Summer Games Fest is in full swing and you know what that means… FESTIVAL SEASON is upon us! Frosty Games Fest has of course returned once again to spotlight ANZ games on the world stage. With scoop after scoop of new trailers, demos and release dates galore!
And don’t forget! You can find every game listed, including more ANZ games in the official Steam event here.
Janet DeMornay Is A Slumlord (and a witch)
RENT MONEY IS DEAD MONEY and your landlord is expecting payment IN FULL. Puzzle your way out of a maze of DEPRAVED magical appliances and the UNHINGED diaries of a DEBAUCHED faded television celebrity.
Cloudlings
Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.
HYPER PRIMATE
Speedrun as a HYPER FAST Ape in this parkour focused FPS. Dash, grapple, and blast through deadly obstacle courses using a massive arsenal of weapons. Master momentum, dodge death, and DOMINATE the leaderboards.
The Isle of Lost Bees
Welcome to the Isle of Lost Bees, a cozy idle game where you and your collection of Australian bees harvest pollen, research flowers, and uncover the island’s secrets. You’re a bee-obsessed researcher on an island devoid of humans. You never seemed to need human contact anyway.
Wild n Chill
Wild n Chill is a laid-back wilderness escape where ya forage, hunt, and craft the off-grid cabin of your dreams. Far from the noise and nonsense, it’s just you, your trusty companion, and a pal or two.
Radio Decay
A 1-6 player co-op survival horror set in a supernatural nuclear apocalypse. Drop-pod into an abandoned city to extract radioactive artifacts while being hunted by giant bug-like monsters. Rebuild your decaying body with prosthetic limbs, arm yourself, and radio your friends for help.
Akashic Slingshot
Awaken in the Third, a mysterious world filled with dozens of unique enemies and environments. Using only a slingshot, can you fight your way to victory, when a single hit can kill you?
Rusthaven
Rusthaven is a cosy management game about rebooting the world in the anti-apocalypse. Journey across an abandoned planet on a solar skyship, salvaging broken-down bots in need of rescue. Clean up the world, upcycle retro technology, and build a peaceful sanctuary where all can thrive and belong.
Echo Zero
Descend into a dangerous, procedurally generated sci-fi underworld. Explore, gather resources, uncover powerful wargear and upgrades, rally your droids, build and defend your base, and battle a mysterious new species on the verge of breaching the surface, either alone or in co-op.
Verbal Void
Three neurodiverse kids explore a forgotten island community. Develop connections, battle your fears and uncover the truth in this unique conversation-beat ’em up adventure game.
Mingle
Mingle is a hidden object puzzle game where you move through a crowd to find your identical twin. Each match transforms you into someone new, with hundreds of chatty little characters and surprising level twists.
BLIGHTEN
BLIGHTEN is a survival horror fps set in an abandoned facility overrun by mindless creatures infected by the Blight. Scavenge for resources and do whatever it takes to survive the industrial hellscape you’re isolated within.
Fishing Echoes
Fishing Echoes is a fantasy fishing game where you catch elemental fish to save the realm from a world-devouring maelstrom.
Atlanta TD
Atlanta TD is a roguelite tower defense game where the armies of the underworld descend onto the Four Spectacular Realms in waves as it falls unto the remaining Gods to protect the city of Atlanta!
Edwin Earstwhile: Medical Examiner
A medical detective game set in the late Victorian era. Uncover the perpetrators behind an assortment of grizzly murders by examining meticulously hand-animated cadavers.
TOYA
Toya is a minimalist cube-rolling game that is always bigger than you think…
Shape Sender Deluxe
Your new best friend Sendy is here to guide you through 90+ handcrafted physics puzzles. Solve them, then make your own levels, and maybe keep an eye on him while you’re at it.
Ghost Writer
A whimsical desktop idle focus game. The perfect desktop work companion if you require a little tired ghost typing away at a typewriter.
Cow Chess
Real-time artillery brawler for up to 6 players. Think Super Smash Bros meets Worms, with a movement system all its own.
Sludgineers
Clean, mine and refine pollution in this active incremental game. Cruise through the countryside earning cash and resources, build a refinery, process materials, upgrade equipment, unlock new areas and complete quests.
The Troll & The Witch’s House
The Troll & The Witch’s House is a point-and-click adventure game set in a strange house filled with mysteries. Piece together fragments of the past, uncover secrets and find the key to your escape.
Trading Card Inspector
Inspect your way through dozens of unique, hilarious cards in this chilled-out papers-please-em-up! Identify and appraise cards from The World’s Most Coolest TCG! Start your new job as an official Habubis Trading Card Inspector and uncover a tale of friendship, corporate espionage and murder?!
Freeline
Quick on your paws! Freeline is a frenetic, kinetic, expressive speedrunning platformer about taking down the surveillance state and reclaiming the rooftops.
Apathema
Cursed to repair the inner organs of The Chasm, you fight to uncover the secrets of your existence and end a self-devouring cycle of Apathy. Apathema is a grunge fantasy turn-based RPG, inspired by God Husk, Baroque, and King’s Field.
Bashful Adoration
Bashful Adoration is a Kinetic 3D Platformer starring a cast of four competitive witches who are all in love with the same crush! Featuring Bombastic Combat, Expressive Movement Mechanics and a light-hearted Narrative with themes of love, rivalry and friendship.
Lone Pine
Lone Pine is a single-player, 2D adventure set in the fictional Lone Pine National Park. You play as Izzie, who has come to Lone Pine to try to photograph some of its mysterious, undiscovered ‘cryptids’.
Night Shift: 1999
Balance work, vampirism and socialising as you explore Kings Cross, Sydney during the last year of the millennium. Keep a lid on your darkest desires and be rewarded with a deeper understanding of what it means to live again. Or don’t — no one will stop you. You’re a vampire, after all.
L8R SK8R
L8R SK8R is a 3D platformer inspired by the classics of the fifth generation but with a unique twist that will make you feel like a speedrunner.
KUU
Trapped in the fading light of a broken moonhouse, you have 30 nights to balance scarce resources. Grow meager rations in the weak earthlight. Navigate the emotional sanity of a fragile sisterhood. Decode ancient documents in search of secrets. Your only choices will be impossible ones.
UnQuollified
A charming Australian point & click detective mystery about a struggling artist investigating the mysterious death of his childhood best friend. Explore the small town of Bridgegully, interrogate quirky locals, & sketch clues to expose the truth. Are you ready to solve a crime years in the making?
Penguin Colony
Cosmic horror, through the eyes of a penguin. Rival human factions have come to your home in the Antarctic, seeking an ancient and inconceivable being. Observe their descent into insanity in this faithful re-imagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, and other stories.
Slayblade
Build your battle-top and become King of the Streets! Collect 60+ parts, Merge their Powers, and Dominate opponents in this Chill Roguelite! Skate around a vibrant Y2K city, winning Cash and Upgrades on your way to the top. And if you Die in the game, you Die in real life.
Doomsday Diner
Chaos! Cooking! Combat! In a post-apocalyptic world where hot dogs are cheap and life is cheaper, you manage the last functioning hot dog diner. Cook hot dogs, brew coffee and serve bizarre orders. Upgrade your diner, keep it clean and shoot down raiders who want your hard-earned cash.
Attack of the Astrals
Turn-based strategy roguelike where every battle is a tactical puzzle. Each move of your champion trio unleashes an attack and swaps tiles with other units. Combine skills, spells and summons to defeat a cosmic army that grows stronger as you do.
Box Knight
Fight. Die. Repeat. Become the Box Knight and brawl through a monster-infested office, floor by floor, boss by boss, in this irreverent action roguelike.
Cozy Game Restoration
Cozy Game Restoration is a soothing simulator where you gently bring forgotten video game cartridges back to life. Tear wrapping paper, peel old stickers, lift away grime, and transform dusty relics into cherished collectibles. No pressure or failure, just the quiet joy of restoring memories.
Straycloud
An island in the sky, the home of a once majestic people, has fallen to earth, its magic run dry. The youngest member of this line must venture to shore in an effort to restore power to the ancient magical technology that kept the island afloat.
A Pocket Full of Slagford
Slagford. Some call it The Backbone of the North, most call it proper sh*te. This silly misadventure will take you up monolithic megatowers, down dingy dung pits and beyond. Puzzle your way across the unravelling city by picking up pieces of the world and sticking them where they don’t belong.
Allogloom
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!
Canvas City
Canvas City is a turn-based tactics RPG of rebellion on roller skates. Lead a crew of skaters and street artists rising up against an oppressive regime. Each map is a battleground and a canvas, where your actions shift control, leave your mark, and shape the city’s future.
Bravest Coconut
All Coco wanted was to return a library book. She didn’t expect monsters, mysteries, and a valley full of secrets standing in her way. Explore, solve puzzles, and fight your way through a gorgeous hand-pixeled retro adventure.
Apothecurse
Faced with expulsion from his order, fledgling alchemist Leon must brave the seas and travel to Port Gelour, a plague-ridden city on the brink of revolution. Craft potent potions, befriend quirky locals, and uncover the dark secrets lurking beneath the waves in a quest for alchemy and discovery!
Cooking For MA!
Go on an adventure through the spirit world to save your grandma from an evil sea serpent using the power of cooking! Cook dishes for different characters, exploring Korean cuisine in this story about identity, diaspora, and family.
PUTRID/SHARP
Slice your way through the stages of rot and search for someone lost in a world that is waiting to end.
Sting & Swing
Explore a strange overgrown world as a bee with a golf ball. Master the skills of bee-golf to uncover the mysteries hidden in its furthest reaches and hiding in front of you. Discover uses for abilities you didn’t know you had. There are always more secrets for those who seek them beneath the green.
DWARRF: A Pinball Roguelike
Grab your balls and set sail on your ‘pirate’ minecart into the depths of the mines. Fight enemies in a unique blend of Pinball, Pachinko, and Bubble Shooter whilst collecting game altering balls & relics that ensure no two runs are alike.
HAWKER
HAWKER is a Roguelite Action-RPG where you must pay or evade a debt to Death in a procedurally-generated grimdark world. Scavenge, barter and fight for ichor, life, and truth. Thirty days, an impossible debt. Pay, or Fall.
n00b’s guide
n00bs guide is a narrative walking sim told through a Youtube playlist. Funny, introspective and painfully earnest, play through a series of bizarre mods and community maps, trying to understand what was really important about the time spent with your friends.
Management In Space
Management In Space is a gritty sci-fi strategy roguelite where you find yourself in debt. Build, mine, trade, date, and defend using stations across the galaxy, all while wars swells, aliens devastate sectors, and cults rip the galaxy apart & release demons upon the cosmos.
Toil & Trubble
Herbs locate, tonics make, So gas deflates, and aches abate. Brew up some mischief in a witchy life sim with a small but troublesome difference. To keep the people of The Nook happy and healthy, Mistress Toil needs to train a young, easily-distracted pig to find magical ingredients.
So there you have it! Frosty Games Fest’s second showing has been a banger line-up of games from across ANZ. If you’d rather watch the showcase, you can do so on Youtube below!
Disclosure: Alex Beaty works in game marketing – as a result, they have worked with several of the games on this list in the past or currently. No special consideration has been given to these individual games, and the list is presented as an entire selection.
