2023 Competition Entrants

by Eggnut
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Tails: The Backbone Preludes is a post-noir narrative adventure with branching choices. It is an intertwined series of vignettes about change, circumstance, and consequence. Guide four characters through formative moments in their lives in a dystopian Vancouver inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.

by illuCalab
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This title is a derivative work based on the Touhou Project, developed by the two-person dojin circle known as illuCalab - known for games such as GENSOU Skydrift and A Magical High School Girl. Interweaving the vibe and worldview of the Touhou Project series with the chaotic sensibilities of the old-school internet, Takkoman brings its A-game when it comes to crazy and stylish 2D bullet hell action.

by Mahdi Bahrami
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Tandis is a game about exploring geometric forms. It's a 3D puzzle game where you discover mind-bending geometric forms using simple transformations.

by Orbital Express
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Yukumo is a young girl traversing the world in her beloved airship. Upon arriving at a particular Far Eastern town to run some errands, her airship suddenly breaks down. She decides to explore the town to search for parts for repair; however, the town has fallen silent with no trace of the people who live there, the only inhabitants being a strange cat-like species... Tasomachi is an independently developed adventure game that lets you freely explore the beautiful world created by designer nocras. Assuming the role of young female protagonist Yukumo, fix your beloved airship by exploring the mysterious town covered by the Twilight Mist to collect hidden Sources of Earth and help restore the town's lost brilliance. Enjoy this unique world with an Eastern fantasy twist, complemented perfectly by composer Ujico*'s mystical soundtrack.

by void room
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Tea For God is a VR adventure that uses impossible spaces with procedural generation to allow players infinite movement within their own place. Customizable gameplay can be anything between a relaxing long walk, an intense arcade shooter (checkpoint based) and a roguelite shooter-explorer. Set in the distant future, it is a story about a man who has lost his family and embarks on his last journey to seek answers and vengeance.

by LYU YIFEI
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You and your mate have drifted to an abandoned space city at a piece of the universe.
The people in this place have an isolated lives in a weightless city.
When you asked them about your mate, they all had different stories to tell.
Memories of people, memory of me,what my mate is?

by Fire Hose Games
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Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game set beneath the surface of an alien planet. Work alone or in co-op to build factories, gather resources, research new technologies, mold the destructible terrain, establish a base of operations, and uncover long-forgotten secrets.

by Developer: Tribute Games, Publisher: Dotemu
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With Bebop and Rocksteady assaulting Channel 6 and stealing super gnarly devices to support Krang and Shredder's latest twisted plan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge sees the Turtles battling across a righteous range of timeless TMNT locations. From Manhattan and Coney Island, to city rooftops and dank sewers, help the fearsome foursome trounce Foot Soldiers, Triceraton Warriors, and Rock Troops all the way to Dimension X!

by Aetheric Games
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Temple of Snek is a rhythm-based puzzle and exploration game, currently in early access. It takes the rhythm and reaction-based mechanics of the traditional Snake-like games and coils them through an interconnected puzzle-dungeon with interactive music. You control Snek, a giant snake who starts off small, and guide her through a dungeon, growing each time you monch on a looter. Sometimes the challenge is needing to grow a bit longer in order to progress, and sometimes it's knowing what to do with all that tail. As the world unlocks, metroidvania-fashion, you'll encounter new puzzle types and NPCs, and puzzles that seemed impossible become solveable as you learn about how Snek moves and stacks in three dimensions.
The story is presented wordlessly. The Temple is in the forest of a fantastical pre-Hispanic world. To begin with Snek is defending the temple from press-ganged indigenous raiders, but before long it becomes clear that the real villains are conquistadors, who are here to not only take gold but to ravage the environment. Snek's ultimate goal is to deal with the conquistadors and protect her world.
As well as Story Mode, the game also features a lot of accessibility options. Classic Mode (a twist on more traditional snake play), Mek-a-Snek (for designing your own snek-skin patterns) and Snek Workshop (a level editor for making and sharing snek-puzzles on Steam).

by Pavonis Interactive
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From the creators of the Long War mods for XCOM 1 and 2, this is a real-time grand strategy game where an alien invasion causes humanity to fracture into competing ideological factions, each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen group to take control of Earth's nations and pool resources to kick-start Humanity's journey into space. Expand across the Solar System, build bases and ships, and battle enemy fleets both alien and human in realistic tactical space battles.

by Free Lives
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Terra Nil is a reverse city builder about ecosystem reconstruction. Players turn a barren wasteland into an ecological paradise complete with different flora and fauna. Then, they clean up, leaving the environment pristine. Subverting the builder genre, Terra Nil is about the restoration of a ravaged environment. Terra Nil spans a whole planet, complete with a large variety of biomes, plants and animals.

by Team TNHIH
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That's Not How It Happened is a 2D beat 'em up/dating sim/ point and click adventure game, where you play through several family members' contradictory versions of how their family-run inn was burned to the ground.

TNHIH is a unique and humorous interactive take on the Rashomon style "multiple versions of the same event" trope that leans into the affordances games provide by letting the player switch between characters and by representing their conflicting accounts through narrative, gameplay and art style.

by Black Brick Studio LLC
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Become Asafo in this action adventure platformer. Chaos is corrupting the lands of the Nile valley and it's up to you to restore the balance. Run, jump and fight your way to the hidden enemy. Discover and explore the hidden dungeons and tombs to find hidden treasures but watch out for their guardians and traps. Challenge the corrupted animals that reside within the harshest desert sands, across the Nile River and through the depths. Into the mountainous landscapes near North African borders.

by Everest Pipkin
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The Barnacle Goose Experiment is an abiogenesis idle clicker game set in a world where spontaneous generation is commonplace. You play as a researcher studying the creation of new and living things out of raw and non-living matter. In order to undertake this work without experimental contamination, you are locked inside of a hermetically sealed dome— entirely empty. As such, the only raw material for experimentation is that of your own body. Through the accretions of self, the slow learning of mechanical systems, and the simple duration of time, you must uncover the combinatory logic of spontaneous generation and make again a living world from a dead one. With music from Ben Babbitt, halina heron, Geotic, Adobo, Jún, Smokey Emery, Sadurn, Zac Traeger, SamanthaZero, and Eli Rainsbury.

by Color Gray Games
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The Case of the Golden Idol is a new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.

by Forust Studio
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Battle the corporate machine in The Company Man! A 2D action-adventure where you can hit your crazy co-workers with a keyboard and shoot your evil bosses with emails. Survive the struggles of working life and fulfill your life long quest to be CEO!

by Vixa Games
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The Crackpet Show is an action-packed rogue-lite shoot'em up about mutated animals that fight in a bizarre TV show, crushing their opponents with a variety of weapons. Choose your beastie, gear 'em up, and go kill your enemies in the name of fame and sweet sponsorship deals! So, are you ready to sign the contract? Roguelite Shoot'em up There are tons of enemies, dozens of weapons, lots of perks and items, randomized drop and map layouts, as well as carnivorous bosses for you to test your ability to beat the game with in-game items The most bizarre TV Show It's cute. It's colorful. It's everything you love about old-school gore cartoons. This is your only opportunity to make a pink rabbit into a harbinger of death. Do not miss it! Play solo or co-op Play the game solo or get your friends to play with you, create elaborate tactics or mess around and try to steal your friend's items and power-ups. The goal is to have fun and get famous, not to sit down crunching numbers. Though it's also a thing if you are into it.

by Lucky Panther Games
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The Cruel Dreamer Marchosias is a dark fantasy third-person exploration adventure game centered around Wolf and IV joining forces after one night within the forest an attack occurs resulting in the death of Wolf's family. IV manages to save Wolf in time by forging a contract and escaping through the gate connecting to other worlds.

Join Wolf on their mission to right the atrocity committed against their family. Together with the mysterious entity 'IV', Wolf will brave the monsters lurking in the shadows, explore long-forgotten ruins and solve mysterious puzzles in order to reach an ancient castle located between worlds.

by Stubby Games
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Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. The Entropy Centre is a mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.

by Cloak and Dagger Games
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...

Antiquarian Thomasina Bateman is writing a book on the barrows of England, documenting the treasures she finds buried within. When an intriguing letter summons her to the small village of Bewlay, tucked away in the remote countryside, she sets off by train with her assistant a day behind.

Upon her arrival, however, the mysterious man who summoned her is nowhere to be found. Her assistant never arrives. A stubborn landowner refuses access to the barrow, and the locals are wary of this woman who is traveling alone and (gasp!) wears trousers.

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is off to a rocky start. And then Thomasina starts having strange dreams…

by Fictiorama Studios
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The Fabulous Fear Machine is a narrative-driven strategy game with a pulp horror style, from the creators of Do Not Feed the Monkeys. You've just become the newest Master of the Machine, and now you must generate fear and expand your influence by playing Legend cards: those scary stories, urban myths, and conspiracy theories that lurk in the dark corners of the mind. To clear a path for your Legends to grow, you'll dispatch your Agents to new locations on the map, harvest and manage resources, decide how to deal with events in the simulation, and spy on the operations of your foes.

by Mads & Friends
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The Forest Quartet is a story of life, death, and jazz. In this minimalistic puzzle adventure you incarnate the spirit of a recently passed lead singer. Travel into the minds of the three remaining quartet members to reignite their musical spark as they deal with grief. In three unique acts, unveil the different emotional responses to Nina's death - depression, anxiety, and anger. With the help of a visually strong foundation, there are no written descriptions in-game.

by Room C Games
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The Hand of Merlin is a turn-based rogue-lite RPG in which Arthurian legend meets with sci-fi horror. Recruit mortal heroes to explore lands rife with otherworldly evil, make narrative bending choices in unique interactive encounters, and search for the lost fragments of your soul across the multiverse!

The Hand of Merlin will take players on a journey from Albion to Jerusalem to explore richly-imagined medieval lands on the brink of apocalypse - assaulted by an otherworldly evil from a story crafted by Jonas Kyratzes (The Talos Principle, Serious Sam 4) and Verena Kyratzes (The Lands of Dream, Serious Sam 4).

The Hand of Merlin is a game where choices are permanent depending on the decisions players make as they carve a path across the lands of Albion, Marca Hispanica and al-Andalus. Adventurers will also need to find a keen balance as they weigh the risk and reward for the paths they choose.

What players take with them on this journey will be essential since combat is inevitable, trading in nearby towns can improve arms and armor, or they can continue to roam and trade with hermit artisans in the wild. Renown is the backbone of progression in The Hand of Merlin and can be used to level up party heroes, and players can choose between a randomized set of new skills or improved attributes to balance out the combat prowess of their party.

by SAE Team 2021
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Trouble strikes in the Land of Limbo! The great lawyer suffered a tragic reincarnation accident, and now **you** a humble intern have been thrust into the grand Courtroom of Eternity. Prepare your case, pick your witnesses, and present your evidence to the Supreme Being. - - - - - Accuse Cleopatra, acquit Genghis Khan, prove that Confucius was responsible for all those crop circles, and find someone --someone famous-- to blame for the mystical powers of the Pyramids!

by Pontoco
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The Last Clockwinder is a unique VR automation game where you make factories out of the time-looping recordings of your own body.

You play as Jules, a young woman on a mission to repair the Clocktower: an ancient haven for the galaxy's plants and seeds that's fallen into disrepair. Use the Clockwinder's gloves to turn everything you do into a perfectly looping mechanical clone. Perform simple tasks by hand, and the clone will do each task on repeat. Create an interconnected system of clones to grow plants, harvest resources, and synthesize new seeds. You can coordinate your clones to create marvels of precision teamwork, hare-brained Rube Goldberg machines, or a troupe of synchronized dancers.

As you work to save the Clocktower, you'll also piece together your complicated past by listening to voice memos from your childhood.

by Wolf & Wood / Oiffy
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The Last Worker is a first-person narrative adventure centred around humanity's struggle in an increasingly automated and dehumanizing world. Set in a lonely, oppressive but strangely beautiful environment, The Last Worker is a unique blend of work simulation and stealth strategic gameplay. Coupled with a hand-crafted art style from legendary comic artist Mick McMahon, The Last Worker delivers uniquely immersive gameplay mechanics in an epic setting. Aboard his corporate issued Hovercraft, AKA the 'JünglePod', Kurt zips around giant skyscrapers within JFC-1, a fulfilment centre the size of the sunken city of Manhattan. The Last Worker delivers an emotional, thought provoking and inspiring story with rich characters performed by an all-star cast starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jason Isaacs, Clare-Hope Ashitey, David Hewlet, Zelda Williams and Tommie Earl Jenkins.. Kurt has dedicated his life to the Jüngle Corporation and hasn't seen the outside world in 25 years, with only his co-bot, Skew, to keep him company. But when a group of activists ask Kurt to help dismantle Jüngle from the inside, he is thrown into a moral minefield where every decision will have unexpected consequences.

by Opia Games
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The Lone Blade is a 3D platformer where you are a soul trapped in a sword. In order to redeem yourself, you will have to create your own path: jump, dash, spin, or spike to the ground and walls to go through the deserts and climb canyons, and temples... to the highest mountain.

"Punished by the gods, the greedy one was locked up in the blade, his ascent will be his redemption"

The main interest of being a sword is exploring new ways of moving around and overcoming obstacles. Jump, dash, spin or spike to the ground and walls, in other words create your own path.

The game is meant to be challenging, but not unfair or frustrating. The difficulty is a direct reflection of the game lore: the character need of redemption, and the struggle that it implies.

by Alexander Tarvet
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The Longest Walk is a deeply personal biographical documentary walking simulator game about my father's experience of living with depression and suicidal thoughts.

The aim for this game is to help reduce feelings of isolation and encourage those who are struggling with depression or experiencing suicidal thoughts to reach out for help. Through my father's sharing of his personal experience in an open and frank manner, this documentary game aims to raise awareness of and provide an insight into what it is like living with depression in order to provoke discussion and help tackle the stigma about opening-up about mental health issues.

by Subcreation Studio
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Explore several charmed locations on a mysterious island replete with over 55 creative puzzles. Over an approximately two-hour playing duration, you will face unique challenges, ponderous ideas, and feebly amusing in-jokes. The Looker is a single-player game that respects you as an intelligent player, and it treats your time as... reasonably valuable (I mean, don't let me pull you off solving the Riemann hypothesis or anything). As such, I will level with you here—not every joke will be a hit, but there is no filler material, the puzzles are fun, and, if you really think about it, aren't the real solutions the, uhh... friends we make along the way?

by Dim Bulb Games
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The Museum of Mechanics: Lockpicking is an interactive, meticulously recreated selection of lockpicking minigames from a variety of genres across the history of games.

The game presents a collection of minigames in a museum environment that the player can explore, in which each minigame is an exhibit. Each is accompanied by illuminating written commentary covering historical background and context, a description of the mechanics, and some design analysis of how successful the mechanic is in the context of the game.

by Bellular Studios
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You didn't ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

by Rusty Lake
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The Past Within is the new co-op, escape-room-like adventure from Rusty Lake! The game offers an asynchronous co-op experience that doesn't need any connection between devices, as long as players can communicate with each other (face-to-face or via Discord or other voice apps). Play together with someone you deem trustworthy: one in The Past, the other in The Future. Observe and communicate what you see around you. Solve the puzzles and uncover Albert Vanderboom's plan.

by CAVYHOUSE
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Level-up not only your character, but your dungeon itself to score huge bumper crops of items and Magic Circles galore! By continuously exploring deeper and deeper into the dungeon, you can remake (agriculturalize) your dungeon, increasing your strategic efficiency and gradually transforming it into a bountiful and profitable farm in this extremely unique and original Roguelite game combining elements of dungeon exploration and clicker-style gameplay.

by enComplot
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The Season of the Warlock is a horror comedy adventure game inspired by the gothic tale tradition, with two storylines to choose from. The soul of a warlock of yore, trapped in a portrait, will present Lord Alistair Ainsworth with an offer he will not be able to resist. Or will he? It's your call…

by Logic.Cool
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A mysterious detective story on an abandoned ship with an unexpected ending. You need to figure out what happened to the main character, solve many puzzles and tasks. On your way, unforgettable adventures await you.

by AMATA K.K.
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Save the world with Haru, a shrine maiden who quells ""Kami!"" Haru has summoned you to Onogoro Island, a floating island in a parallel world. Together, you must solve sprawling puzzles and defeat giant beasts called ""Kami"" that are blocking your path. An grand adventure awaits you and Haru's bond in this unique Japanese VR action adventure! The Tale of Onogoro was created by producer/director Hiromichi Takahashi and the development team behind the VR Escape-the-Room game Last Labyrinth. Last Labyrinth received numerous accolades at game and VR events worldwide due to its unique VR experience.

by Q-Games
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Social action game focused on town building, exploration and collaboration.

The Tomorrow Children: Phoenix Edition is a multiplayer co-operative action game that takes place within an alternate future. Following a failed experiment to unite the minds of all humanity, the return of civilisation now lies in the hands of Projection Clones; new life forms capable of venturing deep into the Void in search of preserved human survivors.

- Collaborate through town building, resource gathering and mining
- Recover matryoshka dolls containing lost souls and restore the human race
- Visit other player's towns online or play offline in single player mode
- Explore 40+ islands that appear from the Void, abundant with resources, hazards and treasure
- Extensive customisation options including building designs, costumes, items and more
- Live in-game events with a regular update schedule
- Developed using Q-Games' custom engine

Developed by indie studio Q-Games in Kyoto.

by The Pixel Hunt
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The Wreck is s mature 3D visual novel about sisterhood, motherhood, grief and survival. Follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon's story might end in a wreck.

Help Junon find peace with herself by exploring her thoughts, cracking open the secrets in her memories and unlocking a way through tense conversations Be prepared to dive deep into this personal, intensely moving story, and to discover the humor, beauty and hope that lie even on life's bleakest days. When you're at rock bottom, there's nowhere to go but up - but to do that, Junon needs you!

by Francys Caviar
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The writer is anxious. The writer is always anxious. He worries about how to make enough money, about his reputation, about his cat, and finishing a story before the end of the day. The deadline is approaching and he's out of ideas. No story, no pay. What should the writer do? The writer decides to find inspiration, and so begins his adventure…


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Them's Fightin' Herds is a 2D fighting game featuring a cast of adorable animals designed by acclaimed cartoon producer Lauren Faust. Beneath the cute and cuddly surface, a serious fighter awaits! Battle it out in local versus or online with rollback netcode. Streamlined combat mechanics blend accessibility and depth to create a robust combat system designed for both newcomers and veterans alike!

by Hao, Liao
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A game about the beauty of being a fool.

by Triplevision Games Limited
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Inspired by classic god games, survival city-builders and roguelike deck-builders, you'll craft a deck of cards to raise islands from the sea, build settlements for your followers and keep them alive as famine threatens, forests burn and raiders loom on the horizon.

In These Doomed Isles, you play as one of a choice of Gods who must take control of a civilization and build & defend island settlements for them. Use your powers to harvest resources, provide shelter for your followers & protect your settlement from attacks, plague, starvation & more. Place land to expand, but beware of what lurks beyond the horizon!

by Sound Rascal & awesome collaborators
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A call-and-response rhythm game like Space Channel 5 or PaRappa the Rapper, but with zombies! Start off with the Narrator's tale about a boy who starts hearing a mysterious warning about the moon. Then, play rhythm gameplay to guide new heroes Zoe and Dennis against a zombie invasion. Can you help them save the day? This game is a Rhythm Short, shorter than your average game. But it's priced appropriately and has some great original music, voice acting, and art. If you're a rhythm game fan, I bet you'll love it! It's also blind accessible! On iOS, it features an accessible control mode and iOS VoiceOver support. On Windows PC, it has SAPI and NVDA screen reader support. Available now on the iOS App Store and on itch.io!

by Sebastián Blanco - Guido Gallego - Dana More - Juan Plou
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Think outside the cube is an experimental puzzle game that needs your lateral thinking abilities.

by Lowbirth Games
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This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links the clients together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!

by Soojin Rho
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This Too Shall Pass is a game based on the Buddhist conception of the universe. According to the Buddhist understanding, the universe is an endlessly changing, enormous web that is woven of innumerable threads. Mutual dependence exists between the parts and the whole, and the entire universe is interdependent. As a result of the interactions of causes and conditions, all things in the universe come into being and vanish.

As an example of use, this game contains images of the political conflicts related to North Korea. These images appear and return to the whole, in the hope that politicians remember that their profits are only ephemeral and that they reflect on their narrowminded and selfish policies, which make so many people miserable. These images are replaced as users select their own pictures.

(Full description is posted on website)

by Zeboyd Digital Entertainment LLC
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Shakespeare and Magical Girls, what could be better? Save the worlds of Shakespeare from the forces of Nightmare in this fast-paced turn-based JRPG comedy from the creators of Cosmic Star Heroine and Cthulhu Saves the World.

by Rolldbox Games
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Those Who Came: Healing Solarus is a science fiction cooperative adventure with RPG components in which you must survive on a hostile planet while you save it. All this dealing with challenges and dangers that will require your lateral thinking. Using solo mechanics in the meantime or cooperating with up to 4 friends! The objective: cooperating instead of conquering. Healing instead of killing!

Key Elements

4 Energies at your disposal in order to move through Solarus: Choose your own style using the Energy with different shapers: Airy, Ether, Firei & Jointer.

Play solo or with a team of up to 4 friends! Inside a campaign with plenty of challenges to stop Bineok and their experiment.

Explore and find the different suits to interact with the World and restore life in Solarus to transform it into your new home.

The more you heal, the better the outcome: You could face the final challenge with much more advantages as long as you take care of the planet.

Enjoy the Arcade mode where you can defy your friends in competitive arenas: the team who corrupts Solarus against the team who wants to heal it. But beware, the suits are limited! Seize the versatility of the 4 Energies using them in the most creative ways on your opponents and colleagues.

by GamesByBrandii
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What would you do in the face of trauma? Three Days is a visual novel with point-and-click mechanics used to convey the story of a grieving family torn apart by trauma. Challenge your views as you fight to keep your family from falling to pieces in this dramatic game of love, loss, and pregnancy.

by WilKGames
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Tikus Tales is a colorful 3D action/platformer full of obstacles, interesting puzzles and fights. You play as Tikus, a mouse who unwillingly gets chosen by an alien race to track down one of their corrupted leaders and take him down. The aliens' advanced technology grants Tikus super-mouse abilities, in addition to enhancing his battle prowess. Tikus must master his skills and various weapons if he ever hopes to return to his mundane life of enjoying cheese and being an ordinary mouse.

by Mechanistry
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Timberborn is a city-building game where lumberpunk beavers reign supreme. The hyperintelligent animals control rivers simulated with water physics, build advanced cities full of vertical architecture, and terraform the wasteland. Their ultimate goal is simple - to survive the ever-deadlier droughts.

by Joel Jordon
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A who̴͊leso̶̬̙̍me idle adventure with a dark secret. At your relaxing new job, you manage resources while completing tasks slowly over time. By saving the game and coming back later, you are invited to reflect on your subjective experience of time and to challenge the forces that shape it. As this anti-capitalist dark comedy unfolds slowly over actual days and weeks, you will uncover a company's conspiracy to control your time--and make the plan to steal it back.

by Kibou Entertainment
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Ascend the tower to save your grandfather in this classic, hardcore action-platformer. The Tower of Mu is waiting for you... Push past each check point to the next awaiting challenge; dashing, jumping, and slinging your way up to the towers peak. Die. learn. Overcome.

by Rogue Sun
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Behind every brilliant invention, hides a magical story. From members of the team that brought you Fable, comes Tin Hearts – an immersive puzzle adventure game wrapped in a powerful tale of love and compromise. Guide a troop of mischievous tin soldiers through a magical toy-filled world using a variety of whimsical and inventive contraptions to bounce, shoot and glide them to their goal. March through 40+ levels of time-bending, soldier-routing riddles, forge new paths for your toys to follow, and solve increasingly elaborate puzzles to unravel the emotional, thought-provoking story, of Albert J. Butterworth, a genius inventor of Victorian times.

by Splashteam
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Catch hundreds of tinykin and use their unique powers to bring Milo back to his home planet and back to normal size!

by Flan Falacci
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Tragedy is comedy & comedy is tragedy. In this dying simulator game, sacrifice your life to save the one you love from drowning in the icy waters of the Atlantic, sink to the bottom of the ocean floor and experience the strange, eccentric, haunting world between life and death, memory and reality. This game was made with love and sincerity and memes and grief and pain for all to enjoy.

by La Poule Noire / ARTE France
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In To Hell With the Ugly, you play as Rock Bailey, a blond and strikingly handsome young man who systematically refuses all advances made to him. And for good reason : he stubbornly saves himself until the day he turns 20. One night, however, everything changes when he is drugged and kidnapped outside the Zooty Slammer jazz club and wakes up in a strange hospital. Why would anyone want to abduct Rocky? Can you track down his kidnappers? Help Rocky get to the bottom of his kidnapping, and find out who is behind this horrible scheme. Investigate Los Angeles in the 50s Adapted from the novel of the same name by Boris Vian, To Hell With the Ugly is a turn-based combat and point & click adventure game set in a film noir atmosphere. Unravel the mystery surrounding your kidnapping by exploring some of LA's most secret corners. Gather clues by interviewing locals, and interact with your environment to find the truth. But some information won't be delivered so easily. Use your fists to persuade the most stubborn to help you in your quest.

by //commentout
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You find yourself trapped in a mysterious tower – one that transforms its very structure every 24 hours. The legacy of your epic struggle shall be carved into the hearts of those who challenge you like an epitaph. Surpass countless poor fallen souls and make your way to the heretofore unseen top!

by Final Screw
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Escape the tower by summoning minions and guiding them to the exit! Tower Escape is a "Reverse Tower Defense" game where you play as the baddies. Build a deck of minions, relics, and spells, then guide your minions to pick up treasure and keys to the next level.

by Kraken Empire
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A physics-based RTS game with a unique control system. Lead legendary warriors from distant ages in their quest for glory! Command your troops by just drawing your formations on the battlefield. Surround, ambush, deceive.. faster than ever! Your imagination is the limit.

by Andi Bissig
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TR33 is a short explorative music game about depression and mindfulness. The game is hard to describe. Best you just play it. It is short ;) Features: - No action - No puzzles - No 3D Graphics - No sound effects - A lot of music - Trees - Hand picked colors - Multiple endings (and at least one is (somehow) positive) - Exclusive experience (no one knows the game)

by Angry Mob Games
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Take control of your parallel selves on a mission to save the dying multiverse in this rogue-lite action platformer!

Explore dark, sci-fi worlds and engage in fast-paced, smooth and precise combat.

by ISOMETRICORP Games Ltd.
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Crafted to evoke feelings of classic action adventure games, TUNIC stars a heroic little fox as they explore a foreign land that hides danger around every corner. Discover unique items, new combat techniques, and arcane secrets as our hero forges their way through an intriguing new world. Confront colossal beasts, collect strange and powerful items, and unravel long-lost secrets.

by Kodomo Studio
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Umiko is a solo top-down adventure game set in a poetic and colorful world. The player has to explore the earth and the sea to find children's spirits and bring them back to their mother to stop an ongoing flood.

This game is a graduation project made by seven students from New3Dge that was done during our last year at school. It's a complete game (not a demo) with its own unique universe inspired by Genshin Impact and Studio Ghibli's movies. The game is approximately 15min long. Here is the full pitch :

On a peaceful island lives a shrine maiden named Umiko. Her goal as a maiden has always been to make sure that the local Kami, Kurage, and her children get their offerings every day.

But everything changed when, one day, she woke up late and forgot her duty. Kurage's children went hungry and left their mother's domain to find some food. Kurage started crying about the loss of her children and her tears flooded the island.

Umiko knows what she has to do, find the children and bring them back to Kurage to appease her and stop the flood.

by Godolphin Games
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*Can you save the world… using nothing but your voice!?*

'Unknown Number: A First Person Talker' is an innovative voice-controlled adventure for PC –experienced entirely through a series of interactive "phone calls".

It tells the story of a high-stakes heist aboard an abandoned oil rig, that all starts a mysterious voicemail. Before long, you'll be cracking passwords, tricking guards, impersonating oil executives, and fighting the climate apocalypse, all with your voice.

Use your voice to:
-NAVIGATE a maze-like oil rig under time pressure
-DECODE cryptic passphrases to unlock treasure vaults
-MANIPULATE henchmen into abandoning their guard posts
-PLEDGE your allegiance to a creepy underground eco-movement
-IMPERSONATE high-profile oil execs on conference calls
-MAKE crucial moral decisions that impact the story
-And of course, TELL your fair share of knock-knock jokes

Along the way you'll be talking directly to a rich cast of fully-voiced characters. Chief among those characters are Amanda and Ethan – the two eco-warriors who dialed your number by mistake, in the chaos of a botched heist.

The game also includes several ARG elements - such as using real-world websites to solve in-game puzzles. The first of these is the website for SLIGOIL - a fictional petrochemical company, headed up by multi-billionaire Lara Sligo. As the fates of Amanda, Ethan, and Lara entwine, it's up to the player to untangle an increasingly complex moral quagmire… and maybe, just maybe, get out alive.

Will you answer the call?

by DEVELOPER: Epic Llama Games PUBLISHER: ESDigital Games
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ABOUT THIS GAME It's the 80s and the Christmas is coming, Vinny, Nick and Tony are young and their new cable signal descrambler just arrived. That same night while trying to decrypt a pay per view adult channel, they pick up the distress signal of an alien spaceship crash-landing in the woods near their town… Things only get weirder as they realize that the towering alien is killing very specific members of their community! Explore the world oozing with nostalgia, check the Video Buster Store for clues, challenge other kids at the Laser Llamas Arcades, go learn a new trick at The Emerald Sword comic store, try to get along with the punk looking Lost Boys at their hideout or even dare to ask THE BULL, the quintessential 80s Action hero, for some help! Follow the story that pays tribute to 80s classics like The Goonies, The Explorers, Monster Squad, The Lost Boys, They Live, Terminator, and Aliens among others and a gameplay that combines mechanics of Point and Clicks masterpieces like Full Throttle with its own unique twist and more. Your decisions do matter, and the way you make these three friends interact with each other increasingly affects their friendship and the whole story, changing the way they solve the game puzzles, the locations they visit, the answers they find, the story, everything. Uncover the truth hidden behind the alien invasion… well sort of. Why here? Why is it killing locals? How can the boys stop it? Will they tune in the adult channel after all? The answers to these and other questions… in Unusual Findings. KEY FEATURES Follow the Sci-Fi coming-of-age story. Three friends fighting together against the unknown… things (maybe against some known things too). See, Grab and Talk action tokens, an inventory to use and combine items and your wits it's all you need to play. Stylized Pixel Art. All the charm of pixel art of the past with more colors and the new effects of the future. Some pixels look so real they can almost jump out of the screen* Go back to a simpler time where mix tapes were a thing, Commodore 64 was a king, kids could play outside late at night and the only thing to worry about was THE GIANT KILLER ALIEN TRYING TO GET YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS. The decisions you make affect the relations between characters and thus the puzzles, the game progression and the story. The most radical music a synthesizer can play. Cool popular Synthwave Music alongside catchy tunes made exclusively for the game to power up the 80s vibes. *The pixels do not actually jump out of the screen, In case you actually see a pixel jumping out the screen please visit an ophthalmologist... or/and look for psychological help.

by Frostwood Interactive
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Unwording is a narrative-driven puzzle game about happiness, gratitude, and the power of our thoughts. You play as Tom, a lonely, average guy with a tendency to see the negative in everything. A messy bed screams "give up!", and an empty inbox confirms that no one cares about him. Everywhere he looks, the world shows him what he lacks. Until one day, he forgets to shut his window and lets a little yellow bird into his life. Featuring a soft, emotional score by Trevor Kowalski, Unwording takes you through three very different days of Tom's life, exploring his neighborhood and interpreting his thoughts by solving word puzzles. As his perception changes, his worldview widens, allowing Tom to explore the hidden dimensions of his life.

by The Lemur Conspiracy
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Vactics is a tactical mech builder set in Solitude City in 2085 AD. The people of the city were in conflict with each other. Just like shifting mechanical districts they inhabited, they had drifted apart. Their mechanical servants, the Vactics, determined that their role was to split the city further and so the war began. The player joins the resistance to build a mech to fight the robotic Vactics and liberate the city. But the teckno-paradise city itself also stands in the way with its constantly changing districts and streets. Each mech brought into battle faces a new randomly generated challenge to overcome in this turn-based strategy game.

by Veritable Joy Studios
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Set in the Jercy City area, ValiDate is a visual novel about 13 struggling singles navigating the harsh realities of love and life. Running the gamut from independent living, financial difficulties, and raising children on their own, our cast of 20-something millennials learn that growth does not end when a person comes of age and is only a precursor to quarter-life crises. Shenanigans ensue.

by Nachtvlam
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A magical card game where you duel wizards using AI generated poetry. Travel a rich world, meet fellow wizards, collect cards and build a deck that will inspire enchanting poetry!

by Neon Artery
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Vessels of Decay is a retro-inspired action-adventure set in post-apocalyptic Scandinavia. You'll follow siblings Freja and Mud as they navigate an overgrown world, one where monsters of myth and ancient folklore now reign…

by Tattle Civic Tech and Adhiraj Singh
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Viral Spiral is an online, in-browser, multiplayer card game about misinformation, the chaos it creates, and the reasons we share it. Players take on the role of social media users in a world similar, but just different enough, to ours. The game incentivizes players to have the highest amount of 'clout' by sharing cards that have the potential to 'go viral'. Player can either rely on the kindness of strangers (other players) to pass their card on - or make sure that they share cards that strangers would be *more inclined* to share, based on the latter's likes, interests, and biases. Viral Spiral is a game about polarizing and inaccurate news. It mimics the real world in that individual's aren't penalized for missed facts or clues. Instead, the game leaves it to the player to decide whether they want to share the information (cards) for tactical reasons or not. The information shared has direct impact on the other players, some who might be allies. With each bit of misinformation shared, the world is pushed closer to the brink of destruction, all for a little bit of clout.

by Eric Merz (Design, Art, Programming), Rachel Evelyn Morgan (Soundtrack), Simon Sweetman (Promotional Art)
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Virtue's Heaven is a game about infinite Dogs, radical Friends and the End of History. Players will explore a world on the verge of collapse, free their friends from imprisonment and with them fight to create a future where a person's worth is neither defined by their ability to work for the benefit of others, nor their ownership of private property.

by Short Sleeve Studio
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It's time to don your fedora and hone your hoodoo in Voodoo Detective, a story-rich 2D point-and-click adventure.

The year is 1934, the place: New Ginen, an island paradise swimming in Voodoo culture, drowning in tourists. Your name is Voodoo Detective, a wise-cracking private investigator with a chip on your shoulder and a hole in your pocket. Her name is Mary Fontule, and when she walks through your door, she brings with her a mystery so profound it threatens to unravel the very fabric of existence!

If you are looking for adventure, you will find it in this whimsical, puzzle-filled, Voodoo noir!

by Tilt Studios, Inc.
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Practice learning a foreign language by solving mysteries in this mix of the classic text adventure and point-and-click genres.

Play as Penny, a private investigator, as she takes on her first missing person's case.
Rummage through your friend's belongings.
Break into a house looking for clues.
Fast talk your way out of getting arrested.

by Alex Gerassimov
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The Wandering Duelist is a single-player, narrative-driven adventure game that tells a story of love, conflict and reckless actions. The player explores a small and lively planet, where residents perform their daily tasks while often acting as obstacles and dangers.

by Anthony Tambrin
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It's a (very) casual action battle game, but there is neither blood nor gore here, only armies of cute sprites fighting each other and spewing out stars upon being hit. When your team "kill" other team units, they transform into your units, growing yours and shrinking them. Your mission is then: dominate the other teams until all of them become yours. Strategise, dominate, and win!

by ghost pattern
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Wayward Strand is a heartfelt story told in a curious way.

Hop aboard an airborne hospital and meet its fully-voiced cast of eclectic characters. As time passes for everyone on board, explore the interwoven lives of the patients and staff; discover something new on each and every playthrough.

by Team OFK
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Indie pop virtual band + interactive narrative series - We Are OFK is an experiment in crossing industry borders - a virtual band signed to a major record label; written, produced and performed by pop musicians; a visual workflow built from the LA animation industry, and a game design that set out to be a TV/game hybrid that would truly be accessible for anyone who fell in love with OFK's music - all run independently with no publisher, and owned by a diverse team whose backgrounds gel with the protagonists' families, careers, and queerness that they ask the audience to connect with. A story of four friends and a hologram cat, just trying to make something small from the heart, and get it out into the world.

The Los Angeles indie pop group debuted their first single Follow/Unfollow onstage at The Game Awards in 2020. In August 2022 they premiered We Are OFK - a video game biopic & playable E.P. - on Nintendo, PlayStation, and PC. A collaboration led by director & vocalist Teddy Dief (Hyper Light Drifter) with visual artists Nafisah Tung & Jenny Yu (Carmen Sandiego), screenwriter Claire Jia (Fresh Off the Boat, Nora from Queens), songwriters Luna Shadows & Thomas Powers (The Naked and Famous), developers Jarryd Huntley (Art Club Challenge) & Adriel Wallick (Among Us), animator Taylor Reynolds, manager Mikayla Foote, composer Omniboi, sound designer Akash Thakkar and more.

A virtual indie band and creative team - not stars, just artists trying to get by.

by Flat Head Studio
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Work together with yourself in VR! We Are One is a puzzle shooter where you solve mind-bending puzzles by cloning yourself and playing with time loops. Cleverly plan ahead and cooperate with your own clones - the only help you really need (and get) is yourself! "We Are One" in a nutshell: *All your teammates are You. If you want something done right do it yourself! *Big-brain puzzles meet action-packed shooter elements *Experience a variety of levels with increasing challenges and new twists for you to overcome in your OWN way! *A unique art style, where watercolor textures meet digitally drawn lines and moody vibes! *Perfect for VR beginners and experienced users - It's easy to pick up, but challenging to master! *No artificial locomotion and only teleportation is used

by Rarebyte
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The multiverse is in danger! Alone or in a team of up to 4 people, slide into the pilot's seat, operate a turret, become a mechanic or even a janitor. There is a lot to do and no time to lose! Jump in and go above and beyond, where no one has ever screwed up before!

We Are Screwed! is a chaotic couch co-op space action game for 1-4 players. Working as a team, you and your fellow Space Cadets must pilot, shoot turrets, extinguish fires, clean up, fix, recycle, defend yourself against swarms of enemies!

by Heart Shaped Games
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We Are The Caretakers is a 3D grand strategy RPG set in a post-apocalyptic afrofuturist world. Recruit, train and manage a secret faction of high-tech protectors ("The Caretakers") to unite the world and defend the endangered creatures your planet relies on. Confront a mysterious alien ship as the massive energy barrier protecting your society falls. Grow a resistance of over 100 characters while managing your reputation, funds, animals, and alliances.

by Cowleyfornia Studios
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We'll always have Paris is a narrative experience about loving someone with dementia.

It tells the story of Simon Smith, a retired chef who lives with Claire, his wife of fifty years. Claire is slowly losing
her memory, and Simon must balance his love for her with his desire to maintain normality and autonomy
over the confusion that is infiltrating both their lives.

We'll always have Paris is a wholesome game that explores the lived experience of memory loss, and the
beauty of a love that lasts two lifetimes.

by PepprStones
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[Game introduction]

Wetory is an adventure story 3D rogue-like game about a child whose feet leak water colors and strives to regain lost colors.

It is composed of cartoon-style graphics that give a fairytale feeling, and offers a night sky fireworks-like experience through achromatic background design that matches the story and the contrasting water-colored effect.
[Unique way of playing games]

Wetory must be played strategically as the player cannot utilize direct attacks, but must, instead, employ tactics of tile interaction and avoidance.
The gameplay provides a unique experience unlike any other.
[Following own your way of playing with various skills]

As the player progresses through the game, taking back lost colors, each color unlocks new capabilities with unique attack characteristics.
Depending the player's progression in the game, the colors and skill tree can be freely changed to create a variety of game styles for each instance of the game.

by Studio Voyager & IguanaBee
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A bombastic puzzle platformer about worlds turned inside out. Shift dimensions at the push of a button, solve brain-twisting logistical riddles, and race through the wilds of the multiverse in a bleakly hilarious (and hilariously bleak) story where everything you know can turn on a dime.

by Triband
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You have baseball bats for hands. Now go! In this surprising VR comedy, you play through a series of silly physical mini-games that make you laugh, cry and even pet nice animals. Embrace a new level of chaos and silliness in WHAT THE BAT?!

by Saman Bemel-Benrud
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The Divine Garden was supposed to be paradise on earth. But something's gone wrong. Only a shaman like yourself can restore balance. Explore an expansive maze-like garden, harness magical artifacts, wrangle restless spirits, and evade dangerous intruders as you uncover the mysteries behind the garden's decay.

Wilderplace is a turn-based spatial puzzle game where gameplay and narrative are intertwined. Navigate a world filled with mischievous spirits transforming victims into trees, mining robots extracting resources from the garden, hapless loggers harvesting trees, mindless automatons reshaping the garden, and many more denizens with their own goals and priorities. The garden's denizens interact with you, but they also interact with each other. For example, logger's will set aside their hunt for the nearest tree in order to chase down and dismantle mining robots.

by Arianna Ravioli
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The first breakthrough for Alex came when her best friend Vince realized that some memories are not meant to be kept. The second coincided when she was hired by Dewitt Corp.

On paper, the task is simple: to delete her clients' painful memories so that they could be happy again. Her new job begins in two days.
Alex will find herself lonely and in the middle of nowhere with an assignment that no one wants to do. She must make hard choices. Her entire world resides in her computer, but reality will keep intruding. All she can do is pray and hope that nothing bad will happen to her family while she is stuck in virtual hell.

Will Die Alone is a journey through painful memories. It's a game about loss, the role of the past, and possible futures. Every choice comes with a price. Will you be willing to pay?

by Dotemu
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Windjammers 2 is combining everything fans love about the classic title with entirely hand-drawn 2D animations to create the ultimate windjamming experience. The sequel brings new stages and players, surprising and amazing new power moves and enhanced gameplay mechanics!

by Kiwi Walks
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'WitchSpring R' is a story-based RPG that combines elements of training, crafting, and exploring. Train your friendly Witch "Pieberry" and utilize strategic turn-based combat to outwit the invading warriors and claim your most sought-after prize: delicious pies!

by Sundew Studios
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You have two weeks to save the harvest festival! Tend your garden and collect plants for spells and rituals to help the villagers of Flora. After all, if magic isn't for solving everyday problems, what's the point of a village witch anyway? A cozy story filled with chaos, friendship, and romance!

by Animal Uprising
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Wobbledogs is a 3D pet simulation where you raise your own personal hive of rapidly mutating dogs, physically simulated all the way down to their guts! It's a casual and chill sandbox experience for players of all ages who want to care for their very own virtual pets in a surprising, unique, and stress-free environment. The dogs start out relatively normal, but mutate and behave in surprising ways as the game progresses and their evolutionary lines advance.

by Ascetic
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A slow-paced, story-driven, first-person game that offers an abstract and surrealistic exploration of a troubled mind in its journey towards acceptance. Step into the mind of a troubled artist as she discovers her relationships and responsibilities to accept her role in a tragic death. - Discover a mysterious and mature story that rewards exploration and interpretation. - Solve unique puzzles that represent relationships and an emotional journey. - Explore grim and claustrophobic environments filled with small details. 'words' is a story-driven puzzle game where you will explore various interior environments that reflect the theme of the narrative. While exploring, you will also solve diverse puzzles that are directly linked to the theme of the story.

by Studio Drydock
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Join Tara on a heartfelt journey to become a witch in Wylde Flowers. Farm by day, and cast spells by night as you craft your cottagecore life and bond with your coven. Come to know and love the fully voice acted characters of Fairhaven, as you unravel a local mystery.