A rhythm game tribute to the long-running Final Fantasy series. There are songs and characters from every mainline numbered title from the original Final Fantasy to then-recent Final Fantasy XIII. Songs are grouped into a few different kinds of levels depending on the nature of the music - battle music has you fighting a series of monsters, event music plays over cutscenes, and field music has you journeying through the game world. It’s all layered on top of an RPG system where you build a party of four, level them up, and equip items and abilities.

An exploration game roughly in the vein of Flower or Journey. Play as a diver swimming through underwater caverns and submerged ruins. There’s no dialog and gameplay consists mostly of navigating a beautiful environment against an emotive soundtrack. The star of the show is the sea life - hundreds of real-world species of fish, turtles, whales, and more lovingly rendered with up to several thousand individual creatures on screen at any given time. The game sets up multiple jaw-dropping moments the first time you see certain animals or groups thereof.

A first-person brawler and occasional shooter in a bizarre otherworldly setting. An extensive tutorial eases you into the combat mechanics but you’re dropped into the world itself with essentially no explanation. You get to practice the many attack and defensive options while piecing together clues on what kind of place you’re in and what your role is in it.

A 2D platformer that evolves the textile-based art style from Kirby’s Epic Yarn and matches it with Yoshi’s Island gameplay. Play as a woven Yoshi and make your way through levels, eating enemies and parts of the scenery and turning them not into eggs but balls of yarn which you can then throw as weapons or use to activate various other parts of the scenery. Just reaching the end of a level will allow you to progress to the next, but each level also has many collectibles with varying effects - find all of a level’s yarn skeins to unlock a new Yoshi to play as, collect all the special beads to unlock new Yoshi customization options, and pick up all the flowers in all levels in a world to unlock a bonus level for that world. (For full completion you also need to finish each level with full health.)

A 2D platformer that evolves the textile-based art style from Kirby’s Epic Yarn and matches it with Yoshi’s Island gameplay. Play as a woven Yoshi and make your way through levels, eating enemies and parts of the scenery and turning them not into eggs but balls of yarn which you can then throw as weapons or use to activate various other parts of the scenery. Just reaching the end of a level will allow you to progress to the next, but each level also has many collectibles with varying effects - find all of a level’s yarn skeins to unlock a new Yoshi to play as, collect all the special beads to unlock Miiverse stamps, and pick up all the flowers in all levels in a world to unlock a bonus level for that world. (For full completion you also need to finish each level with full health.)

A short adventure game where you play as male student Willie who plans to confess his love to female classmate Liza. You can technically accomplish this in a matter of seconds, but there are twenty different endings based on exactly what you do and when you do it and all of them must be witnessed before the game is truly complete - and the more endings you see, the more clues you find that things are not as they seem.

A rhythm RPG. Combat is accomplished by playing through a song - your four party members each get a lane of scrolling button prompts similar to games like Dance Dance Revolution or Guitar Hero. You can switch from character to character and getting a streak of correctly-timed hits for a given character will activate one of their abilities.

Originally made for the 2015 Now Play This exhibition on experimental game design, OASES is a meditative art piece that imagines what might have happened to the creator’s grandfather when his plane was lost in Algeria in 1960. There isn’t a lot to it - the plane goes through a rainbow portal into one of a few colorfully surreal landscapes, which the player can fly around for a while before going back to the menu.

An action RPG set in the One Piece universe. Play as the nine Straw Hat Pirates in an original story, visiting a number of areas based on their canonical adventures. Fight your way through enemies, catch bugs and go fishing, collect materials and explore hidden areas, and fight the boss at the end of the level. Each of the Straw Hats plays differently and while combat is not as fluid and satisfying as in One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3, Unlimited World Red allows you to take three characters into each mission and switch between them freely, with whoever you aren’t currently controlling left to the AI. Between these excursions, return to the hub town and spend your spoils to help it expand.