Next month’s London Games Festival will be the biggest event yet for the international showcase of video games – with over 45 events locking into the schedule, a host of global developers confirmed for its Official Selection, and a huge number of industry attendees expected.

The London Games Festival 2024 runs from Tuesday 9 April to Thursday 25 April. Today festival organisers Games London is unveiling the line-up for the fourth annual Official Selection, which champions new and innovative indie games made in London, across the UK – and around the world. There are 40 games across five categories: Made in London, Best of British, International Innovators, Comedy and New Voices.

Highlights from the line-up include the next game from Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn creator Lucas Pope, Mars After Midnight, the sequel to BAFTA-nominated Citizen Sleeper, and the latest from London-based Snipperclips creators SFB Games, Crow Country. The New Voices and International Innovators strands give focus to global games from new studios hailing from India, Brazil, the Philippines, France, Italy, Canada and Iceland.

This international selection of titles will be showcased online throughout LGF through activities like a dedicated Steam festival demo event – but will also be playable in person on Steam Deck and Playdate handhelds at a variety of events over the two weeks.

The Official Selection line-up is:

MADE IN LONDON

Exilium (lonch.me)
GladiEATers (MilkBubblesGames)
Morgan: Metal Detective (Studio Morgan)
Squarelets (Chaos Cookie)
Crow Country (SFB Games)
Thank Goodness You’re Here! (Coal Supper)
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (Jump Over the Age)

BEST OF BRITISH

Dead Meat (Meaning Machine) London, Bristol
Mimic (Ryan Laley Games) Colchester, England
Phoenix Springs (Calligram Studio) Hebden Bridge, UK
Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island (Polygon Treehouse) Dundee (Scotland) & Cambridge(England)
Luna Abyss (Bonsai Collective) Remote, across United Kingdom
Botany Manor (Balloon Studios) Totnes, United Kingdom
Leximan (Knights of Borria) Falmouth & Cranbrook, UK

COMEDY

Lost in Space – The Adventure Game (Scary Robot) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Lucky Tower Ultimate (Studio Seufz) Stuttgart, Germany
Esophaguys (Esophaguys LLC) Remote, USA, Canada, South Africa, India
Times & Galaxy (Copychaser Games) Edmonton, Canada
Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip (snekflat) Ede, Netherlands

INTERNATIONAL INNOVATORS

The Posthumous Investigation (Mother Gaia Studio) Bauru, Brazil
The Deadly Path (Owlskip Enterprises) Remote – Brighton, Amsterdam, New York
Echo of the Waves (Oneira Games) Geneva, Switzerland
Stars in the Trash (Valhalla Cats) Murcia, Spain. Poland and Philippines
SacriFire (Pixelated Milk) Warsaw, Poland
Steel Seed (Storm in a Teacup) Rome, Italy
Aloft (Astrolabe Interactive) Montréal, Canada
30 Birds (RAM RAM Games / Business Goose) Brussels, Belgium
Bionic Bay (Psychoflow Studio, Mureena Oy) Taiwan, Finland
Nirvana Noir (Feral Cat Den) New York City
Toads of the Bayou: Prologue (La Grange) France
Mars After Midnight (Playdate) (Lucas Pope / 3909) Portland, Oregon, USA
Rusty’s Retirement (Mister Morris Games) Tallinn, Estonia

NEW VOICES

RAM: Random Access Mayhem (Xylem Studios) Victoria, Canada
Gurei (Lobo Sagaz Studio) Florianópolis, Brazil
Fall Up (Unicellular Games) Philippines
Fishbowl (imissmyfriends.studio) Goa, India
Music Power Up (microStudio) Strasbourg, France
The Perfect Pencil (Studio Cima) Italy: Milan, Rome, Crema, Lecco, Caravaggio, Fiumicino. United Kingdom: London
Island of Winds (Parity Games) Reykjavik, Iceland
Dino Path Trail (Void Pointer) Rome, Italy

This line-up of global games developers reflects both the breadth of content and international flavour at London Games Festival this year. An expanded line-up of Side Events are being added from community and industry partners alike, set to take the overall list of LGF events to over 45. For regularly updated listings head to https://games.london/#whatson

These will run alongside core events already announced such as…

Ensemble, which champions underrepresented ethnicities working in video games. The new cohort for which will be unveiled at the start of LGF on 9 April ahead of a Trafalgar Square showcase on Saturday 13 April.
Games Finance Market, which connects investors and publishers with games creators and this year includes added delegations from Italy, France, Sweden, Finland, Romania and Canada
Tentpole partner events Now Play This, W.A.S.D, and the BAFTA Games Awards

Over 4,000 industry professionals are expected to participate in various B2B events – with the overall festival attendance in-person set to exceed last year’s 58,000.

London Games Festival is supported by the Mayor of London. It is delivered by Games London, an initiative from Film London, the capital’s screen industries agency, and UK video games industry trade body Ukie.

A range of businesses from across the sector have pledged support for the Festival. These include festival partners Coutts, Taylor Wessing, Alliotts, Corpay, Revolgy and Wizards of the Coast.