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Future of Play Direct 2023

Future of Play Direct 2023

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38 featured games

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Featured Games(38)

Rune Fencer Illyia

Rune Fencer Illyia

Nootbox Games, Outersloth

Traverse a massive, ruined and beautiful world in this intense, atmospheric action platformer. Steal enemy abilities and fight them back with their own runic magic and deadly swordplay, as you attempt to find your lost twin sister in the sunken kingdom of Ithos.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatform
Love Shore

Love Shore

Perfect Garbage

Play as Sam or Farah as they attempt to navigate the neon thrills of their cyberpunk city Love Shore, solve murders, fight gods and maybe fall in love.

AdventureIndieVisual Novel
Space Chef

Space Chef

Blue Goo Games, Kwalee

Hunt, cook, and deliver cosmic cuisine using ingredients from across the galaxy to become the greatest chef in the Horseshoe Nebula. Explore alien worlds teeming with (edible) life, win the hearts of your customers, and thwart the rise of an evil interstellar burger chain.

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
The Wandering Village

The Wandering Village

Stray Fawn Studio, Stray Fawn Publishing, WhisperGames

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

IndieSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Arctic Awakening

Arctic Awakening

GoldFire Studios

A first-person narrative adventure set in the unforgiving Arctic. Your plane crashed in a storm, leaving only your court-mandated therapy bot for company as you journey to find your co-pilot and uncover the mysteries buried beneath the ice.

AdventureIndie
The Brew Barons

The Brew Barons

Lifetap Studios

A tranquil world becomes ever more corrupt by the day, spoiled by a pirate organization that forcefully impose their brewing monopoly over the lands. It's up to you to explore, forage, craft, sell and deliver your brews to overthrow the corrupt pirate organization and restore peace.

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography

Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography

Autumn Pioneer

Shashingo is an edutainment game that teaches you Japanese through virtual photography. With your trusty camera, take photographs of the fictional streets of Japan to capture new words and images as fully translated flash cards!

CasualIndieSimulationSimulator
Faraway Fairway

Faraway Fairway

Rokashi Games

Faraway Fairway is arcade golf game that is procedurally generated and you'll never play the same game twice! Explore and interact as you make your way to the goal and uncover secrets as you progress and complete your photo album! As a mental health golf game, Faraway Fairway game is designed to be a relaxing pick up and play. Taking care of your mental health should be like a vacation that never ends.

AdventureArcadeIndieSport
Sushi Ben VR

Sushi Ben VR

SBVR

Sushi Ben is a slice of life anime sim where you play as a customer to a sushi bar that's going out of business and it's up to you to save it! Loosely based on the life of the creator's friend, who he used to work with at a sushi bar.

Simulator
Slopecrashers

Slopecrashers

byteparrot

Slopecrashers is an arcade snowboard racer starring a wild crew of animals on a globe-trotting quest to become champions - but someone’s out to ruin their plans! Race solo or with friends, pull off stylish tricks, and use wild power-ups to take down rivals in chaotic, fast-paced action.

ActionArcadeCasualIndieRacingSportSports
Word Factori

Word Factori

Star Garden Games

Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.

PuzzleSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Ritual Night

Ritual Night

Outfox Games

Summon Cthulhu in this social deduction game with no early eliminations! Monsters work together to complete the ritual, while stealthy humans secretly sabotage and cause chaos.

CasualEarly AccessIndieMassively MultiplayerStrategy
Demon Spore

Demon Spore

DinoBoss

Blast your way out of tentacle hell as a failed lab experiment gives birth to a rapidly growing viral horror in this intense action rogue-lite inspired by 80s Monster movies. Use the lab to your advantage and improvise an escape plan before this constantly evolving life form spreads out of control.

ActionIndieShooter
Techtonica

Techtonica

Fire Hose Games

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

AdventureIndieSimulationSimulatorStrategy
In Stars And Time

In Stars And Time

insertdisc5, Armor Games Studios

Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Solarpunk™

Solarpunk™

Cyberwave, rokaplay, Metaroot

Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.

AdventureIndieSimulationSimulator
Bugaboo Pocket

Bugaboo Pocket

Elytra Games

A relaxing, semi-idle pet game starring bugs from land, air and sea! Play as a research scientist living in a cabin with just your bugs and a penpal for company. Spoil them with pets, minigames, food and furniture. Raise and release bugs to help Beetleback Ridge recover from a devastating fire.

CasualIndieSimulationSimulator
Aloft

Aloft

Astrolabe Interactive Inc., Funcom

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

AdventureCasualEarly AccessIndieSimulationSimulator
Psychroma

Psychroma

Rocket Adrift, Gamma Space Collaborative Studio

Psychroma is a psychological horror side-scroller set in a haunted cyberpunk house. Collect cards and explore the memories stored on them to piece together your past. But the deeper you go, the more you expose yourself to the brightest heat, the warmest color...

AdventureIndiePuzzle
Wildmender

Wildmender

Muse Games, Kwalee

A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?

AdventureIndieSimulationSimulatorStrategy
REKA

REKA

Emberstorm Entertainment, Fireshine Games, Shochiku

Channel your inner witch! Build your cozy chicken-legged hut, practice witchcraft, and forage for ingredients in autumnal woodlands. Solve quests & uncover the great mysteries of the legendary witch Baba Jaga…

AdventureCasualEarly AccessIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
VIDEOVERSE

VIDEOVERSE

Kinmoku

Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…

AdventureCasualIndieSimulationSimulatorVisual Novel
Cavern of Dreams

Cavern of Dreams

Bynine Studio, Super Rare Originals

Embark on a magical quest as Fynn the dragon to rescue your unhatched siblings from the mysterious Cavern of Dreams in this N64-style 3D platformer. Gain new abilities, meet unique characters, solve puzzles, and beware of the mysterious villain.

ActionAdventureCasualIndiePlatformPuzzle
YASUKE: A Lost Descendant

YASUKE: A Lost Descendant

Dallience Studios, TBD

Dash. Slash. Glide. Discover your legacy as the heir to a legendary African samurai in this high-velocity 3D action game, featuring futuristic swordplay, kinetic parkour, and anime-inspired action.

ActionAdventureIndie
Bombing!! 2: A Graffiti Paradise

Bombing!! 2: A Graffiti Paradise

Devon Wiersma

Welcome To Graffiti Paradise! Explore for hidden secrets, meet interesting friends, unlock painting tools, and fill your world with colour!

AdventureCasualIndieSimulationSimulator
Gourdlets

Gourdlets

AuntyGames, Future Friends Games

An easygoing sandbox game about building towns for cute vegetable folks. Create your perfect community then watch as the gourdlets make themselves at home. No objectives, no points, just good vibes. Play in full screen, or let your gourdlets hang out at the bottom of your screen!

CasualIndieSimulationSimulator
Grimfield Mystery

Grimfield Mystery

Nachon Lab, Ogre Pixel

Grimfield Mystery is a Mysterious Action Adventure about a lost boy with a magic floating hand!

ActionAdventureIndiePoint-and-click
Atomic Picnic

Atomic Picnic

BitCake Studio, Mad Mushroom

Third-person bullet heaven meets explosive co-op action! Swing, dash, and blast through monster swarms while combining upgrades and discovering rare evolutions to create game-breaking builds of destruction.

ActionAdventureEarly AccessIndieShooter
Escape From Mystwood Mansion

Escape From Mystwood Mansion

Lost Sock Studio

In this first-person puzzle escape room game, you are trapped in the mysterious Mystwood mansion. Explore the mansion and find hidden compartments while solving puzzles and deciphering codes to find a way out. Will you escape or linger to uncover the mansion's final secret?

ActionAdventureCasualIndiePuzzle
Let's! Revolution!

Let's! Revolution!

BUCK Games, Antfood, Hawthorn Games

Let’s! Revolution! is a colorful roguelite puzzle mashup about stopping a narcissistic King from ruining your world. Flip tiles to uncover the hidden path to the King. Use deductive reasoning to avoid his cronies or take them all down in strategic turn-based combat.

IndiePuzzleStrategy
TOUCHSTARVED

TOUCHSTARVED

Red Spring Studio

TOUCHSTARVED is a dark romance visual novel where your choices determine whether the story ends with gothic romance or blood-curdling horror. Explore an enigmatic city and find a cure for your curse by entrusting your fate to 5 love interests, each uniquely monstrous in their own way.

AdventureCasualIndieVisual Novel
Communite

Communite

Jimjum Studios

Communite is a wholesome, cozy, MULTIPLAYER City Builder based on kindness and co-operation! Restore life, unlock new tiles, and work together to rescue adorable creatures to join your world and make it grow!

CasualEarly AccessFree To PlayIndieMassively MultiplayerSimulationSimulator
Ascend

Ascend

Miami Avalon

Solve ancient puzzles, collect tarot cards, and complete the zodiac trials to climb the mountain and save your people in Ascend, a 3D puzzle adventure. Shift between Day, Twilight, and Dusk with your Time Turner to reveal secrets, alter the landscape, and discover hidden paths. Will you ascend?

ActionAdventureCasualIndiePuzzle
Hermit and Pig

Hermit and Pig

Heavy Lunch Studio LLC

Battle a sinister corporation in this story-rich RPG! Survive fast-paced, turn-based battles and conversations where cringe damage can be deadly. Fight the evils of capitalism with your trusty pig sidekick and join the revolution, old man!

ActionAdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Oom

Oom

Gregory Kogos

Oom is a rhythmic dungeon crawler where player simultaneously moves and shoots on the beat and controls the direction of the character with the crank. It's an unusual take on a rhythm game where decisive action is made in-between the beats.

AdventureIndieShooter
Quantum Phantom Basketball

Quantum Phantom Basketball

Brenda Arts

Quantum Phantom Basketball is a basketball-fighting game set in a cataclysmic high fantasy New York City.

AdventureSport
Angeline Era

Angeline Era

Melos Han-Tani, Marina Kittaka, Analgesic Productions

Explore a secret-filled land in this 3D Action-Adventure, where every level is hidden in plain sight! Travel and fight through a vast, unmarked overworld. The next surprise is only a single search away!

ActionAdventureHack and slash/Beat 'em upIndie
Airborne Empire

Airborne Empire

The Wandering Band LLC, Stray Fawn Publishing

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGReal Time Strategy (RTS)Role-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulatorStrategyTactical