RISING STAR AWARD IF FOUND
Developer Dreamfeel Publisher Annapurna Interactive Format PC, Switch
We were spoiled for fantastic debuts this year: Paradise Killer, Necrobarista, Röki, Signs Of The Sojourner and HoloVista among them. The future looks bright indeed. But the brightest star of all was undoubtedly Dreamfeel’s interactive graphic novel If Found, which follows a young transgender woman as she tries to reconcile her present with her past. Her strongest instinct is to destroy the latter – and so you’re presented with her hand-illustrated and annotated diary, and find yourself erasing it sentence by sentence, sketch by sketch, page by page.