Saturday 3 October - Sunday 4 October
Frosty Games Fest
Frosty Games Fest puts the spotlight on upcoming and recently released games made in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Their annual digital showcase uplifts emerging developers through their online livestream across YouTube and Twitch.
For the first time ever Frosty Games Fest is coming to Games Week. For two huge days Frosty takes over the ACMI showcase to showcase 20 outstanding indie games.
Saturday 3 October
Dungeon Pizza
Blab Labs
Australia (QLD)
A cooking game with a fantasy twist! Knead the dough, spread the sauce, and prepare… the rat chunks?! Open your own pizzeria deep inside a dungeon, serving weary adventurers who come to rest and refuel between their quests and bounties.
It’s 1999 and Y2K is upon us. You are the owner of an independent video store that a corporation is eyeing off to purchase. Help your customers find the perfect video by listening to their stories and decide what the future is for your video store.
Disc 2 Games
New Zealand
Canvas City is a turn-based tactics RPG of rebellion on roller skates. Lead a crew of skaters and street artists rising up against an oppressive regime. Each map is a battleground and a canvas, where your actions shift control, leave your mark, and shape the city’s future.
Silver Stitch Productions
Australia (NSW)
Management In Space' is an up-and-coming gritty sci-fi management rogue-lite. While drifting through space and deep in debt, you are captured and forcefully promoted to Station Manager (yay~)! Your job is to build, mine, trade, defend, and date your way across the galaxy by rapidly constructing space stations, all the while wars swell, aliens devastate sectors, and cults rip the galaxy apart and release demons upon the cosmos. It is a story of power, greed, and the collapse of the universe.
MrCheeseAndPie
Australia (NSW)
Sting & Swing is an exploration game about a bee playing golf through a secret-filled overgrown world. It is a layered experience where you'll discover uses for abilities you didn't know you had and uncover mysteries hidden in plain sight through it's knowledge-based progression.
A homecoming turned homicide. What is everyone hiding in Bridgegully?
Welcome to the sun-drenched, nostalgic streets of Bridgegully in UnQuollified, a charming point-and-click detective adventure. You play as Sam, a struggling artist reluctantly returning to his childhood home when he hears of the death of his estranged childhood friend, Joey Pink. While the local police have ruled Joey’s death a tragic accident, the evidence paints a different picture...
From the quiet rustle of the bushland to the neon-lit corners of the local pub, you’ll have to navigate a web of small-town secrets. In Bridgegully, everyone is hiding something, and every brushstroke you make could either obscure or uncover the truth. Can you confront the shadows of your own past and discover what really happened?
L8R SK8R is a retro inspired 3D platformer with a heavy 90's aesthetic and built around a mechanic that's designed to push players to play like a speedrunner.
The game features a hub world with unlockable levels, like Peach's castle from Mario 64, except instead of collecting stars you collect time.
Every time you complete a level, you collect the time you shaved off of the record. You can then use that time to unlock new levels in the hub world.
Headplug Games
New Zealand
Middle Management is a satirical office building and management game. Design an office. Hire the right talent. Spread your tentacles. Keep your rebellious workers productive. Delve into brains to design the perfect employees. DON'T YOU DARE cross your boss or his INFLUENTIAL clients.
Middle Space
Australia (QLD)
Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.
Sunday 4 October
Hojo Studio
Australia (NSW)
BraveCart is the story of a loyal, abandoned shopping trolley who defies two empires and sparks a revolution.
In a world dominated by Alphabarn and Omegamart, the twin supermarket overlords of Duopolis, our trolley awakens to find themselves abandoned, like so many others - destined to be destroyed and replaced.
Teaming up with scrappy, an abandoned receipt, they begin their quest to free all cartkind from the devious plans of the evil duopoly and forge their own path to freedom.
It’s a classic Australian underdog story set across the regional, suburban and metro areas of a fictional NSW - told as a funny, lighthearted satire on consumerism, duopoly and waste.
Parasol Corp
Australia (VIC), USA
Cozy Game Restoration is about the quiet satisfaction of restoring something that matters. You’ll unwrap carefully sealed packages to discover old, battered video game cartridges. They'll be covered in stickers, markers, dust, and all the accumulation of time. Each one is different, flawed in its own way, and waiting to be brought back to life.
Tuatara Tea Party
New Zealand
Go on an adventure through the spirit world to save your grandma from an evil sea serpent using the power of cooking! Cook dishes for different characters, exploring Korean cuisine in this story about identity, diaspora, and family.
Wali Studios
Australia (VIC)
Join a crew of traumatised space pirates in this tile tactics card game as you commit faster-than-light heists! Push your luck and play your cards right to break in and out of freighter ships with the bag! The more you learn about your crew's past, the more memories you unlock as new cards to play.
Real-time artillery brawler for up to 8 players. Think Super Smash Bros meets Worms, with a movement system all its own.
Stick to walls, swing from your tongue, and fire rockets to destroy the terrain under your opponents. No timers, no health bars. Last cow standing wins.
Triple Bee Games
Australia (QLD)
Set up your own bee hotel in this hand-drawn, incremental creature collector! Arrange your garden to attract native bees then hit the lab and upgrade your tools. Gather pollen and research new seeds as you lead an expedition towards the ultimate discovery: The Grand Bee!
Chunky Quail
Australia (QLD)
Slumbering Woods is a peaceful mushroom-planting exploration adventure where planting mushrooms solves puzzles and opens pathways! After a violent storm separates you from your travelling companions, you wake in a remote village being overtaken by strange fungal growth. To continue your journey, you help the villagers restore their settlement, earning access to their knowledge and friendship, tools to craft, and the hidden paths that lead deeper into the fungal forest.
At the heart of the game is planting as puzzle-solving. Plant mushrooms, study their effects and discover new species as you explore deeper into the forest. Use mushrooms to clear routes, climb obstacles, even traverse water - and don’t forget which ones you can eat!
Faced with expulsion from his order, fledgling alchemist Leon must brave the seas and travel to Port Gelour, a plague-ridden city on the brink of revolution. Craft potent potions, befriend quirky locals, and uncover the dark secrets lurking beneath the waves in a quest for alchemy and discovery!
Guide Leon the Alchemist on his journey through this 2D, hand-drawn, narrative-driven adventure as he uncovers the supernatural origins of a city's collapse. Spend your time exploring detailed levels, brewing potions from scavenged ingredients, using them to solve environmental puzzles, and battling cursed fish-man creatures.