Gothic I Remake

• Developer: Alkimia Interactive
• Publisher: THQ Nordic
• Release Date: Out Now
• Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X/S

A legend returns.

The genre-defining RPG Gothic, with its hand-crafted, organic open world and gritty, unrestricted gameplay is back, inviting new players and veterans to enter the Valley of the Mines.

While remaining faithful to the original 2001 release, Alkimia Interactive have added and improved a host of features, including more detailed questlines, additional NPC routines and reactions, new traversal abilities, and a fully modernized combat system.

The demo for Gothic Remake, called Nyras Prologue, has you playing as a different character than in the main game, so progress does not carry over.

A demo is available on PC, PlayStation 5, and XBOX Series X/S.

Maseylia: Echoes of the Past

• Developer & Publisher: Sol Brothers
• Release Date: Out Now [2026]
• Platforms: PC [PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X/S, Nintendo Switch & Switch 2]

Uncover the secrets of the Heart of Maseylia in this 3D Metroidvania set in a world full of ancient ruins, forgotten cities, alien forests, and surreal techno-organic structures. With a focus on the freedom of movement, ability-based progression, and deep exploration, Maseylia: Echoes of the Past offers players a deeply rewarding experience built upon experimentation and discovery.

Master the game’s many movement abilities, including a double jump, a 360° air dash, and a grapple hook, to find new areas in previous parts of this mysterious world, approach platforming challenges from various angles, and face off against hostile creatures.

Inspired by the artwork of of Moebius and games like Hollow Knight and Pseudoregalia, Maseylia: Echoes of the Past is a beautiful, ethereal 3D action platformer like very few.

A demo is available on PC.

Lumentale: Memories of Trey

• Developer: Beehive Studios
• Publisher: Team17
• Release Date: Out Now [2026]
• Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch [PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X/S]

If you’re on the hunt for a creature-collector, then you need to check out Lumentale: Memories of Trey. Play as Trey, a young man who wakes up in the world of Talea, a place where humans and creatures called Animon live side by side. Hoping to regain his memories, Trey sets off on an adventure that will take him all across the land and uncover the mysteries of an ancient prophecy.

Collect, evolve, trade, and battle with over 100 different Animon spanning over a dozen Types. Build your team as you travel from town to town, facing off against their best battlers, known as Lumen, and venture into dungeons where some of the game’s most powerful Animon reside. With its blend of 2D sprite art and 3D environments, colourful cast of characters, and fresh blend of combat mechanics, Lumentale: Memories of Trey is well worth a try.

Check out our Lumentale: Memories Of Trey – Review to get our full thoughts on the game.

A demo is available on PC.

The Artisan of Glimmeth

• Developer: Lunarch Studios
• Publisher: 983 Interactive
• Release Date: Out Now
• Platforms: PC

The Artisan of Glimmith is a cosy, hand?crafted puzzle game where you play a stained?glass artisan restoring the artworks of a kingdom floating above the clouds. Each puzzle is a piece of stained glass you colour, cut, or join according to specific rules, and the game keeps things fresh with more than twenty unique rule types that gradually build into clever, satisfying challenges. It’s gentle, thoughtful, and each puzzle is fully handcrafted with only one unique solution.

There’s also hidden paths, secret puzzles, and even a full level editor for creating and sharing your own designs. The demo give players access to 52 puzzles, which is only 4%(!) of the whole game which has over 28 areas adding more and more satisfying puzzles to solve.

A demo is available on PC.

Alabaster Dawn

• Developer & Publisher: Radical Fish Games
• Release Date: Out Now (Early Access) [2026]
• Platforms: PC [PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X/S, Nintendo Switch]

Alabaster Dawn is a top?down 2.5D action RPG from the creators of CrossCode, set in a ruined world cursed by the entity Nyx. You play as Juno, an outcast chosen tasked with restoring humanity and rebuilding civilisation. The game blends fast, combo?driven combat with exploration, puzzle?solving, settlement restoration and deep RPG systems. Expect multiple divine weapons, elemental builds, skill trees, cooking boosts, and a world full of secrets. It’s currently in Early Access, offering the opening chapters and a roguelite side mode while the full 7?chapter story continues development.

The Demo lets you play the start of the game, as well as some sections from later that allow you to get a feel for some of the other weapons and to try out a puzzling dungeon without spoiling too much of the story. Your progress from the star of the game carries over to the full release, so you can jump straight back into the Early Access version if the later parts of the demo pique your interest!

A demo is available on PC.

Dinoblade

• Developer: Team Spino LLC
• Publisher: Boltray Games
• Release Date: July 23rd
• Platforms: PC

We’ve had dogs with swords, we’ve had crabs with swords, and now we have dinosaurs with swords!

In this intense action RPG, you play as a Spinosaurus wielding a giant great sword clasped between your jaws, on a journey to stop the looming extinction. Face off against other dinosaurs, some with their own weapons, and unlock new abilities to forge your own playstyle, your strength increased with each victory.

Travel across diverse, awe-inspiring biomes, each with its own Alpha to defeat, and unlock a Boss Rush mode upon defeating Dinoblade’s final boss. Uncover the mystery at the heart of your world, one that will save your species, or doom them forever, using your mighty blade to carve out a new history.

A demo is available on PC.

Rivage

• Developer: Exnilo Studio
• Publisher: Raw Fury
• Release Date: August 13th
• Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X/S

Rivage is a narrative?driven sci?fi puzzle adventure set aboard the A.R.E.S. space station, which has become trapped inside a mysterious cosmic phenomenon. You play as Miranda, who wakes up alone, disoriented, and surrounded by fragments of a vanished crew. The station itself feels almost alive – doors unlock unexpectedly, objects appear out of place, and messages linger like echoes of the past.

The game blends exploration, logic puzzles, and environmental storytelling. Every puzzle is woven into the station’s systems, involving mechanics like gravity, magnetism, and even time distortions. As you investigate research logs, personal journals, and abandoned workstations, you slowly piece together what happened to the crew and the true cost of humanity’s expansion into deep space.

Rivage emphasises atmosphere, introspection, and discovery. It’s designed as a thoughtful, immersive experience where each solved puzzle brings you closer to escaping the phenomenon and understanding the emotional and scientific mysteries at the heart of the station.

A demo is available on PC.

Duskfade

• Developer: Weird Beluga
• Publisher: Fireshine Games
• Release Date: August 13th
• Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2

Gear up for a grand adventure with Duskfade, a 3D action-platformer inspired by PS2-era titles from the genre, like Jak & Daxter, Ratchet & Clank, and most notably, Kingdom Hearts.

Play as Zirian, a young boy looking for his sister after the world of Tearfeld is shattered, distorted by time, with the sudden arrival of a looming clock tower. Weilding the giant clockhand Minutero, and accompanied by your clockwork bird companion, Cuckoo, you’ll explore stunning realms shaped by the Master Clockmakers, and meet a cast of charming characters on this coming-of-age journey.

With dynamic platforming, fluid and fast-paced combat, skills to unlock, and secrets to uncover, Duskfade looks to rekindle the magic of classic action platformer favourites.

Check out our Duskfade Demo Impressions to get our early thoughts of the game.

A demo is available on PC, PlayStation 5, and XBOX Series X/S.

Screenbound

• Developer: Crescent Moon Games, Radical Forge
• Publisher: Digital Pajamas
• Release Date: September 10th
• Platforms: PC, PS5, XBOX Series X/S

Finding a video game console in your mom’s garage wouldn’t normally start an epic adventure, but the Qboy is no ordinary console!

Embark on a dimension-breaking quest through an unknown world, switching back and forth between 2D and 3D gameplay, all within the same space. Combining its two types of gameplay to become the first self-proclaimed “5D” video game, Screenbound will have you solving puzzles, defeating foes, and uncovering secrets as you master its dual-dimensional gameplay.

This isn’t just a game. It’s a quantum experiment, and you’re the variable.

A demo is available on PC.

Locktale

• Developer & Publisher: Mina Pêcheux
• Release Date: September 2026
• Platforms: PC

Locktale is a cosy, story?driven puzzle game built around ciphers, hidden messages, and clever visual tricks. Each level introduces a completely new encoding method, ranging from ancient ciphers to modern cryptography – plus a few invented just for the game. 

The Locktale demo is a calm, clever little introduction to what the full game is doing. You get a handful of early puzzles, each built around a different cipher or decoding trick, and the game lets you poke around, experiment, and slowly figure things out without rushing you. The hint system is already there, so if you get stuck you can nudge yourself forward without spoiling the solution. As you decode messages, you start to see the tone of the story taking shape, and it’s all very gentle and thoughtful. It’s basically a cosy test run that shows exactly how the full game blends puzzles, atmosphere, and quiet narrative.

A demo is available on PC.

AGX GP

• Developer & Publisher: Typ1 Games
• Release Date: Q4 2026
• Platform: PC

I feel the need. The need…for excessive amounts of speed. Enter the upcoming title AGX GP.

AGX GP is a FAST anti-gravity racing game, coming to us from Typ1 Games. If you have ever played some of the older titles like F-Zero or Wipeout, then this will be in the same vein of gameplay. In this world, where racers are chosen at random, you’ll be piloting your AGX through various gravity-defying courses throughout the local solar system.

What sets AGX GP apart from others is the interplay of gravity, as you will at times be jumping from track segment to segment, along with rapidly shifting from side-to-side of the track to avoid slowdown regions. Outrace your opponents as you hurtle across the finish line!

A demo is available on PC.

Sojourn Past

• Developer & Publisher: ReDimension
• Release Date: 2026
• Platforms: PC

Sojourn Past’s demo shows off a confident slice of what the full game is aiming for: a fast, skill?driven action?adventure with bullet?hell influences and a handcrafted world full of secrets. You get to dash, dodge, and fight through tight encounters that already feel polished, with enemy patterns that push you to stay alert and learn their rhythms. 

The demo also gives you a taste of the game’s ability?driven exploration – things like the teleportation dagger immediately open up new routes and hidden spaces, hinting at a proper interconnected world that continually loops back on itself as you open more shortcuts (a special shoutout to the map, which is 1. Absolutely gorgeous and 2. Lets you view areas level by level, by clicking on doors and shortcuts). There are new areas, new mechanics, and even early upgrade and inventory systems included, giving you a full rundown of what the final game will feel like when it releases later this year.

A demo is available on PC.

Moonbrella

• Developer & Publisher: Jett Williams
• Release Date: 2026
• Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 & 5, XBOX One & Series X/S, Nintendo Switch

With no jump button, and only an umbrella at your disposal, help a little robot explore an abandoned planet and ascend to the moon.

Moonbrella is not your typical platformer, with a focus on speedrunning and multiple routes guiding the design of the game. You’ll learn to use your umbrella in various ways, like opening it to slow your descent, jabbing into the ground to push yourself upwards, and hooking the handle onto ledges to lift yourself up.

With a variety of collectibles to find, as well as different parts for your umbrella to unlock new skills and locations, Moonbrella offers both a mysterious world to explore and platforming that demands both creativity and skill.

A demo is available on PC.