Encodya

Upon release, the game received average reviews.

• Title — Encodya • Developer — Chaosmonger Studio • Publisher — Assemble Entertainment • Platforms — Windows, Mac, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Android, iOS • Released — Windows, Mac, Linux 26 January 2021 Xbox, PS4, Switch 5 November 2021 iOS 31 January 2022 • Genre — Adventure

Encodya is a 3D adventure game played from a third-person perspective. Using a point and click interface, the player interacts with the environment by selecting from a series of verbs, such as "look", "take", "talk" or "pull". Players can switch between the two characters, Tina and SAM-53, with dialog options differing depending on the selected character. The game features two difficulty modes: easy and hard, with the easier mode providing hints and a button to highlight some interactable items.

In the city of Neo-Berlin, the players assume the role of a young homeless girl, Tina and her robot SAM-53. The city's mayor, Mr. Rumph, aims to hunt down SAM-53 for its memory, implanted by Tina's missing father. Players investigate the city of Neo-Berlin, working to avoid Mr. Rumph's henchmen and uncover clues to the password that unlocks what was hidden inside SAM-53.

Encodya was developed by Chaosmonger Studio, a development team led by Italian artist, animator and writer Nicola Piovesan, based in Bologna. Piovesan founded the studio in the 2000s as a collective of freelancers to work on film and animation projects. Encodya followed the creation of an animation, Attack of the Cyber Octopuses, a cyberpunk science-fiction themed animation released in 2017, with Piovesan expressing interest in creating a "bigger project" focused on a "cyberpunk universe". In line with this objective, Encodya was created concurrently alongside an animated short, Robot Will Protect You, released in December 2018, with the game pitched as a stretch goal for the Kickstarter campaign for the animation. Piovesan, who largely programmed the game on his own, used his own non-photorealistic rendering technique in the animation of the short as well as in the game to achieve a hand-drawn look with the environments. A game demo was released in June 2019.