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A cyberpunk pawn shop, a classroom of pranksters, a frozen train and a Korean MMO. We go through the festival's most-played demos, the AI problem that marred it, and the games that launched straight after.
From Melvor Idle 2 next week to Haunted Paws in May, here are the upcoming and early-access indie games with confirmed dates, the ones still waiting for one, and the shows where the next surprises will drop.
Speaking in Seoul this week, the former PlayStation executive told Korean developers what is holding their games back: Korean-only demos, missing controller support and copycat ideas. His full advice, and why it lands.
A Korean mobile studio's first PC game mixes pixel art, Lovecraftian stress and co-op extraction with no PvP. Its demo pulled six figures of wishlists. Now VOID DIVER is aiming for January 2027.
A 1.5-million-copy roguelite, a 157,000-player Steam record, a gamescom Best Game and a Japanese anime giant's first signing. WGC's editorial on the year Korean indies stopped being a side story, and what has to happen next.
No goals, no enemies, no score: just castles that build themselves around your mouse. Pounce Light's Tiny Glade gathered 800,000 wishlists before launch. How two developers and a homemade engine made the internet's favourite digital sandbox.