A small game about making dumplings while you listen to people talk.
A murder mystery story told via mind map.
A short story about someone trying to get in touch with a friend.
Evocative, grounded, and profoundly specific.
A cool story about messy feelings, a missing person, and talking with another version of yourself.
A currently-demo cooking game with some really cool freeform mechanics and a nice story about bonding over recipes.
A short game about Icarus getting ready to fly.
The controls are awkward, but weighty.
A story of struggle in friendship told through a series of puzzles.
A small, existential adventure game
super stylish graphics, interesting and heavy worldbuilding. vivid experience.
a painful period, depicted
We played this at a very right time for us - in our head, much as the protagonist was. It starts deep in negative self-talk but moves past that moment quickly.
A melancholy story, but with a rising arc.
Two friends on a tiny treasure hunt.
Cute little game about picrosses, privilege, and academics
A nice little western in queer furry visual novel form. Loved the writing and the art and the story of trust found unexpectedly in the desert.
A small interactive fiction about being a poltergeist and helping a family over a period of some years.
A lovely nighttime conversation between spouses.
A rambling - both in the metaphorical sense of exploring a lot of ideas and in the physical sense of walking all over the place - game about a kid who is left unsupervised to go shopping for the first time and ends up talking to a bunch of strangers. Very fun.
A mostly-quiet, vulnerable space for sunflowers.
As of August 2022, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is ongoing.
A heartfelt story about clothing feelings and clothing with feelings.
A short but engrossing mystery, connecting incomplete fragments of a story and trying to infer what they mean.
A story of pandemic struggles, confusion, and stress.
Some guided musings on correspondence to one's past.
A narrative of fishing minigames. The first one requires quick reactions, but if you can get through that, you can get through the whole game.
A story of arrogance ending in death.
I really like this one - it makes me think of ancient history, and trying to piece together a past out of a handful of broken pages.