Games: Play exclusive demos of thrilling unreleased games at the free and open to the public Games Gallery located at Pier 57 from June 10-14.
This year’s Festival features 12 Official Games Selections that demonstrate potential in phenomenal storytelling and innovation through interactive experiences.
I got to attend the Games & Immersive Experience and test out some playable demos of the upcoming featured games.
Check out all of the Tribeca Games Selections Below:
Bad Magpie
Tribeca Games
Game | United Kingdom | 20 MINUTES | No Dialogue
Bad Magpie, (United Kingdom) World Premiere. You are a magpie with one wing, a missing flock, and an unhealthy obsession with a fallen star. Steal shiny trinkets, cause chaos, and stick your beak where it doesn’t belong.
Developer: Milktooth
Publisher: PopAgenda
Demi and the Fractured Dream
Tribeca Games
Game | United States | 20 MINUTES | English | English subtitles
Demi and the Fractured Dream, (United States) – New York Premiere. In this enchanting action adventure, play as Demi and venture through the world of Somnus. Tackle dungeons filled with environmental puzzles, use your wide arsenal of attacks, spells, and tools to vanquish void monsters, and defeat the three Accursed Beasts of legend.
Developer: Yarn Owl
Publisher: Annapurna Interactive
DRIFTED
Tribeca Games
Game | Japan, Taiwan | 15 MINUTES | No Dialogue
Drifted, (Taiwan, Japan) – North American Premiere. A paper airplane ventures into a vast world of darkness. DRIFTED is a narrative-driven platformer.
Developer & Publisher: UrbanFox
Forever Ago
Tribeca Games
Game | United States, Germany | 20 MINUTES | English | English subtitles
Forever Ago, (Germany) – New York Premiere. Following a tragic stroke of fate, Alfred embarks on a journey north in search of redemption. In this single-player road trip adventure, you’ll travel to beautiful places, capture memories with your camera, meet interesting people, and even make some new friends.
Developer: Third Shift
Publisher: Annapurna Interactive
Kidbash: Super Legend
Tribeca Games
Game | Indonesia | English | English, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Indonesian subtitles
Kidbash: Super Legend, (Indonesia) – North American Premiere. In this nostalgic roguelike action-platformer, awaken in a world of forgotten game characters as a hero with no memory of his past. After failing to save a nearby village from destruction, can you rise, rebuild, and rediscover the true meaning of being a hero?
Developers: Authentic Remixes, Fat Raccoon
Publisher: Acclaim Games
LOFSÖNG
Tribeca Games
Game | Italy | 30 MINUTES | No Dialogue, Silent, Invented language
LOFSÖNG, (Italy) – World Premiere. LOFSÖNG is a stunning art-driven narrative adventure game across deep time ages. Explore vast brutalist landscapes to uncover traces of meaning left in stone and sound, and build a bridge between what once was and what may still come.
Developer: UNRELATED GAMES
Rebounder
Tribeca Games
Game | Canada | 30 MINUTES | English | English subtitles
Rebounder, (Canada) – World Premiere. Rebounder is a precision platformer set in a four-ink, pulp-print world. Grab, throw, bounce through an off-world worksite with trick-shot ricochets and fast retries. May induce speedrunning mania.
Developer: ThirtyThree
Rivage
Tribeca Games
Game | Canada | 540 MINUTES | English | English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese subtitles
Rivage, (Canada) – New York Premiere. Rivage is an immersive sci-fi puzzle adventure set aboard the A.R.E.S. space station. Wake up as Miranda, forced to explore and solve intricate puzzles to unravel the fate of your missing crew.
Developer: Exnilo Studio
Publisher: Raw Fury
ROCKBEASTS
Tribeca Games
Game | Poland | 300 MINUTES | English | English, Polish, French, Spanish, Chinese subtitles
ROCKBEASTS, (Poland) – New York Premiere. ROCKBEASTS is a rock & roll management RPG set in an alternative 90s America. This comedy-drama puts you behind the scenes of the music industry’s brutal reality, where every choice shapes your band’s journey from garage obscurity to stardom.
Developer: Lichthund
Publisher: Team17
There are No Ghosts at the Grand
Tribeca Games
Game | United Kingdom | English | French, Italian, German, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Polish subtitles
There Are No Ghosts At The Grand, (United Kingdom) – World Premiere. Inherit a crumbling English hotel and restore it by day—while battling ghosts by night. With a sardonic cat, a talking power tool, and a twisting supernatural plot, this is a musical mystery unlike any other.
Developer & Publisher: Friday Sundae
Truck-Kun is Supporting Me from Another World?!
Tribeca Games
Game | United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, New Zealand | 30 MINUTES | English | English subtitles
Truck-Kun Is Supporting Me From Another World?!, (United States) – New York Premiere. Inspired by the anime and manga subgenre of Isekai, Truck-kun is Supporting Me From Another World?! revels in absurdism while simultaneously grounding itself with sharp satire that reflects real life. Smash through objects at high speed to power up the corporate ladder climber in a dangerous medieval fantasy world.
Developer & Publisher: Strange Scaffold
Virtue and a Sledgehammer
Tribeca Games
Game | Spain | 30 MINUTES | English | English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese subtitles
Virtue and a Sledgehammer, (Ireland, Spain) – New York Premiere. In Virtue and a Sledgehammer, explore the remains of your hometown haunted by the android ghosts of your digitized neighbors. There won’t always be a clear path, so create your own by knocking down any structures that stand in your way.
Developers: Selkie Harbour, Deconstructeam
Publisher: Devolver Digital
The Tribeca Games Gallery at Pier 57 officially opens tomorrow, welcoming all to play exclusive demos of this year’s Official Games Selections. The Tribeca Festival’s Games Program celebrates the convergence of games, entertainment, and culture. (Details Below)
The event is free and open to the public from June 10-14. More details below:
- Location: Pier 57 – 25 11th Avenue, New York, NY 10011
- The Games Gallery is located in the Living Room, on the ground floor of the Pier’s southern edge
- Hours of Operation:
- Wednesday, June 10: 12pm – 5pm
- Thursday, June 11 to Saturday, June 13: 12pm – 7pm
- Sunday, June 14: 12pm – 5pm
https://tribecafilm.com/festival/games
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