Short Games Showcase 2026
Short Games Showcase 2026
Short Games Showcase 2026 is an event dedicated to celebrating short video games on Steam. This showcase highlights games that offer a complete and fulfilling experience lasting under 5 hours of gameplay, making them perfect for players who enjoy concise and impactful narratives.
23 featured games
Featured Games(23)
LOST EMBER
Mooneye Studios
Explore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole or even climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, there are lots of ways of getting around.
Coffee Talk
Toge Productions
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
When The Past Was Around
Mojiken, Toge Productions
When the Past was Around is an adventure point-and-click puzzle game about love, moving on, letting go, and the joy and pain of everything in between.
Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp
Beautiful Glitch
"Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp" brings you more of the world's best (and maybe only?) multiplayer dating sim; but in a way you've never expected!
Calico
Peachy Keen Games, Whitethorn Games
Calico is a day-in-the-life community sim game where you are given an important and adorable task: rebuild the town’s cat café and fill it with cute and cuddly creatures! Build up your café by filling it with cute furniture, fun decorations, yummy pastries, and get it bustling with animals again!
A Little to the Left
Max Inferno, Secret Mode
A Little to the Left is a cozy puzzle game that has you sort, stack, and organize household items into pleasing arrangements while you keep an eye out for a mischievous cat with an inclination for chaos. Check out this playful and intuitive puzzler with 100+ satisfying messes to tidy.
Loddlenaut
Moon Lagoon, Secret Mode
Play as an interstellar custodian sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. Pick up trash, explore the vibrant waters, and take care of axolotl-like alien creatures!
Birth
Madison Karrh
You are alone. You will build a creature, a partner, a wet warm heart, a collection of bones.
Frog Island
DevFrog, Shovel Sprout
Start your new life as a caretaker for an island of frogs in this cozy creature-collector! Build your dream island, discover magical wildlife, and uncover the island's many hidden secrets, to try and piece together the past life you've somehow forgotten.
A Tiny Sticker Tale
Ogre Pixel
A Tiny Sticker Tale is a cozy miniature adventure about changing the world, using the power of stickers!
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
Happy Broccoli Games
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
Undusted: Letters from the Past
5minlab Corp., Toge Productions
Undusted: Letters from the Past is a casual game in which you clean and restore dirty items. What is her story as she returns to a long-neglected house? Enjoy the satisfying audiovisuals featuring sensually designed sounds and graphics.
Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut
Black Tabby Games, Serenity Forge
Slay the Princess is a choice-driven psychological horror visual novel with dramatic branching, light RPG elements, and hand-penciled art. The Pristine Cut is the definitive version of the game. It features expanded content including 3 new chapters, never-before-seen Princesses, expansions to familiar routes, a new ending, over 1,200 new hand-penciled frames, over 2,500 new lines of dialogue, and over 35% more content overall.
Pirofauna
Petums
Burn, little Flame, burn... Light up the misty forest, dispel the darkness... Let tiny bugs emerge from the nooks and crannies, gazing at your spark.
We Grew Up in War
Charles Games
We Grew Up in War is a powerful testimony based on real stories of children who lived through wars in Ukraine and Bosnia. Experience their world shaped by fear and imagination and witness their memories in all their raw, haunting truth.
The Dark Queen of Mortholme
Mosu, Monster Theater
You are the final boss, the Dark Queen of Mortholme, unrivaled in power. A hero invades and is easily crushed. Yet, they keep returning. A short-form indie game about an unusual bond, perspectives, and the beauty of change.
Dead Watch
Doctor Shinobi
You're stuck in a time loop ⌛. Whenever you find a dead body, you go back to the past. The only way to escape the loop is to cheat destiny & change the future. Explore the castle and uncover its dark secrets to prevent the next killing.
Shelldiver
Gagonfe
Take a deep breath and dive right into this cozy incremental game about a senior turtle trying to start a business selling jellyfish. Upgrade your equipment, explore biomes, and help your turtly village!
Project Salon
Safe Flight Games, GameWorks Ventures, SIGONO INC.
You're a barber in a city full of beastfolk. Chat with your customers, style their look, help them see something new in the mirror... and in themselves.
A House Inside Me
Ctrl Horror, Skull Queens Games
A psychological horror experience told through environmental storytelling. Explore a house inhabited by trauma, denial, and fractured memories. Three endings. Multiple interpretations. This is the house that lives inside me.
Tyto
Dreamjob Studio
Take flight and glide through a breathtaking world in this visually stunning platformer, where you play as a lost owlet searching for its family in a vast and perilous forest.
Winter Whiskers
Mango Leaf Games
In this cozy snow-cleaning adventure, help bring Winterlight Harbor back to life after a sudden blizzard! Vacuum up snow, turn it into steam, and power the town. Melt icy paths, help your neighbors, and prepare for the Winter Festival!
Little Picnic
eunyuu
Little Picnic is a relaxing open-world adventure set on a peaceful rural island in South Korea’s southern sea. Spend your summer vacation at your grandmother’s home, explore the island freely, meet its residents, and relive the quiet magic of childhood summers.