The Indie Premier Game Showcase 2026
The Indie Premier Game Showcase 2026
We are incredibly proud to reveal the official titles for #TheIndiePremier Game Showcase 2026! We’ve scanned the global gaming landscape to separate the signal from the noise, handpicking the absolute best in independent design, bold storytelling, and uncompromising creative vision. This year’s lineup features your next favorite obsession, whether you’re hunting for massive, genre-defying RPGs, intense psychological horror, or cozy, zen-like simulations.
50 featured games
Featured Games(50)
The Dungeon Experience
Jacob Janerka, Simon Boxer, Bone Assembly, Devolver Digital
The Dungeon Experience is a comedy first-person adventure about a low-level mudcrab chasing his dream of helping YOU experience the true bliss of Financial Freedom*
Carnival Hunt
Crytivo, Beer Night Studio
Carnival Hunt is a 5v1 first-person asymmetrical horror game. Five wind-up Bunnies must work together, manage their noisy keys, and find a way to escape an ever-changing carnival world while one player hunts them as the Carnival Monster.
Nocturne
Pracy Studios
The afterlife is now digital. Discover that eternal life comes with sacrifice in a genre-defying RPG with unique rhythm combat.
ROCKBEASTS
Lichthund, Team17
A rock-and-roll management RPG where you guide a 90s grunge band from garage obscurity to stadium glory. Set up gigs, manage egos, and navigate the music industry in an alternative America inhabited by larger-than-life anthropomorphic characters. Make it big without selling out.
SacriFire
Pixelated Milk
SacriFire is an upcoming RPG boasting a unique combat system, elaborate pixel art, and music by genre legend Motoi Sakuraba. Ezekiel Ridan, a young priest, struggles to keep his faith as the world he loves is threatened by a war between gods and demons. The adventure begins!
Barkour
VARSAV Game Studios
BARKOUR is a fast-paced stealth-action platformer where you play as Agent T.H.U.N.D.E.R. - a tail-wagging canine with a knack for parkour, gadgets and barking at villains. Join a secret organization to stop evil schemes in a world full of charming absurdity.
Into The Unwell
She Was Such A Good Horse, Coffee Stain Publishing
Whack-and-slash your inner demons in this third-person roguelite, set in a rubber hose fuelled fever dream! Play 1-3 players as one of several flawed and heavily medicated misfits.
Schrödinger's Call
Acrobatic Chirimenjako, SHUEISHA GAMES
When the world is coming to an end, who would you want to speak to one last time? Schrödinger’s Call is a visual novel that lets you experience the pain and salvation of human connection, as if you were turning the pages of a picture book.
Holstin
Sonka, Team17
A psychological survival horror game set in an eerie, isolated 90’s Polish town consumed by an ominous presence. You’ve come looking for answers, but everyone seems possessed by something foul. Explore the festering town, interrogate locals and fight ungodly manifestations to get to the truth.
Mutter
DeadlyCrow Games
In the midst of war, a far more personal horror takes root at home. Your mother is becoming a monster. Survive, uncover the truth, and navigate a heartbreaking bond in this unique stop-motion narrative horror adventure.
Toxic Crusaders
Retroware
The Toxic Crusaders return for an all-new, all-action beat 'em up for one to four players! Grab your mop, tutu and attitude, and get ready to clean up the mean streets of Tromaville, one radioactive goon at a time!
We Were Here Tomorrow
Total Mayhem Games
You and your partner are taken to a mysterious facility where communication and cooperation are your lifelines. This asymmetrical co-op adventure will have you uncover secrets that will shape the fate of Tomorrow…
13Z: The Zodiac Trials
Mixed Realms Pte Ltd
Go solo or team up with up to three friends in online co-op for this fast-paced, anime-inspired action roguelike. Master stylish hack and slash combat, craft overpowered builds, and conquer mythological trials to claim the title of the thirteenth Zodiac.
Neo Junk City
Starblade Games
Sinister tides are rising in the Drowned City. Dive into a Point and Click action-RPG with fast-paced shoot-outs and retro arcade racing. Uncover the truth behind a murder you don't remember committing!
Hayaku! Island of Darkness
Pizia Studios
Explore a mysterious island full of dangers and uncover the secrets behind the anomalous creatures that inhabit it in this retro-style metroidvania.
Time To Wake Up
Eye Blink Twice
Stuck in a dream, you hear a voice in need of your eyes. Blink and refresh your memory to escape the shadows of your past.
ShelfLife: Art School Detective
Fnife Games
ShelfLife: Art School Detective is a Mystery Adventure featuring a cast of romanceable weirdos! Befriend and investi-DATE 7 potential suspects. Use psychic powers to astral project into their artwork and learn their secrets. Unmask the mysterious ART KILLER that’s terrorising your campus!
Pixel Washer
Valadria, Acclaim, Inc.
Pixel Washer is a cozy, zen-like game where you play as a cute piggy power washing beautiful pixelated worlds. Wash dirty sprites, upgrade your power washer, and clean up this filthy town.
Woodo
Tiny Monks Tales, Daedalic Entertainment
Woodo feels like a 3D coloring book you can touch, a relaxing puzzle-tale told through handcrafted wooden dioramas. A toy for those who never forgot how to be a child.
Catechesis
Baroque Decay
Embrace the darkness as a demon-possessed altar boy in this Horror RPG. Explore the city, battle demons, upgrade your weapons, and embark on an unforgettable journey with unique characters and anime-style cutscenes.
Croak
WoodRunner Games
CROAK is a fast-paced platformer where your tongue grapple is your ultimate tool. Pinball your frog through constantly shifting environments. Jump into chaotic battles against goofy, over-the-top bosses. Be ready: it’s about to get bouncy.
Kidbash: Super Legend
Authentic Remixes, Fat Raccoon
In this nostalgic roguelike action-platformer, awaken in a world of forgotten game characters as a hero with no memory of his past. After failing to save a nearby village from destruction, can you rise, rebuild, and rediscover the true meaning of being a hero?
Silent Planet - Elegy of a Dying World
Vertex Zero, Red Dunes Games
Silent Planet is an exploration-focused, gothic sci-fi metroidvania rooted in Cosmic Horror. Explore the claustrophobic corridors of a massive underground complex filled with the remnants of technological and biological horrors created by a dead civilization.
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2
D'Avekki Studios Ltd
An FMV game where YOU are a psychiatrist trying to solve a double murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Ask questions and link answers to determine their fates, and your own!
Shadow Sacrament: The Roots of Evil
Eldritch House
Shadow Sacrament is a horrorvania where you play as a tormented detective who must investigate the secrets of an ancient, horrific monastery. Explore hidden chambers, solve intricate puzzles and face terrifying nightmares that lurk in its shadowy halls. Hunt the Haunt.
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2
Auroch Digital, Big Fan Games, Devolver Digital
Obliterate heretics in the name of the Emperor in Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2! Play as Ultramarine Malum Caedo or Sister of Battle Nyra Veyrath in this sequel to retro FPS Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun with MORE enemies, MORE weapons, and NEW ways to purge!
SOL Shogunate
Chaos Manufacturing
Paint the stars with the blood of your enemies in this Space-Samurai Action RPG set in an alt-future solar system ruled by the sword. A pulse-pounding soundtrack drives your gravity-defying, blood-soaked path of revenge as Yuzuki the “Shattered Heir” to a massacred clan who becomes an outlaw ronin.
VOIDFACE
Frog Hat Labs
Face off in a challenging bullet-hell arena shooter, and try to clear bite-sized boss rush challenges. Learn to dodge their attacks, cast spells to gain an upper hand, and kill everything that gets in your way.
Void Martyrs
Mac n Cheese Games
A grimdark survival horror about a nun in space. Scavenge amongst the drifting space-Basilica, balance your faith with survival, and craft the tools of your salvation.
HMUR
FoxusSexus, Valkyrie Initiative
HMUR is a fast-paced retro-FPS, in the original setting, that merges Soviet aesthetics with wacky madness and frantic dynamics of iconic 90s shooters. Survive a disaster at a classified Soviet facility as you blast your way through crowds of enemies. Speed is your key to survival.
Appulse: Pinball Shooter
Le Rado
Appulse is the fusion between pinball, top down shooter and roguelite where you need to protect your mothership from invading robots. Each shot affects your ball's trajectory, allowing you to control it in the heat of the battle. Upgrade your equipment and conquer new spaceships to win the war!
Worming from Home
Zach Northrop, Mason Sabharwal
Be the Worm of Wall Street in this silly simulation game about working a remote finance job. Throw your spineless body around the keyboard to invest in the stock market and earn obscene amounts of money. Buy upgrades, train skills, and worm your way up to the promotion you've always dreamed of!
Hoarder
byzel, Awaken Realms
Clean. Possess. Control. Hoarder begins as a mundane cleaning simulator that spirals into a distant nightmare. Scavenge the hoarders’ house, recover what should be forgotten, and if you go far enough, you might reach the top of the pyramid or the bottom of the abyss.
The Dark West
Black Hand
The Dark West is an Action RPG that challenges both your skill and sanity. Face a cursed western frontier, where faith and damnation war beneath an eternal dusk. Your choices will carve a path through a world where greed unearthed something fouler than death.
SHADE Protocol
Little Legendary
SHADE Protocol is a 2D cyber-fantasy Metroidvania where music, code, and combat collide. Swap between DAWN and SHADE forms to unleash devastating abilities, wield Instruments as weapons, and rewrite reality itself in a world on the brink of annihilation by the SHADE Protocol.
Hope in the City
Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.
17-year-old Hope Song returns home from school to find her parents missing. Use Hope’s observant eye as an artist to investigate, piece together clues, and uncover a dark world beneath the surface of her peaceful life in this non-linear narrative mystery game.
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn
Owlcat Games
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is a third-person Action RPG set in The Expanse universe. You’re no hero — just a merc caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, trying to hold your crew together and keep the ship up and running. Your choices will shape your story.
Trainwatch
Harvester Games
Meet Troy, the new Gatekeeper. His job is simple - close the gates at a desolate railway crossing for one month. This is his last chance to earn back his wife's trust. To prove he can stay sober. To become a better man. Join him at the Tower in the middle of nowhere. Help Troy fix his life.
Mayak
Nikita Nplus1
Hard-sci-fi side-scrolling VN about first contact, love, and a prime-number countdown. You are a young astronomer researching a newly received signal from a distant star. Unravel an alien mystery — and fight to save the one you love.
Project ReMind
Red Hog Studio, Full Dive Games
"Welcome to the end. My end" Manipulate machinery, open secret passages and bypass computers to remember your life, from your first discovery to your own death bed. In this first-person narrative puzzle game investigate a mysterious presence looking for the answer that haunted you since THAT day.
Splash Divers
Tinymo GAMES
Immerse yourself in an unforgettable diving vacation! Break free from the limits of air supply and dive into the beauty of the ocean and its incredible marine life. Build your own personalized ocean encyclopedia, make friends with a diverse cast of dive buddies, and savor these moments of leisure.
Bel's Fanfare
Chibig
Bel's Fanfare is an RPG with rich deep exploration and expressive combat. You play as Bel, the new aura cleaner of the once-luxurious vessel The Witch of the Sea.
Moss: The Forgotten Relic
Polyarc, Blackbird Interactive
Moss: The Forgotten Relic is an emotional and atmospheric adventure set in the pages of a living storybook, brimming with myth and ancient magic. Guide a tiny but determined hero on a heartfelt journey of challenge, courage, and connection.
Vivarium
Studio Meadowflower, Serenity Forge
Step into a summer that never ends in this life-sim adventure, featuring hand-illustrated art inspired by timeless anime classics.
General Practice
Mokum Games
Diagnose and (mis)treat patients to meet tight deadlines and high expectations in this fast-paced wacky medical co-op adventure. Wear many hats, master numerous tools, multitask, manage the chaos: all for the greater good (and monthly bonus)! Play solo or with up to 4 friends, locally or online.
Lazy River
Mike, Kevan, Jake, Joel, Karlee, Mike Boxleiter
A co-op adventure at the galaxy's most unregulated waterpark. Some guy peed in the pool, and the pee mixed with the space water and turned everybody into zombies… Except you and your friends. Build a raft, ride down the Lazy River, and escape before you run out of hot dogs!
Super Yooka-Laylee Kart
Playtonic Games, Playtonic Friends
The most skilful, expressive and explosive racer built around mastery, rivalry, and revenge-fuelled comebacks. Race through a solo campaign, compete against rivals online, or create your own custom race setups and challenge your friends.
Book Nook
Malapata Studio, Wings
Build miniature diorama scenes, piece by piece. Complete beautiful book nooks as you place furniture, decorations, and small details. Relax and enjoy the peaceful satisfaction of every detail falling into place, as you discover more about each moment in time.
Cassette Beasts 2002
Bytten Studio, Raw Fury
Record, battle, and fuse with 250+ beasts as you adventure alongside diverse companions in this monster-collecting RPG. Set in London in 2002, play in single-player or online to unmask an enigmatic occultist who threatens the realms of man and beast! When worlds collide, take the leap beyond!
Hapervil
Anvia Studios, Mallow Games
Play as Amaya and Will, navigating a forsaken orphanage where secrets lurk in the dark. Solve puzzles, uncover hidden truths, and survive a psychological horror tale where innocence twists into nightmare and shadows patiently wait to strike.