Last year, the Tribeca Festival became the first ever major film festival to celebrate video games, highlighting eight titles to compete for the inaugural Tribeca Games Award, with recently-released Southern Gothic narrative adventure game NORCO taking home the honors and beating out stiff competition at the time. And now with the 2022 Tribeca Festival coming later this June, the game selection have now been unveiled, and the competition is even stiffer, with nine particularly heavy hitters now competing for the award. This year's selected games are...

• A Plague Tale: Requiem, Asobo Studio's sequel to their 2019 GOTY contender A Plague Tale: Innocence, continuing the adventures of two siblings as they attempt to navigate a world plagued by supernatural forces.
• American Arcadia, the recently-revealed hybrid of side-scrolling puzzle-platformers and first-person adventure games from developers Out of the Blue, where players attempt to escape a deadly '70s-themed reality show.
• As Dusk Falls, an interactive drama from INTERIOR NIGHT about the entangled lives of two families over the course of thirty years that starts of with a robbery in the '90s and spirals into a secret-filled journey.
• The Cub, Demagog Studio's follow-up to Golf Cub Wasteland, where an orphan immune to toxins attempts to escape a scientific expedition hunting them across a post-apocalyptic Earth in a platformer inspired by '90s 16-bit classics.
• Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course, the much-anticipated DLC for Studio MDHR's 2017 run-and-gun boss rush game, where our heroes head out to a new part of the Inkwell Isles in order to help their friend, Chef Saltbaker.
• Immorality, the latest FMV adventure game from Sam Barlow and Half Mermaid Productions, where players attempt to uncover the mystery behind missing actress Melissa Marcel by going over rare footage from their old films.
• Oxenfree II: Lost Signals, Night School Studio's sequel to their 2016 supernatural narrative thriller, this time focusing on a young woman returning to their home town of Camena to investigate mysterious electromagnetic waves.
• Thirsty Suitors, a story-driven adventure from Outerloop Games who return's home for their sister's wedding and find themselves battling suitors, exes, punks and more in turn-based combat while skating around town.
• Venba, Visali Games' narrative cooking game about an Indian mother in the 1980s restoring lost recipes after their recipe book is damaged during their immigration to Canada, engaging with their family along the way.

Once again, a rather stellar lineup of games, and attendees will be able to check them out at the 2022 Tribeca Festival from June 11 to June 19, with tickets for the in-person and online demos to be sold starting on May 9, where you can purchase them through the festival's official site. So who who wind up taking home top honors this year? Well, all of them seem worthy in their own way right now, but we'll just have to see what happens this June.