Day of the Devs Showcase Reveals a Creative Bunch of Indie Games at Summer Game Fest
The Day of the Devs showcase at Summer Game Fest demonstrated a wide variety of innovative indie games. The showcase demonstrated how the indie game market is chock-full of originality and passion. All you need to do is look at the games and you’ll believe in the power of creativity.
The Day of the Devs Showcase
Here’s a look at all the games that were presented at the Summer Game Fest Day of the Devs showcase.
Snap ‘N Grab
A game where you use your camera to commit heists in a 1980s setting.
Big Walk
A co-op game from the developers of Untitled Goose Game, where you play as ants who can talk to each other via voice chat.
Sword of the Sea
From the art director of Journey, this is a game where you surf over the ocean, snow, and sands, on a sword. Yes, a sword.
Escape Academy 2: Back to School
A sequel to Escape Academy, this is advertised as “the first ever open world escape room game.” You can explore the campus between escape rooms.
Mixtape
A flashback to the 80s and 90s that tells a story of three friends trying to get through life.
Blighted
A hack-and-slash metroidvania that takes place in a world affected by a disease made from the memories of dead people.
Dosa Divas
A cooking RPG where you travel around in your robotic food truck to serve meals, find ingredients, and battle your fast food rivals.
Possessors
A hand-drawn hack-and-slash horror where you fight your way through a surreal world inhabited by demons.
Moonlighter 2
A sequel to the shopkeeping RPG where you fight, collect loot, and sell your loot as a merchant.
Please Watch the Artwork
The third game in the Please Touch the Artwork series, this is a spot-the-differences game where you must guard a museum from a sad clown out to change the living paintings.
Marvel Cosmic Invasion
A retro-style beat-em-up where you can fight through enemies as your favorite Marvel heroes, such as Spider-Man and Captain America.
Neverway
What if Stardew Valley were a horror game? A combination of a life sim and a horror game.
Relooted
A heist game where you must retrieve African artifacts from museums and private collections.
Ratatan
From the creators of Patapon, you use music and rhythm to fight in battles.
Thick as Thieves
A multiplayer stealth game in a first-person immersive perspective.
Pocket Boss
A Sim game about the joy of data manipulation.
Consume Me
An autobiographical sim game where you must manage the developer’s teenage life and her eating.
OFF
An older RPG that is being rereleased on newer systems. You play a baseball player and explore a surreal world that inspired Undertale.
Tire Boy
A platformer where you play as a tire. Yes, a tire.
Toem 2
The sequel to the photography game Toem, this game takes the surreal series into 3D.
Unbeatable
This was a performance of a song from the game’s soundtrack. This is a rhythm game that takes place in a world where music is illegal.
Day of the Devs Conclusion
The Day of the Devs showcase is sure to generate excitement for anyone who enjoys indie games. Most of them can be wishlisted on Steam now to show support for the developers. Perhaps you might see some of today’s Day of the Devs reveals in one of my future indie game spotlight articles. We’ll have to wait and see there.
