Keyword: A Spider's Thread

Entrant Company

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 - Reversal
silver
winner

Entrant Company

University of Southern California

Category

PC Game - Best Game Design

Country / Region

United States

2021
NYX Game Awards - Carrier Command 2
silver
winner

Entrant Company

Microprose Software pty Ltd

Category

PC Game - Best Innovation

Country / Region

Australia

2021
NYX Game Awards - Shadow Dreams: The Last Thought of Hope
silver
winner

Entrant Company

Khosouf Studio Middle East FZ LLC

Category

PC Game - Shooting Game

Country / Region

United Arab Emirates

2021
NYX Game Awards - Unbinary
silver
winner

Entrant Company

Ludact

Category

PC Game - VR/AR Game

Country / Region

Brazil