Games That Interested Me in 2024’s December Game Awards Showcases Part 2
Featuring games shown during: Women-Led Games Showcase, Black Voices in Gaming, PQube Asia Showcase, The Game Awards, TGAWCAGA, Horror Game Awards, and Indie FPS of the Year Showcase
Part 2 of game announcements that personally interested me during all the game showcases during this year’s game award showcases! I’m going to link to all the showcase streams so you guys can have an easy way to check out the streams. After all, my taste won’t match everyone’s. Also, if a game is showcased in more than one showcase (both the ones included in this post and my previous post), I’ll only include it once.
Women-Led Games Showcase
A mysterious force of power transforms you and other highly attractive people in your area into superheroes and villains! TEXT, DATE and FIGHT your friends and enemies alike.
Demo available
lily’s world XD is a psychological horror game where you investigate a young girl’s computer. Channel your inner 2000s teen as you read her old conversations, customize her blog, and look through her embarrassing selfies. That is, until you find messages addressed to you…
Help the Sandman to overcome all fears in the hardcore action-platformer Through the Nightmares. Find and rescue the children, fight all their phobias! Defeat the almighty Morpheus! Test your skill in a world where everything is trying to kill you. Die, resurrect, learn from mistakes and try again!
Demo available
Locks is a horror puzzle-platformer set in a puppet show. The game features a new type of puzzle and a fresh way to scare you. Are you a spectator, participant, or victim?
Demo available
Blueberry is a story-driven puzzle platformer that takes you deep into a woman’s mind as she faces her trauma. Ascend her Tower of Life, relive her key memories, and collect pieces of her fragmented self to unlock the mysteries of her past.
Demo available
They Are Here: Alien Abduction Horror
A first-person narrative horror game about an alien abduction at Grayswood Farm. 👽 The game is inspired by such movies as “Signs” and “The X-Files”.🛸
Demo available
A heartfelt, story-rich casual puzzle adventure celebrating the best of ancient Chinese culture. Explore an exquisitely hand-drawn world with delightful surprises, from cooking, finding hidden objects, paper crafting, and more. Guide Rooster in an emotionally rewarding tale about family and love.
Demo available
Ritual of Raven is a story-based farming sim – but you don’t do the farming yourself! Enchant Arcana Constructs to grow a magical herb garden, befriend a cute bunch of weirdos and use your witchy skills to perform powerful rituals to stabilize the portals that are causing trouble for the village.
Automation is not the answer; DANCE is the key to disruption! Help liberate citizens of a consumption-obsessed, corporate dystopia in All Systems Dance: an expressive dance battle adventure. Connect moves, express yourself, feel the music. Join The Movement. The revolution will not be choreographed.
Black Voices in Gaming
A surreal adventure RPG where you must traverse an ethereal dreamscape, confront your inner nightmares, and escape from a never-ending coma.
Summer, mid-2000s.
Grab your MP3 player and your rollerblades in this Adventure-Narrative game.
PQube Asia Showcase
Refreshingly adult Otome, centered around a local flower shop, it is a mature exploration of relationships, and the highs and lows romance. With twelve endings to enjoy, it is sure to make both your heart melt and your pulse race.
Coming soon in February
Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark
Take control of the demon sisters Kirika and Masha as they attempt to revive their Demon Lord Maxim and rebuild their castle in this 2D action Metroidvania adventure!
Coming March 27, 2025
Afflicted by a crazy curse that causes strange phenomena including being attacked by women, you must avoid being confessed to in order to survive! From the creators of “Raging Loop” comes a wild ride of a visual novel, full of romance, comedy, and explosions!
Follow Emma as she fights to reawaken her magical powers in order to aid a unique cast of characters, all of whom are trapped inside a travelling amusement park. Having lost memories from youth, Emma must rediscover her past through love and friendship in this stunning dream-like fantasy otome.
Coming soon on January 31, 2025 and a demo is available.
The hit series BUSTAFELLOWS continues with an all-new season! Fight for love and fight against crime, in this romantic, mystery, visual novel!
The Iwakura mansion holds a dark secret. Ichiko the new young maid joins looking for nothing but safety and security, but would soon find herself entangled with the beautiful daughter of the Iwakura household. Unravel the secrets of the Iwakura mansion in this gripping suspense visual novel.
The Game Awards
One Move Away is a cozy, first-person puzzle game where you pack your belongings for another move and embark on a new chapter in life. With each move, you step into the lives of three unique characters, uncovering their personal stories through the items they take with them—or leave behind.
A PvPvE multiplayer stealth game set in a 1910s metropolis filled with magic and intrigue. Hide, sneak, and steal your way through the ranks as you match your cunning against rival thieves in an immersive living world of stories and shadows. A new take on stealth from Warren Spector.
Shadow Labyrinth is a 2D action platformer and a genre-twisting alternate take on the iconic PAC-MAN. As The Swordsman, you wake on a mysterious planet amidst relics of wars past. To survive you will discover secrets, consume your enemies, and grow from prey to apex predator.
Welcome home, Hobbit! Live the cosy life of a Hobbit in the wonderfully serene landscape of the Shire. Discover, decorate, & share in this idyllic corner of Middle-earth. Join friendly Hobbits & familiar faces awaiting your arrival in Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings™ Game.
Coming March 25, 2025
Heart-pounding and hilarious multiplayer FPS fun. Trust your senses and overcome your fears as you’re armed with a flashlight and a revolver, then set against your friends in a pitch-black mansion with immersive proximity chat and surprises around every corner.
Coming soon in February and demo available
The Witcher series returns with a new protagonist. CD Projekt Red’s new RPG saga replaces Geralt with Ciri as the playable character to lead us into a new fantasy saga.
The Outer Worlds 2 is the sequel to the award-winning first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment.
Jump into mind-blowing moments and experience the many worlds of Split Fiction™, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure from the studio behind It Takes Two. Master a variety of abilities and overcome diverse challenges while jumping between sci-fi and fantasy worlds!
Publisher SEGA and developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have announced Project Century, a “brand-new concept” shrouded in mystery. Platforms and a release date were not announced.
Wuthering Waves is a story-rich open-world game with a high degree of freedom. You wake from your slumber as a Rover, greeted by an expansive new world filled with novel sights and newfangled tech.
Follow the tale of a samurai who wields the Oni Gauntlet, a mystical artifact that grants its bearer the power to slay Genma.
Through gritty, blood-soaked brawls, he searches for his reason to fight. What fate awaits at the end of his path?
Dungeon & Fighter: ARAD is an open-world action RPG based on Nexon’s globally popular Dungeon & Fighter intellectual property, which has amassed 850 million players worldwide,” reads the game’s description. “Experience the exhilarating battle action unique to Dungeon & Fighter as you embark on an adventure across the continent of Arad with a diverse cast of characters, available on PC, mobile, and console.
Dying Light: The Beast is a thrilling standalone zombie adventure set in a tightly-crafted rural region. Play as Kyle Crane, a legendary hero who breaks free after years of brutal experiments. Now, he must realize there’s more at stake than just revenge.
From the makers of OVERCOOKED! comes an all new co-operative experience. Take your friend on an amazing adventure as you explore, solve escape rooms, overcome fiendish obstacles and unravel an ancient mystery.
Webtoon with 14.3 billion views will make its first appearance as an action RPG! Game On A Whole New Level, Solo Leveling:ARISE
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero.
Okami sequel project is underway!!
Okami is a game critically acclaimed for its unique world, heartwarming story, and exciting adventures. Now, a new adventure in the same vein as Okami has been set in motion.
The Great Awards for Games With Creative And Gutsy Aspira
Aka The Game Awards for Games Who Can’t Afford the Game Awards Aka TGAWCAGA. This showcases both released this year and upcoming games.
In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.
Out now
Battle your way through a seedy tavern filled with gambling addicted townspeople in this Blackjack Roguelike Adventure. From aces and face cards to tarot cards, business cards and more, create your unique deck to beat the house.
Out now and has a demo available
Save your friends, fight off the vampire apocalypse, and survive the horrors of freshman field hockey practice in #BLUD, a delightfully zany animated dungeon crawler that blurs the line between action RPGs and hyperkinetic 90s cartoons.
Out now
Join Flare, the grooviest bounty hunter, as she hunts down dangerous criminals for fame and fortune in this stylish 2D beat ’em up. Inspired by the ‘golden age’ with a twist, brace yourself for a neon-soaked underworld where every fiery move propels Flare toward her dream palace in the stars!
Become an elite hacker in cyberpunk typing simulator. Infiltrate networks, steal data by typing simple commands. Navigate through pixel art cyberspace, unlocking new abilities as you go deeper. No coding skills needed. How far can you hack before the system catches you?
Out now and has a demo available
Graham’s alone in a forest filled with strange wolves. While he’s fleeing for his life he finds a lost girl in an abandoned lodge that won’t survive without his help. Try to find their way to safety in this slow-burning cinematic thriller filled with puzzles, hand-drawn animation and lots of mystery
Out now
Drive your pickup truck through seemingly peaceful countryside valleys, deliver much-needed goods to local townsfolk and unravel the small town mystery. Beware, the old forest is watching.
Atmospheric Horror in 90’s style low-poly 3D. Open-ended exploration, investigation, hidden items, captivating puzzles and intriguing dark storyline.
A journey of flavors and friendships awaits you in your cozy, customisable food truck! Forage for fresh ingredients to create your own menu, then feed tummies and souls with home-cooked meals. Change the world, one apple at a time.
Out now
Blocks for Babies is a block-stacking boomer shooter where every kill shapes the game board. Arrange falling tiles into complete lines, or go in guns blazing to clean up the board the messy way. Hard and soft drops aren’t your only tools anymore—now you have a shotgun.
Demo available
Bits & Bops is a collection of original rhythm mini-games! Filled with catchy music, snappy gameplay and gorgeous, hand-drawn animation, Bits & Bops is sure to brighten your day.
Demo available
The afterlife is now digital. Discover that eternal life comes with sacrifice in a genre-defying RPG with unique rhythm combat.
Demo available
SEDAP! is a co-op cooking-combat adventure that combines the chaos of a collaborative kitchen and the wonders of adventuring into an unexplored world. Embark on an exciting culinary journey, whip up delectable delicacies, and serve your way through a fantastical reimagination of Southeast Asia!
Coming soon in March and has a demo available
The Horror at Highrook is an occult card crafting narrative RPG. Explore a haunted mansion with your team of investigators, summon dark entities, craft powerful protections, uncover the fate of the missing family, and choose your own path through the darkness.
Demo available
A thrilling Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City! Embark on a harrowing journey across the frontier with Harley Leger and her ragtag posse, encountering bandits, rebels, visionaries, eccentrics, and many more friends and foes on your quest for fame and riches.
Demo available
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
Coming February 20, 2025 and has a demo available
Face legendary creatures from British and Irish folklore in this roguelite deck builder where cooking replaces combat. As a princess, you must prepare dishes to feed these monsters or risk becoming their next meal.
Telegraphist 1920: Beats of War
A narrative rhythm game that takes you back to 1920. See, hear and feel the Battle of Warsaw from a novel perspective – a war telegraphist, the crucial bond between soldiers and commanders.
Demo available
Go on a single player, On-Rails Shooter Adventure in Candy Rangers and match 4 colors with 4 rangers! Each ranger can take down enemies that match their color, and it’s up to you to use each one accordingly! Can you match them all?
Demo available
Experience life as a house in this silly adventure game! Play as a building as you roll, jump, and wave-dash across a cozy island. Meet eligible structures, romance them, and experience a bizarre, yet oddly familiar story.. or go fishing instead (though we replaced fish with cars to make more sense)
Demo available
Embark on a whimsical journey and bring joy to a bright fantasy world in this roleplaying adventure for 1-4 players. Craft your own story and solve quests how you like, but beware, for every time you fail the Dragon will send you back in time!
Out now and has a demo
Alula is a 2.5DHD puzzle game where you help people solve their problems by exploring parts of their psyche.
Feline Forensics and The Meowseum Mystery
There’s only one detective to unravel this murder turned museum heist… and they’re the cat’s meow. Interrogate a “colorful” cast of suspects until they cough up hairballs… and the truth. Will you wrap up the case in time for an afternoon nap, and make injustice knead its last biscuit?
A super cute and tasty roguelite-flavored dungeon crawler! Explore a lush world and defeat monsters with your trusty spatula and some boba tea, then gather delicious ingredients and bring them home to cook and serve at your restaurant!
Coming to consoles on January 28, 2025
“Images are engraved in my mind that would make any man tremble in fear… but I am not just any man. I am The Occultist.” Accompany Alan Rebels on his most terrifying occult investigation yet, in this spine-chilling horror experience.
Play, race and hang with your feline friends in this online platformer party game! Purrfect your pussycat parkour as you sprint, jump, bounce, swing, skid and slide through a collection of collaborative and competitive mini-games set in a grandiose cartoon mansion. Get jumpin’, jazz cats!
Coming January 30, 2025
Kill The Music is a Rhythm Action Roguelite about defeating hordes of enemies with musical instruments.
Demo available
Play as a detective, solve cases, and try to catch an elusive serial killer in this mystery visual novel focused on found family.
Demo available
Play as Cassiel, a foul-mouthed angel trapped in a time loop with a mission to save Heaven. Use the magical clock bestowed upon you from Death (yes, that Death, from Manual Samuel, stop asking) to jump between timelines across Heaven, Hell, Earth and Helheim to stop Heaven from going boom. Again.
Available now and has a demo.
Make your dreams come true — or crush someone else’s. Take the helm of a major Hollywood studio at the dawn of sound cinema, and guide it through decades of creative achievements and glamor, debauchery and dark deeds, tough choices and unpleasant compromises.
Coming in early access on February 27, 2025
A handpainted cozy hidden object adventure. Explore a surreal world. Collect items for its quirky inhabitants. Fix damaged paintings and solve casual puzzles. Help a lost skeleton painter find his way home. This game is short but 100% FREE (no ads, no IAP).
Available now for free!
Horror Game Awards
DEPRISION is a psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying AAA experience. Survive human madness, amnesia’s power, and navigate parallel worlds via a deadly virus. Solve your world’s problem, survive, prevent more deaths, and escape before it’s too late.
This story is about a girl who, by the will of fate, faced the beast, and in order to become free she was forced to study its nature. A story-driven shooter with aggressive gunfights and terrifying monsters awaits you. How far can you go in the fight for your freedom?
Demo available
Monster DNA is a single-player psychological horror game where you create deadly monsters for mysterious clients. But beware… your creations might be the death of you. In this twisted lab, survival depends on your wits. One wrong move, and you could be their next victim.
Demo available
Venture through the Labyrinth Of The Demon King, solving puzzles and fighting fearsome monsters in an epic quest to track down the demon who betrayed your lord and end its life.
Demo available
Disco-punk space horror where you can be a sneaky chap or a mutant action hero as you try to survive on a space station swallowed by a black hole. A mind-bending ride with weird creatures, immersive features, time jumps, and ’70s mustaches!
COLD ABYSS is a relaxing and atmospheric exploration game where you repair internet cables on the bottom of the ocean.There are no enemies or other forms of danger down there. Just you.
Can you survive your teacher in this psychological horror game? With only candles for light and trapped in her home, you have to uncover her family’s dark secrets. Solve puzzles, connect the dots and escape. But beware: There is someone else playing games with you, and someone who needs your help.
BrokenLore: FOLLOW is a psychological first-person horror game that immerses players in the haunting narrative of Anne, as she grapples with issues of self-acceptance, bullying, and worthlessness while encountering metaphorical surreal creatures that heighten the terror of her journey.
Demo available
In BrokenLore: DON’T WATCH, immerse yourself in the haunting world of Shinji, a young hikikomori trapped in his Tokyo apartment. As his mind unravels, confront a malevolent entity watching from the shadows. Will you uncover the truth before it’s too late?
Demo available
A hand drawn first person slaughterer following a ravenous Monster vs a lone survivor in this ultra violent dual narrative about the end of the world!
Demo available
Fight through post-apocalyptic South Korea in this retro survival horror. Uncover the truth behind the devastating meteor impact that left the country in ruins and turned every living organism into a terrifying monstrosity. Fight. Solve puzzles. Upgrade gear. Make every bullet count.
A game about misogynistic entitlement. Browse an old computer’s files to uncover information about adult film actress Candy Corpse, and her recent departure from the industry.
NIGHTMARE OPERATOR is an action horror shooter about hunting Youkai in the haunted ruins of Tokyo. Combat fuses the tense, shooting gameplay of classic survival horror, with the skill-based mechanics and execution of fighting games.
JOIN THE SOCIETY. Avoid unpredictable horrors that will pursue you relentlessly. Perform rituals in a haunted forest to find dead bodies. Feed these bodies to THE PIT, lest you be fed to it yourself.
Bad Cheese is a psychological horror inspired by the eerie charm of 1920s animation. Step into the tiny paws of a mouse spending the weekend at home with a dysfunctional Dad while Mom’s away. Be on your best behavior and KEEP DADDY HAPPY.
DEADCAM is an 80’s & 90’s inspired analog-survival-horror game based around found-footage and built in Unreal Engine 5. Explore and survive various short stories presented as “recordings”, set in unique settings and locations.
A surreal survival horror set in a world where fears come alive, and danger lurks at every turn. Explore the ruins of an ancient kingdom, fight monsters, and try to survive in this brutal world. Will you become its savior, or will you seek to destroy it? The choice is yours.
Demo available
Delve into a retro survival horror where everything is not what it seems. You control Ben Murphy, a detective sent to investigate the strange on-goings in a small town, only to be caught in a nightmare surrounded by terrifying creatures. What dark mysteries will you uncover in Scarlet Lake?
Demo available
Agni, a determined investigator from a covert Indonesian police unit who defied orders and ventures into a remote village despite ominous warnings. What begins as an unauthorized investigation quickly plunges Agni into a horrifying reality
Pass through the threshold and enter a world born of memories. Defend yourself with a camera while solving death’s mysteries in a reverent evolution of 90’s survival horror, integrating both fixed cameras and over the shoulder perspectives.
Demo available
the tide always wins
Kiss and decapitate your friends in a Co-Op horror game about collecting cursed objects to feed to a deity called Mama, lest she hunger for you. Work together, and betray each other… Anything to keep Mama happy.
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.
Demo available
The Temple of Children is a story-driven horror adventure about a simple little girl from a Russian province. Against her will she became part of horrible events, watching her reality turn into hell. To survive she needs to unravel the secret that children are hiding.
After Matt’s tragic disappearance in room 104 of the Night Soul Motel, his business partner Josh is still trapped there at the mercy of a ruthless and cruel scientist. The lives of Kat, Josh and Matt crossed paths in science —a macabre science orchestrated by Doc’s deadly hands.
Bye Sweet Carole is a chilling narrative-horror game inspired by classic animation movies and created by Chris Darril (Remothered series). Follow the last known whereabouts of Carole Simmons to uncover the dark truth behind the Bunny Hall orphanage.
Tenebris Somnia is a 2D survival horror adventure game with live action cutscenes. Unveil the depths of a disturbing story by solving puzzles and fighting horrible creatures.
Demo available
A survival horror game where reality itself seems to unravel as you navigate the frozen hellscape to find your missing sister – defending yourself from horrors beyond our understanding, and nature itself. Solve puzzles, combat ice-covered nightmares, and most importantly, survive.
Demo available
Indie FPS of the Year Showcase
Nightmare House: The Original mod
Wake up, it’s time for the real nightmare to begin. Make your way through a terrorizing house, uncover the secrets of a haunted hospital, fight through hordes of the undead, and try to escape Nightmare House.
Out now for free!
DEEPEST FEAR™ is a sci-fi horror FPS with a retro-future aesthetic. Deep beneath the ocean, a secret has been unearthed which throws mankind’s future into jeopardy. Fight your way to the heart of a sinister project and uncover a mystery both deeply personal and terrifying in its implications.
Discover some of the most charming and challenging bosses in Frogmonster, a Metroidvania FPS adventure where you explore a lively world filled with creatures, bugs, and beasts.
Available now and has a demo.
The Victor Initiative is an atmospheric horror game about exploring an abandoned government facility that lost contact with the rest of the world 60 years ago.
Demo available
A western themed roguelite bullet hell where the player uses an array of weapons, whiskey infusions and buffs gained from defeating bosses to complete each stage.
Available now and has a demo
Be the cactus, become the legend! Master foes, evade traps, and uncover artifacts as a spiky hero in this unique indie FPS, blending classic elements with quirky new ideas.
Coming soon in March and has a demo available
Submarine’s haunted! Hunt and be hunted in this horror dungeon crawler inspired by the decay of the Soviet Union (and immersive RPGs from the 90s).
Available now
Anger Foot is a lightning fast action FPS where the only things harder than your ass kicking feet are the ass kicking beats.
Available now and has a demo
It was a lovely evening at your small homestead, until a group of masked men ambushed you, blindfolded, and carried you away. Struggling was pointless as numerous hands pushed you into a boat. After an unknown time, you landed, and were walked uphill. Waves crashed in the distance and strange machinery hummed all around you, as you were led into some sort of construction, then deeper underground, through tight corridors with uneven flooring. Finally, they ripped the blindfold off, and threw you on the ground – with cold stone door closing behind you. Your only orders, it seems, is to find out what happened to the observation team.
Luna Abyss is a single player story driven action-adventure with fluid platforming and bullet hell combat. Follow the journey of Fawkes, a prisoner of Luna caught between a cryptic prophecy and their prison sentence.
Demo available
Motördoom is a freestyle-sports roguelite horde shooter that combines high octane, visceral combat with fluid movement and trick mechanics. Perform gnarly tricks while defeating grotesque monsters and upgrade your character with demonic offerings to become ever more powerful.
Available now and has a demo.
Fort Oasis is no paradise—it’s a decaying terrormare where reality crumbles. From the creator of Turbo Overkill comes a survival-horror stacked with mysteries and monstrosities. Scavenge scraps to craft weapons and follow a cryptic voice on your walkie-talkie through the island’s depths.
Retro fps where you use sport equipment – baseball bats, hockey sticks, golf clubs, bowling balls and pigskins to launch projectiles into monsters straight from classic creature features. Collect upgrades, find gear and hit fastballs to get back home in this stylish action game set in 50’s America.
Step into the boots of Master Templar, the fanatical and ruthless enforcer of the one true faith. Pick your way through the disease-ridden, irradiated trench works of Cretu and wage apocalyptic holy war on the sinful enemies of the Canonicate. Survive the evil unleashed by heresy and struggle with over 15 (and counting) new enemy types, from corrupted militia and cultists to demonic netherworld horrors. Utilise 14 holy instruments of war to excommunicate with extreme prejudice. Fall to your knees in awe of the holy miracle of new gameplay features and visual effects. Say your prayers and confess your sins! Take your rad meds and check between your toes for wormsign! Trench Foot Slouches onwards, waiting to be born!
COP BASTARD is a classic first-person shooter set in early 90s Japan, offering non-stop action inspired by action movies.
Demo available
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