Five Indian Games From the India Games Showcase Worth Checking Out

The India Games Showcase took place as part of Summer Game Fest week on June 8, 2026, and it highlighted over 40 games. From established studios to newcomers, dev teams from different backgrounds highlighted their best work. 

The event had a mix of psychological horror, cozy games, RPGs, racing games, and more. Here are our picks for five games that you should check out from the event. 

Five Games To Check Out From India Games Showcase 2026

1. Raji: Kaliyuga

The headline act and the most anticipated Indian game on the show floor. Nodding Heads Games' follow-up to Raji: An Ancient Epic picks up six years later, with Raji now a seasoned warrior and her younger brother Darsh introduced as a dual protagonist. The game has shifted from the original's isometric perspective to a full third-person action-adventure. 

Raji fights with acrobatic martial arts and the divine Trishul, while Darsh wields siddhi powers to manipulate gravity, time, and energy. The two characters swap based on story events rather than player choice, which keeps the narrative pace intact. The broader stakes involve a cosmic war triggered by the asura warlord Mahabalasura prematurely unsealing the heavens, which is exactly the kind of mythological ambition that made the original worth playing. 

2. Fishbowl

Fishbowl is a visual novel about Alo, a 21-year-old navigating her first job in a new city while grieving her grandmother's death. Over the course of a month, she processes isolation, early adulthood, and the weight of childhood memories, with a magical talking fish from her past as her unlikely companion. 

It is cozy and warm in presentation, but the emotional territory it covers is something new from an Indian studio. The game is already available, and it is about taking different paths that lead to unique happy endings. For players who found comfort in games like A Short Hike or Unpacking, Fishbowl is worth putting on your radar.

3. Loop: Beginning of Never Ending Journey

This 2.5D atmospheric puzzle adventure drops players into a shifting world where abandoned environments react to your presence. Creatures emerge from distorted reality, and the rules of each space are never fully explained. The horror here is slow and psychological, building tension quietly before collapsing into sudden chaos. 

The design philosophy of withholding clarity is central to the experience. The deeper you go, the less stable the world becomes, and the game leans into that disorientation during its campaign. It is an ambitious tone for a debut title and the kind of project that tends to find its audience through word of mouth once it is in players' hands.

4. Malhaar

Malhaar puts players in the shoes of a young boy inheriting his grandfather's workshop in Sindhu, tasked with mastering Raga Malhaar on the sitar. You have to learn instrument-making, running a dhaba, and building ties with a community that exists somewhere between the living world and something older. 

The time pressure of one month gives the life-sim structure genuine stakes, and the classical music at its core is not window dressing but an actual gameplay system. There is nothing else quite like it in the current indie landscape.

5. Palm Sugar: A Village Story

A narrative adventure rooted in the fictional South Indian village Bellampakam, following Srinu, a young hero trying to free his village from a drug cartel's grip. The game uses weapons native to rural life like slingshots, sticks, axes, and leans into dialogue-rich levels packed with humor and cultural specificity. 

It sits somewhere between a brawler and a narrative adventure, and the setting alone distinguishes it from most of what gets shown at international showcases. Rural South India as the backdrop for a story about community and resistance is not a premise you see often, and Palm Sugar looks like it knows exactly what kind of game it wants to be.

These are just some of the 40+ titles shown at the India Games Showcase 2026 event. There are many more titles spanning different genres that deserve attention from gamers, from both veteran and newcomers in the industry.