Ceremony of Innocence has an elaborate mystery game format to tell the story of Griffin, a young English artist, and Sabine, a woman from a (fictional) South Sea Island.

Joining them was a team of internationally renowned artists specialising in 3D character models, clay-modelling, precision metalwork, pastel painting, and pencil drawings, plus computer-generated imagery; among them were Joan Ashworth, Ruth Lingford, Bedric Glaser, Jeff de Boer, and Jonathan Hodgson.

[1] Dan Blore, Brian Short and Karolyn Pike, all of whom had previously worked on Peter Gabriel's EVE CD-ROM,[2] joined forces with Realworld's programmers Michael Dean,[3] Darren Umney, Sam Deane,[4] Matt Thurling, Peter Fierlinger, Joshua Portway, Chris Wright, Sam Clegg, Andy Lovelock, David Bateman and Robert Mettler.

The game features voice acting by Paul McGann, Isabella Rossellini and Ben Kingsley.

Ceremony of Innocence was awarded the EUROPRIX 98 Overall Winner,[5] and two BAFTAs in 1998 for Best Moving Image and Best Sound.