Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Yoan Fanise, Paul Tumelaire, and Ubisoft Montpellier's deeply moving, artistically sublime, and heartbreaking World War I graphic novel puzzle adventure masterpiece across PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch (Valiant Hearts: The Great War), released in June 2014 by Ubisoft on the UbiArt Framework to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of WWI, sweeping Best Narrative and Games for Change at the inaugural The Game Awards (TGA 2014) and winning Original Property at the BAFTA Games Awards while holding an 82% GameRankings and 81/100 on Metacritic and selling millions of copies, standing as one of the most poignant and emotionally devastating anti-war narrative video games ever created, intertwining the tragic fates of four ordinary people torn apart on the Western Front: French farmer Emile Chaillon, his German son-in-law Karl, American volunteer Freddie, and Belgian nurse Anna, guided by loyal German Shepherd war-dog Walt, single-handedly pioneering the masterclass "Graphic Novel Historical Puzzler & Canine Commands" engine (commanding Walt to fetch levers and distract guards, dodging chlorine gas attacks and artillery barrages), driving rhythm taxi missions to Offenbach's *Can-Can*, authentic historical photographs and museum archives, and Peter McConnell and Paul Tumelaire's weeping acoustic piano, accordion, and classical orchestral soundtrack.