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This visually exceptional work which straddles the line between a slow game and an interactive animation invites the players to explore a landscape full of natural motifs and surprising artifacts depicted in a gentle drawing style.

Sophisticated investigative game in which a player searches for a true picture of events in narratives and contexts using exploration and connecting parts of the story. It works with a database of images and secretly recorded conversations that capture two years in the lives of four people, gradually revealing their intimate life and details of their common story.

The game is part of a unique project that helps researchers build the world’s most extensive database for research and treatment of dementia. The player is a seafarer who takes photos of the ocean’s residents with which they are sailing while training their perception and sense of direction.

An autobiographical adventure that takes players along the exciting and surprising path of the young Syrian artist Abdullah Karama, who under dramatic circumstances, but presented with humor, escaped civil war in 2014.

An intriguing strategy game, in which the player is an archaeologist with 14 days to conduct excavations in the cemetery in Nowe Monasterzysko – their discoveries, however, must also be described and catalogued so that they can become part of the research.

A sophisticated rendering of life in a totalitarian regime, in which the player finds themselves in a situation in which they are blackmailed and forced to do things with which he does not identify. The story (perhaps tactically a sham) of loyalty to the state and protecting its borders from migrants, with twenty different endings, helps one realize the value of freedom.

A scientific neurology game. Exploration of the brain is an incredibly complex discipline the results of which are crucial to medicine and other fields of science. Thanks to the involvement of thousands of participants in this game, scientists are gaining data which enable them to model various types of brain cells.

A seemingly simple adventure in which the world is heading for destruction in 6 days, during which time the player has one chance to change the course of fate. The game can be played only once.

To help better understand how “fake news” originates and spreads, the player undergoes a simulated process during which a regular social network user becomes the author of such news. They learn about the tricks that conspirators and fake news authors use to deceive users.

A Polish independent game with a strong political message is a satirical simulator reflecting on the social debate on the 2016 law which banned abortions in Poland. Among other things, it points out there are pregnancies which endanger the mother's life, and opens fundamental questions regarding female reproduction.

The sidewalks of Bratislava are occupied by advertisement tripods, traffic signs, lampposts and garbage cans, while the rest of the territory is occupied by wildly parked cars. The game Pawns seeks to highlight the long-standing, unresolved problem of the quality of public space and, in a fun way, shows the most natural way to get around – by walking, which has turned into a frustrating and dangerous activity.

A simulation about the options and approaches to building trust lets players test cooperation and cheating approaches, but also to examine what roles errors and accidents play in mutual trust. Based on the Armistice of 1914, the game poses the questions “why do friends become enemies in times of peace, and enemies become friends in times of war?”