Here are the 12 winners of the PAX Aus 2025 Indie Showcase

Posted on July 30, 2025

Every year, the PAX Aus Indie Showcase features a lineup of digital titles and tabletop games in celebration of the sheer creativity and innovation of Australian indie developers. It provides an avenue for creators to showcase their games to players and attending media, as well as build connections within the Australian gaming industry. This year’s winners include 12 games that exemplify what makes the Australian indie gaming development scene so diverse, vibrant, and fresh. All games featured will be available to play at PAX Aus 2025.

Digital PAX Aus 2025 Indie Showcase

  • Lunars by Anubis Arts: Lunars is a chaotic party game where plushie zodiac animals go head-to-head in rapid-fire minigames and unpredictable board events. Designed for up to eight players, Lunars keeps the action fast and fun and with no player eliminations and loads of customisable cosmetics.
  • Doggy Don’t Care by Rotub Games: Doggy Don’t Care is a cheeky action-adventure platformer that lets players unleash adorable chaos as a mischievous dog on the loose. Explore vibrant environments, smash objects, collect goodies and complete fun-filled tasks to earn the approval of your feathered friends.
  • Memory’s Reach by 100 Stones Interactive: Memory’s Reach is a first-person puzzle-adventure that blends metroidvania exploration with mind-bending logic. Set in the towering ruins of a lost alien civilisation, players will solve holographic, environmental and layered meta-puzzles to unlock powerful abilities and access new areas. From floating cities to orbital space stations, every corner hides a secret necessary to uncover the truth behind the Mairish legacy.
  • Trivia Deal by Fluent Pixel: Trivia Deal is the world’s first trivia roguelike, a tactical deckbuilder where quick thinking and smart play are key to survival. Answer questions across shifting categories, use lifelines strategically and clear columns before the Rainbow Reaper catches up. With permanent progression and run-to-run randomness, no two games play the same in this brainy battle of wits.
  • PROXIMATE by Cain Maddox: PROXIMATE is a dread-fuelled narrative horror game set in the depths of a derelict deep-sea laboratory. Armed with only a bare-bones image recognition visor, players must rely on proximity data, text prompts and audio cues to piece together what happened to the vanished research team. With limited visibility and failing tech, every step is a leap of faith.
  • Dryft City Kyngs by Nonsense Machine: Dryft City Kyngs is a genre-smashing RPG adventure that blends racing, life sim, and punk energy in a vibrant 2D world inspired by near-future Melbourne. From humble office worker to underground racing legend, players will climb the ranks of Dryft City’s chaotic streets, forging rivalries, customising rides, and building their reputation one wild race at a time.

Tabletop PAX Aus 2025 Indie Showcase

  • Coffee Up! by ToToTam: Coffee Up! is a pocket-sized co-op memory card game for 2-5 players. Join your team of baristas as you run the hottest new coffee shop in town, tackling the challenge of the crucial first seven days. Work together to serve up perfect brews and impress your regulars by remembering their names and favourite orders.
  • Conquest For The Capital by MountainSoul Gaming: Conquest For the Capital is a strategic war game where four unique fantasy factions vie to claim the capital. From the Dwarves’ mobile cannon towers to the Orcs’ berserk tactics, Elves’ quick reinforcements and the relentless Undead, each faction offers distinct playstyles. Build your forces, control key points and outsmart your rivals.
  • Cartograph – Atlas Edition by The Ravensridge Emporium: Cartograph – Atlas Edition is a solo or GM-less map-making RPG focused on exploration, journaling and worldbuilding. With simple core rules and a variety of prompts and tables, players create detailed world maps alongside journals documenting their discoveries. By the game’s end, you’ll have a unique artefact perfect for inspiring other fantasy RPGs or serving as the foundation for your homebrew setting.
  • Panda Party Game by Cheerfolk: Panda Party is a fast-paced, pick-up-and-play card game where adorable pandas throw wild pizza-fuelled parties. Players race to gather five guests by tempting pandas with tasty snacks, outbidding rivals and unleashing cheeky powers. With over 150 cards and pun-filled personalities, each game is full of chaos and laughs.
  • Spacewreck Salvage by Aethermon Studios: Spacewreck Salvage is a competitive inverted-bidding game for 2-5 players where strategic drafting and timing rule the day. Carefully assemble your crew of Pilots, Engineers, Quartermasters, Rangers and mysterious Wildcards, then race to claim powerful Ship Upgrades, lost Cargo and plucky Survivors. Choose between sending a small, agile team for quick loot or a larger crew for a bigger haul – balancing risk and reward to become the greatest Salvage Crew in the Quadrant.
  • Potion Society by The Murmuring Mystic: Potion Society is a competitive card game for 2-4 players where potion crafting is king. Starting with unique recipes, players collect and stack ingredients with bonus effects, then brew their potions in shared cauldrons. Spells and sabotage add chaos, and the potion with the most points at the end claims victory.