The European showcase will take place in an exclusive location in San Francisco where around 30 European developers will be able to show their latest creations to press, publishers and strategic partners in a relaxed and enjoyable way.
The event takes place during GDC 2024 in San Francisco.
Organization
The main organization team of the event is (in alphabetical order) Dajana Dimovska, Eva Gaspar, Tobias Kopka and Alessandra van Otterlo.
Attend event
If you are a member of the press, a publisher, platform holder or potential strategic partner and you want to receive an invite to the European Game Showcase at GDC 2024, please fill out this form.
For the selection of the games we got help from (in alphabetical order): Simon Barratt, Eric Bartelson, André Bernhardt, Valentina Birke, Alberto (DJPANCHI) Chavarria Pacheco, Robin Hartmann, Anne Birgitte Jerichau Clausen, Martin Kvale, Jakub Marszałkowski, Hanna Marszałkowska, Ramon Nafria, Micaela Romanini, Oscar Sahun, Martine Spaans and Johan Toresson.
OFFICIAL EUROPEAN GAME SHOWCASE SELECTION
#DRIVE Rally
#DRIVE Rally: A 90s-themed rally racing simulation with legendary cars, challenging terrains, and arcade physics, catering to both newcomers and seasoned players.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Platform holders, Investors
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Developer: Pixel Perfect Dude
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J7UnJNRLcw
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Chase Ace Sole Survivor
Chase Ace Sole Survivor is a guns-blazing, top-down twin stick action arcade space shooter with survivor- & roguelite elements, big juicy explosions and sweet fluid controls.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Platform holders, Investors
Platforms: PC
Developer: Biodome Games
Video: https://youtu.be/8nZmHZRa2ZM
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Chop Chop Guys
Join the madness in Chop Chop Guys, a wild competition of dim-witted characters racing through a world of zany traps.
Interested in meeting: TBC
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch
Developer: Flawless Fun Co.
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Curiosmos
Curiosmos is a charming space adventure where you create your own solar system. Make cute planets from stardust, add gravity, atmosphere, moons, and even life.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Platform holders, Investors, Marketeers
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android
Developer: Céline Veltman
Video: https://youtu.be/DXpiCh1m0xU?si=H-DqzkI2dUm8o1_M
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Dead Letters
DEAD LETTERS is a comedic horror adventure about facing monstrous manifestations of fear threatening your loved ones and sanity while you prepare to leave home.
Interested in meeting: Publishers
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Developer: Spoondrift Games
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLLST8r7grk
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Desert Drifters
Desert Drifters is an action-packed co-op VR adventure set in the sci-fi desert of planet Sha where two players man a hovercraft.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Platform holders, Investors
Platforms: VR
Developer: Fono Labs
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQgSIyVOvXE
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Dissecting Love; a queer autopsy of a relationship
A narrative game about the death of a queer relationship. Dissect the fused body of the couple, starting arguments between them, focused on queer issues.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Investors
Platforms: PC
Developer: Disco:very Studio
Video: https://vimeo.com/845089281
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Frayed Freedom
Frayed Freedom is an adventure game with a focus on social engineering – featuring a novel dialogue system, adaptive storytelling and a captivating setting.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Platform holders, Investors
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Developer: Lost Again
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Grunn
Grunn is a mysterious gardening game set in a mundane village in the far north of the Dutch countryside.
Interested in meeting: Press
Platforms: PC, Mac
Developer: Sokpop Collective
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZnMFo887jA
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GUNTOUCHABLES
GUNTOUCHABLES is a hardcore co-op action roguelite where the enemies evolve just like the players in an ever-escalating arms race.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Platform holders, Investors
Platforms: PC
Developer: Game Swing
Video: https://youtu.be/Mh2SPaDVYqg?si=7R5lL5gj6lsCu5sm
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Havoc: The Mansion Break
Havoc: The Mansion Break is an Unreal Engine 5, single- and multiplayer 3rd person shooter with parkour flavour, coming to PC and consoles in 2025/2026.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Platform holders, Investors
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
Developer: Robo Toro Games
Video: https://youtu.be/0vk2mp6RpGU
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Kohlrabi Starship
Kohlrabi Starship is a beautiful 2D farming game with space travel about reviving ecosystems, finding community, and space exploration, with a stunning soundtrack.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Investors
Platforms: PC
Developer: Whimsical Wolff Games
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvMn2jsmZFQ
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Locomoto
Locomoto is a cozy life-sim where you get to travel the world, meet charming characters and listen to a chill lo-fi soundtrack on your very own, customisable steam train.
Interested in meeting: TBC
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch
Developer: Green Tile Digital AB
Luna Abyss
Luna Abyss is a single player story driven action-adventure with fluid platforming and bullet hell combat.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Platform holders, Investors
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
Developer: Bonsai Collective
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbF2liWk7bM
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Mika and the Witch’s Mountain
Mika and the Witch’s Mountain is a fantasy adventure about an aspiring witch who delivers packages to the townspeople of a small island.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Developer: Chibig
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_LaK5xN-84&t=44s
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Nomori
Nomori, is the game you get if Portal 2 and Ghibli had a baby. Use rotating portals and time reversal to traverse a shattered spirit world.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Platform holders, Investors
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Steam deck
Developer: Enchanted Works
Pieced Together
Pieced Together is a cosy scrapbooking puzzle game about friendship, getting older and learning to let go.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Platform holders, Investors
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android
Developer: Glowfrog Games
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0IBJ-mWqVE
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Placeground
PLACEGROUND is a spaces building simulation with architectural design aesthetics. You create and decorate spaces while NPCs interact with your creations, weaving unique abstract stories.
Interested in meeting: Press, Funds, PR & Marketing
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS
Developer: beyondthosehills
Video: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dlHUonO79IY65iaMln-6n4tBlwUW8Zfh
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Project Foxtale
Project Foxtale is an intense 3rd person movement-combat game inspired by studio Ghibli set along the wondrous and unexplored silk road.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Investors
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Developer: Silkroad Studios
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6e20zgVEvk&t=1s&ab_channel=SilkroadStudios
Replaceable
Replaceable is an isometric puzzle-adventure game where you play an elderly robot designer who has to take back control of his broken-down facility.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Platform holders, Investors
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, iOS, Android, Switch
Developer: The Pack
Video: https://vimeo.com/911114832/78ae97fd88?share=copy
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SOULBOUND
A RETRO-MODERN ROGUELITE ADVENTURE FOR 1-2 PLAYERS. Enjoy responsive and skillful combat. Upgrade, unlock and progress. Fight curious enemies and embark on a strange adventure!
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Platform holders
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Developer: Friendly Foe Games
Video: https://youtu.be/9w6-i8or1ts
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Town to City
Town to City is a cozy city builder set in Mediterranean 1890s, offering unique card mechanics, beautiful 3D voxel art and freeform construction.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Platform holders, Investors
Platforms: PC
Developer: Galaxy Grove
Valse
Valse is a ballroom dancing 3D action game set in 1815 Austria. You dance strategically with aristocrats to gracefully alter Europe’s political and social landscape.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Platform holders, Investors
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Developer: Mi’pu’mi Games
Video: https://youtu.be/TX_EFKHIq1w
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Vegangsters
Vegangsters is a challenging roguelike deck builder, set in a world of antropomorphic criminal vegetables.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press
Platforms: PC
Developer: Poison Pill Games S.L.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3VRBZoYCTM&t=1s
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W.A.N.D. Project
W.A.N.D. Project is a spellcrafting action roguelike, where spell customization is your lifeline. Connect different modules and create your magical combinations in this survivors game.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Investors
Platforms: PC, Steam Deck
Developer: The Knights of Unity
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhzm9mr8M7Q
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Willow Guard
Willow Guard is a single player story-driven fantasy RPG that combines dungeon-crawling action gameplay with a choice-based interactive fiction.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Platform holders
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android
Developer: MiTale
Video: https://youtu.be/xuivr9OylQ0?si=jQ8hbeW2jZELFNge
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Wizdom Academy
A 3D strategy and management game where you build a wizard school, recruit, manage resources, and solve a magical mystery.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Platform holders, Investors
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android
Developer: Kipwak Studio
Video: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16CKsJTvwkoLtByhfG1gqzYsFEqllEq8s
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SWISS GAMES
In addition to the official EGS selection, there is a corner with great Swiss Games.
Eldritch Empathy (Working Title)
Eldritch Empathy is a Lovecraftian rogue-lite where you try to save your village from annihilation, and have to choose between empathy or violence.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Investors
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch
Developer: Lual Games
Video: https://youtu.be/PJj9eczvYS4?si=0XSECWlaj4Po3qhY
Flying Toyz
Flying Toyz features LEGO-like characters and combines the dynamic physics of RocketLeague with combat mechanics: creating a multiplayer game where toys battle using special powers.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Investors
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Developer: Momento Games
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmORrent4bU
Rise of Peles
Rise of Peles is a riveting role-playing game that seamlessly combines crafting automation, a gripping vampire storyline, and intense turn-based combat.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
Developer: Twisted Brainz
Truth Detectives
True crime with real content: use your gaming skills to make a difference, uncover human rights violations through puzzles and strategic mini games.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press
Platforms: PC
Developer: Studio ZB
Video: https://vimeo.com/820688360
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TAGS GAMES
There will also be a table with twee TAGS Games. Tomorrow’s Awesome Games Showcase aim is to spotlight and promote upcoming game development stars and their noteworthy projects.
Glum: A Wicked Misadventure
Glum: A Wicked Misadventure is an action-adventure First-Person “Booter” that combines wacky, physics-based combat, dark and crude comedy and obscure, creative, whimsical violence.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Platform holders, Investors
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
Developer: CinderCat Games
Video: https://youtu.be/3WOMNCLcXl8?si=Hoj7rklKVTywbhJK
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Soul Surge
Soul Surge is a fast-paced 3D Roguelite where speed equals damage. Slide, kick and tear through the seven stages of grief.
Interested in meeting: Publishers, Press, Platform holders, Investors
Platforms: PC
Developer: One Cut Games
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7EwU1aAIF4
Click here for the presskit
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