While Geoff Keighley’s The Game Awards 2024 celebrates the best and brightest of the gaming landscape, Day of the Devs highlights the hidden gems that are soon to come for 2025 and beyond.

Day of the Devs selects from a submission of over 100 indie game entries from around the world and goes on to amplify the voices of indie developers as they navigate the already saturated gaming landscape. The previous showings featured some standouts such as Viewfinder and Planet of Lana.

This time around, we’re seeing promising titles from Day of the Devs, including Sleight of Hand and Tankhead, along with other high-profile releases such as the upcoming early access of Hyper Light Breaker.

Without further ado, here are the highlights from the Day of the Devs: Digital Games Showcase!

Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Edition Recap

Wanderstop (Annapurna Interactive)

Release Date: March 11, 2025
Platforms: PC, PS5

Wanderstop is a cozy tea shop management sim where a former warrior, Alta, looks after a tea shop where she tends to a garden and brews tea away from her former life.

Faraway (Little Eyes)

Release Date: Coming Soon 2025
Platforms: PC

Faraway is a unique, cozy puzzle game where you play as a shooting star connecting towards different stars, forming constellations. Enjoy the soothing music while achieving a high score connecting said constellations in story or puzzle mode.

Ultimate Sheep Raccoon (Clever Endeavour)

Release Date: Coming Soon
Platforms: PC

In this cute party game, race to the finish line with other players with a twist – you get to build your course together and then race on it. The visuals are reminiscent of OlliOlliWorld and definitely a wacky title to look forward to.

Sleight of Hand (Riffraff Games) (Xbox and PC)

Release Date: Coming Soon
Platforms: PC, Xbox

Inspired by stealth games like Metal Gear and Dishonored. Sleight of Hand combines stealth action and level design with the strategy of deckbuilding games. You play Lady Luck as she takes one last job to take out her old coven in the stylized noir world of Steeple City. Evade your enemies while using your randomly generated cards for unique actions.

Demon Tides (Fabraz)

Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC

Fabraz, the creators of the fun platformer Demon Turf, comes the ambitious sequel Demon Tides. Catch an improved visual style and unique gameplay flair as it is available on Steam in 2025.

Kingmakers (Redemption Road)

Release Date: Early Access 2025
Platforms: PC (Steam, Epic Games)

From the creators of the manic time travel driving game Road of Redemption comes Kingmakers, taking on the previous premise and bending genres seen in titles such as Chivalry. Time travelers travel back to medieval England with a modern-day arsenal to build an army to influence the progress of time and change the world. Combine first-person shooters with an intricate city-building strategy simulation by yourself or in co-op.

Blue Prince (Dogubomb, Raw Fury)

Release Date: Spring 2025
Platforms: PC (Steam)

Imagine the atmospheric adventure of Gone Home, with roguelike elements involving endlessly procedurally changing rooms as you search for the mysterious Room 46 seen in titles like Myst. Will you solve the mystery?

Incolatus: Don’t Stop, Girlpop! (Funny Fintan Softworks)

Release Date: Coming Soon
Platforms: PC

A first-person arena shooter with a Barbie twist. Set in Y2K where you play as revolutionaries aiming to stop a nefarious mining company that is draining the world of its precious resource—love. Bunny hop and dress up your operative like no other.

LOK Digital (Letibus Design, Ice Drop Games)

Release Date: 2025
Platforms: iOS, Android

A unique puzzle game based on a puzzle book “LOK”. Now adapted into a video game version where the object of the game is to black out all the cells in the grid. You learn a new language to release creatures locked in a book, providing a unique visual premise with a fun puzzle paradigm.

Neon Abyss 2 (Veewo Games)

Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC (Steam)

The sequel to Team 17’s 2020 run-and-gun roguelike hit Neon Abyss comes its awaited sequel. Frantic run ‘n’ gun gameplay returns with a twist, an all-new weapon system lets you decide your own combat style. Mix and match combat styles using an insane arsenal that lets you tear through the Abyss in your own way.

Crescent County (Electric Saint)

Release Date: Coming Soon
Platforms: PC, Xbox

Imagine punk rock street racing witches on motobrooms. Play as a witch who delivers packages across open world island as well as doing tasks to help its residents. Use the money earned to deck out your motobroom with parts for races. Race your friends while attempting to romance them. Groovy.

PBJ – The Musical (Kamibox)

Release Date: Coming Soon
Platforms: PC

A unique musical adventure about the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Traverse through 10 musical acts where you guide Jelly and Peanut through an art collage. Drag and pull different aspects to create your own adventure and ultimately unlock the remixes to the 10 original songs.

Curiosmos (Celine & The Silly Stars)

Release Date: Coming Soon
Platforms: PC

Imagine a cosmic simulator where you create your solar system from stardust and go through the motions of filling in the rest of the planets in orbit. Create landscapes, toggle the weather, and get friendly with the satellite, Curio, which will deliver elements such as ice and other materials for your planets. Eventually, life will follow, and you’ll be tasked to protect your solar system from a rogue black hole.

Bionic Bay (Psychoflow Studio)

Release Date: March 15, 2025
Platforms: PC, PS5

A visually stunning puzzle platformer where you can control time and manipulate the physics of the universe in order to traverse perils that normal adventurers won’t be able to traverse. Assist a stranded scientist as he escapes from a biomechanical world filled with secrets and death traps.

inKonbini: One Store. Many Stories. (Nagai Industries) (PS5, Xbox, Switch, PC)

Release Date: Coming Soon
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox, Switch

We’ve previously covered inKonbini in id@Xbox Southeast Asia. Play as Makoto who manages a convenience store in the ’90s as she learns more about the residents while cozily addressing the needs of the convenience store.

Feltopia (Wooly Games) (2026)

Release Date: 2026
Platforms: PC

A cute and cozy take on the shoot ’em up genre featuring flying sheep. Its unique visuals are made painstakingly by stitching wool and bringing it to life with stop-motion animation.

Blippo+ (Yacht, Telefantasy Studios, Panic)

Release Date: Coming Soon
Platforms: PC

A unique 1-bit television experience from the makers of Untitled Goose Game. Its vague premise gives Sam Barlow (Immortality) vibes with the tongue-in-cheek quirk seen in a Devolver Digital presentation.

Hyper Light Breaker (Heart Machine)

Release Date: January 14, 2025
Platforms: PC (Early Access – Steam)

We’ve previously covered Hyper Light Breaker in the Game Awards. It finally enters early access in January 2025. Explore a roguelike planet filled with endless enemies and overcome the Abyss King.

Tankhead (Alpha Channel, Kepler Ghost)

Release Date: Coming Soon
Platforms: PC

A unique combination of vehicular action, exploration, and narrative worldbuilding. You play as a Sleepwalker, a being tasked to transfer their consciousness into a machine in order to explore an irradiated wasteland of the ECA. As a drone, you can build your unique tank and explore this world by collecting parts and controlling specific areas of the tank from its treads to the turrets.

If you missed the Day of the Devs livestream, you can watch it below!