The very best video games we noticed through the Day of the Devs showcase

Now that Summer time Recreation Fest 2025 is off and operating, 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 latest, quirkiest indie releases, and it’s steadily the supply of a few of my favourite video games SGF has on provide. 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 below are my faves from the Day of the Devs Summer time Recreation Fest showcase 2025.

Snap and Seize is a slick-looking motion puzzle recreation that mixes Ocean’s Eleven with Miami Vice. Set within the hyper neon aesthetic of the ’80s, Snap and Seize permits you to dwell out your grasp thief fantasies. Case the joint together with your digicam, taking photos of the merchandise you wanna steal whereas additionally snapping pics of the individuals, locations, and issues that’ll assist your workforce get the products and get out. Coming subsequent yr to PC, PS5, and Xbox Sequence consoles.

It’s time to take a gander on the subsequent recreation from Untitled Goose Game developer Home Home. In Huge Stroll, Home Home combines the peacefulness of a strolling simulator with the wacky hijinks of multiplayer social gathering video games. You and your folks will take a… effectively, huge stroll by way of the countryside discovering and fixing puzzles utilizing the sport’s distinctive proximity voice and textual content chat function.

Sword of the Sea is from the makers of Abzu and The Pathless. It’s a skateboarding exploration narrative recreation by which 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.

I loved the first Escape Academy and I’m extremely geeked that the workforce at Coin Crew Video games is again with a sequel. In Escape Academy 2, the builders gave the individuals what we needed: a much bigger faculty with much more puzzles to resolve. And now, as an alternative of choosing ranges, you could find the puzzles your self in an open-world explorable academy full of secrets and techniques and clues. Unfollow me now, that is gonna be the one factor I discuss for the subsequent week.

Dosa Divas from Thirsty Suitors developer Outerloop Video games is a spicy RPG that’ll make you hungry. Within the recreation, you gather 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 effectively located to make the most of the turn-based RPG hype generated by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

By no means earlier than has a recreation attacked me so violently, however in a means that also makes me actually need to play it. Devour 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!) through a set of WarioWare-esque minigames. This recreation seems to be prefer it’ll trigger me a singular quantity of stress. I can’t wait.

Coronary heart Machine, maker of Hyper Light Drifter and this yr’s Hyper Light Breaker, is again with its subsequent recreation, Possessor(s). Within the recreation, you play as Luca, who has been compelled into cooperation with the demon Rhem. Luca makes use of Rhem’s powers to battle demons which have invaded their metropolis. Collectively the 2 should remedy the thriller of their world whereas exploring their ruined metropolis in a search motion journey recreation (what the children are calling Metroidvanias today).

One other side-scrolling action game steeped in afrofuturistic fantasy? Don’t thoughts if I do! Relooted is a brand new recreation from South African-based developer Nyamakop. It combines endless-runner motion with an Indiana Jones-type story. Within the recreation, you and your folks workforce 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 folks are standing by, prepared to make use of their powers to clear any obstacles to make sure you’ve received a easy path.

These video games aren’t all Day of the Devs 2025 has to supply. You possibly can try the total record of video games here and keep tuned to The Verge’s Summer time Recreation Fest 2025 protection to see extra from these titles later.