Spoilers ahead: for the puzzle and the movies/games
This page reveals all categories and answers for this puzzle. It also discusses plot details, story endings, and other spoilers for some of the movies/games shown.
easy
Making games is the game
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All four turn game creation into the main activity. Super Mario Maker hands players Nintendo's side-scrolling tool kit. Dreams makes sculpting, music, animation, and playable scenes part of one shared creation suite. Game Builder Garage teaches logic through friendly visual nodes. Game Dev Tycoon turns development itself into a business sim about picking genres, platforms, engines, and timing.
medium
Dice decide the action
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These games make dice more than random number generators. Dicey Dungeons builds whole character kits around rolled faces. Slice & Dice turns a party's entire turn into a row of custom dice. Lost in Random gives Even a living die companion whose rolls open combat options. Dicefolk makes creature battles hinge on dice faces, turn order, and when to spend or save control.
hard
War remembered away from the front line
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This is the Memorial Day weekend nod: all four look at war through civilians, families, memory, or ordinary people caught in history rather than power fantasy. This War of Mine is about surviving a siege as civilians. Valiant Hearts follows lives pulled across World War I. 11-11 Memories Retold frames the Great War as personal recollection. My Child Lebensborn deals with the aftermath of occupation and the children left to carry its stigma.
tricky
Titles that are complete sentences
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Each title reads as a full little sentence with a subject and verb, not just a name or phrase. I Am Bread is the bluntest possible identity crisis. I Am Fish repeats the structure with a different unlucky creature. You Are Empty turns the sentence outward at the player. We Were Here makes the verb past tense and turns the title into a trace someone left behind.