Games To Get Excited About Fest 2025
It's a showcase designed to respect viewer's time, with 110 indie games showcased in just over an hour. No filler, no cinematic trailers and no paid placements - all games are in the showcase under their own merit.
Games shown at the Games To Get Excited About Fest 2025
End of Ember
TBA
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Explore a gory Hell in this twin-stick shooter that pays homage to badass horror franchises. Kill demons, upgrade items, and fight weird and gross bosses until they explode in piles …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Walk
Jan 9, 2025
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No ratings
You can walk freely in the world of Walk, enjoy the beauty of the virtual world, and let the wonderful scenery bring comfort to your soul.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Below, Rusted Gods
Jul 29, 2026
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No ratings
You are the lifeline supporting an expedition into the unknown. Keep both yourself and your squad alive by interpreting instrument readings, explore the facilities, and uncover something ancient and eager …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Animal Use Protocol
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
In this first-person, narrative-focused survival horror, you play as Penn, a hyper-intelligent chimpanzee. Hunted at every turn, your only chance of survival lies in scavenging, crafting, and exploring Anchorage Station. …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
In Hope Voiden
TBA
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No ratings
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 …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
O3: Hollow Descent
TBA
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No ratings
03 is a bullet-hell rogue-like shooter. Set in a surreal world inspired by the art of H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Starbuster
TBA
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No ratings
Starbuster is a fast-paced action platformer, where a droid and a lizard slash and grapple their way across the galaxy. Featuring a focus on fast paced combat, exploration, and weapon …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Theropods
Jul 23, 2026
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No ratings
Face dinosaurs, solve puzzles and travel back to the time of ginormous lizards and pixelated adventure games.
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Lurks Within Walls
Mar 31, 2026
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No ratings
Lurks Within Walls is a tense survival horror game combining modern dungeon RPGs' exploration elements with fast-paced turn-based combat. Explore a series of cursed environments filled with terrifying creatures illustrated …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Blessed Burden
Jun 18, 2025
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★ 2.7
The most-aesthetically charged action horror first-person platformer. You play as the last priest who goes unarmed into the devil's abode to save the world.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Tom the Postgirl
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Take a ride with Tom through her village and discover a great deal—perhaps too much—about the locals. Her approach, although controversial, is highly effective: intense and obsessive stalking.
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Egging On
Nov 6, 2025
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★ 3.0
Face the challenge of being a real, fragile egg. Climb out of the hen house and survive in a shop, a kitchen, and other dangerous areas. Roll, jump, and use …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 5
Xbox Series X|S
The Backworld
Dec 31, 2027
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No ratings
Experience a non-linear turn-based horror RPG. Navigate through eerie corridors and surreal dimensions, while battling and evading terrifying monsters. Grow stronger by exploring every corner, not grinding battles. Forge your …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Dust Front RTS
TBA
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No ratings
Dust Front is a real-time strategy game that blends classic RTS mechanics with grand strategy elements. Players engage in military operations across barren battlefields using varied tactics from mass infantry …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Motorslice
May 5, 2026
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★ 3.4
Parkour through the ruins of a megastructure, climb massive bosses, and hunt down every construction equipment in this slice of life action-adventure.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 5
Xbox Series X|S
Beta Decay
TBA
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No ratings
The development of positronic propulsion technology has granted the ability for mankind to travel beyond the Sol system, to its neighboring star system, Alpha Centauri. Survive in the new frontier …
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Scirocco Thugs
TBA
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No ratings
Roundhouse Kicks, Six shooters and rusty Lead Pipes become your vehicles for revenge against the Don.... Grab some scrap and engage in brutal, breakneck melee combat in this FPS Beat …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Paper Bleed
TBA
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No ratings
Paper Bleed is a creepy and grotesque point-and-click adventure, made with a raw art style and disturbingly gory hand-drawn animations. You find yourself in a horrible yet familiar place, facing …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
He Who Watches
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Manipulate gravity, walk on walls, and use your magical arrow to solve mind-bending puzzles in this grid-based dungeon puzzler. Decipher secrets of the canvas and search for the mythos known …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Winnie's Hole
Jan 26, 2026
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★ 2.0
Join Winnie on a new adventure, from within! Play as a virus in his body and mind. Capture cells to mutate and build a deck of actions to unleash in …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
That Sausage Museum Game
Dec 31, 2025
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No ratings
Flip-flop, roll and fling your way through a wacky art museum as a clumsy sausage on the run. Dodge weird obstacles, pull off ridiculous stunts, and try not to fall …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Troleu
Sep 15, 2025
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★ 3.0
TROLEU is a wacky and chaotic first-person action game that puts you in the shoes of a trolleybus conductor. Keep things rolling smoothly by ensuring passengers' travel validity, but watch …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Servant of the Lake
Aug 13, 2026
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No ratings
Servant of the Lake is the new premium point-and-click adventure in the Rusty Lake series from the creators of the Cube Escape series, The Past Within and Underground Blossom.
Dreams of Another
Oct 10, 2025
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Dreams of Another is a third-person exploration-action game built around the philosophical theme, “No Creation Without Destruction.” Rather than destroying objects by shooting—as in traditional shooting games—here, your shots materialize …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 5
PlayStation VR2
Recur
TBA
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★ 4.0
A time-bending journey to the end of the world and back. Run, jump, and manipulate time to solve puzzles as the apocalypse unfolds. Can you stop the clock on disaster?
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Alisa: The Parting
Dec 31, 2025
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No ratings
Alisa: The Parting is an unforgettable action packed adventure, that looks and plays exactly like a late 90's and early 2000's 32bit game. With crispy pixely polygons and pre-rendered backgrounds …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Wander Stars
Sep 19, 2025
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No ratings
Wander Stars is a turn-based RPG with roguelite elements where you make your own attacks by combining words! Create your own fighting techniques, befriend your rivals, and explore the universe …
She's Leaving
Dec 2, 2025
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No ratings
Put your forensic skills to the test in this brand new first person survival horror, She's Leaving. Play as Charles Dalton, a blood spatter analyst tasked with the most gruesome …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 5
Xbox Series X|S
Children of Saturn
Dec 31, 2027
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No ratings
A found footage coming-of-age story about a group of teenagers growing up under an orange sky. CHILDREN OF SATURN blends first person adventure gameplay with real video recordings to tell …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Kriegsfront Tactics
TBA
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No ratings
Kriegsfront Tactics is a procedural turn-based mecha tactics RPG set in alternate 1970s during an era of conflict in Southeast Asia where you'll play as a commander of a mecha …
Effulgence RPG
Dec 2, 2025
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Effulgence is a party-based RPG in a sci-fi setting. Players will explore a distant, possibly extinct world, battle its hostile inhabitants, craft gear, and develop their characters. All graphics in …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Hallow Blade
TBA
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No ratings
Hallow Blade is a dark fantasy action adventure set in a vast interconnected subterranean kingdom where you form an unbreakable bond with an ancient possessed sword hungry for souls and …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Unemployment Simulator 2018
Feb 3, 2026
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No ratings
A social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain, crushing pressure of adulthood and societal expectations while evading a literal death by boredom. Battle demons, hide from …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
RockBeasts
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Lead a band of misfits on a roller-coaster ride to stardom in the age of MTV, rock anthems, and bad haircuts. ROCKBEASTS is a story-driven, role-playing management game that puts …
Psycho Dead
Dec 31, 2026
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★ 4.0
A third-person survival horror game that you play as a girl with psychic power who tries to escape from a secret lab and is pursued by deadly stalkers.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 5
S.p.l.i.t
Jul 24, 2025
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★ 3.8
A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.
Linux
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Omut
TBA
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No ratings
A punishing fever dream combining abject terror, dark comedy, and many, many deaths.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Wire Throne
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
Blast your way out of captivity, upgrade your ride, and unleash devastating firepower to take down the Wire Throne! One life, one car in this roguelite top-down looter shooter!
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Pioner
Dec 16, 2025
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No ratings
PIONER is an open-world MMO first-person shooter set in a haunting, alternative-reality world where Soviet-era structures lie abandoned on a desolate, post-apocalyptic island. In this immersive environment, the gameplay experience …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Lady Dracula
TBA
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No ratings
An evolution of the Classicvania genre and a return to the glory days of precision platforming, retro challenge and gothic atmosphere. Transform yourself into a wraith, a spider and a …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
South Scrimshaw, Part Two
TBA
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No ratings
South Scrimshaw, Part Two continues the story of one life in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature …
Linux
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Platypus Reclayed
Sep 18, 2025
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★ 5.0
Reclaimed. Remade. Reclayed. The Legendary Platypus Returns! 23 years after its first appearance, the iconic indie shoot ‘em up Platypus is coming back, better than ever! Led by the original …
Mac
Nintendo Switch
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5
Xbox One
Xbox Series X|S
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RetroSpace
TBA
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No ratings
A space station has been swallowed by a black hole, mutants roaming the corridors, and everything seems to have gone mad around you. Be sneaky or blast your way through …
The Cave Diver
Aug 12, 2026
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No ratings
Crawl down a suffocating cave system using only your arms in this punishing physics-horror adventure. What morbid force is calling you deeper into the heart of the caves?
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Exobrave
TBA
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No ratings
Exobrave is a 2D action-platformer that features a highly engaging combat system. Fight your way through the many branching paths of a futuristic colony infested by demon-possessed automatons - in …
Linux
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Cerulean Singe
TBA
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No ratings
Cerulean Singe is a souls-like focusing on snappy and deliberate fast-paced combat, unrelenting bosses, and diverse environments with a dark atmosphere.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Phase Zero
Dec 31, 2026
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No ratings
A grotesque illness binds the town of Flint Peak. Two survivors try to escape with their lives as mysterious creatures roam the streets. Face horrific monsters, solve puzzles and escape …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
The Lacerator
Oct 9, 2025
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★ 3.5
A mix of classic survival horror and trash movies, play as an 80's porn actor and beware of every corner because you can get Lacerator and lose a limb in …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Norigin
TBA
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No ratings
Norigin is a third person story driven adventure exploration game centred around a son reconnecting with his father through lost memories. Take control of our lost travelling protagonist during his …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Carimara: Beneath the Forlorn Limbs
Oct 6, 2025
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★ 3.3
You are the Carimara, and your mission is to conjure a ghost by answering their questions using your cards. A short and creepy fairytale, full of surprises and mysteries.
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)