The PC Gaming Show delivered. I now have 7 more demos installed and countless more games on my radar. As always, I have narrowed it down to my 10 favourite reveals of the show!

The games are featured in alphabetical order.

Ascenders: Beyond the Peak

ASCENDERS: BEYOND THE PEAK is a turn-based exploration roguelite where survival is vertical. Lead a team of alpinists to recover ancient artifacts from cursed peaks, prepare your expedition, evolve your climbers, master rope mechanics, and face H.P. Lovecraft-inspired horrors within the mountain.

Wishlist Ascenders: Beyond the Peak on Steam here. There is also a demo available!

Carcass Clad

A visceral co-op tank horror game from the creators of MOUTHWASHING. Featuring weighty physical controls, crew the Yksiö with a team of 3. Fuel is limited and ammo is scarce. The city’s saint, long since laid to rest, walks again – gilded and defiled.

Wishlist Carcass Clad on Steam here.

Hack 95

Time travel to 1995 in this card-based computer hacking voyage. Take down an evil tech startup and shadowy government agency to become a god to the freaks and geeks of cyberspace. All while being helped by an incontinent virtual pug.

Wishlist Hack 95 on Steam here, and there is currently a demo available!

Locator: The Search for Abigail

A Geoguessr-inspired narrative detective puzzle game set on an alien planet. As the Cartographer, you must gather and examine clues to locate missing archaeologist Abigail Lidari and uncover the fate of an ancient alien civilization.

Wishlist Locator: The Search for Abigail on Steam here.

Rivage

Rivage is an immersive sci-fi puzzle adventure set aboard the A.R.E.S. space station trapped in a space phenomenon. Wake up as Miranda, forced to explore, solve intricate puzzles to unravel the fate of your missing crew.

Wishlist Rivage on Steam here. There is also a demo available!

Signet City

From the creator of Citizen Sleeper, SIGNET CITY is a first-person fungalpunk RPG. You are a parasite, in a city where strange technologies and radical ideas are taking root. Grow into and through its inhabitants, uncover and change their stories, and witness the terminal season of the signet city.

Wishlist Signet City on Steam here.

Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions

Join the ESS Starseeker crew to explore strange new worlds, working together with friends to complete planet-wide objectives before the station journeys on to new planetary destinations. Collect and unlock powerful tech to help the crew tackle the perils of space!

Wishlist Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions on Steam here.

Star Trek: Outposts Unknown

Lead your crew across strange new worlds in this narrative driven outpost builder! Research, explore, and build as you face a mysterious cosmic force that threatens a new ally. Your adventure awaits, Captain!

Wishlist Star Trek: Outposts Unknown on Steam here. There is also currently a demo available!

There Are No Ghosts at the Grand

Inherit a crumbling English hotel and restore it by day—while battling ghosts by night. With a sardonic cat, a talking power tool, and a twisting supernatural plot, this is a musical mystery unlike any other. Will you be able to hold it together while everything around you falls apart?

Wishlist There Are No Ghosts at the Grand on Steam and play the demo here.

Vampire: The Masquerade — ETERNAL WHISPERS

Vampire: The Masquerade — ETERNAL WHISPERS is a narrative-driven CRPG set in the World of Darkness. Awaken from decades of torpor into a dark-modern Montreal consumed by political intrigue, buried secrets and personal horror.

Wishlist Vampire: The Masquerade — ETERNAL WHISPERS on Steam here.

The indie showcases of Summer Game Fest 2026 delivered so thoroughly that I think I am going to be working my way through the games all the way up to the Game Awards season!

We are rich in choice, surrounded by creativity and I can’t wait to see how all these games do at release and beyond.

Watch the full showcase here.

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