SHIBA GAME AWARD 2025 WINTER Judge's Award Winner "Danchi Days"
Help Hoshino revive a beloved summer festival! Explore a Japanese neighborhood, play puzzly minigames, and get to know quirky neighbors. Visit websites both friendly and dark, in a bittersweet adventure about young Hoshino, her friends, and her grandmother living with dementia.
Judge's Comment
An adventure game about a young girl trying to revive a summer festival in her housing complex to cheer up her grandmother.
The worldview is wonderful, showing the reality and sadness of a declining housing complex while highlighting the warmth of the bright young girl and the unique residents.
The opening sequence showing the grandmother when she was healthy is very well done, naturally making players want to help the grandmother from the same perspective as the young girl.
