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Why settle for reality when you can play in worlds of infinitely more possibilities? Animation may whisk you away to surprising realms, but games let you live in them. At this year's festival, we've got interactive adventures for everyone - whether you're a button-mashing beginner or a battle-hardened pro. So, power up, press start, and game on!
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Cat Detective Albert Wilde
In this comic sci-fi adventure game, you must muddle your way through a murder mystery messier than a fresh hairball! Set in 1930s New York, it features vintage black-and-white visuals, lovable animal characters, and a captivating voice-over that tells at least one joke about cat nipples – they have six!
Five Years Old Memories
Relive the feeling of childhood with Five Years Old Memories. Through various interactions, you'll revisit familiar daily routines, like your meals, being dropped off and picked up, and playing on your own— brought to life in charming hand-drawn animation.
Hypnospace Outlaw
Hypnospace Outlaw is a '90s internet simulator where you explore a vast collection of weird and wonderful websites to track down wrongdoers. Along the way, you'll also need to keep an eye on your inbox, avoid viruses and adware, and download a plethora of apps—some more useful than others…
Poke A Nose
What happens when your mother accidentally cuts off your hand? Now living as a severed hand, you set out on a journey through a series of unique and challenging levels. Drifting and dodging obstacles, your ultimate goal is: to poke noses!
Superliminal
Superliminal is a game inspired by forced perspective, a technique that creates optical illusions. Using the ambiguity of depth, this first-person puzzle game lets you explore a surreal world by manipulating objects in physical space, all based on your perspective. In this game, perception is reality.
Thank Goodness You’re Here
Thank Goodness You’re Here! is a comedic slapformer that unfolds as your exploration and antics shape the quirky town of Barnsworth. With each completed odd job, new areas of the town unlock, even stranger tasks become available, and the clock ticks down to the salesman’s big meeting.
The Knightling
The Knightling is a platforming action-adventure where you play as an aspiring knight searching for their missing mentor, Sir Lionstone. Armed with nothing but a legendary shield, you'll journey through the lands of Clesseia, facing challenges and forging your path to becoming an unlikely hero.
The Stanley Parable
The Stanley Parable is a first-person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, and you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, and you will have no choice. The game will end, and the game will never end. Contradiction follows contradiction, the rules of how games should work are broken, and then broken again.
Winter Burrow
In Winter Burrow you play a mouse who returns from life in the big city, only to find your childhood home in ruins. Your Aunt, who was supposed to be looking after it, has gone missing. Now, restore your rundown childhood burrow to a place you can once again call home, and relax in front of the fireplace.