SHIBA GAME AWARD 2025 WINTER Second Screening Pass Titles

Rubinite' is a dark fantasy boss rush action game that utilizes the unique mechanic 'Focus' to pinpoint enemies' weaknesses and execute thrust attacks. Follow Ruby, a princess who has escaped from the Scarlet Kingdom, embarking on a journey…

Punish the little bastard demon and being punished too! Cemo-Summoning Adventure Game

Vextorial is a mind-bending puzzle-platformer where you swap between 2D and 3D perspectives and twist gravity itself to solve impossible puzzles, explore a surreal, ancient ruin suspended in shifting dimensions, and uncover a mystery only y…

CleanFall is a survival rogue-lite that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horro…

The Sultan commands you to play a cruel game. Each week you draw a card, and have to complete its challenge within seven days. Forced to make dreadful choices to beat the Sultan’s Game and save your own life, you will have to find a way to …

One night, Lyu Xuan woke up soaked in blood, a mysterious black hole in the palm of her hand, and millions pouring out of that hole, like an unstoppable fountain of wealth. Still in shock, She has to evade the monsters that rushed to her an…

Kotama and Academy Citadel is a 3D Metroidvania game. Players assume the role of an exchange student named Kotama as she explores through the mysterious Academy Citadel, aiming to become the esteemed [Carmel Star].

Tired of playing the hero of regular RPG game? This time, Let’s trying to play as a game developer, go deep into the game world created by yourself, kill or solve puzzles with your abilities of programming, art and music, all depends on you…

Dive into the immersive world of Retrace the Light, a captivating 2.5D action-adventure game centered around the 'Spatial Retracing' feature. Assume the role of an Enforcer working for a super AI in a futuristic world, exploring the depths …

Most of your actions have been taken away. In each time loop, slide the mouse to kill monsters, crack the puzzles locked by knowledge, and explore the hidden paths! Go deeper in a limited time and discover the truth of the world.

100% Clean Inc. is a top-down Roguelite shooting game. Follow the new intern as he explores the cleaning company building, where things seem to be going wrong.

In this 2d precision platformer with a teleportation twist, play as Ninja Ming and embark on the Path of Trials. Dash through 241 levels using dynamic teleportation and diverse ninjutsu skills. Conquer challenges with style—growing stronger…

Mini Airways is a real-time management game where you play the role of an air traffic controller. Clear your aircraft to takeoff & land, direct them to the destination...and most of all don't let them crash!! London, Tokyo, Shanghai... Test…

Rhythm Hotel is a rhythm game bursting with wildly unpredictable, absurdly hilarious storylines. No brain strain, no finger pain—just quirky themes, addictive gameplay, easy controls, and foot-tapping madness! Dive into our epic rhythm chal…

Real friends exist in the online world!' The Doomed Otaku is a multi-ending adventure that follows a wandering 20-something otaku as they navigate both the real and cyber worlds, experiencing various events along the way.

Rhea of the Remnant is a mech Tactical RPG in which you command a small number of allies to defeat a large number of enemies.

Manage your dream game shop through gaming history starting from 1985. From the Famicom boom to digital distribution—can you survive this management simulation through Japan's biggest gaming shifts?

HellPunk is a 2D action gore roguelite game. You play as the main character Asher Drake, who must help Leviathan conquer the Tower and solve the mystery of his family's vanishing.

A slow-paced life simulation and tidying up game about a cat, passion, transformation and growth. Categorizing cluttered everyday household items, navigating ever-changing life experiences, while gradually uncovering the joys and meaning of…

Philna Fantasy delivers the classic pixel RPG experience! Choose from four distinct classes and embark on an epic journey across Votland. Enjoy over 15 hours of thrilling combat, hunt for powerful loot, and develop your character in this vi…

Love is...' is a hidden picture game with emotional art by artist 'Puuung'. It is a healing game that can relieve stress and excitement like relaxation, and enjoy the charming emotional coloring game that spreads at your fingertips.

Puzzle platformer where you control both the cat and the toast, based on the famous 'Buttered Cat Paradox'. The game features 200+ levels, 70+ skins, plus boss fights and mini-games!

This is a modern adventure of young adults seeking love and meaning. Return to 2011's Castor Yard, tap on your keyboard, and make those letters dance: Use your online persona to make meaningful decisions for your clients and yourself.

Robot Hospice' is a 2D pixel art adventure game where beloved robots spend their final days in a hospice. As a new staff member, you will gently yet painfully bid farewell to these cherished machines that once lived alongside humans.

Solateria is a hand-drawn action Metroidvania with parry-focused combat. A small fire warrior journeys to find the Primordial Flame, the world’s last hope against the Shadow Plague. Defeat foes with stylish parries and explore mysterious re…

Psycho-Sleuth is a mystery game where cognitive disorders distort the rules of murder. 13 players, each with a strange condition — like “no lying,” “no left side,” or “no faces” — are trapped in a deadly game. These disorders are contagious…

The game that simply confuses your fingers.

Set off to the unknown world Stargather Land now. The shadow of chaos is shrouding here for so long, a girl from another world shoulders the responsibility of saving this land. Travel with the power of elements until the end of destiny, onl…

Demon invasion has shattered the dimensions, filling the world with corrupted souls. Cat girls with unique stories unite through friendship to restore balance by purifying souls and facing fierce bosses. An exciting and adorable side-scroll…

MotionRec is a recording puzzle action game where you progress through stages by recording and playing back your own movements.

After being discharged from the army and starting to write novels, Nico embarks on a trip to the world with the roar of a train, encountering all kinds of people and events on the way, and experiencing the new world after the war, and the r…

Maid of Salvation is an action RPG that features fast-paced and versatile combat. Master your own fighting style with a variety of swords and firearms, and explore a dark world full of secrets.

Tricolo - 3x3 board, 3 different gimmicks, 3 pieces and 3 goals. A puzzle game colored with “3”

Help Hoshino revive a beloved summer festival! Explore a Japanese neighborhood, play puzzly minigames, and get to know quirky neighbors. Visit websites both friendly and dark, in a bittersweet adventure about young Hoshino, her friends, and…

Chameleon is a side-scrolling platformer with a hand-drawn doodle style. In this world of doodles, you will play as a chameleon created by a young boy's imagination. With the whimsical and imaginative adventures the young boy envisions, the…

In Shattered Divinities, embark on an adventure that pits you directly against divinity itself! An ancient War of Gods shattered the world, and their broken power has become the Calamities that consume all life. How will you survive in this…

Craft original weapons and engage in strategic time-freezing battles as you dive into the million-floor deep underground world of this deep-diving action strategy game.

Star Birds is a relaxing asteroid base-building and resource management game. Discover and mine countless asteroids, create production networks and guide your flock of spacefaring birds to new interstellar horizons!

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-ap…

Explore an interconnected world full of platforming challenges in this short metroidvania. Reach new areas by swinging from ceilings, throwing bombs, bouncing off spikes, and more. Examine dozens of artifacts, commune with forgotten gods, a…

Simple controls, but serious challenge — a fresh climbing indie experience. Guide a mysterious snake as you ascend through a dark, deep world in this 2D physics-based action game: Slitherise.

In this rogue-like restaurant-action-sim, you play as a goblin that has the dream of becoming a sushi chef. Upgrade the restaurant, the menu and your ingredients to feed your fellow goblins the best and most expensive sushi any goblin can f…

An action-puzzle game where the slime cat 'Tama' explores a mysterious, slightly melancholic pixel-art world. Use three unique actions—Absorb to grow, Split to divide, and Swap to switch bodies—to solve puzzles and follow Tama’s hazy, uncer…

Have you ever played a game that you shouldn't have completed? Moratorium: Don't Beat This Game is a unique puzzle-solving ADV game that you shouldn't have completed. Flex your brain to the maximum to solve puzzles and avoid the ending.

You are assigned by the organization to hunt down the escaped test subjects. Every action unfolds through turn-based card battles— persuasion or reconciliation, conflict or closure, the power of choice is in your hands!

Experience the Poop Precision Platformer! Master the jump button to guide your automatically running Unko (Poop) to the final toilet bowl. It's a stylish poop action game set against retro-neon graphics and a killer soundtrack.