Australians make incredible, creative, innovative video games. They’re often fun, funny and everything in between, offering a wonderful escape for players while showing off the pure talent of their developers.
Looking ahead, there’s a vast array of exciting new Australian-made video games on the way, hailing from all sorts of genres and buoyed by strange, wonderful, bold and big ideas. There’s too many to name them all, but the highlights give you a sense of just how creative and how different the projects in development across Australia really are.
Here’s a handful of standout upcoming Australian-made games you should keep a particular eye on in 2027.
11 Australian-made games to watch – quick links
My Arms Are Longer Now
My Arms Are Longer Now, releasing on 11 March 2027, is shaping up to be a pure delight. In this game, you control a very long disembodied arm causing absolute chaos across an array of locations. Stretching out at length, you’ll use your fleshy limb to steal, to slap, and to annoy.
In early demos, what has most appealed about My Arms Are Longer Now is just how silly and irreverent it is. This is a truly slapstick game buoyed by its light-hearted approach to comedy and fun.
ScreenHub: Toot Games is pursuing fun, creativity and silliness with My Arms Are Longer Now
Night Shift: 1999
Night Shift: 1999 is an artful visual novel that uses the clever allegory of vampirism as a stand-in for immigrating to a new city. The somewhat autobiographical game tells the story of a vampire moving to Kings Cross in Sydney, and charting a world of strange beings in the attempt to fit in. With lush prose and a strong concept buoyed by lived experience, Night Shift: 1999 should be a wonderfully gothic, wonderfully well-told tale.
ScreenHub: Night Shift: 1999 explores migration through a world of Australian vampires
Janet DeMornay Is A Slumlord (and a witch)
Janet DeMornay Is A Slumlord (and a witch) is an upcoming horror puzzle game that will absolutely make your skin crawl – but in all the best ways. It’s about the true horror of living that many of us face: renting. It’s also about an evil witch summoning thralls and creatures from beyond to make your life horrible and surreal. Keep your head on your shoulders and you just might survive this spooky, wonderful romp.
The Dungeon Experience
The Dungeon Experience is an upcoming adventure game that features a similar tongue-in-cheek approach to My Arms Are Longer Now. It’s fair to say Australian humour is very distinct with its lean into silliness and bombast, and The Dungeon Experience delivers it very well in its approach to adventuring.
Befriend a weird little mudcrab! Take part in his strange and uncanny dungeon trials. Along the way, you’ll be assailed by all sorts of strangeness, which should make the entire ride worth taking.
ScreenHub: The Dungeon Experience was born of ‘hubris’ and ‘brain vomit’
Huedini
Huedini is a colour-matching rougelike game that goes well beyond its core concept, for something that feels fresh, jazzy and new. In rounds of gameplay, you’ll be working through various dungeon challenges using colour recognition to mix and match blobs of power. When you mix the right blobs, you get access to magical spells, allowing you to blast your way through hordes of roaming beasties.
Winds of Viridia
Winds of Viridia, newly announced during the latest Nintendo Indie World, is an upcoming adventure game featuring a young boy travelling through a magical valley, battling all sorts of monsters to fight for freedom and peace. The game is distinctly inspired by the Zelda games, with touches of light Souls-like gameplay.
Developer Matt Trobbiani has a pedigree in developing great Australian games (Hacknet, Wrestledunk Sports) so it’s certainly worth looking at this latest project, even beyond its clear beauty.
Buru and The Old People
Buru and The Old People is a warm point-and-click adventure game following a retired thief ibis who returns to familiar territory for one last job. With a storybook-like art style, light-hearted puzzles and a devotion to familiar Australianisms, there’s a lot to like about this game and its direction.
Early demos have revealed the light-hearted and bouncy humour in it, as well as its cast of likeable, funny little creatures.
Innkeep
Innkeep is an upcoming ‘immersive job sim’ where you run an inn and serve an array of travellers – including some of the occult kind. What stands out most about this game is its art style. It rocks a wonderfully detailed pixel aesthetic that adds a sense of realism to its adventure.
Add in cool-looking cooking mechanics (always a fun time), light story elements weaving the supernatural and the real, and a dose of good humour, and Innkeep looks like a real blast.
Lone Pine
Lone Pine is a cryptid mystery point-and-click adventure starring a young woman traversing a mysterious national park. Using your skills, neat camera mechanics and deep thinking, you must solve an array of clever and well-designed puzzles. To reward your efforts, you’ll get to meet many beautiful and creepy critters, all inspired by real-world cryptid mythology.
ScreenHub: New Aussie-made game Lone Pine is inspired by cryptids like Mothman and Bigfoot
Parasensor
Parasensor, the debut title from new studio Ghoulish, is a creepy, bug-filled delight. In this game, you play a telecom technician who is sent on a quest into a quarantine zone filled with everyday citizens who are slowly transforming into bugs. With shades of Resident Evil and Disco Elysium in approach, this game is very spooky and very cool. It’s certainly worth keeping an eye on as development continues.
ScreenHub: Ghoulish’s Parasensor promises to be a creepy, bug-filled delight
Dungeon Pizza
Dungeon Pizza is an upcoming cooking game that’s pretty self-explanatory. You’re in a dungeon, and you make pizzas. The twist is that your pizzas are ooey-gooey and filled with fantasy ingredients like eyeballs and rat chunks, to better serve a host of adventurers who come to you for custom, fortifying meals.
Run through this game’s light-hearted story and you’ll meet a menagerie of odd, endearing folks, all joined by their shared love for pizza, made in your home dungeon.
