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Breaksout is a game about Breakout by Pippin Barr.

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Why Try It: A huge number of clever, compelling, and experimental variations on a familiar game.

Mood: Contemplative

Author’s Notes: “What’s better than breaking out?! BREAKSING OUT! Breaks out to your heart’s content in these wonderful variants of your old family friend! Snake it up in SNAKEOUT! Feel the love in GHOST BREAKOUT! Experience the future of entertainment in BREAKOUT VR! Or have a meaningful cultural experience with РАЗРАЗИТЬСЯ!”

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Skin Tight Bitch Fight is a game about wrestling by Femmezuigiri.

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Why Try It: A wide range of interesting characters; mechanics that emphasize working together to put on a show rather than ‘winning’ a match.

Mood: Rowdy

Author’s Notes: "Two (or one) players select wrestlers and pit them against one another in a match with the goal of working together to please the crowd. If you succeed, your next show will sell out, if not, the booker will have to cancel since you didn't keep their attention. This game is focused heavily on tough women with a diverse cast of characters including trans women and women of colour.”

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Mirror Lake is a game about reflections by katie rose pipkin.

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Why Try It: Quiet sounds and countless unique little worlds to wonder at.

Mood: Dreamy

Author’s Notes: “made in one week for procjam 2015

click for a new landscape

(slightly processor heavy, it may take a moment - and be careful of full screen)”

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Swept Away is a game about a dream by Machine Screen.

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Why Try It: Simple, evocative interactions and colourful effects that capture a dreamlike experience.

Mood: Dreamy

Author’s Notes: “A game based on a dream I had once.”

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Vin Diesel DMing a Game of D&D Just For You is a game about exactly what it sounds like by merritt kopas.

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Why Try It: Sit down for a game of Dungeons and Dragons with an encouraging, enthusiastic dungeon master.

Mood: Soothing

Author’s Notes: “sometimes, we all get down

sometimes, we all need to do something nice for ourselves

sometimes, we all need to play dungeons and dragons with action star vin diesel”

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The Old Man Club is a game about being tough by Michael Koloch.

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Why Try It: Wrestle fish in this adaptation of a Hemingway classic; test your strength against the uncaring might of nature.

Mood: Silly

Author’s Notes: “Prove your manliness in this adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man And The Sea" Warning! Contains spoilers for Hemingway's "The Old Man And The Sea". Read the book for the full experience.”

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Supplicant is a game about serving the gods by Benji Bright.

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Why Try It: A brief, funny, hot piece of interactive fiction with multiple outcomes based on simple choices made at the outset, allowing for easy repeated readthroughs to check out the alternative paths.

Mood: Seductive

Author’s Notes: “Supplicant is my second sex game about gods. It doesn't have the depth of my earlier game, God(s), but I hope it makes up for that with kinky, porny scenes and an "anything could happen" atmosphere."

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Love Punks is a game about zombies by The Lovepunks.

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Why Try It: Explore a world created by kids from Western Australia and rendered in beautiful stop-motion animation.

Mood: Silly

Author’s Notes: “The initial idea was to create a virtual Roebourne website, where the kids would show visitors to the site around their town. This idea then evolved into creating a game with a series of hidden actions that the player has to uncover to earn points. As the Yijala Yala crew began making the game, it became obvious that several processes could easily be passed on the Love Punks themselves so they could be part of the making and also the design of the game- deciding what their characters would do and say etc. They learnt to use Photoshop and have since made 2,000 animations for the game, cutting themselves out of film footage to create stop-motion animations.”

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Zine Fair Lady is a game about a fun day out by Morgan Sea.

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Why Try It: A text-based game about visiting a zine fair with a trans main character and cute accompanying illustrations.

Mood: Silly / Introspective

Author’s Notes: “This game was made during the Pixelles 3 Game Incubator 2015. Thanks Pixelles for supporting women making video games.”

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Composition in a Minor Key is a game about characters by Aleks Samoylov.

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Why Try It: An interactive text-based story with companion illustrations; explore a large world full of interesting characters.

Mood: Atmospheric

Author’s Notes: “"Composition in a Minor Key" is a surreal interactive story about love, community, loneliness, etc. It boasts roughly 8000 words, and does not contain puzzles, action, or difficult moral choices. There is a small park to explore, seven characters to become acquainted with, and some original illustrations to look at. The player is free to experience the story in any order he or she chooses. The "ending" becomes unlocked, simply enough, after the player has taken a certain number of turns.”

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You Are a Hoverboard is a game about sick tricks by Chris Wade.

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Why Try It: Be the hoverboard; rocket through a pleasantly hilly pastel neon landscape and land dope tricks; meet the giraffe. 

Mood: Chill 

Author’s Notes: “You Are A Hoverboard. Your mom is sick in the hospital and can't afford treatment. Do sick flips to earn money and save your mom!”

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Lucky Lighter is a game about high stakes by Conor Mccann.

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Why Try It: A minimalist, intense game of chance with stylish art.

Mood: Tense / Creepy

Author’s Notes: “A game of chance inspired by Roald Dahl's short story "Man from the South" and the 1985 Alfred Hitchcock presents version that forever scarred my childhood. Created in 48 hours for Mini LD 48, this was my second attempt at coding a game.”

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Swan Hill is a game about brothers by Laura Michet.

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Why Try It: An evocative, atmospheric fantasy story about family, distance, sacrifice and class.

Mood: Introspective

Author’s Notes: “Swan Hill is an interactive story about brothers who have grown apart. It has multiple endings.”

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Fuck This Dungeon is a game about taking as many of them down with you as you can by Ryleigh Kostash.

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Why Try It: An endless score attack game about punching some jerks who poisoned you; crude but fitting visuals. 

Mood: Rowdy

Author’s Notes: “Control your left fist with WASD Control your right fist with arrow keys Enemy fists are vulnerable when yellow Drink potions of Slow Poison to last longer”

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Terra Tam: The World Warrior is a game about being the champ by Leon Arnott.

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Why Try It: Cute visuals; comedic set-up and adorable gags.

Mood: Silly

Author’s Notes: “This is inspired by Another World and Alien Soldier... and the webcomic U.F.O.”

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Don’t Go In The Old Greene House is a game about children by Laura Knetzger.

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Why Try It: A well-written and illustrated horror story about women’s bodies and relationships to one another.

Mood: Creepy

Author’s Notes: “(Content warning: contains depictions of abuse, neglect, suicide, blood, body horror.) A short video game I wrote, coded, and drew. Created with Twine. You play as Lisa, a teenager who must spend an hour in a haunted house on Halloween, and ends up bartering with the ghosts inside to escape.”

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Luxury $imulator is a game about hubris by Arrian.

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Why Try It: Explore the abandoned remains of a refuge for the ultrarich, accompanied by brief, unintrusive voiceovers explaining its history.

Mood: Atmospheric

Author’s Notes: “Luxury $imulator is a first person game-essay set in the last bastion of human civilisation, a labyrinthine bunker-palace after time. The viewer as opposed to the traditional narratives of video games, is not a hero - but an individual passing through, another guest in the final elite home of human civilisation. The memory of the fortress's building echoes throughout it's chambers, a lone voice from an era now lost.”

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