🚀 1000xRESIST has been nominated for a HUGO AWARD! 🚀
This is a dream come true for us at Sunset Visitor 斜陽過客. As people who grew up reading science-fiction, we can still remember browsing the paperbacks and seeing “Hugo Award” on the front covers. We couldn’t be more excited and honoured to be nominated.
Thank you to all the fans and Worldcon members that cast a ballot for us. We greatly appreciate your support! ✨
We are doubly delighted that 1000xRESIST has secured a joint Nebula + Hugo nomination, which is something we never considered possible when we set out to make a game. We’ve been pinching ourselves for the last 48 hours.
To celebrate, Remy Siu and Pinki Li take a moment to remember some influential experiences with Nebula/Hugo Award-winning books:
Pinki Li on “Left Hand of Darkness” by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness is one of very few books I’ve read in my life that left me–upon completion—with a kind of inexplicable loss for days. Widely celebrated for its originality and revolutionarity, it offers compelling, complexing, fresh perspectives on gender, society, and otherness on an engrossing alien planet. However, what particularly stays with me, even after all these years since reading, was my embodied experience of endurance—the slow, gruelling movement of two characters amidst unforgettably punishing terrain. In all the inhospitability, The Left Hand of Darkness manages to be ingeniously funny and truly sexy. What a fantastical read in the most dreary, humanizing way. I’ve never quite been the same.
Remy Siu on “Hyperion” by Dan Simmons
I read Hyperion when I was too young to appreciate it, but the “Priest’s Tale” is forever burned into my mind. I devoured it straight through in one sitting, delirious. The growing sense of dread and the sheer impossibility of what was unfolding – I couldn’t look away. At that young age, I never considered that science-fiction could enter such uncanny territories. I still think of the Bikura, Paul Duré, and the Tesla Tree now and again, relishing that moment of utter disbelief. What an absolute fever dream.
The Hugo Awards will be presented in a ceremony on August 16, 2025 at Seattle Worldcon 2025. Other nominated indie games include, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, Tactical Breach Wizards, Caves of Qud, and more!
You can read more about the awards, and the other finalists here: https://seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-awards/2025-hugo-award-finalists/
Hekki grace! ✌️