Don’t miss a thing from the tinyBuild Connect Publisher Showcase 2026, with all announcements and trailers in one place!
You can watch the full showcase below, or read on for each individual game featured, in the order they were shown.
tinyBuild Connect Publisher Showcase – 14 September 2026
Where possible we have included release dates, demo availability, known platforms and most recent trailers.
The Crab is Walking (PC)
From Hypnohead Team, the creators of The King Is Watching, comes a roguelite city builder where your capital sits atop a giant creature crossing a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Piece together buildings of different shapes on its limited shell, merge and upgrade your city, raise an army of over 100 unit types, and find combinations powerful enough to break the game.
Choose your Ride, choose your Rider, and decide how much danger you’re willing to crab into. The safe road is safe. But the hard road pays.
It releases in 2027.
The King is Watching (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series)
The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run.
The trailer confirms Steam Deck optimisation.
Restory (PC)
The nostalgic electronics repair game ReStory is celebrating 500k copies sold with a new accolades trailer announcing upcoming content, including a new device and a new customer in a free update coming September 21.
Ferocious (PS5, Xbox Series) – already available on PC
Immerse yourself in a survival FPS adventure. Stranded on a dangerous island, face mercenaries, dinosaurs, and a vibrant yet hostile ecosystem. Explore breathtaking environments and survive the onslaught of intense, fast-paced encounters.
It releases today, 14 September 2026, on console.
The Lift (PC, PS5, Xbox Series)
You are a handyman renovating a massive research facility abandoned after a mysterious incident. The Lift is an eerie first-person simulator with satisfying house-flipping gameplay, a mind-bending story, and a highly interactive world inspired by Soviet sci-fi and the SCP Foundation.
Hozy (PS5, Switch, Xbox Series) – already available on PC
Restore a forgotten neighbourhood through your favourite hobby, one cozy room at a time. In Hozy, clean, paint, and decorate abandoned homes with satisfying mechanics and intuitive controls. Enjoy the little details as you interact with tools, items and furniture to bring each space back to life.
It releases on consoles later this year. Some new DLC is available now on PC.
Trainfort (PC)
Trainfort is an open-world co-op survival crafting game. As a dwarf nomad, hit the road of this post-apocalyptic world with your bearded mates. Build a moving steam engine, pack your base with you, and explore the wilderness. The country is big, your legs are short, but you gotta keep moving!
A new playtest is coming soon, players can sign up for it now on Steam.
Road to Jukai (PC)
You work the night shift as a taxi driver in a remote region of Japan. Not all of the odd passengers you pick up after sunset are what they seem. Sometimes it’s safer to just keep your eyes on the road, especially when a fare leads to the strange, massive forest the locals whisper about.
ROAD TO JUKAI (formerly titled Silent Road) is a first-person psychological horror about a night-shift taxi driver who transports passengers between small Japanese towns surrounded by a vast haunted forest.
It is aiming to release in 2027.
Drill Core – Anniversary Update (PC, PS5, Xbox Series)
Command your team, expand your platform, mine alien worlds to their core, and defend your operations in this explosive roguelike builder strategy game. Choose from three unique platforms—Humans, Dwarves, or Swarnids—and adapt your strategy to ever-changing, procedurally generated levels.
The free Anniversary Update is available now on PC and coming to consoles soon.
Sand: Raiders of Sophie (PC, PS5, Xbox Series)
In SAND you build your highly customizable walking mech fortress. Squad up or go solo. Scavenge the dunes, gather loot, weapons, priceless artifacts, survive and extract. Clash with other players in a brutal procedurally generated desert set in an alternate 1910.
SAND: Raiders of Sophie celebrated its successful launch on Steam Early Access earlier this year with a new accolades trailer and announced a major new content update dropping later this month.
Happy’s Humble Burger Cult – Trial by Fryer Update (PC)
Two new restaurants and Trial by Fryer, a new team-based PvP mode, have been added to the co-op cooking horror game. Face off against the enemy team in a surreal cooking show, sabotage their kitchen, fight for ingredients, and become the best team of chefs in Trial by Fryer.
Hull Rupture (PC)
If the ship stops, humanity ends. Manage a spaceship, treat puny humans as resources, and repel relentless alien assaults in a base-management tower-defense roguelite where every choice seemed reasonable at the time.
It releases 4 November 2026. A demo is available now, and has been recently updated.
Probably Stolen (PC)
Probably Stolen is a cyberpunk shopkeeping simulator set in a dystopian space station. Craft, trade, and smuggle goods of questionable origin, navigate faction loyalties, and stop rampant AI by killing those it controls. Earn enough to buy out your shop before rising rent forces your hand.
It releases 28 October 2026. A demo is available now.
Of Ash and Steel (PS5, Xbox Series – already available on PC
Of Ash and Steel is an immersive third-person open-world RPG created by a passionate team that values the essence of classic old-school RPGs and modern design. Explore the lands of a once-prosperous island, hone your combat skills, and survive in the unforgiving realm of the Kingdom of the Seven.
Shattered Faith DLC expands the world Of Ash and Steel with a brand new storyline, unique magical powers and weapons to fight foes both well-known and previously unseen, and even more uncharted land to explore on the other side of Grayshaft. Join a mysterious expedition headed to the lost and forgotten corners of Grayshaft and retrace the steps of the Primestriders in search of powerful artefacts, meeting friends for life and fear-instilling foes. Dig deep into the secrect of those long gone and watch Tristan realize that even if your path was set in stone by fate itself, you can still try and break the mold.
Graveyard Keeper 2 (PC, PS5, Switch 2, Xbox Series)
The most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim is back! Restore The Town, manage the graveyard, automate production, lead your undead army into battle and turn the zombie problem into a thriving business! Graveyard Keeper 2 is the grotesque sequel that’s deeper than six feet, and more unhinged than ever!
It releases 22 September 2026. A demo is available now on all platforms with any progress carrying over to the full game when it releases.
Kingmakers (PC)
Go back in time to a war-torn medieval era with a vast arsenal of modern weapons, change the course of history, and save the future in this epic action/strategy sandbox. Build your kingdom, grab a gun, and lead an army of thousands into massive, real-time simulated battles — solo or in co-op.
TinyBuild gave players the closest look at Kingmakers yet, with a 10-minute gameplay deep dive revealing key story details as well as new gameplay mechanics, ranging from high-level management to third-person combat.
Kingmakers is launching into Steam Early Access soon, and the players can sign up for the upcoming playtest on the Steam page.
And that was everything shown from the tinyBuild Connect Publisher Showcase 2026. What were some highlights for you?
