Summer Game Fest 2025 is upon us! It’s one of the busiest times of the year for gaming news, reveals, and world premieres.
Across a multitude of showcases and digital events, the gaming industry showcases what it’s been working on, and we get all hot and bothered (and not just because of the weather).
Inherently, there’s probably too much for any one (or sane) person to keep on top of. So that’s where we come in…
Summer Game Fest 2025
There are 12 showcases taking place over the weekend of 6 – 8 June, as well as some non-Summer Game Fest showcases taking place before and after, making for 18 events in total!! With 100s of games expected to be shown, we’ve pulled together the rundown with times of each show below.
We’ll be writing up summaries of each showcase, with every announcement, reveal, and trailer included. So bookmark this page and head back here as your Summer Game Fest 2025 hub to make sure you don’t miss a thing!
List of showcase (links will be added for Showcase Summaries when they’re available):
- TinyBuild Connect (27 May)
- Thinky Direct (29 May)
- Indie Quest (29 May)
- The Horror Game Awards Summer Showcase (31 May)
- Best Indie Games Summer Showcase 2025 (3 June)
- The MIX Summer Game Showcase (3 June)
- State of Unreal (3 June)
- Shacknews E4 2025 Indie Showcase (4 June)
- PlayStation State of Play (4 June)
- Access-Ability Summer Showcase (6 June)
- Summer Game Fest (6 June)
- Day of the Devs (6 June)
- Devolver Digital Direct – Ball X Pit (6 June)
- IO Interactive Showcase (6 June)
- Wholesome Direct (7 June)
- Women-Led Games Showcase (7 June)
- Latin American Games Showcase (7 June)
- Southeast Asian Games Showcase (7 June)
- Future Games Show Summer Showcase (7 June)
- Green Games Showcase ( 7 June)
- Frosty Games Fest (7 June)
- Xbox Games Showcase (8 June)
- The Outer Worlds 2 Direct (8 June)
- PC Gaming Show (8 June)
- Black Voices in Gaming (9 June)
- VR Developer Direct (10 June)
- The UploadVR Summer Showcase (11 June)
Schedule – Pre Summer Game Fest 2025
27 May
TinyBuild Connect, 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm GMT
Expect brand new game reveals from the Indie publisher, including a new look at highly-anticipated titles like Hello Neighbor 3 and FEROCIOUS, and the Steam Early Access release announcement for Kingmakers.
29 May
Thinky Direct, 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm GMT
Thinky Games is all about puzzle games that will get your head scratching.
Indie Quest, 4pm PT / 7pm ET / 12am GMT (30 May)
Indie Quest is the ultimate JRPG showcase. The event is promising world premieres, new gameplay trailers, and updates from the best upcoming indie JRPGs. There will be more than 40 titles shown
Watch on YouTube.
31 May
The Horror Game Awards Summer Showcase, 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7pm GMT
Promising a whopping 102 trailers and 50 world premieres. The Horror Game Awards Summer Showcase will include Blumhouse Games, Retro Space and Tenebris Somnia.
3 June
Best Indie Games Showcase, 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT
A celebration of all things indie based on the success of a popular YouTube channel. Games confirmed to appear include Hotel Barcelona, Outbound, Cattle Country (check out our review), and Ruffy and the Riverside.
Watch on YouTube.
The MIX Summer Game Showcase, 9am PT/ 12pm ET / 5pm GMT
The Guerrilla Collective is joining forces with The Media Indie Exchange (MIX) for a summer showcase.
4 June
Shacknews E4 2025 Indie Showcase, 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7pm GMT
The showcase will feature lots of new content from 15 indie devs.
PlayStation State of Play, 2pm PT / 5pm ET / 10pm GMT
Over 40 mins of the latest and upcoming games from Sony and third party devs and publishers.
Schedule – Summer Game Fest 2025
Access-Ability Summer Showcase, 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT
The Access-Ability Showcase shines a light on new and upcoming titles created by disabled game developers. It also has a focus on accessible features and titles that ensure they can be played by as many people as possible.
Summer Games Fest, 2pm PT / 5pm ET / 10pm GMT
The main event, Geoff Keighley’s big summer showcase will have a raft of world premieres and reveals.
Days of the Devs, 4pm PT / 7pm ET / 12am GMT (7 June)
Taking place straight after Summer Game Fest, this showcase, hosted by Double Fine Productions (Psychonauts) and iam8bit, showcases a treasure trove of indie games.
Watch on YouTube.
7 June
Wholesome Direct, 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT
Over 60 relaxing games will be shared at this showcase including big companies to indie devs.
Women-Led Games Showcase, 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm GMT
39 games will appear in this showcase that are all developed by women creators and teams.
Latin American Games Showcase, 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7pm GMT
Over 50 titles featured in this showcase comes from developers in Latin America. This was one of my favourite showcases from Summer Game Fest 2024.
South Asian Games Showcase, 12pm PT / 3pm ET / 8pm GMT
We move from Latin America to Southeast Asia, with over 45 titles being shown.
Future Games Show Summer Showcase, 1pm PT / 4pm ET / 9pm GMT
Join voice actors Laura Bailey (The Last of Us: Part 2) and Matt Mercer (Critical Role) to get a look at over 40 titles, including AAA and indie games. Already confirmed are Directive 8020 from Supermassive Games and an interview with developer Hangar 13 about Mafia: The Old Country.
Green Games Showcase, 1pm PT / 4pm ET / 9pm GMT
The first-ever Green Games Showcase, hosted by not-for-profit organisation PlanetPlay, will showcase games highlighting environmental issues. Confirmed to appear include Amazon Games, Team17 and Lockwood Publishing.
Watch on YouTube.
Frosty Games Fest, 4pm PT / 7pm / ET / 12am GMT (8 June) / 9am AEST (8 June) / 11am NZST (8 June)
The first showcase covering this area of the world, features games developed in Australia and New Zealand.
8 June
Xbox Games Showcase / The Outer Worlds 2 Direct, 10am PT/ 1pm ET / 6pm GMT
The annual Xbox showcase takes place following Xbox’s 2025 hot start to 2025. Can they keep the momentum going? The Xbox Showcase is followed directly with a deep dive into The Outer Worlds 2 from Obsidian.
PC Gaming Show, 12pm PT / 3pm ET / 8pm GMT
Over 50 titles will be shown during PC Gamer’s annual showcase. Ubisoft, Devolver Digital, Astra Logical and Failbetter are all confirmed to appear.
Schedule – Post Summer Game Fest 2025
11 June
The UploadVR Summer Showcase, 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm GMT
A showcase dedicated to VR gaming. Strap on your goggles and let’s see what they’ve got to show us.
Watch on YouTube.
Which showcases are you excited to check out?
