Now that Summer Game Fest 2025 is off and working, it’s time for my favourite a part of the present: Day of the Devs. Day of the Devs is a yearly showcase highlighting the most recent, quirkiest indie releases, and it’s ceaselessly the supply of a few of my favourite video games SGF has on supply. This yr is one other banger slate of titles out of your favourite indie publishers, like Devolver Digital, Annapurna Interactive, Panic, and extra. I’ll have extra to share about these video games as soon as the present is over, however for now, listed here are my faves from the Day of the Devs Summer Game Fest showcase 2025.
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Snap and Grab is a slick-looking motion puzzle sport that mixes Ocean’s Eleven with Miami Vice. Set within the hyper neon aesthetic of the ’80s, Snap and Grab permits you to reside out your grasp thief fantasies. Case the joint along with your digicam, taking footage of the merchandise you wanna steal whereas additionally snapping pics of the individuals, locations, and issues that’ll assist your group get the products and get out. Coming subsequent yr to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series consoles.
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It’s time to take a gander on the subsequent sport from Untitled Goose Game developer House House. In Big Walk, House House combines the peacefulness of a strolling simulator with the wacky hijinks of multiplayer get together video games. You and your mates will take a… nicely, large stroll by way of the countryside discovering and fixing puzzles utilizing the sport’s distinctive proximity voice and textual content chat characteristic.
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Sword of the Sea is from the makers of Abzu and The Pathless. It’s a skateboarding exploration narrative sport wherein you cruise round a desert world doing flips off dunes and sandy half-pipes. Sword of the Sea options music by Austin Wintory and really a lot jogs my memory of Sable and Journey, however with a Tony Hawk twist.
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I cherished the primary Escape Academy and I’m extremely geeked that the group at Coin Crew Games is again with a sequel. In Escape Academy 2, the builders gave the individuals what we needed: a much bigger college with much more puzzles to resolve. And now, as an alternative of choosing ranges, you’ll find the puzzles your self in an open-world explorable academy stuffed with secrets and techniques and clues. Unfollow me now, that is gonna be the one factor I discuss for the following week.
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Dosa Divas from Thirsty Suitors developer Outerloop Games is a spicy RPG that’ll make you hungry. In the sport, you accumulate recipes and use them in cooking minigames to make meals for individuals who have been overcome by a violent case of the itis. Dosa Diva’s turn-based fight options dodges and parries, which makes the sport nicely located to make the most of the turn-based RPG hype generated by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
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Never earlier than has a sport attacked me so violently, however in a approach that also makes me actually need to play it. Consume Me is a coming-of-age story that pays homage to the distinctive hell of being a teenage woman. Stress about your grades (impolite), crushes (additionally impolite), and weight (RUDE AS FUCK!) by way of a set of WarioWare-esque minigames. This sport seems to be prefer it’ll trigger me a novel quantity of stress. I can’t wait.
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Heart Machine, maker of Hyper Light Drifter and this yr’s Hyper Light Breaker, is again with its subsequent sport, Possessor(s). In the sport, you play as Luca, who has been pressured into cooperation with the demon Rhem. Luca makes use of Rhem’s powers to struggle demons which have invaded their metropolis. Together the 2 should clear up the thriller of their world whereas exploring their ruined metropolis in a search motion journey sport (what the youngsters are calling Metroidvanias as of late).
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Another side-scrolling motion sport steeped in afrofuturistic fantasy? Don’t thoughts if I do! Relooted is a brand new sport from South African-based developer Nyamakop. It combines endless-runner motion with an Indiana Jones-type story. In the sport, you and your mates group as much as steal your tradition’s artifacts again from the museums that stole them within the first place. As you run by way of every location, your mates are standing by, prepared to make use of their powers to clear any obstacles to make sure you’ve obtained a clean path.
These video games aren’t all Day of the Devs 2025 has to supply. You can take a look at the total record of video games right here and keep tuned to The Verge’s Summer Game Fest 2025 protection to see extra from these titles later.
