Demos used to be a thing you had to go to conventions for, but since E3 went all-digital, so too have all the demos. Today marks the start of Microsoft’s ID@Xbox Summer Game Fest Demo Event which brings 40 free game demos to Xbox.

From now until June 21, head on over to the Xbox Dashboard on your Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S console to see what new demos are available. More demos up to the 40 mentioned below will become available throughout the week.

Keep in mind that most of these demos are intended to “an early look at gameplay and may not represent the full game at their release,” writes Xbox Wire, although we’re that these indie devs are all going to try to put their best foot forward. Expect these demos to evolve into full-blooded games between now and their respective release dates.

Of the 40 demos, 12 of them are for new games that were just announced at E3. These include:

  • Arietta of Spirits (Third Spirit Games) BattleCakes (Volcano Bean) Button City (Subliminal) Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered (Manekoware) Dreamers (PlaySys) Faraday Protocol (Red Koi Box) Get Packed: Fully Loaded (Coatsink) Paint the Town Red (South East Games) Tanknarok (Polyblock Studio) The Strange Story Of Brian Fisher: Chapter 2 (Intetic) The Tale of Bistun (Black Cube Games) Wreck Out (Four5Six)

Meanwhile, the remaining titles have already released on at least one platform (usually Steam or Itch.io), but they’re still definitely worth checking out on Xbox if you haven’t already.

 

  • A Juggler’s Tale (kaleidoscube) Antipole DX (Saturnine Games) Arietta of Spirits (Third Spirit Games) BattleCakes (Volcano Bean) Black Book (Morteshka) Button City (Subliminal) Cardaclysm: Shards of the Four (Elder Games) Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered (Manekoware) Clone Drone in the Danger Zone (Doborog) Clouzy! (Tinymoon) ConnecTank (YummyYummyTummy) Death Trash (Crafting Legends) Deathtrap Dungeon: The Golden Room (Good Gate Media) Dreamers (PlaySys) Echo Generation (Cococucumber) Faraday Protocol (Red Koi Box) Fractal Space (Haze Games) Get Packed: Fully Loaded (Coatsink) Godstrike (Overpowered) Justice Sucks: Recharged (Samurai Punk) Lake (Gamious) Lawn Mowing Simulator (Skyhook Games) Mad Streets (Craftshop) Mayhem Brawler (Hero Concept) Paint the Town Red (South East Games) Princess Farmer (Samobee Games) Sable (Shedworks) Sail Forth (David Evans Games) Strings Theory (BeautifulBee) Tanknarok (Polyblock Studio) Teacup (Smarto Club) The Eternal Cylinder (ACE Team) The Riftbreaker (EXOR Studios) The Strange Story Of Brian Fisher: Chapter 2 (Intetic) The Tale of Bistun (Black Cube Games) Trigger Witch (Rainbite) Tunic (Isometricorp) Wreck Out (Four5Six)

There were plenty of other great indie titles announced during the Guerilla Collective and Wholesome Direct presentations during E3, and Devolver also brought a bevy of new titles that they plan to publish in the near future.