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Dragon's Wake

A game by Brainbox Software for PC, Mac, and Linux, originally released in 2015.
Dragon’s Wake stars a newly-hatched dragon on a grand – and occasionally tragic – adventure. New to the world, the dragon spends some time exploring the cave surrounding his nest and tests out his wings… eventually leading to the discovery of his mother who lies dead near the cave entrance. Despite the game’s overall cutesy style, the large blue dragon is lying in a pool of her own blood with arrows sticking out of her back.


Soon, the knight who killed the mother dragon enters the cave, but the hatchling has no offensive abilities and must instead flee as the knight fires arrows in his direction. Leaving the cave, the dragon encounters a lizard man wearing a red scarf. The man drops food in front of the dragon, and eating it restores some of his health. Eventually the lizard man coaxes the dragon back to his village.