Everything announced at Day of the Devs SGF Edition 2025
Day of the Devs returned as a follow-on from Summer Game Fest 2025, bringing a bunch of curated indie games, some of which had just been announced, as well as some world premieres! Let’s dive in with the full stream, and the breakdown with any new trailers below.
Snap and Grab
Coming from No Goblin and publisher Annapurna Interactive, you plan out cool crimes by scoping out high ticket items in a location, as well as snapping pics of any helps and hindrances to your heist. Then storyboard the job for your crew to take on. Just watch out for the detective that’s hot on your heels!
Big Walk
The next game from Untitled Goose Game developer HouseHouse, Big Walk is a big co-op adventure that’s all about just walking around and doing puzzles together. There’s proximity chat in a relatively photorealistic setting, while some of the puzzles will challenge your ability to communicate with things like soundproof glass meaning you need to point and jump and things. But you can also just mess around and go orienteering.
Sword of the Sea
As announced at the State of Play, Sword of the Sea is coming out on 19th August, this the latest game from the makers of Abzu and The Pathless and Journey, and with music by Austin Wintory.
Escape Academy 2: Back to School
Coin Crew Games returns with a sequel to their escapologist debut. Returning to the Escape Academy, the setting is now open world with a blend of small escape rooms to puzzle through, as well as a wider campus to explore with free roaming puzzles to solve.
Mixtape
From the Artful Escape developers, this coming of age action-adventure game sees friends spending their last night together. The whole game is a mix tape in all regards, from the art, to music and gameplay ideas, where you could be boarding, riding trolley away from police, slingshotting and more.
The soundtrack includes Joy Division, Devo, Smashing Pumpkins, Portishead, Roxy Music, Lush, Stan Bush, Iggy Pop and more.
Blighted
This hardcore action adventure metroidvania is built around a dynamic difficulty system that changes the enemies and the world around you. It’s set in another fascinating world of the dead from Drinkbox, the makers of Guacamelee, where the lives and experiences of the dead have been turned malevolent and you have to fight back through the Blighted creatures to gain new abilities and memories.
Dosa Divas
A spicy RPG that’s all about cooking, you have to take on your evil sister’s food-in-tubes empire. Luckily you’ve got a walking car robot to help you get around and battle through active RPG combat. The goal is really to cook up a storm, pull people out of their processed food haze, and make connections with loved ones.
Possessors
Heart Machine’s latest has a demo out today. This interdimensional demon horror game features side-scrolling Metroidvania-like combat. You play as Luca who made a deal with teh demon Rhem, binding the pair of them together trying to survive the horror that hit them. The animated shorts are being made with Powerhouse Animation.
Moonlighter 2
The sequel to the shop-keeping roguelite has a new trailer. You start in Dresna, stranded while on adventures, and have to try and build yourself back up. There’s improved combat, a new 3D art style, and we get to see a boss battle against Herald, using cover, dodging sound wave and hitting bombs back to weaken it.
Please Watch The Artwork
Coming from Thomas Waterzool of Please Touch The Artwork fame is a psychological spot the difference game set in the Museum of Animated Art. No jump scares, just spookies.
Marvel Cosmic Invasion
It’s time for a retro Marvel beat ’em up, with Rocket Racooon and She Hulk just announced to join the roster of 15 super heroes.
Neverway
Ever want Stardew to be more… horror? Well here’s Neverway. Fiona heads off to get away from it all, but then she ends up indebted to a demon. Still, you get to befriend and romance people, each with their own routines. There’s a nice three-block time progression that lets you choose when to move on to the next time span, instead of an ever-ticking clock.
Relooted
Semblance developer Nyamokop has created a side-scrolling heister that ties in with the real world. With museums refusing to repatriate artifacts to their origins – in the game, they’re using a loophole to avoid fictional laws – you go and steal them back instead. Real world artifacts are featured in the game, giving their stories.
Ratatan
Patapon’s spiritual successor just had a demo released, and here’s another trailer.
Thick as Thieves
Warren Spector and Otherside are trying to revolutionise the stealth genre again, mixing immersive sim stealth with multiplayer and shared levels. Players all have their own objectives, but can mess with one another and interrupt. Meanwhile, you need to “Play with your ears” as things like rain could cover your sounds for more than just the Ai.
Pocket Boss
Manipulate data. Make charts look better… until they go all floppy and weird.
Consume Me
Can you survive life, which is trying to consume you? Can you get hot? Can you find $20 while walking the dog?
OFF
A Japanese inspired RPG where you chase ghosts with a baseball bat. OFF is now haunted. Oh dear.
The game that was an inspiration for Undertale is being ported to PC and Switch for the 17th anniversary. It has six new bosses and revamped combat, though.
Tire Boy
You’re a tyre, and you’re a boy. A rubber wheel with arms and legs. It’s quite strange. You were also raised by an owl called Nestwick…
Toem 2
The first gameplay for the photography adventure sequel has been shared. It’s more 3D now, and there’s new camera tools, like scissors to cut things in view finder, a hammer to smash things. There’s a new movement system that includes jumping, but the all-important camera has been made snappier and faster too.
