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HeartWeaver is a 3D puzzle adventure game where you play as Ace, who is trapped inside their own mind. You’ll need to solve puzzles, understand their memories and figure out their emotions to guide them to healing. It’s an interesting place inside Ace’s mind. There are a lot of different worlds – some of which hold memories that they cannot quite remember as they’ve been taken over by vines. Some feel like moments that represent other things. Some just feel strange.

In Myth of Valderit you play as Nil, who very much has had a string of bad luck of late resulting in him being trapped in a cursed village. This village, as it turns out, only appears under the full moon. While in the forest camping with your friends, you’ve all stumbled upon this pace, and to make matters work, your friends are missing… Myth of Valderit is one of those psychological horror experiences that have more and more built on it.

I am not sure why there are so many train-based puzzle games, but often when I sit down at one, I feel as though I’ve already seen it. With Locomochi I was prepared for some simple movement puzzles, but I found that the movement and the way the characters inter reacted were different enough to make the game stand out.

I feel like I have seen mobile games advertised with the same sort of concept, but without a lot of the charm that Fantasketch has! This puzzle game has you drawing different shapes so that you can solve a bunch of puzzles, with some paints having their own special effects so that you can change the world before you end up at the end of the levels. At first, you will see a level and get to draw whatever shape you want. These shapes are drawn before you start, with one being created at a time.

Abyss Kitchen is a survival action game where you aren’t really doing any of the main fighting. Instead, you are gathering ingredients in order to cook up dishes, that help those who are actually in on the action. With that said, you are still on the battle field and do have a bow, so sometimes you do need to help! Being a member of the team, everyone needs to play at their strengths. The rest of your team will be fighting off monsters and killing creatures who want to bring harm to you.

This article was made in partnership with Beyond Worlds GmbH Silberheim Evolving Card Game is a collectible card game in which cards, lore, and player accounts evolve individually based on the player’s actions. Silberheim Evolving Card Game (ECG) was recently showcased at the Summer Game Fest 2026 as part of the German Indie Showcase. There, the indie studio Beyond Worlds teased the latest content update for the current beta.

The following post is a sponsored article written by MN Media s.r.o. In indie circles, “small” was never an insult. It’s a design value, and a hard-won one. A small game takes a single idea and executes it completely, trusting that a clear, well-made loop matters more than a sprawling feature list. It’s the game jam mentality scaled up: constraint as a creative engine, focus as a feature rather than a limitation. The best small games share a certain honesty.

I am a fan of hidden object games, especially when it comes to ones that have adorable graphics! Twinkle Seek is a hidden object game that paces itself well, slowly growing as you find the sparkles in your area, with a bit of a ghost and witch vibe to it all. In Twinkle Seek, you start off finding a bunch of different sparkles in a small area, which, over time, opens up more areas of the world.

The Path of Kana is an action-adventure RPG where you are finding your way through a haunted dungeon, solving strange puzzles, and trying to guide lost souls home. There’s a story, tons of enemies, and a lot of items to discover. In The Path of Kana, the Celestial Kingdom has fallen, corrupted by the grief of High Priest Lucian Noctis, which has caused the living world and the spirit realm to end up intertwined, with darkness spreading.

The indie scene has spent the last decade falling in love with small games – the jam entries, the one-mechanic wonders, the tiny personal projects built by a single person over a weekend. We celebrate them for their focus, their honesty, and their refusal to pad a good idea into a bloated one. But the original small game wasn’t made by an indie at all. It was a deck of cards.