Six One Indie Showcase 2026 Dropped 61 Games. These Are the Demos Worth Your Time Before May 25

The eighth Six One Indie Showcase aired live on May 21 and crammed 61 indie games into a tight 93-minute broadcast. That is roughly 90 seconds per game, and the curation held up. World premieres, release date locks, and a wave of fresh Steam demos that go offline on May 25.

If you only have time for a handful, these are the ones worth your evening. The full Steam event page lives right here and the clock is ticking on every demo button.

Grave Seasons locks August 14

The headline reveal was a date. Grave Seasons, the narrative farming sim from Perfect Garbage published by Blumhouse Games, lands on August 14, 2026. You farm. You romance. You also slowly realize one of your new neighbors in Ashenridge is a supernatural serial killer, and the dating sim mechanics start to feel like an investigation.

The Stardew-meets-Twin-Peaks pitch has been around since the studio’s first teasers. A locked date pulls it out of vapor and onto the late-summer calendar, which is suddenly very crowded with farming sims that have a dark twist somewhere in the back half.

Blue Ridge Hunting opens the main show

Jade Meadows opened the main show with Blue Ridge Hunting, a co-op cryptid horror set in the Appalachian Mountains. You and up to three friends investigate documented regional legends, Mothman included. It is essentially Phasmophobia retuned for folklore instead of ghost taxonomies.

The visual style leans hard into PS1-era survival horror, with grainy textures and analog-footage aesthetics that do most of the dread work before the cryptids show up. Watch the showcase trailer below if you want a sense of the tone.

It is already in Early Access on Steam, so the demo is essentially the game right now. Try it solo if you want the existential dread to land properly.

Fraymakers adds a Spelunky guest

Team Fray and McLeodGaming’s customizable platform fighter Fraymakers added Guy Spelunky to its playable roster. The Smash-likes lane is crowded, but Fraymakers keeps winning on roster picks. Spelunky Guy whip-chaining across the screen next to Octodad and Orcane is exactly why this genre exists.

Early Access on Steam, demo accessible during the Six One window.

Sucker for Love returns

Akabaka’s horror-comedy visual novel Sucker for Love: Crush Landing got fresh demo coverage during the show. The premise is the same as the first two entries. You romance a Lovecraftian horror, you regret it, you try again. The series has carved out a real niche between meme-bait and genuine craft, and the new demo extends the formula without making it sillier than it needs to be.

If you have not played the original Sucker for Love: First Date, the demo here is also a fine entry point.

ANOMALITH targets October 29

The third-person shooter ANOMALITH locked an October 29 release on PC, PS5, and Switch 2. The setting is Showa-era Japan filtered through liminal-space aesthetics. 1970s convenience stores and train stations that warp behind you, anomalies that bend the geometry, and a teenage Diver investigating it all on behalf of a government agency.

Composer Yuka Kitamura, known for the Souls series and Elden Ring, is scoring it. That alone is enough to put it on the radar even if you bounced off FuRyu’s previous work.

Of everything in the showcase, this is the one most likely to end up in front of a streamer who has never heard of FuRyu, which is how October release windows usually get won.

Punch Lunch: Foodtruck Fighter

Punch Lunch: Foodtruck Fighter is the showcase’s most absurd pitch. You brawl. You cook. You manage a food truck. You also brawl while cooking. Beat-em-up combat sits on top of chaotic kitchen management, and the trailer suggests the developers know exactly how that sounds.

No date yet, but it is wishlistable on Steam and the demo is live until May 25.

The deep-cut roguelikes

Six One has always over-indexed on roguelikes, and this year is no different. Two demos worth your time.

Blocks for Babies from BunkSoft Interactive is a hybrid roguelike where Tetris-style block clearing happens underneath an FPS layer. Kills reshape the board. The board reshapes your cover. It should not work, and the demo suggests it does.

Black Jacket is a blackjack roguelike deckbuilder that is already out and currently on sale through the showcase window. If Balatro hooked you and you want a leaner sibling, this is the one to try first.

Cozy and weird picks

Worth a slot on your demo evening if the action lineup is not your thing.

Sonnet from Antique Song is a cozy episodic adventure about a girl with a magical flower. Part I, The Gardener of Smoke, is pegged for late 2026.

Sloppy Forgeries from Playful Systems is a competitive painting game where you recreate famous artworks with real-time pixel-accuracy scoring. Local couch chaos for art history nerds.

Mouseward from Finite Reflection Studios is an N64-inspired soulslike where you play an undead Royal Mouse Guard hunting star fragments. The combat is heavier than the mouse aesthetic suggests.

Treetopians from Aparato Games is a cozy 3D colony sim where your civilization lives in the trees.

How to actually use the demo window

Steam demos from the showcase stay live until May 25, 2026. After that the buttons get pulled from the event page, and most of these will reappear later as launch-week demos that you will probably miss.

Bookmark the Six One sale page, pick four or five from this list, and burn an evening on them. Wishlist the ones that stick.

For more curation that respects your time, our best indie games of 2026 roundup tracks the year’s strongest releases, and the deals page keeps up with whatever is free or steeply discounted this week.