2026 Wrapped.

What a weekend. What a YEAR. How do we even start to sum it up? Maybe you can help.

Two small requests from us:

1. Ten editions down, and we'd love to hear how we're doing, and what we could be doing different. Please consider filling out our totally anonymous "season 1" survey. Your candid feedback would mean the world to us.

2. Mark your calendars for the [untitled games event] first anniversary special: Sunday 24 January 2027.

Nothing but love and gratefulness in our hearts. Special shoutouts to Raef and Evi for the amazing UGE chai cookies. Thank you all so so much, and see you next year for [uge] season 2!

Photographic highlights above and below thanks to Chris Chen.

You can also follow and gossip about us on Instagram and Bluesky.

Works featured in edition #10

• Soul Injector Commando, by Jeremy Couillard

• NoClip, by Beatrice Fini

• Play!, by Janna Bystrykh and Sanne van den Breemer

• Kippen, by Niek Dekker and Timo Kuilder
  • Coming next year: Bones

• Records of Babel, by Ada Null

• The [uge] Game Poems game jam!

• The UGE Hybrid Puppeteering flat-game!

Community updates

• Help Jana run her LARP, The Line is the Game, at NEMO Science Museum on the 7th of November! She's looking for 2-3 volunteers. You can email her via the link above.
• We'll be doing a very special game jam in November! On a train! On the way to Enschede! For Overkill Festival. More soon.
• Thijs (UGE#2, Feb 2026) has released his latest urban game poem, Skylines, completing a Rotterdam trilogy.
• Spiders (UGE Weekender) has put out procuring estrogen for your toxic slime girlfriend: dx edition.
• Evita's (UGE#8, Aug 2026) Brand Nacht comes out on October 16!
• Our photographer Darya Andijan will be showing her beautiful film Do You Know That I'm With You on 20th October at the EYE Film Museum.
• You can now listen to Madwreck's dreamy, spacious soundtrack for Pigeon: A Love Story (UGE#3, March 2026). Perfect for: deciding what to cook, waiting for a train, walks around the Sloterplas.
• We have a handy itch.io collection of all games shown at UGE in 2026!

Recommendations from edition #10

• Dreamcore is more NoClip-style spaces in a kind of expansive "every Backroom ever" scale. Also on display at Overkill 2026 next month!

• Cruelty Squad is an iconic "weird shooter"

• We live in a golden age of the anti-corporate FPS! Check out:
  • CYBRLICH and the Death Cult of Labor
  • Killnoid (coming soon to [uge]!)
  • Goblin America
  • Parkside: Decayed Soul Manipulation.

• Play! reminded us of the bittersweet history of the "elephant slide" in China.

• Panthalassa is a really fun aquapunk point-and-click adventure game.

• High Winter: Elves of Girlville is a TTRPG built from a satirical article in The Onion

• Anna Anthropy's Queers in Love at the End of the World is a 10-second game of desperate hopefulness.

Until next year,

[uge]