Independent video games or “indie” games are video games that are often created without the financial support of a publisher. Many of these wonderful and unique titles just need some love to be found and cherished as the great pieces of gaming they deserve. Many great games got their start as indie.
SFGE has supported our local indie gaming community and continues to welcome indies developers to apply to be part of our “Indie Game Showcase”. We supply the tables, chairs, power and audience and YOU supply your great game. We also have a special award for our BEST IN SHOW indie game for the event. All accepted games will receive an official selection email that includes your official wings and details about the event. Apply for the SFGE indie showcase below.
* SFGE will supply location, table, power, and a weekend membership for the developer but INTERNET is not included. SFGE does not provide internet, we are working with the convention center to see if this may be available through them.
Our 2026 Indie Showcase Winner will receive a full 10X10 booth for SFGE2027
Indie Game Showcase 2023
Our submission application has closed and all available slots are filled. Thank you!
SFGE 2026 Indie Game Showcase Participants:
AD BLOCKER: An Action Puzzle Game
A fast-paced head-to-head puzzler featuring grid-based gravity and a unique linear garbage system. Challenge an eccentric cast in Story Mode or host a Quick Match for up to two players.
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Aethelria: Cross-Dimensions
A fast-paced online team hero shooter set in a shattered multiverse. Choose from a diverse roster of heroes and battle in objective-based multiplayer combat across vibrant science-fiction and fantasy worlds.
Platforms: Windows, Xbox
Barmade
A 2D drink-slinging adventure where you run a bar on the planet Cyrinax. Serve customers, build your business, connect with the local community, and earn enough to pay back a dangerous debt.
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Battle For Lumani
A turn-based fighter designed for competitive players, tactical thinkers, and story fans. Climb the ranked PVP ladder, master strategic mind games, and discover a lore-filled cast of characters.
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Android, iOS
Business 98
A cashier simulator set in 1998 where you process cash payments, manage company goals, and use special cards to build combos. Reach your weekly goal to keep your job.
Platforms: Windows
CONTRAXIS
A 2.5D action arcade game where you trace loops around enemies to capture and weaponize them against increasingly dangerous waves. Precision line-tracing combat meets roguelike progression and high-score replayability.
Platforms: Windows
Danger Chamber
A retro-inspired action game packed with colorful heroes, arcade energy, and old-school challenge. Enter the Danger Chamber and see how long you can survive.
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Android
First Born
A story of revenge. After the murder of your blacksmith father, pick up his weapon, gather tools and tricks along the way, and hunt down the men responsible.
Platforms: Windows
Godless Avalon
A fast-paced fantasy comedy RPG with guns. Explore unusual settings, uncover secrets, battle dangerous enemies, and experience a story filled with high stakes and sharp humor.
Platforms: Windows
Groovekeeper
Groove through Rhythm Heights and punch notes to the beat as Sunthia, the town hero. Stop the Duke of Dissonance and his shadow gang from taking over the town’s airwaves.
Platforms: Windows
High Noon
Step into the boots of a drifter who only wants to play cards. When local outlaws decide you have won too much, use chairs, guitars, bottles, and anything else nearby to fight them off.
Platforms: Windows
HOVERDRIVE
Jump, boost, drift, and hover through gravity-defying levels in this vehicle platformer. Perform tricks, earn score ranks, collect hidden Datapaks, and reach The Core while avoiding its defenses.
Platforms: Windows
Imagine We Were Human
A collection of 12 imaginative literary nano-games about people meeting and missing one another. Each game uses a distinct style while exploring the experiences that connect us across cultures, histories, and distance.
Platforms: Windows, Mac
IsoMetro
A tile-based city builder combining old-school looks with new-school code, a practically infinite world, pathfinding-based economic simulation, and multiplayer.
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Keepsake County
Burglarize procedurally generated farmhouses and escape before the police arrive. Avoid residents, improvise your getaway, and upgrade your gear between runs.
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Kero Kero Cowboy
A platformer for Game Boy Color, Analogue Pocket, and PC. Join a frog on a journey to wrangle the Wild West’s most dangerous outlaws across deserts, mines, mountains, trains, forests, and beyond.
Platforms: Windows
Lien Air Snowboarding
A first-person freestyle snowboarding game blending high-speed action and trick execution with RPG progression and exploration. Discover hidden trails, complete challenges, level up, and unlock new abilities.
Platforms: Windows
Mouseward
Take up your sword and uncover the secrets of a cursed kingdom in this soulslike collectathon. Awaken as a Royal Mouse Guard, master combat, defeat foes, and search for celestial fragments to restore a once great kingdom.
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Nature’s Bidding
A multiplayer roguelike action game where up to four friends craft builds through auctions before battling in colorful, high-speed combat. Bid on cursed masks, collect tarot cards, and adapt to a changing environment.
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Neon Striker
Configure the weaponry on your ship to blast away enemies as you navigate through swarms of bullets and space battles. Each ship offers unique customization options and playstyles.
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Panic 64
A throwback to N64 and PS1-era platformers and a sequel to Panic Porcupine. Race through challenging stages and continually improve your best times and level grades.
Platforms: Windows, Xbox, Playstation
PantherDev Knockout
A two-player fighting game featuring characters from previous PantherDev games. Master spacing and timing, land the first hit, win points, and knock out your opponent.
Platforms: Windows
Quick Punch KO!
A fast-paced competitive fighting game built for instant fun. Swing with your phone in Gyro Punch Mode or tap rapidly in Tap Fury Mode, challenge friends, and climb the global rankings.
Platforms: Android, iOS
Sleighers
A festive networked multiplayer first-person shooter where players battle, capture territory for their teams, and avoid periodic weather events. Developed by students in VGDev at Georgia Tech.
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Snogbert
Help Snogbert find his missing shards and return home in this run-and-jump platformer. Complete random missions, explore changing levels, and face the Shadowmaster.
Platforms: Windows
Spotlight Showdown
Show off your skills in a rhythmic, to-the-beat battle as masked performers from around the world. Time every strike correctly to gain audience favor and steal the spotlight.
Platforms: Windows
Square Shootout
A party brawler where adorable block characters battle with exaggerated square-themed weapons. Designed for one to four players, it blends tactical gameplay with a touch of mayhem.
Platforms: Windows, Mac
The Grid.
A minimalist arcade collection built around words, logic, and numbers. Four distinct games share a clean visual style and a strong focus on replayability.
Platforms: Windows
Venison County
A southern gothic boomer shooter where a rural deer person battles undead neighbors. Balance powerful weapons, active reloads, black magic, sin, and redemption.
Platforms: Windows
Wurzzle
A competitive, logic-based puzzle game in the STEAM Dreams universe. Build skill and rank in the browser-based version, then move to the premium Steam experience for live matches, tournaments, and spectatorship.
Platforms: Windows
Zap Blastum
A fast-paced top-down cover shooter where smart positioning is your advantage. Snap into cover, lock onto enemies, collect upgrades, and outsmart robot armies across five colorful worlds.
Platforms: Windows, Mac