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Future of Play Direct 2024

Future of Play Direct 2024

Future Of Play Direct is a fresh spin on video game showcases bringing you exciting new games from across the galaxy. The show is hosted by V-tuber broadcaster Melios, who makes it their mission to feature big announcements, brand new trailers, musical guests, and show-stopping galaxy premieres.

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27 featured games

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Featured Games(27)

Timberborn

Timberborn

Mechanistry

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

IndieSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Genokids

Genokids

Nukefist

A bizarre music band named Genokids is rocking one of their best concerts to date when The Infinite Empire of Zenodia decides to invade Earth and assimilate mankind, landing right on top of the band and ruining both their concert and mood.

ActionAdventureEarly AccessHack and slash/Beat 'em upIndie
Copycat

Copycat

Spoonful Of Wonder, Neverland Entertainment, CriticalLeap

A poignant narrative-driven game about rejection, belonging and the meaning of home. It follows the story of a newly adopted shelter cat whose space in the home is taken by a copycat. Bring the tissues.

AdventureIndieSimulator
Rose and Locket

Rose and Locket

Whistling Wizard, Ninja Kiwi

Fight through a hand-drawn Wild West afterlife in this fast-paced action platformer. Hunt the Seven Deadly Sins, uncover powerful abilities, and save your daughter's soul in a living graphic novel adventure.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatform
Bubblegum Galaxy

Bubblegum Galaxy

Smarto Club, Astrolabe Games

Bubblegum Galaxy is a cozy narrative building game about rebuilding the galaxy tile by tile. Discover and design new planets, complete missions, explore your office and befriend your co-workers... all while trying to find out who deleted the galaxy!

CasualIndiePuzzleSimulationSimulatorStrategy
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
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)
Nomori

Nomori

Enchanted Works

Nomori is a mind-bending adventure game where you control time and space to journey through a whimsical spirit world. Take shortcuts through portals, rotate your perspective, and control the flow of time to solve puzzles that are out of this world.

ActionAdventureCasualIndiePuzzleRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSports
Retro Gadgets

Retro Gadgets

Licorice ehf, Studio Evil

Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.

Early AccessIndiePuzzleSimulationSimulator
Phoenix Springs

Phoenix Springs

Calligram Studio

Lose yourself in Phoenix Springs – a modern point-and-click set in a mysterious neo-noir world. It begins with an investigation: find your brother Leo. You already know where it ends.

AdventurePoint-and-clickPuzzle
LOK Digital

LOK Digital

Letibus Design, Icedrop Games, Draknek and Friends

Learn a cryptic language of world-changing words and master their mind-bending effects. Embark on your charming puzzle-solving journey to help the LOK creatures thrive.

AdventureArcadeCasualIndiePuzzle
Ra Ra BOOM

Ra Ra BOOM

Gylee Games

Grab friends or family for a colorful co-op brawler. Easy to pick up and full of frantic fun, Ra Ra BOOM has you bashing bots, blasting baddies, and laughing together in 4-player local co-op. It’s got retro roots with a modern arcade spirit.

ActionAdventureArcadeCasualFightingHack and slash/Beat 'em upIndieRPGShooter
Light Odyssey

Light Odyssey

SSUN GAMES, GRAVITY

Light Odyssey is a soulslike boss rush where every battle is a test of mastery. Play as Bandi and fight to restore light to a world consumed by shadows. Face off against towering colossi in three deadly phases that demand precision, patience, and adaptation.

ActionAdventureIndie
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
Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip

Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip

snekflat, Super Rare Originals

Terry wants to launch himself into space using his new car. Doing something this cool and reckless will surely make him the talk of the town. Run, drive and glide through this small journey of big discoveries as Terry works towards achieving this goal.

AdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Nova Hearts

Nova Hearts

Lightbulb Crew

A mysterious force of power transforms you and other highly attractive people in your area into superheroes and villains! TEXT, DATE and FIGHT your friends and enemies alike.

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)StrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)Visual Novel
NODE: The Last Favor of the Antarii

NODE: The Last Favor of the Antarii

Lapsus Games

NODE is a 2.5D puzzle platformer with Timeline-based navigation set in a Cold War era nuclear complex. Plan a route for your robot, strategize, sequence commands and execute them to navigate between checkpoints. Try again. And again. Influence the story with your choices and solve the mystery.

AdventureIndiePlatformPuzzle
ABYSS X ZERO

ABYSS X ZERO

Studio Pixel Punk

Explore an expansive world in this 3D Metroidvania with carefully crafted dungeons and stylish combat. Take control of two different characters, fated to battle each other: Codename A and Codename Z, legendary heroes with unique abilities that change how you fight and interact with the environment.

ActionAdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Dungeon Clawler

Dungeon Clawler

Stray Fawn Studio, Stray Fawn Publishing

Dungeon Clawler is a Roguelike Claw Machine Deckbuilder. Build your deck, grab weapons and items from the claw machine to battle enemies, discover powerful perks that create game-changing synergies and unleash crazy combos as you fight your way through the dungeon!

ActionArcadeCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulatorStrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)
Cozy Marbles

Cozy Marbles

Pixel Pea Games, Mythwright

Engineer the marble run of your dreams. No need to get it perfect – just release your marbles and let the good times roll.

CasualIndieRacingSimulationSimulator
Margin of the Strange

Margin of the Strange

Future Cat LLC

Margin of the Strange is a gardening-themed mystery-exploration game about the world of human dreams from the developers behind OneShot. Over the course of 6 weeks, Ling seeks to find out more about this world in order to unravel the mysteries surrounding his own life... and his own death.

AdventureCasualIndie
Yooka-Replaylee

Yooka-Replaylee

Playtonic Games, PM Studios, Inc., Playtonic Friends

Embark on an epic 3D platforming collectathon adventure with Yooka and Laylee! Yooka-Replaylee is packed with new moves, more story, exciting challenges, hidden secrets, and more than double the collectibles to uncover. Can you help them rescue the world’s biggest treasure?

ActionAdventureCasualIndiePlatform
Echo Generation: Midnight Edition

Echo Generation: Midnight Edition

Cococucumber

Lead a gang of kids to uncover spooky mysteries, battle creatures, and explore the supernatural side of your hometown in Echo Generation, a turn-based adventure set in the 90s.

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Battle Suit Aces

Battle Suit Aces

Trinket Studios, Outersloth

Battle Suit Aces is a story-rich deckbuilder from the creators of Battle Chef Brigade. Immerse yourself in thrilling story missions and charge into card combat with your ever-growing roster of mech pilots. Suit Up!

AdventureCard & Board GameIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
All Systems Dance

All Systems Dance

Mighty Yell Studios Inc., Strange Scaffold

Automation is not the answer; DANCE is the key to disruption! Help liberate citizens of a consumption-obsessed, corporate dystopia in All Systems Dance: an expressive dance battle adventure. Connect moves, express yourself, feel the music. Join The Movement. The revolution will not be choreographed.

ActionAdventureIndie
Croakwood

Croakwood

Texel Raptor

Welcome to Croakwood, a relaxed town-building and management game where tiny frogs settle into life in the wild woods. Design and create structures, plan and decorate your town, explore an ancient forest filled with secrets, and guide a charming frog community as it grows.

Early AccessIndieSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut

Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut

Black Tabby Games, Serenity Forge

Slay the Princess is a choice-driven psychological horror visual novel with dramatic branching, light RPG elements, and hand-penciled art. The Pristine Cut is the definitive version of the game. It features expanded content including 3 new chapters, never-before-seen Princesses, expansions to familiar routes, a new ending, over 1,200 new hand-penciled frames, over 2,500 new lines of dialogue, and over 35% more content overall.

AdventureIndiePoint-and-clickRole-playing (RPG)SimulatorVisual Novel