- Festival schedule will include over 45 events across the city - with plenty to do for professionals and players alike
- 40 new games from around the world chosen as part of the LGF Official Selection
- International audience rising with major overseas delegations - and over 4,000 industry attendees expected over the festival’s two weeks
Next month’s London Games Festival will be the biggest event yet for the international showcase of video games - with over 45 events locking into the schedule, a host of global developers confirmed for its Official Selection, and a huge number of industry attendees expected.
The London Games Festival 2024 runs from Tuesday 9 April to Thursday 25 April. Today festival organisers Games London is unveiling the line-up for the fourth annual Official Selection, which champions new and innovative indie games made in London, across the UK - and around the world. There are 40 games across five categories: Made in London, Best of British, International Innovators, Comedy and New Voices.
Highlights from the line-up include the next game from Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn creator Lucas Pope, Mars After Midnight, the sequel to BAFTA-nominated Citizen Sleeper, and the latest from London-based Snipperclips creators SFB Games, Crow Country. The New Voices and International Innovators strands give focus to global games from new studios hailing from India, Brazil, the Philippines, France, Italy, Canada and Iceland.
This international selection of titles will be showcased online throughout LGF through activities like a dedicated Steam festival demo event - but will also be playable in person on Steam Deck and Playdate handhelds at a variety of events over the two weeks.
The Official Selection line-up is:
MADE IN LONDON- Exilium (lonch.me)
- GladiEATers (MilkBubblesGames)
- Morgan: Metal Detective (Studio Morgan)
- Squarelets (Chaos Cookie)
- Crow Country (SFB Games)
- Thank Goodness You're Here! (Coal Supper)
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (Jump Over the Age)
- Dead Meat (Meaning Machine) London, Bristol
- Mimic (Ryan Laley Games) Colchester, England
- Phoenix Springs (Calligram Studio) Hebden Bridge, UK
- Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island (Polygon Treehouse) Dundee (Scotland) & Cambridge(England)
- Luna Abyss (Bonsai Collective) Remote, across United Kingdom
- Botany Manor (Balloon Studios) Totnes, United Kingdom
- Leximan (Knights of Borria) Falmouth & Cranbrook, UK
- Lost in Space - The Adventure Game (Scary Robot) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
- Lucky Tower Ultimate (Studio Seufz) Stuttgart, Germany
- Esophaguys (Esophaguys LLC) Remote, USA, Canada, South Africa, India
- Times & Galaxy (Copychaser Games) Edmonton, Canada
- Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip (snekflat) Ede, Netherlands
- The Posthumous Investigation (Mother Gaia Studio) Bauru, Brazil
- The Deadly Path (Owlskip Enterprises) Remote - Brighton, Amsterdam, New York
- Echo of the Waves (Oneira Games) Geneva, Switzerland
- Stars in the Trash (Valhalla Cats) Murcia, Spain. Poland and Philippines
- SacriFire (Pixelated Milk) Warsaw, Poland
- Steel Seed (Storm in a Teacup) Rome, Italy
- Aloft (Astrolabe Interactive) Montréal, Canada
- 30 Birds (RAM RAM Games / Business Goose) Brussels, Belgium
- Bionic Bay (Psychoflow Studio, Mureena Oy) Taiwan, Finland
- Nirvana Noir (Feral Cat Den) New York City
- Toads of the Bayou: Prologue (La Grange) France
- Mars After Midnight (Playdate) (Lucas Pope / 3909) Portland, Oregon, USA
- Rusty's Retirement (Mister Morris Games) Tallinn, Estonia
- RAM: Random Access Mayhem (Xylem Studios) Victoria, Canada
- Gurei (Lobo Sagaz Studio) Florianópolis, Brazil
- Fall Up (Unicellular Games) Philippines
- Fishbowl (imissmyfriends.studio) Goa, India
- Music Power Up (microStudio) Strasbourg, France
- The Perfect Pencil (Studio Cima) Italy: Milan, Rome, Crema, Lecco, Caravaggio, Fiumicino. United Kingdom: London
- Island of Winds (Parity Games) Reykjavik, Iceland
- Dino Path Trail (Void Pointer) Rome, Italy
This line-up of global games developers reflects both the breadth of content and international flavour at London Games Festival this year. An expanded line-up of Side Events are being added from community and industry partners alike, set to take the overall list of LGF events to over 45. For regularly updated listings head to https://games.london/#whatson
These will run alongside core events already announced such as…
- Ensemble, which champions underrepresented ethnicities working in video games. The new cohort for which will be unveiled at the start of LGF on 9 April ahead of a Trafalgar Square showcase on Saturday 13 April.
- Games Finance Market, which connects investors and publishers with games creators and this year includes added delegations from Italy, France, Sweden, Finland, Romania and Canada
- Tentpole partner events Now Play This, W.A.S.D, and the BAFTA Games Awards
Over 4,000 industry professionals are expected to participate in various B2B events - with the overall festival attendance in-person set to exceed last year’s 58,000.
London Games Festival is supported by the Mayor of London. It is delivered by Games London, an initiative from Film London, the capital's screen industries agency, and UK video games industry trade body Ukie.
A range of businesses from across the sector have pledged support for the Festival. These include festival partners Coutts, Taylor Wessing, Alliotts, Corpay, Revolgy and Wizards of the Coast.
For more information and updates, head to www.games.london or follow @londongamesfest
For further press information, please contact:
Caroline Miller, Indigo Pearl
T: 07765 255 002
About Games London
Games London is a groundbreaking programme delivered by Film London, the capital’s screen industries agency, and UK games industry trade body Ukie. The project is backed by the Mayor of London. The Games London programme includes a number of initiatives to make London the games capital of the world. It re-established the London Games Festival in April 2016 and runs two accelerator programmes that support 50 business founders each year. Other areas of activity include trade missions and work supporting games development skills in London.
About Film London
Film London is the capital's screen industries agency. We connect ideas, talent and finance to develop a pioneering creative culture in the city that delivers success in film, television, animation, games and beyond. We work to sustain, promote and develop London as a global content production hub, support the development of the city's new and emerging filmmaking talent and invest in a diverse and rich film culture. Funded by the Mayor of London and the National Lottery through the BFI, we also receive support from Arts Council England, Creative Skillset and the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Film London's activities include:
- Maintaining, strengthening and promoting London's position as world-class city to attract investment through film, television, animation and games
- Investing in local talent through a range of specialised production and training schemes
- Boosting employment and competitiveness in the capital's screen industries by delivering internationally facing business development events
- Maximising access to the capital's film culture by helping audiences discover film in all its diversity
- Promoting London through screen tourism
Film London also manages the British Film Commission (www.britishfilmcommission.org.uk) through a public/private partnership which is funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport through the BFI, and the Department for International Trade.