Australia and New Zealand may be rivals in many ways, but when it comes to creative output from this neck of the woods, they’re a formidable duo. Every year, both countries have a myriad of video games come from their development studios, and keeping up with all of them is almost impossible.
That’s why we’re doing our best to catalogue every video game released by Australian and New Zealand developers in 2026. Any game released in 1.0 on any platform is eligible, and we’ll continue to update this article over the year as release dates and games are announced. Naturally, we’ll miss some titles, so no hard feelings, but if we do or if you want to give us a heads-up, please email admin@reloader.com.au and we’ll get it added to the list.
January
Finch & Archie (PC) – January 17
Octarine Arts (Perth, Western Australia)
Ghost Cam (PC/VR) – January 19
Arch Rebels (Perth, Western Australia)
Winnie’s Hole (PC – Early Access) – January 26
Twice Different (Melbourne, Victoria)
Adaptory (PC/Mac) – January 27
Stormcloak Games (Wellington, New Zealand)
Don’t Stop, Girlypop! (PC) – January 29
Funny Fintan Softworks (Fremantle, Western Australia)
February
Pie in the Sky (PC) – February 3
Monster Shop Games (Perth, Western Australia)
Key Fairy (PC) – February 19
Owl Machine (Brisbane, Queensland)
Grist (PC – Early Access) – February 26
Chironex Studios (Melbourne, Victoria)
March
Draculesti (PC – Early Access) – March 2
Fine Feathered Fiends (Melbourne, Victoria)
April
Nullstar: Solus (PS5/PS4/Xbox One/Xbox Series X|S/Switch/PC) – April 16
Smash Attack Studios (Launceston, Tasmania)
Blood Reaver (PC – Early Access) – April 16
Hell Byte Studios (Adelaide, South Australia)
May
Ashes (PC – Early Access) – May 7
Plot Twist Australia (Melbourne, Victoria)
Mixtape (PS5/Xbox Series X|S/PC) – May 7
Beethoven & Dinosaur (Melbourne, Victoria)
Schrodinger’s Cat Burglar (PC) – May 21
Abandoned Sheep (Brisbane, Queensland)
Enter the Chronosphere (PC) – May 26
Effort Star (Melbourne, Victoria)
Rose and Locket (PC/Mac) – May 27
Whistling Wizard (New Zealand)
June
Freefall ’95 (PC) – June 2
S-Bend Games (Melbourne, Victoria)
Momento (PC) – June 7
Fat Alien Cat (Brisbane, Queensland)
July
August
Pro Jank Footy (PC) – August 13
Powerbomb Games (Melbourne, Victoria) / Tinker Town (Adelaide, South Australia)
Box Knight (PC) – August 25
We Made A Thing Studios (Adelaide, South Australia)
September
Deliverium (PC – Early Access) – September 22
Sagestone Games (Brisbane, Queensland)
Doggy Don’t Care (PC) – September 24
Rohan Nowell (Sydney, New South Wales)
October
November
December
TBA 2026+
Acid Knife (PC/Mac)
Powerhoof (Melbourne, Victoria)
Allogloom (PC)
Galactic Ghosty Games (New Zealand)
Anticitizen: Red (PC)
Lumpy Oats (Australia)
Anvilheart (PC)
Towerpoint Games (Adelaide, South Australia)
Apothecary of City X (PC)
Lemon Jolly Games (Brisbane, Queensland)
Aussie Bogan Hero (PC)
Snag Swag Studios (Sydney, New South Wales)
Beyond These Stars (PC)
Balancing Monkey Games (New Zealand)
Beyond the Veil (PC/iOS)
Sun’s Shadows Studios (Melbourne, Victoria)
Big Walk (PC)
House House (Melbourne, Victoria)
Blaktasia (Android/iOS)
Guck (Melbourne, Victoria)
Blob Person (PC)
Inverted Games (South Australia)
Blood and Mead (PC)
Lost Relic Games (Sydney, New South Wales)
Bones: Wandering Soul (PC)
Studio Tinkerhaus (Melbourne, Victoria)
Burger Bois (PC)
Mischief Makers Studio (New Zealand)
Buru and The Old People (PC)
TBA (New South Wales)
Box Knight (PC)
We Made A Thing Studios (Adelaide, South Australia)
BraveCart (PC)
Hojo Studio (Sydney, New South Wales)
Canvas Street (PC)
Soup Group International (Melbourne, Victoria)
Castillon (PC/Consoles)
One Up Plus Game Studio (Sydney, New South Wales)
Chained Beasts (PC)
Featherweight Games (Sydney, New South Wales)
Chronomoth (PC)
COAF Research (Dunedin, New Zealand)
CORPOREAL (PC)
Cold Out Interactive (Auckland, New Zealand)
Cozy Commons (Android/iOS)
PixelCake (Adelaide, South Australia)
Crash Course Builder (PS5/PS4/Xbox Series X|S/Xbox One/PC)
Wombat Brawler (Brisbane, Queensland / Melbourne, Victoria)
Cyber Paradise (PC)
DDmeow Games (Melbourne, Victoria)
Dagger Run: Aerocombatic Racing (PC)
Stardaze Interactive (Melbourne, Victoria)
darkwebSTREAMER (PC)
We Have Always Lived In The Forest (Adelaide, South Australia)
Deliverium (PC)
Sagestone Games (Brisbane, Queensland)
Denari (PC)
Astronuat Diaries Limited (New Zealand)
Design & Conjure (PC)
Tiny Kiwi Games (New Zealand)
Doggy Don’t Care (PC)
Rohan Nowell (Sydney, New South Wales)
Doomsday Diner (PC)
Space Rock Games (Auckland, New Zealand)
Doomtide (PC)
Death Limited (Wellington, New Zealand)
DROS (PS5/Xbox Series X|S)
emergeWorlds (Brisbane, Queensland)
Dungeons and Dining Tables (PC)
Catalyst Games (Adelaide, South Australia)
The Dungeon Experience (PC)
Jacob Janerka, Simon Boxer, Bone Assembly (Melbourne, Victoria)
End of Ember (PC)
Bad Plan Studios (Adelaide, South Australia)
Fall of an Empire (PC)
JG Games (Melbourne, Victoria)
Falling Frontier (PC)
Stutter Fox Studios (Melbourne, Victoria)
Finely Diced (PC)
Yuriosity Games (Melbourne, Victoria)
Fishing Echoes (PC)
DuoBonza (North Queensland)
Foodomina (PC)
Lumelli Studios (Melbourne, Victoria)
Footy Bash (PC/Consoles)
Danger Thumbs (Melbourne, Victoria)
Footy Showdown (PC)
Boot Mode Games (Brisbane, Queensland)
FrankenStorm TD (PC)
Doodad Games (Sydney, New South Wales)
Frogreign (PC)
ArkanPixel Games (Brisbane, Queensland)
Headlice (PC)
Bunguin Games (New Zealand)
Hordes of Fate: A Hand of Fate Adventure (PC)
Spitfire Entertainment (Brisbane, Queensland)
How Was Your Day? (PC)
Mad Carnival Games (New Zealand)
Innkeep (PC)
Bootdisk Games (Perth, Western Australia)
Instinction (PC)
Hashbane Interactive (New Zealand)
Janet DeMornay Is A Slumlord (and a witch) (PC)
Fuzzy Ghost (Sydney, New South Wales)
Junklands (PC)
Deadleaf Games (Melbourne, Victoria)
Jupiter Junkworks (PC)
Pixel Drake (Melbourne, Victoria)
The Last Exterminator (PC)
Ironworks Games (Melbourne, Victoria)
Legacies (PC)
Salty Dog Studios (Perth, Western Australia) / Daisy Ale Soundworks (Kalgoorlie, Western Australia)
Lightsmith (PC)
A Few Dragons (South Australia)
Little Ruin (PC/Mac/Linux)
Lucernal (Melbourne, Victoria)
Lone Pine (PC)
Bang Bang Bang Interactive (Brisbane, Queensland)
Many Worlds (PC/VR)
Many Worlds Limited (New Zealand)
Match & Mastery (PC)
FourFox Interactive (New Zealand)
Memory’s Reach (PC)
100 Stones Interactive (Melbourne, Victoria)
Microvania (Switch)
Dreampunk (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory)
Miska (PC)
Umbrella Party (Melbourne, Victoria)
MMORPG Tycoon 2 (PC)
VectorStorm (Melbourne, Victoria)
Monch! (PC)
Tyrannodog (Adelaide, South Australia)
Moon Corp. Tower Defense (PC)
Kite Shield Interactive (Canberra, ACT)
Moonbrella (PS5/PS4/Xbox Series X|S/Xbox One/Switch/PC)
Jett Williams (Brisbane, Queensland)
My Arms Are Longer Now (PC)
Toot Games (Melbourne, Victoria)
Mystiques: Haunted Antiques (PC)
Lemonade Games (Sydney, New South Wales)
Nanomon Virtual Pet (PC)
Oscar Brittain (Melbourne, Victoria)
Neko Cafésume (Switch/PC)
Adam Harte, Ally MeowSparky & Chris Breezey (Palmerston, New Zealand)
Noodle Samurai (PC)
Planet Pumpkin (Adelaide, South Australia)
Normal Man (PC)
Games for Ants (Auckland, New Zealand)
Oceaneers (PC – Early Access)
Barrel Smash Studios (Melbourne, Victoria)
The Ocean Will Have Us All (PC)
Moloch Media (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory)
Old Friends Dog Game
Runaway Play (Dunedin, New Zealand)
Omochapon
Shawn Miller (Melbourne, Victoria)
On Point (Meta Quest 2/Steam VR)
Actuator Digital (Brisbane, Queensland)
Out of Sight (PC)
Mainframe Games (New Zealand)
Parasensor (PC)
Ghoulish (Melbourne, Victoria)
PlanetSmith (PC)
Incandescent Games (Auckland, New Zealand)
Poppy Toast (PC – Early Access)
oToastTv (Newcastle, New South Wales)
Power Sink (PC)
Winterwire Games (Perth, Western Australia)
Primordials Legends: Hollow Hero (PC)
Toybox Games Studios (Melbourne, Victoria)
Pro Jank Footy (PC)
Powerbomb Games (Melbourne, Victoria) / Tinker Town (Adelaide, South Australia)
Project Mix (VR)
Plectrum Software (Auckland, New Zealand)
Punchimals (PC)
Two Lives Left (Adelaide, South Australia)
Reaprieve (PC)
10pm Club (Melbourne, Victoria)
Rollick N’ Roll (PC)
Crayonix Games (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Rusthaven (PC)
Chaos Theory Games (Sydney, New South Wales)
Samurai Unicorn (PC)
Jordan Turner & Eric Freeman (Wollongong, New South Wales)
Shape Sender Deluxe (PC)
Dead Teapot Games (New Zealand)
ShelfLife: Art School Detectives (PC)
Fnife Games (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Shyfters (PC)
Wicked Art (New Zealand)
Sinthetic (PC)
Sinthetic Project
Skelemental: Monk’s Fury (PC)
Jamin Games (Sydney, New South Wales)
Slumbering Woods (PC)
Chunky Quail (Brisbane, Queensland)
Snow Cone (PC)
Hungry Sky (Perth, Western Australia)
Soggy Beans (PC)
Ratmode Games (New Zealand)
Soul Devourer (PC) – 2025
Studio Water Bear (Melbourne, Victoria)
Spies & Soldiers (PC)
Ghostbat Games (Melbourne, Victoria)
Spiritwell (PC)
David Chen (Australia)
Sprocket Rocket Rumble (PC)
Space Crab Labs (Wellington, New Zealand)
Surf Club (PC)
Olivia Haines (Melbourne, Victoria)
Tea, Please! (Android/iOS)
Siobhan Willoughby (Sydney, New South Wales)
Teeto (PC)
Eat Pant Games (Wellington, New Zealand)
Ten Thousand Coins: The Golden Merchant (PC)
Thousand Tonic (Auckland, New Zealand)
Tinker and Spell (PC)
Golden Age Studios (Adelaide, South Australia)
TopplePOP: Bungee Blockbusters (PC)
AkirmA (Sydney, New South Wales)
Tora’s Garden (PC)
Tinker Town (Adelaide, South Australia)
Totem Teller (Xbox One)
Grinning Pickle (Melbourne, Victoria)
Trash (PC)
Bin Chicken Studios (Melbourne, Victoria)
Tryhard (PC)
Grapefruit Games (New Zealand)
Untamed Isles (PC – Early Access)
Phat Loot Studios (New Zealand)
Verbal Void (PC)
EnderLost Studio (Brisbane, Queensland)
Video Nightz (PC)
Studio Kraze (Perth, Western Australia)
Vincent the Vampire (PC)
Intuit by Design (Adelaide, South Australia)
Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate (PSVR2/Steam VR)
Mighty Eyes (Auckland, New Zealand)
Wasteland Tactics (PC)
Catalyst Games (Adelaide, South Australia)
Way to the Woods (PS4/Xbox One/Switch/PC)
Anthony Tan (Melbourne, Victoria)
Whacky Golf (PC)
Cameron Darragh (Brisbane, Queensland)
Wood & Weather (PC)
Paper House (Melbourne, Victoria)
WRAIN (PC)
Synergy Digital (New Zealand)
Wylde Society (PC)
Studio Drydock (Melbourne, Australia)
Your Holy & Virtuous Heretic (PC)
i will bite raw coffee beans (Sydney, New South Wales)
Zodiac Mountain (PC)
Mystic Road (Perth, Western Australia)
