Indie Gaming

Welcome to the information page for indie gaming at FanimeCon! Here, we celebrate the independent video games created by fans like you.This year we are happy to have the following groups in our Indie Games Showcase:

ArcanaXIX
Ballomizzy
Colita De Rana
Dead Dev Games
NekoNyaa28
NiNo Studios
Paragon Codeworks
Petallix Games
Phalistafer
Pixel Poxet
PondTale Games
Soybaby
Sugarplum Cafe
Toth Games
Unlucky Planet Games
WATERBOX

2026 Exhibitors

ArcanaXIX

ArcanaXIX presents: Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee ~ Episode 1 ~ Waltz! Play as Amadeus, a young werewolf struggling to understand his condition, as he navigates a tale woven by Witches. In desperation, he sells his own memories for a notebook and a promise. A linear narrative visual novel and adventure game. Episode 1 of 5.

Connect with ArcanaXIX: Steam | Website | Discord | Tumblr

Ballomizzy

Ballomizzy presents: Heist Royale! Heist Royale is a chaotic multiplayer heist game where strategy, sabotage, and speed determine who escapes with the most cash! Race to rob a heavily secured bank, outsmart rivals, and dodge security—all while pulling off hilarious tricks and betrayals. Work together or backstab your way to victory!

Connect with Ballomizzy: Steam | Instagram | LinkedIn

Colita De Rana

Colita De Rana presents: Frog Fall! Jump, roll, dash, and climb as a cute pixel frog through the mind-bending ruins of a sinking civilization, and subsist in a society built to erase you.

Connect with Colita De Rana: Website | Discord

Dead Dev Games

Dead Dev Games presents: Cardboard Cowboy! Get ready for a first-person shooter set in a Wild West world made entirely out of cardboard. Shoot your way through the Flatlands as you explore three regions and gun down outlaws. Saddle up and take on skill-based challenges in order to unlock the ultimate paper loadout!

Connect with Dead Dev Games: Steam | X | Discord | YouTube | Bluesky

NekoNyaa28

NekoNyaa28 presents: Full Moon Guildhouse Simulator! The Full Moon Guildhouse is open for business! Serve coffee, boba, and smoothies to our valuable guild members to help fund our guild. Master the recipe book and the drink stations to make drinks swiftly and efficiently. With all of our clientele, you might even run into some familiar faces!

NiNo Studios

NiNo Studios presents: Magic Maho: Dream Runner! Get ready for a cute endless-style runner game about platforming and capturing monsters. Play as Maho, a magical girl stuck in an endless dream where she runs on rooftops and is chased by monsters. Collect and use her magical staff to feed and defeat the monsters with pokies.

Connect with the NiNo Studios: Steam | YouTube

Paragon Codeworks

Paragon Codeworks presents: Ghost Engine! Get ready for a tower defense game featuring retro pixel graphics in a gothic setting.

Connect with Paragon Codeworks: Steam

Petallix Games

Petallix Games presents: Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting, a yuri mystery and puzzle game set in a retro computer. Play as the lucky owner of a microcomputer in the 1980s. Log on night after night to uncover a story of internet exploits, unexpected friendships, and a chaotic crew of 80s hackers. Solve 2D grid-based puzzles to piece together a tale of love and loss. The system is waiting.

Phalistafer

Phalistafer presents: Cheffed! Cheffed is a casual, competitive, multiplayer game about outperforming your friends on a competitive cooking show. Race your friends to see who can complete their dish first for points. Add deadly obstacles between rounds and create a progressively more chaotic kitchen layout.

Connect with Phalistafer: Steam | YouTube | X | Itch.io | Discord

Pixel Poxet

Pixel Poxet presents: Literalchemy! With a brand spanking new degree in Literalchemy, use your witchy powers to change stories, craft tales, run a bookshop, and even find love in this puzzle, visual novel, shopkeeping sim! Also, be sure to check out their short medical simulation horror game, Smile More!

Connect with Pixel Poxet: Steam | Instagram | X | TikTok | LinkedIn

PondTale Games

PondTale Games presents: Ark Atlas! Strap yourself in for an interstellar challenge of survival as you take control of the deep-space research vessel, Atlas. Within its hull, you can build, research, upgrade, and strategize the perfect fleet to overcome the looming threats of the void.

Connect with PondTale Games: Website | YouTube | Instagram | X

Soybaby

Soybaby presents: Grandma Ghost! Get ready for a cozy horror puzzle game for fans of 8-bit retro side-scrolling platform nostalgia. You play as Lola, a ghost who scares away unwelcome guests to keep them out of your home! #GrandmaGhost

Connect with Soybaby: Website | YouTube

Sugarplum Cafe

thelettergii presents: Sugarplum Cafe! Sugarplum Cafe is a cozy merge-3 collector game with pastel fairytale aesthetics. Craft desserts by merging ingredients and serve tea parties to a colorful cast of fashionable ladies, inspired by your favorite flavors. Discover all the characters and bring them to your cafe!

Connect with thelettergii: Patreon | Instagram | X | Tumblr | Bluesky

Toth Games

Toth Games presents: Legends of the Arena! Legends of the Arena is a fast-paced, brawling board game for 2–6 players (1-6 with solo expansion), inspired by fighting games like Super Smash Bros. Choose your Legend, read your opponents, and knock them out of the Arena to win!

Unlucky Planet Games

Unlucky Planet Games is a team of five women and non-binary people who make compelling, story-driven, and inclusive games. They are showcasing their visual novel So, This Vampire Walks into a Bar and a puzzle-solving escape room game, Ink Escape: Coven Conundrum. Come play their games!

WATERBOX

WATERBOX presents: Price of Flight! Get ready for an RPG with minigames, sidequests, and storylines all condensed into an arcade-style perma-death boardgame map. Control a flock of birds and survive migration across Eagleland while human citizens compete to kill them. Make strategic choices in turn-based combat to fight or fly away!

Connect with WATERBOX: Steam

Are you interested in showcasing your indie game at FanimeCon? Please contact indievideogames@fanime.com to start a conversation! We’d love to help promote your indie game!