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Warsaw, July 1st 2022

We publish award-winning games that tell important or emotionally-engaging stories, or explore new gameplay/artistic territories… titles that give more than entertainment.

Today, we’re launching 3 Bundles that each contain 3 games, grouped by similar themes.

All of them are adventure games and their gameplay sub-genre varies from platform, puzzle, visual novel or survival. Click on each link to know more about each title.

Bundle #1:

• Soul Searching
• Infini
• A Night at the Races

Main themes explored: Madness, Escape, Resilience, Perceptions

Bundle #2:

• Cosmic Top Secret
• Mythic Ocean
• Journey of the Broken Circle

Main themes explored: Love, Discord, Influence, Introspection

Bundle #3:

• EQQO
• Stilstand
• Lydia

Main themes explored: Hope, Despair, Connections, Monsters

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The award-winning game, Stilstand, is a haunting and darkly comedic interactive graphic novel following the grim yet hopeful journey of one woman trying to stay afloat in Copenhagen through a summer riddled with anxiety and loneliness.

Stilstand is a deeply personal project coming directly from Ida Hartmann’s existential crisis as she finished her degree. The author’s debut game is created in collaboration with Niila Games, a studio that strives to challenge and distort the boundaries of the game medium. On Nintendo Switch and Sony PS4, it is published by Nakana.io, a Warsaw-based label focused on meaningful games. Stilstand is supported by the Danish Film Institute and The Danish Art Foundation.

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You have the night to win a clandestine tournament. Lead the rankings, get the prize, pay your debts, escape hell.

You’re invited to the arcades tonight. Compete illegally with other players for the top of the global leaderboards. You need the prize money to survive.

FEATURES:

• A unique narrative – you play as the player, and face their challenges on and off the screen.
• Challenging Arcade-Platformer gameplay – easy to learn, hard to master. Perfect for speedruns.
• Online ranking leaderboards – by level and global.
• Great playtime value – 200+ levels and additional game modes.

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Mythic Ocean is coming to Nintendo Switch (July 02), PS4 & Xbox One (date TBA)!

A Free Demo is now available on Nintendo eShop.

MAKE CHOICES THAT SHAPE THE COSMOS

• Narrative Exploration – through deep conversations with gods, your choices influence the fate of the universe.
• Diverse, peaceful underwater environments.
• Meet tons of goofy, charming creatures.
• No death, no combat, no failure. The challenge is influencing the gods to get the result you want – outcomes range between harmony and pandemonium.
• There’s a breakdancing crab.
• Available now on Windows PC!

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Cosmic Top Secret is now available on Nintendo Switch, PS4 and Xbox One.

To celebrate, we shot a new trailer at an epic old fort, where Danish spies used to plot agains the USSR. “Stevnsfort” is now home of the Cold War Museum of Denmark.

You can also watch an interview that the curator of this museum made of Trine Laier, the creator and protagonist of Cosmic To Secret.

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Copenhagen, Denmark – September 18th, 2020 – Lovable Hat Cults whimsical puzzle platformer Journey of the Broken Circle is out now on Steam and Nintendo Switch for €8 / $10 / £7.20. As an added bonus, for the next 3 days, owners of any games published by nakana.io can claim the Switch version of Journey of the Broken Circle for free! Embark on the story of an existential circle seeking fulfillment in a seemingly cold, uncaring universe.

Journey of the Broken Circle is a narrative-driven puzzle platformer about an incomplete circle yearning to become whole. As it rolls through a wondrous and hazardous land, it encounters a series of other shapes with unique personalities and skills that it uses to fill the hole left in its body. Each shape offers a unique mechanic, helping our pie-shaped person surmount obstacles and find inner peace.

As with all relationships, each character Broken Circle intermingles with offers it unique properties. Some will allow it to float into the heavens, others will cause it to cling onto surfaces, and some will cause it to tumble along with an extra spring in its step. Not all relationships were made to last however, so don’t get too attached!

“We wanted to make a game that reflected the experience of being human. So we made a game about a limbless circle. But a very human circle!” said Writer, Andrea Brasch. “We all feel insecure at times, and our relationships with others simultaneously lift us, but can also make us feel incomplete on our own. That’s never been more true than it is right now, so if our game can help people through this trying time, we know it will have been worth it.”

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Copenhagen, Denmark – September 10th, 2020 – Lovable Hat Cults whimsical puzzle platformer Journey of the Broken Circle launches on September 18th on Steam for €8 / $9.99 / £7.20 and on Nintendo Switch for €8 / $8 / £7.20 via the eShop. As an added bonus, for 3 days after launch, owners of any games published by nakana.io can claim the Switch version of Journey of the Broken Circle for free! Embark on the story of an existential circle seeking fulfillment in a seemingly cold, uncaring universe.

Journey of the Broken Circle is a narrative-driven puzzle platformer about an incomplete circle yearning to become whole. As it rolls through a wondrous and hazardous land, it encounters a series of other shapes with unique personalities and skills that it uses to fill the hole left in its body. Each shape offers a unique mechanic, helping our pie-shaped person surmount obstacles and find inner peace.

As with all relationships, each character Broken Circle intermingles with offers it unique properties. Some will allow it to float into the heavens, others will cause it to cling onto surfaces, and some will cause it to tumble along with an extra spring in its step. Not all relationships were made to last however, so don’t get too attached!

“We wanted to make a game that reflected the experience of being human. So we made a game about a limbless circle. But a very human circle!” said Writer, Andrea Brasch. “We all feel insecure at times, and our relationships with others simultaneously lift us, but can also make us feel incomplete on our own. That’s never been more true than it is right now, so if our game can help people through this trying time, we know it will have been worth it.”

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This IGF Finalist and A MAZE. Honorable Mention is both a surreal story-driven adventure and a puzzle game with mind-bending / perspective-shifting mechanics, made by Barnaque (Montreal, Canada) & published by Nakana.io (Switch publisher of EQQO, Soul Searching, Lydia).

Tagline:

Lose yourself in Infinity… but never lose Hope. Think outside the box in a multiverse of perspective-shifting puzzles.

As Hope drifts deeper into Infinity, Reality begins to suffer. There doesn’t seem to be any way out, and Hope is by nature doomed to carry on. Challenge your mind to help him out.

Master the innovative camera manipulation mechanic to change your perspective and discover new mazes, abilities and characters such as Time, War, Fatality or Technology – who can be helpful allies or deceitful foes in this 8-hour long story-driven puzzle adventure.

Infini Key Features:

• Discover a unique, mind-bending and varied gameplay
• Immerse yourself in a rich emotional story
• Easy to learn but increasingly challenging
• At least 8 hours of gameplay across 100+ levels and 10 diverse worlds
• Ideal for quick play sessions
• Experience original imagery and a soundtrack of over 20 songs
• Feel the void of Infinity!
• Independent Games Festival Finalist + A MAZE. Honorable Mention

Infini drifts into Nintendo Switch on 03 July. The eShop game page and a Demo are now available.

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WARSAW, 07 February 2020 – Originally created for VR devices by indie Parallel Studio, founded by ex members of Ubisoft, DontNod Entertainment and Quantic Dream, the game EQQO is now coming to Nintendo Switch to put the players at the heart of a playful and emotional journey.

Inspired by ancient Ethiopian legends, EQQO is an initiatory adventure, and a love song to nature. It’s the improbable tale of two foreign creatures one to the other… A child who can’t see, and an Egg, as fragile as it is vital.

Using the the powers of the Egg,the players will need to advance through sacred lands and mysterious rooms, awaken the Temple’s sleeping mechanisms, foil ancient traps, and repel the dark forces that want to seize the Egg!

KEY FEATURES

STORY
A multi-layered story full of symbols and metaphors about hope, love, nature and everything that connects us. Voiced in English an French. Captioned in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

ADVENTURE
Four to five hours of exploration and puzzle solving in sacred lands and monumental temple rooms.  25 hidden parchment scrolls to find and reveal new parts of the legend.

ART
Music composed by Nicolas Bredin and played by the world-renowned Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Spectacular sceneries and an immersive “360-degree cinematic” experience supporting the use of the gyroscope.

CULTURE
Items and architecture inspired by Ethiopian mythology and traditions such as the pilgrimage to the Rock-Hewn churches of Lalibela.

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT
The possibility to plant your own tree, both in-game and in real life, with the 1 EUR/USD DLC #EqqoDonation.

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