Aussies rejoice! Frosty Games Fest has Frosty Games blessed us with brand new trailers, game announcements, and release date announcements for games grown in Australia and across the pond in New Zealand.
Here is everything announced at Frosty Games Fest 2025. Check out all the individual trailers below or the full showcase and give these wonderful ANZ-made games a wishlist by clicking on the titles of the games!
My Arms are Longer Now – New Gameplay
Developers Matt and Millie led us through the new trailer for their whacky 2D Stealth Comedy game, showing us how to accessorise while you’re hiding from the long arm of the law.
Check out My Arms are Longer Now on Steam, give them a wishlist and eagerly await the 2026 release date with us!
Mars First Logistics – 1.0 Release
After 2 years in Early Access, Mars First Logistics is getting its 1.0 release on September 25th! Build rovers and transport cargo around The Red Planet in this creative, mechanical puzzle game from Melbourne’s very own Shape Shop.
Letters to Arralla – New Gameplay
Deliver letters all around the island of Arralla with your turnip tush in tow. This puzzle game has you deciphering resident’s addresses using only pictograms! No release date for this one yet.
Toroa Skycall – Release Window Announcement
Fly through the sky in Atawhai Interactive’s debut indie, soaring into our hands Spring of this year!
Junklands – New Gameplay
Battle the toxic warlords and travel through polluted lands in this 3D action-platformer! Do you have what it takes to heal the Junklands?
Bones: Wandering Soul – New Gameplay
Be bad to the bone in this story-rich puzzle adventure, and figure out a way to gain your memory (and your limbs) back!
Matchmaker: Dungeon Heart – 1.0 Release
Frosty Games has the scoop on this match-3 dating sim, revealing that the game’s 1.0 release is today! After being reborn as a Skeleton, you’re tasked with defending the ruins of Torkadall. Afterlife is not all work and no play, though, with 9 dateable monsters for you to learn to love!
Nullstar: Souls – New Gameplay
New stages, a flashy UI, and a banging soundtrack were on display in the brand new trailer for this speedy precision platformer! No release date for this one yet, but you can wishlist it now!
Cast N Chill – New Gameplay
With the game releasing in just over a week, Frosty Games shows off this cozy idle fishing game including a new fishing spot! Catch it when it releases on June 17th!
Canvas Street – New Game Announcement
In a Frosty world premiere, we got some early development footage of Canvas Street! Playing as an architect, you’ll need to design buildings according to your client’s needs. Shout out to AutoCAD! No Steam link for this one just yet.
Tea, Please! – New Game Announcement
Tea, Please explores the hustle and bustle of office life compared to the peace and calm of working from home through the simple act of brewing a cuppa.
BraveCart – New Game Announcement!
This satirical puzzler has you take on the role of an abandoned shopping trolley. Rescue mates and start a revolution against the duopoly that plagues the grocery industry!
Anticitizen: Red – New Gameplay
Bullets and Mullets, the perfect combo! Take control of Barnsey and use bullet-time, slick movement, and guns to take on Australia’s new American occupiers.
Key Fairy – New Demo
One of last year’s Queensland Games Fest winners, this pacifistic bullet-hell with a very unique aesthetic just got its own demo! Head over to the Steam Store page for more details.
Finely Diced – New Demo
In a new gameplay trailer, Finely Diced shows off new UI, character art, and dice-building mechanics! It also came with a new demo, ready to play right now!
REAPRIEVE – New Gameplay
Take on the role of Milo, a grim reaper. He’s tasked with making a soul’s departure from the mortal plane as efficient as possible. Check this one out on itch.io.
CORPOREAL – New Gameplay
This atmospheric narrative investigation game has you piecing together the past using a cursed family photo album. The new trailer shows off a couple new scenes and mechanics.
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The following was shown during Frosty Games Fest in a compilation of games recently released in the last few months:
Black Salt’s award winning cosmic horror fishing game hit the iOS platform back in February, since then it has won the Apple Design Award for Interaction!
A thrilling narrative puzzle game, you must trust in your fellow man, or should you? Navigate alliances and betrayals, all before the creature in the abyss below silences you all forever. Don’t let the conversation get too deep.
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
A side-scrolling shelter survival game, you must gather all the resources you can while trying to keep your group of survivors from being turned into zombies.
A commentary on the difficulties of living with a disability, Unaccessible has you struggling to get health insurance on an island built without ramps.
Cross the depths and restore power to your underwater power planet in this Puzzle Platformer. Just be careful of what lurks below.
From the developers of the award-winning Unpacking, instruct the eponymous singing creatures to restore life to your garden! Music and Magic await!
In an out of this world party game, face off against your friends in 12 inventive Galaxy Games and take the cosmic crown for yourself!
Apothecary of City X – New Game Announcement
Another exciting revea!l Run a cosy apothecary in a dark, dystopian city. Lead developer Anna Zou (Hand of Fate, Hand of Fate 2) has poured her feelings about climate change into this brand new atmospheric title!
It’s set to release into Early Access around November this year!
Winnie’s Hole – New Demo
From the creators of Ring of Pain, and all the way from the Hundred Acre Wood, comes the strangest genre-blending rougelike of the year! After checking out the trailer, don’t hesitate to mutate the beloved bear yourself in the brand new demo just released to Steam.
Slumbering Woods – New Gameplay
Restore a forgotten village by collecting bugs, growing mushrooms, and helping villagers. This new trailer revealed some new gameplay along with some updated visuals! No release date set for this one just yet
Isopod: A Webbed Spin-off – Release Date Announcement
Isopod: A Webbed Spinoff is revealed to excitedly be releasing on October 21st of this year! Get ready to go roly-poly as a tiny pill-bug, unite your fellow bugs, and fight the greedy Fire Ant Conglomerate!
Soggy Beans – New Gameplay
This fishy idler is the ultimate chill out game. This new gameplay trailer shows off new decorations and backgrounds, along with some other general improvements!
Tryhard – New Gameplay
A story-driven, tactical turn-based RPG about an underdog New Zealand Rugby Team, with an actual dog? Sign us up!
Burger Bois – New Gameplay
This new trailer is sure to have your mouth watering with new, never-before-seen ingredients like Radicchio, Kimchi, Shaved Truffles and Waffle Buns!
Foodomina – New Demo
Continuing on the theme of foodstuffs, Lumelli Studios’ new turn-based cosmic indie about fighting mould has a new demo out right now!
Doggy Don’t Care – New Gameplay
Everyone’s favourite mischievous pug has some new gameplay to show us, including some new locales and some truly adorable costumes.
Microvania – Switch Port Announcement
This byte-sized metroidvania is getting ported to the Nintendo Switch in late 2025!
End of Ember – New Gameplay
This new gameplay trailer gives us a glimpse into Ember’s afterlife after she’s accidentally sent to Hell on her birthday. Terrifying clowns, floating baby heads, and lots of gore in this one!
GHOSTCAM – New Demo
Your camera sees what you cannot in this VR/PC ghost photography game! Fearless folk can try the game for themselves on Friday the 13th (of June)!
Your Holy & Virtuous Heretic – New Gameplay
The new trailer for this visually striking First-Person RPG reveals a never-before-seen area of Proxima along with gameplay mechanics that will be of importance.
From the makers of Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical comes a frightfully exciting deckbuilder! The new trailer gives us a look at the mechanics and moody visuals we’ll see in the full release. Expose, Endure, and Expel evil.
Jupiter Junkworks – Early Access Release Date + Demo
This flashy arcade puzzler smashes into Early Access in October 2025! If you can’t wait to get your hands on it, you can always try the new demo out now on Steam.
Match & Mastery – New Game Announcement + Demo
Frosty comes in with another new game reveal! This genre-mashup of match-3 and turn-based tactics is sure to keep you on your toes with procedural generation, making every run unique. This announcement comes with a demo you can install and play right now!
Schrodinger’s Cat Burglar – New Demo
What do you get when you combine Quantum Physics with a literal cat burglar? A brand new gameplay trailer, showing off a bunch of exciting stuff – all accompanied by yet another demo you can sink your paws into!
SPiNG – New Demo
This former-Apple Arcade exclusive is coming to PC on June 18th! The relaxing one-button platformer is also available to try in a demo today!
This adorable robotic adventure has been revealed to be gracing the Nintendo Switch and PC platforms on July 22nd.
Innkeep – New Gameplay
A charming new gameplay trailer! Innkeep lets you cook “creative” dishes, rob your own guests, and uncover an arcane secret that may shake the world to its foundations.
The following was shown during Frosty Games Fest in a compilation of games recently released in the last few months:
Join your new bestfriend Sendy in bouncing, floating, and teleporting shapes from A to B in Shape Sender Deluxe! But maybe keep an eye on Sendy, he’s been acting a little strange…
Snow Cone is a Sokoban-like puzzle game about rolling icy treats and cleaning up the streets! Roll snowballs and scoop them into Snow Cones to match customers’ orders. Solve challenging puzzles and expose the truth behind the city’s shady penguin underbelly. (It’s not all black and white!)
Marvelous marble runs, with a modern twist. Expand your collection by unlocking fun vehicles and playsets, but be prepared for things to get a bit chaotic.
Cyber Paradise is about reviving Mini-the-dog digitally in an atmospheric, neon-drenched cyberpunk world of roguelite action and cafe stories.
Turn-based bullet hell. Play as misfit aliens, craft wild combinations between hundreds of weapons, items, and abilities, and disable uncharted chronospheres: Colossal structures that consume time and distort reality.
A job gone wrong traps lawyer R. M. Renfield at Castle Dracula. Sacrifice—others, or your own humanity—to survive, or risk it all for love in this romantic horror visual novel.
Join Nora in this mysterious and macabre point and click adventure game. Find and collect items to solve puzzles. Talk to peculiar people and monsters alike. Explore Gruesome Grove and beyond to uncover forgotten truths and save the people of her town!
Caught in a strange time loop and with her beloved dog, Beans, missing, 13-year-old Diya discovers that building meaningful connections is key to solving the sinister mystery in this beautifully illustrated 80s-themed narrative adventure. Can Diya break free from the endless cycle and find Beans?
Total Chaos is a survival horror game set on the abandoned island of Fort Oasis, where madness twists reality and grotesque horrors lurk in the dark. Scavenge, survive, and question everything you see.
And last, but certainly not least!
Parasensor – New Game Announcement
A final premiere to cap the show off, this haunting horror-mystery has us captivated here at NextPlay. Explore the city you’ve been cordoned off in, converse with citizens and live through the horror that is making the city’s denizens metamorphose.
And that’s it! An incredible debut showcase from the team at Frosty Games Fest, they’ve made the whole of ANZ proud and really did show “some cool sh*t”!
