On Tuesday, TooManyGames announced the nominees for its 2026 TooManyGames Indie Game Showcase Awards. The nominees, all selected from the 150 indie games featured in this year’s showcase, span 15 competitive categories. Spawncast’s Celia Schilling will return as the ceremony’s emcee, bringing along a host of gaming industry personalities and content creators. Some names include “John Riggs, Failboat and Jaymoji, Shesez (Boundary Break), Sam from RadJunk, Modern Vintage Gamer, TitaniumLegman, Josie Woah, SomeCallMeJohnny, RGT 85, MetalJesusRocks, Zophar, WULFF DEN, Game Apologist, CHAOMIX, mimiyori, Justin Silverman (Creative Director, Retroware), and Scott The Woz.”
TooManyGames 2026 Indie Game Showcase will be “bigger than ever,” according to the organization’s website. “This year, we’ve expanded our lineup of indie games – available both on the show floor and online – with submissions up over 500% from last year.”
TooManyGames’ 2026 Indie Game Showcase Awards will take place next Friday, June 26, 2026, on the Neko Stage (Hall D) at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, PA. A simulcast will air on the organization’s official YouTube channel and Steam. In the Philly area? Head over to TooManyGames, the “ultimate gaming convention,” to relish a panel-packed, game-focused weekend featuring tournaments, vendors, and more.
TooManyGames’ 2026 Indie Game Showcase Awards: All nominees
Best Fighter/Brawler
- Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game — Gameplay Group International
- Dojo Masters — Pixelated Vision LLC
- Mexican Ninja — Madbricks
- Smash ‘N Grab — SLAP-BANG DIGITAL
Best Platformer
- Fallen Tear: The Ascension — Winter Crew
- Little Nemo & the Nightmare Fiends — Team Nemo, Inc.
- Bowlbo — OneyWare
- Curse Chapter: Dawnthief — Colorgrave
Best Puzzle Game
- Colorbound — Panpipe Studio
- Inkblood — Hey Bird!
- Cassette Boy — Wonderland Kazakiri inc.
- Spellsided — Mass Transfer Interactive
Best Action Roguelike
- UnderMine 2 — Thorium
- Cursemark — CLYDE Games
- Void Crew — Hutlihut Games
- Ghost Vanguard — WOMBO COMBO Games
Best Shooter Roguelike
- Hexborn — Caspian Interactive
- Blocks for Babies — BunkSoft Interactive
- Rune Gunner — False Summit
- Gunstoppable — CAGE Studios
Best Strategic Roguelike
- How Many Dudes? — Butterscotch Shenanigans
- CitaDrill — Studio Moka
- Portal Fall — PlayCog/Double Jester
- Mech Tech — @sam_makes_games
Best Deckbuilder
- Bonereader — Bonereaders
- Monster Tavern — Toki Games LLC
- Deck of Memories — Sentiment Games
- Dogpile — Foot – A Studio Folly & Toot Games Collaboration
Best RPG
- Aether & Iron — Seismic Squirrel
- Legends of Dragaea: Idle Dungeons — BLAST PROGRAMMING
- The Dark West — Black Hand
- DDoD — The Future Entertainment Company
Best Shooter/FPS
- Rocket Wrestling Entertainment — Rocket Jump Games
- Earth Atlantis 2 — Pixel Perfex
- Brine — Studio Whalefall
- Project Neon — FULLSET
Best in Sports/Racing
- LANESPLIT — FunkyMouse
- ROLF — YenDoor LLC
- STUNTBOOST — Byting Games
- Bash Moto — Dob Games
Best Sim/Management
- IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator — Nick Nieuwoudt, Dominik Latos
- LoCoMo — Halfmile Games
- Waterpark Simulator — CayPlay Studios
- Modulus — Happy Volcano
Best in Survival
- Folklore Hunter — Liquid Donkey Games
- Winter Burrow — Pine Creek Games
- Voyagers of Nera — Treehouse Games
- Blind Descent — Pokuch
Best in Horror
- Haunted Bloodlines — Horrified Triangles
- The Skin Stapler — Tainted Pact Games
- Project Songbird — FYRE Games
- Remothered: Red Nun’s Legacy — Stormind Games
Best Visual Novel
- Of the Devil — Nth Circle Studios
- Digital Exorcist — COOL BEANS PRODUCTIONS
- Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved — Armonica
- Rain98 — C#4R4CT3R
Best Adventure
- Hank Shaw: Animal Investigator — Exit 73 Games
- Casebook 1899 – The Leipzig Murders — Homo Narrans Studio
- Mystery House — Guillotine Games
- Moomintroll: Winter’s Warmth — HYPER Games
