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GamingUp Showcase 2026

GamingUp Showcase 2026

Created as a dedicated stage for the DACH games industry, the GamingUp Showcase brings together independent developers, established studios and publishers, including Ivy Juice Games, Assemble Entertainment and astragon Entertainment, in one digital presentation. Viewers can expect World Premieres, exclusive gameplay, release date reveals, developer insights and further announcements throughout the show.

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Featured Games(39)

Drift Stage

Drift Stage

Super Systems Softworks, Storm Electricity

Tear up the asphalt in the neon-infused and blue sky locales of Drift Stage.

ActionEarly AccessIndieRacingSimulator
Firefighting Simulator: Ignite

Firefighting Simulator: Ignite

weltenbauer. Software Entwicklung GmbH, astragon Entertainment

Face unpredictable dangers, fight perilous fires with your crew, and save lives in Firefighting Simulator: Ignite. Step into the boots of a U.S. firefighter and play with up to 3 friends or with the help of your NPC controlled crew members.

ActionSimulationSimulator
IKUMA - The Frozen Compass

IKUMA - The Frozen Compass

Mooneye Studios

Embark on a haunting journey into the cold in this narrative adventure - either alone or with a friend. IKUMA tells the story of Sam, a teenage boy who finds himself stranded in the Arctic with his dog. He must face not only its harsh environment, but also something lurking deeper in the shadows.

ActionAdventureIndie
Ayna: Shattered Truth

Ayna: Shattered Truth

designmatic

Explore this immersive 2.8D Metroidvania fantasy world to uncover its mysteries along with forgotten secrets. Slay monsters with visceral combat skills to survive. Unlock striking abilities and upgrade existing ones to overcome challenges. Befriend odd characters or demolish existing friendships.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatform
SCHROTT: Roguelike Racer

SCHROTT: Roguelike Racer

Ivy Juice

Roguelite x Racing: 3 Drivers, 5 Abilities, 6 Maps, 30+ Car Parts and (almost) Endless Customization Opportunities to build your perfect run!

ActionArcadeEarly AccessIndieRacing
My Dear Emma

My Dear Emma

Soulven Games

Exploring beautiful landscapes and local wildlife. Become part of Emma’s story, a young biologist and nature photographer who has decided to start a new life far from the big city. A narrative-driven adventure to relax, feel, and slow down.

AdventureIndiePuzzleSimulator
Seafarer: The Ship Sim

Seafarer: The Ship Sim

astragon Development, astragon Entertainment

Embark on the ultimate maritime experience with Seafarer: The Ship Sim. Choose between careers, take the helm of a variety of ships, and expand your fleet. Navigate a vast open world and become immersed in the beautiful expanses and rolling waves.

CasualEarly AccessSimulationSimulator
Dawn Of Defense

Dawn Of Defense

6side Studio

Dawn of Defense blends RTS, Tower Defense, and Roguelite progression. In a last defense, lead your tribe against the Empire: Command warriors in battle, fortify defenses, and build an economy as you fight to reclaim your ancestral homeland.

IndieReal Time Strategy (RTS)StrategyTactical
Fluff's Adventure: A Tale of Fur and Steel

Fluff's Adventure: A Tale of Fur and Steel

Kai Franke, Redhead Studios

Experience the adventures of a furry ball named “Fluff” who must save his island from a robot invasion in this third-person puzzle platformer. Explore a atmospheric world, find other Fluffs, and solve tricky color-based puzzles together.

AdventureCasualIndiePlatformPuzzle
Echoes of Mora

Echoes of Mora

Selkies Interactive

Explore a mysterious sunken village, discover hidden objects, and uncover long forgotten secrets in this cozy narrative adventure. Travel through time to help Mora find her lost brother. Play on PC, or immerse yourself in VR.

AdventureIndie
Cat Me If You Can

Cat Me If You Can

Cosmic Stag Games

Cat Me If You Can is a charming and cozy game where you explore beautifully handcrafted black-and-white worlds, searching for hidden cats to photograph and bring their colours back into the world.

CasualIndie
Valkyrie Rising: Hordes of Ragnarök

Valkyrie Rising: Hordes of Ragnarök

Blossom Path Games

Battle the end of the world in this Norse horde-survivor roguelite! Complete quests, level up, unlock powerful abilities, and forge unstoppable combos to survive endless waves of enemies in your fight against Ragnarok.

ActionCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Mazestalker: The Veil of Silenos

Mazestalker: The Veil of Silenos

Florian-Silvester Kraner

Discover a world of Escher-like isometric dungeon-labyrinths. Meet Yve Allard, a treasure hunter who finds that all corners of the world have already been visited by someone else. Where in the world can you discover new mysteries anymore?

ActionAdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Staged

Staged

Project Sunset

Staged is a co-op first-person physics party game for 1–4 players. Play mischievous goblins, rebuild stage sets from reference photos, haul oversized props through tight backstage spaces, and get every placement right before the curtain rises.

ActionIndie
Code: 9

Code: 9

Riding Turtles

Resurrected through fusion with the hostile entity K.L.A.R.A., you now owe a debt to the Resistance. Explore crime scenes without quest markers, write your deductions in your own words rather than choosing pre-made answers, and expose lies during intense interrogations.

AdventureIndiePuzzle
Wizzo PopOut

Wizzo PopOut

Die Wizzos, NebulaNookGames

Wizzo Popout is a fast-paced, 3D top-down arena shooter for up to 4 players. Play as an arcane wizzo riding a bouncing magic bubble! Cast cool spells, dodge enemy blasts, and knock your rivals out of the arena in hilariously chaotic battles.

ActionCasualIndie
My Little Cafe Nightmare

My Little Cafe Nightmare

SethMadDev, Ivy Juice Games

Brew otherworldly coffee for ghostly patrons in a dark, cozy first-person café. Upgrade your shop, manage supplies, and turn a haunted café into a sanctuary amidst nightmares.

Early AccessIndieSimulationSimulator
In Hope Voiden

In Hope Voiden

Stilbruch Games

A forbidden warzone. Twelve soldiers. One life each. In this first person survival horror, death is permanent and the world remembers. Explore a surreal, trench-ridden hellscape where every action matters—and every death uncovers a new piece of a haunting mystery.

ActionAdventureIndie
Media Circus

Media Circus

Papercoda Games

Launch your newspaper and sway the masses in a unique animal world! Direct reporters, plan stories, blow up Headlines for Impact and throw in Ads for Profit. With every faction gunning for a piece of your front page, how far will you go to keep your paper in print — and yourself out of trouble?

IndieSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Night Errand

Night Errand

Lost Lantern Studio

Night Errand is a 2D detective adventure where you play as Sage & Nur, an unlikely detective duo solving murder and mixing coffee in the quiet town Morrowpines. Collect clues, piece together contrasting perspectives, uncover the truth — and don't forget to mix a cup of coffee while you're at it.

AdventureIndieVisual Novel
Asterfel

Asterfel

Mysteria Studio UG

Asterfel is a third-person Action-RPG. You find yourself shipwrecked on an island nation, where greed and magical mining rouse an old god from it’s slumber. Encounter three factions, discover forgotten history, and shape the island’s future. Will you thrive, survive, or witness the end of an era?

ActionIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Construction Simulator: Evolution

Construction Simulator: Evolution

weltenbauer. Software Entwicklung GmbH , astragon Entertainment

Dig into the next exciting evolution of the Construction Simulator series and experience the biggest construction playground ever. Control numerous licensed machines, take on manual labor, and master both construction and demolition.

CasualEarly AccessSimulationSimulator
KEROGEN

KEROGEN

Zartbitter Games

Dredge up corpses from an oil-drenched nightmare. Lost at sea, the small crew of the 𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐀𝐒 calls for aid. Elmsfire dances in the clouds above while black beasts stir in the waves beneath. Take your meds. Hold your breath. The black sea won't let go.

AdventureIndie
Tiny Capsule Collector

Tiny Capsule Collector

Playing Mantis

Run a cozy capsule shop at the bottom of your screen. Attract adorable animal customers, collect charming capsule toys, create & decorate a relaxing, ambient world. This idle sim brings you small moments of joy with cute companions while you work or study. Make your desktop a place you’d rather be.

CasualIndieSimulationSimulator
Slay Goblins

Slay Goblins

Ivy Juice

Slay Goblins is an arena roguelite where you play a knight fighting off hordes of goblins. Choose from a variety of perks, weapons and items to create unique builds and defend your castle.

ActionCasualIndie
OfMiceAndMechs

OfMiceAndMechs

MarxMustermann

Survive in a dead world. Fight, scavenge and rebuild until you control a base and its workers. Collect all 7 glass hearts and claim the throne.

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
Plant Everywhere

Plant Everywhere

Liney Games

Paint your city with plants! In this cosy guerilla gardening game, turn harmful areas into gardens that everyone can use. Use freeform planting to customise your city, and get to know the local residents and their stories.

Indie
Beeing Hive

Beeing Hive

Marttalin Games

Beeing Hive is a relaxed hive-building simulation with clicker elements. Design the inside of your beehive, click for resources, optimize comb layouts and bee roles, and protect your colony from wasps, moths, a woodpecker, and a hungry bear.

CasualIndieSimulationSimulatorStrategy
CAAAHR

CAAAHR

Zoroarts, Assemble Entertainment

Your voice is the engine. Literally. One player screams to make the car go faster, the other somehow tries to steer it through chaos. A coop friendship test about communication, panic and losing your voice at 2 AM.

ActionArcadeCasualRacingSport
Petty Ungodliness

Petty Ungodliness

CRNG Games, Looking For Publisher

The gods lost their power and took retail jobs. A single-player roguelite deckbuilder where relationships shape your deck and every battle plays out across three tactical lanes. Rebuild your bond with them to reclaim their power.

Card & Board GameIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)StrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)
PRESS: Authorized Disposal

PRESS: Authorized Disposal

Ivy Juice

Manage a trash disposal factory. Press, Burn, and Sort each load. Complete your contracts. Upgrade your operation. Keep the pit empty. Don't ask about the contents!

ActionAdventureIndieSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Rootknot

Rootknot

Daring Deevs

Defeat demons not with swords, but with juggling skills, in a combat mechanic never seen before! Challenge your reaction time in a deckbuilding roguelite, fighting mysterious creatures. Rescue your performance troupe and perform at the long-awaited king's wedding with the help of the Wak Wak tree.

IndieStrategy
Mica King

Mica King

Mica King is an original top down action adventure game. Travel as an adventurer of variety skills to the once great and magical kingdom of Virrdale. Uncover the power of Mica and face the dark forces behind the bitter downfall of the king.

AdventureIndieRole-playing (RPG)
Burning Bridges

Burning Bridges

Screen Play Studio

You discover a suspicious box on your parents attic. Uncover a long hidden family secret by rummaging through old homevideo and letters.

AdventureCasualIndie
Everguest: The Veiled Inn

Everguest: The Veiled Inn

RAWR Games

Everguest: The Veiled Inn is a dark fantasy roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based tactical combat, active dodge timing, and powerful relic and mod builds. Choose your path, manage Mana and Overflow, and survive the cursed inn’s deadly loop.

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
Forefeathers

Forefeathers

Team Honeybeak

Forefeathers is an atmospheric story-adventure with puzzle elements! Experience a heartfelt story as the little penguin Bokki and his ghostly Grandma work together to solve light puzzles and rekindle the memories of her past.

AdventureCasualIndie
Babushka

Babushka

Cozy Raven Interactive

A Cozy Roguelite set in a mystical Slavic forest starring Vesna, a quest-completing babushka that thrashes mutated creatures and malicious forest spirits in Turn-Based Combat. An exciting genre mix of Farming simulation, Roguelite, and Narrative.

CasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
The Medieval Journey

The Medieval Journey

The Medieval Journey is a living medieval MMORPG where generations shape the world. Build relationships, marry, raise children and continue your family's legacy through the ages. Master professions, create thriving businesses, trade across authentic historical cities and forge a dynasty.

Role-playing (RPG)
Triple Realms

Triple Realms

Wolele

A small relaxing roguelike puzzle city builder where you place tiles to grow small towns, gather resources, and expand your capital. Discover new buildings, unlock powerful upgrades, and shape your own evolving landscape.

CasualIndieStrategy