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 LIFE · Syria
The Trials 1 is a puzzle exploration game set on an island divided into seven main areas. Players use three abilities: recording a box's movement and playing it back, switching between two parallel worlds, and dropping a teleport station to return to. More than 30 side puzzles award gemstones that unlock new areas. It was the first game from Blue Life, a studio identified as Syrian, which followed it with The Trials 2.
By BLUE LIFE · Syria
The Trials 2 is a puzzle and exploration game set across a series of islands. It builds on the first game with new skills, including teleportation, time manipulation, gravity control and moving between alternate worlds, which players combine to solve intricate spatial puzzles. There is no combat. It was developed by Blue Life, a studio from Syria, and was one of the titles shown at the Arabic Games Conference 2025.
By Mad Hook · Jordan
Thieves Party is an upcoming four-player co-op stealth game about broke characters who turn to burglary to pay their rent. Players sneak into buildings, carry off whatever they can and escape before the police arrive, with the fun coming from coordinating a clumsy team. It is developed and self-published on Steam by Mad Hook, an independent game studio based in Amman, Jordan.
By Istikan Studio · Iraq
Tiny Jar Farm is a cosy idle farming game played on a small seasonal grid. Seeds grow on their own, identical crops merge into stronger plants, and the harvest is cooked into recipes in a kitchen that feeds a gentle production economy. It is designed to reward both short sessions and long breaks. It is available on PC and mobile and is developed by Istikan Studio, a game studio rooted in Kurdistan, Iraq.
By Steer Studios · Saudi Arabia
Tom and Jerry Blast is a mobile tap-and-blast puzzle game featuring the classic cartoon cat and mouse. Players clear colourful levels, trigger boosters, collect characters and take on daily challenges, and the game was designed to work offline. It was developed in collaboration with Warner Bros. Games by Steer Studios, the Riyadh-based studio owned by Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group.
By ChickMania · Jordan
Tribal Knights is a casual strategy game in which players lead a raided desert tribe back to strength. A wheel of fate hands out coins, attacks, raids and shields, and the tribe grows from a camp of tents into an oasis with crops and cattle while players raid rival tribes. It is part of the board and casual portfolio of Chickmania Entertainment, a mobile studio based in Amman, Jordan.
By BLUE BAG GAMING AND PUBLISHING - FZCO · United Arab Emirates
Tricky Blocks - Block Puzzle is a physics-based stacking game for mobile. Players pick blocks from a tray of three in any order and drop them onto a growing tower, where weight and friction decide whether the stack holds. A shadow preview shows valid placements, there is no timer, and three lives are allowed before the run ends. It is made by Blue Bag Studios, the brand of Blue Bag Gaming and Publishing FZCO, a mobile game company in Dubai, UAE.
By Majestic Mind Games · Saudi Arabia
Tri Die is a turn-based tactical roguelite in which every turn starts with a roll of three dice. You assign each die to movement, attack or health, then fight across grid-based dungeon floors, shaping runs with elemental dice, modifiers and charms and facing bosses along the way. It is the follow-up to Tri Survive from Majestic Mind Games, an independent studio based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
By Majestic Mind Games · Saudi Arabia
Tri Survive is an action roguelite that takes the survive-the-horde formula into a fantasy RPG setting, but gives you a party of three heroes to control at once instead of one. Each hero brings separate skills, which shapes how you build and position during runs against invading demonic creatures. It is drawn in a hand-drawn JRPG-inspired style by Majestic Mind Games, an independent studio in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
By Maysalward(MRD) · Jordan
Trix is a mobile version of the four-player trick-taking card game played across the Middle East, including the Trix Complex variant. Each player takes a turn as owner of a kingdom and chooses contracts such as the King of Hearts, and a full game covers four kingdoms. It is made by Maysalward, founded in Amman in 2003 and one of the earliest mobile game studios in Jordan.
By Eshi · Jordan
Trucks Drift Simulator Hajwala applies Arabian hajwala drifting to heavy trucks instead of cars. Players drift across highways and desert landscapes, with the weight and power of each truck shaping how it handles. It is one of the hajwala-themed driving games from Eshi Games, a Jordan-based mobile studio founded in 2023 that builds culturally rooted games for players in the MENA region.
By Mad Hook · Jordan
UHD: Hajwala Drift Simulator is a mobile driving game about hajwala drifting, with desert landscapes, city streets and a wide choice of cars. Players drift, race and compete with friends online, aiming to become the best hajwala driver. It focuses on more realistic handling and higher-detail visuals than the studio's earlier arcade titles. It is developed by Mad Hook, a game studio based in Amman, Jordan.
By AJB GAMES STUDIO · Morocco
UNCURSED is a first-person psychological horror game in which Alex returns to his grandmother's house after she stops answering his calls. The house is full of traces of old rituals, and the player explores it, solves logic puzzles and pieces together the family's past before escaping. The Moroccan studio AJB Games Studio released it on Steam in February 2025, and it reached the top five of the African-developed games sales chart in its launch week.
By Table Knight Games · Saudi Arabia
UnderMire is a hand-drawn first-person roguelite for one to four players set in a shifting magical bunker. You craft absurd elemental weapons from junk, manage a fear gauge and use proximity voice chat while fighting spooky enemies and completing quests for a spirit cat. It is developed by Table Knight Games, a Riyadh-based studio founded in 2016 and known for Arabic trivia and party games.
By Nuked Cockroach · Tunisia
Veterans Online is a free-to-play top-down twin-stick shooter built around team-based competitive modes, meant to be easy to learn and hard to master. The Steam listing is an open beta, and the developers say on the page that the pandemic made it hard to fund the project in Tunisia. It was made by Nuked Cockroach, an independent Tunisian studio that later shifted from PC to hyper-casual mobile games.
By Knight Owl Games · Egypt
Village Tale is an idle village builder that sits in a corner of the screen and keeps running while you do other things. Players build and decorate, unlock industries, craft goods and take trade orders from neighbouring villages to grow from a hamlet into a trading hub. Most of the village can be customised. It comes from Knight Owl Games, an indie studio founded in Alexandria, Egypt in 2022.
By Game Cooks · Lebanon
VINDICTA is a first-person VR shooter with a strong stealth element, made for room-scale headsets. As Agent V, players infiltrate the facility of UB Industries, climbing, crawling, taking cover and picking up weapons to destroy its robot army, and it uses an arm-swinging way to move. It launched in early access in 2017. It was developed by Game Cooks, a studio founded in Beirut by Lebanese brothers Arz and Lebnan Nader.
By Bold Statement Games · Saudi Arabia
VolleySmash is a free-to-play 3D volleyball game built around short, quick matches that are simple to learn. You can play alone or with up to six players in local multiplayer, with the focus on positioning and teamwork rather than complicated controls. Its store page says it was built by a solo developer in under four months; the developer, Bold Statement Games, appears in Steam's Games Made in KSA bundle of Saudi indie games.
By Mahfouz Games · Iraq
Weapons Master is a PC VR fighting game in which players control and throw weapons to defeat enemies. Swords, knives and axes can be hurled, and bodies can be thrown with bare hands, with support for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Sessions are short and arcade-like. It is one of the VR titles from Mahfouz Games, an independent studio based in Erbil, Iraq, that self-publishes games and also provides VR and AR development services.
By Studio Sadu · Saudi Arabia
Wesh Agool? (What Do I Say?) is a light browser party game in Arabic that tests how quickly you can reply to awkward and funny everyday situations. You pick the right response before time runs out, chain fast correct answers into a combo that speeds the game up, and the current version is themed around Eid al-Adha. It comes from Studio Sadu, a Saudi studio founded in 2025.
By NewGen · Tunisia
West Hunt is a social deduction game for one to eight players set in an Old West town. One or two outlaws hide among NPC townsfolk and cause trouble while sheriffs try to spot the imposters by their behaviour before the town is thrown into chaos. NewGen, an indie studio based in Tunisia, developed it with Wandering Wizard as publisher, and the game has sold hundreds of thousands of copies since its 2022 early access launch.
By Split-E, Game hermits · Egypt
Zamakan is an endless runner set in an alternate history where ancient Egyptians became a spacefaring civilisation. You pilot an Egyptian-styled ship through an asteroid field, and the twist is a visible space-time grid: heavy objects bend it, so obstacles warp the path around them. The aim is to travel as far as possible without a collision. It is a collaboration between two Egyptian developers, Split-E (Shady El Mously) and Mansoura-based Game Hermits.
By Game Cooks · Lebanon
ZOLO - Zombies Only Live Once is a low-poly, blocky action game for PC VR in which you play a peace-loving zombie exiled for spreading love among his kind. Players punch enemies, use an arsenal of odd weapons and launch victims into the air to score points. The tone is comic rather than grim. It is an early-access title by Game Cooks, the studio founded in Beirut by Lebanese brothers Arz and Lebnan Nader.
By Tafra Games · Egypt
Zombie Survivor! is a mobile zombie base-defence game in which players hold off hordes with an array of unusual weapons. It is the flagship title of Tafra Games and, according to the studio, has passed three million combined downloads on Google Play and the App Store, where it appears under publisher Lion Studios. Tafra is an independent studio based in Egypt, founded in late 2020 by CEO Ziad Elgabaly.