Games Utrecht

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Games Utrecht

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!

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2025

Showing in this program

Cat Detective Albert Wilde

Cat Detective Albert Wilde

  • Andreas Diktyopoulos
  • Greece, 2024
  • 240 min.

The Cat Detective Albert Wilde, Quantum P.I. is a comedy noir Sci-Fi mystery adventure game. Set in the 1930’s New York, it features atmospheric black & white vintage visuals, and lovable humanoid animal characters, players must muddle their way through a murder mystery that’s messier than a fresh hairball, with a captivating voice-over and at least one joke about cat nipples (they have six!).

Five Years Old Memories

Five Years Old Memories

  • Komitsu
  • Japan, 2024
  • 18 min.

Episodes such as daily meals, feelings when dropped off and picked up, and playing alone in childhood are expressed in hand-drawn animation. And you can listen to an actual audio interview by the author with her friends.
Through interactions such as touch, drag, long press, and scroll, players can relive the feeling of childhood, where reality and fantasy mix together.

Hypnospace Outlaw

Hypnospace Outlaw

  • United States, 2019
  • 60 min.

Hypnospace Outlaw is a '90s internet simulator in which you scour Hypnospace's wide variety of weird and wonderful websites to hunt down wrongdoers, while also keeping an eye on your inbox, avoiding viruses and adware, and downloading a plethora of apps that may or may not be useful.

Poke A Nose

Poke A Nose

  • Switzerland, 2025
  • 80 min.

Poke a Nose is a rocket-type game that blends classic arcade gameplay with a nose-poking twist. After an incident, you embark on a surreal journey through a series of black-and-white, hand-drawn levels.

Navigating through different levels, floating and dodging obstacles, you guide your disembodied hand through hazardous environments, all while targeting different noses, each with its own unique set of challenges.

In the upgrade shop, you can customize your experience by enhancing your abilities like a coin magnet or an extra hit ring and unlocking useful perks. Those items allow you to personalize your adventure with customizable smoke effects.

Poke a Nose is a game for players looking for an intriguing, offbeat experience, or a game that can’t be finished in one go. As you’ll have to engage in boss battles that test both your reflexes and precision, you’ll have to learn how to dodge their fighting strategies.

Superliminal

Superliminal

  • United States, 2019
  • 60 min.

SUPERLIMINAL is a game inspired by forced perspective. By using the ambiguity of depth, this first-person puzzle game allows players to explore a surreal world by manipulating objects in physical space according to their perspective. Perception is reality.

Thank Goodness You’re Here

Thank Goodness You’re Here

  • United Kingdom, 2024
  • 60 min.

“Thank Goodness You’re Here!” is a comedy slapformer, which unfolds over time as the players' exploration and antics leave their mark on the strange town of Barnsworth. With each completed odd job, new areas of the town open up, stranger and stranger tasks become available, and the clock ticks towards our salesman’s big meeting.

The Knightling

The Knightling

  • The Netherlands, 2025
  • 60 min.

The Knightling is a platforming action adventure where you play as an aspiring knight in search of their missing mentor, Sir Lionstone. Equipped with only a legendary shield, you'll brave your way through the lands of Clesseia to become the unlikely hero.

The Stanley Parable

The Stanley Parable

  • United Kingdom, 2013
  • 60 min.

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, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end. Contradiction follows contradiction, the rules of how games should work are broken, then broken again.

Winter Burrow

Winter Burrow

  • Denmark, 2025
  • 60 min.

Home Sweet Home
Restore your broken-down childhood burrow to a place you can again call home and relax in front of the fireplace. Play as a mouse who has returned from life in the big city only to find that your childhood home is in ruin. And your Aunt, who was supposed to be looking after it, has gone missing.