POPUCOM

Release Date: June 2, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Multiplayer / Platformer

POPUCOM is a multiplayer co-op platform adventure game. As an adventurer, you are summoned to an unknown planet to embark on an exoplanet expedition with your friends. Face various enemies and use engaging items and techniques to eliminate threats and restore the world to its former glory. The game features two main modes: a narrative-driven story mode designed for two players, and “Party Mode” for three to four players, perfect for chaotic fun and shared laughter.

DELTARUNE

Release Date: June 4, 2025

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2

Genre: RPG

DELTARUNE is an episodic RPG by Toby Fox, a spin-off from Undertale, set in a parallel universe. You control Kris, a human teenager in a monster-filled town, who enters the “Dark World” with classmates Susie and Ralsei to seal Dark Fountains and save the world. The game blends turn-based combat with bullet hell mechanics, allowing you to fight or spare enemies. Unlike Undertale, it has one ending, emphasizing limited player choice. Chapters 1-2 are free on PC, Mac, Switch, and PS4, with Chapters 3-4 set for a paid release.

The Alters

Release Date: June 13, 2025

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S

Genre: Survival

The Alters is a sci-fi survival game. You play as Jan Dolski, a miner stranded on a hostile planet, piloting a mobile base to escape deadly solar radiation. Using Rapidium, you create “Alters”—alternate versions of Jan with unique skills based on different life choices. The game blends base-building, resource management, and exploration with a branching narrative, where choices shape Jan’s relationships with his Alters and lead to multiple endings.

Date Everything!

Release Date: June 17, 2025

Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch

Genre: Dating Sim

Date Everything! is a sandbox dating sim by Sassy Chap Games. After losing your job to AI, you receive magical “Dateviator” glasses that transform household objects like your bed, fridge, or even existential dread into 100 fully voice-acted dateable characters. With branching narratives and at least three endings per character, you can romance, befriend, or feud, crafting unique stories in a vibrant, pun-filled world.

Crown Gambit

Release Date: June 18, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Tactical RPG

Crown Gambit is a narrative-driven tactical RPG. Set in the dark fantasy kingdom of Meodred, you guide three paladins – Aliza, Hael, and Rollo – through a chaotic capital torn by a war of succession. Choose a side among throne contenders, wielding ancestral relics in card-based combat against knights, nobles, and rebels. Your choices shape the story, paladin personalities, and multiple endings, blending strategy, visual novel elements, and Celtic-inspired art by Gobert.

Broken Arrow

Release Date: June 19, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Strategy / Tactical

Broken Arrow is a large-scale, real-time modern warfare tactics game by Slitherine. Set in a fictional Eastern European conflict, it features U.S. and Russian factions with over 300 customizable units across six categories, offering 1,500+ combinations. You build armies, deploy via land, sea, and air, and engage in strategic battles on realistic, large maps like cities and refineries. With deep unit customization, a scenario editor, and 5v5 multiplayer, it blends Company of Heroes-style action with Arma-like realism.

REMATCH

Release Date: June 19, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Football / Multiplayer

REMATCH is a fast-paced, arcade-style 5v5 multiplayer football game by Sloclap. You control a single character in a third-person perspective, with no fouls or offsides, ensuring non-stop action in futuristic VR arenas. Emphasizing skill-based gameplay and teamwork, it features manual passing, shooting, and dribbling, with modes like 3v3 and 4v4 alongside competitive 5v5. Customization options include cosmetics, and the game, priced at 30 €, avoids pay-to-win mechanics.

Star Overdrive

Release Date: June 19, 2025

Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S

Genre: Action-Adventure

Star Overdrive is an open-world sci-fi action-adventure, in which you play as Bios, a spacefarer stranded on the alien planet Cebete, searching for your lost lover, Nous. Using a hoverboard and keytar, you speed through diverse biomes, solve puzzles, and battle enemies. The game blends Zelda: Breath of the Wild-style exploration with Tony Hawk-inspired traversal, featuring a retro-futuristic aesthetic and synth-rock soundtrack.

BitCraft Online

Release Date: June 20, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: MMORPG

BitCraft Online is a sandbox MMORPG. Set in a single, procedurally generated world, you are awaken as mystical beings, building shelters to survive. The game emphasizes crafting, farming, hunting, and city-building over combat, with a freeform skill system where you master abilities through practice. You can create towns, trade, or unite cities into empires, shaping a dynamic, player-driven world.

Shuffle Tactics

Release Date: June 24, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Deckbuilding

Shuffle Tactics is a roguelite deckbuilding tactical RPG. Set in the cursed kingdom of Asteria, you battle the Glimmer Curse as heroes like Doberknight or Catalina, using strategic card combos and grid-based positioning. With 500+ cards, 20 sidekicks, and diverse biomes, it blends Final Fantasy Tactics and Slay the Spire for deep, replayable combat.

DREADZONE

Release Date: June 26, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Survival

DREADZONE is a survival game by Eshed, set in a post-apocalyptic quarantine zone ravaged by the Zeno-29 virus. Players scavenge resources, craft tools, build shelters, and fight zombies, mutants, animals, and rival survivors in a gritty open-world. With first-person combat, base-building, and co-op multiplayer, it offers a tense, atmospheric experience.

Ruffy and the Riverside

Release Date: June 26, 2025

Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch

Genre: Platformer

Ruffy and the Riverside is a open-world 3D platformer. You play as Ruffy, a bear with the magical SWAP ability to copy and paste textures, for example, turning ice into lava to solve puzzles and explore Riverside. Joined by friends like Pip the bee, you battle villain Groll to save the World Core. With hand-drawn art, playful side quests, and collectibles, it blends Banjo-Kazooie-style charm with innovative mechanics.

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FlyKnight

FlyKnight is a first-person, indie Soulslike RPG with a retro RuneScape-inspired aesthetic. You play as a FlySquire tasked with defeating the evil witch Lunamoth, whose curse prevents bugs from growing wings. In the game, you’ll explore a handcrafted dungeon with side paths, loot, and tough bosses across a 3-5 hour campaign. It also supports solo or up to four-player co-op, includes a fishing minigame, and offers a nostalgic, King’s Field-inspired experience. Despite minor bugs and limited replayability, its charming visuals and 5,95€ price tag earned it overwhelming praise.

Promise Mascot Agency

Promise Mascot Agency is an open-world mascot management sim with a Yakuza-inspired crime drama twist. You play as Michi, a disgraced yakuza exiled to the cursed town of Kaso-Machi to revive a failing mascot agency. Alongside Pinky, a sentient pinky finger, you recruit quirky, living mascots like a sobbing tofu block or a yam-obsessed cat to promote businesses. Gameplay blends driving a customizable Kei truck, managing mascot jobs, and resolving their mishaps via tactical card-based battles. Don’t forget to explore the town, uncover conspiracies, and rebuild the community in a 15-20 hour adventure.

Eternal Strands

Eternal Strands is a third-person action-adventure RPG. You play as Brynn, a young Weaver, exploring the Enclave to uncover a lost civilization’s secrets. The game features physics-based magic (fire, ice, telekinesis) for creative combat and exploration, letting you freeze enemies, burn obstacles, or climb massive bosses. With a world inspired by Shadow of the Colossus, it offers 18-35 hours of gameplay, blending boss fights, crafting, and a story of magic and mystery.

Sultan’s Game

Sultan’s Game is a card-based narrative RPG. Set in a dark fantasy inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, you play a minister forced to participate in a cruel game by a tyrannical Sultan. Each week, you draw one of four cards: Carnality, Extravagance, Conquer, or Bloodshed and must complete its challenge within seven days or face execution. You’ll manage resources, allies, and choices to survive, navigating love, betrayal, and moral dilemmas. Decisions shape the story, leading to multiple endings like becoming a trusted minister, overthrowing the Sultan, or summoning dark gods.

Keep Driving

Keep Driving is a pixel-art management RPG. Set in the early 2000s, you play a young driver embarking on a road trip to the Way Out East festival. Manage resources like gas, money, energy, and car durability while navigating a procedurally generated open world. Pick up hitchhikers with unique stories and skills, customize your car, and face turn-based “battles” against road hazards like potholes or tailgaters. With multiple endings, 1-4 hour playthroughs, and a great soundtrack, it captures the nostalgic freedom of a coming-of-age journey.

Dark Deity II

Dark Deity II is a turn-based strategy RPG. Set 25 years after the original, it follows Gwyn and Riordan, descendants of the first game’s hero Irving, leading the Eternal Delegation against the expanding Asverellian Empire threatening Verroa. You will command 20 heroes with 45 branching classes across 30 voiced story chapters, featuring deep customization, tactical grid-based combat, and a built-in randomizer for replayability. Choices also shape alliances and story outcomes, while bond scenes deepen character relationships.

Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree

Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree is a 2.5D action RPG with Soulslike and Metroidvania elements. Set in the decaying dark fantasy world of Faelduum, you play an Inquisitor defying the King Priest to uncover secrets tied to Entropy and a witch’s spirit. Choose from six classes, wielding melee, magic, and a grapple hook across 60 quests and 75 locations. The game also features deep skill trees, crafting, and challenging combat.

Look Outside

Look Outside is a survival horror RPG. Set in an apartment building, a mysterious event turns anyone who looks outside into grotesque monsters. You play as Sam, scavenging for food, weapons, and supplies while managing hunger, hygiene, and morale. You’ll explore warped halls, fight over 150 unique creatures in turn-based combat, and interact with eerie characters, some recruitable as allies. With 10-12 hours of gameplay, multiple endings, and a Lovecraftian body horror aesthetic, it blends dread, humor, and retro pixel art.

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is a narrative-driven, dice-based RPG. Set in the Starward Belt, a gritty asteroid belt, you play as a Sleeper, an android with a human mind, on the run from a corporation and a crime syndicate after a failed reboot that left you amnesiac and malfunctioning. Commandeer a ship, recruit a crew, and take on high-risk contracts across multiple hubs in a 12-15 hour campaign. The game features tabletop-inspired mechanics, where dice rolls determine outcomes, with a new stress system adding tension.

Cabernet

Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG. Set in a 19th-century Eastern European-inspired town, you play as Liza, a young doctor turned vampire, navigating her new unlife. Choose to retain your humanity or embrace nihilism as you manage vampiric powers like bat transformation, invisibility, and enchanting humans. The 14-16 hour story explores themes of alcoholism, social conflict, and corruption, with choices shaping relationships, multiple endings, and a morality system.

Peripeteia

Peripeteia is a first-and-third-person immersive sim RPG. Set in an alternate-history cyberpunk Poland, you play as Marie, a cybernetic supersoldier turned mercenary navigating a post-Soviet city rife with corruption and clashing factions. Blending stealth, shooter, and RPG mechanics inspired by Deus Ex and System Shock, it offers hacking, climbing, and multiple mission approaches in a gritty, expansive world.

Conquest Dark

Conquest Dark is an action RPG with roguelike and survivors-like elements. Set 237 years after the Black Planet’s arrival, you battle undead hordes and cosmic horrors in a dark fantasy world. Choose from classes like Barbarians, Oathkeepers, or Acolytes of Kuu, starting as a weak grunt and building powerful loadouts through Dark Ritual runs. With isometric, fast-paced combat inspired by Vampire Survivors, you dodge, craft builds, and unlock abilities across haunting ruins.

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