In the words of Tj Denzer, the Shacknews Senior News Editor, “The Shacknews E4 Indie Showcase 2026 presentation is a yearly culmination of our never-ending support for the indie gaming scene.”
You can watch the full showcase livestream here:
Here are the games shown in order with applicable release date, trailers, links to steam pages:
Killer Aces Volleyball
Release: 2026
The ultimate 6v6 indoor volleyball game! Build a powerhouse from the ground up to challenge the greatest men’s and women’s teams in the world!
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Cloudbreaker
Release: 2026
Cloudbreaker is a roguelite, inventory management, survivors-like. Explore a sky-world, finding relics and defeating hordes of enemies. Unlock and upgrade airships, each with its own unique layout, abilities, and strategies, to grow your power over time.
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The Mermaid Mask
Release: 2026
An impossible locked-room murder: Captain Mortuga lies dead beside an ancient cauldron aboard the world’s strangest submarine, crewed by sketchy suspects. A handcrafted point-and-click with sharp humour and tricky puzzles. Dive into the next mystery from the creators of Tangle Tower & Crow Country.
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Memoria Wake
Release: TBA
Parry with precision and fight through shifting, surreal landscapes in this Souls-like action-adventure. When reality turns into a living nightmare, you must ascend through a shattered realm to rescue a missing friend.
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Gido Gido: Kaiju Battle Party
Release: 2026
A chaotic 4v4 party brawl is about to go down! Control your giant cuddly combative creatures in a cozy city you can smash to pieces, and fuse with your teammates into even bigger kaiju you collectively control for more devastation. Unleash the mayhem and let’s gooooo!
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Carpark Hero
Release: TBA
Every round is an intense race to claim a parking spot before your friends do. There’s always one fewer spot than players, so if you don’t park your car, you’re eliminated. It all builds to a chaotic, high-stakes 1v1 final showdown where only one car can be crowned the winner.
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Blue Ridge Hunting
Release: 2026
Blue Ridge Hunting is a co-op horror game set in the Appalachian Mountains. Solo or with friends, investigate, document, and hunt cryptids based on real sightings, legends, and eerie phenomena from the region. Are you brave enough to uncover the truth?
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He Who Watches
Release: TBA
A first person puzzle game about walking on walls, manipulating gravity, and discovering secrets. Delve deep into a labyrinth of intricate conundrums, seeking the god at the centre of it all.
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Dittori
Release: TBA
Deep beneath the world, an ancient god stirs. Master the forbidden power of DITTORI, discover its secrets, and use it to bend reality to your will. Herald the end of all things.
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Ember and Blade
Release: Q3 2026
Become the immortal hunter and stand against the archdemon Asmodeus. Cut through bullet-hell swarms, clash with Souls-like bosses, and harness celestial blessings that reshape your powers each run. The demons are rising—raise your sword.
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Minimo
Release: TBA
The MMO for gamers who need short, fun sessions. Minimo drops 200 players into a shared world for a 30-minute co-op roguelite run: fish, craft, explore, and take down bosses together. Every run is new. Fast adventures. Massive parties.
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Lethal Wedding
Release: TBA
Say “I do” to Lethal Wedding, a top-down RPG shooter where the wedding is off, and vengeance is on. When criminal clowns kidnap the groom, the Bride and Mother-in-Law must fight through circus freaks and mafia thugs in this gritty 16-bit experience of bullets and blood.
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Dream Team Supreme
Release: TBA
Battle the monster invasion in exciting deckbuilding battles straight out of a comic book! Control your robot with specialized cartridges, enhance it and your deck, and collaborate on strategic combinations alongside your team of scientists – it’s up to you to save the world!
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Master of Mayhem
Release: TBA
A vibrant social‑deduction with roguelike twists, wild abilities, monsters, and nonstop mayhem.
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Mirthwood: Seafarers
Release: 2026
Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers’ path?
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Where Dolls Hang
Release: TBA
Where Dolls Hang is a survival psychological horror game where you investigate a place plagued by strange and unsettling events filled with hanging dolls. Explore dangerous locations, gather evidence, uncover hidden secrets, and use your boat to confront the unknown as you search for answers.
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Go North
Release: July 28 2026
Wander a world filled with cleverly-crafted mazes. Whoever can solve them all gets their wish granted by the Maze God. Explore beautiful mazes, discover unique items and help other maze explorers complete unusual side quests in this cozy and immersive maze adventure!
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Desolus
Release:
Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. Solve Escher-like puzzles through the use of black holes. Travel through time to make structures whole and save the city from ruin.
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Exovia
Release: 2026
Exovia is a physics-based mining and automation sandbox in space. Survey asteroids, engineer zero-G logistics without conveyor belts, and design complex Newtonian factories. Turn floating chaos into perfect order and experience true inner peace as you solve one satisfying problem and then the next.
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LocoMo
Release: TBA
In most games, you play as a villager. In LocoMo, you play as the village. Build a cozy, living world where thousands of tiny villagers travel, play, and socialize. Grow towns, design routes, and connect everything with paths, trains, boats, and planes.
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Come to my Party
Release: Q4 2026
Jimin dreams of finally having her first birthday party, but what begins as a childhood wish unravels into social pressure, fragile friendships, family expectations, and consequences that hit closer than you’d like. Join Jimin in this coming-of-age story where every choice carries weight.
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Toxic Crusaders
Release: 2026
The Toxic Crusaders return for an all-new, all-action beat ’em up for one to four players! Grab your mop, tutu and attitude, and get ready to clean up the mean streets of Tromaville and beyond, one radioactive menace at a time!
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The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest
Release: TBA
The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest (TASQ) is a parody/homage platformer set in a dark 8-bit world. Your vampire-hunting rival robbed you of fame by killing Count Dracula first! Reclaim your glory by resurrecting Dracula piece by piece and slaying the dark count yourself!
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Voidling Bound
Release: June 9 2026
Hatch, evolve, and upgrade powerful space creatures in this action-packed sci-fi 3rd person shooter that reinvents the monster taming genre!
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Inpulse
Release: TBA
Ammo is Movement. Do-Re-Mi is your moveset. You are Flute, a shapeshifting creature who plays music to move. Collect Notes to form melodies and fire them outwards to move through the air. A kaizo-inspired platformer that wants you to succeed, from long-time veterans of the genre.
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Ground Zero Hero
Release: TBA
Kill mutants. Absorb their remains. Mutate into something stronger every run. Stack insane power combos and survive overwhelming hordes in this fast, chaotic, highly replayable action roguelite bullet hell.
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Dreadmoor
Release: Q4 2026
DREADMOOR is a dark first-person fishing adventure game set in a submerged world, rotting from a past catastrophe. Fish in murky waters, upgrade your boat, craft survival gear, and fight monstrous creatures that lurk under the water and on the land.
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Backyard Baseball
Release: July 9th 2026
The arcade-style classic is back – and it’s leveling up. With enhanced gameplay, new game modes, and all the humor & charm of the original, this is Backyard Baseball like it was always meant to be played. Wishlist now for Opening Day on July 9th. Are you ready to play like a kid again?
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