Here are the 22 African games shown at Origin Point Games’ showcase

Origin Point Games has unveiled 22 African-made games on YouTube, from a fox spirit’s souls-like quest to a Maasai prince’s hunt for the poachers who killed his family.

The showcase streamed on November 12th and was organised by Nicky Visentin. An external advisory board picked the lineup through blind judging, with reviewers seeing only the games and not the studios behind them.

The games come from studios in South Africa, Kenya, Tunisia, Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda, and the show follows the Afro Game Showcase, which Narratify ran on June 25th and which unveiled 22 titles. So here are all the African games we spotted:

All 22 games in the Origin Point Games Showcase

Open world

1- Impulse Rogue (Neith Owl Games, Egypt)

Impulse Rogue is a dark, gritty souls-like roguelike set inside a human mind. Players control Rena, a fox spirit bound to Yelena, a former adventurer, who must descend into Yelena’s psyche to protect her soul from the Archdemons and the Necromancer who seek to steal it.

Guided by fragmented memories, Rena confronts Yelena’s past, and the true nature of their bond is a central enigma. The landscapes are twisted. A broadleaf forest in autumn is marred by Nightmares, manifestations of Yelena’s deepest fears and desires. Death is always close, but each one makes Rena stronger.

2. Poached: Hunt The Hunter (Ingozi Games, South Africa)

Poached: Hunt The Hunter is an open-world first-person shooter set in South Africa’s Northern Province. Players are a game ranger who uses tracking skills and cunning to outsmart poachers invading a nature reserve. It mixes stealth, combat, crafting and RPG elements, with 14 weapons and more than 12 story missions.

Side activities include ostrich racing, golf, cooking braais and driving a bakkie with South African radio playing. Voice acting covers English, Afrikaans, Sepedi and Zulu. A one-person studio makes it, and it has been in Steam early access since August 2023.

3. Kopno: Blightfall (Urar Studio, Tunisia)

Kopno: Blightfall is a survival RPG set in a cursed land that does not wait for the player. Every creature lives by its own needs, fears and ambitions, so injured bandits need supplies to recover and ghoul scouts roam to build new nests. Players pick one of six races, each with two ethnicities, which shapes gameplay, culture and the world’s reaction.

The world has two layers, the surface and the underground, with four biomes each demanding different gear and strategies. Players build a settlement, recruiting settlers with traits and families, assigning jobs, automating production chains and appointing leaders.

4. Hiru (Kunta Content, Kenya)

Hiru is a third-person action-adventure rooted in Maasai culture. Players take the role of a young Maasai prince whose family is murdered by poachers in retaliation for protecting elephants, and who sets out to rescue his kidnapped sister.

The journey crosses the Maasai Mara savannas, the Congo forests and desert landscapes. Players track poacher trails through footprints, animal movements and environmental clues, fight with spears, simis and clubs alongside modern tools, and protect elephants and other endangered animals along the way.

5. Minor Deity (Re: cOg Mission, South Africa)

Minor Deity is a gridless sandbox in which players command Earth, Water, Air and Fire to create the landscapes of their imagination, from tiny islands to networks of variable landmasses and large continents. Dynamic localized weather lets vegetation and herds of animals survive, and even flourish.

Players lay out towns to house growing populations, establish outposts to gather resources and encourage trade by road, river and sea. They can complete specific objectives or enjoy the freedom of the sandbox and cement their reputation in the Halls Of The Minor Deities. A solo developer in Pretoria makes it.

Narrative

6. Video.8 (Space for Squash, Malawi)

Video.8 is a nostalgic mystery set in a charming seaside town. Players look after the old video store of their Uncle Frank, who has mysteriously disappeared. They run the store, restore old tapes and explore plenty of customization options.

Developer Chisom Mbeza and his team spent a year making it from a love of video games, movies and physical media. Players get to know the locals, go fishing and enjoy the little pleasures of small-town life. But among the things Frank left behind is an unusual videotape, one that leads to another world and perhaps some answers.

7. Veiled (Elder Studios, Ethiopia)

Veiled is a horror-thriller survival game that follows an orphaned girl exploring the ruins of a shattered world. A playable demo is in preparation, and the project is incubated through the Habesha Creative Lab at the Alliance Éthio-Française d’Addis Abeba.

Elder Studios also makes Queen Idia, a third-person action-adventure about the Queen Mother of the Benin Kingdom.

8. Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill (Riker, South Africa)

Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill is a text-driven murder mystery in which a detective investigates the death of Margot Voss, editor of the fashion magazine Mirage. The text itself is the environment, and players search words on walls, floors and objects for clues.

Investigation tools include a Polaroid camera, a notebook and suspect interrogations. The Johannesburg studio revealed the game at the Story Rich Showcase hosted by Fellow Traveller. All Day All Night publishes it, and it is due in Q1 2027.

Platformer

9. Feather’s Edge (Clockwork Acorn, South Africa)

Feather’s Edge is a kinetic metroidvania in which Upu, a hoopoe warrior, climbs the Tower of Time. A dash-and-slash controller merges aiming, jumping and attacking into one input, so combat is built into movement.

Time rifts fracture the tower and age its regions at different rates, and the rifts become revisitable combat arenas with tracked scores. The Cape Town studio began the game as a game jam prototype called Upupa Bird Ninja, Outersloth funded it, and it premiered at Indie Live Expo

10. The Lonely Architect (Ekosodi Games, Nigeria)

The Lonely Architect is a 2D atmospheric platformer set in the subconscious of an overworked architect struggling with isolation. Story mode tells the narrative through platform puzzles across four acts: Emptiness, Heaviness, Who Am I? and Where Is Home? Each explores a different point in his journey out of loneliness.

Build mode adds a 2D block-building sandbox for creating architectural structures in an empty, grid-based world. It is the debut game of Odaro Eguavoen, solo developer behind Ekosodi Games, and has been shortlisted for Best Impact Game in Africa at Africa Games Week

11. Karmzah (Leti Arts, Ghana)

Karmzah is a side-scrolling action-adventure in which Morowa Adjei, an explorer, discovers a powerful artifact buried deep in the earth and is transformed into Karmzah, a fast, powerful warrior with new abilities and a destiny to face. Alongside her clever guide, Muzu, she battles strange creatures, escapes deadly traps and unlocks the mysteries of a forgotten past.

Players fight with smooth combos through handcrafted levels inspired by African stories and legends, mixing fast combat, tricky puzzles and platforming. The story is told through voice-acted dialogue, and Muzu helps, and sometimes roasts, the player along the way.

12. Letterland (Atlas Studio, Morocco)

Letterland is a 2D puzzle platformer in which letters are not just words. They become part of the gameplay and the world itself. Every world begins with a single letter.

The game comes from Atlas Studio in Morocco, and the studio’s founder and CEO presented it at the Origin Point Games Showcase.

Party and multiplayer

13. Get Rammed (Hyrax Studios, South Africa)

Get Rammed is a multiplayer party game for up to eight players in which chaotic goats try to ram each other off the stage. Players gather on the couch or battle across the globe in fast-paced, physics-fueled mayhem, with bots available for practice.

Maps each have their own style, and modes include Deathmatch, King of the Hill and Last Ram Standing. Power-ups and unexpected events add to the chaos, and players express themselves with colours, funky hats and goofy names. In-depth match settings let them switch off specific power-ups or maps.

14. Oops Unit (Suronix)

Oops Unit is a co-op bomb disposal game about the world’s most “professional” bomb squad. Players can bring up to five friends into facilities packed with bombs, traps and danger, solving puzzles or pressing random buttons to reach each bomb and defuse it. Proximity voice chat carries every scream, and some bombs are sound-sensitive.

Enemies show up at the worst moments, and teammates can sabotage the mission. Levels are procedurally generated, with power outages, fires and traps, and players scavenge batteries and keycards and buy new gear between missions. It supports online co-op and offline single-player.

15. Binary Golf (Moodyyaser, Egypt)

Binary Golf is a sci-fi mini-golf game in which players hit targets, clear them all out and watch the last one transform into the hole. Players choose which target goes last, so they decide where the hole ends up. Super Targets grant abilities such as drilling through terrain, a helicopter hat, a tornado or a UFO, and abilities chain mid-flight in a single shot.]

Episodes end in boss fights where mini-golf’s rules go out the window. Modes include local play for up to four players, co-op, battle and deathmatch, plus a course editor and speedrun leaderboards.

16. Riziki (Weza Interactive, Kenya)

Riziki is a rhythm game in which players are the chosen rhythm seeker, guided by Riziki, the Spirit of African Rhythm, on a quest to uplift the continent through song, dance and passion. The story unfolds in the Mzito universe, where Riziki is one of the Five Great Masks. Players groove to traditional and modern African tunes, including Amapiano, genge-tone, Urban-tone and Afrobeats.

Seasonal collaborations with established and emerging artists add limited-edition tracks and dynamic visuals. Players challenge friends, climb leaderboards for the title of Ultimate Rhythm Champion and customize avatars with outfits and accessories that celebrate African culture.

17. RuCity (Arudem, Uganda)

RuCity, the studio’s flagship IP, is an arcade racing game set in an original urban universe that extends the ARUDEM brand. Its world draws from the street, contemporary culture and the visual language of a generation of African gamers who grew up on global pop culture while building an identity of their own.

The characters are not adaptations of ancient legends or traditional archetypes. They grew from IDENTS, visual symbols that the ARUDEM community embraced years before RuCity existed. Like the studio, the game is built to be shared, made for parties, events and game nights.

Action and adventure

18. Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator (Aligned Games, South Africa)

Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator is a fast-paced incremental mining extraction roguelite. Players control a hardened operator who cracks, mines and sells valuable crystals while fighting the alien Telkar creatures that guard them.

Each run builds in-run upgrades, and earned currency funds permanent progression. Upgrades fall into six categories: Augmentations, Combat, Defense, Mining, Robotics and Support.

19. Forgebound (Amilcar Technologies, Tunisia)

Forgebound is a medieval survival settlement builder in which players lead survivors out of the ashes of a war-torn land. They gather timber and stone, craft tools and armor, raise walls and keep their people fed, warm and loyal while raiders, rival factions and brutal seasons test everything they build.

Hunger, thirst, health and morale decide whether the settlement grows or falls apart. Players climb a tech tree, place traps and defenses where attacks will come, and fight hostile factions with siege equipment. A single-player story campaign and online multiplayer are both included. Coming in 2028 for PC.

20. Grimoire Limbo (Infinite Loom, South Africa)

Grimoire Limbo is a turn-based horror roguelite in which the player is trapped in a necromancer’s grimoire and must find their memories and escape before losing their mind. It is set in etched-ink environments where 2D sprites interact with the 3D world like drawings in a book.

Recovering a lost memory pulls players back from the edge, and dying slides them closer. Players carry only two weapons and two utility items, and each use damages the item until it breaks. They must choose between an almost spent weapon that might fail mid-fight and a weaker one that lasts longer.

21. Bot-Mania (Sparda Zone, Nigeria)

Bot-Mania is a roguelike bullet-hell dungeon crawler in which players pilot combat robots with varying Mods through different sectors, battling waves of enemies and challenging bosses. A diverse arsenal of weapons and tactical skills supports multiple playstyles.

Permanent meta-progression comes through unlockable mods and perks, and each run offers emergent gameplay through synergistic ability combinations. Bosses have intricate phases, environmental hazards add pressure, and a progressive floor system hands out dynamic rewards.

22. The Legend of Mitts and the Divine Recipes (Disputed People Games, South Africa)

The Legend of Mitts and the Divine Recipes is a 3D retro-inspired top-down adventure in which the greatest weapon is a good meal. The world of Epicuria is losing its flavor and starting to crumble, and a young hero named Mitts must journey across forgotten ruins in search of the mythical Sixth Flavor to restore it.

Players harvest rare ingredients and cook divine recipes, and each of the eight or more recipes unlocks an ability, such as dodging or sprinting. Those powers help solve environmental puzzles, open blocked paths and fight the creatures guarding Epicuria’s lost flavors. PC. Playable demo on itch.io.

Playtopia Games (Extra)

23. Fallbearers (Bones Brothers): A cooperative, darkly comic game in which two players carry deceased clients through Victorian streets with unpredictable physics.
24. Pecking Order (Talent Digital)
25. Dieselwake (Talent Digital)
26. The Dreadthorn Therapist (T3rrifk, Malawi)
27. Get Yoked (Barking Dogs): A comic roguelike deckbuilder in which players play workout cards to build up a bodybuilder while managing fatigue to avoid injury.
28. Slime Fight Club (Garage Bugs)
29. The Evils (Talent Digital)
30. Shades of Noir (Talent Digital)