyrinth of curved floors and devious traps.

by Nate Largo
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Rhythm and stealth combine to create a puzzling mission: infiltrate a tower with a sound-based security system.
By carefully timing your movements with the music, you can avoid detection. Not every movement is as quiet as a simple footstep, but by turning on louder instruments you'll be able to move in new ways. Sneak around the abandoned facility, collect mysterious orbs, and uncover what actually happened there.

by Peter Nichols
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Crude Oil is a 3D adventure game starring a featureless blob, trapped inside a sprawling automated refinery. Slip-n-slide your way thru an intricate open world as a morphing puddle of oil, governed by soft-body physics. Collect and shed more oil as you go, to grow into a formidable glob or shrink to a modest slick. Hunt out the "entitlements" left behind by the area's now-departed human occupants, to gain access to new areas. Dodge or disable a swarm of robotic janitors. Launch yourself off a ramp and toggle slow-motion to savor your character's outlandish acrobatics.

Crude Oil combines unwieldy and visceral slime mechanics with a sandbox's exploratory freedom, while taking atmospheric cues from Blade Runner 2049 and the films of Studio Ghibli. All wrapped into a wordless, not-too-subtle saga of ecological retribution.

by Maschinen-Mensch
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Curious Expedition 2 is a narrative roguelike adventure set in a reimagined version of the late 19th Century. Players take on the role of an intrepid explorer on a quest to discover the secrets of mysterious islands that have begun to appear in the oceans. Using a combination of hand-crafted and procedural gameplay and story elements, Curious Expedition 2 creates completely unique and epic adventures every time you play. It tells its story through traditional choice-based adventure mechanics, but also adds in resource management, turn-based exploration and combat sections with dice-roll mechanics, and roguelike elements. It's a curious mix of genres and subgenres, all wrapped up in a streamlined and accessible gameplay experience with powerfully dynamic options.

by Passtech Games
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You seek untold riches, eternal life, divine powers - it leads to this accursed temple, a seemingly-infinite labyrinth of bottomless pits, deadly traps, and monsters.
Your greed will lead you to death, but that is not an escape. Rise to fight again. Delve deeper again. Defy the malignant deities that linger in this place. Battle through hordes of enemies in dark, cavernous passages filled with traps and secrets of all sorts - fire-spewing statues, explosives, hidden spikes, and worse.
Collect mystical Relics and an arsenal of weapons to make yourself unstoppable. Corruption builds in you with every step - encourage or ignore it, but each powerful curse can be a double-edged sword.
- A skill-based roguelike exploring a cruel, dark temple made of endless rooms and corridors
- Swords, spears, bows, guns - wield these and many more
- Unique curses influence each attempt, putting a twist on every action
- Dozens of enemies, with powerful champions and deadly bosses to face off against

by Blazing Stick
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Cyber Hook is a fast-paced, 3D platformer that has you using parkour skills and a grappling hook to scale and ride walls, while fighting enemies and blasting blocks with a laser gun. Hurtle forward in a vibrant retrowave environment to test parkour abilities, but be careful, because one missed jump can mean life or death.

by Kelsam
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Don't you hate it when you wake up and some scientist has experimented on you and stolen your headphones? Muffed is a fast-paced top-down shooter where you and your friends can find that guy and make him pay. Or fight everyone you know in the best 2-16 player PvP games around, your call.

Features:
• Awesome super-power-giving Muffs headphones to aid you in your struggles (batteries not included)

• Play your way with quick-swap weapon combos: run and gun, sneak around and throw stuff, or just mow people down, no judgement here

• Fight your friends until someone goes home crying with 9 Battle Modes, 15 maps, and customizations (yes, slappers only) for up to 16 players

• Learn to hate Dr. Wolfe in the story comics—no reading required. Then hunt him down, on your own or with a group, in the Co-Op campaign

• The game modes are multiplayer, most controllers are supported, and it's all Drop In/Drop Out, so nobody has to watch, your friends can play too

• Holiday Theming—because, let's be honest, it's just not a holiday party unless it ends in a fight

• Finished the campaign? Test your mettle in the endless survival levels, definitely co-opable

• Not vibing with these levels? Make your own or play community levels in the Workshop