Are you at UK Games Expo 2026 this weekend, specifically on May 30? If not, then you're going to miss out on Bastion Indie Market, an event run by the folks who organize the annual Bastion convention in North Wales. Bastion Indie Market is modeled after Indie Games Night Market, an event at PAXU organized by Daniel Newman, with Bastion being an inexpensive way for independent creators to demo and sell their works directly to the public.
Here are a few of the games being featured:
▪️ Jerusalem: England's Green, Unpleasant Land, designed by Tony Boydell and Matt Green, challenges 2-4 players to place businesses, houses, roads, public services, recreational facilities, and places of worship in the village of Jerusalem to elevate it to a proper town. From the designers:
Players may be able to demolish each other's work, vote on new municipal structures (a cathedral, an airfield, a reservoir — giant pieces that overlay whole sections of the landscape), and generally create a satirical vision of a typical English town.
▪️ Brink is a dexterity game from Benedict Douglas in which two players try to flick discs as close to the opponent's edge of the raised playing area as possible, ideally hanging a disc on the brink of falling off.
▪️ Roost is a collection of tile-laying games from Lydia Naomi Wallace, with one game for each player count from 1-4 in which you try to gather colored birds.
▪️ Mongoose Poker is a Rikki Tahta design he describes as a cross between Hanabi and The Gang, with you trying to determine the rank of your poker hand with limited information about your cards.
▪️ CHEF! is a card game from Andy and Emma Meaney, with players trying to use as many ingredients as possible in their dishes to score the most points...as long as someone agrees that the dish is, in fact, edible.
▪️ Paths of Pollination from Dave Wetherall of GGG Games pits bees against butterflies in a two-player abstract strategy game on a field of modular, hexagonal flowers.
▪️ Meeple Creeple: The Changeable Meeple Game from William Ross is a storytelling game for 2-7 players in which you assemble a meeple character from two halves, then describe how this character would succeed with a task presented on a scenario card.
▪️ Acacia Mini is a two-player abstract strategy game from Dean Morris in which you try to connect your creatures on a two-sided board that allows you to push out the competition.
