The fourth Ukrainian video game festival, organized by the Palaye communications agency, has launched on Steam. The Ukrainian Games Festival 2025 features over 480 games created in Ukraine, discounts on over 200 already released projects, and about 20 new announcements.
The fourth Ukrainian video game festival, organized by the Palaye communications agency, has launched on Steam. The Ukrainian Games Festival 2025 features over 480 games created in Ukraine, discounts on over 200 already released projects, and about 20 new announcements.
«As always, the big festival sale includes blockbusters from GSC Game World, 4A Games, and Frogwares, as well as hundreds of projects from independent developers», — the event organizers noted.
The popular STALKER 2 received one of the biggest discounts of 30% at the Ukrainian Games Festival 2025. Previous parts of the STALKER series, which recently received an updated version, also received such a price reduction.
Among the popular projects at the Ukrainian games sale was also the strategy game Becastled. It was released in Steam early access in 2021, received over 4,000 reviews and a positive rating. As part of the festival, the developers of Becastled announced that the full version of the game will be released on October 23, 2025 on PC and consoles.
DDoD is a tactical roguelite shooter with up to four-player co-op. The game is played from a top-down perspective and takes the player to an abandoned industrial area that has been engulfed by a semi-sentient, artificial anomaly.
The Road of Dust and Sorrow is a post-apocalyptic survival horror adventure inspired by classics like Resident Evil and Silent Hill.
Valkyrie Iteration is a sci-fi visual novel where players must raise a young female pilot of the Valkyrie battle mech and prepare her for decisive battles against otherworldly threats. This is just one of the new projects from author STONKS-9800 — Ternox has also announced a desktop simulator of the anime girlfriend Desktop Akari .
Chumaky is a game about traveling, trading, farming, and building your own farm. In it, players will become Chumaky, traveling through authentic villages, trading with locals, completing quests, and exploring mysterious locations.
Agecraft is a historical strategy and city-building simulator in which players will lead their civilization through 7 eras: from the Stone Age to the future. You can build settlements, develop the economy, take care of your people and discover new technologies. The game already has a demo version.
Liar-for-hire is a visual novel about an employee of a disinformation agency. Players must achieve corporate goals, using false scandals and accusations. The gameplay consists of a series of working days, where you need to manage the resources that disinformation organizations have in their arsenal and undermine people’s reputations and trust in the authorities.
Rhythm Katana Dance is a rhythm game in which you can deflect bullets, dash forward, and slash enemies with a katana in sync with any music added through the built-in music editor.
Whispers Among the Poppies is a new game from Shapik: The Quest developer Pavel Podberezko. It’s a narrative adventure about a young boy fleeing destruction, wandering through familiar but destroyed cities during a full-scale Russian invasion. The game is inspired by the developer’s real-life wartime experiences, whose apartment was destroyed during shelling.
Indie studio Templar Order has released a new gameplay trailer for Armageddonica, a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy that combines ARPG-style hack-and-slash with a simplified, gamepad-friendly RTS system.
Kyiv-based indie studio Bsl Team has released a new trailer for Shop Crush, a horror-themed visual novel and store simulation game in which players manage their own consignment shop, meet new customers, learn their habits and preferences, and trade while balancing profitability and reputation.
The developers of the VR game Whispers of the Void have prepared a Ukrainian localization of the teaser, and also updated the demo: the spaceship now has Ukrainian radio, «created specifically for atmospheric immersion.»
Ukrainian developer Eduard Pizhuk has released a new trailer for Catfall, a game about a cat’s adventures in space. He updated the project’s Steam page with new material and announced that he has more clearly formed the vision for the game.
Ukrainian Games Festival 2025 will last from August 14 to 21, and the sale will be available until August 18 (8:00 PM Kyiv time).
