Games That Interested Me During Summer Game Fest Day 3
Ñ3 2025, Xbox Direct, PC Gaming Show, and RPG Direct
Yesterday was so jampacked *wipes sweat*. 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.
Ñ3 2025
Embark on the most iconic and cozy adventures from the classic novel “Don Quixote of La Mancha”. In a handcrafted, colorful puppet world, you’ll battle windmills, be knighted, will solve puzzles with Don Quijote and Sancho and fight for the love of your beloved Dulcinea.
Go on a mission to save the teddy home. “Unicorn Wars” is a handcrafted action-platform video game, with characters and environments based on Alberto Vazquez’s film. Honour, pain and cuddles!
Take care of your kittens, decorate their space, play with them…. It’s all about kittens! The ultimate cat experience awaits you!
Escape from your own house, in which you have been locked up. But be careful, you will not be alone in your captivity. Immerse yourself in this first-person horror adventure, full of family secrets and betrayals. And find out who and why they locked you up.
Demo Available
ODDLI is a casual puzzle game about creating satisfying loops. Solve moving puzzles where the only obstacle is your past self. Reach the goal with your character, avoid your previous movements and watch it repeat your path. Continue reaching goals, while creating mesmerizing choreographies!
Demo Available
Turn your desktop into an aquarium! Fish, collect, earn, and decorate your aquarium. Suizokukan Project makes for the perfect companion while you do menial work in your computer.
In this narrative roguelike you will have to survive a post-apocalyptic world from your cabin. Choose well who you let into your home, manage the available resources, and look for the best strategy to go ahead at the end of the world. Survive with your team, or die along the way.
I really wished this had a different name. There’s three other games named “Stay” (one of which I actually reviewed on Save or Quit) and so many titles that include “Stay” in their full title. Anyway, this reminded me of the book (and the book series) Life As We Knew It, but instead of the moon being knocked closer to Earth it exploded it.
In a distant future humanity is enslaved in a simulation. Now that you are awake, can you escape from reality too?
Detective Jodie follows the trail of Madeline to the enigmatic Ravenwood Hotel, a place full of secrets. Solve puzzles, manage a classic inventory, and face deadly enemies and bosses. Explore side missions to gain combat advantages. Every corner brings you closer to the truth.
Demo Available
Our algorithm has chosen you for inclusion in the DECRYPTO project. Your job is simple: we send encrypted texts, you decipher them. Loyalty and diligence will be rewarded with upgrades and customization options for your system. Disobedience and sabotage will be punished.
In Detective Firefly, your job is to solve cases by meticulously filling in the report with the locations and actions of all suspects at the time of the murder. Interrogate all witnesses, search for evidence, and form hypotheses to uncover the identity of the criminal and bring them to justice.
This doesn’t seem to have much information about it yet, but it’s a zombie horror game.
You’ve just died—and your trial for the ultimate sin begins. City of Dolorosa is an interactive fiction and first-person exploration game with handmade india ink graphics. Meet the Five Great Powers and uncover all the secrets that lie within Dolorosa, the cruelest city in Hell.
Dark Mass is a fully underwater horror game. Explore the ruins of a sunken manor and flee from a curse trapped within for centuries. Your choices will decide if you escape or join the lost souls of the abyss.
Demo Available
A BL Bara Romantic Comedy Visual Novel
Demo Available
Imagine waking up trapped in an abandoned motel. When you manage to get out of the room, a phone rings in the distance… In this point & click adventure game in 3D, you will have to use your wit to solve puzzles and find out what happened.
Demo Available
PANIK is a puzzle game where you have to guide different characters to the goal. But remember: Don’t panic!
Explore the mystical sanctuary of the Old Well and reconnect with your childhood friends while solving audio-driven puzzles. Meet quirky animals, unravel forgotten tales and immerse yourself in an interactive soundscape as you piece together your place in the world.
Falling Stars and Other Celestial Objects
Demo Available
Design the perfect automated defense system for the city in this physics-based game. Destroy the falling celestial objects with turrets, fire, lightning, portals, and more! Each level will challenge your ingenuity and creativity.
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.
Xbox Direct
Coming October 29, 2025
The Outer Worlds 2 is the sequel to the award-winning first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment.
I’m not jazzed about this being $80 (thanks Nintendo), but I haven’t even finished The Outer Wilds 1 yet so yeah by the time I do it’ll probably be on sale. Well, that’s assuming I end up liking the first game enough to want to play the sequel.
In post-apocalyptic Japan, humanity’s last hope may rest with Emma and her loyal canine companion, Koo. Explore what it means to be human in Beast of Reincarnation, an expansive one-person, one-dog action RPG built around demanding, technical combat. What awaits at journey’s end?
Embark on a grand adventure in the steampunk metropolis of Avalon, wielding an incredible invention that allows you to travel into the past and influence key events, altering the course of history.
Cronos: The New Dawn is a pulse-pounding, third-person survival horror game where time is your deadliest weapon — and your worst enemy. Survive a brutal future, dive back in time, and stop nightmarish creatures from merging into unstoppable abominations.
Stranded on a frozen planet, astronaut Ariane must brave rugged landscapes and shifting realities to rescue her wounded partner, Thomas. This action-packed sci-fi adventure blends exploration, traversal, and tense stealth gameplay.
There Are No Ghosts at the Grand
Inherit a crumbling English hotel and restore it by day—while battling ghosts by night. With a sardonic cat, a talking power tool, and a twisting supernatural plot, this is a musical mystery unlike any other. Will you be able to hold it together while everything around you falls apart?
Omg. I love it already.
In the not-too-distant future, the divided nations of South and North Korea are on the verge of reunification. On the day when the historic bill was set to pass, a mystery terrorist group attacks the South Korean National Assembly, throwing the entire nation into chaos. Sent to uncover the truth, a North Korean soldier stumbles upon a K-Pop star and is given a new mission: protect the girl who can unravel it all.
Solo Leveling: Arise Overdrive
Webtoon with 14.3 billion views will make its first appearance as an action RPG! Game On A Whole New Level, Solo Leveling:ARISE
As a Pathfinder, you’ll begin your journey in Idyll, a dynamic, interactive and expansive open world! There, you can collect, evolve, and twine with magical creatures called Aniimo. Get ready to explore uncharted landscapes and mysterious dungeons, battle in real-time PvE and PvP combat, solve ancient puzzles, and master a truly dynamic gameplay experience.
At Fate’s End is an action-adventure game where you fight the ones you love and your skill tree is your family tree. Explore a lush fantasy world, defeat the foul creatures of the realm, and face your estranged siblings in intense, emotional duels to decide your family’s fate.
A coming of age story that sets the protagonist and his friends on a journey kickstarted by a chain of serial murders.
Honestly, I love Persona 4 Golden so much and content with it, so I probably won’t get this, but I know there are people that won’t play Golden because “it looks too old”.
Coming October 17, 2025
From Lee Petty and Double Fine Productions, Keeper is a story told without words, in which a long-forgotten lighthouse is awakened and, joined by a spirited seabird, it embarks upon a heartening tale of unlikely companionship, and an unexpected journey into realms beyond understanding.
PC Gaming Show
Demo Available
You are Dalia, a deep-space disaster specialist dispatched to the rings of Saturn. You’ll lay victims to rest, clean up alien fungus, and research its strange origins. Adapt to survive, cleanse the contamination, and escape the crisis.
From the creators of Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley comes a heartwarming new adventure inspired by the beloved Moomin stories by Tove Jansson. This time, join Moomintroll himself on a charming but cold winter journey.
Coming August 20, 2025 in Early Access
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.
Out Now in Early Access | 1.0 Release in August
Sprint on the walls with a unique 2D movement, flowing seamlessly into fast-paced acrobatic combat as you tear through an army invading your capital city, in this action-platformer roguelite installment in the Prince of Persia series.
Demo Available
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
Demo Available for Steam Next Fest
You are aboard humanity’s first and final generation ship, a last-chance expedition now teetering on the rim of collapse. One step at a time you must rebuild society and the ship’s fragile ecosystems — using only what you brought with you — in this turn-based narrative city-builder.
Demo Available
WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.
It looks like the original itchio version has been expanded upon! Makes me even more excited to check out the game to see what’s been added.
You are the last of the Mandrakes, a sorcerous line of gardeners. At long last, you’ve returned to your family’s abandoned home. Make friends, tend your gardens, and put down roots. Fish, gather and delve in the wilds. Make a place for yourself, and uncover the mysteries your family left behind.
Oh man, a non Fallen London game from Failbetter Games? Sign me up.
Coming August 25, 2025 in Early Access | Demo Available
Pizza Bandit is a unique blend of “cooking” and “shooting,” adding extra spice to the third-person shooter. In this mission-based 4-player co-op third-person shooter, you embody a wannabe chef utilizing his ex-mercenary skills to fund his dream pizza restaurant.
Save humanity. Sail across a vast ocean in this first-person survival shooter. Craft, explore, and battle rogue machines. An atmospheric, open-world adventure where every discovery and upgrade brings you closer to humanity’s rebirth.
Garbage Country is a post-apocalyptic exploration sim from the creator of Cloud Gardens and Kingdom: New Lands. Drive across a handcrafted wasteland. Repel waves of enemy bots in tense tower-defense battles. Upgrade your car to travel further into the forgotten world buried under the dust.
Coming August in Early Access | Demo Available
You wake up with an explosive headache in a pool of your own blood. You’re Exit, a terrible woman whose awful past has finally caught up to her. Fulfill contracts for the people who drilled into your skull — guns-blazing, slow and tactical — it doesn’t matter. They know you’ll do whatever it takes.
Coming December 8, 2025 in Early Access
You live and then you die. But at least do it in a nice house! Paralives is an upcoming life simulation game. Build your dream house, create some characters and manage their lives the way you want!
Sign Up for the Playtest on Steam Now
Every move you make is being followed by a Colossal Policeman. Piss him off, flatter, disappoint and lie or even romance a Giant to escape in this kafkaesque immersive-sim.
A roguelike deckbuilder with a delicious twist. Think like a master chef, balancing resources as you strategically combo ingredients to subdue hungry hordes. Recruit a legendary kitchen crew, and rise through the heroic cooking guilds—before The Hunger consumes us all!
Omg. These devs found out a way to get me to play a deckbuilder card game: make it about cooking.
Fraud Layer Coming Soon
ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultraviolent retro FPS combining the skill-based style scoring from character action games with unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the ’90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weapons and shower in their blood to regain your health.
Demo Available
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.
Coming July 23 | Demo Available
Dive into Wheel World as Kat, a rider chosen by ancient cycling spirits. Race elite teams, trick out your bike, and perform the long overdue Great Shift ritual to save a universe on the brink! Your bike is your destiny.
Blippo+ is a live-action, off-cable TV simulator. Channel-surf the stars and discover the staticky, radical world of Planet Blip through its soaps, sitcoms, news, weather, and talk shows. But don’t touch that remote—everything’s about to get bent.
Wander a castle built of bitter memories in LOVE ETERNAL, a psychological horror platformer with devious trials and an unsettling, experimental narrative. Find a way out – or live in Shelter forever more.
Grave Seasons is a narrative farming sim with a terrifying twist – someone in the town is a supernatural serial killer. Farm, romance, and investigate your way through the unsettling town of Ashenridge.
Coming August in Early Access
Eyes of Hellfire is a co-op gothic horror game. Hoist the candelabra and, along with your friends, step into the darkened halls of the Hellfire Club.
Coming Summer 2025 | Demo Available
A rogue-lite slot machine nightmare. Gamble for your life in a never-ending debt simulator!
Coming Fall 2025
Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.
Coming February 10, 2026
An endless Cat Breeding RPG from the creator of The Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy!
Coming September 2025
Trapped in a terrifying death-loop, surgeon Cole Mason is kidnapped and brought to an underwater facility, forced to operate on a patient to extract an evolving parasitic horror. Dead Reset is a blood-soaked interactive horror, where each death brings you closer to the truth.
Omg a horror FMV
A sci-fi exploration sim for people who like to wander. Get lost in an alien city, hang out with locals, see some sights. There’s no goal but to stroll. Where will your feet take you?
RPG Direct 2025
Demo Coming Late 2025
In this ART-PG, walk through watercolor paintings, fight in real-time projectile battles, solve puzzles with shadows, meet friends with creative talents in worlds themed by artistic mediums, and discover a story about how we experience art… and how art experiences us.
Tuscany has been obliterated by Thunder Goober for his own entertainment! Play as Lambypoo and adventure through the broken land of Tuscany, either making friends and having them join your team or defeating enemies for their EXP in your efforts to save your cousins and reunite Tuscany.
Dreamed Away is an emotional action-adventure RPG with psychological horror elements. Play as Théo, a boy lost in a dark, mysterious world. Explore a unique reality, duel against darkness in a unique, fast paced combat system and mind your choices.
Out Now
Starstruck: Hands of Time is a story-rich rhythm adventure game where you play guitar and abuse time travel! Control a giant hand destroying a miniature town, or play as the two guitarist kids living in it. For extra fun, optionally plug in a Guitar Hero controller!
Out Now
You’re Anemo, a field researcher for the Space Archives! Your assignment is to travel to the Formless Star and gather data on the animals that live there. Each time you step out of your spaceship, the land will change. A new world just for you! Discover 60 different alien creatures, all with with unique behaviours and descriptions.
Demo Available
Order up! Join Mornin’ Jo and D’Caff, the mischievous mixologist duo, on their daily grind as baristas in Suburb City! Keep a healthy work/fight balance as you serve customers and take down the dastardly cronies of T.E.A. Inc in Turn-Based combat in this zany Action RPG!
Explore the underground, customize your party, fight clogs and uncover secrets in this turn based RPG about the lives of funny looking plumbers.
Out Now in Early Access
Oddventure is a lore-rich turn-based crazy RPG set in a cursed fairytale world. Fight your inner demons and reach for the spark of hope, or stare directly into the abyss.
Yo! Rock paper scissors, rock paper scissors, rock paper scissors! It’s an RPG about rock paper scissors! Go on a wacky adventure full of personal growth and rock and paper and also scissors to figure the dark secrets behind a Christmas murder, smart guy.
Demo Available
A genre-bending RPG inspired by the classic Paper Mario games! When a greedy megacorp from the real world starts taking over fairytales for their cheap labor, a newly-hired storybook hero must climb the corporate ladder, rally together other disgruntled employees, and fight back!
Demo Available
A game about discovering who you are! Use VIOLENT interactive attacks, Engage in friendly DIPLOMATIC conversations, or do literally NOTHING to survive! Make a choice, and go back to the ABYSS! A game by Levc.
A new RPG from splendidland appears out of nowhere! In “FRANKEN”, a hero fights monsters to become stronger so they can save the world.
Detective Patch is an adorable 2D turn-based RPG where you solve mysteries and interrogate enemies. Battle menacing foes, meet quirky characters, and solve the mystery of the stolen ruby.
Demo Available
In this RPG, wake up as a fresh familiar on the mean streets of Wish City, where the denizens are dark and corruption is king. Fight, flee, and aggressively rap your way through a vibrant inner city gauntlet, chock full of dysfunctional demons, in flashy, over the top, turn-based battles.
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