All the games, trailers and announcements from the Frosty Games Fest 2026 as part of Summer Game Fest.
The Frosty Games Fest celebrates game developers in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. They are promising 50+ games including world premieres. Read on to see what was shown.
You can watch the full showcase below, or read through the article to see each individual title.
Frosty Games Fest 2026 – 6 June 2026
Where possible we have included all known platforms, demo availability, release dates and most recent trailers.
Janet DeMornay Is a Slumlord (and a Witch)
RENT MONEY IS DEAD MONEY and your landlord is expecting payment IN FULL. Puzzle your way out of a maze of DEPRAVED magical appliances and the UNHINGED diaries of a DEBAUCHED faded television celebrity.
A demo is available.
Cow Chess (PC)
Real-time artillery brawler for up to 6 players. Think Super Smash Bros meets Worms, with a movement system all its own.
A demo is available now.
Cooking for Ma! (PC)
Go on an adventure through the spirit world to save your grandma from an evil sea serpent using the power of cooking! Cook dishes for different characters, exploring Korean cuisine in this story about identity, diaspora, and family.
Fishing Echoes (PC)
Fishing Echoes is a fantasy fishing game where you catch elemental fish to save the realm from a world-devouring maelstrom.
A demo is available now.
Bashful Adoration (PC)
Bashful Adoration is a Kinetic 3D Platformer starring a cast of four competitive witches who are all in love with the same crush! Featuring Bombastic Combat, Expressive Movement Mechanics and a light-hearted Narrative with themes of love, rivalry and friendship.
A demo is available.
Atlanta TD (PC)
Call upon the Gods of Olympus to defend Atlanta from Ares’ invading hordes in this roguelite tower defense epic. Battle across procedurally generated realms, unlock powerful upgrades, and shape the fate of a new Pantheon!
A demo releases in August 2026. The game is aiming to enter Early Access in December 2026.
Straycloud (PC)
An island in the sky, the home of a once majestic people, has fallen to earth, its magic run dry. The youngest member of this line must venture to shore in an effort to restore power to the ancient magical technology that kept the island afloat.
Verbal Void (PC)
Three neurodiverse kids explore a forgotten island community. Develop connections, battle your fears and uncover the truth in this unique conversation-beat ’em up adventure game.
Bravest Coconut (PC)
All Coco wanted was to return a library book. She didn’t expect monsters, mysteries, and a valley full of secrets standing in her way. Explore, solve puzzles, and fight your way through a gorgeous hand-pixeled retro adventure.
A demo is available now. The game releases 10 July 2026.
Freeline (PC)
Quick on your paws! Freeline is a frenetic, kinetic, expressive speedrunning platformer about taking down the surveillance state and reclaiming the rooftops.
Slayblade (PC)
Build your battle-top and become King of the Streets! Collect 60+ parts, Merge their Powers, and Dominate opponents in this Chill Roguelite! Skate around a vibrant Y2K city, winning Cash and Upgrades on your way to the top. And if you Die in the game, you Die in real life.
A demo is available.
Cloudlings (PC)
Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.
Toya (PC)
Toya is a minimalist cube-rolling game that is always bigger than you think…
Canvas City (PC, Switch)
Canvas City is a turn-based tactics RPG of rebellion on roller skates. Lead a crew of skaters and street artists rising up against an oppressive regime. Each map is a battleground and a canvas, where your actions shift control, leave your mark, and shape the city’s future.
A demo is coming soon.
Hyper Primate (PC)
Speedrun as a HYPER FAST Ape in this parkour focused FPS. Dash, grapple, and blast through deadly obstacle courses using a massive arsenal of weapons. Master momentum, dodge death, and DOMINATE the leaderboards.
A demo is available now.
L8R SK8R (PC)
L8R SK8R is a 3D platformer inspired by the classics of the fifth generation but with a unique twist that will make you feel like a speedrunner.
It releases 28 August 2026.
Acting Out (PC)
Make movies with your friends! Acting Out is an online co-op multiplayer game where you film movie scenes. Choose scripts from different genres and cast your actors, then its lights, camera, action! Hit your marks, deliver award-winning performances, then watch your masterpiece on the big screen!
It releases in Early Access in July. A demo is available now.
Shape Sender Deluxe (PC, Switch)
Your new best friend Sendy is here to guide you through 90+ handcrafted physics puzzles. Solve them, then make your own levels, and maybe keep an eye on him while you’re at it.
A demo is available on PC.
n00b’s Guide (PC)
n00bs guide is a narrative walking sim told through a Youtube playlist. Funny, introspective and painfully earnest, play through a series of bizarre mods and community maps, trying to understand what was really important about the time spent with your friends.
Mingle (PC)
Mingle is a hidden object puzzle game where you move through a crowd to find your identical twin. Each match transforms you into someone new, with hundreds of chatty little characters and surprising level twists.
A demo is available now. It’s aiming to release in Q4 2026.
DWARF: A Pinball Roguelike (PC)
Grab your balls and set sail on your ‘pirate’ minecart into the depths of the mines. Fight enemies in a unique blend of Pinball, Pachinko, and Bubble Shooter whilst collecting game altering balls & relics that ensure no two runs are alike.
It releases on 21 August 2026
A Pocket Full of Slagford (PC)
Slagford. Some call it The Backbone of the North, most call it proper sh*te. This silly misadventure will take you up monolithic megatowers, down dingy dung pits and beyond. Puzzle your way across the unravelling city by picking up pieces of the world and sticking them where they don’t belong.
The Troll & the Witch’s House (PC)
The Troll & The Witch’s House is a point-and-click adventure game set in a strange house filled with mysteries. Piece together fragments of the past, uncover secrets and find the key to your escape.
Edwin Earstwhile: Medical Examiner (PC)
A medical detective game set in the late Victorian era. Uncover the perpetrators behind an assortment of grizzly murders by examining meticulously hand-animated cadavers.
Trading Card inspector (PC)
Inspect your way through dozens of unique, hilarious cards in this chilled-out papers-please-em-up! Identify and appraise cards from The World’s Most Coolest TCG! Start your new job as an official Habubis Trading Card Inspector and uncover a tale of friendship, corporate espionage and murder?!
It’s available now.
PUTRID / SHARP (PC)
Slice your way through the stages of rot and search for someone lost in a world that is waiting to end.
Penguin Colony (PC)
Cosmic horror, through the eyes of a penguin. Rival human factions have come to your home in the Antarctic, seeking an ancient and inconceivable being. Observe their descent into insanity in this faithful re-imagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, and other stories.
A demo is available now.
Apothecurse (PC)
Faced with expulsion from his order, fledgling alchemist Leon must brave the seas and travel to Port Gelour, a plague-ridden city on the brink of revolution. Craft potent potions, befriend quirky locals, and uncover the dark secrets lurking beneath the waves in a quest for alchemy and discovery!
A demo is out now.
Apathema (PC)
Cursed to repair the inner organs of The Chasm, you fight to uncover the secrets of your existence and end a self-devouring cycle of Apathy. Apathema is a grunge fantasy turn-based RPG, inspired by God Husk, Baroque, and King’s Field.
Management in Space (PC)
Management In Space is a gritty sci-fi strategy roguelite where you find yourself in debt. Build, mine, trade, date, and defend using stations across the galaxy, all while wars swells, aliens devastate sectors, and cults rip the galaxy apart & release demons upon the cosmos.
An alpha build demo is available now
Blighten (PC)
BLIGHTEN is a survival horror fps set in an abandoned facility overrun by mindless creatures infected by the Blight. Scavenge for resources and do whatever it takes to survive the industrial hellscape you’re isolated within.
Attack of the Astrals (PC)
Turn-based strategy roguelike where every battle is a tactical puzzle. Each move of your champion trio unleashes an attack and swaps tiles with other units. Combine skills, spells and summons to defeat a cosmic army that grows stronger as you do.
A demo is available now. It aims to release in Q4 2026.
Radio Decay (PC)
A 1-6 player co-op survival horror set in a supernatural nuclear apocalypse. Drop-pod into an abandoned city to extract radioactive artifacts while being hunted by giant bug-like monsters. Rebuild your decaying body with prosthetic limbs, arm yourself, and radio your friends for help.
Echo Zero (PC)
Descend into a dangerous, procedurally generated sci-fi underworld. Explore, gather resources, uncover powerful wargear and upgrades, rally your droids, build and defend your base, and battle a mysterious new species on the verge of breaching the surface, either alone or in co-op.
Kuu (PC)
Trapped in the fading light of a broken moonhouse, you have 30 nights to balance scarce resources. Grow meager rations in the weak earthlight. Navigate the emotional sanity of a fragile sisterhood. Decode ancient documents in search of secrets. Your only choices will be impossible ones.
Night Shift: 1999 (PC)
Balance work, vampirism and socialising as you explore Kings Cross, Sydney during the last year of the millennium. Keep a lid on your darkest desires and be rewarded with a deeper understanding of what it means to live again. Or don’t — no one will stop you. You’re a vampire, after all..
It’s releasing in Autumn 2026.
Hawker (PC)
HAWKER is a Roguelite Action-RPG where you must pay or evade a debt to Death in a procedurally-generated grimdark world. Scavenge, barter and fight for ichor, life, and truth. Thirty days, an impossible debt. Pay, or Fall.
Akashic: Slingshot (PC)
One weapon. One health. One ???.
It’s releasing 3 December 2026.
Allogloom (PC)
Join Nora in this mysterious and macabre point and click adventure game. Find and collect items to solve puzzles. Talk to peculiar people and monsters alike. Explore Gruesome Grove and beyond to uncover forgotten truths and save the people of her town!
It releases 24 September 2026.
Lone Pine (PC)
Lone Pine is a single-player, 2D adventure set in the fictional Lone Pine National Park. You play as Izzie, who has come to Lone Pine to try to photograph some of its mysterious, undiscovered ‘cryptids’.
A demo is available now.
Toil & Trouble (PC)
Herbs locate, tonics make, So gas deflates, and aches abate. Brew up some mischief in a witchy life sim with a small but troublesome difference. To keep the people of The Nook happy and healthy, Mistress Toil needs to train a young, easily-distracted pig to find magical ingredients.
Ghost Writer (PC)
A whimsical desktop idle focus game. The perfect desktop work companion if you require a little tired ghost typing away at a typewriter.
UnQuollified (PC)
A charming Australian point & click detective mystery about a struggling artist investigating the mysterious death of his childhood best friend. Explore the small town of Bridgegully, interrogate quirky locals, & sketch clues to expose the truth. Are you ready to solve a crime years in the making?
Cozy Game Restoration (PC)
Cozy Game Restoration is a soothing simulator where you gently bring forgotten video game cartridges back to life. Tear wrapping paper, peel old stickers, lift away grime, and transform dusty relics into cherished collectibles. No pressure or failure, just the quiet joy of restoring memories.
It releases 24 September 2026.
Rusthaven (PC)
Rusthaven is a cosy management game about rebooting the world in the anti-apocalypse. Journey across an abandoned planet on a solar skyship, salvaging broken-down bots in need of rescue. Clean up the world, upcycle retro technology, and build a peaceful sanctuary where all can thrive and belong.
The Isle of Lost Bees (PC)
Welcome to the Isle of Lost Bees, a cozy idle game where you and your collection of Australian bees harvest pollen, research flowers, and uncover the island’s secrets. You’re a bee-obsessed researcher on an island devoid of humans. You never seemed to need human contact anyway.
A demo is available now.
Sludgineers (PC)
Clean, mine and refine pollution in this active incremental game. Cruise through the countryside earning cash and resources, build a refinery, process materials, upgrade equipment, unlock new areas and complete quests.
It releases 25 August 2026.
Doomsday Diner (PC)
Chaos! Cooking! Combat! In a post-apocalyptic world where hot dogs are cheap and life is cheaper, you manage the last functioning hot dog diner. Cook hot dogs, brew coffee and serve bizarre orders. Upgrade your diner, keep it clean and shoot down raiders who want your hard-earned cash.
It releases 23 July 2026.
Sting & Swing (PC)
Explore a strange overgrown world as a bee with a golf ball. Master the skills of bee-golf to uncover the mysteries hidden in its furthest reaches and hiding in front of you. Discover uses for abilities you didn’t know you had. There are always more secrets for those who seek them beneath the green.
A demo is available now.
Box Knight (PC)
Fight. Die. Repeat. Become the Box Knight and brawl through a monster-infested office, floor by floor, boss by boss, in this irreverent action roguelike.
Wild n Chill (PC)
Wild n Chill is a laid-back wilderness escape where ya forage, hunt, and craft the off-grid cabin of your dreams. Far from the noise and nonsense, it’s just you, your trusty companion, and a pal or two.
And that’s everything from the Frosty Games Fest 2026. What did you make of the games from our friends down under?
Stay tuned for more Summer Game Fest coverage with GSC.
