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Arden's Wake
Adventure 18 April 2018
An interactive film developed by the independent team of Penrose Studios. In Arden's Wake: Tide's Fall, the player gets to know the fate of Meena, a teenager who lives with her father on a lighthouse towering over flooded New York. When a parent loses without a trace, the girl decides to go in search of it.
Path to Mnemosyne
Adventure 26 September 2018
An original adventure game, in which we take control of a girl who wants to regain her lost memories. The game's protagonist runs, getting past obstacles and solving puzzles, which allows her to move on.
Walden, a game
Adventure 04 July 2017
Unusual adventure game with survival elements created by Game Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California. In Walden and the game, we play the role of American philosopher Henry David Thoreau, striving to strike a balance between the activities necessary for survival and the search for inspiration.
Track Lab
Simulation 22 August 2018
A music creation tool, in which we can use an extensive set of sounds to compose rock, hip-hop, techno and trance songs.
Homo Machina
Puzzle 17 May 2018
A 2D title, in which we explore… a human body presented as a huge, mechanized factory. This humorous game is inspired by medical illustrations by doctor Fritz Kahn.
Ode
Adventure 27 November 2017
Ode is an experimental third-person perspective platform game. The player assumes control of Joy – a light-threading star which explores fantasy worlds and meets various beings, plants and lifeforms that emit their unique sounds and visual effects.
Anamorphine
Adventure 31 July 2018
An adventure game, in which the players assume the role of Tyler - a young man who is fighting his guilt. His wife's music career has perished and there is no way for him to help her. The main protagonist escapes into the world of memories and decides to relive the most important moments of his life.
Manifest 99
Adventure 12 September 2017
An adventure game developed exclusively for Virtual Reality headgear. Manifest 99 takes players on board the train traversing the netherworld and tasks them with helping the other passengers reach their destinations.
Doki Doki Literature Club
Adventure 22 September 2017
Developed by Team Salvato, Doki Doki Literature Club is an unusual visual novel. You assume the role of a member of a school literature club and meet its other, female members. Soon, however, the plot takes a very interesting twist.
Photographs
Puzzle 03 April 2019
Photographs is a combination of adventure and logic game elements created by the EightyEightGames studio. By analyzing the titular photographs, we get to discover the extensive storyline, which concerns the tragic fate of five characters.
The Last Guardian VR Demo
Adventure 12 December 2017
A free virtual-reality experience based on 2016 The Last Guardian, developed specifically for PlayStation VR. The player assumes the role of the base game's protagonist, familiarizes himself with the game world through his eyes, and gets to know the protagonist's companion - Trico.
Rusty Lake Paradise
Adventure 11 January 2018
Rusty Lake Paradise is an adventure game, in which the player assumes the role of a son of a deceased woman. He travels to his family island that is harassed by ten biblical plagues. The gameplay features exploration, conversations with NPCs and riddle solving.
Four Last Things
Adventure 23 February 2017
Four Last Things is an unusual, funny point & click adventure in 2D, which was prepared on the basis of fragments of works from the Renaissance era. Its creator, Joe Richardson, presents his game with the words "a bit like Monkey Island, if it had been created in the 16th century Flemish Region by the time traveler Monthy Python's fanboy".
Cotrio
Puzzle 07 March 2018
A logic puzzle game consisting of over eighty puzzles involving manipulating numbers. In Cotrio, you fill round fields with three random numbers so that the sum of the first two equals the third one. The game also features thirty picturesque backgrounds to make the experience even more pleasant.
Indygo
Adventure 24 October 2017
A narrative adventure game in which we play the role of a depressed painter. Indigo consists in solving uncomplicated riddles and making decisions that influence the plot's further course.
Baba Is You
Puzzle 13 March 2019
An original puzzle game in which the player can manipulate the rules of the game and the limitations present in each of the hundred stages. They are described with simple messages, which we modify, thus influencing the ways of interaction with objects or even changing the target waiting to be executed.
Buildings Have Feelings Too!
Strategy 22 April 2021
A city builder, in which, apart from taking care of the development of the metropolis, the player must also handle the needs of the buildings erected by him/her, which have their own feelings and aspirations. The graphics design of Buildings Have Feelings Too! is reminiscent of the works of painter Laurence Stephen Lowry.
Proxi
Strategy 2025
Unusual production, which allows players to build fairy-tale worlds from pieces of memories. The game was created by Gallium Artists studio and Will Wright - creator of SimCity, The Sims and Spore series.
Aida
Adventure canceled
A third-person action game with stealth elements, which takes us on a journey to an African state from the future. Over the course of the game, we play as the titular ten-year-old, who has to face various problems.
Hydropuzzle
Puzzle 17 November 2017
An interesting adventure-logical game inspired by Andrzej Kondratiuk's film Hydrozagadek. The production was developed by the Polish independent artist Przemyslaw Sobstel.
Etherborn
Puzzle 18 July 2019
A third platform-logical game. In this production we solve puzzles based on variable gravity, which affects both our character and the presented world.
Old Man's Journey
Adventure 18 May 2017
Old Man's Journey is an adventure game developed by the independent studio Broken Rules. The game's protagonist is a bearded elderly man who goes on the titular journey in order to meet with his family. The plot is told only through a series of pictures. As we play, we get to know the most important moments of our protagonist's life. We explore various areas in Old Man's Journey, like small towns, river valleys, and even mountain tops.
KIDS
Puzzle 28 May 2019
An atypical minigra, slightly reminiscent of an interactive animation, the subject of which is the psychology of the crowd. Michael Fray and Mario von Rickenbach, known from PLUG & PLAY project, are responsible for its creation, and its release was handled by Double Fine Presents.
Tetris Effect
Puzzle 09 November 2018
A production based on the license of the most famous video game in history. Tetris Effect draws not only from Alexey Pajitnov's work, but also from projects by Tetsuya Mizuguchi.