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 Blue Tango Street · Saudi Arabia
Dance Dance Detective is a murder mystery set on a private cruise ship in 1986, where you play Detective Gene Burning undercover as the ship's ballroom dance teacher. You design dance routines, teach suspects to move on the beat, and combine the clues they reveal to find who killed a chocolate company's chief scientist. It is the third game from Blue Tango Street, a studio based between London and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
By Foxrito Studios · United Arab Emirates
Darkness Road is a survival and psychological horror game set in 1996 in Dar Al Hai. Players control Hamdan, a resident trapped in a cursed town, fighting enemies and solving puzzles to escape. The story was inspired by a real road between Al Tayy and Al Khawaneej in Dubai and draws on Emirati folklore. Its demo passed 10,000 Steam downloads in three months. It is developed by Foxrito Studios, an independent Emirati studio founded by Ismail Ahli and Hussain Darwish.
By Fast X Play · Iraq
Deep in the Dread is a first-person horror mystery set in the old Hoverfield Mansion, now a library. When her colleagues leave for a pub, librarian Stella stays behind and starts to notice paranormal activity. Players read notes and a diary to learn the lore, with a guidebook to help. It released in January 2025 as the second game from Fast X Play, a studio based in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
By Northend Games · Iraq
Deepstone Rift is a tower defense game set in underground mines, where you dig for gold and minerals while defending your base from looting goblins. Towers range from miniguns and cannons to sawblades, and treasure chests grant power-ups for you, your dwarves and your defences. It entered early access in late 2025. It is the second game from Northend Games, an independent studio based in Baghdad, Iraq.
By Team0Studio · Saudi Arabia
Defend The Cubes is a tower defense game that swaps fixed towers for deployable units. Enemies circle a central cube along paths that change, so each wave asks you to reconsider where and when to place defenders. The game aims to be easy to start but deep to master, and it was developed by Team0Studio, which is part of Steam's Games Made in KSA bundle of Saudi indie releases.
By Maysalward(MRD) · Jordan
Dominoes Pro is a mobile dominoes game with an offline mode against computer opponents and an online mode with random matchmaking or private rooms for playing with friends. It stresses strategy, memory and a bit of luck in classic tile play. It is one of several dominoes titles from Maysalward, a mobile game studio founded in 2003 and headquartered in Amman, Jordan.
By Starvania Studio · Saudi Arabia
Doughn't Panic! is a two-player co-op platformer in which both players share control of a single pizza, bound together by a spell. Every jump and dodge needs coordination as the pizza makes its way through oversized spaces in the human world, and failure is rarely final. It is the second project from Starvania Studio, the Riyadh-based team behind Bahamut and the Waqwaq Tree.
By Rasheed Abueideh · Palestine
Dreams on a Pillow is an upcoming stealth-puzzle adventure based on a Palestinian folk tale and the real events of the 1948 Nakba. Players follow Khadra, a young mother fleeing a massacre, on a journey from Palestine to Lebanon marked by invasion and distorted perception. It is being made by Palestinian developer Rasheed Abueideh, creator of Liyla and the Shadows of War, and was partly crowdfunded.
By AMBRATOR GAMES · Jordan
Drift for Life is a mobile racing and drifting game with more than 100 cars that players can tune and customise before racing others online and exploring city maps. It focuses on detailed cars and a collection-building progression. It is developed by Ambrator Games, a small mobile game team based in Amman, Jordan, and is published under the Amman-registered company Lamar Software.
By AMBRATOR GAMES · Jordan
Drift Tafheet is a mobile car game that mixes drifting with traffic races through city streets and an online open world where players can cruise and drift together; an offline mode is also included. Tafheet refers to the Gulf style of stunt driving. It is developed by Ambrator Games, a small studio based in Amman, Jordan, that specialises in games for mobile devices.
By Eshi · Jordan
Drift & Waznyat Simulator is a mobile street-drifting game built on physics-based car handling, where players perform drifts and stunts on urban tracks set in Arabian cities and desert. The name refers to the waznyat balancing stunts of Gulf car culture. It is developed by Eshi Games, a Jordan-based mobile studio founded in 2023 by Omar Ibrahim and Feras Khalifa.
By UMX Studio FZ-LLC · Saudi Arabia
Drift X is a mobile drifting and racing game centred on Arabic car culture. It offers large maps, detailed driving physics, deep tuning and customisation systems and voice chat, so players can compete, tune their cars and practise high-speed drifts together. It comes from UMX Studio, a Riyadh-based mobile developer and publisher founded in 2014 and known for King of Steering and Climbing Sand Dune.
By RABABA Games · Jordan
DUB Hunting (Duban Hunter) is a casual mobile game about a hunting trip in the desert. Players drive across sand and dunes looking for spiny-tailed lizards and other desert animals, keeping an eye on fuel and water supplies while they explore. It is developed by Rababa Games, a game studio based in Jordan that is best known for its HAJWALA driving series.
By DaFluffs Games · Saudi Arabia
Dungeon Blast! Action Shooter is a mobile action roguelike built on fast movement and constant shooting. Players clear dungeons across several modes, upgrade weapons and abilities and assemble builds to survive tougher encounters. It is in soft launch from DaFluffs Games, a Saudi Arabia-based mobile studio founded in 2024 that turns the exaggerated mechanics seen in mobile ads into real gameplay.
By NewGen · Tunisia
Dusty Secrets is a detective game set in the Old West town of Red Rock, where the player is the sheriff. AI generates each case, so suspects, clues and relationships between NPCs change every playthrough, with cases running from petty theft to serious crimes. NewGen, the Tunisian indie studio behind West Hunt, is developing it as a reworking of that game's world into a detective format.
By Limeless · Saudi Arabia
Either Eye is a free puzzle horror game built on seeing through one eye at a time. Your right eye reveals hidden messages, demonic entities and paths that do not exist in the normal world, while staring too long through the left eye draws the attention of things from the evil world. It is one of the rapid-release titles from Limeless Studio, a horror studio based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
By Hamdan Hamid · United Arab Emirates
Emirati Tales is a family-friendly 3D platformer built around stories from UAE folklore and history. Its hero wears traditional Emirati dress, and levels combine platforming challenges and mythical creatures with lessons about values and daily life in the country's past. Difficulty adapts to the player, and the game includes Arabic voice-over with English subtitles. It was created by Hamdan Hamid Al Ali, an Emirati officer with Dubai Police who makes educational and cultural games.
By Stellar Mythical · Saudi Arabia
Emotional Flow is a precision platformer with no jump button. Your character can only move left and right, and emotions become the tool for getting past obstacles while you try to rescue a friend kidnapped by three mysterious figures. Each of the three bosses represents a mental illness. It was the first release from Stellar Mythical, a Saudi-based independent studio founded in 2019.
By Fast X Play · Iraq
End Up Alone is a first-person horror thriller set after a deadly virus has spread. A young survivor tries to escape the depths of a company building, using a small bow to kill parasites and following messages left along the way. It supports a Kurdish interface and subtitles. It is the first game from Fast X Play, a studio based in Erbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, which later released Deep in the Dread.
By ASD Games Studio · Iraq
Entity: The Black Day is a third-person survival horror game. Former special forces operative Adam is sent into an abandoned underground bio-research lab to find proof of a government-funded viral programme that went wrong, and ends up hunting for its last survivors. It mixes psychological horror, resource management and combat. It was built by Iraqi solo developer Ali Al-Abboodi and released by his studio ASD Games in January 2026.
By OthmanOmega · Iraq
Fake Legends is a third-person role-playing game shared as a test build for Android. Its hero is trapped behind a star gate leading to several worlds; the demo covers one of them, alternating between an exploration mode and a combat mode against the soldiers of four giants who guard the gates. The itch.io page says it was produced by an Iraqi team of just two people. It comes from OmegaSoft, led by developer OthmanOmega.
By Hassan Sherif · Egypt
False Exit is a first-person psychological horror game set in a hospital that loops. Each pass through the building changes the space, from flickering lights to distorted rooms, and a hostile presence reacts to how the player moves and looks around. It relies on observation and tension rather than combat. It is the first commercial release of Halal Games Studio, an Egypt-based team founded by Hassan Sherif that avoids content it considers against Islamic principles.
By ChickMania · Jordan
Fame Game: My Influencer Life is a mobile role-playing game in which players create an avatar, pick outfits and styles, explore locations and complete missions to gain followers, rising from nobody to top influencer. It was made in collaboration with Jordanian YouTuber Ahmad Aburob. The game is developed by Chickmania Entertainment, a mobile studio based in Amman, Jordan.
By Groovy Antoid · Lebanon
Fat Bunny is a one-touch mobile game that blends platforming with an endless hopper. Players time presses so a round bunny bounces up colourful mountains and across waterfalls to collect carrots; press too long or too short and it tumbles or drowns. Carrots unlock around thirty bunnies with their own world themes, plus timed power-ups. It is the first game of Groovy Antoid, a small studio in Lebanon.