Future of Play Direct 2023
Games shown at the Future of Play Direct 2023
The Wandering Village
Jul 17, 2025
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★ 3.3
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game with survival and rogue-like elements. Build a village on the back of a giant, wandering creature, farm crops and forage resources to …
Linux
Mac
Nintendo Switch
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5
Xbox One
Xbox Series X|S
+5 more
The Brew Barons
Mar 1, 2024
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★ 3.0
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, …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 5
Shashingo: Learn Japanese With Photography
Feb 27, 2024
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★ 3.0
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 …
Nintendo Switch
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Demon Spore
Sep 30, 2026
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No ratings
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. …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Aloft
Jan 15, 2025
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No ratings
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 …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Bugaboo Pocket
Apr 2, 2025
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No ratings
Bugaboo Pocket is a virtual 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 …
Mac
Nintendo Switch
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Hermit and Pig
Feb 5, 2026
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★ 4.0
Hermit and Pig is a turn-based, adventure RPG about a reclusive hermit and his truffle-hunting pig. These unlikely heroes must explore, forage, fight, and overcome unfortunate personal shortcomings to solve …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Love Shore
Jun 30, 2023
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★ 2.7
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.
Touchstarved
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
You were born cursed, with hands that twist the mind of any human you touch. Desperation leads you to the shadowy city of Eridia, where your fate intertwines with 5 …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Ritual Night
Nov 4, 2024
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No ratings
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.
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Oom
Feb 13, 2024
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★ 3.0
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 …
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Solarpunk
Jun 8, 2026
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★ 2.0
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and explore distant …
Wildmender
Sep 28, 2023
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★ 3.0
Unearth the past to protect the future. In Wildmender, you face the challenge of restoring the environment. Explore the landscape, revive withering plant life, cultivate your garden, and build a …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 5
Xbox Series X|S
Ascend
Sep 30, 2025
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No ratings
Ascend is an adventure puzzle game where a young woman must navigate to the top of a mystical mountain learning the secrets of both the past and the future to …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Rune Fencer Illyia
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Rune Fencer Illyia is an intense, atmospheric action-platformer with a heavy focus on exploration and combat. Traverse an enormous and dangerous world, meet strange allies, and outfight your numerous foes …
Nintendo Switch
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Word Factori
Aug 3, 2023
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★ 3.0
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. …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Communite
Jun 26, 2025
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No ratings
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 …
Android
PC (Microsoft Windows)
iOS
Reka
Sep 12, 2024
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★ 3.8
Start your life as an apprentice witch to the legendary Baba Jaga and venture across a mysterious, natural landscape with your companion, chicken-legged cottage. Develop your magical powers, customise your …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Sushi Ben VR
TBA
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No ratings
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 …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 5
Yasuke: A Lost Descendant
TBA
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No ratings
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.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Cavern of Dreams
Oct 19, 2023
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★ 3.8
Cavern of Dreams is a mysterious, surreal adventure game inspired by N64 classics. You play as a young dragon who's just lost all of his unhatched siblings! You have to …
Nintendo Switch
PC (Microsoft Windows)
In Stars and Time
Nov 20, 2023
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★ 4.1
In Stars and Time is a time-looping RPG adventure. With each loop, Siffrin gains a new perspective on the world around them, opening up new solutions to puzzles and allowing …
Let's! Revolution!
Jul 19, 2023
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★ 3.9
In Let's Revolution, embark on a deadly game of hide and seek as you decipher numbered clues to uncover the path to your goals. Chase down the cowardly King through …
Mac
Nintendo Switch
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5
Xbox One
Xbox Series X|S
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Grimfield Mystery
TBA
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No ratings
Grimfield Mystery is a Mysterious Action Adventure about a lost boy with a floating magic hand!
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Bombing!! 2: A Graffiti Paradise
Jun 27, 2023
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No ratings
Bombing!! 2: A Graffiti Paradise is a creative sandbox painting game where the entire game world can be painted, and a sequel to Bombing!!: A Graffiti Sandbox. In the game …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Escape From Mystwood Mansion
Sep 27, 2023
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★ 3.7
In this first-person puzzle escape room game, you are trapped in the mysterious Mystwood mansion. Explore corridors and find hidden rooms while solving puzzles and deciphering codes to find a …
Nintendo Switch
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Angeline Era
Dec 8, 2025
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★ 3.5
Pick up your sword and hit the road! Every level is hidden in plain sight in this nonlinear 3D Action-Adventure game! Travel a vast country's unmarked overworld in search of …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Psychroma
Jun 11, 2024
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★ 3.0
Psychroma is a narrative-driven side-scroller where you play as a digital medium. Confront the past by piecing together the broken memories of a cybernetic house, and exorcise the ghosts in …
Airborne Empire
Apr 17, 2026
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No ratings
Build, manage, and grow your unique city in the skies. Traverse a vast and rich open world full of exotic technologies, relentless dangers, and many hidden treasures. Defend your inhabitants …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Slopecrashers
Dec 4, 2024
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No ratings
Slopecrashers is an arcade snowboard combat racer in which a wild crew of animals band together on a world spanning snowboarding tour! Do stunts & combos for extra boost and …
Techtonica
Nov 7, 2024
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★ 3.5
Techtonica is a first-person factory building game set beneath the surface of an alien planet. Work alone or in co-op to build factories, gather resources, research new technologies, mold the …
Quantum Phantom Basketball
Jun 10, 2023
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No ratings
Quantum Phantom Basketball is a basketball-fighting game set in a cataclysmic high fantasy New York City.
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Gourdlets
Aug 15, 2024
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★ 2.8
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 …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Faraway Fairway
Mar 31, 2024
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No ratings
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 …
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Atomic Picnic
Nov 7, 2024
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No ratings
Atomic Picnic is a Co-Op Shooter Roguelite based on the new Swarm Survivors genre! Get together with up to 4 friends to fight frenzied monsters and gain experience to upgrade …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Arctic Awakening
Sep 18, 2025
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★ 3.0
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 …
Videoverse
Aug 7, 2023
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★ 3.9
Take a trip back to the days of the early internet and fan forums, when the video game console "Kinmoku Shark" and its online social network "Videoverse" were still popular...
Linux
Mac
Nintendo Switch
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5
Xbox One
Xbox Series X|S
+5 more
Space Chef
Oct 28, 2025
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No ratings
Hunt down strange alien creatures and plants, then cook 'em! Deliver your tasty creations to the galaxy's most unsafe places on your homemade star scooter. In a quirky mix of …