The MIX Summer Game Showcase wrapped recently. Another one of the many showcases taking place at the moment, celebrating all the new and exciting games coming to us this year, and beyond.
The MIX was created by independent game developers and game enthusiasts to help teams build relationships with press, publishers, distribution channel and platform leads and industry professionals through a variety of showcases and events. They held their first event in 2012 and have been doing online and in-person events since then.
And here we are now, in 2025, with the latest MIX Summer Showcase showing off a whole load of titles, info, and trailers, and we’ve got them all below!
The MIX Summer Showcase 2025 – 3 June 2025
Never’s End (PC, PS5)
Never’s End is a turn-based tactical RPG where you return from death into the midst of a global cataclysm. Possess townsfolk to use them as living weapons, wield the forces of nature to reshape the battlefield, and lead mankind back from the brink of extinction.
Ascend to Zero (PC)
Ascend to ZERO is a sci-fi action roguelike set in a world devastated by a monster invasion. The protagonist, known as Chrono Child, is the last surviving human. As the world collapses, she loses all her comrades and, just before her death, escapes to the future via a time machine. During this escape, she gains the mysterious power to stop time.
A demo is available now.
Becrowned (PC)
Inspired by both Silent Hill as well as classic horror cinema, BECROWNED is a surreal survival horror adventure that mixtures traditional survival horror gameplay with unique narrative direction and in-game cinematography. You follow Richard Torrance, a man of rational and unbreakable character who has lived his life in the shadow of his goals and desires. BECROWNED mixes dark fantasy horror with modern industrial settings in a surreal, David Lynch-esque manner, drawing on philosophical themes of love, family, and more. Explore locations filled with secrets. Solve puzzles, manage your resources wisely, and avoid unnecessary fights. Who knows what terrible creature might be lurking around the next corner...
Billie Bust Up (PC)
Billie Bust Up is a captivating 3D platformer that blends music, magic, and adventure in a world inspired by your favorite animated classics. Join Billie, a daring young goat, on a quest to uncover her father's legacy and reclaim a powerful magic. With her mystical axolotl mentor Aristotle and loyal pet fox Oscar, you’ll explore vibrant, whimsical realms, face off against quirky, song-slinging villains, and master incredible magical abilities.
The Last Caretaker (PC)
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.
Monsters are Coming! Rock and Road (PC)
Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defenses, and boost potential through enhanced player progression. Will you reach the Arch?
Dead Finger Dice (PC)
Play a sinister game of poker against blood-thirsty demon billionaires who've trapped you on their mega yacht. Meet the characters and check out the Dead Finger Dice: A Billionaire Killing Game trailer for this upcoming rogue-like dice builder game.
Neon Inferno (PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series)
Taking inspiration from classic titles like Contra and Wild Guns, NEON INFERNO splits the action into the foreground and background. It features a variety of enemies and bosses in levels set in a dystopian New York City in 2055.
Flick Shot Rogues (PC)
Plan, Aim, Shoot! FLICK SHOT ROGUES blends the tactile satisfaction of flicking stuff across a table with the strategic depth of your favourite turnbased roguelikes. Chain together ridiculous combos, unlock characters with unique abilities, items and skills, and conquer the island!
A demo is available now.
Airframe Ultra (PC)
Airframe Ultra is a fast-paced battle-racer where you compete with friends and foes in split-screen and online multiplayer. You can thrash with pipes, chains and plasma torches or leave them in the dust with boosts and pure white-knuckle cunning. Whatever it takes to win. So load up, make your racer, and settle things like a legend on the cracked asphalt streets of Megacity West!
Absolum (PC)
Crafted with passion by the dream team that redefined side-scrolling beat ’em ups, Absolum mixes top-of-the-class combat action with modern roguelite elements, bringing all the vibes of the fantasy arcade hits of the past into an immersive adventure set in the original world of Talamh.
Elusive (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series)
The Elusives are tiny creatures that inhabit our homes, hiding from us and borrowing whatever they need. Humans are so big and clumsy that they do not perceive the world full of adventure and resources that extends before their feet.
Elusive raiders venture into homes to find precious resources to help the community thrive, but they're also the most careful not to be captured by animals and other huge creatures.
Regions of Ruin: Runegate (PC)
All that remains of the once-glorious dwarven civilization is dust, scattered exiles, and monster-infested landscapes. In Regions of Ruin: Runegate, embark on an explorative RPG hack-and-slash adventure as a lone dwarf attempting to re-establish a haven for your dwarven kin – and delve into the mysteries of their forebears.
Dragon is Dead (PC)
Dragon is Dead is a hack-and-slash, roguelite action platformer. It offers tons of customization fun with different character skill trees and legendary equipment. Overcome repeated deaths to defeat Guernian, the leader of the Dark Dragons.
V.E.D.A (PC)
A souls roguelike developed by Tripearl Games. Players will experience the conflict between V.E.D.A, an AI supercomputer created to help humanity survive climate change and pandemics, and a hacker group called ‘Daybreak Destroyers’. through a deep narrative about human evolution and survival.
A demo is to release in August 2025.
Nectarmancer (PC)
In Nectarmancer, play as Aisa, the most recent and probably final Nectarmancer for THE THRONE. Perform death defying acrobatic combat in gardening dungeons, use seeds as ammo or plant them into the ground as ammo factories, build a planet scale computer out of your plants and use it to perform illegal research to make yourself stronger. Pretend to do your job, bringing the bare minimum of Nectar to your bosses while funneling the rest to your secret conspiracy. Above all else, outlive your job or die trying.
Mechanimals (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series)
Gear up for mayhem: From the animators behind Kung Fu Panda and The Mario Movie, MechAnimals is an upcoming Action Roguelite featuring cute tiny animal MECH PILOTS!
A demo is available now.
Little Nemo and the Guardians of Slumberland (PC)
In Little Nemo and the Guardians of Slumberland, explore a dream world as the iconic Little Nemo, armed with toys, candy, and stuffed animals. Experience NES-era platformer gameplay in a vast, non-linear world that has been hand-animated frame-by-frame, as you unlock new abilities to progress.
Lost Castle 2 (PC)
“Lost Castle 2” is a 2D Beat’em up Rogue-Lite game. Explore abundant treasures and items to enhance yourself, master various weapons to showcase your skills, and challenge powerful monsters to demonstrate your strength. A new adventure is calling for treasure hunters!
Autonomica (PC, PS5, Xbox Series)
You play as a senior logistical engineer traveling with your father, a cargo airplane pilot, on his final cargo run before a planned vacation. When your airplane is caught in a mysterious storm and crashes on a remote island, your father vanishes without a trace. In the aftermath, you discover that your crash damaged crucial automated farming structures essential to local communities.
Feeling responsible, you use your engineering skills to rebuild thriving ecosystems and restore self-sufficiency, working closely with residents to overcome challenges. Gameplay in Autonomica centers around creating and expanding your own farm from the ground up.
Dragon Lands (PC)
Dragon Lands is an incremental game about creature collection, farming, crafting and automation! Gather and manage resources, expand your lands and upgrade your skills. Collect Dragons to automate your production. Join in this adventure and explore a vibrant world!
Na No Mon (PC)
Nanomon are tiny, virtual pets who hang out in the corner of your screen. Train, explore, discover, and play with your Nanomon so they can evolve into the perfect companion! Only the best, most attentive trainers will help their Nanomon achieve their life goal!
It releases on 24June 2025.
Relic Guardian (PC)
“Relic Guardian” is a fantasy style strategy tower defense game. As the builder on the battlefield, summon a variety of defense towers and spells with reliable hero companions to complete this epic and guarding adventure!
A demo is available now.
Ritual of Raven (PC, Switch)
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.
It releases on 7 August 2025.
Craftlings (PC)
Craftlings are as diligent as they are hapless, and it’s up to your keen strategic mind and refined sense of resource management to channel these creatures’ focused energy into something productive and prevent them from plunging off the nearest cliff in their attempt to build their settlement
Critterupters (PC)
Critter Chips are the hottest new augmented reality game and this summer the game’s creator is offering a special prize to those who can conquer the Critter Club Challenge. Join Alfa on a journey to Holon Island where you’ll choose either Hangolin, Wallablaze or Aguatto to be your buddy and set off to win this once in a lifetime competition. Each buddy will learn abilities to help you navigate the island as you search out the clubs, tough trainers and areas to scan for new Critters to download.
Opus Prism Peak (PC)
Opus: Prism Peak is a narrative-driven adventure game where you play a weary photographer who finds himself caught outside of reality. Using your old camera, you'll explore an ethereal realm and its ties to the world you left behind, uncover its mysteries, and ultimately find your way home.
Spirit of the North 2 (PC, PS5, Xbox Series)
Watch the Development Deep Dive Trailer for Spirit Of The North 2, an adventure exploration game developed by Infuse Studio. Players can get a behind-the-scenes look at how the team upgraded the iconic original with modern mechanics, enhanced visuals, and expanded lore. Includes side-by-side comparisons, developer commentary, and insights into reimagining a classic for a new generation.
Temtem Swarm (PC)
Check out the Endless Inferno Update Release Date Trailer for Temtem: Swarm, a action bullet-hell creature collecting game developed by Crema and GG Tech. Get a glimpse at what’s in store for the upcoming Patch 0.7 packed with a whole new map, new playable Temtem, an Endless Mode, and so much more.
The latest update launches on 17 June 2025.
Big Hops (PC)
BIG HOPS is a fresh and froggy action platformer where you'll tongue-swing, free climb, and plant veggies to build paths forward. You play as Hop, a young frog kidnapped from his home by a mysterious spirit named Diss. To get back to your family, you'll need to gather Airship Parts scattered across the Red Desert, Open Ocean, and Shattered Mountain"”all while getting roped into Diss's strange, important job.
A demo is available on PC.
Popucom (PC)
Venture together with your friends on an unknown planet. Use color switching, match-3 shooting, and artifact powers to overcome challenges and keep advancing. What lies ahead of you is an adventure filled with wonder, hope, and much more to discover!
Football Heores League (Android, iOS, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series)
Football Heroes League is a high-octane multiplayer soccer game where superhuman abilities meet precise controls. A real person controls every player on the pitch, creating dynamic matches blending tactics with spectacular special moves. Master the intuitive third-person control system to aim shots, thread perfect passes, and unleash mind-blowing character abilities that defy physics. Team up with friends, show off your skills, and climb the ranks to become a legendary Soccer God!
It releases on console and mobile on 23 September 2025.
A Gentlemanly Dispute (PC)
Be the last gentleman standing in this slapstick physics-based party brawler! Fling your own ragdoll as a weapon to knock around and throw enemy players. Stack insane perks and wield preposterous items to cause maximum chaos. Anything it takes to prove yourself the most gentlemanly of them all!
A demo is available now.
Bakudo (PC)
In BAKUDO, you'll enroll at Akatsuki Academy"”a high-tech school where students train in the art of battle ball to face off against colossal, world-threatening threats. This is no ordinary gym class: every match is a high-stakes showdown blending slick sci-fi visuals, explosive ball-based combat, and fast-paced boss rush action.
Customize your playstyle, master insane power shots, and uncover the secrets buried deep within the academy's halls. Suit up, step onto the court, and get ready to fight for your future"”because at Akatsuki, graduation could mean saving the world.
Light Odyssey (PC)
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.
Beat Down City Survivors (PC)
Beatdown City Survivors is a tense and exhilarating immersive sandbox survive-em-up that knocks the genre on its head! The city is a nightmarish playground of interactive elements, including gas to ignite, puddles to electrify, and cars to blow up. Find dozens of weapons, including pipes, pigeons, boots, and combine them to make bigger, better and funnier weapons! You’ll need to make your ultimate build and manipulate every element possible to wipe out the gruesome zombies, mutants and blood- thirsty creatures lurking in the streets.
Troublemaker 2 Beyond Dream (PC)
Teenagers, Dreams, and Drugs. Unveil the secrets of South Jayakarta city, set two years after the ending of the original Troublemaker. The journey of the "Parakacuk" gang continues alongside the "Beyond Dream" band in South Jayakarta city in this fun open-world action-comedy beat-’em-up game.
Army Moves Overdrive (“All Modern Devices”)
Army Moves Overdrive is a new side-scrolling installment in the ARMY MOVES series, from the Dunwich Studio team, which redefines the classic run & gun saga with a spectacular, exciting and challenging military adventure.
Scrubbin’ Trubble (PC)
Scrubbin’ Trubble is a cooperative roguelike where you go solo or team up with up to four players in local or online multiplayer to slash, smash, and scrub your way through dangerously dirty stages. Use strategy and teamwork to clean up Nasties, and take down the Four Filths of the Apocalypse.
Pathologic 3 (PC)
Save a town from a mysterious plague in this narrative first-person RPG. Learn the stories of its unusual inhabitants. Shape their lives with your decrees. Diagnose patients. Face the Plague. Connect the dots. Find out who killed the immortal man. Correct your mistakes in the past.
Silly X Polly Beast (PC)
Embrace your inner demon or be consumed by it. Silly Polly Beast is the story of 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?
Motorslice (PC)
It was meant to just be a regular job for “P,” but things are never that simple. Parkour through the ruins of a megastructure, climb massive bosses, and hunt down every piece of construction equipment in this anime parkour slice of life action-adventure with immaculate vibes. Inspired by the Prince of Persia and Mirror’s Edge series, traverse brutalist landscapes in this slice of life action-adventure game! You must use your skills and agility to find your way in this desolated place.
A.I.L.A (PC)
A.I.L.A is a first-person horror game set in a near-future filled with immersive technology. Play as the sole game tester for a revolutionary new fictional AI. Survive intense horror experiences that prey on your deepest fears as the lines between virtual and reality begin to blur...
Revelation of Decay (PC)
Revelation of Decay is a multiplayer co-op top-down zombie survival game in pixel art style. Scavenge, craft, recruit NPC followers, and build your base in a crumbling open world. Then take on monstrous bosses in intense, bullet-filled battles.
Toxic Crusaders (PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series)
The Toxic Crusaders return for an all-new, all-action beat ’em up for one to four players! Grab your mop, tutu and attitude, and get ready to clean up the mean streets of Tromaville, one radioactive goon at a time!
Captain Wayne (PC)
Captain Wayne is an intense, fast-action Retro Shooter about a sailor with a SHOTGUN for an ARM!! With a cartoony, hand-drawn art style and gory gameplay, you’ll have to mow down enemies through 8 action-packed locales to take back what’s yours.
Moros Protocol (PC)
Moros Protocol is a sci-fi FPS roguelite set aboard a haunting, pixel-painted battleship stranded in space and overrun by darkness, monsters, and gore. Check out the latest Moros Protocol trailer to see gameplay and more. In Moros Protocol, fight to survive and uncover the secrets of a failed deep-space experiment; every run is a desperate battle against the unknown… and doom itself.
Athanasia (PC)
Explore a mysterious facility and use everything you have to survive. Use an arsenal of equipment and your wits against time traveling predators from the past.
A demo is available now.
Holy Shoot (PC)
In Holy Shoot, the player embarks on a journey as a member of The Sanctum. The ultimate goal is to defeat the powerful demons that represent the Seven Deadly Sins. Each character, is granted unique abilities and traits that make them valuable assets in the fight against demonic forces.
Shrine’s Legacy (PC)
Shrine’s Legacy is a SNES-era inspired, 16-bit RPG set in the magical world of Ardemia. Follow a pair of heroes as they try to unite the elements of magic, restore the Sword of Shrine, and save the world in both single player and co-op action.
A demo is available now.
Nocturne (PC)
The afterlife is now digital. Discover that eternal life comes with sacrifice in a genre-defying RPG with unique rhythm combat.
It’s releasing in March 2026.
Esoteric Ebb (PC)
ESOTERIC EBB is a single-player CRPG inspired by the freedom of tabletop adventures. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Become a cleric of legends or completely ruin the campaign.
Off (PC, Switch)
"I'm the Batter. I've been entrusted with a sacred mission." — One of the most influential RPGs of the last 20 years is finally coming to Steam. Take control of the Batter as he seeks to purify an uncanny and hopeless world haunted by specters, guided by a cryptic, grinning cat called The Judge.
Lord Ambermaze (PC)
Lord Ambermaze is an adventure RPG with a turn-based combat system and time manipulation mechanics - only your steps can force the flow of time to move. Delve into the depths of the underworld to challenge the evil Lord and restore time.
It releases on 14 August 2025.
Wild Tactics (PC)
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!
Star Vaders (PC)
It’s time to pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion. Get another look at gameplay, characters, and more from StarVaders in this launch trailer for the game featuring a fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. In StarVaders, discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity.
Death Howl (PC)
Journey through the sorrowful spirit world in a soulslike deck builder. Craft cards and claim powerful totems to defeat the woeful spirits lurking in the mystical lands. Unravel the tale of a grieving mother in her desperate attempt to defy death and bring back her son.
A demo will launch on 9 June 2025.
Dark Cards of Candlewood (PC)
Candlewood is a solo collectible card game with the soul of a classic JRPG. Embark on replayable dungeon runs with deceptively deep, two-choice card combat. Draft items for your backpack, master chain attacks, and even crack a few card packs…then save the world from eternal darkness!
That was all the announcements from the MIX Summer Showcase 2025! What did you think? What was your favourite reveal?
Don't forget to wishlist any games that catch your eye, it really helps out the developers!
There are many more showcases coming up over the next couple of weeks, and the GSC team will be doing its best to cover as many as we can. Be sure to check back for more news from the upcoming Summer Games Fest, the Xbox Showcase, and more!
