2023 Competition Entrants

by sunset visitor 斜陽過客
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Delve into a hyper-cinematic adventure. You are a CLONE. You live at the world's end. You worship the last surviving human: the ALLMOTHER. When a dangerous rumour shatters your faith, you phase through time and memory—to expose a 1000-year-old lie. Relive. Reclaim. RESIST.

by flanne
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Shoot down an ever growing horde of Lovecraftian monsters to survive the night. Choose from a variety of upgrades to create unique and game-breaking builds. Unlock a diverse cast of characters and weapons with unique powers.

by 502 Studios
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502's Arcade is an anthology of fast paced arcade games where you can compete with players all around the world. The games go from a dungeon crawler set in a procedural generated temple where you have to seal spirits, to a cute but challenging puzzle where you have to prepare the orders of a very hectic potions shop, having a wide variety of genres to choose from. Get good old arcade fun featuring modern mechanics and challenge your way to the top of the leaderboards.

by Active Fungus Studios
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"A Bavarian Tale - Totgeschwiegen" is a third-person RPG detective story, set in Bavaria in 1866. The medical student Valentin Schmidt travels to Wolpertshofen, when a sudden death causes turmoil in the village. Use your skills, find clues and question the villagers to stop the murders.

by Max Inferno
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A Little to the Left is a cozy puzzle game that has you sort, stack, and organize household items into pleasing arrangements while you keep an eye out for a mischievous cat with an inclination for chaos. Check out this playful and intuitive puzzler with 75+ satisfying messes to tidy.

by Ducky Elford
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An interactive art piece that explores both the psychogeography of English landscapes and forgotten historical harms that politicised English traditionalism has had on individuals and marginalised groups.

I wanted to explore, through both storytelling and allegorical visual narratives, my difficult past experiences of English nationalism and identity, and the history and legacy of English environments and folklore. A particular focus was to be my own lived experience as a queer, neurodivergent artist who had grown up in a right-wing Christian Sect.

by Malak Khaled
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A Musician's Solace' is a 2D dialogue driven game that helps in educating people about the life of the classical musician Clara Schumann, while also highlighting her contributions to classical music history. With how classical music history is constantly displayed in media, the focus almost always lies on male musicians and their contributions to musical history. This game is backed up by thorough reseach on the musician, and gives the player a glimpse into her life, musical achivements and impact on musical history. Women classical composers are rarely discussed, and as a result, their music is not listened to frequently.

This game starts to change that by bringing a woman classical musician in media.

by Perfect Day Studio
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Revisit the final moments of 1999 for an eternity. Come face to face with your dreams and regrets. Explore a deep and interwoven narrative, solve perplexing riddles, and even play a few nostalgic minigames. Immerse yourself in happiness and sorrow with friends of ages past in your Perfect Day.

by npckc
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Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.

a pet shop after dark is a horror point-and-click adventure game where you've taken on an odd job at a little pet shop. The owner tells you the job is easy - all you have to do is water the plants, feed the pets, and stay the night.

There's just one thing - do NOT, under any circumstances, turn off the lights.

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- A mysterious pet shop to explore
- Invisible pets to feed
- Strange plants to water
- Point-and-click and puzzle elements

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Crashes are intentional.

by Mojiken Studio
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A Space For The Unbound is a slice-of-life adventure game with beautiful pixel art set in the late 90s rural Indonesia that tells a story about overcoming anxiety, depression, and the relationship between a boy and a girl with supernatural powers.

Follow two high school sweethearts, Atma and Raya, on a journey of self-discovery at the end of their high school years. When a mysteriously supernatural power is suddenly unleashed threatening their existence, they must explore and investigate their town to uncover hidden secrets, face the end of the world, and perhaps learn more about each other.

Set in a small town inspired by 90s era rural Indonesia, A Space for The Unbound presents an endearing story-driven experience with a vibrant environment waiting to be explored.

by ABEL Team : Yann KUKOLEWSKY, Louis GUILLAUMEAU, Zoé SEMPÉ, Taslim GUERROUMI, Antoine BROUSSE
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Unsettled by a strange call on the intercom, Carl hastily takes the elevator down. When the doors open, he realizes he is not where he should be. An uncanny, strange yet familiar place lies before him.

ABEL is a student project made by 5 persons during 3 months. Themed around liminal spaces, this walking simulator will induce uneasiness while players discover Carl's tragic past.

by Bumblebee Studios
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Abeyance is a roguelite, sci-fi, dungeon-crawler. Salvage wrecked starships in a gritty, post-apocalyptic world. Fight mutants and mechanized defense systems. Battle your inner demons to save your soul… and reclaim your humanity.

by Eventide Games Studio
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Abridge is a Sokoban-style puzzle game where you control colorful shape filled pieces to solve puzzles. The rules are simple: shapes express movement and colors illustrate abilities. Kick back and relax while uncovering the meaning behind each shape and color. Each puzzle is designed to showcase the delightful synergy between them.

by Curious Fate
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Absolute Tactics: Daughters of Mercy is a light-hearted, turn-based RPG adventure that puts a modern spin on classic tactics-style games. Featuring a diverse cast of characters, enormous boss monsters, and a dark world embroiled in war, Absolute Tactics plunges players right into the action as our hero Huxley and his dog Max build their team of allies to defend their home against a mysterious invading army.

Control your units and make use of their unique traits to dominate your enemies with masterful strategies that take advantage of unit placement, varied attack patterns, and skills that are as unique as each character. A vast array of deadly enemies, traps, puzzles and obstacles await to challenge you on your adventure.

by Befun Studio
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Affogato is a unique RPG featuring a unique 'reverse tower defense' mechanic. Play as a sorceress managing a café in a new town. Meet customers from all walks of life, serve them coffee, hear their stories and travel into their minds to help them defeat their inner demons. Experience a city life that exudes magic and excitement beneath its mundane surface.

by Vladimir Kudelka
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Afterglitch is an experimental third-person exploration sci-fi video game. The player is an astronaut whose multidimensional journey to find an extraterrestrial civilization is more important than the destination!

Discover the hidden secrets of our existence. Embark on an extraordinary adventure beyond space-time. Explore unique fragments of parallel worlds without physical boundaries and limits.

An audiovisual experience in the form of a video game inspired by utopian science fiction illustrations of the second half of the 20th century and hyperspace in modern art.

"And on the eighth day, time and space collapsed…"

"I'm searching for the beginning in time."
"I'm searching for a boundary in space."
"I'm searching for the creator."

• play time from 1 to 3 hours
• created by a single developer
• under development for 7 years

by Eremite Games
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A dark fantasy city builder that challenges players to rebuild a fallen world in the face of never-ending storms and a Queen with low tolerance for failure. Lead an expedition to reclaim the wilderness, found new cities, and create a network of settlements as you exploit lost riches. Against the Storm brings subtle blends of survival and roguelite mechanics to city-building games. You're not just building one city, but several - a vast, prosperous network powered by diverse fantasy races, each with their own specialisations and needs. You must explore and expand out into the forest, and gather resources to send back to the Scorched Queen to meet her ever-growing demands. And if her impatience doesn't get you, the Blightstorm eventually will, and the process will start all over again...

by Jason Newman
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Explore mysterious islands full of surprises, gain new friends to help you along the way, and unlock epic secrets in a rich and atmospheric open world.

by Team Algal Guard
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Welcome to the world of Algal Guard! This world displays the microscopically small world of bacteria that live inside of a seaweed! Swim around with your swarm of bacteria, kill or protect others, gain different abilities, and destroy or save the ecosystem!

by PINIX
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'Alina of the Arena' is a roguelike deckbuilding tactics game that combines elements from 'Slay the Spire' and 'Into the Breach'.
Play as a gladiator that must fight for a bloodthirsty crowd to survive. With roguelike deckbuilding and hex-based tactics, players are no longer bound by simple attack and defense. Make use of dodges and knockbacks to stay alive!

by ub4q
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Revolution is messy. Relationships are worse. Arik Tereison's made peace with his lot in life: twenty-two and stuck in his parents' house, awaiting his inevitable conscription into a decades-long war. But after an unexplained attack sends him fleeing home in the middle of the night—told only to hide and wait—he decides he's done with waiting. It's time to change. Develop Arik's motivations and personality through your choices: soft and gentle lad with a heart of gold, or angry and aggressive timebomb? Manage the party's morale or risk characters walking out. Befriend, bonk, betray, woo or wingman your party members. This visual novel eight years in the making invites players to make terrible decisions, try to fix them (and with luck fail forward), all while exploring a spectrum of relationships–platonic, romantic, antagonistic and more.

by Lumorama
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Amberial Dreams is a jumpless 2D physics-based precision platformer. Control a sphere and its speed through an enchanting universe filled with wonders and wicked levels. 5th game in the series of famous flash games, Amberial Dreams scales everything up whilst keeping true to its success formula, loved by more than 2 million players! Bringing a new engine, an exhaustive level editor and a narrative campaign full of colourful characters. Face the nerve-wracking Spire of Trials, take your place in the leaderboard or stroll through hundreds of community levels.

by Quinn K.
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An Outcry is a text-heavy, narrative-based horror game built in RPG Maker about the worsening political landscape of modern-day Europe, bystander apathy, and the importance of intersectionality.

The player takes control of a non-binary person referred to as "the Unnamed", a shut-in living in modern-day Austria who gets locked out of their apartment. Smoking a cigarette in the complex's courtyard, they hear a piercingly loud, horrifying noise, and need to decide whether to FOLLOW IT, or IGNORE IT. Depending on the player's choice, one of two starkly different routes plays out, as a flock of perturbing talking birds swarms the country...

by Nosebleed Interactive
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Welcome to Arcade Paradise! The 90's retro arcade adventure game with a hint of management. Playing as Ashley, your father Gerald has gone to the Riviera and given you the keys to his laundry business tasking you to run the tedious day-to-day. Fuelled with a need to say no to the 'authoritarian' and a determination not yet beaten down by life, Gerald's permission to expand is just what you have been wanting to hear… but instead of ordering the latest "Deluxe Washing Machine 1993", the opportunity arises to transform the business and give the sleepy town of Grindstone something to REALLY get excited about! A story of rags to riches. You manage the day-to-day tasks of running a business, decide how to expand and which hot new arcade machine to entice your regular patrons. With all the arcade games fully playable, be careful… it's easy to get distracted; you don't have time to just stand and set the highest scores, Gerald is watching as the toilet won't clean itself and there's trash to take out! Stay one step ahead of your father, manage and invest the profits, and build your very own Arcade Paradise!

by Galdra Studios
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Arcadia Fallen is a Nordic inspired fantasy where roleplay and personal expression are in the front seat. It features a customizable protagonist and a dialogue system that allows players to shape their character's personality as they play. Will you be shy? Bold? Or the one forever making jokes? Spend time with the cast of companions joining you on your journey, four of which you can romance (LGBTQ+ friendly), and if romance isn't your thing, you can form meaningful and deep platonic relationships with everyone.

Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.

by Team Curry - DigiPen Bilbao
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Arclight Beat is a minimalistic rhythm-based 3D platformer in which you control various level elements by modifying the music.

Jump and control the world at the rhythm of the beat in order to beat challenging music-inspired levels in this charming mix of platforming and puzzles! Create a custom soundtrack by placing beats in different spots and watch as the world adapts to the music. Rearrange the beat mixer, run and jump in order to reach the end!

Features:
-20 levels with 4 different music themes
-Rhythm-based 3d platforming
-Engaging puzzles
-4 bonus scrolling levels

by Arman Pakan
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ART IS RIFLE is an open world, FPS, puzzle platformer with rhythmic gameplay and psychedelic art style. Powered by Unreal Engine 5 and much passion! We tried our best to make it as uncomfortable as it gets but we reached our own limits. Hope we got it right to make it look wrong enough!

by Alistair Aitcheson
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A series of performance art challenges for you to run live on a Twitch stream or Discord server. As a streamer you may be asked to paint a painting, record an audiobook, or even become a TV salesperson. As a viewer, you can type in chat messages that are immediately interpreted by the software and directly impact the performance! After doing the performances you are invited to an on-air interview with renowned conceptual artist Artholomew Video himself, to discuss your artistic vision and the meaning at the heart of your creations. Artholomew Video's Stream Challenge is a creative toybox where chaos and unpredictability are embraced, and where anyone can be part of a great piece of performance art - whether in front of the camera or behind the keyboard.

by Interactive Fate
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Live the life of (a starving) artist in 19th century alternative history. Collect and combine feelings and inspirations. Fight with depression, poverty, addiction or madness & other challenges of life. Paint masterpieces, sell them for riches (or scraps) and explore the city of Nova Oportunia. A card-based roguelite/life simulator. The game is illustrated with 1200+ fine oil paintings. Note: the trailer is out of date and does not demonstrate the oil paintings.

by Acme Gamestudio
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Asterigos: Curse of the Stars is a fantasy third person action RPG inspired by Greek and Roman mythologies. Play as Hilda – a brave young warrior from the Northwind Legion who embarks on a journey to the cursed city in order to save her lost father. Explore the magnificent city of Aphes full of breathtaking architecture and scenery, as you battle legions of unorthodox enemies and dozens of powerful mythical bosses – each with its own unique battle mechanics. Combine and choose from a number of completely different weapons on the go – use magic staff to burn or freeze

by Universal Happymaker
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Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure about running a proper space academy using hard work, lies, and witchcraft. People aren't just numbers: they're incompetent screwups. Your duty is to guide procedurally misfit recruits through a roguelite web of scandals, challenges, and space-shatteringly meaningful choices. Turn them into national heroes by any means necessary, or the High Priests will see you dead in a ditch.

by Matajuegos
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Atuel is a surrealist documentary game in which you explore beautiful, dreamlike landscapes inspired by the topography and wildlife of the Atuel River Valley in Argentina. Shapeshift into different animals and elements of Atuel's ecosystem while listening to real-life interviews with specialists and locals who talk about the region's past, present, and future. These interconnected perspectives weave together to tell a historic narrative about people's intimate relationship to the land they live on and the effects of the global climate crisis.

Atuel was developed in collaboration with The 12.01 Project, an international team of documentary filmmakers who dedicate themselves to telling stories about social change and environmentalism.

by Idle Friday
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Automatoys. (Plural noun. /'ɔˈtɑməˌtɔɪz'/) An Automatoy is an intricate and bespoke obstacle course. The goal is to get the ball to the end by manipulating all the contraptions at once, with one-tap controls. Working out which way to go is a matter of carefully reading the machine. With each attempt, the player will find themselves perfecting every section until they can't remember how not to do it - at which point something changes; each Automatoy becomes a perpetual, meditative playground.

by Royale Monkey
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Avian is a musical adventure where the player is given music instruments to interact with the world around him. Play with fauna and flora, puzzles or platforming in music, or compose your own music in this experience that breaks the barrier between player and creator.

by small bros
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Intense 2D action-platformer set in a mining colony infected by an alien plague. In B.I.O.T.A. you can choose your hero, fight gruesome monsters, and customize your 8-bit retro experience with swappable 4-color palettes.

by Panic (Dan Messing, Steven Frank, and Neven Mrgan) ; Music by Factory Default (Aaron Bell and Jesus Diaz)
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Frenetic brick-breaking action with a "revolution"-ary twist! Can you guide the crew of starship b360 safely home through a universe of treacherous space debris?

by Starfish Studios
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You play as Bulle a stubborn teenager that run away from his home to be able to finally discover this underwater world.
Explore the world, meet some new faces, craft some funny tools and explore even more in this heartwarming experience that is as much suited for kids than it is for adult with a big heart.

by Metal Head Games
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In Back to the Dawn, you play a reporter caught up in a dark conspiracy and who got thrown into a maximum-security prison for not playing ball. Gather your wits and learn how to survive in this hostile environment. Explore every inch of the prison and exploit any weakness you find. Make friends (or foes) with your fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison. It's not just your life you are saving, but the entire city!

by Ichigoichie
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Backbeat is a story-driven puzzle/strategy set in 1995, built on jam music and incorporating design elements from sokoban and XCOM-like resource management squad games. Guide aspiring bassist Watts and her friends through over 40 levels of strategic puzzling madness in their pursuit to break free from monotony and achieve stardom. Use spatial rules of music making to slide your way past surly shift managers, suspicious security guards, and sticky-fingered children while playing gigs and winning fans. Over time you'll unlock new music, combo moves, and stylish locales drenched in desaturated 1990s American suburbia.

by Naraven
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Backfirewall_ is a tragicomic first person adventure about a smartphone's OS that does not want to update. Embark on the puzzle-solving, bugs-inducing, fourth-wall-breaking journey throughout the insides of the smartphone to counter-act the update and give the obsolete OS9 a little more time to live. While you trigger system errors, don't hesitate to side-track a little to hunt (literal) bugs, collect cookies or read data logs the Apps have left to each other. If you ever find yourself stuck, just ask your Rubber Duck for help.

by Naraven Games
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Backfirewall_ is a first-person tragicomic adventure set inside a smartphone. You are the update assistant. Solve wacky puzzles to counter the update and save the previous operating system from deletion. Game features includes: Clever puzzles Review terminal errors in RAM, party in the Speakers' exclusive nightclub, navigate through the Wi-Fi bureaucracy, and explore other areas of a smartphone. Cheat-codes to manipulate the environment Hunt down or create bugs, trim binary trees, master music-controlled platforms, collect errors, and delete data using special cheat-codes. A variety of app-characters Gossip with quirky pieces of software—the sassy Photos, the insecure Social Media F, or the neglected Health, among others—and uncover their distinct side stories. Numerous collectibles Collect emails scattered about to discover a parallel story of the mysterious phone User. Unproductive and useless humor Enjoy meta satirical humor and breaking the fourth wall.

by Cosmic Brew Studios
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Take an RTS, strip it down to its very core, simplify it even more, add some kids pretending to be pirates trying to finish their pirate ships, and you'll get Backyard Pirates!

by Alchemical Works
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BattleJuice Alchemist adds random flask drawing to the classic action RPG formula. Build your own set of alchemist's equipment and focus on top-down combat or opt for one-on-one fights with a JRPG vibe. Explore the gloomy wilderness, learn ritual magic, solve riddles and craft alchemical potions to fight the demons overrunning the lands.

by Kevin Ethridge Games
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Explore the mysterious Beach Island with Beach Guy! Face the many challenges the island holds to collect the many stars needed to open the mysterious Gateway. Designed for both experienced players and those unfamiliar to games, feel free to take it at your own pace, take on the island's toughest challenges or kick back and enjoy the beach!

by Hiding Spot Games
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Beacon Pines is a cute and creepy adventure set within a mysterious book. You play as both the reader of the book and its main character, Luka. Explore the town to find word charms. Use your charms to change the course of fate.

Normal isn't what it used to be. Glowing trees, shady corporations, running for your life, and never knowing who to trust. Welcome to Beacon Pines! It's Winnie-the-Pooh meets Twin Peaks.

by Gummy Cat
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Bear and Breakfast is a laid-back management adventure game where you play as a well-meaning bear trying to run a B+B in the woods. Hank and his friends find an abandoned shack and, equipped with their teenage ingenuity, turn it into a money-making bed and breakfast scheme for unsuspecting tourists. As your business expands so do the mysteries of the forest, and Hank soon finds himself uncovering a plot deeper than the wilderness itself.

by Cold Beam Games Ltd
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Experience your music collection as never before with this intense music driven twin stick shooter.

Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music. Beat Hazard 3 seamlessly mixes the love of gaming and music. Together they become greater than the sum of their parts.

Blast away to the music, taking on hordes of enemy fighters. Tear through their ranks with devastating efficiency as the music power peaks and your weapons flare!

Now, with Beat Hazard 3, you can map your music collection or tastes to a huge explorable galaxy of music.

by Witty Platypus
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A Chaotic Survival/Cooking VR game where kangaroos are stealing your beer! Multi-task between cooking for your mates and assaulting Australian fauna. Master your fully physics-based boomerangs and defend your BBQ

by Team of students from the french school ESMA
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On a lost island in the Indian ocean, an evil witch has enslaved a people of dolls. In BeforeDusk , you play as Frank, the chosen one who will free his people from oppression using is voodoo doll power. You will have to explore the jungle and reach the temple of the witch.

by GoodbyeWorld Games
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Embark on an emotional first-person adventure where you control the story — and affect its outcomes — with your real-life blinks.

Dive into a world of memories and experience a soul's journey into the afterlife as your whole life flashes before your eyes.

The story begins after you die, aboard the ship of a mysterious ferryman tasked with shepherding souls to the afterlife. To help you pass on, he must learn the story of your life, so he sends you back to relive your most important moments.

The game uses your camera to fully immerse you in the story. Control the flow of the narrative with your real-life eyes – blinking through precious memories of family, first love and the birth of an artistic career. Dare to look deeper and delve into your most repressed memories, where a heartbreaking truth awaits.

Combining an innovative blink-interaction mechanic with a charming world and fully voice-acted story, Before Your Eyes is a deeply emotional and relatable journey — one that explores the impossible expectations we place on ourselves and the regrets we carry with us.

by Broken Spear
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Beneath Oresa, a fighting roguelike deckbuilder, takes you deep within the city to confront your foes. As a strategist, choose your cards, upgrades, and artifacts wisely, but as a fighter, turn their positioning to your advantage.

by Cosmo D Studios
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Tonight you're on a surprise mission at the inimitable Club Low. This former coffin factory-turned-nightclub has, for years, been a beacon of nocturnal energy, a haven for wild-limbed dancing, mind-altering music and shady characters aplenty. It's also a place to prove your skills as an undercover agent. An old colleague is trapped in the club, caught up in an intel-gathering mission with a notorious business captain. Your mission is to sneak into the club incognito and get him out before he blows his cover. Can you do it?

Inspired by indie-tabletop RPGs, Betrayal At Club Low offers up a surreal setting rooted in Cosmo D's previous games, tactile dice-driven gameplay, and tense decisions at every turn. There are multiple ways to approach your mission, and eleven possible endings based on the choices you make along the way.

by Metacorp/Vaporwave
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Welcome to a high-octane cyberpunk first-person shooter with RPG elements. You are Lucy, an enhanced street samurai searching for lost memories. Fight yakuza, zombies & robots in large, open, interactive levels. Inspired by Doom Eternal & Deus Ex, made using a modernized Doom II engine!

by Webbysoft
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Percival "Percy" Bilkins is a treasure hunter on a mission to find his missing mother and grandfather, who mysteriously disappeared many years ago. The only problem? His ship got wrecked in a storm, and he needs to find a new way forward. Together with his family's beloved dog Drayton, Percy must find a new ship, reunite with his crew, and discover family secrets that will change his life forever. Oh, and dig for hidden treasure of course.

Bilkins' Folly is a narrative adventure game about a boy and his dog. Team up with your canine best friend to uncover every nook and cranny of this region. With the help of Percy's expert cartography skills, you can customize your map to help you solve puzzles and unlock other secrets. But be warned: some puzzles in this world are harder than others, and you might need to return to them later in your journey.

by Ayacat Games
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Billionaire Lovers is a visual novel game that takes 3-4 hours' overall playtime. Players would go over four game playthroughs to unlock different plots.

Here is the premise:

You're a broke college graduate; your rich, distant uncle just showed up out of nowhere and gave you 100 million dollars! You're now one of the ultra-rich, getting ready to move into a downtown garden mansion. 

And right at this moment, four handsome men came into your life. 

Could this be…the romance you've been waiting for!?

But wait, there's something underneath their smiles that says otherwise…

by MonRiverGames collaboration with Raghu and Ramita
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In our modern world, power and food production is a necessity. That production places stress, of varying degrees, on our environment. Can we meet our needs without breaking our world? Can we achieve balance? Build your home world by placing tiles and filling up the game board. Be careful and make good choices as to where each tile goes. There are complex interactions, mirroring real-life circumstances, between each. Nothing is without cost, so tiles will break depending on these interactions. Terrain tiles can also heal or 'share the burden' of power and food tiles. If enough tiles break, so does your world. Play individually or in teams to figure out how to balance our needs versus those of the environment. This game was created during the Godot Wild Jam #44 in June 2022. Outside of this jam, it was accepted into the Meaningful Play 2022 conference in Michigan and showcased in person there.

by Dapper Dog Digital
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Get injected into the microscopic world of BioGun. Encounter viral threats and winding corridors on your mission to save man's best friend from the inside. Will you be the vaccine to save dog-kind from extinction or will DocX return to the drawing board once again?

by Super Duper Game Company & Nonadecimal Creative
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A high-agility FPS looter/shooter in an incredibly detailed open world cyberspace RPG. Think Borderlands meets Tron. Drawn into the murky world of hackers to help her neighbor's daughter get healthcare, Mako finds that each person she helps only reveals larger corporate corruption. Hack corporations to steal their tech and customize your gear. Recruit allies to your cause. Expose corporate schemes and return what they've stolen from the people. The future is what you make it!

Play solo or online co-op/pvp with up to 10 people.

by ehmprah
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Hack and slash through a corrupted retro computer system in this challenging roguelite with turn-based combat and tons of loot.

by Bigosaur
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In short, the game is best described as: Baba is You, but with numbers. It's a cute but challenging puzzle game.

You move blocks with digits and basic math operations to form numbers and equations. When you complete an equation, it turns into a big block you can move out of the way to open the treasure chest. Combining these simple rules with carefully placed blocks leads to some very interesting puzzles.

by Atman Software
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BLR80 is a sci-fi action VR game where you play a fugitive who has taken it upon himself to stop the OJI corporation from turning humans into mindless drones. BLR80 combines sights and sounds of Bangalore along with free flow action combat to root the player in an alternate version of the city. The ones in power merely see humans as brains to harvest and you are going to stop them.

by Evgeni Puzankov
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Wanna fly a bomber and be the destroyer of worlds? Tough luck, you CO is a piece of shit and nobody trained you. Join Ia, the just born AI, aboard the giant bomber as she comes to terms with her purpose, CO, and the senseless war she has no choice but to be a part of. The game critiques war and our fascination with it, specifically in the context of the war in Ukraine. It exercises futility. You control the most advanced bomber in existence, but you have no agency. How does that make you feel about a war? About joining the army? About your patriotism?

by Corey Martin / Draknek & Friends
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Set your belongings on fire on a beautiful voxel art puzzle island. Bonfire Peaks is a puzzle game about closure, by Corey Martin and published as well as co-produced by Draknek, creator of A Monster's Expedition and Cosmic Express. Navigate over 200 expertly designed puzzles, richly rewarding challenges and surprising new mechanics that'll keep sparking your interest right through to the end. Starting later this year you'll be able to explore new areas, mechanics and puzzles in Bonfire Peaks: Lost Memories, three chapters of DLC for this critically beloved puzzle game.

by Lily Valeen
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BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart is a lesbian romance boss rush! Sophie and Anna are broke girlfriends who have to hunt devils to pay the rent. Fight colorful bosses, flirt relentlessly, and uncover the mysteries of Mammon City in this lightning-fast action game! A game designed from the ground up for mobile devices, full of tense, skillful, and rhythmic boss fights. Take control of anxious sword priestess Sophie and reckless witch Anna as they text friends and enemies, confront their corrupt employer, and prove that evil doesn't stance a chance against the power of girlfriends.

by Kitfox Games
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Plunder the dunj as you fend off dangerous monsters and take your weapons on romantic dates. Woo your weapons in this flirty, playful, and welcoming world filled with mastery in the procedurally generated dungeon. Serving up a dose of summer-time fling nostalgia, take your dates out as you uncover their stories and level them up. Embark on blossoming relationships with your weapon cuties as you capture their hearts in friendship and in love. In this light-hearted, fantastical shack-and-slash filled with adventure, improve your skills and fend off the monsters together because the couple that slays together, stays together

by Strategic Mischief Studio
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Brawlmart is a local multiplayer party game that takes place in a grocery store where players get to play as adorable animals. Players need to be the first to collect all of the items on their grocery list, but they must also prevent others from doing the same. To do so, players will need to use every weapon at their disposal – the items on the shelves or their cart – to incapacitate their opponents. Players must win a total of three rounds in order to win the game. Are you really going to let your friends get their items before you? Throw a coconut at their head and see what happens. Avoid concussions, fires, and keep your wits about you!

by ALT Lab
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Breakout is a narrative adventure game with interactive cinematic experience. The game is based on true stories. It is about a group of stray teenagers stuck in a behavior correction institute and try to overturn the institute. The behavior correction institute, which is famous for a series of treatment methods especially electrotherapy to 「transform」 teenagers, is led by Principal Yang, a famous villain known by many gamers even in the real world. Players act as a typical game-loving teenager, who has to escape from the daunting school Principal Yang founded. They learn to survive from control and electrotherapy, and find the truth behind the school. Players can decide on the direction of the story. Via branching choices, quick time events, and puzzle solving, the story will branch out depending on interaction made.

by Soaring Pixels Games
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Explore a procedural world of unique islands and dangerous ocean depths in an exploration survival game that changes the way players interact with water. Discover ancient Titans that push the very ocean aside. Defeat them to calm the waves and collect massive rewards. Gather resources to build a home, craft new equipment, and improve your boat. The ocean is a simulation that you can directly interact with: displace water using powerful crystals harvested from the world, delve into its depths to collect rare resources, build walls to contain the ocean or block the waves, and help the people rebuild and survive. Voyage across a massive world and meet friends and enemies as you brave dangerous storms.

by Star Drifters
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Quit your day job, open a bar! Brew lagers, stouts and IPAs, and serve patrons at your own brewpub. Decorate the place, create your own brands of beer, and expand into the best joint in town. All of this in a relaxing simulator that values creativity and passion for crafting.

by FYQD-Studio
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Bright Memory: Infinite is an all-new lightning-fast fusion of the FPS and action genres, created by FYQD-Studio. Combine a wide variety of skills and abilities to unleash dazzling combo attacks. In the year 2036, a strange phenomenon for which scientists can find no explanation has occurred in the skies around the world. The Supernatural Science Research Organization (SRO) has sent agents out to various regions to investigate this phenomenon. It is soon discovered that these strange occurrences are connected to an archaic mystery - an as-of-yet unknown history of two worlds, about to come to light...

by Trebuchet
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Broken Edge is a VR multiplayer fantasy dueling game where you embody iconic swordfighters. Use their unique techniques and powers combined with cutting-edge fencing mechanics to claim victory against online opponents and climb the ranks!

by Oliver Lambreghts - Gianni Walraet - Maxime Wouters - Sakibe van Soest - Giulia De Medici
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You play with your friends (2 - 4 players) as hamsters bouncing around in your hamster-balls. The goal is to reach the top of a tower-like hamster cage. Be the first to reach the top by using the grappling gun attached to your hamster-ball. Watch out though, because the others might pull you back..

by Brianna Lei
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A sequel to Butterfly Soup, a romantic sports visual novel about gay Asian-American teens playing baseball and falling in love. Set in the year 2009, the game switches between the perspectives of Diya, Noelle, Akarsha, and Min-seo as they navigate high school life in the San Francisco Bay Area.

by Bite Through Entertainment
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Byte Cats is a tight oldschool platformer about a bunch of kittens raging in hell. Run around, wall jump, hunt mice, unleash powerful abilities and show the mighty great president of hell who's the real apex predator of the underworld!

by Onipunks Studio
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Pixel Sci-fi Grid Action! C-Wars is a pixel action game with strategy, rogue-like flavor, and 16-bit graphics which is retro enough to bring you back to the 90s. If you love challenges, pixel art, and occasionally play FPS, then C-Wars is worth trying out. Early Access on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/250540 Free Demo! The game is in early access on Steam and is still in development. You can play the prologue demo here at itch.io for free. Further chapters are currently only available in the steam edition. For now, there are 3 chapters and there will be more to come in the future. Free Demo available on itch.io (FULL demo is provided with this submission): https://onipunks.itch.io/c-wars

by Dracma Studios
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Wield your flame to overcome menacing creatures lurking in the shadows of a ruined castle, use the dynamic difficulty system to your advantage, traverse challenging platforming sections and solve cryptic puzzles inside surreal paintings in this 2.5D action adventure platformer.

by Disaster Duo (Yazaleea & Younès Rabii)
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" You hired a duo of magical detectives to find your lost memories… …but it's not too late to fire them, right? " Follow a duo of disastrous detectives while they investigate those mysteries: ▶ Who are you? ▶ What's your magical Gift? ▶ What happened to your memories?

by Sagas Studios
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Canvas is a first person exploration game with the core mechanic of painting a blank world to reveal the environment. Solve puzzles, unlock shortcuts, avoid dangers, and permanently alter the environment.

by Momo-Pi Game Studio
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Captain Velvet Meteor: The Jump+ Dimensions is a tactical action game where we meet Damien, a young boy who's just moved to Japan. Lonely, Damien plunges into his imagination as the superhero Captain Velvet Meteor, and discovers a world of heroes and villains from his favourite manga.
Our gameplay is divided between free-roaming exploration segments and strategic battles with light puzzle & stealth elements. We want players of all ages and skill levels to enjoy our game so our main focus is not on difficulty but rather on encouraging clever tactical decisions that lead to cool looking results.

by Viccris33
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This is our final project made in Unity. We made it in a month between two programmers and a game designer/ artist.
This is a 3D platformer in which you can jump up two 4 times in a row.
You play as Aurora. While investigating a mysterious door that appeared in her home.
There are secret stories and collectibles scattered around the levels.
Keep a look for the eyes.
In total there are 5 hidden hearts.
To enter the menu press start.
We hope you enjoy

by Bytten Studio
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Collect awesome monster forms to use during turn-based battles in this indie open-world RPG. Combine any two monster forms using Cassette Beasts' Fusion System to create unique and powerful new ones!

Welcome to New Wirral, a remote island inhabited by creatures you've only dreamed of, nightmares you hopefully haven't, and a cast of brave folks who use cassette tapes to transform for battle. To find a way home you'll need to explore every inch of the island, and record monsters to tape to gain their abilities!

by Team Machiavelli
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In Castle of Alchemists, we aim to combine tower defense elements with Doom-like high pace action in warhammer like setting, with 2D pixel art. After the classic trap & tower placement phase which sets permanent traps and towers on the field, you take control of main character; Bellator; to join the fray with various equipment ranging from portable turrets, clockworks, booby traps, melee and ranged weapons. Bellator' s level system & equippable item craft system allow you to build own strategy on action phase. Equipment deployed by main character is temporary, and level design aims to make player be a mobile slaying machine.

by Jonah Warren
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Choppy Copies is a fast-paced sculpting game made for virtual reality headsets. The game is intended to give players the opportunity to practice and appreciate the skills associated with sculpture in a fun, light-hearted, competitive context. The game requires players to closely examine and engage with famous classical sculpture from art history through its gameplay.

by 21c Ducks co.,Ltd.
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Chrono Sword is a pixel art souls-like action adventure about time travel. Incredible atmosphere : The pixel characters with fluid motions, beautiful pixel environments with interactive VFXs and the epic motional music will give you more immersive experience. Deep combat : The combat works detailed and intuitive without stamina to give more immersion which never achieved in 2D view. The combat is also expandable with skills and usable items for more fun beyond previous repetitive souls experience. Exploration and time travel : The levels are designed as vertical and non-linear based on seamless world, to encourage you to try travel everywhere for more challenge and secrets freely in the past and the future. Epic story : Unlike the other souls-like games, your will be a charming heroine - Aenor and driven the journey to reveal the secret of the past, the future and the secret other side of time travelers.

by Shuffle Up Games
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Circadian Dice is a game inspired by single-player deck-building games, but instead of upgrading a deck, you build up a set of dice! Use 10 different heroes and 60 game-warping relics to take on 13 hand-crafted scenarios, in runs that take 10-30 minutes. Lots of secrets and unlocks to discover!

by Jump Over the Age
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Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. From the developer of In Other Waters, and featuring the stunning character art of Guillaume Singelin, Citizen Sleeper is a narrative RPG set on Erlin's Eye, a ruined space station that is home to thousands of people trying to survive on the edges of an interstellar capitalist society.

You are a sleeper, a digitized human consciousness in an artificial body, owned by a corporation that wants
you back. Thrust among the unfamiliar and colorful inhabitants of the Eye, you need to build friendships, earn
your keep, and navigate the factions of this strange metropolis, if you hope to survive to see the next cycle.

Inspired by tabletop roleplaying games Citizen Sleeper uses dice, clocks, and drives to create a player-led
experience, where you choose your path in a rich and responsive world. Each cycle you roll your dice and
choose what to do with your time. Toil in the yards, or take a bar shift. Search the markets for rare
components or grab some street food. Make or break alliances, uncover truths and escape those that hunt
you. Learn to survive and ultimately thrive, one cycle at a time.

by Jonah Beck
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Clairvoyance Fishing Club is a bleak, bourbon-soaked computer game ghost story. A modal collage that haunts with feelings of comfort and compulsion. An unnerving coast through gaming ephemera. Minimalist pixels and droning synths bolster a game-turns-ghost-story.

by Mango Protocol
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Hey you. Wake up. And bring me beauty... And then you wake up. In a dark room. It's cold and damp. It could be a basement. Maybe it's a cellar? It doesn't matter. Maybe you slept there last night, but you don't remember. Your head is cloudy. And swollen, because there's something inside it. You open the zip in the nape of your neck and you take out a notebook. It says "CLeM" on the cover. You open it and see that some of the pages have entries on them. They look like notes on insects and other kinds of bugs. There are drawings and symbols that seem vaguely familiar too, but you can't figure out why. You study them. And then you hear it again.

by Black Banshee Studios
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Coalescence is a visual novel that takes you deep within Moniker Labs to explore its secrets. Play as one of three characters, each with their own storyline and dialogue options. Form relationships with the companions you encounter and try to make it out alive!

by Xiameng Studio
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Wandering Sword (subject to change) is a Wuxia-style pixel RPG. The player will play as a young man from Liao City in the Outer Lands who is accidentally involved in a feud between two rival sects and poisoned with the Frozen Toad. He is fortunate enough to have Qingxu, Sect Leader of Wudang, coming to his aid and saving his life. From there, you dream to become a great warrior and enter the stage of the Central Plains. Your choices will change the entire story of the martial arts world. Befriend and interact with all sorts of characters in the game, and even change their destiny!

by Toge Productions
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In a time where people are isolated from each other, Coffee Talk is a place where we can reconnect over a cup of warm drink.

It's time to revisit your favorite late-night coffee shop and reconnect with your fantasy friends over a warm drink or two. You are a barista, and your customers aren't always humans, listen to their stories and influence their hearts with a warm cup of coffee or two.

by OKSoft
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An atmospheric retro horror game. Your first night on the job as a mall cop gets rudely interrupted by a car, and you must survive somehow.

by Lemur Games
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Courier is a pathfinding puzzle game where your only tool is turning tiles. Your objective is to help the travelers escape the dangerous wilderness and get back to safety. Avoiding thieves, working around mountains, finding secret passageways; there is no shortage of excitement and trial in these puzzles.

by Al_99
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This game is a bartending talking-simulator in which you control Cath who tends a café and bakery in a small town where people with abilities (or magic) can take refuge and lead a normal life. Cath listens to her clients and can help them out.

This videogame is a student project which was developed in a month, between a game designer and two programmers (we did not have an artist unfortunately).

by Luden.io
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Craftomation 101 is a craft automation game about funny programmable robots CraftoMates who can move, eat, and craft things needed to terraform a frozen planet.

You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.

by Bad Seed
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Crime O'Clock is an investigation and time exploration game with a deep storyline. Investigate cases through time and evolving maps by unveiling a multi-eras linked story. Will you be observant enough to solve the mysteries? Crime waits for no man!

by Tag of Joy
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"Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit" is a modern-day point-and-click adventure. The game highlights the less explored history of Europe to the world of adventurers. Experience the legendary stories of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, bring to light the villainous branch of the KGB, solve puzzles and follow hints to reveal the secrets of the King who was never crowned. "Crowns and Pawns" blends history and myths and is set in a modern world, featuring real life locations all around Europe. Although being a classic point-and-click adventure it includes all sorts of puzzles that involve finding and combining items, inventory, minigames, timed puzzles, interesting and meaningful dialogue choices, and more! The game masterfully uses hand painted art that comes to life with a touch of modern graphics features and polished soundscape with fully voiced dialogues makes the experience unforgettable.

by Sam Kwok / 5AM
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Compete in math games with players worldwide. Play games designed to promote brain wellness. Solve brain game problems by writing the answers as fast as you can. Artificial intelligence handwriting recognition. Increase your mental fitness by playing a variety of games. Level up and compete against other players. Play games daily and get smarter, faster at math.

by Group of students from a french school
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Crystal Bond is a VR adventure puzzle game where you have to guide and protect Loon, a little spider, in order to help her reaches the moon.

A brand new experience thanks to the oculus quest 2 hands recognition. No need for controllers !

by Massive Monster
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Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland worshippers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

BUILD YOUR FLOCK
Collect and use resources to build new structures, perform dark rituals to appease the gods, and give sermons to reinforce the faith of your flock.

DESTROY THE NON-BELIEVERS
Explore a sprawling, randomly generated world, fight off hordes of enemies and defeat rival cult leaders in order to absorb their power and assert your cult's dominance.

SPREAD YOUR WORD
Train your flock and embark on a quest to explore and discover the secrets of five mysterious regions. Cleanse the non-believers, spread enlightenment, and perform mystical rituals on the journey to become the mighty lamb god.

by Studio MDHR
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Another helping of classic Cuphead action awaits you in Cuphead - The Delicious Last Course! Brothers Cuphead and Mugman are joined by the clever, adventurous Ms. Chalice for a rollicking adventure on a previously undiscovered Inkwell Isle! With the aid of new weapons, magical charms, and Ms. Chalice's unique abilities, players will take on a new cast of fearsome, larger than life bosses to assist the jolly Chef Saltbaker in Cuphead's final challenging quest!

by Colorgrave
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Help Belle the acrobat and Chime the living bell recover her kidnapped boyfriend from her rival Bonnie, who has suddenly returned with strange new abilities and a crew of trouble making, graffiti loving skeletons! It's up to Belle to take Bonnie's new crew head on and get her boyfriend back!

Curse Crackers is an acrobatic action platformer that aims to take you back to the Gameboy days of gaming whether you lived through the era or not. While clearly inspired by style and games of the age Curse Crackers tries to find inspiration beyond that era. Whether you are exploring a level for sneakily hidden secrets or catapulting yourself through at wild speeds, Curse Crackers strives to draw you in and help you feel rewarded no matter your playstyle. Should you need a breather from levels, there are countless 'passive areas' to explore full of characters needing your help with their own tales to tell and lives to live.

by Chuhai Labs
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Cursed to Golf is a challenging adventure where every shot counts. Players are tasked with making it out of Golf Purgatory to become a Golfing Legend. With insane hazards, otherworldly power-ups and tons of replayability, will you make it back alive or will you fore-ever be… Cursed to Golf!? Play as The Cursed Golfer, after a freak accident takes you out as you're about to take the winning shot of an international tournament, you get trapped in Golf Purgatory! Legend says that playing through the 18 devious holes across Golf Purgatory will get you back to the land of the living and, more importantly, to the trophy you were about to win. Each course is governed by a ghostly Legendary Caddie, who will tutor you in the mystical ways of ethereal golf to aid you on your quest for redemption and revival. Cursed to Golf blends mechanics from golf games, platformers, deck builders and roguelikes to form a brand new genre - the Golf-Like! Make your way through a hole within the PAR Count or the curse of Golf Purgatory will take you back to the beginning of the course! To add to the challenge, these courses don't just have bunkers and rough spots but are also chock full of mad obstacles like high powered fans, spikes, TNT boxes, teleporters and a whole load more. It's all par for the course in this twisted take on the classic sport! Being cursed to play golf forever in the eternity of Golf Purgatory has its benefits, too! Use Birdie-Eye to catch a view of the whole course and see what trials lie ahead. PAR Count running low? Luckily, gold and silver Shot Idols are peppered throughout the holes, smashing through them with a cinematic flourish will replenish your shots. Handy dandy Ace Cards will turn the odds back in your favour, channelling your otherworldly powers to manipulate the game in incredible ways. Scattershot, U-Turn, Rocketball and Mulligans are just some of 20+ cards you have up your sleeve to turn the tide back in your favour!

by Killjoy Games
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CURSES is a story-rich, hand drawn, 2D, point-and-click game with multiple magic mechanics mini-games. Set in the 1990s and packed with nostalgic—often goth—references, you play as Girl, a 16 year old with dark feelings and major troubles. The game features a novel branching narrative system based on emotions. With the help of a cynical cat familiar and a sprinkle of magic, players navigate Girl's physical and emotional world and ultimately decide: should she curse everyone or care for herself? We are proud to announce that CURSES won the National Bank Special Prize in the 2021 Ubisoft Indie Series competition.

by Dramatis Personae Games
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We all have issues or insecurities that weigh us down. To fit in with the rest of the world, we hide them from others. But what if the best way to connect with people, while simultaneously overcoming these challenges, was to help each other through them? "Curtain Call" is wholesome visual novel about discovering who we really are and sharing it with the world. Chill out with new friends in this low stakes, stress-free environment. At the same time, help them through their daily struggles so they can get the most out of life. It's an experience that's full of whimsical charm and emotional moments with a focus on engaging, relatable lived experiences. Combined with a unique day/night mechanic, trust meter, and locations system, the fun to be had in this college experience is completely up to you!

by Haversine Collective
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_starweaver_ is a game by Haversine Collective (David Su, Megan Carnes, Colorfiction, Dominique Star) about capturing the last songs of dying gods, who also take form as planets. Eight planets orbit around the player, each playing a different melody on a different instrument. The player controls the game by moving and rotating their device around in physical space, much like a camera, and the gods' songs are spatialized using Dolby Atmos® in order to immerse the player in a chorus of harmonies.