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- Venba
- In Stars and Time
- The Archivist and the Revolution
- Slay the Princess
- Stray Gods

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2024 IGF nominees: weird stuff

Round two: weird stuff. Genre-pushers, wacky ideas, and things you just don't see much of. Yum! (Okay, the genre most commonly being pushed is "visual novel". But I have a whole visual-novel post coming up next, so I split out the weirder games ...
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in reply to Andrew Plotkin

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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The Archivist and the Revolution may be the least enticing game on that list, but based on a quick look at the sites for the others, it's also the most accessible for a screen reader user (not surprising, since it's HTML-based). And while I'm not a full-on fashy accelerationist, I think I do need to play this.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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The Archivist and the Revolution reminded me of Bee by Emily Short, which I've played. So I wasn't surprised to see Bee in the list of inspirations.
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