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Game Devs of Color Expo Direct 2026

Game Devs of Color Expo Direct 2026

The SEVENTH annual GDoCExpo Direct is packed with new announcements from dozens of amazing games by creators of color. Tune in for exclusive reveals, the latest launches, and more updates. We're so excited for you to see what our community has been working on!

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66 featured games

Featured Games(66)

Waltz and Jam

Waltz and Jam

Flyway Games, Inc., KRAFTON, Inc.

Where shadows stretch a little too long and not every whisper in the dark belongs to a friend... Waltz and Jam is an action-adventure platformer following Waltz, a pure soul, and Jam, his lovable dog companion, through a spooky afterlife reimagined from the Seven Deadly Sins.

ActionAdventureCasualPuzzle
Hope in the City

Hope in the City

Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc., NAGA Games

17-year-old Hope Song thought the national exams were her biggest worry... until she got home to a ransacked apartment and two missing parents. Investigate through the eyes of an artist, turn sketches into evidence, and watch her family's mystery grow stranger and darker with every answer.

AdventureIndiePuzzle
Kitman

Kitman

Outlier, Daedalic Entertainment

KITMAN is a 1-4 player job simulator set in the backrooms of a soccer stadium. Run the team by running the locker room. Clean the team’s boots, patch jerseys, mop floors, and when no-one is looking… sneak into the gaffer’s office and fix the game plan!

ActionIndieSimulationSimulatorSportSports
Building Relationships

Building Relationships

Tan Ant Games, Tanat Boozayaangool

Experience life as a house in this silly adventure game! Play as a building as you roll, jump, and wave-dash across a cozy island. Meet eligible structures, romance them, and experience a bizarre, yet oddly familiar story.. or go fishing instead (though we replaced fish with cars to make more sense)

AdventureCasualIndieRole-playing (RPG)Simulation
502's Arcade

502's Arcade

502 Studios

502's Arcade is a collection of fast paced arcade games. Ghost hunting in a procedural dungeon crawler, fast reflex puzzle solving in a potion shop, blasting through alien enemies and more! Get good old arcade fun featuring modern mechanics and challenge your way to the top of the leaderboards.

ActionArcadeCasualHack and slash/Beat 'em upIndiePlatformPuzzle
Mira and the Legend of the Djinns

Mira and the Legend of the Djinns

littleknightgames, Assemble Entertainment

An epic 2D pixel art style Metroidvania, inspired by Moroccan culture and spiritual traditions. Wield powerful ancient weapons and forge your way through unrelenting deserts, crumbling necropoli, floating islands and dangerous mountains as you try to uncover the secret of the last Djinn.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatformPuzzleRPGRole-playing (RPG)
NAME OF THE WILL

NAME OF THE WILL

Zeitgeist Studio, HYPER REAL

You are trapped in HOPE, a masked cult where pain is salvation. Every thought is tallied. Every smile is a lie. Conform for happiness, or face your guilt to escape.

AdventureIndie
Portabellows

Portabellows

Let Us Cook Games

Explore a whimsical island to find… pie recipes?! Bake them by gathering or growing ingredients, which may be the key to helping out your new found quirky friends leave the island! In this wholesome 3D platformer collectathon, you can enjoy discovering the world freely at your own pace.

AdventureCasualIndiePlatform
Hayaku! Island of Darkness

Hayaku! Island of Darkness

Pizia

In this retro inspired metroidvania that combines fast paced melee combat, intense platforming and incredible music, you'll explore a mysterious island full of dangers, fight both monstruous and cute bosses and enemies, platform through intense challenges, and uncover the secrets of this story.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatform
RollerGirl

RollerGirl

Pushing Vertices

Choose your own vibe in this slice-of-life adventure. While exploring a small town on rollerblades, use your MP3 player to set the mood for your summer. Run errands for quirky neighbours, get entangled in local drama and stumble into a teenage romance.

AdventureIndieSimulatorVisual Novel
SHUNYA

SHUNYA

Morleaf Studio

One moves, one draws—you control both at once. In this pixel-art puzzle game, draw Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind magic cubes to reshape the environment. Bound by a magical chain, a girl and a floating cat must escape the mysterious Otherworld and find their way home.

AdventureIndie
Dino Mayhem

Dino Mayhem

Incan Arcade Studios

Play as legendary dinosaurs to devour enemies, demolish buildings, and wield high-tech weapons in this destructive retro pixel city-smasher.

ActionAdventureIndie
Deperson

Deperson

Error Thing, PARCO GAMES

Are you ready to step into a dark and mysterious world with Aaron, who is afraid of his own shadow? A file that has been closed for years is opened again, the forgotten ones wake up from their sleep and the silence is broken by screams.

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzle
Broken Shell

Broken Shell

Foggy Studio

Broken Shell is a cute and cozy adventure game filled with love and courage. Join Mr. and Mrs. Hermit, an adorable couple, as they navigate through a charming world filled with puzzles, challenges, and heartwarming moments on their heartfelt journey to a better life.

AdventureCasualIndie
Port of Jumanah

Port of Jumanah

Red Dunes Games, Agate

Pearl diving is an ancient tradition... until you showed up. Dive into the depths, poke things you probably shouldn't, battle sea monsters, recruit questionable allies, upgrade your gear, rebuild your port, and make increasingly questionable decisions in this roguelite action adventure.

ActionAdventureIndie
The InBetween

The InBetween

VCD

The InBetween is a 2d, action-packed yet emotional Metroidvania where your fate as well as the fate of an infected world lies in your skills and choices.

ActionAdventureIndiePlatformShooter
Go North

Go North

gazuntype

Explore beautiful mazes, discover unique items and help other explorers complete unusual side quests in this cozy and narrative-driven adventure!

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzle
Bullet Brain

Bullet Brain

Ricardo Aguilera, Suzu Davis, TBD

Bullet Brain is a top-down shooter where you jump between enemies in short, handcrafted levels. Bounce around in cueballs, eject old bodies out of windows, and ride grenades back to whoever shot them. Make things worse. Flood the pump. Spread the rot.

ActionIndie
AM Archaic Memories

AM Archaic Memories

Third World Productions

It's a 3D platform about the dreams and nightmares of a 90-year-old being.

ActionAdventureIndie
Dodo Duckie

Dodo Duckie

BornMonkie, Solo Game

Waddle into a reality-bending odyssey where simply being a duck is your greatest superpower. With the help of your magical cap, switch instantly between 2D and 3D to uncover hidden paths, outsmart aliens, and rescue your kidnapped chicken friends in this wholesome puzzle platformer adventure.

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzle
Truth Scrapper

Truth Scrapper

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You have a case to solve, your memories reset each day, and two mysterious guides are vying for your attention– who will you decide to remember, and who will you decide to push aside…?

AdventureIndiePoint-and-clickVisual Novel
Mexican Ninja

Mexican Ninja

Madbricks, Amber Studio

Become the Mexican Ninja and fight to take back Nuevo Tokyo, where Narcos and Yakuzas have fused into the ruthless Narkuzas. Master slick combos, unleash outrageous Mexican Jutsus and craft deadly builds in this fast, chaotic 2.5D roguelike beat ’em up.

ActionArcadeFightingHack and slash/Beat 'em upIndie
A Heavy Morning

A Heavy Morning

Saf Interactive, Bright Gambit

You know the feeling of struggling to get out of bed? In A Heavy Morning, you will play as a young girl battling with her own mind. Your only objective? Get out of bed and get to work on time.

AdventureIndie
Crownbreakers

Crownbreakers

Sharkbomb Studios

Tyrants keep the magical city of Cascade in a chokehold. They grow fat by grinding everyone else's soul into profit. ✊ENOUGH! Crash into their districts and build your deck as you push forward. Use your champions and cards to pummel some demonic billionaires in this turn-based card-game brawler.

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
Sucker for Love: Crush Landing

Sucker for Love: Crush Landing

Akabaka, Black Lantern Collective

Put the ‘love’ in 'Lovecraftian horror!' When a captivating comet named Hheily crashes into your apartment, you are drawn into an interplanetary conflict between light and dark. Feed Hheily's fire to save the world in this horror-comedy visual novel… and maybe even win a smooch!

CasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulatorStrategyVisual Novel
Penguin Colony

Penguin Colony

ORIGAME DIGITAL

Narrative adventure game based on H.P Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. Swim, Slide and Explore open ended levels as multiple penguin types with different abilities and challenges.

ActionAdventureCasualIndiePlatform
Dino Domino

Dino Domino

Porridge

Pixel-art "pseudo-programming" turn-based puzzle game.Swap commands to rewrite the rules: heal with fireballs, make enemies explode, trigger chain reactions!

IndiePuzzle
The Detective's Apprentice

The Detective's Apprentice

darqwerful

Step into the shoes of Clementine "Cleo" Ace, an apprentice to her aunt, the world renowned detective, Maya Lynch. From heists to murders, use your deduction skills to solve cases that are too tough for the local police to crack.

AdventureIndiePuzzle
Back of Beyond

Back of Beyond

Kibi Games, Poly Poly Games

In this dark turn-based strategy game, rule a mysterious town as its acting mayor. Deploy buildings and followers to gather faith and money while facing eldritch deity checks. Build your cult empire on the edge of devotion and madness.

Card & Board GameIndieRPGStrategy
From Hel to Asgard

From Hel to Asgard

Ricpau Studios, HYPER REAL, 2P Games

From Hel to Asgard is a turn-based, merge-puzzle roguelite where you battle enemies by combining weapons to unleash powerful attack combos. Unlock magical runes, upgrade your character with each run, and face off against legendary gods and heroes from Norse mythology as you pave the way to Ragnarok!

IndiePuzzleStrategy
Delivery Issues

Delivery Issues

Whim Independent Studios

In Delivery Issues, you do much more than simply deliver packages. It’s a race against time as you meet zany characters, outsmart and outmaneuver befuddling obstacles, and take on a mysterious enemy that will make this otherwise easy job rather difficult.

ActionIndiePlatform
Toada Brava

Toada Brava

Asteristic Game Studio, Mateus Grazina

Toada Brava is a fully hand-drawn 2D top-down RPG. Battle your way through the Santacrúz Dungeons and help Kako find his mom, while helping the revolution!

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Fourleaf Fields

Fourleaf Fields

BEHEMUTT, HypeTrain Digital

Welcome to the tiny world of Fourleaf Fields, a cozy farming life sim where you're no bigger than a carrot. Grow towering crops, care for tiny farm bugs, and uncover a web of secrets fueled by gossip - solo or online with friends!

AdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
100FRIENDS

100FRIENDS

TWIN PIXELS

100FRIENDS is a brick-breaker where your ammo is 100 friends. Launch chefs, grandmas, vampires, and other friends at waves of enemies, build-crafting ridiculous chain reactions. This charming incremental roguelite, with incredible build depth, will leave you eager for one more friend :)

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Strategy
Treetopians

Treetopians

Aparato Games

Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.

SimulationSimulatorStrategy
Black Sailors: Bay Of All Saints

Black Sailors: Bay Of All Saints

Mandinga

Command a fleet of formerly enslaved people who became pirates in Brazil’s Bay of All Saints. Challenge colonial oppression, fight for freedom, and rewrite Atlantic history in turn-based tactical naval battles.

AdventureIndieStrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)
Something Meaningful

Something Meaningful

Mon Ami Interactive, Flipstar

An open-world RPG where you decide how to live after your death. Work, study, train, explore the city, customize your appearance, meet cartoonish characters and unlock interesting locations as you try to do something meaningful with this new opportunity.

AdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
Good News

Good News

Augusto Salgado

You've been hired as a chief editor to make this newspaper grow, but your writers are awful. Correct their drafts, set the tone of the news to fit your audience, make readership grow; and form a relationship with the shady politicians that will push you to give them good press in an electoral year

AdventureIndiePoint-and-clickPuzzleRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulatorStrategyVisual Novel
Afterglow Bytes: Reverie by the Shore

Afterglow Bytes: Reverie by the Shore

Engram Interactive

Run a cozy izakaya in futuristic Bali. Grill skewers, serve patrons, help wandering spirits, and manage supplies to keep your evening haven alive. Every night tells a new story.

CasualIndie
Funeral for the Sun

Funeral for the Sun

Nicolás Cid Delgado

Search the ashes of an abandoned Latin American town and uncover 500 years of love, death and revolutions. A non-linear mystery where you travel back in time and untangle the complex history of a community cursed by supernatural forces.

AdventureIndie
Oh!Ware

Oh!Ware

Chris Perry

Sow marbles, chain their movement, and control the board. Oh!Ware is a roguelike where you build your deck, trigger captures and effects, and turn every carefully planned move into a devastating chain reaction.

PuzzleStrategy
Meaningless Random Numbers

Meaningless Random Numbers

Nikko Nikko

Meaningless Random Numbers is an Incremental Horror Game about earning cash through Random Number Generators but be cautious, God is Watching.

CasualIndieStrategy
REMOTE CONTROL

REMOTE CONTROL

Canteen, Weekend Games

Remote-control human proxies to explore a derelict spaceship. Type your commands, manage risk and decide how disposable a life really is.

AdventureIndie
Fruitbearer

Fruitbearer

Mangobits Studios, Aico Labs

A visceral reimagining of the Suika-style physics puzzler, rebuilt as a punishing dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder. Awaken as forgotten deity of bounty, stripped of grandeur, now facing sunless barrens and monsters. To restore balance, you must grow. To grow, you must sacrifice.

CasualIndiePuzzleStrategy
Bloomsome

Bloomsome

Ruofu Sun, Alice Yu

Bloomsome is a 2D Make-Over Puzzle Game that reflects upon unfair beauty standards. Who should be the one to define what is beauty? We project our reflections and imaginations upon those floral characters which all shine uniquely.

IndiePuzzle
No Wings Required

No Wings Required

Zuko Studios

Start your first day at work as an unqualified duck with a balloon and way too much confidence. Wander the Featherfall Islands, help quirky locals, and learn that “winging it” might actually be a real career strategy.

AdventureCasualIndiePlatform
Splash Divers

Splash Divers

Tinymo GAMES

Immerse yourself in an unforgettable diving vacation! Break free from the limits of air supply and dive into the beauty of the ocean and its incredible marine life. Build your own personalized ocean encyclopedia, make friends with a diverse cast of dive buddies, and savor these moments of leisure.

AdventureCasualIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
T.W.I.R.L.

T.W.I.R.L.

Genie Boy Games, Haunted Publishing Syndicate

It's 3am in your childhood home. The year is 2006. Everyone's asleep, but you. Sneak out of your room and do as you're told - "T.W.I.R.L." - whatever that means.

AdventureIndie
Deadhand Theater

Deadhand Theater

Bag Track Games

A dark, turn-based roguelike deckbuilder where poker hands are your weapons and your own puppet body is fair game to sacrifice. Rip off a limb for a desperate edge, refine your deck, and survive one more fight.

Card & Board GameIndieStrategy
Finding Polka

Finding Polka

lidlocks, PARCO GAMES

Set off on a playful search to track down the wandering pup Polka in this game of exploration and serendipity. Meet charming characters, lend them a hand to make new friends, and explore a cozy world sketched in ballpoint pen. You don't need words on this adventure, just smiles and high-fives!

AdventureIndieSimulation
RuneCipher

RuneCipher

Rasmalai Studios

RuneCipher is a tactics RPG that combines turn-based strategy with active combat. Recruit unlikely allies, explore long-forgotten ruins, and uncover the secrets of an ancient magic to save your guild in this Strategy RPG inspired by genre classics.

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)StrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)
Poly Fighter

Poly Fighter

HeartLoop Games

Poly Fighter is a single-player roguelike fighting game. Learn new moves from every opponent you defeat to build your fighter’s unique style. Battle through tense retro-arcade duels with beginner-friendly controls to master your moveset and claim your title!

ActionArcadeFightingIndie
Vem, Exu

Vem, Exu

Tejo Estúdio

A short narrative experience where you solve simple puzzles and explore a world where emotions become interaction. Build a kite, connect constellations, and face a storm born from your own anger.

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzleVisual Novel
The Birdsong Tree

The Birdsong Tree

Hongoneon

A cozy building and light simulation game where you observe birds, create custom birdhouses, and help a living urban tree grow. Balance sound, diversity, and neighbor reactions as you shape a calm, reactive environment.

CasualIndieSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Malhaar: From the Banks of the Sindhu

Malhaar: From the Banks of the Sindhu

Coffee For Two

A cozy slice-of-life adventure based on Om's travels to a city situated by the riverbank. Cook local cuisine, help folks with their daily chores, and solve the mystery of the ruined fort. Practice and play sitar to raise money for the big festival.

AdventureIndieRole-playing (RPG)Simulator
Ruffed Up

Ruffed Up

Elusive Games

Ruffed Up is a chaotic co-op physics game where you play as dogs dragging your unconscious dog walker back home. Team up with 2–4 players online or locally to keep your human safe, cross treacherous terrain, dodge hazards, and somehow get everyone home in one piece. It’s no walk in the park!

ActionAdventureCasualIndiePlatform
BATHYSPHERE

BATHYSPHERE

base0

The year is 1940—you wake up in a bathysphere, stuck in an endlessly repeating battle against enemies unknown. Investigate your surroundings and uncover the truth behind the time loop.

AdventureIndieStrategy
Last Ditch Effort

Last Ditch Effort

Moonwell Games, Trellis Inc.

Enter a grimdark world consumed by endless war and join Igor on a desperate mission in Last-Ditch Effort, a pixel-art character-action game featuring fast-paced combat, handcrafted animation and stylized comic-book storytelling.

ActionAdventureIndie
Kayak with friends

Kayak with friends

Eonia Studio, TBD

You and your friends, on kayaks! Master the art of kayaking and conquer fierce rivers with your friends (and against them). Explore the world’s most beautiful rivers and become the ultimate kayak warrior in this frantic racing adventure.

ActionCasualIndieRacingSimulationSimulatorSportSports
Imagine We Were Human

Imagine We Were Human

Vine Moss Games, pklwrks

A compilation of 12 small literary games about humans meeting and missing one another. Explore these experimental experiences that were made on a monthly basis over the course of a year.

CasualIndieVisual Novel
Gangsta Bean 3: Night of the Rising Bread

Gangsta Bean 3: Night of the Rising Bread

Kevin Okulolo, LeafWorthy Entertainment

Gangsta Bean, Krazy Karrot, T-Mato, and Brock Lee gang up to fight hordes of reanimated rotten food zombies in this retro arcade-style twin-stick beat 'em up sequel to the classic Flash games.

ActionIndie
Hold On

Hold On

The Sheep's Meow

Struggle. Fall. Triumph. Hold on. A small yet grand journey across life. Simple interactions connect seemingly unrelated moments, from the microscopic to the cosmic.

Adventure
Aftertaste

Aftertaste

Team Aftertaste, USC Games

Aftertaste is a 2.5D indie platformer game where you play as Tami, the tongue of a burned-out chef, Keh, and rediscover her lost passion. Let’s embark on a journey of regaining her taste through adventure and puzzles!

AdventureFree To PlayIndiePuzzle
Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting

Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting

Petallix Games

Backtrace is a yuri mystery and puzzle game set inside a retro computer. Log on night after night to uncover a story of internet exploits and unexpected friendships with a crew of 80s hackers. Solve 2D grid-based puzzles to piece together the mystery.

AdventurePuzzleVisual Novel
The Forgotten Ones

The Forgotten Ones

Blazing Soft

Leidy dreamed of the city, she never imagined violence would force her there. In this 90s narrative adventure, explore streets and interiors, inspect traces people left behind, hear conflicting family memories, and reconstruct meaningful objects by hand while restoring what violence left unfinished.

AdventureIndiePuzzle
Painwives

Painwives

CH3RZY, Studio Malosi

Painwives is an atmospheric walking simulator where you play a pregnant woman sent on a holy pilgrimage by a fertility cult that worships pain.

Adventure