Future of Play Direct 2024

Extend your bet with the Grim Reaper himself and fall in love all over again in A Date with Death - Beyond the Bet! Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

Explore an expansive world in this 3D Metroidvania with enormous dungeons and stylish combat. Take control of two different characters, fated to battle each other: Codename A and Codename Z, both legendary heroes with unique abilities that change how you fight and interact with the environment.

Build, manage, and grow your unique city in the skies. Traverse a vast and rich open world full of exotic technologies, relentless dangers, and many hidden treasures. Defend your inhabitants – and the kingdoms below! – from destructive attacks. Only daring leaders can reforge the Airborne Empire!

Automation is not the answer; DANCE is the key to disruption! Help liberate citizens of a consumption-obsessed, corporate dystopia in All Systems Dance: an expressive dance battle adventure. Connect moves, express yourself, feel the music. Join The Movement. The revolution will not be choreographed.

Restore peace to a world torn apart in this 3D turn-based RPG inspired by Japanese classics. Combine the elements to unleash spectacular attacks, solve magical puzzles, and bring the world together.

Lead a plucky crew against a star-consuming threat in this charming character-driven, card battling RPG. Brought to you by the creators of the award-winning Battle Chef Brigade, recruit ace pilots, upgrade their mecha Battle Suits, grow meaningful friendships and captain your personalized adventure.

Bubblegum Galaxy is a cute building strategy game about rebuilding the galaxy tile by tile. Discover and design new planets, complete missions, explore your office and befriend your co-workers... all while trying to find out who deleted the galaxy!

Copycat is a narrative-driven game that explores loneliness and belonging. It follows the story of Dawn, a hell-no-to-home-brand, pampered indoor cat living her best nine lives - until she becomes the target of an elaborate plan when a jealous stray look-alike steals her place in the home.

Cozy Marbles is a comfy game about building marble runs on a sunny afternoon. Using a huge range of bits and pieces, fit together the marble course you’ve always wanted to build and play with. Unwind to a lo-fi ASMR soundscape and roll with the nostalgia.

Croakwood is a creative, relaxed town building simulation game about frogs and nature! Design and create structures, plan and decorate towns, and explore an ancient forest to guide the growth of a charming community of tiny amphibians as they settle into their new life in the lush and wild woods.

Dungeon Clawler is a roguelike claw machine deckbuilder. Players can build their unique deck, fight enemies by grabbing weapons and items from a claw machine and find special artifacts that help them on their quest to reclaim something they lost.

Lead a gang of kids to uncover spooky mysteries, battle creatures, and explore the supernatural side of your hometown in Echo Generation, a turn-based adventure set in the 90s. Echo Generation: Midnight Edition adds fast travel, quest tracker, refined combat mechanics, and more.

A bizarre music band named Genokids is rocking one of their best concerts to date when The Infinite Empire of Zenodia decides to invade Earth and assimilate mankind, landing right on top of the band and ruining both their concert and mood.

Light Odyssey is a soulslike boss rush where every battle is a test of mastery. Play as Bandi and fight to restore light to a world consumed by shadows. Face off against towering colossi in three deadly phases that demand precision, patience, and adaptation.

Lok are a fresh new kind of living beings that spawned in the middle of a vast, incomprehensible world. Help them through mind-bending word-search puzzles and guide them towards expansion of their civilisation.

Margin of the Strange is a gardening-themed mystery-exploration game about the world of human dreams from the developers behind OneShot. Over the course of 6 weeks, Ling seeks to find out more about this world in order to unravel the mysteries surrounding his own life... and his own death.

NODE: The Last Favor of the Antarii is a 2.5D puzzle platformer about a robot navigating a Cold War nuclear complex. Execute timeline-based commands to control NODE. Unravel mysteries, explore the unknown. Your commands decide the outcome.

Nomori is a mind-bending puzzle game where you need to control time and space to journey through a shattered spirit world. Take shortcuts through portals, rotate your perspective, and control the flow of time to move forward, whichever way that is.

A mysterious force of power transforms you and other highly attractive people in your area into superheroes and villains! TEXT, DATE and FIGHT your friends and enemies alike.

Phoenix Springs is a point-and-click mystery adventure developed by Calligram Studio. It follows journalist Iris Dormer as she searches for her estranged brother and investigates the isolated desert community of Phoenix Springs. Rather than collecting physical items, players gather names, ideas, and other leads in a mental inventory, then connect them to locations, objects, and conversations to solve puzzles and progress through the investigation.