2022 Competition Entrants

by Digitales Interactive
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A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

by Gamious
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It's September 1, 1986. You take on the role of forty-something Meredith Weiss, who returns from the big city to her quiet hometown. She exchanges her busy career at a software company to fill in for her dad, the local mail carrier.

During her two-week stay in beautiful Providence Oaks, Oregon, she runs into a few familiar faces as well as plenty of new folk. As Meredith, you get to decide who to talk to, who to befriend and perhaps even start a romantic relationship with.

Whatever happens, at the end of her stint she'll have to make up her mind: return to her demanding job in the big city, or stay in the town she grew up in? It's up to you.

by Nina Freeman and Jake Jefferies
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Last Call is an autobiographical poem-exploration game about love and violence. In the game, you explore an apartment that is partially packed for a move. You find and respond to pieces of a poem scattered throughout these boxes as you help pack up. It is based on the lived experience of the game designer, Nina Freeman.

by Goblinz Studio
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Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!

by Ethan Zarov
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How do the words DOG and CAT relate to each other? What about GUITAR and MELODY? I made this game as an appreciation for the intertwining nature of words in the English language. Letter Lattice takes the best parts of anagram and crossword games and combines them into challenging word-weaving madness.

Most word games have you searching for anagrams within a single set of letters. In Letter Lattice, puzzles use anagrams as connectors to morph from one word to another, each word you find being essential for solving the rest of the puzzle.

by Platonic Partnership
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Levaluhta is a unique horror game about Finland, eldercare & a real-life iron age burial site. A Sinister black & white experience, inspired by The Lighthouse, Night of the Hunter, and the book "Leväluhta" by Marko Hautala, one of Finland's most famous horror authors.

You play as an eldercare nurse. Visit a patient, finish randomly shuffled tasks against time, investigate the mysteries by your own wits, and survive against the sinister horrors lurking in the shadows. One-time branching dialogues, light randomisation, and a strong focus on a unique gameplay experience.

by Simon Eltz
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Make Bob happy by collecting stars and crossing obstacles.
Run through a vibrant world with an imaginative and sometimes even abstract landscape.

by Live Adventure Team
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Live Adventure is a 2nd person adventure game that follows the expedition of a unique sibling duo of young explorers wannabes. The brother, Lence, holds the game camera, and the sister, Reel, is filmed by that same camera.

The adventure starts at the launch of STEVE, the camera of Lence. After the disappearance of their parents, those siblings throw themselves on a great adventure to find them back. Working together, on the track of a lost civilization, they will discover wonderful places and uncover mysterious ruins.

As a player, you have constant control over these two characters. You will have to use their abilities in synergy to explore and solve puzzles in the lost ruins of a lush forest.

by Four Quarters
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The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. Wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero. Recover and equip powerful loot for each class of hero for their battles and expand the survivors' camp to reinforce each adventure through the loop. Unlock new classes, new cards, and devious guardians on your quest to shatter the endless cycle of despair.

Infinite Adventure: Select from unlockable character classes and deck cards before setting out on each expedition along a randomly generated loop path. No expedition is ever the same as the ones before it.

Plan Your Struggle: Strategically place building, terrain, and enemy cards along each loop to create your own dangerous path. Find balance between the cards to increase your chances of survival while recovering valuable loot and resources for your camp.

Loot and Upgrade: Strike down menacing creatures, recover stronger loot to equip on the fly and unlock new perks along the way.

Expand Your Camp: Turn hard-earned resources into campsite upgrades and gain valuable reinforcements with each completed loop along the expedition path.

Save the Lost World: Overcome a series of unholy guardian bosses over a grand saga to save the world and break the time loop of the Lich!

by eBrain Studio
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Loopmancer is a 3D platformer roguelite action game with realistic graphics that takes place in a cyberpunk universe. Players play as a detective who comes back to life after an unexpected death, and battle in this lifelike and futuristic city of the east.

by straka.studio
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Set in a series of procedurally-generated labyrinths, Loot River is a dungeon-crawling action-roguelike that combines the tense, real-time combat and dark fantasy stylings of Dark Souls with the spatial block-shifting puzzles of Tetris.

by Playdew
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Lost twins 2 is a mix of sliding and interactive puzzle elements to create a one-of-a-kind gaming experience. It is an immersive puzzle platformer about the journey of lost twins Abi & Ben, they must move across platforms, engage in challenging puzzles, swap tiles to create a path for each other, overcome obstacles and reach the portal to reunite and find their way back home while helping and interacting with friendly strangers along the way.

by Baptiste Marsac & Daphne Pauchet-Deloffre
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Embody the demi-goddess Imë and purify the temple where the Lysfangha is kept, a magical artifact that protects the world.
Using your temporal powers, duplicate yourself by going back in time. Cooperate with a growing horde of your past clones to repel the invasion!

by Orchid of Redemption
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Master the elements. Explore mystical worlds. Harness ancient powers. Mage Drops is a whimsical golf-like platformer with a fantasy twist. Use magic to bend physics, influence the environment, and make impossible shots, as you puzzle your way through a strange & mythic multiverse.

Combining traditional golf & mini-golf with elements of puzzle platforming, it evolves the hit-and-wait formula of golf by adding magic!
You play as The Mage - a young wizard travelling across the multiverse. As you advance through 8 unique worlds, learn to master your arcane powers to solve weird & mind-bending challenges.
Harness your abilities to manipulate physics. Solve puzzles. Discover collectibles. And learn the secret of the Mage Drops…

by hinyari9
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Dystopian world in this high tempo shooter where you try to protect a gate from approaching enemies.
At the end of each battle, you can purchase one card from a random selection of three to upgrade your character.

by Team Actors
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Welcome to Melodramatica, a Victorian themed management game where you get to step into the shoes of a stage manager to manage your eccentric troupe of actors! You're a stage manager in Victorian times, working hard to make sure costumes and staging get created, and your troupe has the correct skills to perform the chosen play.

Each individual actor has their own storyline, personality and preferences. Talk to your troupe and inspire them to get to work! Help sort out the rivalry between the twins, and help resolve issues left and right. Explore the backstage of a Victorian grande theatre and make sure your troupe of 5 actors are training their three talents; acting, dancing and singing. Craft costumes and décor pieces, or assign one of your actors to do it for you. Manage the budget, and dress up your actors in the right costumes before the show.

To see all your hard work in action on the evening of the play, sit back and watch some of the highlights of the show!

by Lily Zone
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random materials by month, currently running from jan 2020 to present.

ever-expanding dumping ground compiled from stuff found on hard-drive, added as it is found: includes scattered development builds, walking sims, scribbles, drawings, photos, and whatever other associated stuff i have laying around atm

by Spicy Dice Studio
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Players take on the role of the temple's guardian, awakened to cleanse the temple from an evil force corrupting it. Players must fight and dodge their way through a series of corrupted denizens, wildlife, and guardians to confront Nafaset, the Defiler, and restore the blessed oases.

by LuGus Studios
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Midnight Protocol is a tactical narrative-driven RPG with unique keyboard-only controls. Hack into servers, beat security systems and discover encrypted secrets while you try to find answers to why and how you got doxxed.

by H.M. Huízar
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mil rosas is an adventure game about someone playing a videogame on their portable console while they're in chemotherapy. It's an autofictional story in which you control someone playing a videogame while also listening to their family members and significant other talk.

Within the game the character is playing, a hero comes back to a town to receive terrible news: The Witch's daughter is gravely sick. Nonetheless, the hero needs to participate in a fetch-quest to acquire 3 materials to create a powerful arrow that they need in their quest.

by Lorenzo Redaelli / EYEGUYS
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A visual novel about an abusive relationship, idealization, and intimacy.

Live a summer of dysfunctional love through branching storylines, twists, sudden changes, and a special mechanic where you choose which senses to use with your boyfriend. In these moments, you will learn about him, his personality, and his past, making you question everything.

Milky Way Prince is entirely designed, programmed, illustrated, and scored by a very young author, Lorenzo Redaelli. The story itself is partially autobiographical.

"During my experience with a borderline partner, I thought that falling in love with him was like becoming part of a binary star system. It's the rarest, most precious thing in the universe – but the closer they get the more unstable they become. My idea was to create an immersive experience where the player is asked to try to understand the dynamics of this unusual relationship. The character you interact with adapts their behavior to yours – using academic terminology, they could set up "rage tests", "love bombing", or otherwise guilt trip you. The plot's branching storyline is guided by variables such as "submission" and "interest" that fluctuate at each interaction."

- Semi-autobiographical dark romance story
- Branching narrative paths with multiple endings
- Intimate new sensory gameplay system
- Character art inspired by Suehiro Maruo and Masaaki Yuasa
- 3D environments influenced by the stage design of Robert Wilson
- 30+ minutes of baroque electropop original soundtrack

by Dinosaur Polo Club
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From the creators of acclaimed minimalist subway sim Mini Metro, Mini Motorways is a game about drawing the roads that drive a growing city. Redesign your city to keep the traffic flowing, and carefully manage upgrades such as roundabouts, motorways, and traffic lights to meet the changing demands. A city manager without micro-management, Mini Motorways is accessible and easy to learn but provides a rich, complex puzzling experience as the game goes on and your skill level increases.

A spiritual successor rather than a direct sequel to Mini Metro, Mini Motorways offers an experience that's as relaxing or competitive as you make it. Draw the roads that connect vibrant, stylized renditions of real-world cities and challenge yourself or just chill out and relax to the ambient, responsive soundscape courtesy of Disasterpeace.

by Kitty Calis, Jan Willem Nijman, Dominik Johann & Jukio Kallio
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Buckle up: Minit Fun Racer is a peculiar little racing game with 100% of proceeds going directly to charity. Forever.

Hop on your scooter into the twisting traffic of the bustling city and the debris covered sands of the barren desert just in time to watch the sunset. Befriend your local shopkeeper, chase coins, hit big jumps, and accomplish fun goals along each lap until you've seen it all!

by Minoh Workshop
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Minotaur Hotel is a gay romance visual novel set in a magical hotel. You will become its new manager and meet the keeper — Asterion, the minotaur from the Greek legend, sentenced by the gods to spend eternity there.

In your mandate as Master of the hotel you will be faced with many choices — treating the minotaur humanely or not, dealing with the hotel's magical workings and entities, and managing a growing cast of fantastical employees. By sending out teams to explore the valley below the hotel you will find ancient artifacts and mementos, which will reveal more about Asterion's past and the realm's history.

by Kaiju in the Bayou
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After years of balance and symbiosis, Mirlo's home is attacked and laid to waste by the Solarean civilization, a totalitarian regime that is expanding and slaughtering anything in its way. Solareans found a source of energy in the forest Beasts; they would lock them up in energy extracting machines and exploit them. Mirlo wants her home back, and she must return the forest to its essence and protection, she must free all Beasts.

Join Mirlo to save her home and her forest friends in a hack & slash adventure. Use Mirlo's attack to push and defeat enemies, jump to avoid hazards, and save all the Beasts.

by The Sixth Hammer
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Ever wandered what a cow-overlord would look like? Moo Lander is an action-adventure RPG with Metroidvania elements featuring an epic story about cows and milk.
In the game the milk is the purest and most effective resource. You will unlock a unique arsenal of milk weaponry and defenses, while stranded on a dangerous alien world with your faithful ship AI.
Together, you will have to fight and outsmart intelligent enemies, while uncovering the motivation for your character's journey and the emotional story behind it. You will meet memorable characters and unearth ancient secrets while the story twists and turns at every corner.
Then comes the most brutal aspect of our astonishing world – you will have to challenge our Mighty Cow bosses! Expect glorious action battles, while trying to find a way to defeat our lightning-fast lethal Cow AI.
You will also be able to get together with your family and friends and have lots of fun with Moo Lander's up to 4 people couch multiplayer. With vastly different modes to play, you will be able to face each other in a variety of ways. You can even take control of the Mighty Cows and experience an entirely new skill-set, then go up against the heroes of the story in order to protect your Milk!
Moo Lander is coming to PCs and Consoles (Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch) in Spring of 2022.

by OKJOY
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Moolii's Dreamland is a horizontal version of the flight shooting game. Players play the fox spirit "Moolii", destroy the enemy in their nightmares, clear the stages and fight the boss, and finally break through difficulties and escape from nightmares!

In the process of clearing stages, players can not only upgrade various weapons and skills, but also switch by themselves in battle, and break out anger to make themselves enter a "super state". With the Sunday punch, no enemy is your opponent!

The game screen is adorable, each monster is a fantasy form of real animals, which is amusing. Remember to summon ferret, the right-hand man, to help you deal with difficult enemies. The primary purpose is to avoid difficulties and obstacles along the way. There are not many opportunities and you are supposed to pay close attention to it, which tests the subtle operation of players.

Don't forget to switch weapons and skills to charge and shatter enemy positions. There are big bosses at every stage. Defeat them, spend the night with difficulties and obstacles, and finally win and wake up from nightmares! During the period, there will be various opponents to challenge you. You must defeat them first, otherwise they will make trouble when you clear the stages~

by Deadly Serious Media
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In My Eyes, you may have lost your head, but it's never to late to make things right. Right?

Use your mouse to aim and shoot your new found powers of laser vision. It's that simple. Work your way back up to the top of the cave systems where your body awaits you. It may seem simple, but even sitting still for too long comes at a cost as the heat from your laser vision builds up in your head. My Eyes may look like a silly, casual, physics game, but it is much more grueling than it might first appear. My Eyes is a game that dives into the reality of impulsive decisions, enduring consequences, and personal responsibility.

by Fan Fang, Mai Hou
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Open your fridge, choose the ingredients, examine, chop, fry, and taste them. During the lockdown, you start to learn how to cook from your dear grandma.

Nainai's Recipe is a game that captures the cooking feeling in stylized visuals. And a family story about how we lived together in a special way during 2020.

NeJ

by Ben Lega
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To be able to defend his little puppy from hunters, NeJ needs to embrace his inner darkness and resort to violence. Progressively he'll become stronger, but run the risk of frightening the one he wanted to protect...

NeJ is a game with absolutely no text, even in the menus or in the tutorial area. Everything is experienced through animation and music.

by Burgos Games
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Neko Ghost, Jump! is a puzzle-platformer where you not only switch between 2D & 3D camera perspectives but also between your physical & ghost forms to solve puzzles, combat enemies, and clear levels faster.

Once you think you've mastered the perspective-changing and ghost form mechanics, it's time to test your skills against other players in each level's time-trial leaderboard.

by BYU Center for Animation
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NEOKAIJU is a fast-paced destructive platformer game where you play as an ever-evolving kaiju monster wreaking havoc on the city beneath you. Save the baby kaiju trapped in power cells scattered throughout the city, race to destroy as much as you can within the time limit, and level up to your ultimate form!

by Playthroughline
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Neurocracy is a sci-fi hypertext game that allows players to freely explore the Wikipedia of the year 2049. Then a murder happens and the editing war begins! Find clues, draw connections, compare notes with others, and ultimately solve the murder across ten episodes.

by Somber Pixel
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Night Reverie is a story-driven Puzzle/Adventure game in which a child must solve the mystery behind the distortion of his house. Explore puzzle-filled environments and discover strange creatures living in the house as you reach the truth behind of what looks like a bizarre nightmare.

by Team Nightmares
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Do you remember your childhood fears ?

Elena just moved in a huge manor with her parents and her beloved-cover Duvet. During a stormy night, she wakes up from a nightmare and realizes it merged with the reality. With Duvet's help, will she be able to escape the monsters and rejoin her parents, who could put things back in order?

Nightmares is a couch game with a spooky atmosphere ! It's a co-op puzzle game for two players, in which you play Elena the little girl and Duvet the cover (indeed you can play a blanket !).

by Why Not Games
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Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation is a post-colonial 4X game where you play a student doing a group report on Gandhi, Churchill and the Raj. It eXplores space left uncharted by the genre and so proposes alternatives to established systems.

by Indiesruption
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When an occult German WW2 division releases an ancient curse upon the world, a supernatural problem is going to require a supernatural solution.

Take control of two playable heroes as they embark on a comedic, alternate-history adventure with a truly original story (99.9999% guaranteed).

by Nao Games
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This game is unprecedented in that it combines movement and jumping with concise controls that allow you to instantly move to any location.

by Humble Grove
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No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.

Bo and Ao are graduating university and preparing to leave the flat they've lived in together for a year. Thanks to visa limitations, Ao is forced to return to Japan, leaving Bo in England. Disillusioned by post-educational life and shoved aside by a government who doesn't want them there, both are trying to come to terms with their uncertain futures. And deep under their South London flat, something grows...

by 0801 LLC
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No longer human is a high-energy cybergoth action fvck-em-up with expressive, freeform combat that encourages aggressive, stylish play. Set in the near future, brain-computer interfaces have become as commonplace as mobile phones, allowing users to submerge themselves entirely into the metaverse and abandon the physical world altogether. You assume the role of Tsunono, the once world famous vocaloid idol turned cyberdemon, on her destructive path to total world domination.

by Glitch Factory
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Contemplate the toll of death as you parry & cleave your way out of frantic, brutal battles in No Place for Bravery, a 2D action RPG where a father roams a devastated world in search of his daughter.

You play as Thorn, who stumbles upon the chance for redemption after finding clues to the whereabouts of his long-lost daughter. Only you can decide how far Thorn will go not just to rescue his daughter, but also to fulfill his ambitions from the past.

No Place for Bravery focuses on fast-paced combat and parrying. Thorn, accompanied by his adoptive son Phid, is a skilled warrior in a world where people like him perish all the time. Making mistakes will be punishing, and you will experience a lingering sense of vulnerability as you face down the dangers of the world of Dewr, rendered in gorgeous pixel art.

The story of Bravery carries a strong message about the role of paternal figures and the consequences of their choices in a troubled world. This message was shaped by the developers' personal life experiences, with the aim of imparting these real feelings with soulful resonance.

by Sebastien "GFX47" Dubois
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Assemble your squad, gear up, and lead your ops in a gripping tactical game with no room for failure. Plan the best course of action and watch it play out through brutal FTL-like campaigns and community-made missions.

by Drinkbox Studios
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Transform from a featureless nobody into a SLUG, a GHOST, a DRAGON, and MORE in this new take on Action RPGs from the creators of Guacamelee!

Complete quests to discover and swap between 15+ varied and distinct Forms. Mix and match abilities in unexpected ways to unlock and complete even MORE challenging quests. Explore a vast overworld - on your own or with a friend online - while clearing shape-shifting dungeons in an effort to stop The Calamity and SAVE THE WORLD!

by Geography of Robots
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NORCO is a sci-fi Southern Gothic point and click narrative adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and verdant industrial swamps of Louisiana's petrochemical hinterlands. Your brother Blake has gone missing in the aftermath of your mother's death. In the hopes of finding him, you must follow a fugitive security cyborg through the refineries, strip malls, and drainage ditches of suburban New Orleans.

by Thirteen Games
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On Nova Island, experience 1v1 card battles like you never have before!

No matter what you're looking for, Nova Island has the gameplay experience for you! Take on one of many single player challenges or jump right into a competitive PvP mode and climb the leaderboards. Nova Island is FREE TO PLAY and FREE TO WIN!

Battle for territory on the most uniquely energetic game board imaginable! Collect Floral, Energy, Moxie, and Boom cards; then mix & match to create your own personalized decks. Play cards to gain strength, deal damage, or disrupt your opponent in a way they'll never see coming. Choose from a variety of Pros to strategically take advantage of the overwhelming Superpowers they bring to battle.

There's no time to waste in pursuit of the most precious resource ever known...NOVAS. Become a Nova Researcher – download and play today!

by Plattnip
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It's a Lemmings-like 2d platformer, where you play as one of these dumb guys and have to help the rest of them get to the exit. The game is broken up into short levels where a handful of Nummels will spawn in, and you rearrange items in the level for them to use. The Nummels will climb up ladders, slide down poles, and stop to chew gum while you prepare a safe path. To sum up, you have more of a brain than they do, use it to get them home!

by FEYXUAN
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OCHITSUBAKI || 落ち椿 is a visual novel about the impossibility of translating trauma. It is a bilingual JPN/ENG game about translation and how it can run as deeply as the way hypermarginalized people constantly "translate" their identities and trauma for the understanding of others, no matter how far it is from the source material. It's about recovering from trauma through the genuine compassion and consideration of another person, who manages to See the aftereffects of trauma and are willing to meet that person's unique needs, regardless of if they "understand" them or not.

Ochitsubaki is only loosely a visual novel, which is to say it is a story-based game with a strong aesthetic component. Ochitsubaki has a deep, rich tapestry of aesthetics in unifying modern elegance with unique retro anime-inspired character portraits. The original soundtrack derives inspiration from traditional Asian pentatonic scales, particularly but not limited to Japanese ones, that also derive a modern, Genshin's Liyue-type twist that sets it firmly in contemporary times. It has three language options: JPN, ENG, and JPN translation. The ENG/JPN versions are two different renditions of the story, thus requiring a separate JPN translation, emulating what happens when you try to translate something as complex as identity. You can consider that the only real choice you make in the game is which language to play it in, and each language option provides a different "route," a similar but very distinctly different iteration of the story. The language modes mimic the powerful loss that happens when stories--when trauma--is translated.

OCO

by SPECTRUM48
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OCO is a slick, minimalist, one-button puzzle-platformer featuring a procedurally-generated soundtrack, in-built editor, online community, and over 75,000 user generated levels.

by Outlands
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Help Okthryssia and Saturnia navigate the tormented ways of bureaucracy and claim their inheritance.

This is a local multiplayer game meant for two players. It involves some non-digital interactions like miming or stream of consciousness writing.

The game is turn based.

When it is not your turn, it is important to not be watching the screen.

You can use a laptop and hand it over to the player whose turn it is.

If you play on a desktop computer, the person not playing can face away from the screen until it is their turn again.

You will also need a few pieces of blank paper and a pen.

The game takes between 20min and 1 hour to complete.

by Alex Carlson
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Ollie-Oop is a game about a skateboarding dog named Ollie who goes on the adventure of his dreams, literally! As Ollie takes his afternoon nap, you'll scoot through his dreams to play with other dogs, go racing, chasing, collecting, jumping, and barking through many charming levels.

by Gun Hit Wonders
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OMFG: One Million Fatal Guns kicks back into action in this fast-paced, over-the-top, roguelike, first person shooter. Shoot your way through a robot-hijacked space station, collecting more and more powerful guns as you go. True to its name, there are over 30 million differently named guns at your disposal. Fly around rooms with the Recoiling Minigun, dissolve your enemies with the Corrosive Revolver, and take things to a new level of intensity with the Spelunking Assault Rifle.

by Clever Plays Studio
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Operation: Tango is an espionage-themed cooperative adventure challenging you and a friend to complete dangerous missions across the globe in a high-tech near-future world. As an exclusive team of two, you and your partner will become AGENT and HACKER, working in tandem to bring a high-tech global menace to its knees. With only your voice to link you, teamwork is crucial, and communication is key!
Game features:
CO-OP PUZZLE SOLVING - Combine skill sets from different points of view to overcome challenges focused on communication, not difficulty. These missions cannot be completed alone.
THRILLING ESPIONAGE - Investigate, hack and infiltrate while executing missions across the globe. Live out your ultimate "Hollywood" spy fantasy!
HI-TECH TOOLS - Experience the visual splendor and technological advances of a hyper-connected world built around augmented reality.
FRIENDLY BANTER - Constant communication makes for both heartfelt and hilarious moments. It's all about sharing your voice.

by SIGONO
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Opus: Echo of Starsong is a narrative puzzle adventure that follows Eda and Jun, two star-crossed adventurers who team up to uncover the source of a mysterious outer space radiance known as "Starsongs". Gameplay moves between space navigation and third person exploration, while story is told through a visual novel format, culminating in an emotional space opera about finding one's true self.

by Smoke Stab
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KILL. DIE. MODIFY.
Orbital Bullet is a fast paced 360° action-platformer with rogue-lite elements, where all actions take place in a circular pattern. Fight your way through a variety of procedural planets and use body modifications, crafting, upgrades and heavy weaponry.

TRIGGERFINGER LICKIN' GOOD ROGUE-LITE ACTION
• 360° hard-boiled gunplay: Projectiles traverse in a 360°-degree pattern allowing for a new unrivaled gunplay feeling.
• "Just one-more-run": Procedurally generated planets, mean enemies, bad-ass bosses, a diverse weaponry and game changing upgrades guarantee addictive gameplay.
• Make the most satisfying long-range curved snipes you have ever done or blast and shred enemies with a load of your hyper shotgun. Or are you more of a rocket launcher fella?
• Fast paced unrelenting pixel style-action: each death is permanent, but let's be honest, dying is part of the fun.

A DEATH-DEFYING PROGRESSION SYSTEM
• Suck at the game? Don't worry, we got you covered! After each death you will be able to spend Nanobytes to receive permanent upgrades and skills.
• How about a bigger Medi-Backpack or extra Shield to last a little bit longer?
• Or activate the Combo System, to tremendously increase the pacing of the game and receive certain multipliers to currency drops and EXP.
• Don't like your starting weapon? Unlock a new more powerful one right from the start and get your revenge.

UNLIMITED FRAG-TASTIC REPLAYABILITY
• Build your own custom skill tree with our Dynamic Skill Trees! Make clever decisions to empower skills and reach new power spikes while the tree changes every time you play.
• "We need guns, lots of guns." Unlock, find, or buy more than 20 different guns, weapon upgrades and various power-enhancing perks that will change the way you'll play.
• Unlock four different classes to choose from, like the turret-carrying Engineer or the fire-fueled Hellion, each with a different skill tree.
• Are you the type of person who enjoys some good ol' pain? Good, because we got a Streak System that will make the game considerably more difficult (coupled with a few other surprises) with each completed run, until your streak ends. Don't worry though, you will have plenty opportunity to die.

A HEAD-BLASTING SOUNDTRACK
• Orbital Bullet features a pounding electronica soundtrack composed by Niilo Takalainen & Juha Korpelainen. If you die a lot, at least you can listen to some catchy tunes.

by Chris Klimowski
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Otteretto is a game about otters and palindromes. Compete for high scores and discover new gameplay twists as you explore the surprising depths of this fresh new puzzle mechanic.

by Nerd Monkeys
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Out of Line follows a child (San) on a quest for freedom. Along the way, San will have to rely on new friends to overcome many obstacles and uncover one of life's greatest lessons. The game is a 2D side-scroller puzzle platformer, with captivating visual environments and a strong artistic charm.

by Doctor Shinobi
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Outcore is a 4th-wall breaking experience where your desktop is the game.
In this game, you'll be helping a girl who lives on your computer find out how she ended up on your desktop. You'll be looking for real files, and playing various mini-games based on interaction with your own computer.

by inkle
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JULY, 1935. A MURDER HAS BEEN COMMITTED aboard the SS Hook, eight hours out from New York.

Only one problem: you did it.

You play as fading starlet Veronica Villensey, who has pushed her husband overboard. Now you have less than a day to cover up the evidence, deal with the witnesses, and put someone else in the frame for the crime... or you'll be starting your new life in America in jail.

Blackmail a spy. Fall in love. Murder a rival. Cheat at cards. Drug a witness. Lie, befriend, betray, console, sneak, seduce, steal, borrow, pray, eavesdrop, kill... There are clues, evidence, suspects, accusations, secrets and lies.

You'll need all your cunning, coercion and charisma to ensure that someone else takes the fall in this highly replayable dynamic clockwork narrative game where every action has a consequence and every character is paying attention.

From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

Can you get away with murder?