Osaka Indie Games Summit 2026 Turns Up Tongue-Controlled and Arcade-Style Controllers
The summit's draw is hardware you cannot find anywhere else, and several of these projects exist only at the venue, which makes the physical event the point rather than a storefront.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
At OSAKA INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2026, held October 3 and 4 at Congres Square Grand Green Osaka, 4Gamer.net walked the venue and found games built around unusual controllers, several playable only at the event. Among them are Shu~Pero, a virtual reality game played by licking a beastman with the tongue, Conductus, a rhythm game with an arcade-style controller that tracks hands in the air, and Udon Pusher, which uses a noodle-cutting knife as its controller.
OSAKA INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2026 ran on October 3 and 4 at Congres Square Grand Green Osaka, and the games that stood out were the ones you would not know how to play from a screenshot alone.
Several of the projects on the floor were never meant for sale, and in some cases the venue is the only place to play them. One organizer's framing, as reported, is that the work was made freely and finished, so visitors should come take a look. That runs through the lineup below, from a rhythm game with a custom controller to a virtual reality game played with the tongue.
- Shu~Pero: By the World Shoe-Licking Promotion Organization; a virtual reality game where the player licks a beastman, set in the year 2036
- Conductus: A rhythm game played on an arcade-style controller that tracks hand movement in the air; device created by someone from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Udon Pusher: By Kagawa Prefecture's Sanuki Ga; uses a noodle-cutting knife as the controller
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.