Triple-I Initiative 2026 Delivers 40 Indie Reveals, Including New Castlevania and Temtem

Evil Empire, the French studio working with Konami to revive Castlevania's 2D lineage, organized the Triple-I Initiative showcase and also delivered the thing most players were there to see: a full gameplay and commentary trailer for Castlevania: Belmont's Curse. The series has been absent from its sidescrolling form for years, and Belmont's Curse is the clearest confirmation yet that the revival is genuinely in motion. Watching Evil Empire simultaneously curate an indie showcase and provide one of its headline reveals is the kind of situation that would sound contrived on paper, but it made complete sense on screen.

The third annual Triple-I presentation aired April 9 on YouTube, running 40 games across a 45-minute window with no ad breaks and no host filler. Eight of those were world premieres.

Don't Starve: Elsewhere was one of them, premiering as a world reveal from Klei Entertainment. Alongside it, Klei also showed Away Team, a space colony sim that functions as a follow-up to Oxygen Not Included, with players managing a colony in space.

Temtem: Pioneers is the other major world premiere non-indie audiences are going to track. Developer Crema has revealed a game that blends creature collection, survival gameplay, and fast-paced action combat set in the Temtem universe. The game shifts the action toward traditional third-person adventuring with plenty of Temtems to collect, train, and use in battle. It can be wishlisted now on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, and a Kickstarter campaign is already live.

The shortlist of reveals that earned immediate attention beyond those three: Graveyard Keeper 2 was announced by tinyBuild and Lazy Bear Games for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch, and PC, building on the original game's crafting formula with supply chains and undead expeditions sent out to reclaim and revive a city. To mark the reveal, the original Graveyard Keeper was made free on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC for a limited time. Risk of Rain 2 got a new DLC called Hallowed Concepts, sending survivors through haunting new regions of Petrichor V against new enemies and with never-before-seen powers. Far Far West, a co-op horde shooter casting players as cowboy robots, confirmed a Steam Early Access launch for April 28. Alabaster Dawn, the next action RPG from the developer of CrossCode, got a May 7 Steam Early Access date.

If you want something to run right now rather than wishlist for later, the options are better than most showcases deliver. We Were Here Tomorrow, the cooperative puzzle game from Total Mayhem Games, has a demo live on Steam. Neverway, a horror-flavored farming sim, shadowdropped its prologue during the show alongside a release window reveal. Final Sentence, a darkly creative typing game, went out as a full shadowdrop release. And Temtem: Pioneers' Kickstarter is running now for anyone who wants to back it before it builds further momentum.

Evil Empire has quietly built the Triple-I Initiative into one of the premier indie game showcases three years running. The format works precisely because it refuses to be anything more than a concentrated delivery mechanism for trailers and dates. Forty games, 45 minutes, no padding. That discipline is exactly why this show converts so reliably into wishlists and demo downloads on the same day the stream ends.