Is this the official start of summer showcase season? The Six One Indie Showcase 2026 is first out of the gate with 90 mins of games!
We’ve collated all the announcements, trailers, demo reveals and “WORLD PREMIERES” into one place. You can watch the full show below, or you can scroll on and see each individual game announced (in the order they were announced).
Check out the full showcase here:
Six One Indie Showcase 2026 – 21 May 2026
Where possible we have included all known platforms, demo availability, release date and most recent trailer (this may not be the one shown at the showcase).
Pre-Show
The Big Con (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series)
Hustle your way across ‘90s America as a runaway teen con artist. Choose how to make your scratch as you don disguises, pick pockets, and rip people off in this comedic crime-filled adventure. Experience the totally rad ’90s in all its plaid and payphone glory!
Limited Run Games are putting out phyiscal editions of the game for PS5 and Switch.
Well Keeper (PC)
A bullet hell roguelite where you move by flapping. Battle waves of enemies, upgrade unique and unexpected abilities and become immensely powerful!
A demo is available now. The game is out now.
Hypnos (PC)
HYPNOS is a first-person adventure and exploration game, set in a lovecraftian megastructure fever dream. Enter the Nameless City at the edge of Dreams. Follow the trail into the shadow of the Holy Mountain. Embrace your destiny.
Early access began on 6 May 2026.
Wax Heads (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series)
Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues – whatever gets everyone’s groove back!
It is available now.
Spirit Swap (Switch) – already available on PC, Xbox Series
Cast spells, be queer, and crash the biggest concert of the year! Spirit Swap is an action-puzzle meets narrative game set in a lush world of witchy demons.
Now available on Switch.
Main Show
Blue Ridge Hunting (PC)
Blue Ridge Hunting is a co-op horror game set in the Appalachian Mountains. Solo or with friends, investigate, document, and hunt cryptids based on real sightings, legends, and eerie phenomena from the region. Are you brave enough to uncover the truth?
A demo is available now.
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!
Feather’s Edge (PC)
Dash and slash through an innovative kinetic metroidvania. The Tower of Time awaits – a rich, handcrafted world fractured by the collapse of time. Slice through foes in tough-as-talons bite-sized battles, and master the way of the bird warrior.
Aikyam (PC, PS5, Xbox Series)
Dazzle the hearts of disgruntled villagers with extravagant turn-based battles and rally them against demons in this Bollywood-inspired fantasy RPG!
A demo is available now.
Twins of Olus (PC)
18 years ago, the invasion began. Thousands were hunted, captured and possessed. Now your training is complete and it’s time to dive into exhilarating battles against your corrupted foes.
In Twins of Olus, you take control of Lions, an orphaned Uthran native and his spectral partner Creo as they emerge from years of hiding after an otherworldly force invaded their homeland. Players will master the art of dual combat, seamlessly switching between characters as they battle their way through hordes of creatures, solve puzzles, collect power ups and meet plenty of quirky allies along the way.
By exploring a beautifully crafted world filled with secrets and challenges through fast paced traversal – coupled with a little creative thinking – only you can uncover the intent and identity of the nefarious force pillaging Lions’ home world.
A demo is available now.
Sonnet (PC)
Transport a magical flower across scenic lands, encounter strange travelers, and uncover the kingdom’s secrets in this sprawling medieval roadtrip.
The Well’s Blessing (PC)
Explore the mystical sanctuary of the Old Well and reconnect with your childhood friends in The Well’s Blessing, a first-person exploration and puzzle game from Barcelona-based art collective BIG STRETCH.
A demo releases on 3 June 2026.
Hips N Noses (PC)
HIPS N’ NOSES is a café management simulation! In a sleepless world, Mela is the only one who dreams. She runs a café that restores lost memories. Serve guests by day, battle in nightmares by night to collect the memory flower, customize your café, and become the most renowned owner!
RollerGirl (PC)
Choose your own vibe in this slice-of-life adventure. While exploring a small town on rollerblades, use your MP3 player to set the mood for your summer. Run errands for quirky neighbours, get entangled in local drama and stumble into a teenage romance.
Death Pong (PC)
A brutal beer pong game where losers are getting electrocuted. A skill-based challenge set in an underground bar full of illegal, deadly matches. You step into a place where no one plays for fun. A metal collar tightens around your neck, audience whispers, and every throw can end in victory… or voltage. Here, there are no losers – only dead bodies.
A demo is available now.
Midnight Horde (PC)
Leap, slash, and soar through gothic ruins in Midnight Horde, a high-mobility auto shooter where parkour meets reverse bullet hell. Battle through swarms of monstrosities, upgrade deadly weapons, and build strongholds to push back the creeping dark.
A demo is available now.
Vale’s Echo (PC)
Death isn’t the end – it’s your last chance. Solve haunting puzzles and make choices that matter as you guide Vale across the underworld. Will regret follow her into eternity?
A demo is available now.
Abide (PC)
ABIDE is a psychological first person horror game using prosthetic gore effects, stop motion and dolls scanned into 3D models. A peaceful retreat where people go to get better. A place for people to air their demons.
Sucker for Love: Crush Landing (PC)
Put the ‘love’ in ‘Lovecraftian horror!’ Take another look at Sucker for Love: Crush Landing in this trailer for the upcoming horror-comedy visual novel. When a captivating comet named Hheily crashes into your apartment, you are drawn into an interplanetary conflict between light and dark. Feed Hheily’s fire to save the world in this horror-comedy visual novel… and maybe even win a smooch!
Mayak (PC)
Mayak is a 2D adventure with visual novel scenes. Today, another signal came in from the star Beta of the Fox. A new prime number: 3557. Smaller than the last one—3559. No doubt: they’re intelligent. No doubt: it’s a countdown. Hard sci-fi, grounded in modern scientific concepts // Hand-painted art: impressionism + noir // Warm melodic synths // No choices. One strong ending.
Deep Pixel Melancholy (PC)
Deep Pixel Melancholy is a visual novel about being stuck in a time loop inside a gray, soulless city. Unravel the mystery, and decide whether escaping is really worth it.
A demo is available now.
Rain98 (PC)
Rain98: A lo-fi psycho-thriller romance adventure set in ’90s Tokyo. In a chill but dark apartment room, you’re joined by Reina Amehara (VA: Rio Tsuchiya), a girl with a mysterious and somewhat dangerous charm to her. Together, you decide you have to perform a strange ritual… to save the world from destruction.
MÖRK BORG Heresy Supreme (PC)
A desperate attempt to endure the coming Apocalypse in a cursed, unjust dark fantasy world, made only to appease a vain god. Combat is brutal, choices are lethal, and survival is a temporary insult to fate. A flail to the face.
It’s out now in Early Access.
Black Jacket (PC)
Gamble your way out of hell in this blackjack-inspired rogue-lite deck builder. Play powerful card combos or cheat to outwit your opponents and earn your freedom. Win their Soul coins! Bribe the ferryman! And uncover the story of those who stand in your way.
It’s available now.
Blocks for Babies (PC)
Blocks for Babies is a block-stacking boomer shooter where every kill shapes the game board. Arrange falling tiles into complete lines, or go in guns blazing to clean up the board the messy way. Hard and soft drops aren’t your only tools anymore—now you have a shotgun.
A demo is available now.
Kaz (PC)
Dopamine-fueled minimalist grid-based game that pushes the boundaries of psychedelic visuals and fast reaction time. KAZ is an action roguelike arcade game where choice of items, buffs, and maluses allows you to unlock cool visuals and themes while showing everybody your skill on the leaderboards.
A demo is available now.
Ourlands (PC)
Ourlands is a cozy island builder where you handcraft and play around in bespoke little lands and truly explore your creativity. No goals, no management, just vibes.
It releases on 2 June 2026. A demo is available now.
Treetopians (PC)
Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.
A demo is available now.
Go North (PC, Switch, Xbox Series)
Welcome to Go North, a heartfelt adventure filled with cozy mazes, unusual side quests, and memorable friends.
Forklift Flowerpot: Botanical Investigator (PC)
An exploration game about knowledge and discovery. Change between seasons, investigate plants, and discover secrets about the world to stop an ecological disaster.
A demo is available now.
Mouseward (PC)
Mouseward is a soulslike collectathon where you awaken as a Royal Mouse Guard in a cursed kingdom. Take up your sword, master precise combat, and battle dangerous foes across a fallen world. Search for celestial fragments, uncover hidden secrets, and restore a once-great kingdom to its former glory in a challenging action adventure inspired by soulslike gameplay.
A demo is available now.
Graytail (PC)
A Pacific island where a legendary female pilot has vanished. Her daughter and a detective pursue clues to her disappearance amid threats from mutants roaming the forest. Mysterious phone calls, forgotten medications… The closer they get to her, the more the island’s mysteries slowly unfold.
A demo is available now.
Isle of Reveries (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series)
Make a pilgrimage skybound to the Isle of Reveries, where any wish can be granted. Conquer mysterious dungeons, solve puzzles, and explore a vast overworld in this retro-inspired adventure.
A demo is available on PC.
Please Insert Disc (PC)
From the creators of Home Safety Hotline, Please Insert Disc is an upcoming puzzle horror game set in 2002 about navigating the underbelly of your game console to restore its functionality – but waking something in the process.
Lunr.Rdio.Taxi (PC)
lunr.rdio.taxi blends drifting and rhythm into an exhilarating spacetime ‘DRIFTHM’ adventure! Slide and boost your way through the solar system to the beat of Brazil’s best DJs and earn big as an interplanetary taxi pilot trying to pay an infinite debt in this hypercapitalistic BrazaFunk future.
A demo is available now.
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.
Painted Kingdoms: Tower Defense & Firefighting (PC)
Painted Kingdoms is a minimalist strategy game where you paint, build, and defend your Kingdom of paper. Harness the power of paint to protect it from relentless flames and enemy hordes. Will your Painted Kingdom survive the next wave?
A demo is available now.
Pirofauna (PC)
Become a tiny living flame, burn away ghosts, reignite homes, and earn the love of bugs that absolutely adore a little arson ?? A short adventure game set in an atmospheric misty forest made entirely of paper.
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!
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!
A demo is available now on Steam.
Gang of Frogs (PC)
Sail through the galaxy as a fearless outlaw frog. Plunder loot, upgrade weapons, eat flies and fight through hordes of monstrous bugs in an intense 1-4 player co-op shooter.
Kaiju Cleanup (PC)
When colossal alien titans run rampant until getting domed by a railgun, the world finds itself in need of a true hero. That’s you: a Kaiju Cleaner who won’t be perturbed by petty concerns like “workplace injury” or “life expectancy”. After another Kaiju attack on the city, use your tools to clean up vast piles of dead monster until the zone is safe for reconstruction. The Kaiju may be dead, but its corpse is leaking radiation, seeping acidic fluids, concealing explosive organs, and generally making the area inhospitable to any other form of life. You’ll probably die as you go about your work, but that’s fine; send another clone, mop up your corpse, and carry on.
Punch Lunch: Foodtruck Fighter (PC)
Step into the colorful, chaotic world of Punch Lunch: Foodtruck Fighter in this trailer for the upcoming casual single-player adventure featuring a spicy mix of punchy Streets-Of-Rage-like action with Overcooked / Dave The Diver-inspired cooking & time management minigames
A demo is available now.
Re:Rite (PC)
Transform from a tiny, scrappy survivor into a skyscraper-sized Kaiju, as you fight through swarms of enemies in this chaotic PvE game. Hack-and-slash through hordes of spider-bots, clear through crowds with bullet-hell ranged weapons, and even team up with up to 3 friends in online co-op.
Fraymakers (PC)
Fraymakers is the ultimate customizable platform fighting game, featuring a cast of some of indie gaming’s biggest icons. Duke it out with up to 4 players and call on assists to help out in the heat of battle. Create and play custom characters, stages, modes, and more for infinite fun!
Guy Spelunky is revealed for the game.
Necrowave (PC)
Experience the emotional life of a zombie with his butt stuck in a microwave. It’s a 2D platformer with critical thinking based combat where each different enemy feels like a puzzle to solve instead of relying on brute hack & slash tactics.
A demo is available now
Jupiter Junkworks (PC)
Jupiter Junkworks delivers fast-paced arcade puzzle action! Complete contracts to earn resources and rebuild a run-down spaceship junkyard. Dive into a sci-fi narrative campaign where an unlikely trio of travelers must learn to work together. But unknown to them, something awaits beyond the vault.
Sloppy Forgeries (PC)
Sloppy Forgeries is a fast-paced competitive painting game. Practice your skills by butchering iconic masterpieces in one of the few drawing games that measures accuracy pixel-by-pixel in real-time.
Walk the Frog (PC)
Guide Froggo through a world on sticky notes and relax while solving the puzzle of his journey home to find his best friend Buddy. Meet quirky animal friends, solve satisfying puzzles, help one another and relax in this cozy and heartwarming adventure with an intuitive drag-and-drop puzzle style.
It releases today, 21 May 2026. A demo is available now.
Muri: Wildwoods (PC)
Step into the paws of Pelle, a regular muri out on their first solo mission as a cleaner. With the support of your friends on Teamsqueak, explore a mysterious island, clean up corruption, collect things, befriend critters, and save the island’s forest spirit to restore the environment!
A demo is available now.
B-E-E-T-L-E: Be Right Back! (PC)
Ready your keyboards and set out on a typing adventure in b-e-e-t-l-e: be right back! Every keystroke brings the world to life as you search for your lost beetle – encounter a wacky cast of characters, crack puzzles and discover whimsical surprises along the way.
The Marvelous Raincaster of Yell Holler (PC)
A time-looping puzzle ballad of Ozark folk superstition. Reorder events in time to unravel the legend of a weather-making rooster.
Ragdolls Physics Experiment (PC)
A narrator-driven comedy game set inside a bizarre testing facility, where experiments, secrets, and physics-driven chaos are only part of the story.
A demo is available now.
Bad Badger (PC)
You’re a bad Honey Badger. Smash out of your enclosure and wreak havoc across an Open-Zoo sandbox. Break, escape, sneak, smash, steal, ride, trick & taunt. BE BAD!
Flip-Flop Fury (PC)
Smack deserving targets with flying footwear in this fast, projectile-steering arcade game. Short, replayable runs with tons of challenges, instant restart, bullet time, unlockable footwear, and juicy, reactive physics.
Being Food (PC)
Being Food is a third-person, Bird Game. In this puzzle-platformer, you play as a cute bird named Oolahla in what starts seemingly like a normal bird day. Something is different about today, though… Do you know what it takes to be a bird? Will you survive the bird day?
Grave Seasons (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series)
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.
It releases on 14 August 2026. A demo will be available from 15 June.
Agni: Village of Calamity (PC)
AGNI: Village of Calamity is a cinematic survival horror, combining mind-bending terror and ritual strangeness, with Indonesian slasher style violence. Play as Agni, an investigator from a secret Agency, driven by regret, who disobeys the rules, as she searches for her missing partner inside the forbidden village, Desa Purba. On this rogue mission, Agni descends deeper into violence, obsession, and psychological collapse as the guilt drives her towards the edge of what the human mind can live through.
After Hell Freezes Over (PC)
Venture into the desolate frozen wasteland in this open-world survival horror. Struggle to survive in the cold, where strange creatures roam in the darkness. Build a shelter, collect supplies, fend off unimaginable threats, and fight for survival After Hell Freezes Over.
The Florist (PC, PS5, Switch 2)
A classic survival horror experience, set in a town overgrown with deadly yet beautiful flowers. Solve ingenious puzzles, defeat horrifying enemies, and uncover the mystery behind a plan to create new life in the most inhuman way imaginable.
Anomalith (PC)
“ANOMALITH” is a survival third-person shooter set in Japan, steeped in the atmosphere of liminal spaces and Showa-era retro aesthetics. To search for her missing friend, a girl steps into a world writhing with anomalies.
It’s releasing on 29 October 2026.
