This year’s Day of the Devs SGF Edition 2025 stunned with sequels for indie darlings, completely original takes on beloved genres, games that prioritize authentic cultural experiences, intriguing sequels, and much more. Day of the Devs SGF highlights independent developers, has become a staple during the gaming summer season, and continues to show why.
Established in 2012 by Double Fine Productions and iam8bit as a way to give back to their supportive communities, Day of the Devs is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that celebrates the creativity, diversity, and magic of video games. In over ten years, the non-profit has evolved into a fully independent organization with the help of various collaborators, organizers, and partners to give a voice to emerging or underrepresented talent with platforms that connect players with developers and their games. In addition to Day of the Devs SGF, the organization hosts showcases and events around GDC and The Game Awards.
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Day of the Devs SGF Edition Showcase Games
Big Walk
Developer: House House
Publisher: Panic
Synopsis: Developed by Big Walk, it is a cooperative multiplayer adventure about teamwork and talking. Set out with your friends through a wide-open world full of challenges, puzzles, and discoveries. You’ll need to work together to find your way around, stay in contact using an assortment of tools and toys, and figure out new ways to communicate when you suddenly find yourself speechless.
Blighted – World Premiere
Developer: Drinkbox
Publisher: Popagenda
Synopsis: 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.
Consume Me
Developer: Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “coda” Snyder
Publisher: Hexecutable
Synopsis: Consume swept the Game Developer’s Choice awards at GDC 2025. A personal story about body image, anxiety, getting better, and even sometimes getting worse, this is what indie games are all about.
In Consume Me, you take on the role of Jenny, young, in love, and entering her final year of high school. Make meticulous scheduling decisions to maximize your glow-up! Solve the puzzle game of dieting! Evade distractions as you pursue scholarly success! Do chores to get money from mom at a rate much lower than minimum wage!
Dosa Divas
Developer: Outerloop
Publisher: Popagenda
Synopsis: Outerloop Games (developer of Thirsty Suitors) delivers Dosa Divas – a spicy narrative turn-based RPG. After years apart, sisters Samara and Amani journey with their ancient spirit-mech on a mission to defeat a rotten fast food empire and reconnect communities with their traditions. Platform through vibrant villages, battle corporate goons, reconcile with loved ones, and eat one last meal together before saying goodbye.
Escape Academy 2 – World Premiere
Developer: Coin Crew Games
Publisher: iam8bit
Synopsis: Developed by Coin Crew Games and published by iam8bit Presents, Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School builds on the beloved puzzle-solving experience of the first installment, this time with an open world explorable campus filled with hidden traps and puzzles, online and splitscreen couch co-op support, and an all-new mysterious narrative.
Players will uncover a deep mystery surrounding the school’s founding, leading to shocking new revelations about the very nature of The Academy. Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School can be enjoyed in its entirety solo or with loved ones, in-person or online.
Marvel Cosmic Invasion
Developer: Tribute Games
Publisher: Dotemu, Gamirror Games
Synopsis: A cosmic battle awaits! Choose between 15 Marvel heroes in this frenetic action beat ‘em up to fight against the deadly Annihilation Wave threatening the galaxy. From New York City to the depths of the Negative Zone, the future of the Marvel Universe will be fought for across the stars!
Mixtape
Developer: Beethoven & Dinosaur
Publisher: Annapurna Interactive
Synopsis: On their last night together, three friends embark on one final adventure. Play through a mixtape of memories, set to the soundtrack of a generation. En route to their final party together, a perfectly curated playlist draws three friends into dreamlike reenactments of their formative memories.
Experience a variety of narrative vignettes exploring the pivotal moments that shaped them. Players will immerse themselves in the teenage wasteland by playing through a mixtape of joyful gameplay, from skateboarding and flying to taking photos after hours at an abandoned theme park, hitting baseballs, and putting on a fireworks show from the backseat of a car. It’s the greatest hits of the teenage experience, from the first kiss to the last dance.
Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault
Developer: Digital Sun
Publisher: 11 Bit Studios
Synopsis: Step back into the life of intrepid merchant Will as he travels across interconnected worlds to sell one-of-a-kind marvels. 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.
Neverway
Developer: Coldblood Inc.
Publisher: Coldblood Inc., Outersloth
Farm, fish, craft, and build a new life on a remote island in this slow-burning horror RPG.
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Developer: Mortis Ghost, Fangamer
Publisher: Fangamer
Synopsis: 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. As they move the Batter through increasingly confused zones—a farm that extracts metal from the inside of cattle, an amusement park full of people too frightened to enjoy themselves, a sugar factory with ominous smokestacks—players must reckon with The Batter’s mission themselves.
Please, Watch The Artwork – World Premiere
Developer & Publisher: Studio Waterzooi
Synopsis: 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.
However, these are not your everyday artworks. They are alive (tableaux vivants), and there is a mysterious, sad clown, whose sorrow quietly spreads to the other paintings. You’re gonna need focus, a good memory, and lots of coffee to prevent this from happening. Shift ends at 6AM.
Pocket Boss – World Premiere
Developer: Langfilm, Playables
Publisher: Playables
Synopsis: 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. Erase competitors with a finger swipe, navigate the stock market without crashing – work smart, not hard. Your boss will verify if everything looks correct – and, most importantly – beautiful.
Possessor(s)
Developer: Heart Machine
Publisher: Devolver Digital
Synopsis: 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. Play as Luca, the host, and Rehm, her less-than-cooperative counterpart, as they explore a quarantined city ripped apart and flooded by an interdimensional catastrophe. Their only hope of survival is by learning to co-exist.
Ratatan
Developer: TVT Co. Ltd., Ratata Arts / Game Source Entertainment
Publisher: Game Source Entertainment
Synopsis: 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. Intense battles unfold with over 100 characters fighting in massive melee encounters! Defeat the enemies by riding the rhythm of Ratatan’s catchy, toe-tapping soundtrack in this delightful, heartfelt adventure!
Relooted – World Premiere
Developer and Publisher: Nyamakop
Synopsis: Near the end of the 21st century, things looked bright with the signing of the Transatlantic Returns Treaty, promising the repatriation of African artifacts from Western museums, until said museums found a loophole (and promptly exploited it).
When life gives you lemons and museums pull shady moves, it’s time to chuck them back at life and try a new, stealthier form of diplomacy. You’ve got 70 of these artifacts to (re)loot, all of which exist in real life and are of huge cultural, historical, and spiritual significance to the people they were taken from.
Any good heist needs a crew, and as it happens, you’ll get acquainted with quite the cast – all from different African countries, walks of life, and with different skillsets. Case the joint, get in, get out, parkour-style, and hopefully with one more culturally significant artifact ready to return to its rightful place.
Snap and Grab – World Premiere
Developer: No Goblin
Publisher: Annapurna Interactive
Synopsis: Do crimes using only your camera and your crew! 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.
Sword of the Sea
Developer and Publisher: Giant Squid Studios
Synopsis: A single-player atmospheric adventure with high-speed movement inspired by skateboarding games. Surf over a surreal landscape of waves on your Hoversword and unveil a lost ocean teeming with life. F
rom the visionary artist behind ABZÛ, The Pathless, and Journey, and featuring a beautiful score by Austin Wintory. You are the Wraith – resurrected in the desolate Necropolis and tasked with restoring life. Ride the Hoversword across surreal landscapes of waves as you unveil the sea.
Tire Boy – World Premiere
Developer: OtherSide Entertainment
Publisher: Megabit Publishing
Synopsis: A PvPvE multiplayer stealth game set in a 1910s metropolis filled with magic and intrigue. A new take on stealth from Warren Spector. Chart your rise to master thief in a glittering, gloomy 1910s metropolis blending industry, magic, and intrigue.
Your choices unlock unique playstyles and strategies that shape your thief character. 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.
TOEM 2
Developer: Something We Made
Publisher: Something We Made, Popagenda
Synopsis: Step back into the shoes of a curious photographer and set off on a brand new adventure all about uncovering hidden details, helping friends along the way, and documenting the world’s little wonders in TOEM 2, the sequel to the acclaimed TOEM.
Day of the Devs SGF Edition 2025 took place on June 6, 2025.
