While Geoff Keighley’s The Game Awards 2025 celebrates the best and brightest of the gaming landscape, Day of the Devs highlights the hidden gems that are soon to come for 2026 and beyond.

Day of the Devs selects from a submission of over 1100 indie game entries from around the world and goes on to amplify the voices of indie developers. This year, 22 games have stood out amongst the crowd to be featured!

Out of the 22 games, we’re seeing promising titles from Day of the Devs, including Lucid Falls and ROCKBEASTS. Amongst the standouts with the World Premieres is Shueisha Game’s unsettling horror piece, Un:Me.

Without further ado, here are the highlights from the Day of the Devs The Game Awards Edition 2025!

Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Edition Recap 2025

AWAYSIS (17-BIT / Cult Games)

AWAYSIS is the ultimate dungeon brawler! A revolutionary, physics-fueled throwdown where you’ll jump, slide, and collide on your adventure to restore peace to the Awaysis – an ancient floating relic under attack by forces of great darkness!

Lucid Falls (Eldamar Studio)

Trapped inside a lucid dream, the protagonist must fight to survive in surreal, horrifying worlds, uncovering the dark secrets of Lucid Falls. Facing terrifying creatures, shifting gravity to navigate impossible spaces, and solving challenges that bend reality, every moment reveals more of the dark truth behind Lucid Falls.

ROCKBEASTS (Lichthund / Team 17)

Lead a band of misfits on a roller-coaster ride to stardom in the age of MTV, rock anthems, and bad haircuts. ROCKBEASTS is a story-driven, role-playing management game that puts you in the shoes of a manager of an up-and-coming rock band. Your job – take them to the top.

Stretchmancer (Triangle Wave)

STRETCH THE WORLD! In this comedic first-person puzzle adventure, you are The Stretchmancer. Squash and stretch everything around you to solve fiendish puzzles, defeat the Claustro Empire, and save the galaxy!

Beastro (Timberline Studio / Kepler)

Gather ingredients and resources, care for animals and grow your own fruit and veg to build up your very own cozy town to table restaurant.

Un:Me (Historia / Shueisha Games)

Shueisha Games’ Un:Me is a deep dive into the mind of a girl who is embodying four different souls inside her. Prepare for some unsettling horror elements and some surreal nightmare fuel. I need more of this in my life.

SOUNDGRASS (Soundgrass Studio)

Explore a planet where plants emit sound. Solve puzzles, survive, and discover the meaning of consciousness in a game where your core gameplay mechanic is sound.

Find Your Words (Capybara Games)

 Find your community at summer camp, one friendship at a time. Take a beat, enjoy a breath of fresh air – all while playing at the beach, strolling in the woods, and dancing with friends. This short cozy game was created by two dads, celebrating their kids’ journeys to find their voices.

Scramble Knights Royale (Funktronic Labs)

Scramble Knights Royale is battle royale inspired by classic adventure games like Legend of Zelda. 32 players enter an arena made up of islands with towns, dungeons, and quests oozing with a retro feel.

MIRRIA (Carl Burton / Mografi)

MIRRIA is an atmospheric casual puzzle game. Players navigate a strange cryptic world that blurs the line between dream and reality. Using inspection and memory, players will uncover hidden anomalies between mirrored worlds.

Frog Sqwad – The Musical (Panic Stations / Skeleton Crew)

Frog Sqwad is a slapstick, physics-based multiplayer game in which you storm the sewers in the name of the Swamp King with up to 7 of your froggy friends. Use your sticky tongue to swing from pipes, solve physics puzzles, drag giant food through winding tunnels, catapult your friends, and grow as you consume food. Every mission is an unpredictable adventure through ever-changing sewers full of hazards, weird creatures, and opportunities for creative problem-solving using physics! 

BIG HOPS (Luckshot Games)

BIG HOPS is a fresh and froggy action platformer where you’ll tongue-swing, free climb, and plant veggies to build paths forward. You play as Hop, a young frog kidnapped from his home by a mysterious spirit named Diss. To get back to your family, you’ll need to gather Airship Parts scattered across the Red Desert, Open Ocean, and Shattered Mountain—all while getting roped into Diss’s strange, important job. 

CorgiSpace (Adam Atomic / Finji)

You are now entering CorgiSpace, where all the games have short legs on purpose. This collection by Adam ‘Atomic’ Saltsman includes more than a dozen action, adventure, arcade, and puzzle games, and each can be thoroughly explored in under an hour.

Astromine (Alientrap)

Astromine is a co-op survival game about scavenging fully destructible voxel planets. Land on planets and gather enough materials to fight off alien creatures, build structures and spaceships, and conquer the solar system.

Dogpile (Studio Folly / Toot Games / Foot / WINGS)

Dogpile is a roguelike deck builder about merging cute dogs into bigger dogs. Play dogs, get money, customize your dogs with special Traits, refine your deck, PLAY MORE DOGS! DOGS!

Unshine Arcade (mardt)

Unshine Arcade fuses action-roguelite stealth-shooter gameplay with a story-driven psychological-horror mystery. In an abandoned arcade, you play at its lone arcade machine to earn the tickets you need to free a mysterious virtual pet trapped in the prize cabinet.

Moomintroll: Winter’s Warmth (Hyper Games)

From the creators of Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley comes a heartwarming new adventure inspired by the beloved Moomin stories by Tove Jansson. This time, join Moomintroll himself on a charming but cold winter journey.

Demon Tides (Fabraz)

Explore the open seas and uncover the kingdom’s dark secrets as you platform your way across dozens of locales, upgrading your gear every step of the way!

That’s it for the Day of the Devs The Game Awards 2025! What are some of your favorites? Comment on the link below!