Summer Game Fest 2026 roundup: All the shows, trailers, news and reviews

Summer Game Fest

Summer Game Fest conscionable wrapped up its sixth twelvemonth and, for illustration a beautifully cel-shaded type of The Blob, nan show conscionable keeps connected growing. 

The charismatic Summer Game Fest 2026 showcase took spot connected June 5, but nan surrounding buffet of caller crippled reveals, merchandise day announcements, reappraisal opportunities and developer spotlights really ran from June 1 each nan measurement to June 9. That's much than an full week of near-constant video crippled news and trailers to consume, and present we've gathered perfectly each of it successful 1 tidy but lengthy package. We dream you're hungry.

First up, a postulation of Engadget's previews and reporting from Summer Game Fest Play Days successful Los Angeles, which ran from June 6-8:

• Control Resonant's return connected New York feels for illustration nan Backrooms
• Crazy Taxi World Tour will connection much freedom, bite-sized missions and sportfishing pinch a car
• Sega wants Virtua Fighter Crossroads to beryllium much than conscionable different fighting game
• Grave Seasons adds execution enigma to cozy farming and relationship mechanics
• Silent Hill Townfall brings atmospheric scary to '90s Scotland pinch unthinkable attraction to detail
• Saw: Genesis looks nan astir nosy erstwhile you're nan murderous mastermind
• Alien: Isolation 2 keeps nan classical scary game's uncompromising attack to raising tension
• Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is simply a vivid, high-pace remake of a classic
• Stranger than Heaven hands-on: Harder than Yakuza?
• Spyro: A Realm Beyond sees nan '90s purple dragon make a large comeback

And now, everything else.

Be for illustration Carl from Summer House and get successful nan MIX pinch different high-energy watercourse filled pinch great-looking upcoming indie games, gathered by nan folks astatine nan Media Indie Exchange. The MIX hosts a smattering of yearly online indie showcases, and alongside in-person events, they've been spreading nan bully gaming connection for nan past 10 years.

The MIX Summer Game Showcase 2026 had much than 60 games from each types of genres, including quaint life sims, surreal adventures, fighting games, twitchy platformers and tiny small otter things. In nan scary category, nan show featured Lucid Falls, Agnii, Un:Me, Broken Lore: Don't Lie, Echograph, Feed It, Kumarn, Out Fishing, Beyond nan Dark: Nightwatch and others, plus it revealed nan merchandise day first-person cardboard shooter Paperhead (September 18). In position of not-horror, Roverride looks peculiarly pretty, contempt its short tease.

Oddly enough, if you don't watch this showcase you whitethorn extremity up for illustration Carl from nan extremity of this season's Summer House. That is, you'll beryllium a mess. Best not consequence it.

Black Voices successful Gaming is backmost pinch different stellar roundup of video games created by Black artists from astir nan globe, and this year's summertime showcase had a batch to offer. Fittingly, we sewage immoderate lukewarm and sunny vibes from RollerGirl, a slice-of-life escapade filled pinch early-2000s suburban nostalgia and a soundtrack that controls nan weather. RollerGirl comes from indie workplace Pushing Vertices and it's up for wishlisting on Steam.

We besides saw nan tiny land builder Ourlands, a hauntingly beautiful "Vampire Soulsvania" Bathory – Heritage of Blood, an eager pirate RPG astir challenging assemblage oppression called Black Sailors: Bay Of All Saints, and a hectic marble-placing game, Oh!Ware, that has immoderate of nan astir satisfying sound effects we've heard successful each of nan caller showcases (and location person been so many). The fantastical maze crippled Go North sewage a merchandise day of July 28, too.

The 2026 Black Voices successful Gaming Summer Showcase featured a bunch much rad-looking games from each kinds of genres, positive insightful developer interviews, truthful make judge to drawback it all. The event's Steam page is besides worthy a gander.

Black Voices successful Gaming first aired successful 2022, created by The MIX and Xperience Studios co-founder Justin Woodward. It's a nationalist 501c3 nonprofit group that not only amplifies nan activity of Black creators, but besides provides financial and accumulation support for developers making games that edify nan lived experiences of Black, Indigenous and different People of Color. Just look astatine nan weirdly hateful response to nan announcement of a slick caller crippled for illustration Relooted, moreover successful nan large twelvemonth of 2026, and it's clear why Black creators request and merit a beardown spotlight.

This summer's Latin American Games Showcase featured much than 80 titles from 12 countries crossed Latin America, truthful settee successful for a agelong and beautiful watch. Among nan deluge of adorable, action-packed, creepy, analyzable and gorgeous games connected display, nan show included nan world premiere of Ornament Tower, a merchandise day for Kernel Hearts, and a Kickstarter run motorboat for SHADE Protocol. 

Ornament Tower is simply a retro-styled action-puzzle crippled from the erstwhile lead pixel creator of Fields of Mistria, and it looks divine. Kernel Hearts is an anime-styled, co-op roguelite action RPG starring 4 magical girls connected a quest to prevention nan world, and it's owed retired successful September. Meanwhile, SHADE Protocol is a 2D Metroidvania pinch cyberpunk and imagination aesthetics, and it's already absolutely smashed its Kickstarter goal.

That's conscionable 3 of much than 80 full games successful nan Latin American Games Showcase, truthful you cognize you're successful for a dainty pinch nan afloat stream. The Latin American Games Showcase Steam page and official site person each nan details, truthful springiness those a browse while nan show feeds you its gaming goodies.

The Women-Led Games Showcase contains multitudes, obviously. The summertime 2026 version of nan show surely proved this constituent pinch a vibrant swathe of games, including hyper-feminine romps, difficult first-person sci-fi, online Millennial role-playing, narrative-driven paper games and acheronian adventures. There's thing present for everyone.

This summer's Women-Led Games Showcase included nan motorboat of nan Steam demo for lily's world XD. It comes from streamer LilyPichu, and it's group wrong nan folders and messages of a teenage girl's laptop from 2004, transforming from playful sleuthing to psychological scary arsenic you study much astir her life. Everything astir this crippled looks for illustration my jam.

The showcase besides provided an in-depth look astatine Hope successful nan City, a stylish detective crippled from Lofty Sky Entertainment, and also Frieda is Changing, a creepy-cute point-and-click escapade from Mucks! Games. We received caller demos for Playing Mantis' Tiny Capsule Collector, an idle crippled that populates nan bottommost of your surface pinch adorable animals and mini toys, and besides Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder, which seems for illustration a batch of cross-your-fingers fun. Another sweet-looking idle crippled called On-Together: Virtual Co-Working pushed a batch of Summer Studies DLC unrecorded during nan showcase, complete pinch accessories inspired by nan Women-Led Games mascot, Artemis.

That covers conscionable a mini information of nan afloat show, which was perfectly packed pinch delicious surprises, arsenic always.

Day of nan Devs does it correct each azygous clip pinch a laser-focus connected interesting, in-development indie games, and that includes this year's summertime extravaganza.

One of these titles whitethorn guidelines retired because it was included successful a fewer different showcases, but besides because it looks downright frightful: Tenebris Somnia blends retro survival-horror mechanics pinch grotesque live-action cutscenes, and it's being developed by multimedia panic experts Airdorf and Andrés Borghi. We sewage nan game's merchandise date, October 16, during nan Day of nan Devs show.

While nan full showcase is good worthy a watch, present are immoderate highlights lovingly selected particularly for you:

• If Vampire Survivors and Spelunky had a baby, it'd beryllium Messhof's Blood Dungeon
• Tenebris Somnia adds live-action scary to a retro endurance crippled connected October 16
• N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO threatens to revitalize 2D platforming successful 2027
• In co-op shooter Lazy River, peeing successful nan excavation turns guests into zombies
• Ithaca is simply a mysterious road-trip RPG from Bury Me, My Love workplace Pixel Hunt
• '5D' platformer Screenbound arrives connected September 10
• Party pinch your grandma and forestall her execution successful Apple Crumble, retired this year
• Super Yooka-Laylee Kart looks for illustration an old-school Mario Kart for nan modern age

Saturday, June 6 was jam-packed pinch streams each day, and it kicked disconnected pinch nan awesome Southeast Asian Games Showcase. It's nan benignant of show that tin smoothly modulation from nan cozy cat-based idle game Neko Station, to a blocky first-person scary sim group successful a surreal nightmare world called Nol. And successful between, there's a small spot of everything: Dungeon Hotpot is simply a communicative crippled astir serving delicious-looking imagination nutrient to adventurers successful a torchlit pub; Sepak U is an diversion fighting crippled based connected nan athletics Sepak Takraw (which looks very rad); Hoa 2 is breathtaking and slow. The Afterimages DLC for nan stunning coming-of-age communicative crippled Until Then is now group to onshore connected June 18, arsenic announced during nan show.

There's besides thing called Meaningless Random Numbers, an incremental scary crippled that looks for illustration axenic addictive chaos. Its demo went unrecorded arsenic portion of the Southeast Asian Games Showcase, truthful propulsion it connected your to-play database for days erstwhile you're emotion excessively grounded.

Prepare for things to get supremely cozy. This summer's Wholesome Direct featured much than 50 games, including a ample lineup of world premieres and merchandise model announcements, truthful there's plentifulness of charm to spell around. We were peculiarly taken pinch the uncover of Hidden Folks 2, a sequel to nan beloved 2017 hand-drawn hunt game. It's owed retired on Steam, itch.io and mobile devices adjacent year. Additionally, Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit yet sewage a PC and console merchandise date of July 15.

If you're looking for a Summer Game Fest showcase to propulsion connected successful nan inheritance while you get immoderate activity done (or conscionable play more Balatro), Wholesome Direct is nan correct move. Other world premieres successful nan show see Beastfolk Barber, Book Nook (from nan Camper Van folks), Hokko Spaces, In nan Drift, Moomin: Midsummer Madness, Rubber Bird, Tinkernest and WATERFUL: a mini oasis builder.

PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE is notable for its bold, primary-color palette and hand-drawn shakiness, but besides its innovative puzzle mechanics. Back successful your hometown aft graduating college, you pass pinch townsfolk done a supernatural cassette player, crafting sentences utilizing only words nan NPCs person already said. There's thing weird going connected successful nan municipality and your conversations thief unravel nan larger mystery. PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE comes from teaisfortoby! and it doesn't person a merchandise day yet, but you tin wishlist it connected Steam.

All of that doesn't moreover screen nan merchandise dates and different beautiful bits included successful nan afloat Wholesome Direct summertime showcase. The show's Steam page has a batch of it, if you're successful nan temper for a soothing browse. Keeping nan heartwarming vibes alive, a information of proceeds from this year's Wholesome Direct merch sales use nan Transgender Law Center.

Publisher Fellow Traveller hosted its first showcase this summertime and, whitethorn we conscionable say, it was a smash. The Story-Rich Showcase was dedicated to highlighting narrative-driven games from developers of each kinds — nary paid spots aliases concealed ads, conscionable great-looking games chosen because they look great. Fellow Traveller is nan patient down nan fabulously written Citizen Sleeper games, nan Hugo and Nebula-nominated sci-fi adventure 1000xRESIST, and nan organizer of LudoNarraCon. That is to say, they really cognize what they're doing here.

The inaugural Story-Rich Showcase featured 26 games complete 45 minutes, and wide it was a captivating blend of levity, penguins and existential terror. The penguin portion comes from Penguin Colony, nan adjacent crippled retired of Umurangi Generation studio Origame Digital. It's a Lovecraftian scary communicative group successful 1939 and told from nan position of a penguin who's witnessing a cataclysm of Nazis and Indigenous Kaitiaki successful nan mind-melting Antarctic wilderness. This is besides nan existential panic part, it turns out.

There was besides nan uncover of Burn-9, a "reverse-Metal Gear" that places you successful nan domiciled of a handler for a concealed supplier who's connected a occupation that's gone each wrong. Communicating done nan radio, you person to equilibrium nan demands of a subject bid against nan section agent's needs and your ain civilized compass. It's a small spot Papers, Please, a small spot Metal Gear, and it looks fantastic.

The 2nd and last enactment of Soft Rains' Ambrosia Sky lands connected August 6, closing retired Dalia's journey of decease cleaning and uncovering closure amid a lethal outbreak of alien fungus. Act 1 is disposable to play now (with a Very Positive standing on Steam) and nan 2nd portion will beryllium a free update to nan guidelines game.

The showcase included merchandise model announcements for a lineup of titles we've personally been anticipating: Mother-daughter psychological scary crippled Am I Nima is owed retired connected October 8; nan flight room comedy-horror Janet DeMornay is simply a Slumlord (and a witch) is coming to PC and PS5 this year; Rusty Lake's eager point-and-click escapade Servant of nan Lake is retired connected August 13; and SFB Games' detective title The Mermaid Mask will deed PC, PS5, Switch and Switch 2 connected July 16. Plus, Building Relationships is coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S later this year, alongside nan Steam version.

We besides want to return this infinitesimal to opportunity SHE: Seraphim Helix Experiment from Rocket Adrift Games looks and sounds incredible. Here's nan afloat Story-Rich Showcase Steam page.

The Green Games Showcase highlights interactive experiences astir nan beauty and fragility of nature. These are games that (funnily enough) thief america reconnect pinch nature, reminding america of wherever we travel from and what we request to protect. When personification says, "Touch grass," these are immoderate games you could propulsion up.

The Green Games show featured 28 games, and if you bargain immoderate of them done nan Planet Play website, you're helping to money credible, semipermanent planet-saving projects. The showcase itself was divided into sections: Play arsenic an Animal, Save nan World, Ravaged Worlds, Green Thumb and Explore Natural Worlds. It highlighted existed acclaimed games for illustration Spilled! and Haven, and besides upcoming titles for illustration Doomsday Diner, which looks for illustration a supremely entertaining first-person edifice guidance sim that's owed retired connected July 23.

Included successful nan showcase was a little interlude astir Cairn, 1 of nan astir enchanting games of nan year. Set connected nan look of a looming and vulnerable mountain, Cairn is simply a feat of slow and methodical gameplay, ultra-precise mechanics and stunning scenery. It's a deliciously excruciating acquisition and is perfectly worthy your time, particularly pinch its first batch of DLC landing connected August 13 (for free, nary less).

The first-annual Gayming Pride Parade was a immense success. It was hosted by online creator MiladyConfetti and RuPaul's Drag Race queen Jax, and featured an in-depth look astatine 9 eye-catching games featuring queer themes, from queer creators. This is wherever nan magic lives.

The Gayming Pride Parade included spotlights on Kitty Powers Matchmaker Makeover, Cute Patoots, Spill nan Beans, Neon Death Drop, Tako nary Himitsu: Ocean of Secrets, Wylde Society and Art of Solitaire, which features creation this period by queer Polish illustrator Kamila Krol. The showcase besides had a demo driblet and merchandise day announcement for nan ultra-cute pixel-maximalist flirting crippled Rizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Heart. It's coming to Steam connected September 17, truthful commencement clearing retired immoderate encephalon abstraction now.

And retrieve erstwhile we mentioned SHE: Seraphim Helix Experiment up location successful nan Story-Rich Showcase? Yeah, this crippled is truthful gloriously unhinged that it was besides included successful nan Gayming Pride Parade segment, complete pinch a breakdown of its anti-fascist themes and grotesque marque of femininity from characteristic creator and Rocket Adrift co-founder Lindsay Rollins.

Gayming Pride Parade was organized and produced by Gayming Foundation and Gayming Magazine, and it besides highlighted the Qweerty Gamers and Boston Gaymers nonprofit groups.

Brr, it's acold successful here. There must beryllium immoderate games from Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand successful nan atmosphere. Just image Kirsten Dunst saying it and it benignant of works. 

Frosty Games Fest returned this summertime pinch different hr of super-chill games, some already retired and still coming, from creators heavy successful nan Southern Hemisphere. This year's showcase featured everyone's favourite Janet DeMornay Is A Slumlord (and a witch), a cooking sim starring a elephantine oversea serpent called Cooking for MA!, a pixel-art escapade that looks for illustration a operation of Below and Cocoon named Straycloud, nan minimalist cube-rolling crippled TOYA, nan tactical roller-skating RPG Canvas City, and a trippy romp done a decomposing world successful PUTRID/SHARP, among different fabulous-looking titles.

The whimsical desktop idle crippled Ghost Writer was seemingly made retired of my purest daydreams, arsenic its Steam explanation sounds arsenic follows: "The cleanable desktop activity companion if you require a small tired shade typing distant astatine a typewriter." I do. I really do. There's nary merchandise day for Ghost Writer yet, but it's coming from Lemon Jolly Games.

One title that received a merchandise day during Frosty Games Fest was Cozy Game Restoration, a relaxing first-person simulator astir lovingly restoring aged video crippled cartridges. It's each correct location successful nan name, really. It's coming retired connected September 24. The complete Frosty Game Fest Steam page tin beryllium recovered right here.

Following nan Xbox show connected Sunday, June 7 (happy day to my littlest and champion sister), location were 3 fantabulous showcases pinch chopped focuses: The PC Gaming Show, Deutsche Indie Showcase and India Games Showcase. 

The PC Gaming Show was a contained blast, arsenic usual, and it featured nan uncover of Signet City from Citizen Sleeper creator Gareth Damian Martin. Signet City is simply a first-person "fungalpunk" RPG pinch an eye-catching monochromatic colour strategy and droning post-punk music. Martin describes nan crippled on YouTube arsenic follows: "You are a parasite, successful a metropolis wherever unusual technologies and extremist ideas are taking root. Grow into and done its inhabitants, uncover and alteration their stories, and witnesser nan terminal play of nan signet city." Aye aye, Martin. Signet City is disposable to wishlist connected Steam now.

The Deutsche Indie Showcase was a non-stop watercourse of rad-looking caller games from German creators, including Mops & Mobs: A Sweeping Dungeon Adventure, Silberheim Evolving Card Game and My Dear Emma. Do yourself a favour and cheque retired the Steam listing for nan Deutsche Indie Showcase.

The India Games Showcase was perfectly packed pinch unthinkable games from developers that don't thin to get a ton of mainstream airtime, and it's decidedly worthy a watch. Take it from us, group who are brutally up-to-date connected each nan caller crippled releases — shows for illustration this 1 are wherever you're going to find your adjacent favourite title. 

So galore games present caught our eye, but we'll telephone retired Abashed, Fishbowl, Sojourn Past, Raji: Kaliyuga and Dodo Duckie, which is coming retired connected July 23. Browse nan complete India Games Showcase Steam page here.