2021 Young Game Designers: the winners

A first person adventure game where you take the role of a detective in search of their lost uncle in his manor that's more fiction than reality.

In thoughtless you encounter the staff of a manor and help them with their troubles to progress to new rooms and come closer to solving the mystery of what's really happening. As you progress you uncover the truth of the manor, that it's not real, well- more accurately, it's a dream, a safe haven someone created to escape from life. Each of the staff members represents a part of their personality in some way or other. It's up to the player to get to the final room and try to convince the dreamer to free them all by waking up.

A short platformer where you only have a jetpack and a rope swing.

In this game you use a jetpack and a rope swing to traverse a small underground world in order to "get out of it". The objectives are to flick two levers hidden by two different platforming challenges, then to return to the door and win. The time taken to complete the game as well as number of deaths are displayed on the win screen to incentivise speedruns or deathlessruns.

Completing a game will rely on accusing the correct suspect, with extra points being awarded based on time taken to solve it, and the amount of time travel done in the level. The player will need to be careful though, as accusing the wrong suspect will lead to a game over.

You play as a detective who uses a series of postcards to time travel, gathering clues in the future and past, then using them to solve cases in the present.

The game is a mystery/puzzle game where you solve various cases using time travel. However, this time travel is limited to one day in each of the four seasons, meaning that you can't simply travel to the day the crime happened to figure out what happened. Instead, you will need to travel to various points before and after the crime in order to gather evidence, interview people, and hopefully piece together the clues you find so that you can solve the case.

Rewind is a game to help people understand the stages of grief so they are more prepared to help somebody who is going through this and to understand how they feel.

When the player enters the game, they are greeted with a purple themed 3D landscape, with a man simply called ‘Dad’ following them and helping them with tasks. After this tutorial level is done, 'dad' will simply disappear and the player is placed back in the same level with slight alterations. The game appearance and colour scheme changes with each level, representing the stages of grief and hopefully giving people an insight on how grief works and to understand how someone feels whist they are going through grief.