It's the Debut Festival 2026 this week which focuses on new devs/studios! I am unfortunately under the weather and won't have a lot of time to dig into demos, so I'll be recc'ing games I've already played and love as well as demos I'll check out when I'm feeling better so I give them a fair shake!
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DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a beautifully written story with gorgeous art to boot. The horror builds slow enough that you have time to learn about the cast while a sense of unease grows! The art complements the horror writing beautifully, leaving enough unknown to let that dread grow. There's a demo out too!
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Raccoons to Riches is a fantastic roguelike shop management sim and deckbuilder. There's so much variety to fine-tune, like trying to get customers who only buy potions (or trash) or customers that influence others to buy bread not to mention all the tactics that change gameplay in the moment!
Trading Card Inspector is a papers-please-like where you're inspecting cards at the manufacturer to find flaws, banned cards, all while the rules keep changing and maybe the whole building starts to shake. There's lots of accessibility options and there's a demo too to see if it's your thing!
BOREWORKS is the one demo I actually was able to play! It's a really relaxing mining game that you can eventually automate, but it feels good before you get there! There's plenty to do in the demo, and you even get a little gif of your progress throughout! I'm excited to see where this goes!!
The demo for this was SO GOOD and I'm excited to eventually check out the full game! I feel like a lot of numbers-go-up games feel really tedious at the beginning, but this one has so many different ways to build up your numbers that it consistently felt good starting new! It's a real treat!