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Road to the IGF: Playables' Kids  
by Joel Couture [03.06.18]
Nuovo Award-nominated Kids is a game of crowds - of exploring our relationships in terms of our positions we take relative to one another.
Indie, IGF
Road to the IGF: Brianna Lei's Butterfly Soup  
by Joel Couture [03.05.18]
Butterfly Soup explores love between young women over baseball, having players connect closely with some friends as they play, talk, and text together.
Indie, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: ULTRA ULTRA's Echo  
by Joel Couture [03.02.18]
Echo takes players to a palatial space station, one eerily filled with clones of the heroine that shift and adapt to the player’s style, taking their actions as their own.
Indie, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Infinite Fall's Night in the Woods  
by Joel Couture [03.01.18]
Night in the Woods aims to capture that feeling of trying to go home to a place that no longer exists, following Mae back to her old town and friends to find it all very different now.
Indie, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: E-Studio's Tormentor X Punisher 3
by Joel Couture [02.28.18]
Tormentor X Punisher draws the player into bloody, frantic gunplay with pounding music, screen-shaking effects, and a few hidden audio tricks that make the player's actions part of the sound.
Indie, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Maggese's Don't Make Love  
by Joel Couture [02.27.18]
Don't Make Love puts the players in the role of mantis lovers on the verge of a life-changing decision, having them use their own words to talk through this difficult decision.
Indie, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Studio MDHR's Cuphead  
by Joel Couture [02.26.18]
Players will battle colossal bosses, their styles drawn from 1930s animation, as hot jazz blares in their ears in ever-escalating run and gun game Cuphead.
Indie, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Subset Games' Into the Breach 1
by Joel Couture [02.23.18]
Into the Breach is a game of tactical mech combat, one where the enemies telegraph their moves, turning each match into a kind of puzzle that needs to be studied and completed.
Indie, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Richards Hogg & Haggett's Wilmot's Warehouse  
by Joel Couture [02.22.18]
Wilmot's Warehouse tasks players with organizing stock in a warehouse, drawing upon that a strangely compelling desire to arrange objects.
Indie, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Czech Academy of Sciences' Attentat 1942  
by Joel Couture [02.21.18]
Attentat 1942 is a look at World War II through the eyes of its survivors, using multiple perspectives and play styles to share in a personalized look at its events and horrors.
Indie, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Skeleton Business' Vignettes  
by Joel Couture [02.20.18]
Vignettes encourages exploration and curiosity through manipulatable objects, hiding whole new items and stories through touch, rotation, and orientation of colorful things.
Indie, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Videocult's Rain World  
by Joel Couture [02.19.18]
A lonely slugcat has to make its way in a world of predators and lethal storms in Rain World, a game that mixes curiosity, calmness, and terror with its sound design.
Indie, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Laundry Bear Games' A Mortician's Tale  
by Joel Couture [02.16.18]
A Mortician's Tale explores death and the stories and emotions around the deceased through having the player work in the death industry.
Indie, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Hempuli Oy's Baba Is You  
by Joel Couture [02.15.18]
Baba Is You is a puzzle game of manipulating rules, one where the regulations of a given stage are blocks players can move around to change how each area is played.
Indie, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Fullbright's Tacoma  
by Joel Couture [02.14.18]
Tacoma immerses the player in 3D recordings of a starship's crew as they slowly face their own destruction, watching them bond and grow close together in the face of doom.
Indie, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Pocketwatch Games' Tooth and Tail  
by Joel Couture [02.13.18]
Tooth and Tail looks to simplify and streamline the RTS to make it approachable, quick, and focus on improvisation and strategy over reflexes and memorization (plus add fun animal units).
Indie, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Nifflas Games' Uurnog Uurnlimited  
by Joel Couture [02.12.18]
Uurnog Uurnlimited is a game of unintentional mayhem, where players collect animals and puzzle-solving (sometimes explosive) blocks, bringing them to a save room that saves their every mistake.
Indie, IGF
Road to the IGF: DANG!'s IO Interloper  
by Joel Couture [02.09.18]
IO Interloper aims to make the player feel like a hacker, working through clunky interfaces to hack cameras and drones in their attempts at corporate espionage.
Indie, IGF
Road to the IGF: Nathalie Lawhead's Everything is going to be OK 1
by Joel Couture [02.08.18]
Through a series of vignettes exploring adorable bunnies suffering horrible mishaps, Everything is going to be OK explores life's tragedies through a lens of ridiculousness and hope.
Indie, IGF
Road to the IGF: The Voxel Agents' The Gardens Between  
by Joel Couture [02.07.18]
The Gardens Between takes players to striking islands created to evoke a kind of childhood nostalgia, crossing these these storytelling lands as they solve time-travelling puzzles.
Indie, IGF