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Every year, LGF curates a list of upcoming games – from all types of developers across all formats – representing the most exciting titles to come.
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Deadline: Monday 6 January 2025
OFFICIAL SELECTION 2024
Welcome to the fourth annual Official Selection, which champions new and innovative indie games made in London, across the UK – and around the world.
Below there are 40 games across five categories: Made in London, Best of British, International Innovators, Comedy and New Voices.
This international selection of titles will be showcased online throughout LGF through activities like a dedicated Steam festival demo event – but they will also be playable in person on Steam Deck and Playdate handhelds at various events over the two weeks.
Made in London
Squarelets
Squarelets: cosy design, easy to get, engaging for hours. The image puzzle game to play when you need a break from the world. Immerse yourself in vivid colours, charming graphics, and satisfying gameplay. Thanks to its custom AI algorithm for generating images, you’ll never run out of puzzles!
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Roleplaying on the edge of a system in crisis. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and keep both running as you navigate the shifting landscape of the Starward Belt. Can you build refuge among the stars?
Crow Country
The year is 1990. It’s been two years since the mysterious disappearance of Edward Crow and the abrupt closure of his theme park, Crow Country. But your arrival has broken the silence. If you want answers, you’ll have to venture deep into the darkness of Crow Country to find them…
GladiEATers
Fry Eggs, Bake Bread and Steam Vegetables before watching it transform into powerful food creatures to command in turn-based combat!
Morgan: Metal Detective
A cosy, first person metal detector adventure game, where you reunite residents of the beautiful Cornish island of Glasden with things they have lost. And with your late Grandpa’s help, maybe restore magic along the way.
Exilium
Exilium is an atmospheric point & click project. As an exorcist, you will face demons and occult rituals. Cast out evil spirits with your skills and improvised means. Uncover dark secrets and restore balance before it’s too late…
Best Of British
Luna Abyss
Luna Abyss is a single player story driven action-adventure with fluid platforming and bullet hell combat. Follow the journey of Fawkes, a prisoner of Luna caught between a cryptic prophecy and their prison sentence.
Botany Manor
Botany Manor is a botanical puzzle game set in a Victorian English manor.
Mimic
In this chilling multiplayer survival horror, every decision counts as players navigate treacherous landscapes, where alliances are their only hope against lurking threats. Engage in a heart-pounding game of social deduction where betrayal could be just a heartbeat away, and trust is the most elusive currency of survival.
Dead Meat
Lucia’s just killed her husband… probably. Can you get a confession before her lawyers arrive? Use your own words to manipulate, persuade, threaten, or even seduce her into ‘fessing up. This billionaire has a terrible secret. And time is running out.
Leximan
Do you like silly hats? Were you that one kid in class who broke reality? Are you eating nutritional slime right now? Embark on a brilliant adventure in Leximan, using words and incompetence to solve bizarre problems. There are also hat goblins.
Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island
You’re shipwrecked on a lost mythical island. As backpacker Alex, you must befriend the forgotten gods of Greek mythology and restore their memories. Explore the dynamic island and its story sandbox to build new friendships, solve the mystery and save the gods.
Phoenix Springs
Lose yourself in the mystery of Phoenix Springs, a modern point-and-click set in a striking neo-noir world. It begins with an investigation: find your brother Leo. You already know where it ends.
Comedy
Esophaguys
Esophaguys is a silly party platformer where you play as old folks with elongating necks. Stretch, bite, and swing together to find your lost kin, compete in minigames for long-necked glory, and embark solo on a journey of both past and future!
Lucky Tower Ultimate
Escape from a dangerous tower where everything can be a weapon. Lucky Tower Ultimate is a slapstick, roguelike adventure that looks like a cartoon and feels like a joke. Slashy slashy!
Times & Galaxy
Embark on an interplanetary adventure as the first robo reporter for the Times & Galaxy, the solar system’s most trusted holopaper. You’re just an intern, but if you can get the scoop, write great stories, and impress your colleagues, maybe you’ll get to keep your job!
Tiny Terry’s: Turbo Trip
Terry wants to become instantly famous by launching himself into space using his new car. Doing something this cool and reckless will surely make him the talk of the town.
Lost In Space – The Adventure Game
“””Danger! Danger!”” Play as Will Robinson, Dr. Smith and Robot in this 3D, point & click adventure game based on the TV show: Lost in Space. Explore treacherous environments, outwit classic Villains and solve countless puzzles and mysteries to rescue your fellow crew members of the Jupiter 2.”
International Innovators
The Posthumous Investigation
Travel to a noir Rio de Janeiro in 1937 and investigate the mystery behind the murder of Brás Cubas, famed character created by Machado de Assis. Until the truth is out, you’ll be trapped in a time loop, amidst a plot full of conspiracy and treason.
SacriFire
A modern JRPG-inspired game with a unique battle system, rich story, fantastic visuals and music by Motoi Sakuraba.
Stars in the Trash
Stars in the Trash brings the magic of animated movie classics into a narrative-driven platformer that combines action, exploration and puzzles. Tired of feeling trapped at home, Moka, a spoiled cat, decides to run away and seek adventure. Explore, make friends, fight, and escape from the kennelman.
Echo of the Waves
Echo of the Waves is a poetic watercolor-inspired exploration game. Follow Zephyr, a musician on a journey to preserve an ancestral bond with nature. Observe and shift perspectives to find your way through colorful archipelagos brimming with secrets and uncover the meaning of Zephyr’s quest!
ALOFT
Aloft is a co-op sandbox survival game set in a world filled with floating islands. Amidst the hurricane, build a home, weave sails, harness the winds, and transform any island into a skyship to explore the clouds. Find lost knowledge to cure fungal corruption and restore the world’s ecosystem.
Toads of the Bayou
Lead a group of toads as they fight against Baron Samedi’s evil forces in a challenging mix of turn-based tactics and roguelike deckbuilding. Synergise card effects, build a settlement and engage in strategic combat to thrive in the cursed bayou.
The Deadly Path
Toads of the Bayou: Prologue is a chapter of the main game, Toads of the Bayou. Introducing ‘The Sister’, a toad missionary sent by her order to purify the bayou. Synergise card effects, build a settlement and engage in a challenging mix of turn-based tactics and roguelike deckbuilding.
Steel Seed
Steel Seed is a single player stealth action-adventure game set in a dark sci-fi world. In an epic journey inside a hostile facility run by AIs, Zoe will have Koby, a flying drone, as her only companion. Save humanity, find your father and stay human until the end.
Rusty’s Retirement
A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.
Nirvana Noir
The city of cosmic beings is under threat in two parallel realities – one where the Big Bang was never fired, the other exploding in color and sin. It’s up to you to solve the mysteries of the Bigger Bang in this follow up to the award-winning Genesis Noir.
30 Birds
Lantern City’s people are at loss: their Goddess and protector, Simurgh, has been kidnapped!
Bionic Bay
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
Mars After Midnight
Lucas Pope’s next game, only on Playdate! An entrant-screening, mess-tidying, session-planning work simulator where you help martians.
New Voices
The Perfect Pencil
Lost in the kingdom of the white beast, will you find your way out? The Perfect Pencil is a story-driven action platformer that throws you into the innermost depths of the human mind. Navigate surreal worlds punctuated by bizzare personalities, tense boss battles and secrets. She’s waiting for you.
Music Power Up
As a musician in the 1980s, create music for early video games. Make your own sounds and melodies from scratch, or use pre-composed patterns. Play games, upgrade the music app, meet programmers, editors and musicians, find your next music job, in the crazy decade that started the digital revolution.
Island of Winds
Island of Winds is an adventure game set in the awe-inspiring environment inspired by 17th century Iceland, drawing upon nature, folklore and history. The core gameplay involves a rich story, intriguing puzzles, spellcasting, and a special focus on empathy encounters.
Gurei
Gurei is an atmospheric, stylized 2D game about fighting a diverse cast of enemies inspired by the Japanese mythos. When an enemy is defeated, the player acquires its unique power and the next enemy in the chosen path will become stronger, until all of them are conquered!
Fishbowl
Fishbowl is a slice of life, coming of age story told over a month. Video call loved ones, work from home, sort through puzzles to rediscover childhood memories, do care tasks and get to know yourself better, one day at a time.
Dino Path Trail
“Dino Path Trail is a 3D isometric roguelike survival game set in a Wild West world where dinosaurs have never faced extinction. The game challenges players to discover and survive procedurally generated maps by blending exploration, gathering, crafting, vitals handling, and combat based on time and mastery.”
RAM: Random Access Mayhem
RAM: a top-down roguelike shooter with no player character. Seize control of diverse robotic enemies, turn them against each other in frantically paced combat, and fluidly swap to fresh hosts as old ones collapse into smoldering rubble.
Fall Up
Lose yourself in the mystery of Phoenix Springs, a modern point-and-click set in a striking neo-noir world. It begins with an investigation: find your brother Leo. You already know where it ends.