10 mobile indie games we saw in Helsinki that you've got to check out

Spirit World is the first game being created and released by Cozy Game Studio. This casual farming sim brings a lot of relaxing and self-care elements to the gameplay. You play as a young woman who has taken over your grandmother's farm after her disappearance. You will need to clear away items to gain resources to craft magical artifacts. Mythical creatures can also be found roaming your farm and you can spend time helping your fellow townsfolk too. The self-care elements of the game come in the form of gaining energy, which is done through self-care-focused mini-games like breathing exercises or writing down worries.

Jamland is a music-based social game where you can live out your musical fantasies by creating music and battling others. The concept is a mash-up of Music with Friends and Pokemon, allowing you to collect instruments, jam out with your friends, and take on challenges that test your ability to create your own original songs. There are AI-based judges to tell if you've done a good job with your music composition as well!

Jamland aims to release on iOS, Android and Nintendo Switch in May, 2025.

WalkScape is a fitness RPG aimed at encouraging players to get out and about in the real world, increasing their fitness. Inspired by games like RuneScape, you are able to grind through walking around, gaining experience, finding legendary items and completing quests in a magical fantasy setting. WalkScape doesn't track your GPS location and instead only tracks your steps so that players can keep their privacy if needed.

WalkScape aims to launch on iOS and Android on June 30th, 2025.

Returning from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki last year, we saw Last Spartan: Glory Over Madness back at the pitch once again. This story-driven game has you trying to keep your sanity while attempting to battle against monsters from Greek mythology and Lovecraft mythos. This game featured deckbuilding elements (with the deck actually being a set of customizable dice, with each side being a different ability). It's a solid game and well worth checking out.

Last Spartan: Glory Over Madness is coming out soon.

Tales of a Vagrant is an action arcade game that has you taking on the role of a proud Ronin, that's tasked with killing a rogue warlord called Yukio. The game takes inspiration from 90s arcade action games like Final Fight and Street of Rage. There are various characters that need to fight within an area, slashing each other to death before you can move on to the next area. There is no running away here!

Tales of a Vagrant aims to launch on iOS and Android in November of this year.

SkyGuilds is a medieval fantasy RPG where you need to join a guild and then complete tasks and challenges to help contribute to your team! You can battle it out against other guilds in monthly competitions, to prove you are the best of the best! You can also spend time building up both your character and your army so that you can take on bigger guilds too.

Tales of a Vagrant aims to launch on iOS and Android in Q1 of 2025.

ICE CUBE is a story-driven platformer about a piece of ice that broke off of Neptune's icy moon Triton and was thrown into space, landing on Earth. This ice cube is now tasked with healing the melting Arctic, through collecting ice cubes and meeting other friends who need the ice to survive! There are lots of different classic platformer elements within ICE CUBE, but the adorable little cube you play as, slowly shrinking when you are hurt, is the real star of this game, as they bring a lot of personality to the genre.

ICE CUBE aims to launch on iOS and Android in December of this year.

Majestic Farmstay is a merge-2 meets idle game, all around a farm yard! You are able to merge different objects to create new items made on a farm. Cotton can eventually be made into scarves and hats, eggs into beautiful breakfasts, for example. The board itself needs to slowly be opened up through merging and creating new objects. When it comes to the idle aspect of Majestic Farmstay, you will be feeding your farm animals who can produce some of the items you will need to merge! This combination is one we haven't seen before, which was pretty interesting in gameplay.

Majestic Farmstay aims to launch on iOS and Android in December of this year.

Horizon: Legend of Clans is a story-based RPG where you take on a world where AI has become God to an unsuspecting humanity. In the before times, people have entered cryosleep to survive the apocalypse, but now the world is filled with mythical creatures, clans that populate the world, and 8 regions that have a bunch of new creatures you've never seen before. There is a strong emphasis on combat and collecting within this game, and the graphics look pretty sweet too.

Horizon: Legend of Clans aims to launch on iOS and Android in December of this year.

RunOut is an adorable competitive platformer with cute creatures all looking to quickly run to the next area of the game. Taking inspiration from games like Fall Guys, you'll be challenged to run, dash, and avoid traps as you try to be the last one standing in each level. RunOut has a real "one more go" feel to it and the adorable graphics really add to the polish of this game.

RunOut aims to launch on iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch and PC in November of this year.