Summer Game Fest 2025 – Latest news on Latin American video games

30 Jun Summer Game Fest 2025 – Latest news on Latin American video games

The Summer Game Fest is, without a doubt, the largest platform for a development studio to showcase its new projects, and the Latin American region is present at this enormous event every year. Thanks to the Latin American Games Showcase, we were able to see the latest developments in more than 50 games.

As usual, many Argentine games were present at the event, such as Bogdan’s Cross, which presented a new trailer. Developed by Federico Moreno Breser, this action-adventure game puts us in the shoes of Bogdan, a shepherd who must become a Templar knight whose journey will lead him to encounter historical figures from the medieval era. While the game will take creative liberties, the narrative will focus on historical accuracy. Bogdan’s Cross doesn’t yet have a release date, but it will be available sometime in 2026.

Another Argentine title present was Kernel Hearts, a cooperative roguelike action RPG developed by EPHEMERA, where four magical girls, members of the MAHOU unit, must climb the Tower of Babel to face angels, defy God, and save a world consumed by ashes. With an intense mix of real-time combat, customizable spells, and progression by attempts, each expedition is a chaotic, strategic battle that culminates in confrontations against biblical bosses. The game offers up to four players in online multiplayer, with the ability to combine attacks and abilities to create devastating combos. With an aesthetic marked by influences from classic anime, Kernel Hearts blends action, apocalyptic storytelling, and emotional ties to characters into a unique and challenging experience. It’s worth noting that the game has announced a demo on Steam.

Don’t Kill Rumble, another game at the event, is an explosive King of the Hill-style battle royale developed by Argentine studio Scubalight Studios, combining frenetic action, verticality, and a chibi aesthetic brimming with personality. With a chaotic and unpredictable multiplayer approach, the game features quick-fire matches in which players must use gadgets such as grappling hooks, smoke bombs, and mines to dominate the hill and sabotage their opponents. The studio announced the launch of a free demo this coming June 9th on Steam, as part of Steam Next Fest. This version will allow the general public to try the game online for the first time, following more than two years of development focused on community feedback and offering an intense, fun, and customizable experience.

Another new announcement seen at the event was Teios Journey, from Argentine studio Serendipia Games. This title will be an action game with a 2D perspective and a hand-drawn visual style, firmly categorized as a metroidvania. As Teios, we’ll have to visit mysterious ruins filled with danger to discover the truth about our own family. In addition to offering cooperative play, Teios Journey seeks to innovate with physics-based puzzles, something rarely explored in this popular subgenre. The game hasn’t announced a release date, but can now be added to the Steam Wishlist.

Monstabox, meanwhile, is a 1v1 turn-based combat game that fuses strategy and action in fast-paced, vibrant matches. Created by Bruno Leni, a Mendoza-based developer based in Japan for almost a decade, the game stands out for its puzzle-based dice system, in which players choose monsters, cast spells, activate combos, and unleash powerful finishing moves to dominate the battlefield and earn the coveted Star after knocking out their opponent. In addition to its addictive cross-platform gameplay, Monstabox shines for its artistic quality and animations, which can be experienced firsthand in the demo announced for Steam.

For fans of classic Zelda, the Point to Stars studio, made up of talent from Mexico, Venezuela, and Argentina, presented the ideal title: The Requiem of Shadows. In this adventure with graphics reminiscent of those iconic Nintendo games, we can explore a wide variety of dungeons, fighting all kinds of monsters along the way and, of course, solving puzzles along the way. The game will also feature boss battles at the end of each dungeon. While The Requiem of Shadows didn’t announce a specific release date, it promised it would be coming soon to Steam and Nintendo Switch.

These were just a few of the games presented at the Latin American Games Showcase, and several of the other titles also have demos on Steam for those who want to experience a sample of the region’s talent. These include LAN Party Adventures, Castlebound, Damned 2, and many more.

Below is the full list of titles announced at the event:

• A.I.L.A (Brazil)
• Avante! Atlantis (Brazil)
• Block Block Block (Uruguay)
• Bogdan’s Cross (Argentina)
• Bubblegum Galaxy (Chile)
• Castlebound (Mexico)
• Catcha Diablos (Mexico)
• Changer Seven (Brazil)
• Chunky Jump! (Puerto Rico)
• Colorbound (Chile)
• Corebreaker (Brazil)
• Damned 2 (Brazil)
• Desktop Explorer (Mexico)
• Dig! Dig! Dino! (Mexico)
• Don’t Kill Rumble (Argentina)
• Dono’s Tale (Mexico)
• Eagle Knight Paradox (Mexico)
• Gaucho and The Grassland (Brazil)
• Gunny Ascend (Costa Rica)
• Idle Waters (Mexico)
• IRONHIVE (Brazil)
• Islets Defense (Brazil)
• Kernel Hearts (Argentina)
• LAN Party Adventures (Peru)
• LE FOL (Brazil)
• LURKS WITHIN WALLS (Brazil)
• Monstabox (Argentina)
• Neverway (Brazil)
• Dark Blossom’s Glow (Costa Rica)
• Pancito Merge (Mexico)
• Piss Off (Argentina)
• Requiem Of Shadows (Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina)
• Shadow Sacrament: The Roots of Evil (Brazil)
• Star Leap (Chile)
• Taria & Como (Mexico)
• Teeko (Coast Rich)
• Teios Journey (Argentina)
• The Shadow Syndicate (Colombia)
• The Trolley Solution (Chile)
• Tormented Souls 2 (Chile)
• Vulcan (Peru)
• Wander Stars (Venezuela)