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2026
January
Game release: Clean!
Tap hex tiles to cycle their colors. When 3 or more matching colors tiles touch, they clear. Wipe...
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Early access release: DON'T BLINK
Descend into an abandoned facility where monsters only move when YOU blink.
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Game release: Thread of Corruption
Rose, een jong, verlegen meisje, gaat met haar ouders naar een circus, maar ontdekt dat zij en de...
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Game release: FanSneak
Fan-Sneak is a historical stealth game developed by students from SintLucas at the internal inter...
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Game release: Where We Went
Where We Went is a narrative driven puzzle game. Step into the role of a mysterious character tha...
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Game release: RaceWorms
Dig your way to victory in this fast-paced multiplayer racing game for up to 6 players! Take cont...
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Game release: Game With Balls
Move your Steam Deck, Android phone or Nintendo Switch to guide balls through handcrafted mazes.
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February
Demo release: Nomori
Nomori is a mind-bending puzzle game where you need to control time and space to journey through ...
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Game release: Monkey Madness
Jump into the chaos of Monkey Madness. A fast-paced, family-friendly VR party game packed with 25...
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Game release: Dobbel Dungeon
Gather your party, roll your dice and battle across the islands to put an end to a powerful curse...
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Game release: Liturnian
Come forth PilgrimThe Lightfolk of Luxheim are in needShine our Light where we can't reachThe Sto...
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Game release: Cel-CheckVR
Cel-CheckVR is a VR recruitment game for Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen (DJI). It incorporates t...
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Early access release: Antiventure
Protect your small town from a plundering plague of adventurers. Since you can't beat them, how w...
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March
Game release: be buji
Be buji teaches children to better cope with emotions, stress, and overstimulation, to listen mor...
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Game release: Legacy of Orsinium
Legacy of Orsinium is a large story expansion for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, developed in colla...
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Game release: Tabletop Fantasy War
Tabletop Fantasy War is a turn-based strategy game where you create your unit groups, deploy them...
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Game release: Hiragana Flashcards
A small introduction to Japanese. ⛩️🌸🍙 Hiragana is the most common alphabet, used for n...
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Game release: Bonnie Bear Saves Frogtime
Hop right into this frog-obsessed comedy adventure featuring tactical frog battles, bizarre quest...
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Game release: DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH - PC Version
From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes an emotionally charged evolution of this genre-def...
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April
Major update: hackshield future cyber heroes
HackShield is an award-winning applied game and educational platform that helps children become d...
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Game release: Belevenistrap
The Belevenistrap turns an ordinary staircase into an interactive gaming platform for rehabilitat...
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Game release: Baranyi Yagu
In Baranyi Yagu, players work collaboratively and anonymously to maintain this balance, while sub...
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Demo release: Grail
A fast-paced deckbuilder where your deck fights for you! Find synergies, craft a killer deck, the...
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Game release: Colorable
A minimalistic 3D isometric puzzle game where you bring each level to life by coloring your path ...
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Game release: Caromble!
Caromble! is the ultimate brick breaker. A 3D physics-based adventure that blends brick breaking ...
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Game release: RAKKA: WAKE 01 - SOOT
A homage to the gritty fiction of the ’90s. “RAKKA: WAKE 01 - SOOT” unfolds as an episodic,...
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Demo release: Slime Clime
A simple, short adventure platformer about a young slime on a quest to save the magic in their wo...
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Game release: Bandit Trap
Turn your house into a deadly playground in this chaotic 3v1 party game. Set traps as the Trapper...
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May
Game release: Mining Merchant
Your uncle’s once-thriving jewelry shop is crumbling, and it’s your job to bring it back to l...
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Game release: Tijd Detective
The Time Detective is an interactive city game we have developed to bring historical stories from...
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Game release: Dark Pals: The 1st Floor
In this singleplayer mascot horror game you're trapped in an abandoned children’s asylum. Solve...
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Game release: Ritme Robot
Ritme Robot stelt kinderen in staat om zelf muziek te maken. Hierbij worden ze geholpen door Klap...
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Game release: Duck Side of the Moon
Waddle and fly as a duck in space! Explore every corner of the galaxy and find curious creatures ...
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Game release: Outbound
Outbound is a cozy open-world exploration game set in a utopian near future. Start with an empty ...
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Major update: Virtual OV - Virtual Public Transport
Virtual OV (Public Transport) is a VR training simulator that empowers neurodivergent individuals...
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Demo release: Orebits
Bounce your pickaxe and smash through asteroids in this futuristic mining incremental! Explore a ...
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Game release: Living in Poverty
Experience what it is live to live in financial diffulty. Make decision concerning your family wh...
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Game release: Spirit Cleansers
Explore a haunted estate, track down cursed objects, and engage in Turn-Based Strategy. During tu...
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Early access release: ICARUS
Pilot ICARUS, a cutting-edge combat mech, in a stylish third-person action game where you use you...
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Game release: Town to City
Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Fre...
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Early access release: It's Not You, It's Us
It's Not You, It's Us is a 3D point-and-click adventure about a group of animal characters coming...
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Early access release: ZIMA
Zima is a pacifist boss-rush adventure where players windsurf across a frozen desert and use thei...
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Early access release: Chasing Whiskers
Catch cats in this cozy adventure game! After falling into Catworld through an interdimensional p...
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Game release: PhaseBreak
In this turn based strategy game, your tactics are pushed to the limit as you need to consider no...
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Game release: Starlocked
In an alternate future where the Cold War never ended, you are a convict working off a debt in a ...
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Game release: Curtain Call
Explore a cursed theater and persevere through all manners of dangers in this first-person surviv...
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Game release: Solis
Solis is an atmospheric hand-drawn adventure about technology and deception in a city at night
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June
Game release: Once Apond A Time
Explore the pond, meet new friends, heal your broken wing, and continue your journey.
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Game release: Suck It Up!
Cloud Town has an alien infestation and you are the cheapest exterminator available. Armed with t...
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Game release: Mini Mayhem: Flood Fighters
Miniature Mayhem: Flood Fighters is a player-versus-player game for up to 4 players. Weaponless r...
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Early access release: 60 Below
60 Below is a single player survival horror game where you are tasked with repairing and maintain...
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Game release: The 7th Guest Remake
Six guests arrive at a foreboding mansion, but something sinister is at play. The wealthy recluse...
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Major update: Curtain Call
Explore a cursed theater and persevere through all manners of dangers in this first-person surviv...
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Game release: BlunderBosch
Het Beleg van ’s-Hertogenbosch is a 2-player cooperative serious game developed by students fro...
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Game release: ICARUS
Pilot ICARUS, a cutting-edge combat mech, in a stylish third-person action game where you use you...
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Game release: GangCity
GangCity is a free-to-play, browser-based mafia RPG set across multiple cities. Commit crimes, st...
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Game release: It's Not You, It's Us
It's Not You, It's Us is a 3D point-and-click adventure about a group of animal characters coming...
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Game release: Petrified
In this on-rails shooter you play as a witch riding your broomstick and dodging to stay alive whi...
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Game release: Chasing Whiskers
Catch cats in this cozy adventure game! After falling into Catworld through an interdimensional p...
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Game release: A Gorf in the Dark
A Gorf in the Dark is a stealth game where you play as a frog.Catch fireflies with your tongue, i...
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Game release: Pinsanity
Pinsanity is a roguelite casual game that combines classic pinball mechanics with enemy-filled co...
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Major update: High Noon Raccoon
Defend a western town in High Noon Raccoon, an autoshooter where you pack your weapons in a brief...
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Demo release: Phantom Thief Detective
Phantom Thief... Detective!? is a 3D game that combines the detective and stealth genres. You pla...
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HHS EXPO 2026
At the Great HHS EXPO in the Dutch Innovation Factory, the games created by students from The Hag...
Student EventShowcaseExpo
Game release: Mayor in the Middle
Build on an anthill while balancing the needs of the ants and other important bugs who help you out.
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Soft launch: Overcharged
Educational game that aims to make the role of sustainable energy, the energy transition and thei...
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Game release: Mini AirHockey
Turn your Steam Deck in a AirHockey table for two players
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Breda Game Drinks - June Edition
Breda Game City is hosting a new networking event this month! Everyone’s welcome to connect, pl...
NetworkingMeetup
Playlab Festival 2026
Playlab Festival is coming to Enschede! On June 25, Connect-U transforms into a vibrant hub where...
Conference
HKU Games Exposure
The graduating students of the academy of Games of HKU will be showing their work in the library ...
HKU Games Exposure 2026
Wanna be part of our Art?Ruim 90 HKU Games afstudeerders tonen trots hun werk tijdens Exposure: h...
ExpoMeetupNetworkingPlaytestShowcase
DGA General Assembly
We would like to invite all DGA Members to the annual General Meeting (Algemene Ledenvergadering,...
Networking
Demo release: Money Doors
Money Doors is an educational game-show experience where players begin with a set balance, make f...
Game Release
Demo release: Het Andere Oor van Sok
Het Andere Oor van Sok (English: 'Sock's Other Ear') is a digital children’s book. The story ex...
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Demo release: Transmutation
Transmutation is a 2D walking simulator that takes people through a part of the metaphorical jour...
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BUas Games Annual Industry Showcase Day
Once a year, the Games study programme of Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) invites th...
ExpoShowcaseStudent Event
Game release: Project Survival
Crafting survival game in a PS1 aesthetic with a deep crafting mechanic and lots of destructible ...
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Soft launch: Mind The Gap
Mind The Gap is a liminal horror game that takes place in the London Underground beyond human und...
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Game release: Monopoly: Star Wars™ Heroes vs. Villains
A dynamic, team-based twist on MONOPOLY® set in the Star Wars™ galaxy. Choose between iconic H...
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Game release: Thoth's Riddle
You have been tasked to explore the Pyramid and uncover its secrets. But you have fallen into the...
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July
playdev.club
The fourth edition of the rebooted playdev.club will be hosted by Dutch Game Nest. This playdev.c...
Playtest
DGA Network Lunch
Every first Wednesday of the month, from 12:00 to 14:00, DGA hosts the DGA Network Lunch at Dotsl...
NetworkingShowcase
Game release: InnovA58
OverviewInnovA58 is a cutting-edge viewer and serious game developed by the GameLab from The Hagu...
Game Release
Demo release: ZIMA
Zima is a pacifist boss-rush adventure where players windsurf across a frozen desert and use thei...
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Indie Bunker - 2nd Edition
Indie Bunker is a casual, alternative event that is meant to promote indies, build out communitie...
Indie EventShowcase
Soft launch: TaskFall
TaskFall is a co-op physics-based destruction game where you and your friends are assigned missio...
Game Release
Ontdek de afstudeerprojecten Creative Media and Game Technologies Hanze
Join this exposition of selected graduate students CMGT Hanze that showcase their graduation work...
Expo
Game Dev Student Portfolio Review
Get your portfolio reviewed, live, and learn from each other's portfolios.At the start of the cal...
Student Event
Webinar: Ichiro Lambe on Game Discovery
Is your game invisible on Steam?Ichiro's on a mission to solve the game discovery issue plaguing ...
Webinar
Game release: Catch'n'Merge
Catch falling creatures in a magical flask and merge matching ones into bigger forms. Real physic...
Game Release
Game release: Moonlight Peaks
Welcome to your new vampiric life in the magical town of Moonlight Peaks. Raise mystical crops, l...
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Demo release: DrakenBond
Two young boys in search for power find themselves transformed into dragons, their souls now conn...
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Game release: Summoning Stones
Command a hoard of sentient pebbles on a messy desk. Complete summoning rituals for the alchemist...
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Game release: Forensick!
Maurice has finally found a job! As a new forensic researcher he is tasked with analyzing corpses...
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Major update: Jungle the Bungle
Jungle the Bungle helps young world adventurers learn new languages. To facilitate this, we have ...
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Amsterdam Indie Game Devs Get Together
Join the Amsterdam indie game dev meetup together with fellow indie devs, for a relaxing Sunday i...
MeetupNetworking
Demo release: Lonesome Feather
Lonesome Feather follows Emmy, a young girl who leaves the safety of her underground bunker to se...
Game Release
Game release: Forgotten Playland: Party Edition
Unleash plushie mayhem in the ultimate attic showdown. Sprint, shove, and sabotage your way throu...
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Demo release: Milled tooth
Milled Tooth is a first-person survival horror game where every encounter is a strategic choice. ...
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Dutch Game Beer – July Edition
Dutch Game Beer is a casual, community-driven event where game developers and industry friends co...
MeetupNetworking
Demo release: Deskpot
A mini idle-farming game the size of one pot. Each keystroke turns into water for your little pla...
Game Release
Soft launch: Brand Nacht
Play as a bored and increasingly frustrated firefighter left behind by his crew in this short wal...
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August
Studio Deloryan Co-working Days (WiG)
Since the first edition of a co-working day for women in the games industry at my office in Utrec...
Networking
Major update: Slingshot Junkyard
Welcome to Slingshot Junkyard: Crush Cars, a block puzzle game where battered bangers, rusty wrec...
Game Release
Demo release: TaskFall
TaskFall is a co-op physics-based destruction game where you and your friends are assigned missio...
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Major update: Fruity Gardens - Fruit Link
Fruity Gardens: Fruit Link Game is a colorful and relaxing link puzzle adventure packed with more...
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Game Dev Portfolio Review by Robin-Yann Storm
After a successful first edition focused on students, Robin-Yann is hosting a second round—this...
Webinar
Games [4Diversity] Showcase Cologne
Join us for a night filled with playful perspectives, unexpected stories, and bold experiments in...
Showcaseinclusiondiversityaccessability
[untitled games event] #8
[untitled games event] is a monthly "book club" of experimental games and interactive art in Amst...
MeetupShowcase
Major update: Aztec Temple Quest
The Lost Aztec Temple Has Been Waiting For Centuries.Deep within the jungle lies a forgotten temp...
Game Release
Courage Cologne
Mingle and get inspired by 50+ developers, showcasing their latest project. Stroll around with a ...
Showcase
Netherlands Pavilion at Gamescom 2026
The Dutch Games Association will host the Netherlands Pavilion during gamescom 2026, showcasing a...
ConferenceInternational
Creative Cargo Festival
Importing Talent · Exporting Creativity20+ artists · film · games · Fashion & more!Keynotes, ...
ShowcaseConference
Game release: My Fire Is Bigger Than Yours
My Fire Is Bigger Than Yours is a physics-based incremental game about growing a tiny fire until ...
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September (this month)
Game release: Grail
A fast-paced deckbuilder where your deck fights for you! Find synergies, craft a killer deck, the...
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DGA Network Lunch
Every first Wednesday of the month, from 12:00 to 14:00, DGA hosts the DGA Network Lunch at Dotsl...
NetworkingShowcase
DGN Insights - Playing the Infinite Game: Building Studios and Games That Last - by Geoff van den Ouden
​What if the goal of your studio and your games wasn't to win, but to keep playing? What if a c...
Talk
Breda Game Drinks
A networking and showcase event in Breda, aimed at gathering the local game developer community. ...
Networking
Game release: Orebits
Bounce your pickaxe and smash through asteroids in this futuristic mining incremental! Explore a ...
Game Release
Gotchaball – Indie Game Pre-Release Party
Be among the first to play Gotchaball, a brand-new multiplayer indie game from Rotterdam-based st...
Indie EventShowcaseNetworking
Game release: Gregs Linked Together
GREGS: Linked Together is a puzzle platformer where you play two characters simultaneously; you m...
Game Release
[untitled games event] at the Rijksakademie
An evening of experimental games and interactive art hosted at the prestigious Rijksakademie van ...
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Amsterdam Indie Game Devs Get Together
Come to meet fellow indie devs, for a relaxing Sunday in Amsterdam! Anyone in the game developmen...
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DGA x B'GAME Pop-Up Lunch
The inaugural pop-up lunch at B’GAME in October last year was an instant success. Therefore we ...
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NFF Storyspace 2026
Discover innovative ways of storytelling at the Netherlands Film Festival. The Storyspace exhibit...
Expo
October
GSNI Lecture: How to create better workflows. with Robin-Yann Storm
Join us at HKU for an insightful lecture by Robin-Yann Storm at the next edition of the GSNI Lect...
Talk
Game Bakery 10th year anniversary
Come and celebrate a decade of making games at the Game Bakery! So hereby the Game Bakery invites...
NetworkingMeetup
Grendel Games Open Day
Ever wondered what actually happens at a game studio? Come find out on the Grendel Games Open Day...
MeetupNetworkingShowcase
Game release: Trade Meister
Trade Meister is an applied game that transforms trade marketing ambitions into an entertaining a...
Game Release
LevelUp Groningen
An indie-networking conference in the north of the Netherlands
ConferenceShowcaseNetworking
DGA Network Lunch
Every first Wednesday of the month, from 12:00 to 14:00, DGA hosts the DGA Network Lunch at Dotsl...
NetworkingShowcase
Game release: The Kumara Challenge
 TEN Executive Assessments (TENEA) is an expert on selection and development challenges for lead...
Game Release
Game release: SKINFACE
SKINFACE is a short-and-punchy stealth game where you embody a faceless hitman who needs to steal...
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November
DGA Network Lunch
Every first Wednesday of the month, from 12:00 to 14:00, DGA hosts the DGA Network Lunch at Dotsl...
NetworkingShowcase
Game release: VetVeilig
 Super Safe (Vet Veilig in Dutch) is a game platform targeted at children aged 11 to 12. The pla...
Game Release
Game release: Ultimate Wizard
Destroy thousands of enemies and grow in power in this fantasy roguelite survivor. Find spells an...
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Game release: TaskFall
TaskFall is a co-op physics-based destruction game where you and your friends are assigned missio...
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Fontys ICT Dragons Den
Student teams from Fontys ICT Eindhoven show their games in development to a panel of industry pr...
Student Event
Dutch Game Awards 2026
The Dutch Game Awards 2026 will take place on November 19 at the Chassé Theater in Breda, as par...
Award
Dutch Game Week Conference
From 14 to 22 November in 2026, Breda transforms into the ultimate playground for everything game...
ConferenceShowcase
Game release: Luma Island
Luma Island is a vibrant 1-4 player co-op adventure where you choose your profession and explore ...
Game Release
The Overkill Festival
The Overkill is a playful art, games and film festival focused on the impact of digital culture o...
Networking
December