| Award | Winner |
|---|---|
| RNGG Game of the Year |  Nightshade Chronicles: Elegy of Sorrow Nightshade Chronicles: Elegy of Revenge |
| Most RNGG Prompt | Car Tactics (from Sega Superstar Tactics: Dream Cast) |
| Most RNGG Pitch | Antiquity On-Line |
| Cassidy's "I want it" Award | Gundam Build EXPLORE |
| Crash's "I want it" Award | Stories of Tairen |
| Furthest from the Prompt | Jovian Wanderer |
| Funniest Joke | Mr. Underworldwide (from Just Adventure: A Just Dance Experience) |
| Game Name | Prompt | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pursuit of Justice: Calling Dr. Love | Detective Simulation | DiY Court Case Maker (Phoenix Wright Adjacent) with prebuilt scenario. Detective Melissa Mays has to investigate the murder of a reporter to clear Dr. Love's name, while also managing aspects such as sleep and hunger.Helps Lawyer-Friend Stefan Smiley put together case by selecting order of evidence |
| Sega Superstar Tactics: Dream Cast | Car Tactics | 3 v 3 tactics with both Death Match and Point-to-Point Objectives featuring Sega Characters. Turns calculated by unit speed. 3 classes of Units (Speed, Technique, and Power) with different items and access to different map locations. Characters are brought into a Dgital World by AGES and must defeat them to escape. Customizable Player Character is a Chao. Mod system for changing character stats. |
| Matrix Matrix Revolution | Movie Tie-in Rhythm | A Fight Choreography Rhythm Game utilizing either a Plastic mu ren zhuang or motion controls. Using a Custom Character, the player traverses a series of missions both in and out of the Matrix, fighting against people who are attempting to reestablish the 1%. |
| Stories of Tairen | Roguelike Life MMO | Post-Apoc Fantasy Setting. Player is randomly assigned a Job, Relevant Skills, and Goal to reach. Market of Trading not Selling. Jobs include stuff like Hunter, Alchemist, Smith, and Story Weaver. Goals involve stuff like Defeat High Level Monster, Craft Such Item, etc. Completing Job allows you to retire and add an item to the drop pool. Randomly Generated Instanced Maps and Private Maps. Food, Sleep, and Fulfillment Meter. |
| Rosewood Memorial Hospital | Hospital | Visual Novel with Minigame Elements. Player learns some health and safety knowledge via related story elements. A Group of new Residents including the player come in to Rosewood Memorial Hospital. Player can choose what kind of stuff to shadow to determine who they run into. Physical Therapy - Logan Clarke (He/Him) Flirty, Outgoing, Generally Chill Pediatric - Oliver Flores (He/ They) Hard Exterior, Warm Nougaty Center Emergency - Evalyn Halliday (She/Her) Rude, Demanding, Will Make You Work Surgery - Shantelle Fox (She/Her),Top of Class and wants you to know it Endocrinology - Cecil Middleton (She/They) Shy in a sort afraid of to go off script way (Trans) Janitor - Zander Riley (They/Them), Childhood Friend, Very Friendly, kind of a clutz. |
| SAD: Server Attack and Defense | Level-Based Asymmtrical Multiplayer Hacking | Asymmetrical MOBA where one player plays as a Server and defends against 3 Hacking Units that are attempting to reach the center. The Sever chosen determines the map layout and the defense options available such as Stronger Minions, Defense Towers, and Debuff Fields. Hacking Units are nebulous energy creatures that come in various forms with different abilites such as the Minotaur with greater Combat Focus, the ArchAngel that has access to support powers, and the Serpent who can infiltrate and disable structures. The Server player must defend for a set amount of time or reduce the hackers remaining pool of lives to zero. |
| Nightshade Chronicles: Elegy of Sorrow Nightshade Chronicles: Elegy of Revenge |
Vampire | Half-Vampire Princes Cain and Able Nightshade are after Dracula on behalf of their mother, Lilith, for the murder of their human father, Boris. In Elegy of Sorrow, you play as Able, who is more in tune with his vampire heritage and is capable of transforming into batclouds and a wolf, and features combat akin to the Arkham games. Elegy of Revenge features Cain, more of a monster-hunter, who eschews his more supernatural abilities for an arsenal of gadgets and weapons with Early Assassin's Creed combat. Both explore Dracula's Castle on the night of the Monster Mash and fight various bosses (Wolfman, Banshee, The Crypt-Kicker Five, etc) until confronting Dracula. |
| Splatomic Drifter | Fashion Souls-Borne | Splatoon-Spinoff where you play as an Octoling before the establishment of the world of Inklings, maps are reminisent of Splatoon Multiplayer Maps but more rundown and not yet inhabited. Gear still has skills and is main way of increasing stats, along with additional set bonuses. Weapons are more melee focused and ink on the ground/walls dries quickly. Amiibo Support adds weapons/gear to starting shop. |
| TimePeace | Time-Travel Fighting | A Smash Style Fighting game where each character can manipulate time differently. After Time Shenanigans have caused Paradox the Diem Deity to become Angered and Prepared to Destroy the entire Time Stream. Leap (A CatPerson who can slow and pawse time), Gnomon (a greek warrior who can rewind time), Jubilee (a speedster who can speed time up), and Anni (short for Annual, a young scientist who can create a Time Clone), must fight to get the Eternityglass which will save time and allow them to make one last change. |
| Neverglades | Fishing Horror | The Player awakens in an abandoned Environmental Research Facility in the Everglades, part of which is now Underwater. They need to keep track of survival meters including hunger, as they navigate the area which is now populated by various Necrotic Plant Beings that hunt by sound. They need to access the flooded section to recover the Purification Machine and restore the area. To do so, they will need to fish up various keys and components as well as sustenance. |
| Just Adventure: A Just Dance Experience | Dance | The Ancient Demon Mr Underworldwide steals the iObelisik removing the sense of Music and Rhythm from the world due to his inability to dance. It is up to you, wielder of the Legendary Groove to adventure across the world and restore peace and harmony. Each town has a story and a General of Mr Underworldwide's Army to defeat representing a major genre of music and dance. Along the way, you will enter battle with lower level enemies and fight with your arsenal of dance moves in time with the tempo of the battle music. |
| Casual Frightday | "Casual Frightday"-Tanner (@SparkyUpstart) | A Minigame Collection. It's Casual Friday at Dracula's Castle Inc, and Regional Manager Alucard has decided to put his employees through some Team Building Exercises. The players move around the building trying to find various items from a Scavenger Hunt. In order to get the item, they have to Win a Minigame. Player with the most items wins. Ring Rot - Zombie Ringtoss Super Ghosts vs Goblins - Foosball Cannibal Carnival - Button Mashing Pie Eating Contest What We Do on the Dancefloor - Alucard Boss Fight Dance Thing Last Ghoul Standing - Parts of the Floor Disappear Inflatable Ego - Meter-based Timing Game about inflating a dracula balloon. Mr Hyde & Seek - It's a hide and seek Forcefield Folley - basically 4 player pong |
| Heart Force | Romance Tactics | After recieving an invitation to join Heart Force, the Player's Chosen Character becomes entangled in Mid-Tier Superheroic Adventures. Story is split into Issues, with 5 Issues making up a Volume. The Closing Issue is decided based on the Opening Issue chosen. The Remaining PCs show up during Volume 2. Characters assist each other by flanking, combo attacks, and throwing for increased movement, which builds support to unlock Bonus Issues that explore interpersonal relations. Some characters already have relationships, but Polyamory is Okay. Playable Characters >Komal Hughes(E/Em)-Fortress-Defender-Ice Powers, can make terrain that alters movement, and walls >Caine Travers (He/They)-The Scarlet Shadow-Striker-Teleportation/Shadow Manipulation. Hits hard, hits fast. lots of bonus action triggers. >Aaliyah Fuentes(She/Her)-Hellsbane-Controller-Hellfire and Void Zones NPCs >Leo Sargent (He/Him)-Phalynx-Defender-HiTech Shield Gunlance, capable of marking enemies wirh flares that do Something >Alfie Drew(They/Them)-Jetstream-Striker-Jetpack and Lightning Guns. Maybe some Gimmick Grenades >Naomi Flores (She/They)-PlasmaBolt-Controller-Speedster with AoE Melees and Roots >Kaiser Page (Ze/Zir)-Commander Construct-Leader-Can produce minions/totems for buffs/debuffs |
| Scare School Shuffle | Mobile-Game Level-Based Monsters School | Gacha Match 3 Game. Blue Slime goes to Scare School to become a Dungeon Boss, and has to take tests in each class to prove themself. They are joined by a Cyclops as well as other monsters the player unlocks via random pulls. Each class (Engineering, Physical Fitness, Frightology, Magic, and Home Economics/Minion Management) introduces a new mechanic such as Frozen Pieces, Junk Blocks, and Point Doubling Leylines before combining with previous elements in the Class Final. Each monster has a Study Power which determines the amount of points their matches add to your score. Each test has a limited number of "questions", which is the number of moves you can make. This can be increased by Certain Monster Skills which include things that increase their point value, add extra moves via "Extra Credit", and "Cheating" which starts you with a certain number of points. There is also a Daily Puzzle that players can do and compete for the highest score. |
| PROJECT X.A.N.A. | Hacking | A Greedy Business CEO wants to demolish a local stripmall, but things are at a standstill legally until Ysera finds a mysterious old computer in the tech thrift store. Turning it on releases XANA and a Helpful SPRITE. XANA is wrangled by the CEO to help take over the stripmall and it's up to Ysera and Friends to work with their Digital Friends to stop them. JRPG Combat both in and out of Cyberspace. The teens have cyber forms like in code lyoko. Can collect data of different file types on the net and fuse them to create new SPRITEs. Characters: Derek, Timbothy, Ysera, Jet, Kayla, 15-16 yo |
| Fabricated Evidence | Sci-Fi Fashion | A Space Espionage Game about wearing the right clothes to infiltrate various locales, and getting information for The Organization. You play as The Operative, a customizable avatar capable of limited Free Running and Basic CQC. Each Level is a Sandbox Environment such as a Fleet of Cruise Barges on a Tropical Planet, or a Station orbiting a Black Hole. You can find pieces of clothing through out the levels (as well as crafting some with a Fabricator Upgrade) and each has tags that allow you to disguise in different areas. Other tools include lockpicks and small distractions. The Final Level involves infiltrating The Organization itself and turning against The Leader, who is revealed to be a Probability-Calculating AI. |
| Theatriclash: Shakespear | "Theatriclash"-Tanner (SparkyUpstart) | Competing Theater Groups travel across an Island in Massive Moving Stages. On a Schedule Your Troupe competes with another to perform a Specified Play better and win over the audience Manging your Travel Time, Rehersals, and Village Sidequests as well as Supplies. Plays are a mixture of 3D Traversal around your Theatre Vehicle, Stage Combat, Rhythm, etc. Occasional Sabotage and Bad Luck can lead to Structures Failing and Necessary Improvisation. Scenes are intersperesed with check ins on your opponent and Crowd Reactions. |
| Empire of Avarice | Medival Card Game | A Rogue-like Card Game in which you attempt to take over neighboring kingdoms via seige. The battle itself is abstracted as a game of cards in which you are dealt 5 cards and are given the chance to redraw some. You then rearrange them and play them one at a time against your opponent the person with the lower card loses some of their gold to the winner, and another round is played until someone runs out of gold. You can also wager for additional gold by betting on how many oi the five rounds you'll win. After battle, you can spend some of your gold on upgrades and the remainder is your HP. |
| Inspectors Gadget | Stealth FMV Reboot Toys to Life | Playing as one of 3 Teens (Penny Gadget, Talon Claw, and Candice Bradford. each of which comes with their own Accessories with additional sold separately) You are sent to infiltrate MAD Bases in gadget-filled platforming levels as you attempt to take down Dr. Claw and his Minions. Featuring Live-Action Cutscenes and Videowatch Calls with Inspector Gadget. |
| Jack Foley's FoleyWorx | Roguelike Music Puzzle | As the Lead (and only) Sound Designer at Small Game Studio, TriSoft, you are assigned to apply sound effects to scenes of gameplay using the FoleyWorx Program, with training/assistance by the program's AI. The Game Scenes are Randomly Generated based on various 2D-styles and after a set is finished, the game is released, and you are scored on your work. |
| Dogtective | Casual Mystery | Local Stray Sleuth, Dogtective, is approached by a youthful pup named Baseball about a missing, well, ball. after tracking it down two parks over, you find the ball and negotiate its release with some help from the Bodega Cat, Bo. However, upon returning, it seems that Baseball themself has gone missing! A Point and Click Adventure with Puzzles of both Dialogue and Environmental varieties. |
| Dragon Quest Monsters: Slime Racer | Fantasy | After their sibling is spirited away to a realm through their dresser, the player follows and finds themself in The Great Tree. The King tells them the best way to get their sibling back and return home is to win the Grand Tournament, a series of Slime Races across multiple realms. The Player must raise their slime Virtual-Pet style to adjust its stats and evolutions which are utilized in the racing mode |
| Phantom Thief Jeff | Motion Controls "Phantom Thief Jeff"-Tanner (SparkyUpstart) | After commiting a Small Shoplift to Feed some Kids, Jeff is contacted by a mysterious group of thieves known as the Merry Band. After a Tutorial, Jeff becomes a Phantom Thief and is tasked with stealing nuke codes to prevent their use. However, he is beaten to the punch by the Nefarious "Sparrow". Jeff must then track them down and get the codes back. Modes of Gameplay include solving puzzles, matching poses to hide, cracking security, and running chase scenes. |
| Chao in Wonderland | No Humans, Mobile Game Virtual Pet, Evolution Action-RPG | Chao raising Virtual Pet, but also a Diablo-style RPG. Mr Tinker as the Red Queen who has turned evil and is creating clockwork badniks. Chao has to travel through Wonderland meeting various Cameo Characters as they make their way to save the kingdom. Different Animal Aspects provide different abilities. |
| Fathom The Abyss | Vocabulary | After being sent to a Remote Space Lab that seems to have gone radio silent, The Player learns that the researchers had devoloped WORDs, Wells of Reality Distortion, that when adapted into a Gauntlet, allow The Player to use the related word as an aspect of combat or traversal. The Player must explore the various sections of the station that are currently inhabited only by haywire security bots as they find out what happened to the Crew. A 2D platforming Roguelike where you equip various nouns to gain new actions and augment them with adjectives. |
| Jovian Wanderer | Removed from IP Wild West | A 3D-Platforming Exploration/Collecting Game set across 4 different settlements, each on a different one of Jupiter's moons. The Player drifts from settlement to settlement, solving problems and breaking hearts. In addition to smaller sidequests (delivering letters between settlements, finding missing people, etc) each settlement has a Major Story Problem (such as Domesticating Space Manatees) that involves traveling to a different settlement and returning. |
| Antiquity On-Line | History MMO | An MMO that attempts to archive the styles of various popular MMOs over the years. Styles include classic ASCII maps and text, basic 2d, MapleStory, Runescape, Classic WoW, and FF14. Each zone is dedicated to a specific style. The Player is part of a group that is picked by The Great Dragons to work alongside The Disciples of Time (scholars throughout history that know everything that will/has happened) to prevent the world's magick from being taken. This is being done by The Conglomerate, a force from far away in space and even further away in time. |
| The Muppets: Silverscreen Singalongs | The Muppets (Lightning Round) | FMVs of famous muppet songs from movies with love-live rhythm mechanics tied together with abridged plots from the movies. |
| MLP:FiM: Story of the Star Shards | My Little Pony (Lightning Round) | After a spell backfires and turns the inhabitants of Equestria into Paper, Twilight Sparkle and her friends must adventure across the land (in a Paper Mario-esque RPG) to collect The Five Star Shards to reverse it. |
| [Tethered]/[22 Fates] | Tarot Aesthetic, Hunting | As a Tethered chosen by one of the 21 remaining crystals, you must work alongside other Tethered to protect the balance of Light and Dark forces that is currently unbalanced by the lost crystal. You are sent to defeat bounty targets which occasionally involve the twisted forms of other hunters known as Untethered who have had their connection to the crystals corrupted. After preventing the prevalence of a resource that seemed to be increasing the number of Untethered, it is revealed there is another cause. The 22nd Crystal returning, surrounded by its own army of Untethered. You must free the crystal and finally restore balance. |
| Gundam Build EXPLORE | Asymmetrical Multiplayer Mecha Metroidvania | In the style of the Gundam Build Fighters series, Plavsky particles are used to bring plastic creations to life. Teams of 1-3 people work together using minuture figurines and SD Gunpla to complete Dungeons as fast as possible, aiming to head to the world circuit. References to the history of the Build series and its predecessors. |
| IDWP Comic Book Collapse | Racing | A Kart Racing Game with preset pairs of characters riding DoubleDash style. Worlds from various properties that IDW has published are experiencing Dimensional Rifts that allow Shadow Racers to enter from beyond. They must travel from world to world to find allies and the cause of this catastrophe. This ends with a race against the Villainous Copy Wright. |