Missed the Second Wind Spring 2026 Games Showcase? Check out our summary article for all the reveals, trailers and world premieres!
The very first Second Wind Games Showcase has taken place, bringin two hours of trailers, announcements and world premieres from across the globe.
If you want to watch the full showcase, check out the video below, if not, read on to see all the individual titles with their trailers.
Second Wind Spring 2026 Games Showcase – 23 April 2026
Wherever possible, we have included all known platforms, demo and release information and up to date trailers.
Luna Abyss (PC, PS5, Xbox Series)
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.
Hull Rupture (PC)
Discover Hull Rupture, the new base-building tower defense roguelike from Konfa Games, the studio behind Despotism 3K, Slime 3k and Despot’s Game. Manage resources, modules, and human lives to keep the ship moving at all costs.
Inkblood (PC)
You’re an Inquisitor on a wild mystery chase. Reality and people’s minds are rotted by wicked sorcery. Find the truth, steel the righteous rule of Inquisition. This investigation is now your responsibility. Do not fail like your predecessor.
Kook (PC)
A fast-paced, Quake-like retro FPS in a Victorian era steampunk setting with Lovecraftian monsters, distorted time and gravity, and crazy weapons.
Cutout Village (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series)
Cutout Village is a narrative, cozy, city-builder game in which you will have to build villages using simple and unique mechanics: cutting, folding and gluing. Restore the family home, revive your village and create spaces filled with fruit trees and histories to live!
Voidling Bound (PC)
Hatch, evolve, and upgrade powerful space creatures in this action-packed sci-fi 3rd person shooter that reinvents the monster taming genre!
It releases on 9 June 2026. A demo is currently available.
Littlelands (PC)
The Littlelands region is brimming with strange characters and magical landscapes to discover if you know where to look, for a big-headed little youngster like you every moment exploring, growing berries, searching for buried treasures or walking through these lands can be an epic adventure.
A demo will be available in May.
Montabi (PC)
Tame, collect, fight! Assemble an unstoppable team of unique Montabi. Master their awesome abilities, synergize their strategic strengths and save the city in tactical turn-based combat!
A demo is available now.
Liminal Point (PC, PS5, Xbox Series)
Classic Survival Horror. Drawn to Ashen Point by a cryptic voicemail, Lyra returns to the island where her band’s story ended in tragedy. Shrouded in fog and prowled by horrors, confront deadly creatures, explore the desolate town, and reveal the truth behind the night that changed everything.
Map Map: A Game About Maps (PC)
In this cozy single player game, you explore wondrous landscapes to find a legendary lost treasure. In your search for clues, you travel from island to island and set up camp with your crew of adventurers. They task you with finding different places in the surrounding landscape. Explore the island, find the locations you are looking for and pinpoint them on your map. Complete quests for your companions and follow the trace of the hidden treasure.
A demo is available now.
Tyr (PC)
Tyr is a tank shooter where strategy beats twitch reflexes. Pilot heavy-armored vehicles with unique capabilities and upgrade them as you battle for victory with your team.
Below the Stone (PC)
Below the Stone is an extraction roguelike about dwarves on the quest for the deepest depths. A place where each and every descent will lead to new adventures — and where only the most determined dwarves with many lost lives will be rewarded by the hidden world lying below the stone.
Prison of Husks (PC)
PRISON OF HUSKS is a nostalgic souls-like set in a painted afterlife. Awaken as a doll and seek your beloved. From parries to pistols, tune your build to overcome adversity. Explore dense, interconnected levels full of secrets and shortcuts as you battle pigment-hoarding bosses and seek your lost love.
A demo is available now.
Beards Go Underground (PC)
The Mining Deckbuilder. Craft a deck of bombs and pickaxes to mine the mountains. Place down your card-arsenal and unleash a screen-shaking chain reaction that pays out in a juicy explosion of gold.
Punk (PC)
Punk is an open world bullet hell action roguelike. Fight vicious creatures, explore diverse biomes, hone your movement skills, manage resources, tinker with weapons and gadgets to upgrade your tiny ship until you become the apex predator of this strange, alien world.
Truckful (PC)
Truckful is a single player car delivery adventure game based around completing errands and quests for villagers and uncovering the ancient mystery that surrounds the nearby old forest.
Please, Watch the Artwork (Android, iOS, PC, Switch)
Night surveillance at the museum but the paintings are alive. Watch, listen and report all changes. A lonely clown roams the canvases. Deceptive. Weird. Melancholic. Relaxing? No jump scares or monsters, but the game can feel oppressive at times.
Pizza Pocalyspe 2 (PC)
Use your pizza to bounce, swing and dash in this 3D platformer! Explore different countries, and put a stop to the greedy corporation ruining Pizza!
Glass House (PC)
Glasshouse is an isometric Turn-Based-CRPG set in a post-capitalist Feudalpunk world at the dawn of a terrible world war. Inspired by RPGs such as Disco Elysium and Pathologic, Glasshouse promises an intense narrative-roleplaying experience punctuated by unforgettable characters, complex dialogue trees, multiple endings and deep ideological introspections that go beyond the screen.
Guns ‘n Goblins (PC)
Face a deluge of monsters in this incremental horde survivor FPS. Build your Bastion, level up your character, and upgrade your arsenal to rise from Apprentice Bell Ringer to Master Dragon Hunter.
Monomoon (PC)
MONOMOON is a tiny game about exploration and discovery. With no proper instructions, you must deduce and achieve your goals as you solve puzzles, find mysterious items, and uncover secrets hiding right under your nose.
Slash Zero (PC, PS5)
SlashZero is a 3D anime-style roguelike action platformer. In this game, you can unleash flashy moves, dive into thrilling combat and customize endless builds to suit your playstyle. Fight, power up, collect items and uncover the hidden truth beneath this stunning cyberpunk world!
Hark the Ghoul (PC)
Step into the dark world of Hark the Ghoul in this extended gameplay trailer for the upcoming dungeon crawler. The latest Hark the Ghoul trailer showcases its strange enemies and inhabitants, gear, weapons, and features that enhance exploration and combat.
A demo is available now.
Last Night Last Call (PC, Switch)
Can you solve a murder with nothing but your wits, your cocktail shaker, and your silver tongue? Check out the Last Night Last Call announcement trailer for this upcoming mystery visual novel. In this Last Night Last Call, your customers are the key. So long as the liquor flows, so does the conversation – but who has the answers you seek, and who has blood on their hands?
Aether & Iron (PC)
Aether & Iron is a fully-voiced narrative RPG where your decisions shape the story. You play as Gia, a down on her luck smuggler whose last job ended badly. Recruit a rag-tag crew of allies. Customize your fleet of flying vehicles for turn-based tactical combat. Restore your reputation, defeat corrupt leaders, and save a floating New York City bent on tearing itself apart.
It is available now.
Celestay Craft&Slowlife (PC)
CELESTAY is a calm idle building game where you fish for materials and grow your home toward the sky. In a world sunk beneath the sea, you stack pieces of a house and spend quiet days fishing and watching the stars. The higher you build, the more constellations and memories fill your world.
Cards & Cannons (PC)
Build epic realms to churn through unimaginable enemy hordes in this roguelite tower defense deckbuilder! Collect shiny loot, stack up mighty spells, and develop crazy synergies as you defeat powerful bosses and conquer world after world. You call the shots in this colorful medieval madness. Your deck. Your strategy. Your chaos. How far can you push it? Gigabrain tactics? Glorious failure? Doesn’t matter – run it back!
Forbidden Solitaire (PC)
Forbidden Solitaire is a card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed. From the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline.
It releases on 30 April 2026. A demo is available.
13Z: The Zodiac Trials (PC)
Go solo or team up with up to three friends in online co-op for this fast-paced, anime-inspired action roguelike. Master stylish hack and slash combat, craft overpowered builds, and conquer mythological trials to claim the title of the thirteenth Zodiac.
Into the Fire (PC)
Race an exploding volcano in this high-risk extraction survival. Rescue survivors, manage scarce resources, survive fire anomalies, and carve escape routes through ash and lava. Bring them back alive, before the island buries you.
Echobreaker (PC)
A lightning-fast precision speedrunner where you pilot an armoured rig that can manipulate time itself. Every second matters, and going faster means risking everything.
A demo is available now.
Dark Scrolls (PC, Switch)
Dark Scrolls is a fantasy-themed action platformer that fuses shmup-style chaos with roguelite progression and is packed with charm, challenge, and secrets.
HR: Human Remains (PC)
In a broken world ruled by demons, the gears of productivity still turn. Complete tasks, solve puzzles, and explore a society under demonic regime from the perspective of an ordinary office clerk.
Greeting from El Rey (PC)
Step into the shoes of Satrapo, a paranoid detective, and join the obsessive hunt for the mysterious R. Solve puzzles, survive the bosses, and navigate the sealed city through a rotating 2D perspective.
Band of Crusaders (PC)
Band of Crusaders is a dark medieval strategy RPG in which you become Grandmaster of a knightly order and lead it against a demonic invasion of Europe. Craft your sandbox adventure – explore a vast simulated world, recruit crusaders, grow your camp, and face demons & human foes in real-time combat.
A demo is available now.
Chasm Shift (PC)
A 2D pixelated platformer journey through a mysterious and vast maze of puzzle box dungeons. Solve puzzle-infused platforming challenges and uncover new abilities as you plunge into an atmospheric adventure.
Berry Bury Berry (Consoles) – already available on PC
A juicy first-person incremental game about growing berries and tossing them down an ominous hole. Earn money and upgrades. Make new friends with sentient berry pals. Grow and control the hole as you unearth why nobody leaves this accursed garden. Bury it all, Berry everything.
Fright Train (PC)
Fight through a train overtaken by monsters and survive Antarctica’s cold as paranormal special agent Doug Barker in this chilling single-player third-person survival horror roguelite.
A demo is available now.
Forge of the Fae (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series)
Forge of the Fae is a story-rich pixel RPG inspired by Celtic folklore. Journey through a mysterious world, master the ARC Crystal System to unleash powerful magic, and face dangerous Fae in fast-paced, turn-based battles where your choices shape destiny.
It’s releasing in 2027.
Animal Use Protocol
In this first-person, narrative-focused survival horror, you play as Penn, a hyper-intelligent chimpanzee. Hunted at every turn, your only chance of survival lies in scavenging, crafting, and exploring Anchorage Station. An epic story awaits. Be quick and quiet. Time is running out…
Husk Protocol (PC)
ATTENTION! HUSK PROTOCOL INITIATED! Prepare to engage in a challenging deck-driven mecha game. Synergise between powerful Husks, utilise a dynamic deck and avoid detection from the city’s mainframe as you infiltrate the machine-driven brutopolis of Aeterna. Sponsored by Fireshine Games
Couch Planes (PC)
Race the skies to glory in Couch Planes, an airborne party game where the craftiest pilot wins. Tight flying meets over-the-top fun in this fast-paced joyride. Whether you’re dodging missiles with friends on the couch or gunning for the leaderboard glory online, you’ll feel the thrill of being an arcade stick jockey. Zip through hazard-filled maps, collecting race-changing power-ups, on your way towards the finish line.
Fly solo, squad up, or turn game night into a friendly competition to see who is master of the skies. Couch Planes supports local 4-player split-screen and up to 12 players online, with support for mixing local and online pilots. Take it casual or get sweaty and dominate with precision flying. Either way, it’s all systems go.
Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator (PC)
IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator is a brutal dieselpunk heavy-artillery simulator where you dominate the battlefield through a colossal war machine. Every lever, every dial, and every shot is under your control. High Command may send its orders, but the chain of command ends at your fingertips. They don’t carry consequences. You do, Operator.
Lucid (PC)
Discover your own legend in LUCID. Platform through a crystalline world torn apart by calamity, absorb powerful abilities that expand movement and enhance combat against a diverse cast of enemies and bosses, all in gorgeous pixel art inspired by the golden age of 2D sidescrollers.
A demo is available now.
Prelude: Dark Pain (PC)
Assume the role of Soren, an retired warrior, now living as a blacksmith, who will mark the steps of a great revolution following an attack on his family. Assemble a roster of heroes, build out your squad to face any scenario, learn how their skills interact for even greater strategic synergy and master the battlefield.
Soundgrass (PC)
You find yourself on a planet where plants emit sound, and an alien civilization is harvesting those sounds. You can interact and control plant species using your Sphere of Sound and your Sphere of Light. Each different species brings you a different sound mechanic.
SOUNDGRASS builds a story about life, death, duality, eternity and consciousness, all from a musical perspective. Explore a planet filled with puzzles and hidden secrets, transverse biomes with different types of jumps and jetpack modes, manage your suit’s resources to survive, and slowly uncover the mystery behind this world as you talk to your personal AI.
Toxic Crusaders (PC, 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!
Compress Space (PC)
Compress(space) is a mind and space-bending puzzle game where you fold space to cheat your way through puzzles. Master space manipulation and reach beyond the stars to uncover the mystery at the end of the universe.
A demo is available now.
Stormforge (PC)
Stormforge is a cooperative survival experience that supports up to 8 players, and is set in a world overrun by magical storms. Each storm presents unique dangers such as: tornadoes that fling rocks, trees, and enemies into the air; dust storms that reduce visibility and damage the player.
Nocturnal II (PC)
Ignite your sword and explore the dark depths and towering heights of a forgotten island that consumed itself long ago.
A demo is available now.
Mini Tank Mayhem (PC)
Mini Tank Mayhem is a roguelike deck-building tower defense game where you command a powerful mini-tank to repel waves of alien invaders. Craft your very own deck, deploy strategic defenses, and unleash devastating combos to protect Earth from pesky aliens!
The releases on 29 April 2026.
Horticular (Switch) – already available on PC
Horticular is a relaxing garden builder where you grow plants, design habitats and attract a wide range of wildlife. Help the gnome Keepers restore a barren wasteland with magical powers and populate it with adorable critters. Reclaim nature from a looming corruption and create your perfect garden.
It releases on Switch on 30 April 2026.
I Am Ripper (PC)
I AM RIPPER is a British Thriller set in the brutality and economic decline of the 1980’s. You are a forensic investigator called on to solve one of the UK’s most prolific crimes.
Horripilant (Consoles) – already available on PC
KILL YOUR GOD. BECOME WORTHY. Horripilant is a chilling idle incremental dungeon crawl through the horrors of a forgotten underworld.
Don’t Let It Starve (PC)
A horror roguelike deckbuilder. You’re trapped in a kitchen, forced to feed a half-chef monster that crawls through the vents. Don’t let it starve.
Charming Hill (PC)
Charming Hill is a small experimental game where creating beautiful paintings feels easy and natural. No artistic skills are needed; it’s a space to relax, paint, and discover a heartwarming story, or better yet, paint your own.
Distant Shore: Bretagne (PC)
Explore the ruins of a former research site, devastated by climate collapse. Wield magnetic gauntlets to move, bend, or break metal as you recover lost BIO2 data and uncover your brother’s trail — all while evading the Cloud, a sentient weather entity that watches your every move
A demo is available now.
Starstruck Vagabond (PC, PS5, Xbox Series)
A space captain accidentally freezes themselves for two thousand years, finding themselves in an unfamiliar galaxy. Fortunately, there’s always someone who needs cargo delivered.
Ghost Vanguard (PC)
Descend into evil dungeons in this trailer for the upcoming roguelike, beat’em up game. In Ghost Vanguard, play as a warrior resurrected by the gods. Grab your sword and uncover the truth behind a dark god’s dominion.
Vexlands (PC)
Vexlands is a cozy yet adventurous survival crafting game where every discovery opens the door to something new. Explore a world made of mysterious, ever-expanding cells, gather resources, and build your perfect village—solo or with a friend in cozy couch co-op.
A demo is available now.
Hellcard II (PC)
Hellcard II, the sequel to the critically acclaimed co-op deckbuilding roguelite. Building on the chaotic, tactical combat that made the original a smash hit, Hellcard II leans even further into the RPG aspect of the crawl. A living, breathing storybook where every run is a story impacting future playthroughs.
BPM Bitcrushed (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series)
BPM Bitcrushed is a retro roguelite where every shot, dodge, and jump must sync to the beat. Battle through dungeons where enemies attack in time with the music. Find epic loot and even import your own songs to create a custom, rhythm-fuelled soundtrack for your destruction.
The Melty Way (PC)
You move, you melt. You are a liquid-simulated slime where every move costs you a piece of yourself. Spend your mass to slide, shrink, and dash through pixel-perfect hazards in this challenging precision platformer where size management is critical and your only resource is your own body.
Cleaner Company (PC)
In Cleaner Company, as an elite member of the Star Wipers crew, strap on your cleaning tools and gear up for a grisly cleanup of horror hotspots across the galaxy. From eerie space stations, to ruined restaurants and ominous undiscovered planets, Star Wipers are sent in to clean up the mess when things go wrong. And in the far reaches of space, business is booming…
Play together with friends in up to 4 player online co-op, embarking on interstellar expeditions to mop up monstrous messes, tackle challenges, and collect resources to upgrade your cleaning equipment.
Mexican Ninja (PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series)
Become the Mexican Ninja and fight to take back Nuevo Tokyo, where Narcos and Yakuzas have fused into the ruthless Narkuzas. Master slick combos, unleash outrageous Mexican Jutsus and craft deadly builds in this fast, chaotic 2.5D roguelike beat ’em up.
Let’s Build a Dungeon (PC, Xbox Series)
Manage a game studio making the world’s greatest MMORPG. Hire designers, coders, and testers, create a fantasy world, then welcome hundreds of virtual players. If they get bored they will cancel their subscription and your investors will have your head. You can even play the game you create.
A demo is available on Steam.
As We Descend (PC)
As We Descend is a roguelike deckbuilder with the soul of a strategy game. Find salvation for the last City of humankind, and descend all the way to the core.
It’s available now in Early Access.
Castlebound (PC, Switch)
Fight hordes of evil monsters and defend your castle in this 1-4 player action platformer with Roguelike elements!
A demo is available now.
Hellbridge (PC)
Defend the last bridge to the living world in a relentless siege from Hell. Survive escalating waves, draft powerful spells, grow stronger with every run, and enter cursed gates to stop the invasion at its source.
Polyarmory (PC)
The world’s only fully-loaded conspiracy theorist gun-nut dating simulation. As the prepper, take the mysterious pill Caliber™ to awaken an arsenal of alluring companions and fight against the dark forces determined to tear you apart!
It’s available now, and free to play.
After Hell Freezes Over (PC)
After Hell Freezes Over takes you into a frozen wasteland where hell itself has frozen over. In this open-world survival horror, the cold kills as surely as the nightmares lurking in the darkness.
Echo Generation 2 (PC, Xbox Series)
You are Jack, an ordinary dad on an extraordinary mission, who’s been trapped in a mysterious new dimension. Lost among the stars, you set out on a journey to find a way home, armed with your wits, your crew, and a killer deck of cards.
Build powerful decks, summon quirky allies, and face off against cosmic creatures in a mix of turn-based combat, deckbuilding strategy, and sci-fi adventure.
It releases on 27 May 2026. It will be available day one on Xbox Game Pass.
SacriFire (PC)
SacriFire is an upcoming RPG boasting a unique combat system, elaborate pixel art, and music by genre legend Motoi Sakuraba. Ezekiel Ridan, a young priest, struggles to keep his faith as the world he loves is threatened by a war between gods and demons. The adventure begins!
Exorcist Hotline (PC)
The world is full of ghosts. So who you gonna call? The Exorcist Hotline! A multiplayer investigative survival horror puzzle game for up to 4 players. One operator. Three exorcists. And a demon. Work together or die trying.
Surf Punk (PC)
Surfpunk is a 1-4 player co-op “Surf ‘n Slash” featuring radical surfer-pirates, procedurally-generated islands, awesome loot and endless swarms of monsters. Surf, Shred, Scavenge, Repeat! Use your high-speed “Rushboard” to hop between islands and tow your loot barge around procedurally generated tropical islands. Choose from multiple objective types, where each one has you exploring and looting while managing increasing pressure from enemies.
A demo is available now.
Starfinder Afterlight (PC)
Starfinder: Afterlight is a party-based RPG that brings Paizo’s beloved science-fantasy universe to life. Battle across the Pact Worlds, lead a legendary crew where your choices shape their destiny, and well, save the galaxy while you’re at it!
Far Far West (PC)
Yee-haw, Cowboys! Team up in this chaotic 1-4 player co-op shooter. Journey to the Far Far West to blast monsters, sling spells, complete missions, and collect bounties. Work as a team to get in, get paid and get out (mostly) alive.
It releases into Early Access on 28 April 2026.
The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest (PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series)
The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest (TASQ) is a parody/homage platformer set in a dark 8-bit world. Your vampire-hunting rival robbed you of fame by killing Count Dracula first! Reclaim your glory by resurrecting Dracula piece by piece and slaying the dark count yourself!
Hmur (PC, PS5, Xbox Series)
HMUR is a high-speed retro first-person shooter that combines the hardcore action of Hotline Miami, the high-tech Soviet setting of Atomic Heart, and Dusk’s intense gunplay. Every move is your chance to survive, every stop is a ticket to oblivion.
One life, endless attempts. When you die, you learn to be more precise, faster, and more careful. The stakes are high – a single hit can bring death to either you or the enemy. Take advantage of all your mobility in order to become part of this endless dance with death.
A demo is releasing in September 2026.
Bits & Bops (PC)
Experience a delightful collection of original rhythm mini-games bursting with catchy tunes, snappy controls, and hand-drawn animations that brighten every session. Groove through vibrant challenges with precise beats and charming visuals, perfect for quick cozy play sessions full of joy and rhythm mastery.
Moonlighter 2 (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series)
Live the double life of a fearless adventurer and a crafty merchant! Dive into vibrant dimensions brimming with shiny loot and pesky enemies. Grow your shop, tinker with weapons and gadgets, as well as make your mark among a ragtag community of castaways.
Don’t Fall (PC)
Climb. Dodge traps. Don’t fall. Help each other… or sabotage your friends.
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.
Shatter Rush (PC)
ShatterRush is a multiplayer parkour FPS where fluid movement meets massive mechs in fully destructible levels. Wallrun, grapple, and smash through cover to outplay your foes in kinetic, high-speed combat as the map changes with every fight.
Hearth and Hamlet (PC)
Start with a tent, assign a worker, and watch a kingdom grow. Hearth and Hamlet mixes cozy pixel art with addictive incremental citybuilding and a dash of policy-led chaos.
Perfect Tides Station to Station (Switch) – already available on PC
A narrative adventure about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara’s eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex relationships while attempting to find your place in the world.
It releases on Switch on 14 May 2026.
Mad Metal (PC)
Mad Metal is a vehicle combat roguelite set in a dying America. Customize your vehicle, master precision car-to-car combat, and fight through dynamic arenas as a broken cop races to rescue his daughter and stop an AI-driven apocalypse.
A demo is available now.
Derelikt (PC)
Play like it’s 1999! DERELIKT is a narrative retro FPS inspired by Alien Resurrection, Doom 3 and System Shock 2, with a dash of lovecraftian cosmic horror.
Knuckle Paradise (PC)
A pixel-powered, combo-packed character action game starring Jane (a retired boxer) and her sidekick, Cocotte (a warrior… chicken?). Fight everybody. Learn combos from a pirate. Fight harder. Level up your chicken. Find your kidnappers. Teach them a lesson.
And that’s everything from the very first Second Wind Spring 2026 Games Showcase! Anything catch you eye?
