Games That Interested Me During Best Indie Games 2025 Summer Showcase
4 hours worth of upcoming indie games. Wow.
Well, here starts the week where we get a whole bunch of showcases for Summer Games Fest! This one is a big one, being 4 hours. As always, I linked to the showcase so you can easily check it out and I’ll try to keep games that already appeared in a previous showcase out so there’s no duplicates.
Best Indie Games 2025 Summer Showcase
A SNES styled JRPG set in a fantasy world of garbage, created by two janitors. Join Trash Can Knight, Dustin Binsley, as he fights his way through the Five and a Half Kingdoms of the Dump!
In this presidential rogue-like action game, gather votes and run for presidency by day, then transform into a warrior to take down your enemies by night! Master unique skills to become a swordmaster, a cyber mage, or anything in between, and overthrow the ruthless president!
Demo Available
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.
Demo Available
Six months before the asteroid strike, and a new beginning. Goodbye Seoul is a narrative puzzle adventure set in a desolate yet hauntingly beautiful post-apocalyptic Seoul. Will you uncover the truth before time runs out?
Coming June 26, 2025 | Demo Available
In Ruffy and the Riverside, you wield the magic SWAP to Copy & Paste textures – turn ice into lava or waterfalls into vines! Explore, fight, skate on straw bales, and unleash your imagination in this quirky open-world action game. Dive into an adventure that lets you literally change the world!
Demo Available
Chill, catch, sell, upgrade! Tidebound is a fishing game with a relaxing, cozy atmosphere where you upgrade your boat, and sail further to fish for more expensive and exotic sea animals. Casual yet engaging, the game offers a sense of progress with tons of equipment and hundreds of species to catch.
Out Now
Take on the role of skilled hunter, Sam, in Faeland, an adventure RPG set in a beautiful world inspired by 8-bit classics.
Out Now | Demo Available
Cauldron is an upgrade-heavy, minigame-centric, turn-based RPG. Play minigames to strengthen your party, then win battles to uncover more map, more heroes, more minigames, more everything! If your favorite plant is an upgrade tree, then this game is for you!
Out Now
ANOMALY AGENT is a cyberpunk action-adventure featuring fluid combat, a time-bending story, quirky characters and a catchy synthwave soundtrack! Punch or shoot through mobs of enemies, impact the story with your choices and stop the anomalies before the world plunges into chaos!
Out Now
Co-op horror game where you play in teams of 1 to 8 reckless journalists, ready to explore a city overrun by deadly creatures to snap spectacular footage. Your only goal: make the headlines without becoming one.
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.
Alkahest is an Action-Adventure RPG set in a murky medieval world. Where satisfying melee combat with highly interactive environments takes center stage. Explore realistic locations, learn alchemy and make a name for your family.
Embark on a quest to become the 13th Zodiac in this frantic hack-and-slash roguelike action adventure. Take on a celestial trial of grit, speed and power, and rise stronger after each fall as you upgrade your skills. Your trial awaits!
Anima Gate of Memories 1 & 2 Remaster
A third-person action RPG that brings to life the world of Gaia from the Anima: Beyond Fantasy RPG table-top books. Explore a deep and multifaceted story where your choices and actions directly impact the journey and decide the fate of the characters.
Build your own home on wheels and live sustainably off-grid. Craft workstations and power supplies, source energy from the sun, wind, or water, upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and explore a colorful world with up to 4 players.
DEEP STATE is a retro FPS that combines elements of the immersive-sim genre with classic 90’s FPS action. Travel the globe, navigating expansive levels offering multiple routes and ways to complete objectives, as you try and uncover the truth behind a top secret black project.
Embark on a journey inspired by Slavic mythology and Croatian folklore in this 2.5D action-adventure game inspired by the likes of Inside, Neva, and Song of Iron.
Ignite your sword and explore the dark depths and towering heights of a forgotten island that consumed itself long ago.
Coming June 16, 2025
Discover the mysterious, diverse birds of the East along with their enchanting world in Wingspan: Asia Expansion. Here you’ll encounter new birds and bonus cards, expand your collection of backgrounds and portraits with new ones inspired by the region, and have the opportunity to play in an all-new mode that will bring a breath of fresh air and even more variety to your games.
The Great Coffee Caper is a cute and cozy RPG where it’s up to Detective Hootsworth to figure out who stole the town’s coffee beans! Uncover clues in fast-paced clue battles, question the charming townsfolk, and figure out hoooo dunnit!
Demo Available
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 combo-driven combat. A genre-blending roguelite with a dark yet charming story. Embrace discomfort – Sometimes we can’t help being seen as a monster…
Coming June 18, 2025 | Demo Available
In the abyss where the mortal realm and netherworld intertwine, becoming a warrior wielding the power of the Nether Lantern to fight along with the fallen souls. With hardcore action and intriguing roguelike builds, shatter the cursed barriers and unveil the truth woven from blood and soul.
Coming September 22, 2025 | Demo Available
Manage your very own Witchcraft Shop! Witchy Business is a job simulator game where you brew potions for your customers, collect oddities, grow flowers in your garden, upgrade your alchemy station, and thrive. Make sure you are quick to take care of customers and hex thieves!
Demo Available
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.
Out Now
Lead a team of puppy soccer players, solve 170+ challenges and score goals in this cozy tactical puzzle game!
Out Now | Demo Available
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Canyons is a third-person extraction shooter set in a procedurally generated post-apocalyptic world. Fight for your existence in 4 player co-op or solo, control massive Crawlers, build a settlement for survivors, and conquer this savage world!
Slip between the cracks of reality into a broken world where danger awaits at every turn. Survive with strategy—battle when necessary, or flee when the odds are stacked against you. Collect strange items, unlock new abilities, and recruit unique companions. Forge your own path—every choice matters.
Blind Descent is a multiplayer open-world survival adventure game with up to 4 players set in the Martian underground.
Demo Available
Monster taming with base building! Collect over 160 creatures, manage and customize your base, conquer challenging battles, and unravel the mystery behind this fantastic world!
Coming June 12, 2025 | Demo Available
Forgotlings is a breathtaking cinematic action-adventure set in a magical land of sentient forgotten objects.
ARCHETYPE BLUE is a rogue-lite deck building game where you form your own adventure team and deck before facing the challenges this fantasy world has in store for you. With all the options in front of you and the circumstances surrounding your expedition, do you have any chance of succeeding?
Explore unique zones, discover secrets, adapt to unexpected events and create most broken builds by collecting powerful items and modifying them in this OS-themed roguelike dungeon crawler!
Coming July 8, 2025 | Demo Available
Grifford Academy is a story-rich, coming-of-age RPG set in a mystical book realm where your decisions shape the personalities of the characters. Engage in strategic turn-based combat as you set out to discover the secrets of Caldria.
From the creators of DEADLY PREMONITION + NO MORE HEROES. A marshal possessed by a murderer. A hotel full of killers. CHECK IN, WIPE ‘EM OUT.
Out Now | Demo Available
In Axe Ghost you cleverly push monsters around a grid and blow them up in turn-based spatial combat. Take on the Daily Challenge and face off against the loathsome Garnemar!
CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator
Out Now | Demo Available
CraftCraft is a story-based RPG merchant sim with hands on crafting! Create a pretty necklace for a mermaid or a sword made of dragon blood! Be a Moth or an Elf or a Cat and express your creativity in your cozy crafting studio and change the lives of locals in the mysterious port town of Windspell.
Out Now
Journey through an epic storyline, collecting creatures to aid you in turn-based battles, avoiding traps and solving puzzles, completing thrilling quests, and uncovering the darker history of Pyli Kingdom in this RPG with a unique modern take on a classic beloved genre.
Out Now | Demo Available
A wholesome, cosy shopkeeping game with no time pressure! Uncover & clean trinkets then upcycle them to sell to endless colourful & quirky customers. Spend your savings to upgrade your shop, buy better tools, plus expand and customise your space.
Choose your new buddy and set off on a Critter adventure on Holon Island! Capture Critters by fulfilling their conditions and master time based battles by interrupting your opponent’s turns. Assemble your team to challenge the Islands Clubs and gain new buddy abilities to explore further.
Demo Available
The tactical bullet hell game. Play as misfit aliens, craft wild combinations between hundreds of weapons, items, and abilities, and disable uncharted chronospheres: Colossal structures that consume time and distort reality.
Prelude Dark Pain is a Tactical RPG set in a dark fantasy world. Assume the role of a local blacksmith named Soren, lead an uprising against the Order of the Ashen Crusade and save a world ravaged by war.
Light Odyssey is an action packed Boss-Rush Action where you explore the ruins of an ancient fallen civilization, challenge the Colossus, and fight to restore light to the world.
Manage your own discount supermarket! Get caught up in small-town drama, organize and plan your shop’s layout, and strike lucrative trade deals as you expand your secretive aunt’s business empire. Selling more frozen fries will surely heal this broken community…right?
Unleash adorable chaos, solve puzzles, and leave your mark (literally!) as a mischievous dog.
Demo Available
Rue Valley is a narrative RPG about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must rise from the depths, delving into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.
The Wildest character-driven tactical strategy game you’ve ever seen! Build your team and maintain their relationships in the war against organized crime. Uncover the conspiracy in the animal-populated city of Clawville, and find the mastermind behind its downfall!
Demo Available
Cozy idle cafe management that keeps you company while you work. Grow fresh ingredients, cook, and serve delicious food to adorable animal customers. Build your dream cafe that sits at the bottom of your screen.
Demo Available
Plan the train route for the world’s spookiest theme park! Transport monsters to their destinations — but don’t let them bite the passengers or you’ll have a grave problem.
Demo Available
«The Guardian of Nature» is a hand-drawn, size-changing adventure. Embark on a magical journey with botanist Henry, use your size-changing ability to explore nature in big and small and solve solarpunk puzzles to put nature back in order.
Scourge of the Reptiles is a party-based tactical RPG set in a prehistoric fantasy world. When a meteor strikes the Earth, humans, elves and dinosaurs alike are gifted with magical abilities—abilities that result in war, devastation and forces that stretch far beyond the hero’s quiet home village.
Help Hoshino revive the forgotten summer festival! Turn strangers into neighbors by surfing the NeighborNet, playing minigames, and uncovering some slightly interesting secrets. What kind of quirky people live in Hoshino’s neighborhood? Ho ho… only one way to find out!
Demo Available
Manage and customize your little fantasy village, make your adventurers happy with cute and varied shops and decorate their environment as you please. After all, you are the master of the game !
Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts
Run your manuscript workshop, receive orders to illustrate medieval books, decorate them any way you like, send them back to clients to get paid, and unlock new jobs, decorations, and items. Welcome to your very own medieval scriptorium!
Innkeep is an immersive job simulator with a mischievous twist. Run a lonely house in a lawless land. Serve ale. Cook ‘creatively’. Rob your guests. Uncover an arcane secret that may shake the world to its foundations…
Demo Available
In the cute cardboard world, something went horribly wrong… Use the magical pencil, a good old shotgun, and various other weapons as well as the strength of your mighty boots, to uncover the dark truth and find out WHY WOULD CARDBOARD… BLEED?
Demo Available
A story-rich gothic RPG. Master the rituals of an ancient spellbook. Raise an undead army to march against your enemies. Commune with the realm of the dead & struggle with your descent into madness. Progress through secrecy, diplomacy, blackmail, coercion & seduction until ready to reveal yourself.
Demo Available
You are an intern trapped in an endless office hell. Fight your way through demonic coworkers, get promoted, and find a way to escape this cursed skyscraper.
Demo Available
A relaxing idle fishing game that waits for you at the bottom of your screen. CATCH fish, BUY upgrades, COMPLETE your collection, and DISPLAY them in your aquarium.
Demo Available
JETRUNNER is a parkour FPS, with cel shaded, comic like visuals, and a gameplay loop that can be best described as Trackmania meets Titanfall. Rich, expressive movement, and tight gunplay is what JETRUNNER is all about.
Demo Available
Rescue the scared little Ragamuffins from the human world and clean up all evidence of their existence. Mop stains, burn poop, and get rewarded with high tech gear and upgrades. Save enough, and you can even expand your home, decorate it, and live happily ever after with your fluffy little friends!
Coming June 16, 2025 | Demo Available
Cast n Chill is a cozy idle fishing game where you explore serene lakes, rivers, and oceans. Catch rare fish, upgrade your gear and reel in legendary catches – with your loyal pup by your side.
Leap into Frogreign! Join frog prince Rill in this amphibious adventure where your tongue is your grappling hook!
Exark is an engine builder about building a city aboard a gigantic ark-ship. Construct buildings, staff them with crew members, and maximise your ark’s resource production by exploiting powerful synergies. Lead your Great House to safety at the rim of the world.
Demo Available
Play as five heroes in this musical pacifist RPG taking place in a 2D alternative version of the world where some friendly angels and a very shy god conduct balance and harmony together.
As a musician in the 1980s, create music for early video games. Make your own sounds and melodies from scratch, or use pre-composed patterns. Play games, upgrade the music app, meet programmers, editors and musicians, find your next music job, in the crazy decade that started the digital revolution.
Become the all-powerful Gunboat God in this fluid shoot ’em up. Carve the waves as you stylishly fight hordes of monsters in hundreds of quick-fire missions. Transform your Gunboat and upgrade your weapons, skills and abilities to take on giant, challenging, multi-stage bosses!
Coming June 26
Relive your childhood and turn every crosswalk, curb, and puddle into an epic adventure with this urban walking simulator.
Demo Available
Design and expand your boardwalk by building rides, shops, and restaurants to draw in crowds. Manage and combine your attractions to create even grander experiences. Host festivals, attract VIPs and stay ahead of shifting demand influenced by local events and rival businesses.
Demo Available
Organize, decorate, align, and stack items in cozy environments, just like those TikTok videos. Cozy Organizer is a cute wholesome sandbox organizing game, where stress melts away one tidy shelf at a time! Enjoy stacking perfect pantries and designing dream closets with relaxing tunes.
Demo Available
This idle RPG adventure is based on the “Pomodoro Technique.” Complete focused work sessions to advance your character’s exploration. To reclaim the Goddess’s Hourglass and restore peace, the hero must defeat the evil dragon “Procrastination” and its minions. The world’s fate is in your hands!
Demo Available
1000 Deaths is a gravity-bending 3D platformer where your choices matter. What you choose defines the game’s levels, mechanics, and story. Dash through platforming hubs and decide your character’s fate while exploring surreal worlds. Speedrun, or don’t!
Galactic Diner is a cooking-themed RPG full of minigame mayhem. Explore a planet full of friends, food, and mysteries, and cook your way to the top of the galaxy!
Demo Available
Defeat monster hordes alongside your Bean Beasts in this cute, challenging Tower Defense Game! Evolve your companions, explore upgrade paths for traps and take on epic boss battles!
Demo Available
Become a master hacker in this Cyberpunk Roguelike Deckbuilder. Explore the dangers of cyberspace and fight evil corporations. Build and upgrade a deck of powerful programs. Unlock perks and skills, and unleash digital hell on your enemies. Dive Into The Grid!
Demo Available
Cabbie!® is an epic high-speed adventure where you boost, drift and jump your way to victory in a frantic race against the clock, for one to four players.
Demo Available
Tongue-swing, free climb, and build your own path forward in a new kind of 3D platformer! Plant veggie bounce pads, tightropes, hookshots, and much more. Find a way home through huge Desert, Ocean, and Mountain worlds and collect bugs, upgrade your backpack, and meet animal friends along the way.
Demo Available
A visual novel/roguelike hybrid where a simple mission spirals into a cannibalistic odyssey. You’ll struggle as a fragile human, blood-soaked knight, or flesh-devouring Forsaker. Devour or be devoured—yet your fate dangles by unseen strings. Choose: cling to this broken world… or forsake it.
Sanatorium – A Mental Asylum Simulator
Demo Available
The year is 1923. The lines between modern psychiatric treatments and pseudoscience are still vague. Enter the Sanatorium to diagnose and treat your patients. Struggle with moral decisions and society’s expectations – but tread carefully, as your supervisors may discover… that you are an impostor.
Demo Available
Embark on a challenging pilgrimage across a mystical world – using your powers of Astral Projection – in this beautiful heartfelt epic.
Demo Available
Zoominoes is a roguelike deckbuilder. Play animal tiles, feed them powerup snacks, and boost them with souvenirs from the gift shop. Score massive points using crazy combos!
Relax on a park bench, find hidden objects, solve quirky puzzles, and fend off pesky pigeons in this charming, interactive adventure. Enjoy beautifully stylized, colorful levels keeping you entertained!
Demo Available
Lost in the kingdom of the white beast, will you find your way out? The Perfect Pencil is a story-driven action platformer that throws you into the innermost depths of the human mind. Navigate surreal worlds punctuated by bizzare personalities, tense boss battles and secrets. She’s waiting for you.
They Speak From The Abyss: Zenith
Demo Available
A dungeon crawler RPG inspired by the classics. Travel through the realm of despair and head towards the Zenith point. In the distance lies the mighty mansion Melancholia. Will you only find glory, agony, or freedom? (Zenith is a standalone prequel to They Speak From The Abyss)
Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi is a fantasy adventure game where a sword–wielding Guardian and an arcane Monk must learn to work together to defeat the Void corrupting their home. Explore ruined temples, solve environmental puzzles, rescue spirits, and defeat giant Void monsters!
Demo Available
Riddlewood Manor is a point & click adventure set in a haunted house that will try to kill you each step of your way. Overcome eerie puzzles to uncover a maze of mysterious rooms filled with dark secrets, spooky encounters, and hidden pathways. Optional jump scare warning is available.
Virtual Cottage 2 motivates and supports you in tackling your daily tasks. Use its built-in productivity tool to accomplish your goals faster. Create your ultimate cozy space with a wide range of different furniture.
This game is hard-boiled. Face the challenge of being a real, fragile egg. Escape the hen-house and jump, roll and climb your way through a farm shop, factory and other perilous environments. With some determination, you might just reach your freedom.
Demo Available
Play a fast paced game of 1v1 baseball where your parents wouldn’t let you. Break windows for home runs, smash toys and other house hold items, and avoid all the destruction while playing an arcade style baseball game.
Demo Available
Sacrifice creates stories in this medieval roguelike deckbuilder. Watch your cards march to glory or permanent death as they battle toward the enemy. Each fallen hero becomes part of your kingdom’s legend. Command wisely… some sacrifices are necessary.
A third-person exploration-action game built around the philosophical theme, “No Creation Without Destruction.” Rather than destroying objects by shooting, your shots materialize and create the world.
Abra-Cooking-Dabra is a cooking card game. Manage ingredients and make British dishes to keep toves, borogoves, and mome raths fed. Meet timers and fulfill puzzling orders despite the angry wacky Cat being your boss. You are Wonderland’s new chef.
Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved
Demo Available
A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch? Nobody on board remembers her ever existing in the first place – nobody, except for you. Uncover the story in this detective ADV/visual novel!
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.
Prize Denied! Manage a claw machine arcade in this cozy management sim. Build challenging claw machines and play surprising cards to stop players from getting a prize! Earn money to unlock new arcades, collect cards, upgrade machines, and become the best arcade in the…UNIVERSE!
Demo Available
A roguelike memory deckbuilder where you bend the rules of card matching with wild combos, strategy-defining items and cards featuring some personality-packed cats.
Demo Available
A grimdark survival horror about a nun in a space suit. Scavenge amongst drifting space cathedrals, balance your faith with survival, and craft the tools of your salvation.
Demo Available
Pilot an oil-drilling submarine while taking instructions from a mysterious voice. You better meet your quota or they will cut your oxygen.
Demo Available
Clown Meat is a Precision Platformer with an emphasis on speedrunning and replayability. Tumble through a butchered world where humanity is barely a memory on your naïve journey to cheer up the monolithic clown that came from the Depths of Jupiter.
Demo Available
Vice: Magic City Mayhem is a retro action-adventure game where you fight, collect new items, and upgrade your character as you make your way through bustling nightclubs, scenic beaches, and raptor-infested yachts.
Lil Gator Game: In The Dark DLC
In this charming DLC you’ll find that new adventures and friends are just beneath the surface—literally! Get ready to “cave in” to the fun and find that you’re stalag-right where you belong!
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