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Developer: Mischief
Description:
A pig farmer decides he no longer wants to dispose of bodies for the mob. What follows is a discussion between him and his would-be killer.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is4dqQTP86I
Platforms: Xbox, Steam, Epic, GoG, and itch!
Status: Released
Website: https://mischief.games/
Alice is Missing
Developer: Spenser Starke
Description:
Alice is Missing is a silent role playing game about the disappearance of Alice Briarwood, a high school junior in the sleepy Northern California town of Silent Falls.
Platforms: Local Game Stores, Renegade Game Studios Website, and Roll20
Status: Released
Website: https://www.huntersentertainment.com/alice-is-missing
Alma
Developer: The Alma Dev Team
Description:
Alma is an interactive narrative that captures the tension of work-life balance for healthcare workers. Play as Alma, a caring mother and pediatric nurse, who struggles to find compassion for herself.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/kth1YptC0uA
Platforms: Steam and Itch.io
Status: Game is finished! Waiting on Steam to approve release
Website: https://frenchie-fries.itch.io/alma
Anyone Can Wear the Mask
Developer: Jeff Stormer
Description:
Anyone Can Wear The Mask is a tabletop RPG about a superhero, a supervillain, and the city they share. Players tell the issue-by-issue stories of a hero protecting their home & saving the day.
Platforms: itch.io, DriveThruRPG
Status: Released; new edition coming out 9/29
Website: https://jeffstormer.itch.io/mask
Beacon Pines
Developer: Hiding Spot Games
Description:
Beacon Pines is a cute and creepy adventure game within a magical storybook. Explore the town to find word charms. Use your charms to change the course of fate!
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=563mJ6NJkpM
Platforms: Steam, itch.io, Nintendo Switch
Status: Unrealeased (planned for first half 2022)
Website:
https://hidingspotgames.com/beaconpines.html
Before Your Eyes
Developer: GoodbyeWorld Games
Description:
An emotional afterlife adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP_aKLHxIgI
Platforms: Steam & Epic Store (Mac and PC)
Status: Released in April 2021
Website: https://www.beforeyoureyesgame.com/
Blackhaven
Developer: Historiated
Description:
Blackhaven is a first-person narrative mystery that follows Kendra Turner, a college intern who uncovers a trail of secrets and misdeeds while working at a historic plantation museum.
Trailer:
https://youtu.be/zHSvPXx6eho
Platforms: Steam
Status: Released July 27, 2021
Website: https://www.historiated.com/
Blind Drive
Developer: Lo-Fi People
Description:
Blind Drive is an audio-based black comedy action arcade game. 1st person hyper-realistic audio adventure meets fast paced arcade gameplay, driven by an insane B-movie plot.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/2hN-zOQdX44
Platforms: Steam (PC / Mac), iOS, Android
Status: Released
Website: https://blinddrivegame.com/
The Boy in the Book
Developer: CYOD Ltd.
Description:
The Boy in the Book’ is a groundbreaking true-story game. Part modern day text adventure, part documentary film, you must unravel the mystery behind a forgotten diary that falls from an old book…
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/507297926
Platforms: The Boy in the Book is a browser-based game optimized for Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Miscrosoft Edge on both Windows and Mac; Googe Chrome and Safar on iOS, and Google Chrome on Android devices.
Status: Fully released and free to access worldwide
Website: www.theboyinthebook.co.uk
Cai Cai Balão
Developer: Look Up Games
Description: Cai Cai Balão is a parkour-lite racing game. The player must escape aggressive police officers, snipers, dogs and other obstacles in order to become the FIRST to catch a giant hot air balloon.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkF46o4B1SQ
Platforms: Windows
Status: Released
Website: https://dadiu.itch.io/cai-cai-balao
CLAWS
Developer: Candle House Collective
Description:
Meet Danny. Danny has a monster in his closet, and he’s calling you for help. Simple, right? CLAWS is a one-on-one interactive thriller experience, performed live via a call to your mobile phone.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/518505697
Platforms: Telephone (live, one-on-one performance)
Status: Released, tickets available
Website: candlehousecollective.com
The Collage Atlas
Developer: John William Evelyn
Description:
The Collage Atlas invites you on a journey through an entirely hand-drawn dream-world.
Every detail – from the grass beneath your feet, to the butterflies in the air – were crafted with pen & ink.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/x4pv6qB6yhE
Platforms: iOS, tvOS, macOS
Status: Out Now
Website: http://thecollageatlas.com/
Consumption
Developer: Caro Murphy and Brendan Butts
Description:
Consumption is a playable theatre game set in a near future 2039. The experience is about celebrity, isolation, and complicated relationships; designed for five players and two facilitators.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/Mk6gU0_Jd0k
Status: Released, playable
Website: https://www.consumptiongame.com/
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
Developer: Vertigo Gaming Inc.
Description:
Cook, serve and manage your food truck as you dish out hundreds of different foods across war-torn America in this massive sequel to the million-selling series!
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnQ_RC0xzR8
Platforms: PC, Switch, PS4/PS5, Xbox, Amazon Luna
Status: Released
Website: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/vertigogaminginc
Dice Legacy
Developer: DESTINYbit
Description:
Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Roll and use dice to gather resources, construct a settlement, survive the winter and defend from an unknown menace.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so7kxmLXgU8
Platforms: PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG) & Nintendo Switch
Status: Released on 09/09/2021
Website: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1229460/Dice_Legacy/
Dot’s Home
Developer: A Rise-Home Stories Project Developed by Weathered Sweater, Neil Jones, and James Williams
Description:
DOT’S HOME follows a young Black woman living in her grandmother’s beloved home as she travels through time to relive key moments in her family’s history where race, place, and choice collide.
Trailer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1skhWD0FtHfgwNX6gil2vg_A6nhDayY-k/view?usp=sharing
Platforms: Steam, itch.io
Website: https://risehomestories.com/dots-home/home/
The Fermi Paradox
Developer: Anomaly Games
Description:
The Fermi Paradox is a galactic, choice-driven narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLL1Fid76YU
Platforms: Steam / PC ( we will unlock the demo for the festival )
Status: Early Access
Website: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1543150/The_Fermi_Paradox/
Field Guide to Memory
Developer: Jeeyon Shim and Shing Yin Khor
Description:
Field Guide to Memory is a solo keepsake journaling game about legacy, wonder, cryptids and the vastness of a human life, where the player creates a physical artifact unique to their experience.
Platforms: https://jeeyonshim.itch.io/field-guide-to-memory
Status: Released
Website: https://jeeyonshim.itch.io/field-guide-to-memory
Figment 2: Creed Valley
Developer: Bedtime Digital Games
Description:
Figment 2: Creed Valley is an action-adventure into the human mind. Join Dusty, The Mind’s courage, as you make your way through puzzles, musical boss fights and unique environments.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp1WiIhA-_U
Platforms: Steam
Status: Beta
Website: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1085220/Figment_2_Creed_Valley/
The Forger
Developer: Lazy Susan Games
Description:
The Forger is a board game about making fake art and pretending it’s real. It’s a 3-player drawing-and-bluffing game with asymmetrical roles: a curator, an original artist and a forger.
Platforms: It’s a board game! I’m selling it on my website and it’s available in a few game shops in NYC and also going to be sold on Art of Play!
Status: Released in December 2020
Website: www.theforgergame.com
The Gardener and the Wild Vines
Developer: Finite Reflection Studios
Description:
Leap, slash, and climb your way to the top of magical towers in this wholesome platformer about a gay Gardener on a quest to rescue his love.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/tbxWHAX-7ZI
Platforms: Steam and itch.io for Mac and PC
Status: Released September 9th
Website: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098470/The_Gardener_and_the_Wild_Vines/
Hitchhiker – A Mystery Game
Developer: Mad About Pandas
Description:
As a hitchhiker with no memory or destination, you catch a series of rides across a strange and beautiful landscape, tracking the mysterious disappearance of a person close to you.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODtg7w8EBUM
Platforms: PC, Playstation, Xbox, Switch, Mac, iOS, Apple TV
Status: Released in April 2021
Website: https://hitchhiker-game.com/
HoloVista
Developer: Aconite
Description:
HoloVista is a mixed reality social media simulator reminiscent of a near-future Instagram. As you explore a mysterious house in the game, it’s getting to know you too – better than you know yourself.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJyjsg588zs
Status: Released
Website: https://www.enterholovista.com/
I Expect You To Die 2
Developer: Schell Games
Description:
I Expect You To Die 2 is the highly anticipated sequel of the VR escape-the-room spy experience. Dust off your elite spy shoes and enjoy more missions, more immersive environments, and more danger.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/wVGSWFQynyg
Platforms: Steam, Oculus, PlayStation VR
Status: Released
Website: Http://iexpectyoutodie.com
Katipuneros RPG: Eve of Revolt
Developer: Balaiwari Immersive and Gamified Experiences (BIG XP)
Description:
Manila, 1896
The Philippine Revolution against centuries of Spanish rule is about to be unleashed in 3 hours. Will you heed the call of your Mother Country? If so, then join the Katipunan!
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ewrpLmAgtQ&t=51s
Platforms: Zoom, ms teams, and other conferencing apps
Status: Publicly released
Website: https://www.facebook.com/BisperasngHimagsikan/?ref=page_internal
Larger Than Light
Developer: 20 Watt Games
Description:
Traverse shadows by manipulating light in this 2.5D puzzle platform game. Play as Lux the lightbulb and Skia the shadow to escape their old haunted middle school and overcome their sibling rivalry.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/wfWouHnbmsU
Platforms: PC and Mac
Status: Released, potential for fuller version next year.
Website: https://1010meha.wixsite.com/largerthanlight
Letters – a written adventure
Developer: 5 am Games / PID Games
Description:
Journey back to the 90s and move through beautifully hand-drawn letters, as you follow the life of Sarah. Learn more about her friends, nerdy obsessions or why she has the most annoying sister ever.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYl-wVD4g4E&ab_channel=PIDGames
Platforms: PC and Switch
Status: Coming soon
Website: https://www.letters-game.com/
The Lullaby of Life
Developer: 1 Simple Game
Description:
You are the catalyst for change in a music-driven world that combines the sound of musical notes into puzzles using timing, dexterity and agility.
A journey from the void to the origin of life.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWf__IRXX0k
Platforms: Apple Arcade (iOS / macOS / tvOS)
It will be soon available in other platforms (TBD)
Status: Released
Website: https://1simplegame.com/
MASKMAKER
Developer: InnerspaceVR
Description:
Play as a Maskmaker’s apprentice and learn the magic of crafting masks to immerse yourself in the intriguing enigmatic beings within the “mask realm”, ruled by the mysterious Prospero.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWFHBkFeUps&ab_channel=MWMInteractive
Platforms: Steam, Playstation
Status: Released
Website: https://maskmaker-game.squarespace.com/
Mundaun
Developer: Hidden Fields and MWM Interactive
Description:
A lovingly hand-penciled survival horror tale that follows a young man who travels to a dark, secluded valley of the Alps to uncover the mystery of his grandfather’s death.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/8w4hdxvNiFA
Platforms: PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam and the Epic Game Store
Status: Launched (as of March 2021)
Website: https://www.mundaungame.com/
Out For Delivery
Developer: Heart Street
Description:
A 360° interactive documentary. The slice-of-life story follows a food delivery courier in Beijing on January 23, 2020, the day before Lunar New Year’s Eve and the day Wuhan shut down due to COVID-19.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/fN-06jZWfBw
Platforms: Itch, Steam
Status: Very close to release.(might be released by the time of the festival.)
Website: https://out-for-delivery.com
Penko Park
Developer: Ghostbutter
Description:
Penko Park is a game about exploring an abandoned wildlife park.
Meet its mysterious inhabitants by taking photos and interacting with the world!
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_2ajCBV8Dc
Platforms: Steam/PC
Status: Released
Website: https://store.steampowered.com/app/852090/Penko_Park/
The Pickfair Directive
Developer: Jesse Vigil, Martzi Campos, Kathryn Yu, Adam Morina
Description:
The Pickfair Directive is an “ARG-like” media-making game designed and deployed at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts at the start of the pandemic to motivate creativity and build community over distance.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/b4GaMS25VIQ
Platforms: Twitter: @pickfairdirect
Instagram: @elysee.reinhardt @pickfairdirective
Web: pickfairdirective.com
Status: Season 2 is live now
Website: www.pickfairdirective.com
Rain on Your Parade
Developer: Unbound Creations
Description:
Travel the world as a cute cardboard cloud and ruin everybody’s day! Unlock new methods of mischief in over 50 levels, each with unique setting and objectives. This is an adorable mischief simulator!
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIQsmC6At1I&feature=emb_title
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac, Linux), Xbox, Nintendo Switch
Status: Released
Website: http://unboundcreations.com/games/rain-on-your-parade
RATS: High Tea at Sea
Developer: Josh DeBonis & Eric Zimmerman with Shut Up & Sit Down
Description:
Throw one last banquet as the ship goes down! RATS is a print & play, roll & write boardgame for 2-6 players that’s playable over the internet, in the same room, or a combination of the two!
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UTDAwlm3os
Platforms: Any videochat platform and/or tabletop
Status: $eleased
Website: https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/rats/
Roguebook
Developer: Abrakam Entertainment
Description:
Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering-.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/dGOX85g6Td8
Platforms: Steam, Humble Store,
GamesPlanet
Status: Released on PC and MAC
Website: https://roguebook.net/
Romancing Jan
Developer: Incantrix Productions
Description:
Immerse yourself in an alternative world inspired by the fiction of Jane Austen but set in an England where High Society treats all people of any gender, sexuality, race, or ethnicity as equals.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/R8kR8u3535M
Platforms: Website has instructions on how to sign up to play. All play takes place via real world post or a live tea and ball set for April 31st, 2022
Status: Currently live
Website: www.romancingjan.com
Saturnalia
Developer: Santa Ragione
Description:
Saturnalia is a horror adventure game with elements of investigation, puzzle-solving, exploration, and rogue-lite progression.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmUo-e70Tg8&feature=emb_title
Platforms: PC
Status: Unreleased
Website: http://www.saturnaliagame.com/
Savage Hall
Developer: Dark Arcade Theater
Description:
An interactive audio drama. A live-action roleplay. An immersive theater event.
A dead man, waiting for justice… Savage Hall is a 2-hour experience played by 4-6 players over the Zoom platform.
Platforms: https://www.darkarcadetheater.com/
Status: Scheduled to launch November 1, 2021
Website: https://www.darkarcadetheater.com/
The Signifier: Director’s Cut
Developer: Playmestudio
Description:
The Signifier is a first-person tech-noir mystery that blends investigation, experimental psychology, and artificial intelligence.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZl1P088Fxo
Platforms: Steam, Gog, Epic, HumbleBundle
Status: Released on PC only
Website: www.thesignifier.com
Spiritway to the Lighthouse
Developer: Fishermen Crew
Description:
In this dreamlike experience, play as a lonely old seadog on his last journey; tame the ocean aboard your fishing boat and discover a fantastic sea legend !
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO14PAjWx1g
Platforms: PC
Status: Released
Website: https://laurent-mannino.itch.io/spiritway
Star Explorers
Developer: Schmidt Workshops
Description:
Explore the galaxy in your own spacecraft: land on planets, encounter aliens, find resources, upgrade items, explore caves, map out different systems, all while seeking a new home for the human race.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsvUSyubI5g&t=1s
Platforms: Steam
Itch.io
Status: Released
Website: https://schmidt-workshops.weebly.com/
Stilstand
Developer: Niila Games
Description:
Stilstand is an award-winning interactive comic by artist Ida Hartmann and game studio Niila Games. It is a journey into the mind of a young woman in Copenhagen during a summer full of hopelessness.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/uY4P7e8o-io
Platforms: PC, Android, iOS – Upcoming: Switch, PS4
Status: Released
Website: http://niila.io/stilstand/
Stonefly
Developer: Flight School Studio
Description:
Stonefly is an action-adventure RPG in which you pilot a tiny mech. Follow the journey of Annika as she attempts to recover a stolen family heirloom, strategically battling bugs across an epic story.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLekPWuWk00
Platforms: Steam, Switch, Playstation, XBox, EGS
Status: Available Now
Website: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1198590/Stonefly/
A Strong Fire
Developer: Wendi Sierra
Description:
A Strong Fire is an Oneida language and culture game. It shares the story of Sky Woman and the creation of our home, Turtle Island, in an interactive narrative that also teaches eight words in Oneida.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiPeL4Cv7f4&ab_channel=AStrongFire
Platforms: Available online https://astrongfire.com/
Status: Released
Website: https://astrongfire.com/
Surrealist Dinner Party
Developer: Resonym
Description:
Show your hosting prowess and treat your favorite Surrealist artists and writers to an excellent dinner party!
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PHDMCJKqSc
Platforms: Resonym web store: https://resonym.company.site/Surrealist-Dinner-Party-p369658099
Amazon.com
Local game stores
Status: Released 7/14/21
Website: surrealistgame.com
The Telelibrary
Developer: Yannick Trapman-O’Brien
Description:
The Telelibrary is an interactive, literary telephone adventure for an audience of one.
Part Theater, part game, and part self-care, this unexpected page turner is just a phone call away.
Platforms: Domestic Telephone (United States), Skype, Whatsapp
Status: Released / ongoing performances
Website: https://www.yannickto.com/telelibrary
Utility for the Soul
Developer: Weekend Warriors
Description:
Utility for the Soul is a meditative interactive puzzle experience based on Lithuanian-American environment artist Aleksandra Kasuba’s concept for what she called the Retreat House.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roXzeLp9CPM&ab_channel=WeekendWarriors
Platforms: iOS, Android, PC
Status: Released
Website: https://utilityforthesoul.com/
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