European Game Showcase at GDC – 2025: new location, new day!

The European Game Showcase will be back at GDC in 2025. On Wednesday (!), March 19, we will host our annual showcase with fresh games from Europe, first time at (!) the Children‘s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, right next to the GDC venue, to help developers with great connections.

If you want to be part of the 7th edition our showcase, submit your game no later than January 16, 2025!
You can find the submission form HERE.

Please check the FAQ before submitting your game to ensure it is eligible for the showcase.

You can submit all kinds of video games for all platforms if the game has not been released before GDC 2025. Submissions have to be done by the developer (not a publisher or another third party).

If you want to become a partner, don’t hesitate to contact the team to find out how your company can be included in our newsletter announcements, on the website, and on-site during the event.
And a big shout-out to everybody supporting so far!

We are looking forward to seeing your awesome games!

About EGS

Christopher Heck, Business Development Manager Nintendo of Europe:

“It is a great way to discover and connect with indies from Europe.”

Goran Saric, co-founder Okomotive, makers of Far: Lone Sails:

“The European Game Showcase in San Francisco was quite a positive experience for us. It’s a small business meeting with platform holders and publishers and only with some handpicked game projects. Within that small scope it was quite easy for us to get in contact with a representative of Sony. Two days later we already got access to Sony’s back-end and we could order a devkit for our PS4 port.”

About the event: What is the European Game Showcase?
The European Game Showcase at GDC is a pro-bono event where 30+ European developers showcase their newest games to the press, publishers, and strategic partners. It’s an invite-only event aimed at helping developers and their showcased projects take the next steps toward success. More detailed information can be found in our FAQ.

Date and time
NEW! Wednesday, March 19, 2024, exact time TBA
NEW! Location: The Children‘s Creativity Museum, San Francisco, CA 94111

Showcase selection
You will find the selected games for the European Game Showcase 2025 after the selection is completed at the end of February here.

Can I attend as a visitor?
If you are a press member, a publisher, a platform holder, or a potential strategic partner, and want to be considered for the European Game Showcase guest list, please fill out this form. Invitations go out from the beginning of March. We will get in touch.

Organization
The primary organization team of the event is (in alphabetical order) Dajana Dimovska, Eva Gaspar, Tobias Kopka and Alessandra van Otterlo. The European Game Showcase receives support from a wide range of people and organizations across Europe, including Jakub Marszałkowski, Oliver Miescher, Micaela Romanini, and Simon Barratt.

More questions?
To learn more about the event, why we organize it, the venue, cost, etc? Please check our Frequently Asked Questions!

Thanks!

If you are wondering if EGS is a thing: you can find more good experiences from our showcasing developers or attendees here.

Our 2025 Partners and Sponsors

We are thankful for the support by:

Catalan Arts works to strengthen Catalan companies’ and their creative works’ presence at international fairs and key professional events.

Tomorrow’s Awesome Games Showcase aim is to spotlight and promote upcoming game development stars and their noteworthy projects.

The Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) supports films, series and games, from idea to experience.

Indium PLAY: We are a boutique QA & Playtesting company. Our approach is personalised, we are autonomous and we operate as if we are part of the dev team.

MeetToMatch is the premium event networking service that combines an online meeting platform with a full-service matchmaking approach.

Abylight Studios is the Indie Publisher that focuses on high quality games, like One Military Camp and Hyper Light Drifter Special Edition, looking for the ultimate experience.

Curatomic is the speaker and curation agency for people focussed game developer events, known for our work on gamescom congress, Reboot Develop, Ludicious, devcom & more.

Get in touch if you are interested to support! We are just gearing up for 2025.

Header images by Koen and Paul Deetman