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GYAARCon award-winning titles to be exhibited at gamescom2025, the world’s largest gaming event!
We’re thrilled to announce that several award-winning titles from the GYAAR Contest will be featured at gamescom2025 in Cologne, Germany, from August 20–24, 2025.
This includes five titles at the Phoenixx booth and three at the Japan Pavilion.
Be sure to check them out if you're visiting the Indie Arena Booth!
Phoenixx booth
The Strongest TOFU (Action) 1st Award Winners
Tofu Action
One-button controls for a game experience as simple as tofu.
Precise vibration/physical feedback to enhance the sense of oneness with the tofu.
Tofu is fragile and crumbles when you push it. (Koya-dofu is hard, so it's not a problem.)
With a determined tofu-fire, jump into the owan before it expires.
One-button controls for a game experience as simple as tofu.
Precise vibration/physical feedback to enhance the sense of oneness with the tofu.
Tofu is fragile and crumbles when you push it. (Koya-dofu is hard, so it's not a problem.)
With a determined tofu-fire, jump into the owan before it expires.
SUMMER ROAD (Auto Hack and Slash RPG) 2nd Award Winners
This 10-minute Rogue-lite RPG is crafted for even the busiest of schedules!
In this rogue-lite game combining auto-progression and item creation, players utilize only the expansive inventory space to create and equip items that move the story forward.
While actions like movement and attacks are automatic, specific acts change based on combinations of equipment. Its unique, easy-to-play structure as well as the numerous options and events within the story give this bite-sized RPG high replay value!
In this rogue-lite game combining auto-progression and item creation, players utilize only the expansive inventory space to create and equip items that move the story forward.
While actions like movement and attacks are automatic, specific acts change based on combinations of equipment. Its unique, easy-to-play structure as well as the numerous options and events within the story give this bite-sized RPG high replay value!
MOP'N SPARK (Puzzle Platformer) 2nd Honorable Mention
MOP'N SPARK is a 2D platformer where you manipulate time to solve puzzles through trial and error!
Instead of using direct inputs, control the character by placing actions on a timeline as if you were programming them, and undo and redo your series of choices until you finally beat the stage.
The puzzles get elaborate in stages where you need to multiple characters to cooperate with each other!
Instead of using direct inputs, control the character by placing actions on a timeline as if you were programming them, and undo and redo your series of choices until you finally beat the stage.
The puzzles get elaborate in stages where you need to multiple characters to cooperate with each other!
Electrogical (Jigsaw+Arithmetic Puzzle) 1st Award Winners
An electric puzzle game that utilizes jigsaw puzzles and basic math!
Embark on an adventure as an engineer that repairs switchboards along with superconductivity neko lifeforms.
Combine and arrange pieces of a formula such as +1 and ×4 so that they reach the target number!
Multiple solutions exist for each stage. Unearth the highest-scoring combination through trial and error!
Embark on an adventure as an engineer that repairs switchboards along with superconductivity neko lifeforms.
Combine and arrange pieces of a formula such as +1 and ×4 so that they reach the target number!
Multiple solutions exist for each stage. Unearth the highest-scoring combination through trial and error!
DORONKO WANKO (Muddy Action) GYAAR Studio works
“DORONKO WANKO” is a muddy action game where a puppy makes a huge mess in a clean house. Run around freely, make a mess, and cover every room in mud!
Japan Pavilion
SKY THE SCRAPER (Building Cleaning Action Adventure) 1st Award Winners
You are the young cleaner of a skyscraper who dreams of a better future, in this action adventure game.
Savor the thrill of working at new heights, while basking in the satisfaction of removing grime.
Make full use of the diverse range of actions and equipment to efficiently clean the skyscraper. Spend your days making money and muster up the motivation to determine the course of your future within two months.
Will you be able to break free from these mundane days?
Savor the thrill of working at new heights, while basking in the satisfaction of removing grime.
Make full use of the diverse range of actions and equipment to efficiently clean the skyscraper. Spend your days making money and muster up the motivation to determine the course of your future within two months.
Will you be able to break free from these mundane days?
Jelly Troops (Real-time Action Strategy) 2nd Award Winners
This online real-time strategy game is full of moments that rewards players for smart thinking!
Players summon and grow slimes to capture flags placed around the map in a race against time. Knock out your opponent by capturing three small flags, taking your opponent's large flag, or by having more small flags when time runs out!
Enjoy exciting battles by creating walls to block your opponent's slimes, luring the golems on the map to attack them, or stealing the opponent's flag without being noticed. The short matches on randomized maps means that you can just hop into the next match, even if you lose!
Players summon and grow slimes to capture flags placed around the map in a race against time. Knock out your opponent by capturing three small flags, taking your opponent's large flag, or by having more small flags when time runs out!
Enjoy exciting battles by creating walls to block your opponent's slimes, luring the golems on the map to attack them, or stealing the opponent's flag without being noticed. The short matches on randomized maps means that you can just hop into the next match, even if you lose!
BANDIT KNIGHT (2.5D bandit Action) 2nd Platinum Award
BANDIT KNIGHT is a bandit action game where you explore a 2.5D sprite world.
Become part of a guild of bandits and steal treasure from evil merchants and aristocrats!
You can then use the items you collected to power up your characters!
There's also a wealth of specializations: stronger stealing makes you steal more, stronger stealth makes you steal sneakily, and stronger combat lets you take on the guards and escorts!
So find, take, and steal to your heart's content!
Become part of a guild of bandits and steal treasure from evil merchants and aristocrats!
You can then use the items you collected to power up your characters!
There's also a wealth of specializations: stronger stealing makes you steal more, stronger stealth makes you steal sneakily, and stronger combat lets you take on the guards and escorts!
So find, take, and steal to your heart's content!
Learn more about gamescom2025 here
・gamescom Official website
・Indie Arena Booth
・Phoenixx Official website
・About Japan Pavilion