PAX Prime has some new name,
So we’re bringing some new games.
A brand-new show, it’s named PAX West,
Our games remain the very best.

Is that rhyme enough to get you excited? No, you want a ridiculously good trailer, too? Okay, okay.

We are proud to present the line-up for PAX West 2016 in beautiful Seattle, WA! This year’s showcase is packed to the rafters with greatness, stacked up like this:

Thanks to our returning sponsors, Sony PlayStation and ID@Xbox, for their incredible support each year. Special thank-yous go out to Oculus, Unreal Engine, Intel, and Google Play, all of whom are supporting specific teams at the show (more info on that later), Cards Against Humanity for single-handedly paying every tabletop team’s way, and to Alienware and Intel for their continued hardware support. We couldn’t do any of this without them.

Further special thanks go to Nvidia and Chrono.gg for their support, too!

MEGABOOTH

Representing the broad range of what people are creating in independent games right now, our showcase contains such a true variety that this paragraph will soon have to end, so that you can read the incredible titles instead.

• 2064: Read Only Memories – MidBoss
• 20XX – Batterystaple Games
• Antihero – Tim Conkling
• Asura – Ogre Head Studio
• Astroneer – System Era Softworks
• Battle Chef Brigade – Trinket Studios
• Basement – Halfbus
• Blade Ballet – Dreamsail Games
• Blasters of the Universe – Secret Location
• Bleed 2 – Ian Campbell
• Burly Men at Sea – Brain&Brain
• Celeste – Matt Makes Games
• Chasm – Bit Kid
• Death Squared – SMG Studio
• Eco – Strange Loop Games
• ECHO – ULTRA ULTRA
• Flinthook – Tribute Games
• GoNNER – Raw Fury
• Just Shapes & Beats – Berzerk Studio
• Karma: Incarnation 1 – AuraLab
• Korix – StellarVR
• Luna – Funomena
• Mages of Mystralia – Borealys Games
• Monsters & Monocles – Retro Dreamer
• Obduction – Cyan
• Open Sorcery – Abigail Corfman
• Overload – Revival Productions
• Project Highrise – SomaSim
• Redout – 34BigThings
• RIVE – Two Tribes
• Secret Legend – ISOMETRICORP Games
• Shoot Shoot Mega Pack – Actual Humans
• Sometimes Always Monsters – Vagabond Dog
• Skytorn – Matt Makes Games
• StarCrawlers – Juggernaut Games
• Thimbleweed Park – Terrible Toybox
• Through the Woods – Antagonist
• VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action – Sukeban Games
• Viking Squad – Slick Entertainment
• Wandersong – Matt Makes Games
• YIIK: A Postmodern RPG – Ackk Studios

MINIBOOTH

This year we’re increasing the overall total of games in the Indie MINIBOOTH, but reducing the number of concurrent games. Less and more. Pretty cool, huh? Each game will show for two days, as outlined below.

On Friday and Saturday:

• Astronaut: The Best – Universal Happymaker
• Crest – Eat Create Sleep
• DEADBOLT – Hopoo Games
• Den vänstra handens stig – Newmark Software
• Empathy – Pixel Night
• For The King – IronOak Games
• Forts – EarthWork Games
• Frog Climbers – TeamCrew
• Lightspeed Frontier – Crowdwork Studios
• Mainlining – Rebelephant
• Replica – Somi
• Semispheres – Vivid Helix
• Shio – Coconut Island Studio
• The Church in the Darkness – Paranoid Productions
• The Fall Part 2: Unbound – Over The Moon Games
• TumbleSeed – aeiowu

On Sunday and Monday:

• a•part•ment: a separated place – The Elsewhere Company
• Children of Morta – Dead Mage
• Dog Sled Saga – Trichotomy
• Elsinore – Golden Glitch Studios
• Fitz the Fox – Bread Vision Studios
• Fort Triumph – Fort Triumph
• Graceful Explosion Machine – Vertex Pop
• Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander – Massive Damage
• Masquerada: Songs and Shadows – Witching Hour Studios
• Pixel: ru² – C63 Industries
• Political Animals – Squeaky Wheel
• Ruby & Majesty: Treasure Team – TheWzzard
• She Remembered Caterpillars – Jumpsuit Entertainment
• Solitairica – Righteous Hammer Games
• We Are Chicago – Culture Shock Games
• West of Loathing – Asymmetric

TABLETOP

Thanks again to Cards Against Humanity for covering everyone’s costs in the Tabletop area! Their support of small, independent teams is massively beneficial.

While at PAX, check out the ACT theatre, where Cards Against Humanity will be hosting Indie MEGABOOTH’s tabletop showcase! After you’ve played some of the best indie games, stop by their writing shop where you can write your own Cards Against Humanity cards with the game creators. You can enter through the convention center. Just walk toward the escalators leading into the con, and look right. You’ll see a giant Cards Against Humanity box. Walk inside of it. Be not afraid.

On Friday-Saturday at IMB & Sunday-Monday at ACT Theater with CAH:

• Breaker Blocks – Spriteborne
• Complicated Board Game the Card Game – Offcut Games
• Flapjack Flipout – Mind the Gap Studios
• H.E.A.D. Hunters – Gut Shot Games
• JunKing – Junk Spirit Games

On Sunday-Monday at IMB & Friday-Saturday at ACT Theater with CAH:

• Phoenix Covenant – Hikari Games
• Spiredice – Mikeware
• Spirit Realms: The Throne Wars – The Raven & The Widow
• Thanks For Coming In! – Palm Court
• True Messiah – Sinister Design

We’ll have plenty more to announce in the coming weeks before the show, so be sure to stay tuned for updates.

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