Brazilian indie games are getting their own corner of gamescom for the very first time this week. Brazil Games is opening the first-ever Brazilian Indie Pavilion in gamescom’s B2C entertainment area, bringing 35 games from independent studios across the country directly to players in Cologne. Brazil has had a presence on the business side of gamescom before, but this is the first time it has taken over a dedicated consumer-facing space at the show.
That’s a pretty big milestone for Brazil’s growing indie scene, and naturally, we went looking through those 35 games to see which rogues are making the trip. We found two worth keeping an eye on. Sigils of Nightfall is an apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder inspired by Mörk Borg, while Tupi: The Legend of Arariboia is a tactical roguelite RPG drawing on Indigenous Brazilian history.
So while there will be plenty to discover inside Brazil’s new pavilion, these are the two we’ll be hunting down first.
The End of the World Seems Like a Good Place to Start
Sigils of Nightfall comes from Brazilian indie studio 2 Wedges, and things aren’t looking particularly good for the world you’re about to enter. Described as a roguelike deckbuilder inspired by the tabletop RPG Mörk Borg, it sends you dungeon crawling through a dying world where you’ll build a deck, collect sigils, and try to survive whatever is waiting further down.
The Mörk Borg influence should give you a fairly good idea of the kind of place we’re heading into. The tabletop RPG is known for its dark fantasy setting, heavy-metal-inspired artwork, and a world where the apocalypse isn’t some distant threat you might eventually have to worry about. It’s already happening. That makes it a pretty natural fit for a roguelike, particularly one where repeated trips into increasingly unpleasant places are part of the plan.
Sigils of Nightfall was previously shown at gamescom latam 2026, and its appearance in Cologne will give it another chance to get in front of players considerably further from home.
Tupi Is Digging Into Brazilian History
The second rogue heading to the pavilion couldn’t be much more different. Developed by Mito Games, Tupi: The Legend of Arariboia is a tactical roguelite RPG inspired by Indigenous Brazilian history. It draws on the story of Arariboia, a 16th-century Indigenous leader, while building its combat around recruiting spirits and putting together a team capable of surviving each expedition.
Those spirits bring different abilities into battle, so finding characters that work well together and building useful synergies will be an important part of each run. It’s also a setting we don’t see very often in roguelites. Rather than another trip through familiar fantasy kingdoms, Tupi is using its runs to explore Brazilian history and culture, while supernatural spirits give it plenty of room to move beyond a straightforward historical retelling.
Like Sigils of Nightfall, the game was also part of gamescom latam earlier this year and is now making the trip to Germany.
35 Brazilian Indies Are Making the Trip
Of course, those two games are only a small part of what Brazil Games is bringing with it. The Brazilian Indie Pavilion will feature 35 titles covering everything from RPGs and strategy games to horror, card games, and narrative adventures, giving visitors a much broader look at what independent developers across the country are currently working on.
Brazil Games itself is an export program run by the Brazilian Association of Game Developers, Abragames, in partnership with the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency, ApexBrasil. While the organization has previously attended gamescom on the B2B side, the new pavilion puts Brazilian developers directly in front of the people who might eventually be playing their games.
Visitors can find it in Hall 10.2 at Stand D045g throughout gamescom, which runs from August 26 to August 30. Brazil Games will also continue its B2B presence in Hall 3.2.
Brazil’s Rogues Are Heading to Cologne
Having 35 games together in one consumer-facing pavilion should give Brazilian indie developers a much bigger opportunity to show gamescom visitors what’s being made across the country.
For us, Sigils of Nightfall and Tupi: The Legend of Arariboia are obviously the two names that stand out. They’re tackling the rogue formula from completely different directions, and both bring something we don’t see every day in the genre. One is taking us to the end of the world. The other is taking us into Brazilian history. Not a bad way to mark the country’s first-ever Indie Pavilion at gamescom.