Esi Amoah, Hayley Cho Sum

You play as an imaginative little girl helping to maintain your dolls and their village that you created using arts and crafts supplies. Help them with their tasks: cut shapes out of paper, braid hair, and paint while you learn more about their lives. The fantasy is perfect — until conversations from the real-world start seeping in, and eventually, you are forced to confront your reality. Karimah’s Paracosm is a 2.5D narrative game centred around arts-and-crafts and a deeper underlying narrative, perfect for players who are drawn to childlike, nostalgic settings, with a mix of heavier themes such as emotional neglect & dysfunctional families.