Short Games Showcase 2026

A psychological horror experience told through environmental storytelling. Explore a house inhabited by trauma, denial, and fractured memories. Three endings. Multiple interpretations. This is the house that lives inside me.

A Little To The Left is a cozy puzzle game that has you sort, stack, and organize household items into pleasing arrangements while you keep an eye out for a mischievous cat with an inclination for chaos. Check out this playful and intuitive puzzler with 75+ satisfying messes to tidy.

A Tiny Sticker Tale is a cozy miniature adventure about changing the world, using the power of stickers!

You're a barber in a city full of beastfolk. Chat with your customers, style their look, help them see something new in the mirror... and in themselves.

Birth is a pleasantly creepy point-and-click puzzle game about living alone in a large city and constructing a creature to keep you company out of spare bones and organs you find lying around. Explore libraries, post offices, museums, cafes, and apartments that don't belong to you, solving observational puzzles hidden in personal belongings and scenery.

Calico is a low stress day-in-the-life community-sim where you move to a town of magical girls and are given a harrowing yet adorable task: make the town's cat café active and full of cuddly creatures again! You will journey to a small village of Magical Girls and other fantastical friends to fix up the cat cafe, as well as fill it with furniture, decorations, yummy pastries and most importantly cats!

Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

You're stuck in a time loop. Whenever you find a dead body, you go back to the past. The only way to escape the loop is to cheat destiny & change the future. Explore the castle and uncover its dark secrets to prevent the next killing

Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open, in a narrative mystery adventure where nothing is quite as it seems.

Frog Island is a fully hand-drawn, cozy Frog Collection and Life-Sim game. Start your new life as a caretaker for an island of frogs in this cozy creature-collector! Build your dream island, discover magical wildlife, and uncover the island's many hidden secrets, to try and piece together the past life you've somehow forgotten.

Little Picnic is a relaxing open-world adventure set on a peaceful rural island in South Korea’s southern sea. Spend your summer vacation at your grandmother’s home, explore the island freely, meet its residents, and relive the quiet magic of childhood summers.

Loddlenaut is an ocean cleanup adventure set on a vibrant alien planet. Play as an interstellar custodian sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. Repurpose marine debris and take care of axolotl-like alien creatures! As you clean up the planet, you’ll run into axolotl-like aliens known as “loddles.” Protect them from the polluted waters and feed them aquatic fruits while you make their planet habitable again. Depending on their diet, loddles will grow in different ways and develop unique traits and abilities that will further enable them to survive on this polluted planet.

Explore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole or even climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, there are lots of ways of getting around.

"Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp" brings you more of the world's best (and maybe only?) multiplayer dating sim; but in a way you've never expected!

Burn, little Flame, burn... Light up the misty forest, dispel the darkness... Let tiny bugs emerge from the nooks and crannies, gazing at your spark.

Take a deep breath and dive right into this cozy incremental game about a senior turtle trying to start a business selling jellyfish. Upgrade your equipment, explore biomes, and help your turtly village!

Slay the Princess is a choice-driven psychological horror visual novel with dramatic branching, light RPG elements, and hand-penciled art. The Pristine Cut is the definitive version of the game. It features expanded content including 3 new chapters, never-before-seen Princesses, expansions to familiar routes, a new ending, over 1,200 new hand-penciled frames, over 2,500 new lines of dialogue, and over 35% more content overall.

You are the Dark Queen—the most powerful being of your entire universe. Your lair is breached by an aspiring hero—a pitiful thing, easily crushed. Except they keep coming back. A 20 minute anti-game about an unconventional relationship and the capacity for change.

Undusted: Letters from the Past is a casual game focused on restoring dirty items to their pristine state. Use a variety of tools to return objects to their original appearance. As you clean each item belonging to the protagonist, reflect on the significance and stories behind them.