While Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest 2025 highlights the biggest and best in the AAA gaming landscape, Indies take center stage during Day of the Devs.

Days 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 lesser-known game developers. The previous show featured some amazing indie games like Hyper Light Breaker and InKombini.

This year at Day of the Devs, we’re seeing some World Premieres from promising titles, including Drinkbox Studios’ Blighted, along with other high-profile games like Moonlighter 2, Ratatan, and TOEM 2.

Without further ado, here are the highlights from the Day of the Devs 2025 showcase!

Day of the Devs – Summer Game Fest 2025 Recap

Snap and Grab (No Goblin Studio)

In Snap & Grab, explore a puzzle adventure world where any photo you take could be the key to cool crime success. Travel to exotic locations, photograph treasures and reveal threats, then combine your photos in unique ways to create a rad heist plan. Who says crime does not pay?

Big Walk (House House)

From Untitled Goose Game’s House House studio comes Big Walk, a cooperative multiplayer adventure about teamwork and talking. Set out with your friends through a wide-open world full of challenges, puzzles, and discoveries.

Sword of the Sea (Giant Squid Studios)

A single-player atmospheric adventure with high-speed movement inspired by skateboarding games. Surf over a surreal landscape of waves and unveil a lost ocean teeming with life. From the visionary artist behind ABZÛ, The Pathless, and Journey, and featuring a beautiful score by Austin Wintory.

Escape Academy 2: Back To School (Coin Crew Games)

Coin Crew Games, creators of the sleeper hit Escape Academy comes the sequel Escape Academy 2: Back To School. Return to solve more puzzles and find more ingenious ways out of this escape room simulator!

Mixtape (Beethoven & Dinosaur)

From BAFTA Award-winning studio Beethoven & Dinosaur’s (and an Editor’s Choice from yours truly) The Artful Escape comes a new IP entitled Mixtape. Three friends embark on one final adventure, accompanying them is a perfectly curated playlist that draws these friends into dreamlike reenactments of their formative memories. If it’s anything like The Artful Escape with a touch of slice of life to the tune of Portishead and Smashing Pumpkins, definitely count me in!

Blighted (Drinkbox Studios)

Explore a world full of mystery in this psychedelic western nightmare. Learn to harness your Blight, which serves as both a source of power and a dynamic difficulty system, challenging players of all skill levels, and gating some of the world’s deepest secrets. Play through the entire campaign alone or with a friend in co-op.

Dosa Divas (Outerloop)

Outerloop Games delivers Dosa Divas – a spicy narrative turn-based RPG. Platform through vibrant villages, battle corporate goons, reconcile with loved ones, and eat one last meal together before saying goodbye.

Possessor(s) (Heart Machine)

From Heart Machine, creators of Hyper Light Breaker and published by the illustrious Devolver Digital; Possessor(s) is a fast-paced action side scroller with combat inspired by platform fighters, a story told through dangerous characters, set in a deep interconnected world ready for exploration.

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault (Digital Sun)

Following the adventures of shopkeeper Will from the groundbreaking roguelite Moonlighter, comes Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault. After the events of the first game, Will loses his home dimension and ends up as a castaway in the blob-brimming land of Tresna, joined by both familiar faces and new allies.

Please, Watch The Artwork (Studio Waterzooi)

Please, Watch The Artwork is a casual yet eerie liminal experience where you spot the differences in paintings during your night shift at the MaMA, the Museum of Animated Modern Art. Your job is simple: watch the paintings and report any anomalies. Think Five Nights at Freddy’s, but instead of getting scared to death, they make you do memory puzzles.

Marvel Cosmic Invasion (Dotemu)

Choose between 15 Marvel heroes in this frenetic action beat ‘em up to fight against the deadly Annihilation Wave threatening the galaxy. From Wolverine to Spider-Man to Venom, take the familiar arcade beat-em-up style of Dotemu seen in titles like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers, and see it come to life with your favorite Marvel heroes!

Neverway (Coldblood Inc.)

Farm, fish, craft, and build a new life on a remote island in this slow-burning horror RPG. Think Stardew Valley meets The Forest.

Relooted (Nyamakop)

Relooted is a heist game where a group of misfits plan to take back stolen artifacts from corrupt museum curators displaying them in private.

Ratatan (Game Source Entertainment)

From the creators of Patapon comes its spiritual successor, Ratatan. Ratatan is a rhythm roguelike action game that combines rhythm games and side-scrolling action, with online co-op gameplay supporting up to 4 players.

Tire Boy (Otherside Entertainment)

A PvPvE multiplayer stealth game set in a 1910s metropolis filled with magic and intrigue. Tell your story through a fusion of emergent multiplayer gameplay and dynamic storytelling. Immerse yourself in a living world where no two nights are ever the same, ensuring endless challenges and discoveries.

Pocket Boss (Playables)

Pocket Boss is an intimate encounter with data, exploring the secret life of charts. You are in touch with your boss through a chat interface, where you get all kinds of requests.

Consume Me (Hexecutable)

Consume Me is a life simulator where the player takes control of Jenny, who goes through each chapter of her life to be more attractive. The player manages Jenny’s schedule making meticulous decisions about her life.

OFF (Mortis Ghost, Fangamer)

Take control of the Batter as he seeks to purify an uncanny and hopeless world haunted by specters, guided by a cryptic, grinning cat called The Judge.

TOEM 2 (Something We Made, Popagenda)

TOEM 2 is the sequel to the charming indie game TOEM: A Photo Adventure, and it appears to feature much of what made the first title beloved by gamers.

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