2025 Rochester Game Festival: Meet the Exhibitors

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2025 Rochester Game Festival >> Meet the Exhibitors

ABOUT
ROC Game Fest attendees will be able to join us on the Exhibitor Floor at RIT’s Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED) to try out new and upcoming projects from more than 50 exhibitors from across New York State. It’s our biggest show ever!

THE DETAILS
WHEN: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
WHERE: RIT’s Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED)
AUDIENCE: All Ages

RGF SPONSORS

Irondequoit Public Library
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube

The Irondequoit Library has co-sponsored the Rochester Game Festival since 2017. Visit our table to learn more about games and gaming in the library, and everything we have to offer!

MAGIC Spell Studios
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube

Founded in 2013, at the RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction & Creativity (MAGIC), we believe that we learn by making. This guiding principle informs our work and our relationships and is at the heart of what we do.

ROC Game Dev is an organization dedicated to fostering a community of game creators in Rochester, NY. Our mission is to provide a local platform for game creators at beginner, amateur, and professional levels to learn, share, and collaborate in all aspects of building games.

ORGANIZATIONS / VENDORS

New York’s Tech Valley is home to a video game development cluster, ranging from small, independent studios to internationally recognized names. 1UpState, a celebration of games and the people who make them, is a new expo for game developers in New York’s Tech Valley Region!

Great Lakes Gaming is a high-end gaming lounge located on the 22nd floor of Innovation Square in downtown Rochester, offering stunning views and a clean, professional space for youth camps, birthday parties, adult private events, and family game nights. Stop by our table to jump into 2v2 or squad matches on our custom gaming PCs, play top titles like Madden, NBA2K, and Mario Kart on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch, or enjoy a retro PC loaded with classic games.

Sigilwood Craftworks
Links: Official Website

FIRST APPEARANCE AT ROC GAME FEST
Elevate your tabletop gaming experience with a handcrafted hardwood dice vault, carved from solid cherry wood. Featuring hidden hinges and strong magnets for a secure closure, this unique dice holder combines elegance with practicality. Finished with multiple coats of pure tung oil, it enhances the natural beauty of the wood while providing lasting protection.

Perfect for Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, and other TTRPGs, this dice vault is not just storage—it’s a statement piece. Whether for yourself or as a gift for the dice collector in your life, this premium carved box will be the envy of any gaming table.

GAME DEVELOPERS

Join our mercenary team in Australia Did It: high-risk, low-benefit positions available! Defend cargo trains in this innovative Turn-Based Tower Defense meets Reverse Bullet Hell. Deploy units, merge them to create powerful new types and variations, withstand relentless waves, deliver the goods.

Reach escape velocity as a cow with no legs in Udder, a tiny reflexive one-button endless runner.

Alexis Lipina
Links: YouTube

Mech Repair is a game where you restore a battle-worn mech to working order. Repair or replace its equipment, restock its ammunition, and clean off dirt and blood from its hull so it’s in good shape for the next fight!

Angry Hammer Games
Links: YouTube

— Apple Picker – Teaches how to use the mouse with click and dragging
— Cat Catcher – Teaches how to use timing and reflexes to catch cats
— Dino Crunch – Teaches how to find letters on the keyboard
— Math Battle – Basic math from addition to division in a multiple choice 1-4 player competition
— More Squares Please – Helps with planning and just relaxing
— Angry Hammer – A twin-stick shooter with space marines
— Fighting Jet Fighters – Jet-themed combat for up to four players
— Railgun Command – A blasting base defense for up to four players
— ROH – A real-time strategy game using only four keys for up to two players
— Arr Ye Pirate – Pirate combat and ship management for up to four players

Bad Bass Games
Links: Official Website | Instagram | Twitter

Step into the boots of a legendary fisherman returning from a shameful retirement in Bait and Tackle. Travel the coastline chasing after exotic fish and regaining your forgotten skills. But beware – deadly catches are lurking everywhere. Take down a variety of comical bosses in fast-paced, high-intensity fights! Cast your fishing line like a grappling hook to sling yourself around stages, while also using your rod to smack sea monsters into submission!

Brad Bambara

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In Dead Reckoner, players pilot a submersible with a unique complement of weapons and tools, and sneak through the shadows of a physics-based wave simulation in a stark sci-fi setting.

Brickly Games
Links: Official Website | Discord | Facebook | Instagram

Avarice is a lightning-fast 4X strategy board game you can learn in under ten minutes and conquer in under forty-five. Ambition is your greatest weapon — and your deadliest curse. Expand across vivid hexagonal landscapes, build shrines atop sacred sites to fuel your rise, and clash with rivals in a unique combat system to forge your empire.

In Avarice, every decision is a temptation. Every triumph feeds the hunger. Will you ascend to eternal glory? Or will your greed devour you from within?

Burgee Media
Links: Discord

Erenshor is a single-player RPG with the soul of a classic MMO… built for players who miss the journey. Partner up with Erenshor’s signature SimPlayers and explore an open world where every reward comes with a story. Discover thousands of items, quests, raids, and secrets… all at your own pace.

Caterwaul Studios
Links: Official Website

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Entropy is a zero-gravity cosmic stalker horror experience in which the player must navigate through their deteriorating spaceship while avoiding the looming threat of an otherworldly being.

Changeling VR
Links: Official Website | Discord | Twitter | YouTube

REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE. FOR THESE MEMORIES ARE NOT YOURS.

Magic exists in Changeling VR, for better and worse. Angela Summers calls upon Aurelia Walker to use her powers to help her troubled child. As Aurelia, see and experience the memories and fears of those you touch. Each memory a different hope, fear, and experience.

Cosmic Tracks
Links: Official Website | Bluesky

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Emissary: Return Contact is the debut title from Cosmic Tracks. This puzzle/metroidvania follows a rover ‘Emissary’ as it explores an alien space craft, accompanied by its mission control satellite Diplomat. Navigate in zero-G with the use of your magnets to collect information, and find a way to disable the craft’s signal jammer to send it all back to Earth.

DIE SOFT
Links: Official Website | Discord | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube

Explore a dream world in Little Nemo and the Guardians of Slumberland. The iconic Little Nemo is armed with toys, candy, and stuffed animals in this cute and colorful Metroidvania adventure. Experience NES-era platformer gameplay in a vast, non-linear world that has been hand-animated frame-by-frame, as you unlock new abilities to progress.

Don Pigeon
Links: Official Website

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Verdant Engine is a single player strategy roguelike, where the player controls a massive mech that has been possessed by a plant-like entity. The mech has a garden growing atop of its chassis, and the placement of plants influences its combat capabilities. The mech must make its way through the city, battling immense polluting factories, before defeating the central AI that keeps the factories running.

Hundreds of years ago, humanity went extinct. Through war and pollution, they choked themselves to death. Despite their absence, humans continue to leave their mark upon the world. Their cities are run by a central AI, which controls immense mobile factories that never cease production, and deadly battle engines which continuously patrol the city. The world is slowly dying, and the environment has led to the rapid mutation of plants which grow in the rare green corners that are left on Earth.

You are a new strain of plant; a lifeform whose roots can bind and puppeteer the armatures of a derelict engine. With the aid of other plants you discover and cultivate, you have gone on the warpath to defeat the central AI once and for all.

eStudio NooN
Links: Official Website

Speedster Showdown 3000 is a seated multiplayer VR game where you race around the track in open-wheel, single seat racing machines. Feel the thrill of every turn as you battle it out in the ultimate high-speed showdown.

Hyperboop is a seated multiplayer VR game where you pilot your hovercraft through wild challenges. Boop your opponents, snatch the golden goose, and dominate the arena in this chaotic party game!

Fallen Star Studio
Links: Official Website | Discord

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Welcome to Sin City, where Hell meets Las Vegas! In this 18+ casual card game, 3-7 players compete as one of the Seven Deadly Sins to become the next ruler of the realm. Our strong and sexy ruler Lucifer, the most powerful demon in the realm, has disappeared. Now it’s your chance to take over his most prized casino, the Hellscape Hustle. Grow your territory, screw over your opponents, and gamble away your souls to make your way to the top. Be warned, Eden Enforcers watch your every move, but there’s always a way to get one step ahead. Sin City needs a hotter, sexier, and better leader, and that might just be you.

Ferry Games
Links: Discord | Twitch | YouTube

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Calypso is the last witch in a world where magic has stopped functioning, throwing the lands into chaos. To hide her secret, she creates a poison that wipes her memory of spells, witchcraft, and anyone who had to do with their creation. However, she pays a heavy price for indulging in such taboo practices. Her legs become completely paralyzed. And as a now humble farmhand, her livelihood is at stake.

After weeks of rotting away, she is kidnapped by a strange man who brings her the solution to her problems, high-tech leg braces that rejuvenate the body and allow anyone to leap incredible heights.

Growler Interactive
Links: Official Website

Beacon & Brine is a cozy, Lovecraftian deck-builder where the player assumes the role of a 19th century lighthouse keeper who finds themselves defending against hordes of Lovecraftian monsters that dwell in the deep ocean. The player is tasked with maintaining the lighthouse during the day (which builds their deck and provides buffs) and engaging in card-based combat at night using the deck they’ve built.

HiveMind Studios
Links: Official Website

Good Luck Valley is a 2D, narratively-driven, adventure-platformer in which Anari, a young girl, uses her newfound mushroom power to find her way back home, discovering the secrets of the Spirit World along the way.

Cannon Custodian is a retro-styled arcade game of skill and hi-scores. You’re Ted, Area 51’s newest resident janitor that just so happens to get stuck in an interdenominational jail, mistaken for an era 1981 arcade machine. With an enormous cannon car, blast your way through waves of escaped convicts and their kingpins, all the while defending your energy pods.

Jacob’s Games

Add 2 is a number-adding, color-mixing card game where you play twice the cards for twice the fun. “Add 2” cards to combine with the top of the discard pile. When you’re down to two cards, say “Duh!”, and a nonsense noise. When you discard all your cards, you win!

Julian Howard
Links: Official Website | Bluesky

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Darkrise is a stealth-driven puzzle-solving game that sees you explore an abandoned world ruined by conflict. The Light has taken control, forcing the Darkness into hiding. You have been chosen as the Darkness’ Equalizer in order to find some way to restore the balance between the two forces. As you sneak through ruined cityscapes, you’ll unlock new abilities to help traverse and avoid enemies, alongside your newly found innate ability to harness Darkness and Light to influence and move around the world in unique ways. Though your mission requires you to be as subtle as possible, sometimes you’ll have to get your hands dirty, sneaking up on enemies to take them out or leave them dazed.

Luminous Bits
Links: Official Website | Instagram | YouTube

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Devoid is a twin stick shooter that takes place in a treacherous region of space. For those ready to take flight, your mission is simple. Reach the next spacestation alive and set a highscore. However, between you and your goal lies a swarm of vicious enemies looking to end your run short. Additionally, you’ll have to carefully manage a volatile energy reserve that depletes when you move, take damage, or use a special attack. Getting to your destination will require precise maneuvers, potent aim, and unbreakable will.

Menace Interactive
Links: Official Website | Twitter | YouTube

Project AEGIS [Working Title] is an Apocalyptic Emergent Game Immersive Sim, set in an open post-post apocalyptic world. After the new millennium opened atomic floodgates. Crashing computers cause air traffic to dive, their stocks crashing into markets in the year 00. The many who survived the future begun rebuilding the past. Bands of street gangs and government are infighting amongst themselves, clashing into each another to manifest our destiny.

Neon Deity Games
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube

Race to save your lunch from the larcenous Jerkwad in Bruisin’ Cruisers! Bump, jump, dash and crash through him and his minions in top-down car combat smash-a-thon!

Olympus Interactive

What if ninjas fought in a trampoline park, but with paint? Ninjas on Trampolines is a two-to-four player platform fighter where players are ninjas that splatter their opponents on the battlefield. Use trampolines to fight for aerial superiority. Having the most paint on the battlefield will make you victorious, but be careful because your opponents can paint over what you have already. The person with the most paint at the end of a match is declared the winner.

Permafrost Team

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Experience survival-horror within the frozen, contorted remains of a post-apocalyptic city in Beneath the Permafrost. You play as a survivor on a journey to reach the Fountain in hopes of defying death. Scavenge for supplies, fight immortal abominations, and stay warm to survive the eternal blizzard. Can you make it to the Fountain, escaping the inevitable? Or will you succumb to the blizzard, your soul becoming nothing but detritus for the permafrost?

Planetary Core Games
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram

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Unleash the superpowers of your team of pets at the Academy of Superpets is this mobile action-RPG pet training game.

Planters Box
Links: Official Website

FIRST APPEARANCE AT ROC GAME FEST
Potted pets is a casual management game where you take care of adorable living plant pots! They will ask for water, waddle around your screen, and most importantly help you grow different kinds of produce, which you can sell to further expand your garden. You will be able to buy new types of seeds, pots, and even extend your garden downwards to give you more space. With a soft and bright visual style, engaging mechanics, and satisfying interactions, Potted Pets delivers a playful personal garden to your computer.

Polyhedron Labs

FIRST APPEARANCE AT ROC GAME FEST
Gacha-Brawn! is a top down tower defense game based on Japanese capsule toys. You must defend the arcade from evil salarymen by enlisting capsule toys from gachapon machines. Earn money to upgrade and collect more toys. Gacha-Brawn! is in development for the Playdate handheld console.

As a disillusioned (demon?) teenager you stand before a dilapidated abandoned mall. Yearning for a time gone by, you open the Necronomicon and begin reciting a spell. One that will bring the mall back from the dead. It’s time to go shopping.

Ghost Puncher is a top down shoot’em-fight’em-up where you combat hordes of undead mall walkers that are standing between you and your shopping spree.

Prestosilver
Links: Official Website | Discord | YouTube

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Bugz, Bows, and Curses is an incremental game disguised as a generic rogue-lite, complete with numbers so big they lose meaning. You play as an anti-pede with a bow, as you progress through levels, you’re able to get more and more broken builds!

Primary Colors Studios

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Something About Fish is a multiplayer card game where players compete to collect as many fish as possible through finding, stealing, and backdoor dealing!

RetroAction Games
Links: YouTube

In Deck of Stabs, every card is a weapon. Every decision matters. Battle through strange worlds and dangerous dungeons. Discover exotic weapons, powerful gear, and deadly skills. Burn, curse, explode, and smash your way to victory. Every run is different—just bring your best blades.

RoboCage
Links: Official Website

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Robots will duke it out against each other while upgrading themselves over multiple rounds in RoboCage, an FPS arena shooter. Players will battle each other, gaining popularity points by taking out other players and being rebuilt after they die to continue the fight. The winner of each round is the robot with the most popularity points, who can choose between receiving one victory point for their win, receiving an upgrade, or they can choose to double or nothing. After the round all players other than the winner will receive upgrades to their characters. Players will compete until there is a victor who has received ten points and has become the Cage Match Champion.

RUST LTD
Links: Official Website | Twitter

Turn magical creatures into sausages in Dunderbeck, a frantic inventory management auto battler set in an alternate reality Cincinnati.

Build a gourmet sausage brand as a young, hungry entrepreneur (with a side hustle exterminating goblins.)

Shoreside Studio
Links: Official Website | Bluesky | Instagram | Twitter

In Pelican Post, you play as Pepper, a pelican who has just moved to the town of Port Pleasant and is taking a job as the town’s newest mailman. Through your daily deliveries, you will converse with, get to know, and become closer with the colorful cast of residents that call this place home.

Port Pleasant was once a vibrant, active community with a powerful sense of togetherness. Unfortunately, times have changed, and people have grown distant from each other. Through your new job, you’ll perform small acts of kindness that have a big impact on the community and the people that form it. You could be the key to reestablishing the togetherness that was once a centerpiece of this town.

The Spacies
Links: Official Website | Bluesky | Discord | Twitter

Play as Arya– junker, ship jockey, and fighter– in Project Rope Tool. Lacking working thrusters, her ship is equipped with her latest contraption, the Rope Tool — a grappling hook and a stapler duct taped together.

Swing through the corpse of an asteroid mining gold rush. Gather rockets from the rubble of all-consuming corporate rivalry to propel yourself to blinding speeds. Launch those rockets to take down abandoned drones or set off the industrial explosives left lying around. Everything in this physics-led zero-gravity world is an opportunity for chaos and speed.

The forces you’re up against are stronger than you, more advanced than you, richer than you. They will knock you down, knock everything you’ve scraped together right off of your ship. But they can’t keep you down. You always come back.

Studio Collider
Links: Official Website | Bluesky | Twitter

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Twinball is a Pinball Boss Rush Game, where players play as the Jackpot Twins, Match and Wedge who act as the flippers in a Pinball Machine. Explore a vibrant city filled with bizarre characters and fight them in action packed Pinball Combat!

Trials of Olympus Team
Links: Official Website | YouTube

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In Trials of Olympus, you are Hercules, Theseus, Macaria, or Achilles—the mortal child of a Greek god. Your task: defend your divine parent’s sacred relic while leading your forces against those of your rivals.

Wield asymmetric powers, command stunning miniatures, and master a battlefield where every decision matters and every god intervenes. Whether you’re unleashing Hercules’ brute force or casting Macaria’s otherworldly spells, the path to victory is forged in tactics, timing, and divine favor. Much blood will be spilled before one champion ascends to Olympus to take their place among the gods.

Tristan Otto

Little One is a 2D side-scrolling RPG about a little kid exploring a strange and unusual world in search of food for their dog. All the while meeting peculiar citizens, making friends, fighting off nightmarish monsters, and uncovering dark secrets. The game mainly focuses on the environment and atmosphere as seeing what the world has to offer is one of its main draws.

Troy Story Games
Links: Official Website | Bluesky | Twitter

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In Messenger Mouse, players take on the role of a courageous mouse tasked with delivering a secret message to the king! This action-packed platformer combines classic gameplay with modern challenges, encouraging players to explore and uncover the game’s many secrets. Speed through the levels discovering secret paths to improve your runs. Find cheat codes to unlock new ways to play the game. Share your best times with friends and race their ghosts in ghost race mode.

Unholy Roller Team
Links: Official Website

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Unholy Roller is an infernal, bowling-inspired dungeon crawler where you play as the weapon. Roll yourself through hordes of barbaric, sentient pins to demolish the Kingpin’s temple of doom!

Usiak Games and Designs
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube

Skeptics is a cooperative tabletop game for 1-4 players where you play as paranormal investigators. Form a team trying to prove the existence of ghosts that haunt an environment by gathering evidence of the paranormal.

Players race against the clock rolling dice to match icons to Search, Reveal, and Solve Clues. Each Clue will lead one step closer to revealing the Ghost. Environment Cards are drawn at the stroke of midnight which may have hazards and conditions that will impede the players’ progress. Investigators win if the existence of the Ghost can be proven in time, but fail if time runs out.

Wes Osborne-Paugh
Links: Official Website | Bluesky

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100 Rogues is a traditional, turn-based roguelike with emphasis on tactical decision-making. Players are challenged to descend through three dungeon worlds on their quest to kill the last wild Satan. Each world contains an array of monsters with nuanced abilities of their own that must be countered and overcome. Learn the dungeons’ secrets and try to improve your scores!