Alawar at Gamescom 2023

To kick things off, it was an awesome experience. Over 320K passionate gamers from 100+ countries, 11 giant halls, a bunch of games we had to play, and people to say “hi” to.

Take a moment to read about what Gamescom 2023 was like for Alex Arsentiev , Maria Urbanovich , and Slava Budaev from the Alawar .

We covered a lot of ground, moving between dozens of showcases of amazing video games. Our feet started to burn by the end of the first day, even though we barely scratched the surface of Gamescom and only managed to meet a fraction of our friends and partners. Seriously, wear comfortable shoes!

During those days:

We managed to go to Steam Coffee Hour, where we had the honor of meeting some people ( Alden Kroll in the picture) from Valve. We talked with them for a bit and asked several questions.

We also had the opportunity to exchange experiences with amazing publishers such as 020Games and Plug In Digital , as well as partners who help us with our games like Denda Games , Humble Bundle , gamigo group , Fanatical , GameHouse , and many other beloved teams.

And finally, we met Merge Games ( Luke Keighran and Adrian Lovell Lawton in the picture), who recently published Necrosmith on PS5 and Nintendo Switch, Paintbucket Games ( J?rg S. Friedrich in the picture), the developers of Beholder 3, and the amazing people ( Matt Brown in the picture) from Vicarious PR LLC who did an excellent job assisting with PR and marketing for Wall World and its DLC, Deep Threat.

Even though this list may seem short and quick, we wish we had more time to converse with even more people.

We were genuinely impressed when we saw numerous gaming zones representing different countries. Here are a few of the most impressive exhibition stands:

Regarding the gaming zone, we didn't have enough time to try ALL the games presented at Gamescom (to be honest, it would have taken us at least a month or even more to try all of them). Just imagine how many incredible new indie games will be released!

While Maria was running on fumes trying to meet all our partners, Alex had the chance to play such anticipated titles as S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown for Nintendo Switch. He was also really upset that he couldn't get closer to several games he really wanted to play, including The Lords of the Fallen, but the lines seemed endless.

The indie games zone was also crowded, so we weren't able to play as many games as we wanted. But Slava managed to get a chance to play some of them: Growth, Altered Alma, Viewfinder, Freaked Fleapit, Wild Rumble, and Bang-on Balls.

Ends up, Gamescom 2023 was awesome! It's difficult to put into words the experience and emotions we've had. Every time we're in this creative atmosphere, seeing passionate people and the products of their hard work, it inspires us and encourages us to develop new games. See you at Gamescom Asia in Singapore this October!