External Discovery
An editorial guide from The Gaming Nest to indie games from Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, MENA and Oceania — each with original notes and a link to its store page.
These are editorial pages. The developers and publishers are not affiliated with The Gaming Nest unless explicitly stated.
By Green Lava Studios · Costa Rica
Fenix Rage is a platform game from Costa Rican developer Green Lava Studios, released for Windows in 2014 and built with GameMaker. It has drawn comparisons to a blend of Super Meat Boy and Flappy Bird, and the team cited Sonic the Hedgehog and the 1990s cartoon SWAT Kats as inspirations. Console versions for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One arrived in 2016 under the new name Fenix Furia.
By Attu Games · Czech Republic
Feudal Alloy is a 2019 platform role-playing game from Czech studio Attu Games, categorised as a Metroidvania. It pairs platforming with RPG elements inside the kind of interconnected world the genre is known for, and its Steam listing adds action and adventure tags. Attu Games developed and self-published it, releasing it in January 2019 on Windows, macOS and Linux.
By NPC Studio · United States
Fields of Mistria is a farm life sim with role-playing elements, set in the fictional town of Mistria as it rebuilds after an earthquake. Alongside farming, players get to know the villagers, and the game also mixes in combat and magic. NPC Studio in the United States developed and published it, starting work in 2019 and drawing inspiration from Stardew Valley, Harvest Moon and Rune Factory. It entered early access in August 2024 and reached full release exactly two years later.
By Digital Crafter · Taiwan
Fight of Gods is a one-on-one fighting game whose roster is drawn from the deities and legendary figures of world religions and mythologies. Matches follow the familiar versus format, pitting these divine characters against each other. It was made by Digital Crafter, an independent developer from Taiwan. Its religious subject matter led to bans in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, and briefly caused Steam access in Malaysia to be blocked for a day.
By Campo Santo · United States
Firewatch puts players in the boots of Henry, a fire lookout spending a summer in Wyoming's Shoshone National Forest. His only link to the outside is his supervisor Delilah on a walkie-talkie, and the dialogue lines the player picks shape how their bond grows while an old mystery surfaces. American developer Campo Santo made the game, co-published with Panic in 2016, and it later won Best Narrative at the Game Developers Choice Awards in 2017.
By Scott Cawthon · United States
Five Nights at Freddy's places players in the security office of a family pizzeria as night guard Mike Schmidt. Watching security cameras and shutting steel doors keeps roaming animatronics at bay, but every action drains a limited power supply, and running out leaves the office defenceless. Scott Cawthon, a solo developer in the United States, made it in six months with Clickteam Fusion 2.5 and released it in 2014, launching a wider media franchise.
By Steel Wool Studios · United States
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach casts players as Gregory, a young boy trapped overnight in a huge entertainment complex. He must slip past hostile animatronic mascots and a night guard until morning arrives. Unlike earlier entries, this ninth main installment in the series opens up into free-roam play. Steel Wool Studios in the United States developed it with Unreal Engine 4, and ScottGames published it in December 2021.
By Pajama Llama Games · Belgium
Flotsam blends survival with city-building, asking players to grow and sustain a settlement in a post-apocalyptic setting. It sits at the meeting point of simulation and strategy, with the focus on planning and keeping a community alive. The game comes from Pajama Llama Games in Belgium, entered early access in September 2019, and reached its full release in December 2025, now under Stray Fawn Publishing after an earlier stint with Kongregate.
By ACE MADDOX · Slovakia
Ace Maddox, a developer based in Slovakia, built Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China as an aerial combat game, and released it on Windows in May 2017. It draws on the history of the Flying Tigers, the volunteer pilots who fought for China against Japan during World War II. Players fly in first- or third-person view through a mission-based single-player campaign, and multiplayer supports up to 16 people in co-op and competitive modes.
By BetaDwarf · Denmark
Forced: Showdown is a bullet-hell brawler for one player, viewed from above and made by BetaDwarf, an independent developer from Denmark, and launched on Windows, OS X and Linux in March 2016. Framed as an ever-shifting galactic game show, it has players pick a champion, upgrade their abilities and fight through waves of minions while dodging incoming attacks. Each run combines a roguelike structure with a trading-card system that shapes how the champion grows.
By Byte Barrel · Poland
Playing as either a priest or a journalist, you battle plague-ridden zombies and cultists through the strange town of Pestisville in Forgive Me Father, a first-person shooter. Polish developer Byte Barrel built it with Unreal Engine 4 and released it in 2022, with Fulqrum Publishing handling publishing. The game did well enough to lead to a sequel, which entered early access in 2023, and it holds a Metacritic score of 74.
By Throughline Games · Denmark
Forgotton Anne, from Danish studio ThroughLine Games, is a cinematic blend of adventure and platforming that first launched in May 2018. Play mixes side-on platforming with adventure-game exploration, presented in a hand-drawn anime look and backed by an orchestral score recorded by the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra. A macOS version followed in June 2018 after the Windows release, and a follow-up game, Forgotlings, arrived in February 2026.
By Siege Camp · Canada
Foxhole is a cooperative, massively multiplayer action-strategy game from Toronto-based Canadian studio Siege Camp, built in Unreal Engine 4. Viewed from a top-down perspective, it places each player in one of two factions as a single soldier in a persistent war inspired by early 20th century conflict. Players gather and manufacture supplies, haul them to the front, fight, and build fortifications to seize enemy territory.
By Sassybot · Netherlands
Fragments of Him is a narrative game about Will, a man who dies near the start, and the people coping with his loss. Players move between four perspectives, including Will himself, his former girlfriend, his boyfriend and his grandmother, by choosing what each should interact with next. It was developed and published by Sassybot in the Netherlands and released in May 2016. Reviewers praised the writing but found the interaction repetitive.
By Killmonday Games AB · Sweden
Fran Bow is a graphic adventure with a strong thread of psychological horror running through it. It was developed and produced by Killmonday Games, an independent studio from Sweden, and built with GameMaker. The game first arrived on PC in 2015, followed by mobile versions a year later and console ports in 2023. The facts at hand focus on its genre and release history rather than specific puzzles, so it suits players drawn to unsettling point-and-click stories.
By Brainwash Gang · Spain
Friends vs Friends is a first-person shooter that mixes deck-building into its design, pairing card-driven play with gunfights. Steam lists it as an action title. It was made by Brainwash Gang, an independent studio from Spain, and published by Raw Fury. The Windows version arrived in May 2023, with versions for Sony and Microsoft's current consoles following in September 2025, extending it from PC to current consoles.
By Cellar Door Games · Canada
Full Metal Furies is a Canadian action-adventure game from Cellar Door Games, which both developed and published it. It was first announced in February 2017 and released in January 2018 on Windows and Xbox One. Steam categorizes it under Action, Adventure and RPG, pointing to action combat mixed with role-playing elements, and it holds a Metacritic score of 85 from critics who reviewed it at launch.
By Greenheart Games 💚 · Australia
Game Dev Tycoon is a business simulation in which you run your own video game company. Starting small, players design and release games, shaping each project and steering the business as it grows, in a strategy loop that critics often compared with Kairosoft's Game Dev Story, which inspired it. It was created by Greenheart Games, an Australian company that the brothers Patrick and Daniel Klug founded in 2012, and first released in December 2012.
By Boneloaf, Rocket Science · United Kingdom
Gang Beasts is a party beat 'em up from Boneloaf, a developer based in England. After an early access period on PC that began in August 2014, it arrived on Windows, macOS, Linux and PlayStation 4 in December 2017. Double Fine Presents handled publishing at first, until Boneloaf took over publishing in 2020. Its store listing pairs action and casual tags with simulation, framing it as a brawler aimed at playing with friends.
By Dead Mage · Iran
Garshasp: The Monster Slayer is an action-adventure game drawn from the legends of Garshasp, a monster-slaying hero of Persian mythology. Players fight through hostile creatures on a revenge quest to recover a mace belonging to the hero's ancestors. It was developed by Dead Mage, based in Iran, together with Fanafzar Sharif Studios on the Ogre3d engine, and released for Windows in May 2011, with reviews noting its ambition for an independent project.
By Gravity Lagoon · Kazakhstan
Gatekeeper is a fast-paced roguelike action game about pursuing Chaos to recover the stolen Heart of Time. Players battle through waves of enemy forces on each run and can go alone or team up in four-player co-op. It was developed by Gravity Lagoon, a studio based in Kazakhstan, published by HypeTrain Digital, and released for Windows in August 2025.
By Free Lives · South Africa
Genital Jousting is a party game designed for groups of players, with action listed among its genres. Available descriptions go little further than that, so the specifics of how a match plays out are not covered here. It was developed by the South African studio Free Lives and released in 2018 on Windows and macOS by publisher Devolver Digital, and it holds a Metacritic score of 68.
By RobTop Games · Sweden
Geometry Dash is a rhythm-driven action game where players steer a simple icon through obstacle-filled stages timed to music. Most of its official levels scroll automatically, while a few use free platforming, and a built-in editor lets the community build, share and play custom stages. Swedish creator Robert Topala made it under his company RobTop Games using Cocos2d-x; it launched on mobile in 2013 and reached Steam in December 2014.
By SeithCG · France
Ghost of a Tale is a stealth action RPG created mainly by Lionel Gallat of SeithCG in France, funded through a 2013 Indiegogo campaign. You play Tilo, a mouse minstrel held on an island prison run by rats, trying to escape and find his wife. Exploration means creeping past guards and using disguises to stay unnoticed in a dark medieval world of animal characters. The full PC version was released in March 2018.