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INDIE Live Expo 2023 Summer Spotlight

INDIE Live Expo 2023 Summer Spotlight

A Special Summer Program showcasing more than 50 indie games!

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72 featured games

Featured Games(72)

Move or Die

Move or Die

Xelu, Those Awesome Guys

Move or Die is an absurdly fast-paced 4-player local and online party game where the mechanics change every 20 seconds! It's THE friendship-ruining game.

ActionArcadeIndiePlatform
My Memory of Us

My Memory of Us

Juggler Games, IMGN.PRO

My Memory of Us is a moving fairy tale about friendship and hope in the darkest moments of our times. Enter a hand-crafted, gorgeously animated 2D world full of adventure, exploration, stealth and puzzles. Meet the kids brought up in different worlds and help them survive during times of occupation.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatformPuzzle
Discolored

Discolored

Jason Godbey

Locals whisper of a roadside diner that’s lost its color. You are sent to investigate.

AdventureCasualIndiePoint-and-clickPuzzle
Dinkum

Dinkum

James Bendon, KRAFTON, Inc.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

AdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
Dawn of the Monsters

Dawn of the Monsters

13AM Games, WayForward

The cataclysmic battle between giant monsters has begun in this manga-inspired, side-scrolling, kaiju beat-'em-up!

ActionAdventureArcadeFightingIndie
Gas Station Simulator

Gas Station Simulator

DRAGO entertainment, Shochiku

Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.

CasualIndieSimulationSimulator
Hexagroove: Tactical DJ

Hexagroove: Tactical DJ

Ichigoichie

A truly creative musical strategy game. Follow 6 rules of music making to clear the stage. Perform DJ tricks to maximize your score. Combine music from 15 dance genres in 8 clubs. Customize your play with 720 instrumental loops. Free demo available.

ActionCasualIndieMusicSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Paradise Killer

Paradise Killer

Kaizen Game Works, Fellow Traveller

Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.

AdventureIndiePuzzleRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Rain on Your Parade

Rain on Your Parade

Unbound Creations

Travel the world as a cute cardboard cloud and ruin everybody's day! Unlock new methods of mischief in over 50 levels, each with unique setting and objectives. This is an adorable schadenfreude simulator!

ActionAdventureArcadeCasualFightingIndiePuzzleSimulationSimulator
Rogue Legacy 2

Rogue Legacy 2

Cellar Door Games

Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatformRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Roots of Pacha

Roots of Pacha

Soda Den

The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
GTTOD

GTTOD

Andrew Smith, STUDIO Bare Bones, Hitcents

RISE. FALL. REPEAT. Ascend to the level of the Gods as you battle your way out of a shattered and chaotic dimension in this fast paced parkour FPS rogue-like.

ActionAdventureArcadeEarly AccessIndieShooter
Button City

Button City

Subliminal, Wings

Button City is a cozy narrative adventure game about a fox and his friends banding together to save their local arcade! Explore a diorama world, play exciting arcade games, complete quirky quests and meet cute animal friends.

AdventureArcadeCasualIndieRole-playing (RPG)Visual Novel
Booth: A Dystopian Adventure

Booth: A Dystopian Adventure

Guanpeng Chen

The year is 2036. In this famine-riddled world, food-centric sovereignty has been established. Living alone inside a food-inspection booth, you are striving to find truth and peace beyond the borderline.

AdventureIndiePoint-and-clickSimulationSimulator
Cats Organized Neatly

Cats Organized Neatly

DU&I

In this 2D puzzle game you have the responsibility to arrange your feline friends in a way that fits the grid. Cats Organized Neatly comes with 80 different handcrafted levels and a whole bunch of cats in all shapes and sizes.

Card & Board GameCasualIndiePuzzle
Romancelvania

Romancelvania

The Deep End Games, 2124 Publishing

Bite into Romancelvania, a darkly comic genre mashup, combining side-scrolling action and tongue-in-cheek romance into one completely absurd and unforgettable adventure.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatformRPG
Alice Escaped!

Alice Escaped!

illuCalab, Sekai Project

Explore the stylish world of Wonderland with Usada and Kotora as they search for a mysterious girl named Alice! A Metroidvania action game with a rich, exhilarating battle system all wrapped up in cuteness!

ActionAdventureIndiePlatformPuzzleSimulationSimulator
SANABI

SANABI

WONDER POTION, NEOWIZ

SANABI is an exhilarating stylish dystopian action-platformer. Play as a legendary retired veteran and use your signature prosthetic arm to jump over cliffs and skyscrapers, zip through bullets and traps and defeat powerful enemies.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatform
Sephonie

Sephonie

Melos Han-Tani, Marina Kittaka, Analgesic Productions

In this 3D, story-driven platforming adventure, explore an uninhabited island's massive cave network. Learn about the heroes' psyches as you explore lush caverns, subterranean oceans, and surreal cityscapes, all while meeting surprising creatures! By Anodyne & Angeline Era's devs!

ActionAdventureIndiePlatformPuzzleRPGSimulationSports
GunFu Fighter

GunFu Fighter

ZHANG FAN

The first person shooter game with bullet time twist! Using the bullet time effect, the geometric distribution position of the enemy is analyzed and prejudged, and the order of planned attacks gives the opponent a fatal blow.

ActionIndieRole-playing (RPG)ShooterTactical
Tails of Trainspot

Tails of Trainspot

Poly Poly Games, Kibi Games, indie.io

Relax and challenge your mind in Tails of Trainspot, a cozy logic puzzle game where you build railway networks, connect numbered stations, and explore a mysterious island filled with stories, animal residents, and mini-games.

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzleStrategy
Hell of an Office

Hell of an Office

43 Studios, Joystick Ventures

Hell of an Office is a 3D precision platformer in first-person view that combines action and speedrunning as you try to escape HellO, the most infernal office in the (under)world! Be quick, use your stapler to rocket jump and dash. Can you escape before the lava catches up to you?

ActionAdventureArcadeIndiePlatformRacingSports
Frogun

Frogun

Molegato, Top Hat Studios, Inc.

Join Renata as she adventures across a world of mystical ruins with the titular FROGUN! Frogun is an old-school platformer with the soul of the PS1/N64 era, in which your frog-shaped grappling hook is a your best friend!

ActionAdventureArcadeIndiePlatform
窓の中の先にあるもの

窓の中の先にあるもの

とぶ

This game is a puzzle game in which you aim for the goal window by switching between two perspectives, one viewed from the side and the other viewed from above. The biggest feature is that when you change the viewpoint, the depth and height also change.

CasualIndiePlatformPuzzle
Severed Steel

Severed Steel

Greylock Studio

An intense single-player FPS featuring a stylish movement system, completely destructible levels, and an acclaimed OST.

ActionIndieShooter
Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle

Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle

Invader Studios, Leonardo Interactive, 4Divinity

Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle is a third-person story-driven survival horror game prequel to the critically acclaimed Daymare: 1998. Step into the shoes of agent Dalila Reyes, a former government spy now in the service of H.A.D.E.S. unit and prepare to face the true horror.

ActionAdventureShooter
Potion Permit

Potion Permit

MassHive Media, PQube

Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.

ActionAdventureCasualHack and slash/Beat 'em upPuzzleRPGRole-playing (RPG)Simulator
Beyond Sunset

Beyond Sunset

Metacorp / Vaporware, Movie Games S.A.

Cyberpunk first-person shooter with a rich story and RPG elements. You are Lucy, an enhanced street samurai searching for lost memories. Fight in large, open, interactive levels overtaken by yakuza, zombies, robots and bosses!

ActionAdventureIndieShooter
Rightfully, Beary Arms

Rightfully, Beary Arms

Daylight Basement Studio LLC

Don’t be fooled by its cuteness. Rightfully, Beary Arms is a bullet hell, roguelite that will punish and reward you. Augment weapons to create unique weapon builds, pick rewards as you explore levels, alter mechanics to your benefit and peril, fight, die, become stronger, and do it all over again.

ActionAdventureIndieShooter
Terra Flame

Terra Flame

TERARIN GAMES

Terra Flame is a horizontal shmup inspired by the 90's. The feature is that you can switch between three types of weapons in real time.

ActionArcadeCasualIndieShooter
Land Above Sea Below

Land Above Sea Below

Glasscannon Studio, Skystone Games

Land Above Sea Below is an atmospheric building strategy and puzzle game where you have to build your island from tiles in order to raise its height as much as possible, to avoid it getting flooded by the constantly rising sea level.

CasualIndiePuzzleStrategy
Meg's Monster

Meg's Monster

Odencat

Take control of the Underworld’s grumpiest ghoul to help a lost little girl find her way home in this creepy-cute indie adventure. Just be warned: if she cries, the whole world dies.

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
Demon Sword: Incubus

Demon Sword: Incubus

Brianode, Eroge Japan

Use sword and spell combos to slash and blast through hordes of attacking enemies! Guard break a boss's defenses, find an opening, then obliterate them for good with a well-placed super deadly attack! Satisfying 3D side-scrolling action with game-play elements inspired by fighting games!

ActionFightingHack and slash/Beat 'em upIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Bread & Fred

Bread & Fred

SandCastles Studio, Infogrames, Atari

Grab your best bud for help in this new co-op challenge to help two adorable penguins, Bread and Fred, reach the top of the snowy summit. Time your jumps, cling to walls and swing across gaps to see how far you can make it before you tumble all the way back down the mountain.

ActionAdventureCasualIndiePlatform
Asym Altered Axis

Asym Altered Axis

Mixi

Asym Altered Axis is an Asymmetric Multiplayer Game where one player sets the deadly stage with a variety of traps and hunt down the puny fleeing infiltrators, while the other (up to 5) players team up and stealthily pull off the heist under cover of darkness.

IndieReal Time Strategy (RTS)Role-playing (RPG)ShooterStrategyTactical
Marine Hearts

Marine Hearts

SandFish

You are now a heart wandering the sea. "Marine Hearts" is a first-person 3D deep-sea omnidirectional bullet-hell shooter. You pursue the mysteries of the sea while losing your body and becoming only your heart.

ActionIndiePlatformShooter
Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend

Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend

Alioth Studio

Welcome to Eientei, combine multiple colors of mana to build your ideal deck, duel with gensokyo girls, and chase back the mysterious moon treasure. Also, enjoy the unpredictable Roguelike with fantasy Danmaku!

AdventureCard & Board GameEarly AccessIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)StrategyTacticalTurn-based strategy (TBS)
WitchSpring R

WitchSpring R

KIWIWALKS

WitchSpring R is a story-driven RPG combining elements of collecting, simulation, and battling. Experience the joy of training a young witch and accompany her on a grand adventure!

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum

Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum

AstralShift, VisuStella, KOMODO

Delve into the enthralling world of Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum, the acclaimed RPG Maker gothic horror game that'll take you on a moving journey of self-discovery.

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzleRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Piggy Gambit

Piggy Gambit

Tofu Soup, indienova

Piggy Gambit is a game that harmoniously combines the elements of chess, box puzzles, and flow control into a coherent puzzle game about a piggy searching for the meaning to his life.

AdventureCard & Board GameIndiePuzzleStrategy
Chasing the Unseen

Chasing the Unseen

Strange Shift Studio

Embark on a challenging journey as you climb colossal creatures, explore otherworldly landscapes, and find what you've been seeking.

AdventureCasualIndiePlatformPuzzle
PuPu's Adventure Park

PuPu's Adventure Park

西梅树工作室, Anotherindie

Build an Adventure Park from the ground up! The PuPu clan had just rented a new "playground" from the Dark Goblins. Manage the park, construct park facilities, and grow your clan to serve the expansion of the Park for "hero" customers summoned from other planets!

AdventureIndieRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulatorStrategy
shapez 2 - Factory

shapez 2 - Factory

tobspr Games, Gamirror Games

Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.

CasualIndiePuzzleSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Stick to the Plan

Stick to the Plan

Dead Pixel Tales, SpaceJazz

In this game you can't pet the dog... because YOU are the dog! A relaxing and charming puzzle game about Roberto, a dog who really loves loooooooong sticks with a plan in mind.

AdventureArcadeCasualIndiePuzzleStrategy
TerraScape

TerraScape

Bitfall Studios, Stray Fawn Publishing, Sidekick Publishing

Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.

CasualIndiePuzzleSimulationSimulatorStrategy
El Panadero -The Baker-

El Panadero -The Baker-

Sketchy Ceviche

Action Packed 2D Arcade Action Platformer featuring hand-drawn graphics. Armed with your fists (or a rolling pin) and a variety of bread-based boosts, fend of the Alien Plants, and avenge the Bakery they destroyed.

ActionArcadeIndiePlatform
BOM BOM BOMBIAN  ~ ボン ボン ボンビアン ~

BOM BOM BOMBIAN ~ ボン ボン ボンビアン ~

logicalbeat Co., Ltd.

簡単操作のボムアクション! 爆弾を投げてBOM COINを掘り出そう! 目指せ!ボンバーヘッドチャンピオン!

ActionArcadeCasualEarly AccessShooterSportSports
Station to Station

Station to Station

Galaxy Grove, Prismatika

‘Station to Station’ is a minimalist & relaxing game about building railway connections. Grab your conductor’s hat and bring the voxel-art world to life through the magic of trains!

CasualIndieSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Boyhood's End

Boyhood's End

WSS playground, buriki clock, Alliance Arts

Boyhood's End is an adventure horror game following Giovanni, the boy with the lowest human score in the universe, and Campenella, the delinquent genius, and their journey on the galactic railroad regarding the "human" and "inhuman".

AdventureEarly AccessIndie
Korokoro Harley

Korokoro Harley

The world's most "edgy" action game has arrived! The hedgehog "Harley" who rolls and puts out a needle, unfolds a great adventure!

Puzzle
A Street Cat's Tale 2: Outside is Dangerous

A Street Cat's Tale 2: Outside is Dangerous

PPIYO STUDIO, CFK Co., Ltd.

[Adventures of House Cat Cinnamon]*A street cat's tale 2 is a narrative-led puzzle adventure game about the struggles of stray cats.

AdventureIndiePuzzleRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulatorStrategy
Million Shells

Million Shells

FlyteCatEmotion

Manage 15 cannons attached to a huge battleship and shoot down the enemies that appear. This is an exhilarating tower defense shooting game!

ShooterStrategy
Cyber NINJA that Climbs the City

Cyber NINJA that Climbs the City

Michigames

You, the NINJA, have to climb up the skyscrapers of Cyber Tokyo using your grapple, while destroying the Tokyo cops with your Katana and Beam Gun! Play simple run of three stages aiming for the top of the Cyber Tower of Tokyo!

ActionCasualIndiePlatform
Ruins Story

Ruins Story

ilili_world, pujia8

High-speed movement, aiming, and shooting with one finger operation! High tempo battle! Use unlocked items to come up with new builds and strategies each time you explore.

AdventureArcadeIndieShooterStrategy
Battle Bows

Battle Bows

WIMO Games, Beyond Frames Entertainment

Grab your bow and rain magical arrows down from your castle tower. Defend the castle heart against increasingly challenging waves of evil balloons and defeat difficult giant bosses in this epic archery VR wave shooter. Play online co-op mode or solo and climb to the top of the seasonal leaderboards!

ActionShooterStrategy
Adorabilis

Adorabilis

Kuartik, indiegamesjapan

"Adorabilis" is a game where you control a white ghost to protect adorabilis from various threats while sending it home. You'll have to dodge enemies and trap, or using skills to get through difficulties on the way to home.

AdventureIndie
Animal Planner

Animal Planner

PawPaw Games

A relaxing sliding puzzle game about arranging animals to make them happy.

CasualIndieStrategy
Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!

Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!

The Wild Gentlemen, Joystick Ventures

A wild tale of conspiracy, loss, friendship, and... chickens?! Two rooster detectives are about to venture into the insect underworld to uncover a worldwide conspiracy, while also battling their inherent demons in this animal noir adventure satire.

AdventureCasualIndiePoint-and-clickPuzzleSimulationSimulatorVisual Novel
Gluck

Gluck

hayanari

A short 2D excavation adventure game set in a mining company.

AdventureIndiePlatformRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Cabin of Shadows - Dueling Impostors-

Cabin of Shadows - Dueling Impostors-

Nestopi Inc.

You and one other survivor have escaped to an abandoned cabin in the woods after your village was attacked by a werewolf. Is the person before you truly human? Or could your sole companion be the very same monster that slaughtered everyone you know?

Card & Board GameIndieStrategy
Nova Strike

Nova Strike

Sanuk Games, Nacon

Fire up your blaster cannons and take on waves of enemies in this retro shoot'em up with procedural levels. Come back stronger with each attempt and beat the high score!

ActionArcadeShooter
The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily

The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily

Alliance Arts, One or Eight, WSS Playground

The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily is a turn-based strategy game. Framed for murdering the Emperor, villainess Scarlet and Lily, fight the Empire as the first Streamers in history. Capture every enemy and turn them into allies for a happy ending... Or execute everyone and become the Demon Queen!

IndieSimulationStrategyTacticalTurn-based strategy (TBS)
To my forever Love

To my forever Love

ToAge, Mk.Ⅲ

2D platformer in which you cannot walk. I wish you a fruitful journey.

ActionPlatformPuzzle
Eto King

Eto King

Studio Kingmo

An online tower defense game using Japanese zodiacs to fight.

Monster Survivor

Monster Survivor

DRAW A DREAM

Monster Survivor is a free, fun survivor action game. Can you save the world by making the giraffe's neck longer?

Role-playing (RPG)Simulator
Pizza King Fight

Pizza King Fight

Black Beard Design Studio Inc.

Compete with your rivals to become the Pizza king! It all started with a misunderstanding between the living pizzas... Pizza and pizza collide in this rule-free battle! ...Is that what the battle to determine the best pizza is all about?

Simulator
Quick Choice Girl

Quick Choice Girl

Uyokyokusetsu

An educational running game combined with fun quizzes. How many can you answer?

Quiz/Trivia
Three Days to Chicago

Three Days to Chicago

Chris Schroyer, Austin Ivansmith Games

One of them is visiting a friend in Chicago. The other wants to shake things up in New York City. It starts in San Francisco, but where this relationship goes is all up to you.

CasualVisual Novel
Yao-Guai Hunter

Yao-Guai Hunter

MyACG Studio

Yao-Guai Hunter is a Wuxia roguelike deck-building game. In a world where Yao-Guai roam free, player battles with various evil beings, collecting cards and learn inner skills. Encountering various adventures in the martial world.

Card & Board GameIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)StrategyTactical
LethalCrisis リーサルクライシス

LethalCrisis リーサルクライシス

Daisessen

横2Dでありながら「方向自由のエアダッシュ+多少敵弾をはじく」アサルトにより 敵本体に突撃+連続斬撃を繰り広げます!! *This game currently only exists in Japanese version. However, there are people who have created unofficial English patches. https://youtu.be/k55OrMFQ7q0

ActionFightingIndiePlatformRPGRole-playing (RPG)
終わりの鐘が鳴る前に Chapter.1 Plus Edition

終わりの鐘が鳴る前に Chapter.1 Plus Edition

Cynical Honey

“Moments of Youth with You and the Grim Reaper” Presented with a condition to be resurrected by the Grim Reaper, the protagonist must bring happiness to a classmate wish to fulfill her unrequited love . However, her best friend also has feelings for someone else....

AdventureCasualIndie
恋爱绮谭~不存在的夏天~

恋爱绮谭~不存在的夏天~

Never Knows Best

九省通衢之地的阴影里,不知名的存在正在蠢蠢欲动。普通到极点的学生顾韦,作为“非日常部”的一员,和女友苏半夏开始调查“虚拟偶像消失事件”的传闻。讲述都市怪谈的可疑直播间,废墟一般的住宅楼,等待在两人前方的是……

AdventureCasualRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator