2022 Serious Games Showcase & Challenge: General Audience finalists

The 2022 contest was the first to sort games by audience. A game went into either the General Audience or the Government Audience group, and the maker's own type of organization no longer decided the category. An international panel reviewed the finalists before naming winners in seven awards: Best General Audience, Best Government Audience, Innovation, People's Choice, Best Student-Developed Game, Best XR and Students' Choice.

Seven of the finalists in the general group came from companies, agencies and universities. Three more were student projects. The contest's results page counts 17 finalists in all, so the other seven were in the Government Audience group.

RoboCo, from Filament Games, is a sandbox and campaign game about designing robots for open-ended challenges, and players can write Python to automate what they build. STROKE: Keep the Brain Alive in 45 comes from the Veterans Health Administration and trains players to recognize and treat acute ischemic stroke following the VA protocol, with a clock of 45 minutes. Top Derm, from Level Ex, is a dermatology game for clinicians that runs on a phone and includes continuing medical education packs on acne, melanoma and dermatitis.

HoloBrand, from the University of Applied Science Trier, is a game for HoloLens and Meta Quest 2 in which several players share one physical space to learn Glen Urban's preceptor model of product positioning. ARIN-561, from the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, is a Unity role-playing game about a scientist stranded on an alien planet, and its tasks introduce breadth-first, depth-first and greedy search. Poconostics, from BlueHalo, offers two balance-training games for physical rehabilitation that track body pose and head and eye movement. PreSore, from Simofun and Koç University, teaches relatives and communities how to prevent pressure injuries in a patient receiving home care.

The student group had Pirates of the Sea++ from Norfolk State University, a 2D game for C++ concepts such as data types, conditionals and loops. Ulster University and Fresno State University entered two virtual reality titles: Numbers and Letters, for numeracy and literacy, and Medical Imaging VR, in which users learn to read MRI scans and find brain regions such as the pituitary gland and cerebellum.

Top Derm won Best General Audience Game. Pirates of the Sea++ won Best Student-Developed Game, and ARIN-561 took the Students' Choice Award. The Virtual Reality Simulated Delirium Environment, a Government Audience finalist, won the Innovation Award and the People's Choice Award.

The contest's site still publishes a page for each of these games, and its 2026 edition has closed submissions. A results page shows that a game was a finalist. It does not show that the game can be played now, and the current availability of the ten titles above is unconfirmed.