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 Knight Owl Games · Egypt
Shelve the Potions! is a cosy logic puzzle game set in a witch's cellar after her cats have knocked everything down. As her new apprentice, you put more than 2,000 potions back in the right order by reading clues, learning odd symbols and decoding notes left around the room. Each shelf is its own handmade puzzle. It was released in 2026 by Knight Owl Games, an indie studio based in Alexandria, Egypt.
By HOLODOT STUDIO · Saudi Arabia
SHOTBALL is a free 3v3 competitive game that blends football with shotguns. Players pick class-based loadouts and use movement and precise shots to move the ball and score, with matches that swing between sport and combat. It is the debut of Holodot Studio, founded in Riyadh in 2023, and was published by Saudi publisher Naphora Games Group on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
By ASD Games Studio · Iraq
Silent Realm is an upcoming free single-player action-horror game set in a non-human realm where life has ended and skeletal forms assemble and decay. Searching for a missing brother, the player explores a hostile world with scarce resources, where the environment itself is the main threat. It is the second project of ASD Games Studio, the Iraqi studio founded by developer Ali Al-Abboodi, and is scheduled for 2027.
By Blue Tango Street · Saudi Arabia
Sips and Sonnets is a visual novel about Ms Meadows, a retired journalist who runs a small tea shop in the English countryside while preparing for a visit from an old friend. You brew different teas, listen to the stories of customers, and turn each day's conversations into a poem at night. The voice cast includes Bethan Dixon Bate and Lenval Brown, and it was made by London and Jeddah based Blue Tango Street.
By Limeless · Saudi Arabia
Slappingrot is a first-person action game in which you fight a string of absurd brainrot bosses in a ring using nothing but slaps. Each boss has its own attack patterns, so you wait for vulnerable moments, strike, and spend coins at a vending machine on upgrades between fights. The game leans fully into internet meme humour and was developed by Limeless Studio, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
By PackDev · Saudi Arabia
SOS Recordings is a narrative psychological horror game based on the unsolved 1989 SOS incident on Mount Asahi in Hokkaido, where a giant SOS made of birch trunks was found near two rescued hikers. You review tapes, drive to real locations recreated in low poly, fly a helicopter and investigate with a flashlight under time pressure. It is developed by PackDev, listed by IsaKaba as a studio from Saudi Arabia.
By Gimzat Inc. · Egypt
Speed Maze - The Ultimate Run is a mobile runner in which the player races through maze-like tracks at speed, reacting quickly to turns and obstacles. It was the debut title of Gimzat Studios and, according to the studio, passed one million organic downloads. Gimzat is an Egyptian developer founded in 2015 that focuses on games localised for Arabic-speaking players, with a team whose experience spans console and mobile work.
By Gimzat Inc. · Egypt
Speed Race - Xtreme Gear is a mobile racing game from Gimzat Studios, released on the App Store in 2017. It is one of several car games in the studio's catalogue alongside titles such as Drift Legend and the online racer Platform 6, reflecting its focus on racing games for Arabic-speaking audiences. Gimzat is an Egyptian studio founded in 2015 whose small team works mainly from Egypt.
By Blue Bag Gaming And Publishing - FZCO · United Arab Emirates
Stack Blocks - Block Puzzle is a drag-and-drop block puzzle for mobile. Players place pieces on a grid to complete rows or columns, which then clear, and chain clears together to build combo multipliers. Besides the endless Classic mode, a Stack Clear mode asks players to clear stacked grids layer by layer. There is no timer; a round ends when no piece fits. It is developed by Blue Bag Studios, operated by Blue Bag Gaming and Publishing FZCO in Dubai, UAE.
By SIV Games · Tunisia
Stacked Realms is a card-stacking survival strategy game in which every resource, building, creature and event is a card. Players drag village and structure cards onto resource cards to gather materials, unlock crafting recipes and grow a settlement, knowing that a bad stack can waste resources or trigger danger. The Tunisian studio SIV Games offers an in-development build on itch.io for Windows and in the browser.
By NEGM World · Egypt
Summoner Tale is an action RPG about recruiting monsters through fights, races and trials rather than simple capture. Creatures fall into four classes that change how they fight alongside you, and they grow stronger through battle. The story follows a young summoner uncovering why an old alliance between humans and monsters collapsed into war. It is developed by NEGM World from Egypt and was shown at the Arabic Games Conference 2025.
By SIV Games · Tunisia
Sweets Tile is a tile-matching puzzle game with a bakery theme, where players match cakes, cookies, tarts and macarons to clear hundreds of levels. It includes boosters and power-ups and can be played offline in short sessions. SIV Games, a studio based in Tunisia, developed it and released it for Android phones.
By Dannana Gaming · Saudi Arabia
Tarah, a slang term for a skilled driver, is a free PC racing game with solo races and online multiplayer across desert and city tracks by day and night. Players unlock cars modelled on locally popular models and customise them with parts and upgrades. It was developed by Dannana, a games studio based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
By Maysalward(MRD) · Jordan
Tarneeb Pro is a mobile version of Tarneeb, the four-player partnership card game popular in the Levant. Players bid for a number of tricks or go for a Kaboot, and play with a partner to target scores of 31, 41 or 61, relying on card counting and some luck. It is developed by Maysalward, a studio headquartered in Amman and one of the longest-running game developers in Jordan.
By Eshi · Jordan
Taxi Drift Mania is a mobile taxi game in which passengers reward the driver for Arabian-style hajwala drifting rather than careful driving, and the wilder the stunts the bigger the tips. It combines arcade taxi runs with drift scoring. It is developed by Eshi Games, a Jordan-based mobile studio founded in 2023 that focuses on culturally rooted games for players in the MENA region.
By Mad Hook · Jordan
The Chase is a 2.5D arcade driving game in which players flee from the police while grabbing cash and completing missions. Progress unlocks new cars and comic characters, and the game is played in short, score-driven runs. It is the PC release of one of the best-known mobile series by Mad Hook, a game studio based in Amman, Jordan, whose chase games are also available on mobile and PlayStation.
By OONY TEAM · Saudi Arabia
The Circle Move is a free first-person puzzle adventure set in a strange world. You explore without fixed routes, collect tools and clues, interact with the environment and solve logic puzzles while the story unfolds through the surroundings with a touch of horror. It supports English and Arabic and was developed by OONY TEAM, a Saudi indie studio; IsaKaba also lists it as a Saudi game.
By RYM GAMES · Morocco
The Dark Occult is a psychological horror game in which players explore a haunted house while grotesque creatures threaten to kill them at any moment. The design keeps the player under constant pressure, building from anxiety into panic, with survival as the only goal. It was released on Steam in September 2018 and remains one of the better-known horror titles from North Africa. It was developed by RYM Games, a studio from Morocco.
By Lunacy Studios · Saudi Arabia
The House of Hikmah is a fully voiced 3D narrative adventure about Maya, a 14-year-old who enters a dreamlike House of Wisdom after her father dies. Using a device that transforms elements, she solves puzzles across nine worlds built around scholars and inventions of the Islamic Golden Age, while working through grief and her father's legacy. It was developed by Lunacy Studios and is part of Steam's Games Made in KSA bundle.
By OONY TEAM · Saudi Arabia
The Infinity Road is a free endless driving game modelled on classic car-dodging arcade games. You steer to avoid traffic and chase a high score across four modes, with classic and modern control schemes and hard versions of each that reach top speed faster. It was developed by OONY TEAM, which describes itself as a Saudi indie game studio run by four members of the Aljunibi family.
By AJB GAMES STUDIO · Morocco
The Moroccan Castle is a first-person horror escape game set in a historic castle near Tetouan in northern Morocco. Trapped inside, the player has until 4:00 AM to solve puzzles, decode clues and unlock hidden doors before time runs out. Moroccan developer Ayman Jbari built it alone as the first game of the AJB Games Studio trilogy that ended with The Moroccan Castle 3, and it is a free download on itch.io.
By AJB GAMES STUDIO · Morocco
The Moroccan Castle 3: Behind The Secrets is a first-person horror game set inside an old Moroccan castle. The player is a young archaeologist exploring its ruins, solving puzzles, finding clues and dodging traps and supernatural creatures to learn the castle's history. It is the final part of The Moroccan Castle trilogy by AJB Games Studio, the Moroccan studio founded by developer Ayman Jbari.
By AJB GAMES STUDIO · Morocco
The Moroccan Castle II continues the story of an old castle in Tetouan where an archaeologist disappeared in 2019. The player is a young archaeologist who goes looking for him, exploring the castle with an inventory, lean and peek controls and a save system while solving puzzles in a psychological horror setting. It is the second part of the trilogy by the Moroccan studio AJB Games Studio and can be downloaded on itch.io.
By MW Hashem · Saudi Arabia
The Shepherd is a 2D single-player RPG in which a young city dweller heads into the Saudi desert, inspired by an old photo of his grandfather riding a camel. You raise and feed a herd, shear and sell wool, upgrade weapons and defend the flock from predators in turn-based fights driven by a timing bar rather than luck. It was made by Saudi developer MW Hashem.