Summer Game Fest has been and gone for another year, leaving a wake of cool, exciting new games to wishlist. As with every year, there’s a veritable raft of titles to pore over, with over a dozen showcases revealing more about the future of gaming.
With this raft comes the minor challenge of discoverability, because there are so many games revealed during the annual bonanza. You’d be forgiven if you missed a few of the most exciting announcements, given they were so spread out across genre-specific, region-specific, platform-specific, and even platform-agnostic shows.
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Tastes differ, and there’s certainly plenty of games we’ll have missed as well. But poring over the lists and trailers of every individual showcase, we’ve discovered a host of gems that might’ve escaped attention. If you’re keen to add to your wishlist and learn more about all the cool, quirky games in development around the world, read on.
Here’s eight major standouts from Summer Game Fest you might’ve missed, amidst all the rush and excitement of the annual showcase season.
Summer Game Fest 2026 major game highlights – quick links
A Pocket Full of Slagford
A Pocket Full of Slagford, featured in the ANZ-focussed Frosty Games Fest, is an upcoming adventure game from new studio Slumps that features a wonderfully artful style. Calling to mind classic 3D platformers, it features a young boy living in a town called Slagford, known as ‘The Backbone of the North’ or ‘proper sh*te.’
To escape his circumstances, our intrepid protagonist will chart ‘monolithic megatowers’ and ‘dingy dung pits,’ solving puzzles along the way. Beyond its blocky, nostalgic art style, what stands out most about this game is its unique approach to puzzling. As you travel, you’ll be picking up literal pieces of your world, and using them to solve wild and creative item-placement challenges.
A Pocket Full of Slagford does not currently have a release date.
Mr. Records
Mr. Records is a delightful-looking rhythm platformer with an unlikely protagonist: a sweet old man who really loves music. As described, this is a game about an ‘old dreamer with an extraordinary gift that lets him transcend through music.’ After spending his whole life dreaming, Mr. Records, aka George, will set forth on a toe-tapping adventure through various musical realms, using his magical powers to conquer an array of challenges.
When George isn’t charting colourful worlds, he’ll also be tending to a record store, with management-style gameplay allowing you to share the gift of music with a flock of customers. In this mix of gameplay, and its core art style, Mr. Records is one to watch.
Mr. Records does not currently have a firm release date.
The Telwynium
Following the success of The Drifter, Melbourne-based developer Dave Lloyd (Powerhoof) is back with The Telwynium, a retro-style fantasy adventure game inspired by point-and-click titles from the 1990s. In the game, you’ll venture from your destroyed village of Willows Dene on a quest of survival.
This is a very stylish new adventure that makes use of a classic 16-colour pixel palette with special CRT filters for ample nostalgia, particularly for those who grew up playing games on DOS machines. Beyond its style, The Telwynium is also worth paying attention to given the prowess and flair of The Drifter.
The Telwynium currently has a demo available on Steam, and is set to launch in 2027.
Cassette Beasts 2002
The excellent monster-catching adventure Cassette Beasts is getting a sequel, as confirmed during the annual PC Gaming Showcase. Given how much bright, snappy fun the original game was, news of a sequel is very, very exciting.
Cassette Beasts 2002 will feature new protagonists exploring a strange virtual London which has been infiltrated by the titular Cassette Beasts – Pokémon-like creatures which can fight in battles, evolve, and also destabilise the world order. Like its predecessor, this sequel appears very striking and stylish in approach, with an array of neat collectible creatures to find, and a narrative that should prove equally compelling.
Cassette Beasts 2002 does not currently have a firm release date.
Apple Crumble
If you love Knives Out, or you’re a big fan of the Duck Detective games, then you’ll want to keep a close eye on Apple Crumble. This is a detective game focussed on family members who attend their grandma’s 84th birthday, possibly with nefarious intentions to murder Grandma.
As developer Happy Broccoli Games says, ‘It’s your grandma’s 84th birthday party and nobody is trying to murder her. Stop suspecting your family members, and don’t worry about the strange man in your bedroom.’ With that tagline, Apple Crumble is absolutely rife with intrigue.
Apple Crumble is set to launch in 2026.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Eternal Whispers
Another Vampire: The Masquerade game being announced during Summer Game Fest isn’t really a surprise – but this one is very different from others in the long-running franchise. Rather than being a wildly ambitious adventure RPG, or a simpler text-based Choose Your Own Adventure story, the upcoming Eternal Whispers takes cues from Disco Elysium.
This is a CRPG – a story-infused adventure RPG where dialogue and choices will shape the action of a wild journey. To boot, it’s got a very intriguing premise that mirrors that of the Bloodlines 2 series spin-off:
‘You are Gabe, a vampire awakened from decades of torpor with fractured memories and a past buried deeper than the dead. Guided by Sam, a reluctant Thin-Blood, what begins as a hunt for a rogue ghoul spirals into a dangerous conspiracy tied to the Temple of Eternal Whispers, a vast underground cathedral built in devotion to a forbidden faith.’
Vampire: The Masquerade – Eternal Whispers does not currently have a firm release date.
Slap Out Of It!
Those looking for a silly, slapstick adventure will find it in Slap Out Of It!, a new game from Turbo Button (Floor Plan) all about slapping your way through a cartoon world. In fact, you can only slap, and you must use this skill to solve a variety of silly puzzles as you explore ‘impossible towers where every floor is a comedy sandbox of secrets.’
Amidst all the doom and gloom lately, we could all do with a laugh. Slap Out Of It! looks set to deliver in absolutely absurd fashion, with a bright and outrageous world to lose yourself in.
Slap Out Of It! does not currently have a firm release date.
Red Kiss
What’s better than a vampire game revealed during Summer Game Fest? What about a vampire spy game revealed during Summer Game Fest?
In Red Kiss from Wispfire (Herald: The Interactive Period Drama), you will guide a team of vampire spies into Cold War-era Berlin, where they will attempt to manipulate their way through a tense political backdrop.
Controlling each vampire spy as a ‘psychic dispatcher’, you’ll need to make use of your crew’s special vampire powers and gain their trust as a handler. You’ll also need to be very careful, as your choices will determine the ‘destiny of your house’ and whether your ‘seductive and enigmatic’ sire vampire will succeed in his nefarious goals.
Red Kiss does not currently have a firm release date.
