15 indie games we saw during the Big Indie Pitch at NAGIS that you've got to check out

• 1 Educe by Educed Moment

  Educe is a “Photography Metroidbrainia” about wholesome puzzles, peaceful exploration and befriending wildlife, where players find themselves guiding creatures into photographs that they can then take to progress puzzles. 

  Educe is set to release on iOS and PC.

  
  

• 2 INFERIUS by Lucid Rain Studios

  INFERIUS is a blend of Dante’s Inferno and Lovecraftian horror, creating a first-person, rougelike deckbuilder that uses Major Arcana Tarot Cards to strategise against horrors that are lurking in the darkness. You'll build the perfect deck, challenge each ruler of the nine levels of hell, end up dying, and then repeat.

  INFERIUS is set to released in 2027 on Xbox, PlayStation and PC.

  
  

• 3 Grey Wake by Second Fiddle Studio

  Grey Wake is a narrative-driven exploration game where you have woken up on a forgotten island between life and death. With only a compass, telescope and a weathered sailboat, you need to chart the haunted archipelago, relive faded memories and uncover your own story on why you are here.

  Grey Wake is set to launch later this year on Xbox and PC.

  
  

• 4 Sunset Suckerpunch by Virtual Unreality

   

  Sunset Suckerpunch is a synthwave spectacle fighter where you become the rider, taking on a talking, transforming, motorcycle-sword-gauntlet.

  You must race down the highway in your motorcycle form, all while destroying enemies with your sword and gauntlet forms, so that you turn every enemy defeated into chaotic, physics-based projectiles and leave a trail of smoke and cracked asphalt in your wake.

  Sunset Suckerpunch is set to launch in 2027 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox and PC.

  
  

• 5 Fowl Scourge by Void Cup Games

  Fowl Scourge is a single-player mission-based Action-RPG set in a Gothic Fantasy world where you’ll find an abundance of birds, brutality and body horror. Inspired by the likes of Zelda, Bloodborne and Mega Man, you are challenged to fight your way through 15 unique stages to uncover the secret behind an abominable disease that's turning people into monsters.

  Fowl Scourge is set to release in 2027 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox and PC.

  
  

• 6 Speechbound by Moonspire Games

  Speechbound is an immersive, language-learning game built to teach people a new language through engaging conversations with NPCs, quests and defeating monsters, as well as finding contextual activities like farming, fishing and rebuilding the community around them. 

  Speechbound is set to release in August of 2027 on PC.

  
  

• 7 GrimRail by Infinite Loop Studios

  GrimRail is an immersive, psychological game set on a purgatorial train where you are using a cosmic radio to navigate through nightmare worlds, rooted in the sins of the passengers on the train. An Eldritch horror is watching, judging and remembering everything that you do - and each of your decisions cause the world to react around you. 

  GrimRail is set to release in 2027 on PC.

  
  

• 8 F.R.A.G.G. by HalfDream Games

  F.R.A.G.G. is a competitive arena FPS where you can master weapons, defeat enemies and shoot your way through a bunch of realisitc, future-looking environments. 

  F.R.A.G.G. is set to release in 2028 on PC.

  
  

• 9 Shuffles 'n Scuffles by Sour Circuit Studios

  Shuffles ’n Scuffles is a single‑player roguelike deckbuilder set in a whimsical cardboard world where every card is yours to rewrite. You'll meet quirky characters who help you tinker with an ever‑changing deck, then take on waves of dangerous foes.

  Shuffles 'n Scuffles is out now, on PC.

  
  

• 10 Once We're Home by Otter Make Games Inc.

   

  Once We're Home is the story of a rescue dog, Marduk, trying to find their way home, despite their home changing. This game is set in the Canadian prairies, where you move from one owner to the next, journeying between lost and found. 

  Once We're Home is set to release in 2028 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and PC.

  
  

• 11 Dwell by Embersail Studios

   

  Dwell is a top-down roguelike where you don't just pilot one hero - you orchestrate a squad of three auto-firing mechs descending through a buried colony-ship that has become an alien ecosystem.

  The mechs fire on their own; you move, dodge, draft cards between rooms and swap which mech is the leader to chain abilities and trigger burst damage. Survive, build, descend - then decide what to do with the world you've been reclaiming.

  Dwell is set to release in 2027 on PC.

  
  

• 12 Kitch Witch by Mistik Studios

  Kitch Witch is a cozy, narrative-driven cooking RPG where you are running a magical culinary clinic, healing the community through the food you make. You need to forage for ingredients, diagnose illnesses and create soups that are going to heal those that come to you. 

  Kitch Witch is set to release at the end of 2027 on Nintendo Switch and PC.

  
  

• 13 PinPow by Shroudy Software

  PinPow is a turn-based rougelike pinball RPG where you play as a hero sucked into an overworldly pinball machine. You must battle your way through chaotic dungeons and enemies to defeat the evil Pinball Wizard.

  PinPow will release on Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch and PC.

  
  

• 14 Stika by Iklo Studios

  Stika is a stealth horror game where you play as a young, non-binary camper who is staying on an uninhabited river island in Ukraine. You need to try and keep your friends alive during your night watch as you try to discover and piece together the mystery of the island, all while being stalked by an ancient Ukrainian legend.

  Stika is set to release in 2028 on PC.

  
  

• 15 Ares Inception by Spacehabs Studios Inc.

  In Ares Inception you are the eyes and ears of mission control for the ambitious exploration of Mars. You must recruit, train and assign your crew in an authentic space sim advised by real astronauts, engineers and planetary scientists.

  Ares Inception is set to release in 2027 on PC.