These Greek Games Are Going to Gamescom 2025 - Hands-on Demo & Interview Opportunities Inside!
The Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center (EKKOMED) proudly announces the participation of the Greek National Delegation in Gamescom 2025. As EKKOMED, we are excited to bring the first official Greek delegation to Gamescom this year. This marks an important milestone in showcasing the vibrant creativity and talent of Greek game developers on the international stage.
Our goal is to boost Greece’s visibility in the global gaming industry, foster meaningful partnerships, and open new opportunities for our developers to thrive and grow. We believe this initiative will highlight Greece’s potential as a key player in the rapidly evolving world of video games.
Xenopurge
What: Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat.
Why should you care? Operate from a remote command center, issuing indirect orders via multi-screen interfaces. Plan routes, set priorities, and adapt as missions escalate and feel the true weight of being in command.
Xenopurge capture the feeling of commanding units remotely through an immersive command center, leading the fight against the Xenos threat.
Developer: Traptics (published by Firesquid)
Genres: Autobattler/ Real-time tactics/ Simulation
Release Date: 11 July 2025 PC (Early Access on Steam)
Next Soul, Please!
What: Next Soul, Please! is a satirical narrative game where you judge the fate of the dead as a low-level employee in the afterlife’s most dysfunctional bureaucracy.
Why should you care? Interrogate souls, cross-reference holy texts, and survive the paperwork of eternity, all while navigating divine politics, absurd rules, and your own questionable coworkers. Your moral compass is your only guide (until it isn’t).
Next Soul, Please! turns damnation into desk work, offering a darkly comedic blend of Papers, Please, The Good Place, and Coffee Talk. Where every decision counts, and heaven has HR.
Developer: eNVy Softworks
Genres: Simulation / Decision-making / Bureaucratic / Puzzle
Release Date: Q4 2025 Windows, macOS, Linux, Steam Deck
Cult Of Blood
What: Cult of Blood is a dark fantasy survival horror game set in a twisted world ruled by an evil witch and her bloodthirsty cult.
Why should you care? Cult of Blood stands out with its tight, deliberate combat system combining ranged and melee attacks, forcing you to switch tactics dynamically as you face relentless enemies. Its fixed camera perspectives create a cinematic yet claustrophobic feel, intensifying the dread of exploring corrupted environments while ensuring every encounter is framed for maximum tension and atmosphere. We’re just two childhood friends working all day and night, unstoppable in our dedication to bring our visions and dreams to life.
Developer: Dusty Box
Genres: Survival horror / Action-Adventure
Release Date: Q1 2026 (PC & Consoles)
Dark Quest 4
What: Dark Quest 4 is a turn-based dungeon crawler where you create a party of heroes and go on epic quests.
Why should you care? Dark Quest 4 is a turn-based RPG inspired by the legendary board game Hero Quest. The game features a party-based system where you control a group of heroes, an isometric hand-drawn art style, dice-based mechanics and much more. Each quest is designed to take you through an adventure that will test your party's strength, courage and sanity as you go deeper and deeper into the dungeon.
Developer: Brain Seal Ltd
Genres: Dungeon Crawler / Board Game / Turn-based
Release Date: Q4 2025
Haunted Bloodlines
What:
aunted Bloodlines
is a first-person psychological survial-horror where a sentient, time.shifting mansion and a pocket-watch time-travel mechanic reshape every corner of your sanity and the story
Why should you care? Haunted Bloodlines is a first-person survival and psychological horror game that plumbs you into the eerie depths of a living, breathing mansion. Dark rooms whisper secrets of the past and as you explore its ever-expanding halls, you’ll soon realize that hidden horrors lurk within its walls.)
Developer: Horrified Triangles (published by Iphigames)
Genres: Psychological Horror / Action / Indie
Release Date: November 2025 (Steam)
Moros Protocol
What: Moros Protocol is a sci-fi FPS roguelite that combines the intense combat of classic 90s boomer-shooters and the challenge of souls-like boss fights. Set aboard a derelict warship called The Orpheus, your mission as its last protector is to purge the deadly infection known as the Darkphage.
Why should you care? Moros Protocol is a unique blend of a roguelite’s procedural level generation, a souls-like’s punishing boss encounters, and a boomer-shooters fast paced over the top gameplay. On top of that, the pixel-painted artstyle is a striking throwback to those 90’s roots.
Developer: Pixel Reign (published by Super Rare Originals)
Genres: Psychological Horror / Action / Indie
Release Date: September 4th, 2025 on Steam
Necrophosis
What: Necrophosis is a first-person horror adventure, plunging you into a nightmarish realm teeming with grotesque forms and ominous visuals. Delve into eerie landscapes and uncover secrets in this atmospheric journey through the macabre.
Why should you care? Necrophosis’ world is directly inspired by the paintings of Zdzislaw Beksinski, a Polish surrealist known for his hellish, decaying dreamscapes. Few games have captured that same existential dread, and even fewer recreated it in real-time 3D environments this convincingly. It’s not just creepy, it’s beautiful in a grotesque, poetic way. This isn’t body horror or jump-scare horror, it’s “art horror.” The visuals are like walking through a nightmare version of a museum exhibit.
Developer: Dragonis Games
Genres: First-person horror adventure / Lovecraftian / Surreal
Release Date: 25 april 2025
Bassai-Dai
What: Bassai-Dai is an artistic action-adventure game where you wield a giant ink brush to engage in elemental combat, solve ancient puzzles, and explore a world that blends Japanese and Greek aesthetics. It takes you on an emotional journey to rescue your kidnapped sister and unravel the world’s deepest mysteries.
Why should you care? It has unique ink mechanics that let players be very creative with both platforming and puzzles, a fresh visual style inspired by both Mediterranean and Japanese aesthetics with plenty of areas to explore, and a combat system that emphasizes the flow and style of each movement, enhanced by elemental ink powers that evolve over the journey.
Developer: Kalopla
Genres: Action-Adventure / Art | Greek + Japanese aesthetics
Release Date: TBD
Placeground
What: Placeground is a meditative space-building simulation where you design interior spaces using modular toys, decorative oddities, and architectural imagination. Think of it as an eclectic IKEA interactive catalog come to life, if the catalog was illustrated by M.C. Escher and directed by Wes Anderson.
Why should you care? In Placeground, you can design your dream home or the most unconventional space your imagination can come up with, at no cost, using only your time and creativity.
Experiment with color, shape, combinations, and form, and watch as NPCs respond to your creations in curious, abstract, narrative-driven ways.
Developer: beyondthosehills
Genres: Minimalist / Relaxing / Simulation
Release Date: November 2025 (Steam)
Couch Heroes
What: Couch Heroes is a working title for a next-gen 'social MMO' that empowers players to build their own persistent gamer identity and their own gameplay loop. Our API tracks your progress in our partner games and related content, and rewards you with in-game collectibles that you can use in our persistent virtual world, where you connect with your friends, build YOUR ultimate player fantasy and uncover our unique world.
Why should you care? For players? It’s the first platform to merge RPG systems with an intricate in-game reward cycle that empowers your game time, revolutionising how you engage with your games. Mold your character, build your own world, forge new friendships. Using our systems, you can create your true gaming personas, find the community and gamers that fit your style and play best. We want to make your game time and achievements matter, so you feel less like a couch potato and more like a Couch Hero.
Developer: Couch Heroes
Genres: Social Action MMO / Game Discovery platform
Release Date: Alpha/Beta in 2026, Full Release in 2027 (PC) - Steam page coming soon!
Cook or be Cooked
What: Cook or be Cooked is a walk-and-talk indie adventure game where you and your dysfunctional witch parents cook teens to stay young and powerful. But when they bring in a charming girl as your next meal, will you uphold the family tradition or risk everything to save her?
Why should you care? As the player, you step into a tale of twisted family values. You play as Lucas, a reluctant young witch trapped in a bizarre household where dinner isn’t just served. It’s hunted, prepared, and consumed with dark intent. Will you embrace your parents' ways, find the courage to forge your own path, or fall prey to the cutthroat world of witches where it’s truly "eat or be eaten"?
Developer: Funigami
Genres: Adventure / Visual Novel / Cooking
Release Date: October 2025 (PC)
Arcweave: Streamlining Game Narratives
What: Arcweave is a web-based, no-code platform that unites writers, narrative designers, and developers to build interactive, branching experiences in one visual collaborative space.
Why should you care? Trusted by top game studios, XR teams, and serious-games creators, Arcweave streamlines narrative workflows with:
In-browser prototyping and instant playtesting
Real-time sync to Unity, Unreal, Godot, plus a flexible web API
Universal export to JSON, XML, CSV, PDF
AI Design Assistant for feedback and refinement
Upcoming version history and localization tools
From concept to deployment, Arcweave brings interactive stories to life with confidence and speed, for up to 50% faster narrative implementation.
Developer: Arcweave, Inc
Where: Accessible via web & mobile browsers, with integrations for Unreal Engine, Unity and Godot.