The Latin American Games Showcase aired on June 4 as part of Summer Game Fest week, and it brought 80 games from 12 countries in under two hours. The full showcase is right here.
Five made our shortlist: a peaceful Mexican survival sim, a Brazilian farm where you are the size of a carrot, a Costa Rican sloth with a tower defence problem, and two debut games from Brazilian developers that are already on our most-wanted list.
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Under Canopies
TL;DR
A Mexican solo developer builds a first-person open-world where the only thing hunting you is your own inefficiency
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- Release date: Q3 2026
- Developer: Novemtails
- Publisher: Assemble Entertainment
- Platforms: Steam
Roberto Ortiz, the solo Mexican developer behind the Novemtails handle, has been building Under Canopies alongside professional studio work for years, and the accumulated care shows in every screenshot.
This is a first-person open-world survival game set in a stylised pine forest where you build a cabin, cook meals from crops you grew yourself, photograph wildlife, and raise sheep, chickens, and bees.
The Steam description’s closing line is: “a serene experience where the only enemy is inefficiency.” That is either a very funny tagline or a very accurate simulation of my relationship with most games.
Grim Trials
TL;DR
Indonesian studio Rolling Glory Jam sends their most beloved side character into the underworld to fight her way back to the woman she loves
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- Release date: TBA
- Developer: Glory Jam
- Publisher: Soft Source
- Platforms: Steam
Glory Jam, the Indonesian studio behind Rage in Peace and Hello Goodboy, is making a game about Avelin, a young woman who dies before her time and finds herself drafted as an apprentice Grim Reaper, fighting through hex-grid arenas to earn the right to see her still-living love one more time.
The premise is heavy metal in genre and unexpectedly tender in emotional logic. The demo has been live since July 2025 and sits at 96% positive across 109 reviews.
Fourleaf Fields
TL;DR
Brazilian studio BEHEMUTT shrinks you down to the size of a carrot and turns crop-harvesting into something enormous, daunting, and gossip-fuelled
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- Release date: TBA
- Developer: BEHEMUTT
- Publisher: HypeTrain Digital
- Platforms: Steam
BEHEMUTT, the Brazilian studio that built the Very Positive factory builder Nova Lands, is back with what is structurally a cosy farming sim and spiritually something weirder: you are the size of a carrot. Crops tower over you, ladybugs are your livestock, and harvesting a pumpkin means slicing it apart piece by piece because it is simply that large. Publisher HypeTrain Digital, which released Nova Lands, returns alongside them.
The Gossip System, a mechanic where you collect rumours and connect them into a social tech tree to unlock village secrets, is the detail that tips this from a cute farming concept into something I want to spend a hundred hours with.
Teeko
TL;DR
A Costa Rican studio’s debut game casts you as a sloth defending a town from possessed carnival masks
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- Release date: Coming soon
- Developer: Ripe Render
- Publisher: Ripe Render
- Platforms: Steam
Ripe Render is a studio based in Costa Rica, and Teeko is their debut game, rooted directly in the Día de las Mascaradas, Costa Rica’s traditional festival of gigante carnival masks.
A grandmother named Tita has her children possessed by spirits, her pet sloth Teeko steps up, and what follows is a platformer-tower-defence hybrid where you plant trees to recruit friends who throw fruit at incoming waves of possessed masks.
The game is culturally specific in a way that feels genuinely rare in this genre, and Ripe Render brought it to GDC 2026 as part of Costa Rica’s national delegation to the show. The cultural DNA is the actual premise, not window dressing.
Magical Blush
TL;DR
A Brazilian solo developer’s debut game puts a mage at the centre of a top-down Metroidvania
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- Release date: September 2026 (PC); consoles TBA
- Developer: Alkacer Game Studio
- Publisher: DANGEN Entertainment
- Platforms: Steam
Alkacer Game Studio is a small Brazilian developer, and Magical Blush is their debut game, published by DANGEN Entertainment, whose track record for picking up first games that punch well above their weight is genuinely solid.
You play as Arnin, a mage dismantling five elemental tyrants across a top-down Metroidvania world, each one tied to a different element with its own weakness to exploit. PC via Steam and GOG arrives in September 2026.
Switch, PS5, and Xbox ports follow later. A demo is live on Steam now, and the developer is visibly active in the feedback threads.
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