I love game showcase season, though many of the bigger shows have lost their luster for✃ me in the wake of consecutive waves of layoffs in the industry over the years. Also, all of these showcases kind of look the same – triple-As generally don&🎃rsquo;t feel all that different from each other, and the amount of time I want to dedicate to big gam🐻es that don’t do anything new has plummeted over the last year. Because of that, I find myself gravitating towards indie showcases, where I’m more likely to see riskier, more exciting games.

While everyone’s attention is on Summer Game Fest and Day of the Devs, let’s not forget that there are showcases outside of those that foc🌱us exclusively on smaller developers. One of those is Guerrilla Collective’s showcase, which yoꦿu can watch . But if you don’t have time to watch a three hour showcase, I’ve picked out the things that made me open Steam up and wishlist them immediately.

Little Problems

From the publisher of everyone’s favourite 2022 puzzle game comes , an illustrated point and click adventure that bills itself as a cosy detect🦂ive game.

Instead of trying to solve crimes however, Little Problems focuses on the personal lives👍 of the protagonist and the people around her, and has you piecing together more mundane mysteries. Who broke your mug last night? What class were you late for this morning? Why is your friend weeping over her lunch table? You can scroll through an Instagram pastiche, edit presentations, and make notes about the things you’ve discovered – it’s all very cut✤e, and I can’t wait to play it.

Egging On

. This physics-based puzzler has you platforming around intricately designed levels and trying not to b🅘reak yourself in the process. Fall too far, and crack yourself in half.

The prem💯ise is basic, but I can see myself booting this up on my Steam Deck whenever I’m trying to kill time.

Motorslice

This action-adventure parkour game has you jumping, wall-running, and swinging from lamp p♕osts in the ruins of a megastructure.

Nailing the brutalist post-apocaly𒈔ptic aesthetic through low-poly graphics and gorgeous lighting, has fluid movement and fast-paced combat. I don’t predict much narrative here, but just moving throu𝓀gh the world looks amazing.

Urban Myth Dissolution Center

Yes, another detective game, but this one is completely different, I swear! Telling its mystery through episodes, is fittingly focused on urban 🦂myths spread through the internet and renders them in stunning monochromatic art with bright splashes of colour. I was immediately drawn in by the gorgeous pixel-art graphics and horror aesthetics.

As Azami Fukurai, you use your paranormal ability to see human thoughts and memories to navigate relics, dimensional anomalies, and freaky-deaky creatures. Sift through evidence, clues, and even social media and search engine results to solve the mysteries you’re faced wꦇಞith.

Knights In Tight Spaces

This game has some of the coolest visuals in this showcase. is a tactical deckbuilding 🔥game melding highly stylised, 3D animat♎ions of minimally illustrated medieval characters with gorgeously rendered environments.

A spin-off of Fights in Tight Spaces, every chara෴cter has fluid fight animations straight out of an action movie. You can recruit new characters and switch up your party, discovering synergies within different decks and experimenting with different classes and gear. It looks dope, and there’s already a demo you can try.

Fallen Aces

I’m not typically into FPS games, but has a distinctive 2.5D noir vibe that caught my attention at once. Looking like it ca🦋me straight out of a comic book and featuring original hand-drawn art, Fallen Aces lets you use everyday items as weapons.

With immersive sim elements, you can play stealthily or go in guns blazing. Also, I can’t reiterate this enough: it’s stunning. You can already play a demo on Steam.

Monterona

Here’s a cutesy one for the city builder lovers. has you in𓂃terpreting your Italian grandmother’s stories by building streets, fill🍷ing them with houses, decorations, and characters. You can compare your dioramas to those of other players and see how you interpreted each story differently, which is pretty cool.

Also pretty cool is how decorations can adapt easily with intuitive controls – dragging a tree on top of a table turns it into a potted plant, moving lamp posts onto walls automatical🍬ly mounts them, and 𝔍you can even turn bushes into full-blown trees just by pulling them upwards with your mouse. There’s a demo out now.

Sonzai

This hand-drawn, story-rich RPG combines hack-and-slash combat with JRPG elements. Explore the magical town of Kumotoshi, fight vengeful spirits while experimenting with different combinations of weapons, abilities, and skills, and build social links with the p༒eople around you by getting better at the activities they value most. dives into a story about existence, individuality, and more – I’m hyped.

Chicken Police: Into The Hive

Sorry, I just really love detective games. One ♕of the weirdest indies of the last few years, Chicken Police - Paint It RED! Is finally getting a sequel in .

This story-rich, film noir visual novel with anthropomorphic animal detectives features a huge cast of voice-acted, fascinatingly-designed characters. Collect clues, analyse evidence, and interrogate suspects to uncover a huge, complex conspiracy. Finding alternative ways to solve problems might result in different consequences, and there are side quests as well. Your actions will save or doom the cit♑y of Clawville, so choose wisely.

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