Keyword: A Spider's Thread

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City From Naught Inc.

Category

PC Game - Puzzle Game

Client's Name

Leon Jiang

Country / Region

Canada

Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter. Play as Guo, a father with a complex past, who must use all the tools at his disposal to find his daughter, Sala.

Solve problems as you would in real life, hack into emails and social media, and dive into the dark web to find your daughter’s whereabouts, all the while uncovering secrets within your own home. Use binoculars to spy into the homes of neighbors, discover lurking enemies, and look over the city of Toronto to find important clues and put the pieces together.

Straddle the line between reality and the game as you depend on your natural intuition to guide you to your next step. With no dialogue prompts revealing answers it will be up to you to save Sala. Get lost in time loops as you discover if your past is all an illusion, or if it really is as you remember. Can all be forgiven? Is redemption possible? Or is there truly no way out?

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Credits

Co-founder
Shala Chen
Co-founder
Leon Jiang
2021
NYX Game Awards - Georifters
silver
winner
Busy Toaster

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Playerium

Category

Microsoft Xbox Game - Family Game

Country / Region

Taiwan

2021
NYX Game Awards - BeeFense BeeMastered
silver
winner

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ByteRockers' Games

Category

PC Game - Defence Game

Country / Region

Germany

2021
NYX Game Awards - Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game
silver
winner

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Mad About Pandas

Category

PC Game - Best Storytelling

Country / Region

Germany

2021
NYX Game Awards - Behind the Frame
silver
winner

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Silver Lining Studio

Category

Mobile Games - Best Storytelling

Country / Region

Taiwan