Ambition: A Minuet in Power
Nominated for the Audio Design Award
Description: You’re a woman of fashion trying to survive the French Revolution. Date a cast of unforgettable characters. Amass wealth, respect, and gossip! Alter the course of history, and escape the guillotine.
Single Player
Platforms: Steam, GOG, Nintendo Switch
Status: Released
Artholomew Video’s Stream Challenge
Nominated for the Performance Award
Description: A suite of creative performances played live on Twitch! Type into chat to direct paintings, dance, music and storytelling, or hop in front of the camera and become your audience’s very own art-puppet!
Online Multiplayer
Platforms: Twitch, itch.io
Status: Released
Ghost on the Shore
Nominated for the Narrative Award
Description: Driven by branching dialogue choices, Ghost on the Shore tells the story of Riley, a young woman who arrives on a desolate island; Josh, a headstrong ghost; and the relationship that develops between the two, while exploring the crumbling homes of the island’s former occupants.
Single Player
Platforms: PC, Mac
Status: Released
Inua – A Story in Ice and Time
Nominated for the Performance Award
Description: Inua is a point-and-click narrative game where three protagonists travel to the same locations in the far north decades apart. Explore each era and collect ideas to change the course of history.
Single Player
Platforms: PC, Mac, Mobile, Nintendo Switch
Status: Released
Lost in Play
Nominated for the Visual Design Award
Description: The bizarre and dreamlike world of Lost in Play is filled with mystery, unique puzzles, and mini-games. Challenge a pirate seagull to a game of clicking crabs, serve magical tea to a royal toad, and collect pieces to build a flying machine. Be a part of this modern point & click game that will reward your curiosity and leave you excited for the next piece of story.
Single Player
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch
Status: Released
Mini Maker: Make A Thing
Nominated for the Systemic Design Award
Description: In Mini Maker, you can make any ‘thing’! Use an arsenal of plastic limbs, wonky tools, stickers and googly eyes to assemble creations, please demanding clients, and laugh in the face of perfectionism.
Split Screen Co-op
Platforms: PC
Status: Released
Remember August
Nominated for the Tabletop Design Award
Description: Remember August is an experimental live keepsake game by Shing Yin Khor, about forgotten friendships and lost memories, played to the ritual and cadence of sending and receiving postal mail.
Single Player
Platforms: Tabletop
Status: Released
Svoboda 1945: Liberation
Nominated for the Impact and Narrative Awards
Description: Talk to witnesses of the chaotic aftermath of World War 2 and discover the secret history of your own family in a captivating story about reconciliation with the dark past.
Single Player
Platforms: PC, Mac, iOS, Nintendo Switch
Status: Released
The Last Clockwinder
Nominated for the Performance Award
Description: Use a pair of gloves to turn any of your own actions into a looping clockwork automaton, then make an interconnected system of automatons to grow plants, harvest resources, and save an ancient tree!
Single Player
Platforms: VR
Status: Released
The Wild at Heart
Nominated for the Visual Design Award
Description: The Wild at Heart is a story-rich action-adventure game about childhood escapism. Players take command of a magical swarm of curious creatures to battle precarious wildlife and supernatural foes, construct and craft new pathways, and discover the secrets of a forgotten world.
Single Player
Platforms: PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch
Status: Released
Backbone
Nominated for the Visual Design Award
Description: Backbone is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Single Player
Platforms: PC
Status: Released
Atuel
Nominated for the Impact Award
Description: Atuel is a surrealist documentary game in which you traverse an oneiric landscape inspired by the topography and wildlife of the Atuel River, in Argentina. The game utilizes clips from interviews with locals, exploring our intimate and historic relationships with land and nature.
Single Player
Platforms: PC
Status: Released
Babble Royale
Nominated for the Systemic Design Award
Description: Babble Royale is an intense multiplayer free-for-all that combines word-making skill with fast-paced tactical and strategic action. Outwit, outspell, and outlast your opponents to have the Last Word!
Multiplayer
Platforms: PC, Mac
Status: Released
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Nominated for the Visual Design Award
Description: Gibbon: Beyond the Trees is a hopeful game about the beauty of wilderness and the destructive force of human civilization. Players must master a dynamic movement system to swing, slide and somersault through a hand-painted jungle, experiencing the story of a lost gibbon searching for home amid rising devastation.
Single Player
Platforms: iOS, PC, Nintendo Switch
Status: Released
Kitchen Kauldron
Nominated for the Live Action Award
Description: Join Wendy the Witch’s crew and help turn her struggling magical business venture around. Serve fantastical creatures and embark through magical lands in a real-life gamified food truck experience.
Multiplayer
Platforms: Live-Action Roleplay, Interactive Set
Status: Released
MAZES Fantasy Roleplaying
Nominated for the Tabletop Design Award
Description: MAZES Fantasy Roleplaying is a TTRPG inspired by classic sword & sorcery dungeon crawlers from the 70s but built for today with the elegant, easy to learn, fast to play polymorph rules system.
Multiplayer
Platforms: Tabletop
Status: Released
Slender Threads
Nominated for the Performance Award
Description: Slender Threads is a point-and-click thriller adventure where unseen forces bind the fate of an unremarkable traveling salesman to the peculiar town he one day arrives in.
Single Player
Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Android, iOS
Status: Demo Available
The Shape of Time
Nominated for the Narrative Award
Description: The Shape of Time presents the philosophical reflection on modern time, the process that the contemporary sense of time derails into atomic time, and gives some methods that may save time.
Single Player
Platform: PC, itch.io in-browser build
Status: Released
Unpacking
Nominated for the Narrative Award
Description: Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home, while telling the life story of a woman through the items she owns.
Single Player
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation, GOG
Status: Released
TIKATMOS
Nominated for the Live Action Award
Description: In the future, humanity has wiped itself out, but every other entity on Earth has become sentient and escaped together in a ship to find a new home. You run the information kiosk at that ship’s mall.
Single Player
Platforms: Custom Voice-Controlled Installation
Apotheorasis • Lab of the Blind Gods
Nominated for the Audio Design Award
Description: Apotheorasis is an FPS with zero graphics – close your eyes and let the 3D audio immerse you in its dark and twisted narrative, as you run, blast and dodge your way to the truth.
Single Player
Platforms: PC
Status: Released
Birds Don’t Cry At Sunrise
Nominated for the Impact Award
Description: Birds Don’t Cry at Sunrise is a short, narrative-driven psychological horror game about beliefs and family, where the players become ‘Lin,’ a girl who woke up to her house morphed into a nightmare.
Single Player
Platforms: PC, Mac
Status: Released
Creative Dying Card Game
Nominated for the Tabletop Design Award
Description: Creative Dying is a conversation game that offers a low-stakes, accessible way to have meaningful discussions about life, death and dying, with ways to play in-person and remotely.
Multiplayer
Platform: Cards
Status: Released
Gambling Paradise: The Escape Call
Nominated for the Live Action Award
Description: Gambling Paradise: The Escape Call is an immersive alternative controller escape game where you have to guide your AI partner through a casino while dodging the guards so you can escape with the loot!
Single Player
Platforms: Cathode Ray Television Installation
Status: In Development
IDEA
Nominated for the Visual Design Award
Description: IDEA is about discovering and sharing your ideas. Explore gorgeous landscapes captured by drones! Get lost and help your ideas find their way. Share your own thoughts with the world when getting stuck!
Single Player
Platforms: PC and Mac
Status: Demo Available
Long Story: a deep time LARP
Nominated for the Live Action Award
Description: Join a multi-species cast on a journey into the future. Travel hundreds and millions of years to explore a restless world: hot and swampy one era, cool and arid the next. How will you adapt?
Multiplayer
Platform: LARP, Downloadable
Status: Published
Midnight Protocol
Nominated for the Systemic Design Award
Description: A tactical narrative-driven RPG with unique keyboard-only controls. Hack into servers, beat security systems and discover encrypted secrets while you try to find answers to why and how you got doxxed.
Single Player
Platforms: PC, Mac, GOG
Status: Released
Radio Ghost
Nominated for the Live Action Award
Description: A 3-player audio driven, walking game. You are a ghost-hunter, broadcasting your journey through a haunted Mall. Tune into the sounds of DJ IVA, making you long for a time that never existed.
Single Player
Platform: Android
Status: Released
Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator
Nominated for the Systemic Design Award
Description: Buy, sell, and trade organs in a strange and evolving universe. Dive into the quivering innards of alien capitalism in the sci-fi body horror market tycoon game you didn’t know you needed. You are an Organ Trader, the funnel for fleshy meat parts into a strange, evolving, and desperate universe full of clients.
Single Player
Platforms: PC, Xbox, Nintendo Switch
Status: Released
The Fabulous Fear Machine
Nominated for the Visual Design Award
Description: The Fabulous Fear Machine is a narrative-driven strategy game with a pulp horror style. As the Machine’s new Master, you must sow fear & expand your influence through resource management & espionage.
Single Player
Platforms: PC
Status: In Development
The Wandering Village
Nominated for the Systemic Design Award
Description: The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus.
Single Player
Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux, Coming to Xbox
Status: Early Access
