Now Play This

Sigils

Now Play This 2019 Tileset

Tileset based on the Now Play This 2019 identity.

Hogg

Now Play This 2021 Tileset

Tileset based on the Now Play This 2020 identity.

Hogg

Now Play This 2022

We Should Totally Stab Caesar!

You are a terrible Senator - now it's up to you to get rid of your least fave guy.

hannahraymondcox

Interactive Fiction

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STATUES

A short game about a king and his people playing "statues"

SpaceBackyard

Station: A Game of City Building

Make a city, while you make a train network

Tin Star Games

Rules & Roberts

A democratic roleplaying game

molleindustria

Out For Delivery

A 42 minute playable documentary

Yuxin Gao

GIF

MIND Psychometry

An employability assessment from a dystopian HR department

Juniper-C

Interactive Fiction

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co-open

Grocery shopping adventure: make friends, feed cats, and find secrets!

lowpolis

Adventure

Now Play This 2021

Floating Point Leviathan

Killing a whale at the edge of sane numbers

YanKnoopDev

Action

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Venice 2089

As Nova riding a hoverboard, explore Venice in a time when water rising is relentlessly destroying the city.

Event Horizon School

Adventure

Villains and Heroes

Bullshit your way to a gold Rolex as an uninvited guest at this elite costume party.

l03s

Interactive Fiction

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The Last Survey

An essay game about navigating systems of power beyond your control

Essay Games

Interactive Fiction

Even in Arcadia

An experiential narrative game about people, plants, and interplanetary capitalism.

plasticflower

Among Ripples

An ecological simulation game where you take charge of a small pond.

Eat Create Sleep

Simulation

Now Play This 2020

The Indifferent Wonder of an Edible Place

A short story about a municipal building eater.

Studio Oleomingus

Nova Alea

A minimalist game about the forces that shape our cities

molleindustria

Red Desert Render

Ian MacLarty

Adventure

Now Play This 2019

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Wrong Box

MollySoda

The Zium Garden (2018)

Zequel to The Zium Museum

The Zium Society

Simulation

Short Trip

A hand-drawn, web-based interactive illustration about a scenic tramway, windswept mountains and cats with places to be.

Alexander Perrin

Play in browser

Mazurka - A Ghost in Italy

Dance in the Italian moonlight. Smile. Keep walking.

Strange Scaffold

Interactive Fiction

The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game

You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.

Grace Bruxner

Adventure

Desert Golfing

Golfing across an infinite desert

Captain Games

Sports

Sharkburst

i made this for my friend who likes sharks

girl software

Now Play This 2018

Now Play This is a festival of experimental game design, which ran most recently at Somerset House in London from 6-8 April 2018 as part of the London Games Festival - see http://nowplaythis.net for details. This collection includes some of...

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Lost Wage Rampage

An over-the-top, fast-paced, driving heist game about closing the gender pay gap

jane friedhoff

Action

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The Isle Is Full Of Noises

A storm is upon you. Be not afeard.

dreamfeel

Overground

A flatgame about riding the London Overground in 2016.

Rosa Carbo-Mascarell

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TITONIC FISHERMAN

A VERY NORMAL MUSIC SEQUENCER

Froach Club

Rhythm

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Freeways

Interchange Design for Autonomous Vehicles

Captain Games

Simulation

The Loss Levels

Fifteen narrative microgames created for Now Play This 2018

danhett

Play in browser

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10 Mississippi

A stop motion game about a daily routine.

Karina Popp

Play in browser

PANORAMICAL

​Prepare yourself for an interactive sensory journey unlike anything you've ever played before.

Finji

Against Introspection

"As of Tuesday the 13th of February 2018 at 10:55pm it is now illegal to make videogames about videogames."

Michael McMaster

恋物 liàn wù​

tga

SNAKISMS

Philosophy made of Snakes.

pippinbarr

Action

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Doodle Studio 95!

a fun hand-drawn animation tool for Unity!

Fernando Ramallo

TEMPRES

a puzzle, at first

tak

Puzzle

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Now Play This 2017

A few of the games we showed Now Play This 2017, which ran at Somerset House in London from 7-9 April, as part of the London Games Festival. Get a taste of the festival if you couldn't make it in person, or revisit some favourites if you co...

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10000 YEARS

This place is not a place of honor.

Heather Flowers

Adventure

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Sacramento

fresh air and flamingos ~

Dziff

GIF

Wish Fishing

contemplative divination software

Pol Clarissou

Our Bleak-Ass Writing Competition at the Ragged Verge of Spacetime

A vindictive party game for nineteenth-century masters of literature to play at the end of the world

Laura Michet

Tangled Paths

Narrative card game heavily inspired on Calvino's “The Castle of Crossed Destinies”

Ludipe

Deadbolt: A Virtual Guide

An educational resource explaining the game Deadbolt.

Elizabeth Sampat

GIF

Cuckoo Curling

Freestyle curling meets connect four. Now Online!

Grenadine

Sports

GIF

Breakup Squad

A fast and asymmetrical team-based game for five players!

Brooklyn Gamery

Simulation

12 orbits

12 players, one keyboard / smartphone / gamepad / touchscreen / makey makey...

Roman Uhlig

Action

Dariya Kinare

On the River Banks

chaibirkes

Queers in Love at the End of the World

fellas, is it gay to make out in the ashes of capitalism?

wizardofvore

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MORNING MAKEUP MADNESS

q_dork

Simulation

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Karambola

Lonely fruits and veggies with emotional problems need your help in this short point and click puzzle/adventure.

Holy Pangolin

Puzzle

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Burly Men at Sea

A branching folktale adventure.

Brain&Brain

Visual Novel

There is a Light That Never Goes Out

Made in 48 hours for the HEADSTART 2015 gamejam

Vaida

Adventure

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Istanbul, Texas

A music centric tale of destruction, regret and repair.

dreamfeel

Giraffes Volleyball Championship 2016

simple volleyball multiplayer minigame

sandwich puissant

Sports

Now Play This 2016

Some of the games we showed at Now Play This 2016!

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Wibble Wobble

it's a wibbly wobbly world

Daniel Linssen

Action

asphyx

you, player, are going underwater.

droqen

Platformer

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Slam City Oracles

a rambunctious, riot grrrl, Katamari-meets-Grand Theft Auto physics game

jane friedhoff

Action

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Palimpscreensaver

Screensaver inspired from our game Palimpseste

Le Chant du cygne

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Metamorphabet (2015)

A playful, interactive alphabet.

Vectorpark

Get Lost!

A nine-way story

S. Woodson

Interactive Fiction

Push Me Pull You

A videogame about friendship and wrestling

House House

Sports

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Cobra Club HD

(NEW IN 2016: HD remaster!) free dick pic game about bodies / privacy

Robert Yang

Simulation

Guppy

2D watercolor fish simulation

Christiaan Moleman

Simulation

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Imaginal

Catch lightning bugs, chill, chat.

Wertle

Forager

Find a den to call your own. Forage for food, decoration and grass to build your nest

Cat And Nate

Action Painting Pro

Discover your inner Pollock

Ian MacLarty

Platformer

Now Play This 2015

The first ever Now Play This ran from 4-6 September 2015. We showed about forty games; ten of these are below.

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OASES

kaleidoscopic elegiac flyscape

Armel Gibson

PANORAMICAL

​Prepare yourself for an interactive sensory journey unlike anything you've ever played before.

Finji

Beeswing

Discover a world of stories in a handcrafted game set in rural Scotland.

jackspinoza

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Casual Games for Casual Hikers

Tiny storytelling games and performance scores for gentle walks outdoors.

Harry Josephine Giles

inflorescence.city

the textual detrius of a generated city

Everest Pipkin

Run in browser

Prowl

Dark jazz and rainy streets

House Of Wire

GIF

Snow Cones: Episode 1

A frozen treat dating simulator

TeamLazerBeam

Simulation

A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build

An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen

Draknek & Friends

Puzzle

Fish Fly

Frolic nude in the fountain of your youth

Froach Club

Shooter

GIF

Sagittarius

Competitive cosmic archery!

George Prosser

Action