Tick Tock: A Tale for Two
by Other Tales Interactive

Honoring the delicate art and craftsmanship of crafting experiences that require and gain meaning from playing together.

Tick Tock: A Tale for Two is an eerie two-player co-op adventure, band together with your best friend and try to escape a magical clockworld. Communication and collaboration is key!

Blabyrinth
by Sleeping Beast Games

Honoring the craftsmanship of algorithms and procedures that help create innovative and responsive works of interactivity and play.

Blabyrinth is a cooperative escape room that changes every time you play! Explore a mysterious labyrinth. Find cryptic clues, secret passages, solve puzzles, and escape with the treasure.

Inhuman Conditions
by Tommy Maranges, Cory O’Brien, & Mackenzie Schubert

Honoring works crafted to be played with words, paper, and objects, leveraging the human imagination as a processor and human companionship as a reward.

From the creators of Secret Hitler and Monster Prom, Inhuman Conditions is a 5 minute, two-player interrogation game that will finally reveal which of your friends have been robots all along.

Ama’s Momento
by Awu C., Maryyann L., & Kevin K.

Honoring works which leverage spaces and human bodies in space to create playful, crafted experience.

‘Ama’s Momento’ is a multimedia installation filled with interactive and immersive stories. It is a memory portal which uses virtual reality to creatively document our team’s journey as young storytellers traveling to Taiwan to meet with Ama.

When Rivers Were Trails
by Elizabeth LaPensée & The Indian Land Tenure Foundation

Honoring works that reimagine how a well known tale, genre, or system can be explored within the context of play.

When Rivers Were Trails is an Indigenous take on Oregon Trail meets Where the Water Tastes Like Wine set in 1890’s at the height of the impact of land allotment.

Neo Cab
by Chance Agency / Fellow Traveller

Honoring the artistry of storytellers innovating the ways that we communicate meaning and play with stories.

Stay human in a world overcome by automation in Neo Cab! Play as Lina, one of the last human drivers on the streets of Los Ojos. Choose your passengers and how you interact, to balance your star rating and your emotional well-being.

The Occupation
by White Paper Games

Honoring the craftsmanship and artistry of vocal and physical performers elevating works of interactivity and play.

The Occupation is a first person, fixed-time, investigative thriller set in North West England created by White Paper Games. You play as a journalist in a systems-driven world where people react to your actions and time is your biggest enemy.

Grace Bruxner Presents: The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game
by Grace Bruxner, Thomas Bowker, Dan Golding

Honoring the game that impresses and surprises with depth, innovation, and artistry.

A small sloth has been haunted for weeks by a mysterious ghost that nobody can seem to track down. There’s a mystery afoot, and the only one who can solve it is the renowned investigator known simply as The Detective. Finding clues and questioning suspects is just part of the job for such an experienced frog, but this case is a tough fly to catch.

Moncage
by Dong Zhou & Yijia Chen

Honoring works which transport and transform the player through a skillfully crafted experience.

Moncage is a visual puzzle game. A world is trapped inside a mysterious cube, and each face of this cube will display a different scene. The player will need to rotate this cube and find out the connections among the scenes and thus unravel the secrets of the inner world.

HOT SWAP: All Hands On Deck
by Peter Gyory & Clement Zheng

Honoring the craftsmanship and innovation behind unique interaction, hardware, and system design.

HOT SWAP: All Hands On Deck is a two player cooperative arcade survival game were players must swap out and trade inputs on their controllers survive the onslaught of approaching enemy ships.

Dicey Dungeons
by Team Dicey Dungeons

Recognizes the game among our 59 nominees bringing together the best qualities of this year’s festival.

Dicey Dungeons is, at its heart, a deckbuilding RPG – you fight monsters, find better loot, and level up your hero – but with one important twist: dice rolling! Wait, no, come back! It’s better than it sounds!

Nightmare Temptation Academy
by Lena NW & Costcodreamgurl

Nightmare Temptation Academy is a dating-simulation/choose your own adventure/roleplaying game that is also a rap musical. The game is set in high school in an alternate universe at the end of the world.

Patrick’s Parabox
by Patrick Traynor

The IndieCade Developers Choice Award is voted on by nominated IndieCade Festival developers.

Patrick’s Parabox is a puzzle game about playing with recursion and infinities by pushing boxes into and out of each other. Each box contains its own 2-dimensional space that other boxes can enter and exit, creating ever deeper layers of boxes-within-boxes. This unique system gives rise to mind-bending puzzles which require a whole new way of thinking.

Kroma
by Carol Mertz, Kai Karhu, Francesca Carletto-Leon, & Temitope Olujobi

The IndieCade Choice Award is voted on by media and audience attending IndieCade Festival.

See strategy gameplay in a whole new light. Kroma is a stylish strategy game in which 2-3 players capture territory by blending colors on top of a custom-made backlit lightboard, resulting in a unique composition of hues and shapes. By layering transparent plastic pieces of cyan, yellow, and magenta, players create their “target” secondary color, score points, and create a colorful collaborative art piece through competitive play.

Dialect: A Game about Language and How it Dies
by Thorny Games

Honoring works crafted to be played with words, paper, and objects, leveraging the human imagination as a processor and human companionship as a reward.

Dialect is a tabletop roleplaying game about an isolated community, their language, and what it means for that language to be lost. The game’s core spark comes from gradually build­ing up elements of language among players, who gain fluency in their own dialect over the course of play. 

The Aluminum Cat 
by Escape Character

Honoring works which transport and transform the player through a skillfully crafted experience.

The Aluminum Cat is part video game and part immersive theatre. Both player and audience member, you go on an adventure with several other players — all from the comfort of your browser at home! Your experience is curated by a live actor who plays the many characters you meet.

Cyberpet Graveyard 
by alienmelon

Honoring the craftsmanship and innovation behind unique interaction, hardware, and system design.

At some undocumented point in the early 00’s there was a critical malfunction at the cyberpet factory. This meltdown led to the miss-creation of several unlikeable and unwanted cyberpets.

SHASN 
A Memesys x Gadfly Production

Honoring works which explore social, cultural, and/or political issues in a whole new way.

SHASN is a competitive political strategy game about the cost and consequences of power. Every player assumes the role of a politician in the middle of a high-octane election campaign. With democracy itself at stake, players compete to bring alive their own vision of the world

ElemenTerra 
by Freeform Labs

Honoring works which create living, breathing worlds through design of spaces, characters, conflicts, soundscapes and more.

You are an Elemental, a caretaker of nature. When a strange cosmic storm decimates your isle, you must master new creation powers to revive its inhabitants and restore it to paradise!

In Other Waters
by Jump Over the Age

Honoring the game that impresses and surprises with depth, innovation, and artistry.

Casting you as an Operator AI, In Other Waters is structured around an ever-growing, tactile interface. Through this unique mode of interaction you will chart underwater courses, scan environments for vital clues, and navigate this unearthly ocean.

Kind Words
by Popcannibal

Recognizes the game among the nominees bringing together the best qualities of this year’s IndieCade Europe.

Players anonymously share their lives’ worries, concerns and stresses. Then they respond to other players’ statements with letters of comfort, sympathy or gentle advice.

Biped 
by NEXT Studios

The Choice Award is voted on by the audience attending IndieCade Europe.

Biped is a coop action adventure game with a strong focus on moment-to-moment collaboration between 2 players. 2 little biped robots will walk side by side and embark on a brave journey into ancient ruins, tropical forests and cliffed valleys, looking to accomplish their mission on planet earth.