Today’s Convergence Games Showcase delivered four delightful morsels for indie fans — a world reveal, a fresh demo, a hotly anticipated release date, and a launch. Here’s everything that dropped, and where to play each one.
A musical survivors-lite from Dome Keeper’s developer, where you cheer up grumps instead of killing monsters.
Co-op extraction looting in the Bermuda Triangle for up to four players, on PC, PS5, and Xbox.
A PSX-styled sci-fi horror where you type commands to puppeteer crew aboard a doomed research ship.
A neon-drenched precision platformer where you sacrifice health to bend time and shave off seconds.
The showcase’s headline reveal, Bandwagon is a musical twist on the survivors-lite genre from Bippinbits — the developer behind Dome Keeper and PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant. Don’t let the name fool you: this is far from trend-chasing.
The band in question is a motley crew of woodland creatures, each contributing their own unique sound to a procedurally-generated tune you’ll use to spread joy across the land. Rather than fending off fanged nasties, you’re beset from all angles by a horde of grumps in dire need of cheering up. Every pluck of a chord and toot on a woodwind turns their frowns upside down, with game-changing upgrades and new band members to collect that transform your sound from a dainty ditty into a brilliant ballad.
It’s a genuinely clever inversion — the survivors-lite formula rebuilt around joy instead of carnage, with your build expressed as an evolving piece of music. A playtest was announced alongside the reveal, and you can hop on the Bandwagon by joining the Discord or following Bippinbits on social.
Wreck Runners, the co-op extraction looter from Disruptive Games, is out now. Delve into the Bermuda Triangle with up to three friends and haul back as much as you can before you’re lost to the encroaching fog. Your hard-won earnings unlock better equipment, upgrades, and a range of cosmetics to show off to your fellow runners.
You’ll pilot your all-terrain aquatic vehicle — the ORCA — through the fog to locate precious salvage, then venture out on foot to collect it in chaotic, physics-driven runs. Communicate, weave around otherworldly dangers, and above all, maintain faith in your employer: the 100% benevolent, entirely-lacking-in-ulterior-motive Trustwell Company.
Wreck Runners is available on PC via Steam, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5.
Remote Control from Canteen Games casts you as a puppeteer of human workers, using them to uncover the mystery of what happened aboard the abandoned research ship Pelican. You select a crew member to possess and type commands to navigate the vessel’s perilous corridors, all rendered in eerie lo-fi PSX-era graphics.
You may be safe at your desk, but the dangers you’re submitting your thralls to are all too real. A wrong move could see them fall prey to a nasty workplace accident — or one of the slithering horrors stalking the ship. With only twelve proxies at your disposal, every keystroke deserves careful consideration.
Remote Control has a new demo available now, and the showcase revealed a launch window of Fall 2026. It’s the most conceptually distinctive thing in the lineup: horror mediated entirely through a command line, where your safety and your victims’ are cleanly, uncomfortably separated.
Echobreaker, the freerunning flow-state precision platformer from Upstream Arcade, comes careening onto Steam on August 6, 2026. In its futuristic metropolis, speed comes above everything — even personal safety. You’ll push your armored rig and your body to their limits, sacrificing your health to bend time and shave precious seconds off your runs.
Compete against ghosts of other players or your own previous attempts to perfect your lines and climb the leaderboard, and apply challenge modifiers that raise the stakes on each of the 15 tracks for the ultimate test of your precision parkour skills. Echobreaker releases on Windows PC via Steam.
The Studios Behind Them
Four very different games, four very different studios, and a showcase that leaned hard into the weird and the specific rather than the safe. Bandwagon’s joy-powered horde survival and Remote Control’s typed-command horror are the two most conceptually adventurous — and both are the kind of idea only an indie would chase.
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