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 Dry Cactus · New Zealand
Poly Bridge tasks players with designing bridges sturdy enough for vehicles to drive across. Structures are assembled from steel, wood, rope and cable, hydraulic parts can make sections move, and each material has its own cost, which turns every level into a budget puzzle. It was made by Dry Cactus, an indie studio from New Zealand, with a score by composer Adrian Talens, and came out on Windows in 2016, later reaching iOS.
By Dry Cactus · New Zealand
Poly Bridge 2 is the follow-up to Poly Bridge and keeps its focus on engineering bridges that must hold up under physics-driven traffic. Players plan structures across a new run of levels, balancing materials and design choices so vehicles reach the other side. New Zealand studio Dry Cactus developed and published it, with Adrian Talens again writing the music, and it launched in 2020 on Windows, Mac and Linux as well as mobile.
By Mob Entertainment · United States
Poppy Playtime is an episodic puzzle survival horror series set inside the abandoned factory of Playtime Co., a fictional toy company. The player is a former employee lured back by a letter, years after the staff vanished without explanation. Chapters mix puzzle solving with survival horror tension, and every chapter after the first is sold as premium downloadable content. American indie developer Mob Entertainment built it on Unreal Engine 4 and released the first chapter on Windows in October 2021.
By niceplay games · Russia
Potion Craft casts players as the keeper of a shop in a medieval fantasy world, brewing potions from alchemical ingredients and selling them on. Its management simulation is built around a crafting system that critics praised as both novel and intuitive. Russian independent developer niceplay games created it, tinyBuild published it in 2022, and it received several nominations at the 2023 Independent Games Festival.
By GameCrafterTeam, GameTomo Co., Ltd. · Thailand
Project Nimbus: Complete Edition is a fast-paced mech action game from GameCrafterTeam and GameTomo, developed in Thailand. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, it puts players in control of Battle Frames, humanoid combat suits carrying a wide arsenal of weapons, in high-speed battles. This Complete Edition was released on Steam in 2017 for Windows and Mac.
By Buckshot Software · Poland
A first-person shooter from Polish studio Buckshot Software, Project Warlock was released in 2018 and published by Gaming Company. Its most remarkable story is its creator: Jakub Cislo built the game at the age of 18 while still attending high school. The game holds a Metacritic score of 78, and it was followed by Project Warlock II, which entered early access in 2022 and saw a full release in 2025.
By Sector D2 · Australia
Project Wingman is a combat flight-action game set on an alternate Earth, where a silent mercenary pilot flies for United Cascadia in its war for independence from the Pacific Federation. Alongside the story campaign, a roguelike Conquest mode has you capture territory, buy aircraft and hire support while enemy resistance grows. It was developed by Sector D2 from Australia on Unreal Engine 4 and released for Windows in December 2020, with optional VR support throughout.
By Consumer Softproducts · Finland
Psycho Patrol R is a first-person shooter by Ville Kallio of Consumer Softproducts, a studio in Finland, which entered Steam early access on March 23, 2025. Set in a satirical cyberpunk take on early 21st-century Europe in which Wilhelm Reich's ideas are scientifically proven, it casts the player as a member of an elite, mech-equipped police task force. The job is to investigate and eliminate psychohazards that threaten public minds and state security.
By Nimble Giant Entertainment · Argentina
Quantum League is a competitive online first-person shooter from Argentina's Nimble Giant Entertainment, released on Windows in 2021. Matches take place inside a repeating time loop, so each round you fight alongside recordings of your own earlier and later actions. Games are played as one-on-one or two-on-two duels, which rewards planning where your past selves will stand. Steam tags it as action, sports and strategy.
By Bithell Games · United Kingdom
Quarantine Circular is a text-driven science fiction adventure, where progress comes through reading and choosing responses rather than action. It serves as the sequel to Subsurface Circular and was developed and published by Bithell Games, a studio based in the United Kingdom. It reached Windows and macOS in the spring of 2018, and a Nintendo Switch edition arrived that December.
By Toxic Games · United Kingdom
Q.U.B.E. is a first-person puzzle game in which the player wears gloves that manipulate specially coloured blocks, using them to open a route to the exit of each level. Its stark, white environments make the interactive blocks stand out, and it has drawn comparisons with Portal. Toxic Games in the United Kingdom grew it from a student project with backing from Indie Fund, and this Director's Cut runs on Unreal Engine 3.
By Doraccoon · China
Raccoin: Coin Pusher Roguelike is a 2026 roguelike themed around arcade coin pushers, made by Chinese studio Doraccoon, with Playstack publishing. Players fire their own coins to knock others off the cabinet edge or trigger special abilities while collecting tickets, and can buy new coin types and upgrades that change how coins behave. It is the first game from the three-person Shanghai studio, built over about two years.
By Redbeet Interactive · Sweden
Raft is a survival sandbox game that starts players on a tiny floating platform in an endless ocean, surrounded by sharks. Using a hook to pull in drifting debris, they expand the raft into a base, craft tools and keep hunger and thirst in check, alone or with friends. A radio receiver leads to story islands with a narrative about rescuing prisoners. Swedish studio Redbeet Interactive began it as a university student project and released the full version in 2022.
By Rolling Glory Jam · Indonesia
Rage in Peace is a side-scrolling platformer with an unusual goal: dodging the traps and obstacles in your path so that your character can die peacefully. Each stage tests your timing against hazards on the way. It was developed by Rolling Glory Jam, an independent studio in Indonesia, and published by Toge Productions, launching on Steam and Nintendo Switch on 8 November 2018. Steam lists it as action and adventure.
By Videocult · United States
Rain World is a survival platformer starring a slugcat, a nimble creature somewhere between cat and slug, searching for its lost family in the ruins of an ancient industrial civilization. Players scavenge food, hurl debris at predators and race to hibernation rooms before lethal rains fall, inside an ecosystem whose creatures act on their own. Independent American studio Videocult, a two-person team, developed it, and it launched on Windows in March 2017 through Akupara Games.
By Rake in Grass · Czech Republic
Rampage Knights is a roguelike from Czech developer Rake in Grass, released in 2015. Its Steam listing places it across the action, adventure and RPG genres, combining direct combat with role-playing elements inside a roguelike structure. The game came out for Windows in September 2015, with Rake in Grass handling both development and publishing, and it holds a Metacritic score of 80.
By SteelRaven7 · Sweden
Ravenfield is a single-player first-person shooter rendered in a low-poly visual style. It was created by Swedish programmer Johan Hassel, who publishes under the name SteelRaven7, and it launched as an early access title on 18 May 2017 for Windows, macOS and Linux. The available facts cover its genre and simple look rather than detailed mechanics, so it is best approached as a straightforward solo shooter from a one-person developer.
By Bad Vices Games · Italy
Ravenous Devils is a darkly comic horror cooking simulation set in Victorian London in the 19th century. Players manage a tailor shop and a pub run by Percival and Hildred: he kills his customers and sends the bodies down a trap door, and she turns them into meat dishes for diners upstairs. Its style and story borrow heavily from Sweeney Todd. Bad Vices Games of Italy both developed and published it in Unreal Engine 4, releasing it in April 2022.
By EasyGameStation · Japan
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is a role-playing game about Recette, a girl who must run an item shop from her home, guided by a fairy named Tear, to clear her missing father's large debt before a deadline. Play alternates between haggling with customers over prices and joining adventurers in randomly generated dungeons to find stock. Made by Japanese dōjin maker EasyGameStation, it was the first independent Japanese game released on Steam.
By Hexage · Czech Republic
Redcon - Strike Commander, styled REDCON, is a 2016 real-time strategy game from Czech developer Hexage. It draws its inspiration from Cannon Fodder, the third segment of the Japanese anime film Memories. Released for Windows in April 2016, it is listed under the strategy and simulation genres, and Hexage both developed and published it.
By Stormind Games · Italy
Released in 2018, Remothered: Tormented Fathers is a survival horror game conceived, written and directed by Italian artist Chris Darril and developed by Stormind Games in Italy. It pays tribute to the Japanese Clock Tower series. Rosemary Reed comes to the Felton mansion to look into the years-old disappearance of the family's daughter Celeste, and once owner Richard sees through her, a night of pursuit begins. It was generally well reviewed, and a sequel, Broken Porcelain, followed in 2020.
By Sad Cat Studios · Cyprus
Replaced is a 2.5D action platformer with pixel art, set in an alternate-history 1980s America with a cyberpunk atmosphere. The story centres on R.E.A.C.H., an artificial intelligence trapped inside a human body, through a cinematic story that mixes exploration with tense action sequences. It was developed by Sad Cat Studios, based in Cyprus, published by Coatsink and Thunderful, and released in April 2026 on Windows and Xbox Series X/S.
By Mandragora · Turkey
ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs is a relaxed job simulation about running a small repair business. Players take in broken gadgets and work through fixing a range of devices, with the setting placed in Japan during the mid-2000s. It was developed by Mandragora, a studio from Turkey, and published by tinyBuild. The game launched in August 2026 on Windows and Mac, offering a calm, hands-on take on the workshop sim.
By LEAP Game Studios · Peru
Retail Hell puts the player behind the counter of a convenience store in purgatory, working a shift that never seems to end. Serving dead customers means keeping shelves stocked, paying taxes and holding off monstrous creatures, while the mystery of the endless shift slowly unfolds. It comes from LEAP Game Studios in Peru, is published by Midnighters and Gamirror Games, and released on Windows in 2026.