Indie Fan Fest: Fall 2025
Indie Fan Fest: Fall 2025
A curated showcase from The MIX and Digital Bandidos, spotlighting unreleased indie games launching demos in the October 2025 Steam Next Fest, designed to help standout games drive maximum wishlist growth, reach new fans, and build buzz with press, creators, and players — when it matters most.
48 featured games
Featured Games(48)
Enter the Chronosphere
Effort Star, Joystick Ventures, Gamirror Games, Beep Japan Inc.
Everything moves when you do in Enter the Chronosphere, the turn-based roguelike. Each chronosphere is procedurally generated with defenders and biomes from the worlds it has consumed. Break in, find exotic weaponry and gadgets, outsmart hostile aliens, and fight your way to the core.
Hotel Architect
Pathos Interactive, Wired Productions, Gamersky Games
Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!
INFERIUS
Lucid Rain Studios
Descend through nine dominions of Hell in a first-person horror roguelike deckbuilder. Wield Major Arcana tarot cards, upgrade your deck between deaths, use your lantern to survive the dark, and defeat each ruler before your sanity breaks.
Gloom Punks
OneShark, Soft Source
Not your average co-op roguelike. Where the price for power is death, and you’re trapped in a gloom-scape of fever dreams and fairytales gone feral, you can only rely on Punks like yourself. Cheat death, bounce back, and take on a world that so badly wants you dead!
Blind Descent
Pokuch, META Publishing
Blind Descent is an open-world survival adventure into the mysteries of the Martian depths. Play solo or with friends in 4-player co-op as you search for the missing team. Adapt to survive by building custom tools, upgrading your base, and/or mutating in this bizarre alien world.
Trash
Bin Chicken Studios, Soft Source
A co-op adventure crafting game where you restore balance to a trashy world. Jump, Glide, Shield or Smash your way around a wild open world, complete procedurally generated challenge zones, interact with rubbish creatures and customise your character with crafted forms & abilities.
Regions of Ruin: Runegate
Gameclaw Studio, Raw Fury
Embark on an explorative RPG hack-and-slash adventure where you attempt to re-establish a haven for the lost dwarven civilization. Journey across varied lands, help those in need, gather resources and fight off goblins and monsters as you slowly rebuild a home for your people.
Mazey Village
Slappy Inc.
Mazey Village is a cozy town-restoring adventure where a tornado scatters homes, villagers, and their precious belongings. Explore surrounding maps to recover lost items, rebuild homes, and bring warmth and life back to the village.
VORON: Raven’s Story
Merk Games
In this story-driven adventure, you are the raven from the pages of Norse legends. Fly, explore an open world, uncover its secrets, solve puzzles, save souls, and help your family. Caw!
Beneath
Camel 101, Wired Productions
Beneath is a Lovecraft-inspired survival FPS. Scarce ammo, merciless enemies and a sense of the unknown combine in a 10+ hour, story-driven single player campaign, built for both veteran gamers and those seeking a challenging old school experience.
Light Odyssey
SSUN GAMES, GRAVITY
Light Odyssey is a soulslike boss rush where every battle is a test of mastery. Play as Bandi and fight to restore light to a world consumed by shadows. Face off against towering colossi in three deadly phases that demand precision, patience, and adaptation.
Bladesong
SUN AND SERPENT creations, Mythwright
The ultimate swordmaking game. Forge unique weapons with freeform blade shaping and modular hilts, perfectly balanced to your customers’ needs. Master the art of smithing and uncover the secrets of Eren Keep, a last haven of a dying world – or so they say.
Let Them Come: Onslaught
Tuatara Games, Digital Bandidos
Survive the relentless offensive of the alien horde in Let Them Come: Onslaught, a sci-fi survival roguelite. The pursuit of the perfect build and an ever-expanding arsenal of abilities are the keys to your success.
PSYCHOFINGER
Monkey Business Studio, Digital Bandidos
PSYCHOFINGER – it's a game where pointing fingers isn't just rude... It's essential! Become an agent at the Department of Metaphysical Investigations, survive hordes of enemies, and upgrade your character.
ANTHEM#9
koeda, SHUEISHA GAMES
Combine gems to form combos! In the Strategic Gem Match roguelite "Anthem#9", you’ll fight thrilling and puzzle-like combo battles. Assume the role of an agent of the secret organization known as Anthem#9 and confront powerful foes! Strategic deck construction is the key to unleashing lots of combos
Moses & Plato - Last Train to Clawville
The Wild Gentlemen, Toge Productions
A murder mystery where you are the main suspect! An ambassador on a peace mission has been killed on board the Clawville Express. Time progresses as you sniff out clues, eavesdrop on conversations, and interrogate passengers. Can you solve the case before the train reaches the last station? Or else.
Frontier Paladin
Singular Scheme
Begin your first quest as a Paladin in this isometric Action RPG with weighty, stamina driven combat. Delve into the depths of the Crater, then fortify your positions and survive relentless enemy waves in tactical action-tower defense battles. Can you rebuild a shattered Order?
Revelation of Decay
狼猫游戏 / Wolfy Cat, XD
Revelation of Decay is a zombie survival game that’s less “scary” and even a bit lively. Explore this pixelated world full of bizarre anomalies, awaken supernatural powers, and, amid endless zombie hordes and mutated monsters, gradually uncover the truth behind the invasion.
Cairn
The Game Bakers
Reach a summit never climbed before in this survival-climber from the creators of Furi and Haven. Climb anywhere and plan your route carefully, managing pitons and resources to survive unforgiving Mount Kami. Discover what Aava is willing to sacrifice to achieve the ascent of a lifetime.
Winter Burrow
Pine Creek Games, Noodlecake
Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore their childhood burrow. Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals.
Oceaneers
Barrel Smash Studios
A survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of unstable islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
ASTROBOTANICA
Space Goblin Studio
Science-driven exploration adventure on prehistoric Earth with a relaxing vibe. Farming, crafting, puzzle-solving, and exploration on Prehistoric Earth, where you arrive as an alien botanist who is very good at plant research, but... can't breathe oxygen.
Dunebound Tactics
Terahard Ltd, indie.io
Lead your band of survivors on a perilous trek across unforgiving sands in search of a new home. Battle ruthless factions, scavenge dwindling resources, reshape the terrain to your advantage and make life-or-death choices in Dunebound Tactics, a Roguelite Turn-Based Tactical RPG.
Modulus: Factory Automation
Happy Volcano, Kwalee
Build, automate, & optimize elegant production lines, in a factory made from modules you create. Whether you’re solving intricate logistics puzzles or designing aesthetically pleasing factories, Modulus is built for creative expression. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Escape From Duckov
Team Soda, bilibili
Escape from Duckov is a PVE indie survival RPG — in a duck's world!. Scavenge for resources, build your hideout, and upgrade your gear in the world of Duckov. Start from nothing and rise to the top. Outwit hostile ducks, survive, or make it out alive.
Storebound
Embers
A 1-3 player co-op puzzle horror game set in an accursed megastore. Work together to decode the store's twisted logic, and find a way out before the lurking horrors doom you to shop forever.
Under Par Golf Architect
Broken Arms Games, Gambit Digital
Step into the shoes of a golf architect as you build and manage your own golfing paradise! Sharpen your strategy by designing incredible courses to challenge the most demanding golfers and watch your club flourish as you attract VIP players, hire quirky staff and hold prestigious tournaments.
Appulse: Pinball Shooter
Le Rado
Appulse is the fusion between pinball, top down shooter and roguelite where you need to protect your mothership from invading robots. Each shot affects your ball's trajectory, allowing you to control it in the heat of the battle. Upgrade your equipment and conquer new spaceships to win the war!
I Hate This Place
Rock Square Thunder, Feardemic
A craft-based, isometric survival horror game with twisted monsters and warped reality. Scavenge and build to survive terrifying days and nights while using stealth and noise to fight enemies that stalk by sound. All styled with bold comic art and an '80s horror vibe.
NULLSPACE
Kaigan Games
Experience epic space battles in NULLSPACE, a story driven real-time strategy set in a retrofuturistic universe. Command massive fleets across the battlefield or jump in and take direct control of individual squadrons. Lead your forces to victory in visceral space combat.
Fish Stick Protocol
Maracas Studio, Gamersky Games
Enter strange, unpredictable dimensions with up to 8 players to grab artifacts and survive the chaos waiting inside. Showcase your loot in your private museum, unlock new machines, and gear up for your next dive. And please, shower between missions. Management insists.
Spooky Express
Draknek and Friends
All the passengers are dying to ride the Spooky Express! Don’t let them miss their stops: they may be monsters, but they still have places to be and people to eat – er, we mean meet!
UMAMI
Mimmox, Nexting
UMAMI is a cozy 3D food puzzle game where every level is a handcrafted, sensory experience. Tinker, rotate, and fit wooden blocks together to build mouthwatering food towers and fantastical cakes, all in a comfy atmosphere, like tidying a bento box for the soul.
Beatdown City Survivors
NuChallenger
Eradicate hordes of monsters in this survivors style roguelite set in a rotting, destructible city that hates you. Start fires, blow stuff up, electrify water, you name it. Upgrade & craft an arsenal of oddball weapons including pigeons riding boots. Unlock & upgrade offbeat characters & SURVIVE!
KuloNiku: Bowl Up!
Gambir Studio, Raw Fury
Prep your stations for a cozy cooking game with attitude! Prepare unique meals for quirky small-town locals, upgrade and customize your shop, compete in thrilling cooking battles to become top chef, and protect your family’s long-running restaurant alongside a cast of curious companions!
Origament: A Paper Adventure
Space Sauce Studio, Beverlor, Assemble Entertainment
✉️ Become a living letter and find your way to the one who still waits for you! Fly, sail, roll, solve puzzles, uncover secrets, and travel through time and continents in this adventure platformer!😸
Gunny Ascend
Sunna Entertainment, Outersloth
A Roguelite Block-Stacking Adventure. Stack, Adapt, Escape!! Gunny Ascend is a high-speed puzzle game where every falling block is a chance to escape. Build clever loadouts, adapt to ever-changing hazards, and outsmart the Collectors in this chaotic, dimension-hopping adventure.
Toy Smash Kaboom!
Free Particle, Paleo, XD
Toy mayhem unleashed! Arrange, combine, and craft the wildest toy army inside your desk, then crash into chaotic cartoon brawls across the tabletop!
Stars of Icarus
Muse Games
From the devs of Guns of Icarus comes the ultimate spaceship PvP experience. Captain frigates, pilot fighters, and man the guns. In the forgotten arenas of space, communication with your crew is key. Victory or death, together.
Little Corners
Meteor Pixel, Weekend Games, Gamersky Games
Peel, place, and arrange stickers across tiny windows into different worlds. Relax and unwind to lofi beats, collect unique stickers and share your cozy creations with the world.
Saveseeker
Paper Sword Games
Embark on a quest to overwrite save points in Saveseeker, a turn-based RPG about a time-traveling girl who must save the world from her father.
Dancing with Ghosts
HumaNature Studios
A gentle ghost story about learning to live after loss, set in a lively Thai river village. Teenage Mai befriends Pim, a cheery ghost who needs Mai's good karma to recover lost memories. Play as both as they help each other heal through friendship, dance, and heartfelt kindnesses to their neighbors.
Curse of Pirates
Funky Parrot, HeroCraft PC
Ahoy, matey! How about slicing up some sea beasts and sending a couple of rivals to feed the kraken? Curse of Pirates be a true action roguelike, inspired by Vampire Survivors and Hades! Set sail upon the high seas, gather ye brave crew, and stand firm against the relentless tides of foes!
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
Gamexcite, Daedalic Entertainment
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is a story-driven survival strategy game in which the fate of the iconic starship is in your hands. Take the helm, manage the ship and resources, and make difficult decisions. Will you be able to bring home the ship and its crew?
Below the Crown
Misfits Attic, Shochiku
Explore the dungeons Below the Crown, in this love letter to Roguelikes, Dungeon Crawlers, and Chess. Prepare for strategy, game-changing spells, psychological tests, and challenges from your fellow players. From the award-winning creators of Duskers & A Virus Named TOM.
Liminal: Skies
Liminal Experiences
Welcome to Liminal: Skies, the opening chapter of a new creative universe. More than just town building, here you can design your own characters, bring them to life with dialogue, and craft entire worlds through play. With Liminal, creation is the game.
Strange Brew
Electric Monk Media
A cinematic 3D action platformer with intense chases that feel like a zombie movie. Run to evade, throw beans to distract, and use environmental traps to slow, smash or zap the hordes. Expect non-stop mayhem, absurd story beats, screams/laughs, as you play as a duck mascot with a coffee addiction.
FROGGY HATES SNOW
CRYING BRICK, Digital Bandidos
A survival roguelike where a frog digs through freezing snow, uncovers treasures, unlocks upgrades, and battles mystical creatures. Find the escape door — or defeat the final boss to survive.