The 2022 Festival may be over, but boy, what a blast it was!
Thank you so much to everyone involved in making the festival happen – especially our amazing Nominees and Award Winners!
Congratulations to our
Anywhere & Everywhere Festival 2022 Awards
Nominees and Winners!
We are beyond excited to share these innovative indie games with the world. Deep appreciation to the many jurors and committees who reviewed each and every games submitted and had to make the difficult decisions to select these games.


Ambition: A Minuet in Power
AUDIO DESIGN AWARDEE
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.
Released on Steam, GOG, Nintendo Switch

Artholomew Video’s Stream Challenge
PERFORMANCE AWARDEE
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!
Released on Itch
Website | Trailer | Featured on Beyond Screens

Choppy Copies
Nominated for the Live Action Award
Choppy Copies is a fast-paced art-making game made for virtual reality headsets that allows players to practice and appreciate the skills associated with sculpture in a fun, light-hearted context.
In Development for Oculus Quest 2
Website | Trailer | Featured on Beyond Screens

Delfini
Nominated for the Audio Design Award
Delfini is a casual, two-player game. Playing as dolphins, you and your friend will guide fishes to the coral reefs and bring life back to the ocean.
Released on Itch
Itch Page | Trailer | Featured by Twitch Streamer @kimchica

Ghost on the Shore
Nominated for the Narrative Award
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.
Released on Steam

Inua – A Story in Ice and Time
Nominated for the Performance Award
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.
Released on Steam, Mobile, Nintendo Switch


Lost in Play
DEVELOPERS CHOICE AWARDEE
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.
Released on Steam, Nintendo Switch

Mini Maker: Make A Thing
Nominated for the Systemic Design Award
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.
Released on Steam


Remember August
TABLETOP DESIGN AWARDEE
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.
Released by Mail
Itch Page | Website | Featured on Beyond Screens

Rotaeno
Nominated for the Audio Award
Rotaeno is a heart-pounding rhythm game that fully utilizes your device’s gyroscope for an unprecedented musical experience. Rotate your device to hit notes as you soar through the stars.
Released on Mobile
TapTap Page | Trailer | Featured by Twitch Streamer @ifndef

The Wild at Heart
Nominated for the Visual Design Award
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.
Released on Humble Store, Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch


Atuel
INNOVATION IN EXPERIENCE DESIGN AWARDEE
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.
Released on Itch

Ambush!
Nominated for the Tabletop Design Award
Description: Ambush! is a fast-paced, fantasy-themed strategy card game with exciting, dynamic gameplay centered around a cast of colorful characters with unique, game-changing abilities.
Released on The Game Crafter
Product Page | Behind-the-Scenes Video | Featured on Beyond Screens


Babble Royale
MIKE SELLERS SYSTEMIC DESIGN AWARD WINNER
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!
Released on Steam
Steam Store | Trailer | Featured by Twitch Streamer @kimchica

Dwelling
Nominated for the Tabletop Design Award
An old house, your new home… and you aren’t the only restless one. Summon ghosts, dredge up memories, and mark your body in the solo roleplaying game that is Dwelling.
Released as Physical Book
Product Page | Featured on Beyond Screens

Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Nominated for the Visual Design Award
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.
Released on Steam, Mobile, Nintendo Switch

Kitchen Kauldron
Nominated for the Live Action Award
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.
Released as Live-Action Roleplay on an Interactive Set

MAZES Fantasy Roleplaying
Nominated for the Tabletop Design Award
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.
Released as Game Book
Itch Page | Product Page | Website | Trailer | Featured on Beyond Screens

The Shape of Time
Nominated for the Narrative Award
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.
Released on Itch
Itch Page | Featured by Twitch Streamer @kimchica


Unpacking
JURY PRIX AWARDEE
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.
Released on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation, GOG


TIKATMOS
LIVE ACTION AWARDEE
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.
Demo Available as Custom Voice-Controlled Installation
Website | Trailer | Featured on Beyond Screens

Apotheorasis • Lab of the Blind Gods
Nominated for the Audio Design Award
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.
Released on Steam

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.
Released on Itch

Creative Dying Card Game
Nominated for the Tabletop Design Award
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.
Released as Physical Cards
Itch Page | The Game Crafter Page | Website | Trailer | Featured on Beyond Screens

Gambling Paradise: The Escape Call
Nominated for the Live Action Award
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!
Released on Itch; Also part of a Physical Installation
Itch Page | Trailer | Featured on Beyond Screens

Long Story: a deep time LARP
Nominated for the Live Action Award
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?
Released on Itch
Itch Page | Featured on Beyond Screens


Midnight Protocol
INNOVATION IN INTERACTION DESIGN AWARDEE
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.
Released on Steam, GOG

Radio Ghost
Nominated for the Live Action Award
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.
Released as In-Person Experience on Android
Website | Featured on Beyond Screens

Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator
Nominated for the Systemic Design Award
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.
Released on Steam, Xbox, Nintendo Switch
Status: Released

The Fabulous Fear Machine
Nominated for the Visual Design Award
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.
Demo Available on Steam

The Wandering Village
Nominated for the Systemic Design Award
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.
Released for Early Access on Steam, Coming to Xbox