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Games that The Game Awards Future Class has contributed to — organized chronologically, most recent first, within the last 5 years.
El Paso, Elsewhere
El Paso, Elsewhere is a supernatural neo-noir third-person shooter. Hunt werewolves, fallen angels, and other damned creatures in a vivid slow motion love letter to action classics. Fight your way through a reality-shifting motel, floor by bloody floor. Save the victims of Draculae, lord of the vampires. Destroy the villain you loved--even if it means dying yourself.
Somewhere in El Paso, Texas, a three-story motel gained another 46 stories... all below ground.
So, yeah.
This is going to get loud.
Xalavier Nelson Jr. | Director | Future Class 2022
Sunshine Shuffle
Sunshine Shuffle is a narrative poker adventure featuring talking animals with criminal pasts and adorable outfits! Play Texas Hold 'Em with the remaining members of the 'Morning Shift', a group of working-class creatures turned would-be Robin Hoods who crossed the Fishie Mob, and mostly lived to tell the tale.
Unravel the story of how the largest bank on the Eastern Seaboard was robbed in a single afternoon as you play. Win hands to earn tokens and decorate the S.S. Sunshine with new light fixtures, chairs, card decks, and more. And try to boogie to the game's vibrant, wiggle-inducing original ska soundtrack as you stare into the cold eyes of a 12 year-old kitten with nothing left to lose.
Xalavier Nelson Jr. | Director | Future Class 2022
Available on Steam and Nintendo Switch.
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Experience the rise of Miles Morales as the new hero masters incredible, explosive new powers to become his own Spider-Man.
Mary Kenney | Writer | Future Class 2022
Available on Playstation 4/5, Steam.
Lonesome Village is a cozy but quiet town struggling to rebuild after a strange calamity wiped out their homes.
Take the role of Wes the coyote and help bring this village back from the brink in this puzzle-filled life sim!
Steve Durán | Director | Future Class 2021
Available on GOG, Nintendo Switch, Steam, and Xbox One + Series X/S.
Virtual Virtual Reality 2
In Virtual Virtual Reality 2 — a darkly funny action/adventure game — pilot your mech body through the chaos of a dying metaverse, rescuing abandoned avatars along the way. Each new avatar-roommate brings unique tools to aid your escape back to meatspace!
Do you have what it takes to overcome the digital destruction and interpersonal drama before you’re logged off for good?
Kathryn Yu | Production | Future Class 2021
Available on Meta Quest 2, Rift, Steam VR.
El Paso, Nightmare
El Paso, Nightmare is a first-person horror game about stepping out of your motel room to get a bucket of ice, and instead being greeted by horrors beyond imagination.
Become down-on-his-luck IT programmer Luis Rojas as he attempts to escape the dimension-shifting disaster that players will experience in the upcoming El Paso, Elsewhere. Flee iconic horror monsters from film, literature, and myth before turning the tables with an arsenal of powerful weapons.
Xalavier Nelson Jr. | Director | Future Class 2022
Available on Steam.
Illuminaria is a resource management and base-building game where players command a swarm of robots on a mission to save the world. It blends elements of resource management, tower defense, and auto-battles, offering a unique and challenging experience. With easy-to-use interactions and clear objectives, the game is approachable to players of all skill levels.
The goal-oriented gameplay offers a finite experience, making it a great choice for players looking for a finite, objective-driven strategy game.
Alhvi Balcárcel | Producer/Developer | Future Class 2021
Available on Steam.
In As Dusk Falls the choices you make have a powerful impact on the characters’ lives in this uncompromising story of betrayal, sacrifice, and resilience when a robbery goes wrong in small-town Arizona.
As Dusk Falls is a masterwork of branching storytelling where decisions matter and repeated playthroughs are rewarded with even more revelations.
It is an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT.
May Wong | Lead Game Designer | Future Class 2022
Witch Strandings
Far, far away, there is a Forest, filled with dark things, indelibly influenced by the Witch who lives as distantly as she can from its undulating heart. You are a strand of light, coalesced to nurture the dark.
Create pathways through the darkness in a top-down open world inspired by dark fairytales. Nurture the creatures of the Forest, repair ancient structures, and ultimately: confront the Witch who broke this place.
Witch Strandings dials into the emerging genre of physical transportation. A digital forest that extends beyond the boundaries of your screen, in an all-new Strand-type game.
Xalavier Nelson Jr. | Director | Future Class 2022
Available on Steam.
Nikola Tesla: War of the Currents
Nikola Tesla: War of the Currents is a 225,000-word text-based RPG by Dora Klindžić.
The man who invented the twentieth century was a queer immigrant from Serbia. Nikola Tesla dreamed of distributing free energy to all of humanity but passed away in a New York hotel room alone and forgotten. What if it had gone differently?
In the year 1886, you join the eccentric Tesla as his laboratory apprentice. Notoriously bad at monetizing his inventions, but nonetheless ingenious at building them, Tesla needs your help with making a living wage as much as he needs your help in the lab.
Dora Klindžić | Writer/Coder | Future Class 2022
In Skin Deep you play as Kira, a young Irish-Korean girl growing up in suburban America with two loving parents, lots of Legos and a loyal cat companion. As she journeys through the pains of adolescence with flirting, bullying, snacks, friends and loss, the game tries to reckon with Kira’s past in order to move on with her future. Powered by the Unity engine through Panoply, Download now for PC/MAC or Browser.
Abby Sherlock | Creative Director | Future Class 2022
Num One: Revised Edition
Num One: Revised Edition is a match-3 puzzle game that incorporates mathematical elements inspired by 2048.
Mik Minier | Sole Developer | Future Class 2022
Available on Steam.
Dying Light 2: Stay Human
Fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic open world in Dying Light 2, an FPP action game from Techland.
Mary Kenney | Writer | Future Class 2022
Available on Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4/5, Steam, and Xbox One + Series X|S.
Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator
ORGANS.
Everyone has them, and everyone wants them. You are an Organ Trader, the funnel for fleshy meat parts into a strange, evolving, and desperate universe full of clients.
Contend with the cutthroat organ market. Trade viscera with dubious figures. Keep vampire-leech organs from devouring the rest of the goods inside your cargo hold. Flood galaxies with meat. Make a profit.
Xalavier Nelson Jr. | Director | Future Class 2022
Available on Nintendo Switch, Steam, and Xbox.
Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. Part block-fitting puzzle, part home decoration, you are invited to create a satisfying living space while learning clues about the life you’re unpacking.
Victoria Tran | Community Strategist | Future Class 2021
Available on Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4/5, Steam, and Xbox One + Series X|S.
Night Reverie
In Night Reverie you play as a child named Matt who wakes up in a distorted version of his house and needs to find his little sister.
Explore puzzle-filled environments and discover strange creatures living in the house as you reach the truth behind what looks like a bizarre nightmare.
Sol Sánchez | Co- Narrative Designer | Future Class 2022
Available on Steam.
Button City is a colorful low poly narrative adventure game about a fox and his friends banding together to save their local arcade! Explore a diorama world, play exciting arcade games, complete quirky quests, and meet cute animal friends.
Shandiin Woodward | Art Director | Future Class 2021
Available on Nintendo Switch, Playstation 5, Steam, and Xbox Series X|S.
Date your weapons! Romance swords, daggers, and polearms to level them up in this “shack-and-slash” dungeon-crawling adventure.
Victoria Tran | Community Manager | Future Class 2021
Available on Nintendo Switch, Steam, and Xbox One.
An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs
An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is a first-person open-world comedy adventure game with a very long name. You and your fiancée are the last two human beings left in the universe. Dogs run airports, along with the rest of society. Deal with alien logic, travel issues, and strange stock photo dogs as you attempt to stay in touch with the person you love when you both live your lives on the go!
Xalavier Nelson Jr. | Director | Future Class 2022
Available on Nintendo Switch, Steam, and Xbox.
Heirloom was developed entirely remotely by Abby Sherlock and Kathryn Yu in collaboration with students at the Berklee School of Music as part of BAFTA award winning Professor Richard Lemarchand’s USC MFA game production class over the course of 13 weeks in Fall of 2020.
You play from the perspective of a widowed single mother in her late 50s on her deathbed as she grapples with the course of her life and her love for her family. The game grapples with the question: Is it better to tell the truth to someone you love, even if you know it will hurt them?
Abby Sherlock | Co-Director | Future Class 2022
Kathryn Yu | Co-Director | Future Class 2021
Available on Itch.io.
In Neon City Riders take on the role of Rick, a masked vigilante who aims to free all of Neon City from four super-powered gang bosses.
Explore the futuristic and decaying city to search for items, abilities, and companions that will aid you on this mission.
Jorge García | Director/Coder/Game Designer | Future Class 2021
Available on Epic Games Store, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Steam, and Xbox One.
Prepare for departure but beware the Impostor! Grab your crew in this hit multiplayer game of teamwork and betrayal. Play online with 4 – 15 players as you attempt to hold your spaceship together and return to civilization, but keep an eye out as one or more random players among the crew are Impostors bent on sabotaging and killing everyone!
Victoria Tran | Community Director | Future Class 2021
Available on Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4/5, Steam, and Xbox Series X|S.
The Walking Dead: The Final Season
In this gripping and emotional final season, you will define your relationships, fight the undead, and determine how Clementine's story ends.
Mary Kenney | Episode 2 Lead Writer, Series Writer | Future Class 2022
Available on Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Steam, and Xbox One + Cloud.
Awkward
Awkward is the multiplayer party game guaranteed to get you discussing controversial topics with your partner, friends or Twitch viewers! Players are asked increasingly uncomfortable questions on risqué topics and the other players try to guess their answers!
Joanna Haslam | Senior Designer | Future Class 2021
Available on Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Steam, and Xbox One.
In BATTLETECH, Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
JC Lau | Producer | Future Class 2022
Available on Steam.
ACT IT OUT XL! A Game of Charades
ACT IT OUT XL! is the multiplayer party game created to complete your games night! Get your friends or Twitch viewers to guess your favourite films, songs and video games as you describe, act, draw or sing them!
Joanna Haslam | Senior Designer | Future Class 2021
Available on Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, and Steam.
Destiny 2 is a first-person action MMO where you are a Guardian, defender of the last city of humanity in a solar system under siege by infamous villains. Look to the stars and stand against the darkness.
JC Lau | Test Engineering and Scrum Mastering | Future Class 2022
Available on Playstation 4/5, Steam, and Xbox One + Series X|S.