Audience Choice Awards
Otto and the Ancient Worlds is an 8-bit 2D adventure platformer about an archaeologist who discovers an ancient library filled with magical books. Each book contains a living story of a mythology or folklore, and a mysterious evil figure releases them into Otto’s world! Otto must return the mythology and folklore back to their books and destroy this unknown evil in the process.
Brought to you by creator David Ladyman, Star Traders is a redesign and upgrade of his original game published by Steve Jackson Games. In it you are a heroic starship captain navigating the galaxy's trade lanes in search of fortune and glory.
Zen Pathz is a unique fighter/platformer hybrid offering a variety of casual play and competitive tournament modes. Simultaneously control an avatar and brush to alter destructible terrain like never before. Detain, drop, and dispatch opponents while overcoming their same attempts at you. Master the duality to create your own zen path to victory.
A virtual reality video game from Synaptix Games. Communications systems in the solar system ahead are disrupted by interference from your armada. They know you are coming! Rise to the challenge and vanquish entire civilizations. Empower yourself with alien technology as you unlock new weapons and more powerful ships. Follow your destiny on the Day of Destruction!
Spark is a creative, combo-based shmup with bullet-hell and puzzle elements. The unique shooting system hooks the player as they discover more ways to create beautiful and deadly combos. The central element of the game is the combination of the various bullets.
King Hùng Era is a family friendly fast-paced strategy game for 2-4 people where you try to get as many units face-up as possible out of 8 units that each player has. The units can be played as single, a pair, set of 3, set of 4. Set of 5 will win the game instantly. Winning the last unit can earn you a big bonus while all losing tiles will go into the box! Each game lasts about 10-15 minutes
Smash Boats(TM) is a freemium single-player action game, with gameplay inspired by the golden age of arcade games. The goal is to smash, bash and thrash your way through arenas full of bizarre pools with one of the many unique smash boats. Sounds easy; but, with relentless enemies, zany mini-bosses, unusual water hazards and obstacles trying to hinder your progress, the goal is anything but easy!
Players control a character who has achieved greatness and lived to tell the tale, but the story of his conquest comes out different with each re-telling / playthrough. Gameplay involves searching for portals hidden throughout each level, using a mysterious language to summon demons from the other side, then unleashing those creatures onto the hapless guards and townsfolk of the land.
De León Legends is a first-person Virtual Reality adventure/combat game designed from the ground up with room-scale movement and VR combat mechanics in mind. Using a large variety of weapons ranging from pistols and cannons to swords. Fight through plagued villages, gallop through treacherous forests, climb steep cliffs and use your skills to push back against the night featuring an instinctive combat system.
Explore Bedtime Town in Mr. Sleepy Man, a new 3D Sandbox adventure title filled with comical hijinks, outrageous characters, and platforming action. Find this game on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, and Nintendo Switch.
Dewdrop is a physics-based music game designed to be easy for everyone, letting you draw vines and place spawners that release droplets at different rates. As the droplets fall, bounce, and strike the vines, they create pleasant musical tones that shift and evolve based on how you shape the space.
Build your workshop and turn it into a fashion business. Interact with your customers and design unique collections to sell in your store. Upgrade your workshop until you rule the fashion industry.
Oathen is a highly replayable arena combat board game for 2 to 6 players inspired by Nordic mythology and esports. Players take on the role of a hero through a randomly generated game board where treasures and traps await. Each hero contains cards used to perform attacks that must cool down with each use. Duke it out to become the arena champion.
GunDrill is a sci-fi adventure to find a new home on an alien planet. This vertical slice showcases your futuristic train, mining for the minerals that power it, and the enemies lurking below. Created by Brian Mowat and Cogh. Art by Zoya Schultz.
Your infiltration team must stop an army of lunar-bots from crashing the moon into our Earth! The field operative, wielding the VR headset, must sneak through each enemy outpost while their team of hackers will assist using their smartphones! Strap in for some Assymetric-VR-Stealth-Party gameplay!
Deadly action and slapstick chaos. CreatorCrate is a viciously fast roguelike platformer about an appliance that devours everything, makes anything, and fights to escape a massive, circular space station. More than run and shoot: improvise and create! The game releases August 2021 at creatorcrate.net/steam
Stranded on Mars with next to nothing, build a city, assemble a fleet, and expand your empire to survive a hostile solar system in this new take that combines elements of space combat and RTS inspired by the classics.
Big Boy Boxing is an energetic Boss Rush game inspired by Punch-Out!!, featuring fluid gameplay, wacky comedy, special abilities, stylized hand-animated pixel art, and a retro banger soundtrack!
Help twins Kaden and Quinn rescue their hamster pals in this wholesome puzzle adventure. Enjoy a cast of colorful characters, mess with your friends in competitive mode, and have hours of fun with delightful platform-hopping, bubble-popping action!
Don’t be fooled by its cuteness. Rightfully, Beary Arms is a bullet hell, roguelite that will punish and reward you. Augment weapons to create unique weapon builds, pick rewards as you explore levels, alter mechanics to your benefit and peril, fight, die, become stronger, and do it all over again.
Jump. React. Upgrade. Flow. Mr. K.I.S.S. is a single player, atmospheric, HD-2D, procedural rooftop runner. Experience precision platforming, a skill tree, real-time dynamic difficulty system, hand drawn characters, and a poignant story of a fractured soul facing the ultimate shadow...
TagTime is a quick and casual party game for up to 8 players. The fairy-tale Monsters want to catch and boil all the puny Runts! To survive, the Runts must harvest resources, build barricades and eat magic mushrooms. It's a deadly game of kick-the-can brimming with action, suspense and wickedness!
Explore breathtaking worlds and fight alien civilizations, taking on the role of derelict crew members of an interplanetary mining company. Go solo or bring your friends, gather resources to craft customizable gear, weapons, and vehicles in this action-packed, online co-op, third-person shooter.
Indie Games Expo in the News
Indie video games to be showcased.
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Indie Game Expo looks to draw DIY gamers
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"experience some of the most innovative and unusual concepts in gaming"
"From the video games that started the craze to ones being dreamed up right now, people got a chance to play them all at the 2018 Denver Indie Games Expo"
"There wasn't really a single dud at the entire expo. Everything looked super great."