2019 Competition Entrants

A world which at first glance seems familiar, but is never quite right. Something shifts under the surface. A twitch, a flicker, and then nothing. You've been caught smuggling VHS tapes across the border. You have instructions to kill the proprietor of the old diner. You've found yourself lost in the woods among the remains of cursed industry. Three intersecting threads take you on a journey through a cruel fever dream world.

Paratopic is a narrative, horror-tinged adventure game. An experiment in non-linear, fragmented storytelling and in leveraging filmic techniques that are unusual in interactive media. It aims to be both an adventure and a mood-piece, building a liminal, unsettling tone.

- A diverse range of hand-crafted, detailed environments awash with nuanced world building and storytelling.
- Dynamic and varied narrative vignettes and situations. Acts of violence, driving cars, placid photography and a host of off-kilter characters to meet.
- A subtly dynamic soundscape composed from over an hour of bespoke tracks. Through glitched, burbling sound design and a soundtrack that harks back to late 90s FM and tracker audio, the ambience of Paratopic warps and segues as you journey through the world.

Patrolling is a space shooter based on the web animated series of the same name. The game is being developed for the mobile phone platform Android and Iphone. The game follows Gina, Tina and Cap a team of space rangers who receives a distress call. What the aggressor did not expect was who would answer that call. Lets just say this was not the team they expected.

Photographs is an ensemble game composed of five tragic short stories.

Each story is set in five different times and locations, and they have completely different mechanics.

That's important because Photographs is a narrative disguised as puzzle game. The dioramas, the photographs, the sound, the voices, and the puzzles, come together to create a cohesive narrative experience that tells that specific story.

Piczle Colors is a new entry in the Piczle logic-puzzle (PICture puzZLE) series. Using the colored hint numbers next to each row and column of a grid fill out the puzzle to create an image! As is usual with Piczle games, Piczle Colors comes with a tonne of unlockable extras and trophies.

Pikuniku is a delightful dystopian adventure game for one or two set in a strange but playful world where everything is not as perfect as it seems.

Help the friendly folk you meet overcome hardships both big and small while uncovering a deep state conflict between technological progress and ecological security.

The god Eothas, once thought to be destroyed, returns to life in the form of a titanic statue – nearly killing you as he destroys everything in his path. It's up to you, the Watcher of Caed Nua, to discover Eothas' purpose and decide to help or hinder his efforts.

With an enormous open world, a massive cast of characters, beautiful hand-painted backgrounds, and a story you can play your way, Obsidian Entertainment is proud to bring you Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire.

Pizza! Giant robots! Lasers, destruction, evil cyborgs! Arcade action in a fully customizable mech with a pizzeria in its chest. THIS IS HOW YOU RUN A PIZZERIA.

Pizza Titan Ultra is a fast paced 3rd-person action platformer focused on fighting and smashing through a futuristic city, in a giant mech, to deliver pizza. Experience speedy attacking and dodging, while attempting to control the massive weight of a 10 storey mobile pizzeria - just try not to make too much of a mess!

Pluck It is a playful experience about plucking hairs and experiencing emotions. In Pluck It, player plucks hairs which embody different kinds of emotion: angry hair, procrastinating hair, heartbroken hair, etc. Players will need to deal with these hairs in various ways to pluck them.

Pluck it is made with the purpose of promoting self-awareness and emotional awareness of people's everyday life in the information age. In this busy digital era which all kinds of things try to attract our attention, sometimes we have little or no time to understand and take care of our emotions and mental health. Pluck It brings this topic to you in a fun way. Pluck It also attempts to inspire players to develop empathy and to resolve emotional conflicts.

"Come in our agency to try to pass the test to be selected for our futures missions on our spatial base. This test will confront yourself to a new materia granted with magnectic powers. You'll be evaluated on your skills to move in zero gravity and find your way trough many challenges."

Welcome to Powerless! The Interactive Doomsday Simulator. Explore London after a catastrophic solar flare plunges the city into darkness and renders all electronic devices and transport useless. Try and keep your Personas alive as you face the elements without help from the digital world. Powerless is an interactive fiction game which explores how electricity dominates our society and how much we would struggle without it.

Without electricity, how will you communicate? Without power, how will hospitals look after patients? Without running water, how will anyone survive? Filled with exciting survival situations, Powerless will test your knowledge of the natural world and push the limits of what you believe society is capable of.

Each challenge is narrated via an interactive story where you control every action. Will your choices help save lives or put your own in danger? The choice is yours.

As you move through the levels of Powerless, you will gain a Survival Rating based on how you behave in each level. Are you honest or will you lie to survive? Are you brave or will you avoid danger at all costs? Are you resourceful or are you clueless when it comes to survival? Will you help others, or will you only help yourself? As your rating improves, new adventures and Personas will be unlocked, it's up to you how you behave, but there will be consequences.

Throughout Powerless you will be guided by our A.I named MAUDE (Mobile Assessment Unit of Doomsday Events).

Answer MAUDE's psychological profiling questions and she will assign you different Londoners to test your metal in an apocalyptic London without electricity. Work your way through the levels with each Persona to see if you can become a survival master and complete the game

Pride Run is a game about LGBTQI rights, in which you lead a parade across different famous cities of the world!
Your goal is to make people dance with the tunes of Hard Ton, trying to involve more persons that possible.
Once the parade is crowded, you'll deal with the city Boss in a Dance Duel 1vs1.
San Francisco, Berlin, Tokyo, Moscow, New York and more other cities are waiting for you!
Beat with beat the LGBTQI rights haters!
Face the Haters in Vanilla or Play Hard mode, where you'll be able to test your dancer skills choosing among different level difficulties, beating your feet on Hard Ton tracks.

Prizma is series of meditative puzzles exploring colour and shape. The player moves coloured boxes, overlapping them to create vibrant new colours and patterns while attempting to recreate a series of given patterns.

Prizma has no time limit, and is designed to provide a peaceful visual and auditory environment in which players can experiment to create new colours and configurations.

Project Caretaker (working title) is a 3D real-time sci-fi strategy management game by Heart Shaped Games.

Project Javatale is an action-adventure inspired by the Legend of Zelda series with deep and evocative influence of batik artwork delivered through exploration of inter-connecting area of non linear levels.

Player are tasked to defeat a hidden evil while uncovering the truth hidden by the gods

PUSS! is an 'avoid-em up' puzzle game! The game mechanics are based on getting through mazes without touching walls to reach the exit portal.

PUSS! features several worlds guarded by tough bosses. By beating each world you will release an ally who will help you on your adventure. All the levels are randomly sequenced so every run is different!

Game's visuals are based on different elements of modern art; such as glitch art, surrealism, psychedelic art, webpunk, vaporwave, naive art, etc

In Q.U.B.E. 2, players step into the shoes of Amelia Cross, a British archaeologist, who has awoken on a strange alien planet. With the help of fellow survivor, Emma, players must face the challenging puzzles of the Q.U.B.E. in order to try and find a way back home.

Rad is a 3D platformer Collect-a-thon inspired by 3D platformers from the late 90's and early 2000's. The game follows Rad, the game's protagonist, as he collects items from around the town of Vistabell while assisting his friends who live there. The game is developed in Unreal Engine 4, and was our capstone project for Ferris State University's Digital Animation and Game Design project.

Real Al's Humanity Academy combines wacky minigame action, an Adult Swim style of humor, and the world's most human robot to give you a VR party game unlike any other. In Real Al, you became a student of the titular Artificial Intelligence character as he teaches you everything you need to know about the human condition through a series of ten second minigames: you'll rob houses, bounce eggs, meet puppets, and exorcise demons - just like a normal human! You can attempt to graduate from the Academy by starting the "Human Training Mode" or face off against your friends for a place on the "Human Leaderboard" in the unlockable "Endless Mode." There's never been a better time to learn how to be human. Enroll today!

REHTONA

GAME INTRODUCTION

While at a party, a young girl known as "Rehtona" (the reverse of "Another") witnesses the world beginning to change without warning. Two seemingly identical but completely different worlds overlap each other – and all the party guests disappear except for her. After a series of unexplained events, Rehtona embarks on a journey to uncover the truth.

The player will take on the role of Rehtona – solving puzzles to collect memory fragments scattered throughout the world. Whenever a complete image is assembled, a memory that doesn't seem to belong to Rehtona will be imprinted onto her mind. Rehtona is getting closer and closer to the shocking truth ...

In Rehtona, there are one core factor: "the two world": outer world, and inner world. Each game level contains a sequence of multiple puzzles. By discovering and taking advantage of the differences between these two worlds, the player needs to act in one world while anticipating the consequences in others.

After the opening sequence, Rehtona will gain the ability to place illusion marks in the outer world she inhabits. These illusion marks will become "statues" in the inner world. Players need to think carefully about where to place these illusion marks because they help players traverse the inner world.

Rehtona is a platform game with innovative puzzle gameplay. We hope that players will enjoy the game's mechanics and original storyline. Currently, the game is in demo form. The final version – which is planned for a mid-November release – will contain 40+ levels and a robust, immersive story.

LOST AT SEA, 1803
the good ship
"OBRA DINN"
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Built 1796, London ~ 800 tons, 18ft draught
Captain R. WITTEREL ~ Crew 51 men
Last voyage to Orient ~ Cape rendezvous unmet
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Contact East India Cy. London Office
for enquiries or testimony
An Insurance Adventure with Minimal Color
In 1802, the merchant ship Obra Dinn set out from London for the Orient with over 200 tons of trade goods. Six months later it hadn't met its rendezvous point at the Cape of Good Hope and was declared lost at sea.

Early this morning of October 14th, 1807, the Obra Dinn drifted into port at Falmouth with damaged sails and no visible crew. As insurance investigator for the East India Company's London Office, dispatch immediately to Falmouth, find means to board the ship, and prepare an assessment of damages.

Classic shoot'em up action is back!

Rigid Force Alpha breathes new life into the classic side-scrolling shooter genre with its lovingly hand-crafted 3D graphics, stunning environments, detailed effects and an electrifying Synthwave soundtrack.

Arm your fighter with numerous upgradeable weapon systems, increase your firepower with adjustable Force Shards and collect Energy Orbs to unleash extremely powerful blasts against an armada of enemies and huge end bosses!

In Rollossus, the player takes on the role of an incredibly agile ball spawned from a greater being named Oton, tasked to eliminate planet-destroying enemies to bring the planet back from the brink of collapse. Killing these enemies will require the player to out-wit and out maneuver hordes of varied enemies that are desperate to take you out.

You are in the final fight. You've done what Oton asked, but now he demands that you sacrifice yourself to him. AS you resist, he accepts the fact that you've become smart and self sufficient and decides to use his own energy to spawn an overwhelming number of enemies to take you down. When that begins to fail, Oton decides that it's time to take you down personally, unleashing devastating power on you. However, the area is not a safe place for any ball. With life threatening traps around every bend, you use your navigational abilities to trick enemies into death pits, incinerating flames, spike traps, and unpredictable launch pads to dispose of the threat, and take Oton down once and for all.

Rumble Rockers is a Beat Em Up coop game where your main weapon is the music. You and your friends race towards a music label headquarters that promise a lifetime contract to the first band that reach the building. Punch, grab, throw and destroy to make your way through the city and be the first to reach the prize.

S.M.A.R.T.s (Smart Module AI Repair Technicians) is an isometric couch co-op strategy game where the goal is to pacify smart-homes whose AI's have gone rogue and need "re-calibrating."

Is the hope of achieving peace worth it? ... Even if it costs you an eternity...?

Take on the journey of a sailor who sails off his homeland in search of peace and ends up in a land full of mysteries: India. Tap, tilt, scroll and swipe in this endless sailing game where you take on the role of an anonymous sailor and protect yourself with all you can as you struggle your way to find yourself closer to your solutions.

Sailor Eternity is a game which is based around an Indian ethnic background. Hence all the levels in the game are based on Indian places and have unique mechanics according to the sailor's mental position in the story. Once you finish a campaign, the level becomes an endless runner/ high-score chaser with various achievements.

You are one sneaky blob, sampling others to survive in an ever changing world.

Featuring...

A bunch of beings to sample, fight, and eavesdrop on.

Infinite procedural outposts and arenas, each with their own unique setups.

Local co-op gameplay, plug in a controller and sample and save as a duo.

A dozen wonderful characters to unlock, each with their own challenge and skill.

A variety of infusers, useful as temporary boosts or wells to pull a sample out of.

Fluctuating, but ever increasing, difficulty with an absorbing blend of stealth and action.

A story that sneaks up on you.

An unusual adventure game with combat and RPG elements. Everything you do has a result and the so-called right choice does not always lead to good. Accept the consequences of your decisions and explore, fight, die or go mad in the gloomy post-punk Victorian lore of Crosshill.

A game about psychological gatekeeping for transgender women.

"The island… It was my prison.
For ages, I roamed the land, helpless, looking for a way out…
… And then, they arrived."

A group of shaman apprentices set foot on the shores of a sacred island to be initiated to magic. As they progress through the wilderness, looking for the "Seers", their spirit-guides, they realize they're not alone.

Who is this strange horned woman they are seeing in their dreams?

Seers Isle is an interactive graphic novel for PC, Mac & Linux. It will be released in September 2018. It's a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters.

Shadow Brawlers is a local party game in which players control cute, agile ninjas that hide in the shadows. Surprise your opponents by appearing suddenly from the background; attack and disappear in this fast-paced, award-winning brawler. The game features elements from the classic platformer genre mixed with the modern party game rhythm; a combination that results in players throwing elbows in acts of undisputed sportsmanship.

With lavish animations, a super stylistic design, and hyper-fast gameplay that will test the reflexes of the gamers, Shadow Brawlers is poised to set the fighting party games genre ablaze.

"Through the Forest, Into the World..."

She and the Light Bearer is a blend of a music album and adventure game that borrows its aesthetic from storybook and fairy tales. The game put emphasize in the art, poem, dialogue, and music to deliver a story about forest and Mother.

In She and the Light Bearer, players will assume the role of Firefly and help her find Mother that will decide the fate of the forest all creatures live in.

The project was born from a prototype made during Mojiken Camp, an internal upgrading program by Mojiken Studio. The prototype, titled She Who Was Once Lost, has smaller scale and very different gameplay, but helps Brigitta Rena, the creator of the game, to explore her visual artistic direction and expand the idea into grander series that will start with this game.

She and the Light Bearer is developed by Mojiken Studio and published by Toge Productions.

Sheeping Around is a multiplayer (1v1) card dueling game about grazing and stealing sheep. The objective is simple: you gotta graze the sheep and call them home as a shepherd, or lure and steal them as a thief.

There's three sheep on the board, and one of the players is the Shepherd and the other is a Thief. As a shepherd attach graze cards to sheep to graze, and when you're done, use "Whistle" to take them home. As a thief, attach lure cards to sheep to lure them and when they're lured, steal them away. The first person to get two sheep wins. But the tricky part is all the other cards that make your opponents' lives harder. You can lay traps, guard sheep, reduce graze / lure values and use special bonus cards to your advantage.

Add deck-building and card collection, and you get the basic elements of a CCG. All in all, an exciting game that will make you ask your friends, "Will you sheep with me?"

Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe while an intergalactic war is raging between ancient powers.

Its a hypercasual game based on a girls physical game skip rope. We transform this idea in a very cool way tap to jump it before rope touch body.

We modify body from where its cut by rope and at runtime we modify mesh while keeping device performance improved.

Slamdoku is a creative re-imagining of Sudoku as a competitive local multiplayer fighting game.

Compete in over 1000 Sudoku puzzles of different sizes and difficulty levels to capture the most territory on the board by the end of each round.

Feel the physicality as you slam numbers onto the board. Bash your opponent out of the way to secure your victory. Don't just be the best at Sudoku, be the best at Slamdoku.

Slyway is a fun puzzle game with gorgeous graphics available on Android (soon on IOS).
Unlike other logic games, Slyway provides the player an atmosphere of adventure and exploration.
The goal of the game is to help Kurt, a teenager, find the shortest way to Sly, his old teddy bear, while collecting the three stars. The player must slide against the walls to reach Sly, all with a limited number of movements and even sometimes with a timer. 
As the player progresses, the difficulty is gradually increasing with introduction of new game items like teleportation vortex, flying blocks, magnet, and many more. Many challenges and rewards can be unlocked, like skins, treasure chest, secret passages, optionals levels and others worlds. 
Slyway offers a very fun experience while challenging your logical skills.

It's time to wreck a castle! Smash alone, smash together or smash against friends in VR and alongside on the big screen!

Smash Hit Plunder is a physics-based tear-it-up set in a magical medieval castle and its sprawling surroundings. Be a powerful mage with the freedom to explore each dungeon from inside a first-person view of a gorgeous, classic isometric video game.

Fight ghosts, munch food, start fires, destroy and cause chaos while avoiding the wrath of your ancestors - collect as much treasure as possible before your time ends!

Try levels alone and compete in personalized trials, or have a friend drop in at any time to help you on your epic adventure in 'Treasure Rush', 'Scavenger Hunt' or 'Free Play'.

You can even cry havoc and battle it out with up to 4 players VS in hide-and-seek 'Poltergeist Panic' or fight for possession 'Jewel Duel'.

With full narrative, dungeons, 5 game modes, progression unlocks, and a ghostly conclusion - Smash Hit Plunder will keep you entertained for hours

Have you ever wanted to know what it's like to command the galaxy's most advanced spacecraft? To go head to head in a battle of wits against an enemy commander? To imagine your squad's tiny screams as they explode into bits, secure in the knowledge it was entirely your fault? We have just the game for you!

Sol Commander is a simultaneous turn-based tactics game. Select from a diverse array of ships, set their maneuvers, choose their weapons, and use the various modules to employ all manner of trickery. When finished, lock in your turn, and watch your plan play out against the enemy's!

SOMOS is an action-arcade game with minimalist visuals, where movement is key to solving procedurally generated, living puzzles. Players switch their avatar between each side of the screen to avoid and/or destroy procedurally generated obstacles. Interacting with anything that is on the same side of the screen as the player's avatar will force the player to move to the other side, creating fast-paced puzzle solving.

The core of the game is the many challenges that the player will have to accomplish. Each of them twisting the rules of the game to keep the experience fresh and interesting. Completing challenges unlocks new vibrant colour palettes which players can explore in the competitive Endless mode or Relaxation mode of the game.

Speed Brawl is a 2D combat-racer about moving fast and hitting hard! Maintain your momentum, build your combos, and unleash powerful special moves. Find your own fighting style, and assemble the finest team of brawlers ever seen. Then do it all again faster... faster... FASTER!!!

The game features 6 Unique Brawlers, each with their own play style. Furthermore, skill trees and a huge amount of equipment will build out your brawlers however you see fit!

We have over 50 unique action-packed events and races to wade through across multiple Speed Brawl Leagues. And with local and online co-operative play throughout the whole campaign... You're able to bring your friends along for the fight of your life.

Spell long. Spell strong. SPELLFAST.

Your brain is your weapon in SPELLFAST, a competitive, addicting, REAL-TIME multiplayer word game. No more waiting for your turn!

Create words from letters in your tile rack and propel them to deal damage to your opponent, or defend against words hurtling at you. Keep firing 3 to 8-letter words until only one of you is left standing.

Real-time PvP matches
Play in different languages. Dictionaries supported: US ENGLISH, UK ENGLISH, SPANISH
Play offline vs the Word Wizard at 6 different difficulty levels
Rank with your fastest win of the day
Track all of your stats
Increase your vocabulary with brute force
Challenge your friends and family through text, email, Facebook post, or tweet!

Transcend the material realm and assume your true form as Spinch, a hyper-agile organism consumed by the quest to rescue a litter of its missing offspring. Enter into a world thick with bubbling psychedelia, swelling with an endless population of misshapen and malformed enemies. Disrupt your psychic architecture and be absorbed into this side-scrolling platform game, teeming with multiple pathways, luminous levels, and complex obstacles.

Splotches is a bamboozlingly funtertaining puzzle game we lovingly crafted for the peoples. If you like globs of paint and explosions, Splotches is just the game for you! Mix together the primary colors red, yellow, and blue in any order to make a Brownsplosion. Spread the colors across conveyor belts, through portals, over filters, and into buckets on your quest to destroy the mythical Rainbow Orb.

In the aftermath of a massive space battle, many of the starships have crashed onto an ocean world. Left for dead, the survivors have built barges from the scrap and fight for survival. While the barges use weapons and defenses from the starships, they now can be shifted around to greater effect. Grow your barge to survive against a sea of enemies.

Starboard is rogue-like game of shapeshifting tactics. Build your ship from the scraps of your victories, equipping a wide range of weapons. Shuttle batteries to power your shields and weapons, but be careful to not displace everything. Adapt in realtime as your ship rotates during skirmishes. Win by strategically targeting your enemy. Make hard choices to survive as long as you can.

Help Olly the Osprey nurture Stepstone Island back to health in this mobile fitness game! Using the health data collected by the Health app on your iPhone, your step count and distance walked will be converted into coins and milestones. These currencies can then be used to purchase items in Olly's Outlet such as tools, plants, and landmarks to help restore the land. Depending on what items you place onto the island, guests may visit and compliment your hard work!

Stitched is a horror adventure game that strings together the thrilling story of Catherine Stockholmes, an otherwise ordinary girl. The story begins with Catherine waking up in an eerie doll factory. With a great desire to escape, Catherine is forced to venture through the factory. But little does she know that terrible fates always befall the curious ones. Will Catherine muster enough courage to needle her way out of the factory? Or will she fall into sheer despair and perish?

Compelling story:
- Drives gameplay and exploration.

Unsettling atmosphere:
- Feel the suspense of not knowing what lies behind each door.

Meticulously detailed, hand drawn cut scenes:
- Original art brings scenes to life.

Thoroughly developed characters:
- Make decisions based on character actions and motives.

Heart-stopping chase sequences:
- Tread carefully.

A variety of engaging puzzles:
- Solve puzzles in order to progress as well as unlock secrets.

Strobophagia is a first-person, competitive horror game set during an occult psychedelic forest rave.
You play as one of two monsters, influenced by antique and modern folklore alike, hiding in plain
sight among a sea of intoxicated ravers. Your goal is simple: find and kill the other player, before
they find and kill you.

While the goal of the two monsters is the same, their methods of achieving it are vastly different.
One of you will skulk in the shadows, blending in with the raving crowd to avoid the gaze of the
other player, who's task it is to identify which of the dancers is a murderous monster before it's too
late.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Wanting to find their missing friend, Blue and Orange went on a journey filled with jumping, switching, portals and bouncy mushrooms.

Shared-screen two player encouraged. Single player also welcome.

Blue and Orange each has a unique ability, but they can both teleport to each other and Suitchi positions. Use these abilities to solve 26 carefully designed puzzles that gradually become more challenging as you figure out the endless combinations and possibilities behind Suitchi's deceivingly simple mechanics.

If you are playing with a friend, communication and collaboration are key to success. You will find yourselves constantly talking to each other and doing "one, two ,three" when executing plans that may require careful timing. Besides solving puzzles together, you might also find pushing each other off cliffs a fun activity.

Features:
- Shared-screen collaborative puzzle solving (single player also welcome)
- Simple mechanics with endless possibilities
- Asian themed art and music
- Rewind time if you make mistakes. No need to restart (although you still can)

Super GMA is a 2D arcade fighting game where classic and modern gamers use a new gameplay mechanic that allows you to increase your health energy the more you fight. Players choose one of 8 mighty warriors from across the nation on a quest to earn the title of Giga Martial Arts Champion in the name of honor, love, glory, survival, or pride. Every attack, strategy, or technique you wield can be used to your advantage, but don't think this will be easy. Go head-to-head against your friends and rivals in the local multiplayer mode to test each other's caliber. Unleash your true fighting spirit against all the odds and rise to the ultimate challenge of being the #1 winner. So, who's ready to kick some pixels?

supertype is a physics puzzler, where you have to write the solution. The letters behave like objects – 'l's falling like dominos, a 'y' being the ramp for a rolling 'o', an 'm' kicking the dot over an i.
The game lets the player see letters with new eyes. They are not used as a symbol, they are used as they appear in our world.

Swingy Sword is a casual 3D fighting game where you fight to the death against up to 4 people in 6 game modes. The main goal of Swingy Sword is to make the controls as challenging as possible while still being exciting to play.
Example: You use the 2 joysticks to move the legs individually and to swing your sword you press and hold one of the bumpers and press the D-Pad in the direction you want to swing.

The Game has 16 achievements, challenges, and easter eggs to find. All but one unlocks a hat to put on your character. Swingy Sword has a total of 30 hats (15 hats that are found in chests throughout the game, and 15 are achievement hats). The achievement that doesn't unlock a hat is a 6 part quest that unlocks a 7th game mode.

You are a pathetic little Ghost who has somehow ended up with half a heart - you need to find the other half in order to fix this mess. Your heart is over on the Isle of Compromise, trouble is, the Ferry Man is the only way to get there. But, uh, well… They've got a sudoku puzzle to prioritise over your pathetic little Ghost drama.

You need to get over to the Isle of Compromise, sick. You gotta get the Ferry Man on your side, less sick. You gotta help them with this uhhh, sudoku puzzle thing, great, you love sudoku, you've read a newspaper before, it's great.

Hot diggity, dang! You can't read any of the symbols!