September 4, 2025
Gamecity Hamburg at Polaris Convention 2025: Eight Indie Games on Showcase
From October 10 to 12, the Polaris Convention, Hamburg's community convention dedicated to gaming, anime, manga, and Asian pop culture, will open its doors for the fourth time – and expands again for more booths and guests!
After the great success of the last three years, Polaris 2025 will once again expand their area of the Hamburg trade fair ground to two floors to provide space for even more booths, cosplayers, content creators, stages and games. Don’t let this opportunity slip and get your ticket right here!
This year, Gamecity Hamburg will once again host a joint booth bigger than ever, where eight fantastic games from Hamburg will be presented to the audience as part of the Road to Polaris program. Interested visitors can not only play the games at the spacious booth, but they can also talk to the developers of the games and the Gamecity Hamburg team to learn more about video game development in the city and corresponding funding programs.
These are the 8 Games at Polaris Convention 2025 made in Hamburg:
Ed & Edda: GRAND PRIX - Racing Champions - Tivola Games
This family-friendly racing game brings Europa-Park’s adorable mouse mascots Ed & Edda to life and give them the fastest racing cars possible. In solo or multiplayer races you cruise alone or with friends and family through famous European landmarks and enjoy a great competition. Get the game now via Steam!
Mambio – neurodactics
The learning game Mambio combines classic learning methods and new developments from research to provide children with mathematics lessons specifically designed for them. Every new start of Mambio initiates a new learning session with a defined start and ending. Mathematical tasks are embedded in a storyline and solved by the child. After successfully completing a task, the story progresses, and further tasks are presented. Mambio can be used independently by elementary school children with and without disabilities and is now available in your app store.
Map Map - A Game About Maps - Pipapo Games
In the cozy exploration game Map Map - A Game About Maps, players slip into the role of adventure-seeking cartographers who explore and map the surroundings on unknown picturesque islands, complete small tasks for their friends and thus get closer and closer to the trail of a buried treasure. With lots of humor and colorful 3D graphics, the game is particularly appealing to cozy gamers and adventurers. The game is available for pre-order via Steam.
NeverLight - Nightless Games
In NeverLight, players descend into dangerous dungeons with up to two team members to recover hidden treasures. But in their quest for enormous riches, they not only face a great variety of monsters, but also competing adventurers. Only those who know how to use the many mechanisms of the dungeons to their advantage will retrieve the treasures and escape the darkness.
Super Chipflake Ü - SalsaShark Studios
A colorful 3D platformer inspired by classic collectathons, full of quirky characters, mini-games, unlockables, and expansive exploration designed for the Nintendo Switch. Create a jump platform by combining a stick and a mushroom to reach higher places or fuse a honey comb and a mushroom to nurse to a sick villager back to health. The game's unique merging mechanic is a fun way to explore the world brimmed with secrets, strange characters, and even stranger problems.
The Amusement - Curvature Games
The Amusement is a narrative VR adventure in which you inherit and explore the history of an abandoned amusement park in the 1920s. While spending much of your time exploring the rides and repairing them for the park’s sale, you are confronted by tumultuous memories of joys and tragedies.
The Regreening - Positive Impact Games
The Regreening is a cozy nature restoration simulation game inspired by real world projects. As the last human on the planet, plant seeds to restore biomes, mend friendships with folklore animals, and bring back life to the Earth. The game is a twist on the classic cozy farming simulation game that puts the player in a position of having a positive rather than exploitative role in their environment.
Vacunauts - Godcomplex Games
Vacunauts is a chaotic 1-4 player multiplayer co-op wave defense game. You and your intergalactic cleaning crew were hired to protect planets threatened by the evil and nefarious "Rubbish Rebels". Armed with a wide array of fun abilities, you'll need to band together in perfect harmony (or chaotic disarray) to defend the galaxy (and get a promotion).
Gamecity Hamburg at Polaris
Did the game descriptions make you curious? Then come by the Gamecity Hamburg booth, play the games, talk to the developers at the booth and find out how indie games "made in Hamburg" are created. And of course, the Gamecity Hamburg team will also be present at the booth. Ask us anything you want to know about the games industry in Hamburg and our funding programs.
About the "Road to" Funding Program
With its "Road to" programs, Gamecity Hamburg offers game developers and independent game companies from Hamburg access to national and international events where they can present their projects, make new business contacts, and close deals. Gamecity Hamburg arranges delegation packages with the organizers of various industry events and offers these to Hamburg game companies for free participation. We have compiled more information on the "Road to" program here on our website.
About the Polaris Convention
Polaris, the community convention for gaming and Asian pop culture, will be held for the third time in Hamburg in 2025. On more than 20,000 m2 in the Hamburg Messe, there will be stage shows, competitions, workshops, cosplay, an exhibition with around 150 exhibitors and much more.
