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Here are the Indie Games which will vie for this year’s 2026 TooManyGames Indie Game Showcase Awards

TooManyGames is definitely a different show than the one Benny and myself attended over a decade ago. The Oaks, PA based convention which will take place during June 26th to the 28th will treat attendees to programming, gaming, shopping, fan meet ups and more.

Indie Games have certainly had at the show and last year TooManyGames stepped it up by hosting the TooMany Indie Game Awards, which honored games in over 10+ categories and this year they’re doing it again! Today the organization revealed this year’s categories as well as the nominees.

Best Fighter / Brawler

  • Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game Gameplay Group International
  • Dojo Masters Pixelated Vision LLC
  • Mexican Ninja Madbricks
  • Smash ‘N Grab SLAP-BANG DIGITAL

Best Platformer

  • Fallen Tear: The Ascension Winter Crew
  • Little Nemo & the Nightmare Fiends Team Nemo, Inc.
  • Bowlbo OneyWare
  • Curse Chapter: Dawnthief Colorgrave

Best Puzzle Game

  • Colorbound Panpipe Studio
  • Inkblood Hey Bird!
  • Cassette Boy Wonderland Kazakiri inc.
  • Spellsided Mass Transfer Interactive

Best Action Roguelike

  • UnderMine 2 Thorium
  • Cursemark CLYDE Games
  • Void Crew Hutlihut Games
  • Ghost Vanguard WOMBO COMBO Games

Best Shooter Roguelike

  • Hexborn Caspian Interactive
  • Blocks for Babies BunkSoft Interactive
  • Rune Gunner False Summit
  • Gunstoppable CAGE Studios

Best Strategic Roguelike

  • How Many Dudes? Butterscotch Shenanigans
  • CitaDrill Studio Moka
  • Portal Fall PlayCog/Double Jester
  • Mech Tech @sam_makes_games

Best Deckbuilder

  • Bonereader Bonereaders
  • Monster Tavern Toki Games LLC
  • Deck of Memories Sentiment Games
  • Dogpile Foot — A Studio Folly & Toot Games Collaboration

Best Role Playing Game

  • Aether & Iron Seismic Squirrel
  • Legends of Dragaea: Idle Dungeons BLAST PROGRAMMING
  • The Dark West Black Hand
  • DDoD The Future Entertainment Company

Best Shooter / FPS

  • Rocket Wrestling Entertainment Rocket Jump Games
  • Earth Atlantis 2 Pixel Perfex
  • Brine Studio Whalefall
  • Project Neon FULLSET

Best in Sports / Racing

  • LANESPLIT FunkyMouse
  • ROLF YenDoor LLC
  • STUNTBOOST Byting Games
  • Bash Moto Dob Games

Best Sim / Management

  • IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator Nick Nieuwoudt, Dominik Latos
  • LoCoMo Halfmile Games
  • Waterpark Simulator CayPlay Studios
  • Modulus Happy Volcano

Best in Survival

  • Folklore Hunter Liquid Donkey Games
  • Winter Burrow Pine Creek Games
  • Voyagers of Nera Treehouse Games
  • Blind Descent Pokuch

Best in Horror

  • Haunted Bloodlines Horrified Triangles
  • The Skin Stapler Tainted Pact Games
  • Project Songbird FYRE Games
  • Remothered: Red Nun’s Legacy Stormind Games

Best Visual Novel

  • Of the Devil Nth Circle Studios
  • Digital Exorcist COOL BEANS PRODUCTIONS
  • Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved Armonica
  • Rain98 C#4R4CT3R

Best Adventure

  • Hank Shaw: Animal Investigator Exit 73 Games
  • Casebook 1899 – The Leipzig Murders Homo Narrans Studio
  • Mystery House Guillotine Games
  • Moomintroll: Winter’s Warmth HYPER Games

The winners will be revealed on Friday evening at 9:30pm on the Neko Stage in Hall D. Celia Schilling of Spawncast as well as Yacht Club Games will be playing the role of host once again and viewers can expect presenters such as MetalJesusRock, Justin Silverman, Scott the Woz, Josie Woah and many more. If you can’t make it to festivities in person (like me…I’ll be in Vegas for EVO Las Vegas), you can catch the ceremony on Steam or on the TooManyGames YouTube Channel.

TooManyGames will be held at the Great Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, PA from June 26th to June 28th. Tickets are available and can be purchased at the following link.

Stan Yeung

Transcribes a lot of press releases, occasionally reviews games and goes outside.

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