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February 3, 2026
Epic MegaGrants 2025 recap: First submissions are now open
Now in its seventh year, the Epic MegaGrants program has supported some incredible work since it began—over 2,100 projects across six continents and 102 countries–including innovative Unreal Engine plugins, exciting Fortnite experiences, thrilling animation series, and more.
Want to join that list? We just opened the first MegaGrant submissions cycle for 2026.
If you’ve got a bold, challenging, and insanely creative project that you need help bringing to life, we’d love to hear from you. Submissions close on March 20, 2026.
Check out some of our highlights here. We hope you have as much fun watching them as we did picking them.
Want to join that list? We just opened the first MegaGrant submissions cycle for 2026.
If you’ve got a bold, challenging, and insanely creative project that you need help bringing to life, we’d love to hear from you. Submissions close on March 20, 2026.
Check out some of our highlights here. We hope you have as much fun watching them as we did picking them.
Speed Cycling
Chapfun Game [China]
Speed Cycling is a real-time multiplayer mobile racing game built in UE5, featuring exhilarating mountain and road bikes, engaging character progression, and fully customizable outfits. Players test their mettle in diverse racing modes, upgrading their skills and bikes while competing in fast-paced 3D races. The game combines competitive multiplayer action with long-term progression and personalization for a global audience.
Little Red Riding Hood
Venekamp Studios [Netherlands]
Experience an expanded retelling of the famous fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood in this terrifying yet beautiful adventure horror game. Discover an enchanted forest as you solve puzzles and run, hide, and sneak to avoid the Big Bad Wolf. Venekamp Studios created the environment for Little Red Riding Hood by scanning an entire village and converting the models into workable 3D game assets using RealityScan.TRASH: Tale of Wastetown
AL-ONE Interactive [Italy]
Trash: Tale of Wastetown is a third-person action-stealth adventure with cinematic gameplay, where stealth, navigation, and puzzles seamlessly blend with the story. Step back in time to the early ’90s into a world where humans no longer exist and trash has come to life.Castle Wars Tycoon
Vysena | madmoods & Woyka [Belgium]
Castle Wars is a team vs team UEFN experience where each team must build its castle. Players need to eliminate creatures and fight bosses to collect resources, which they can use to fortify their base. To win the game, a team must eliminate the opponent’s guards and king.Escape Castle Experience
Escape AI Media, Inc. [United States]
The Escape Castle is an Unreal Engine and UEFN–compatible social experience that brings interactive cinema into shared, collaborative gameplay and film-inspired spaces. It will initially launch as a communal social hub and immersive theater where players gather to watch films together, with interactive rooms and collaborative gameplay inspired by featured films planned for the future.Valaka Legends
TyoNite [Austria]
Valaka Legends is a multiplayer role-playing game where players initially choose one of three nations and explore a vast open world full of adventures, secrets, and dungeons. Level up through combat, loot valuable materials from bosses, and craft powerful armor while engaging in territorial conflicts against rival nations.Sage AI
Druids, Inc. [United States]
Sage AI is an autonomous AI agent that empowers game designers to turn one-hour tasks into one-minute solutions, freeing up time that they can use to get games to market faster or take more shots on goal and improve the quality of their game.Cascadeur 2025.3
Nekki Limited [Cyprus]
With support from an Epic MegaGrant, Cascadeur is developing a new Unreal Engine Live Link plugin that brings real-time animation streaming directly from Cascadeur into Unreal Engine. The integration eliminates export workarounds and delivers a smoother pipeline for studios and indie developers.ChikaBOOM!
Asteria Film Co. / Everyday Mischief [United States]
ChikaBOOM! is an animated magical adventure short about a young girl who accidentally unleashes a mischievous cloud-creature while trying to become a magician like her dad. Set against a vibrant New York City backdrop, the film explores what it means to want something before you’re ready—and the importance of believing. The project uses UE alongside hand-crafted animation techniques and human-guided generative elements to create a bold hybrid visual style through a flexible, artist-forward production pipeline. Directed by c. Craig Patterson and featuring a star-studded voice cast including Yara Shahidi, Natasha Lyonne, and Daveed Diggs.Courtesy of Asteria Film Co
These are just a few of the wonderful projects we saw recently. Here’s a complete list of Epic MegaGrant recipients that have agreed to be part of this announcement:
Games
1st Level - Bogdan’s Cross [Spain]
5th Column Studio - Kaidan [United Kingdom]
Al One Interactive - Trash: Tale of Wastetown [Italy]
Alex Shyshkin - Shield and Blade [Ukraine]
Bad Vices Games - While We Wait Here [Italy]
Blackswan-Studio - SHANHE REMAIN (山河在) [China]
BLOXITI CORPORATION - Bloxiti [Canada]
Burn Out Games - Dream Strikers [Chinese Taipei]
Chapfun Game - Speed Cycling [China]
Choose Red - Sanctua [France]
Dalla Games Inc. - THE AEON FALL [Republic of Korea]
DBDK Corp. - Gearz Gearz Gearz [Republic of Korea]
DeadlyCrow Games - Mutter [Chile]
Deconstructeam and Selkie Harbour - Virtue and a Sledgehammer [Spain]
Double Dash Studios - Shadows of Chroma Tower [Brazil]
Electrical Leakage Science - Wind Traveler [China]
Gixer Entertainment - Changer Seven [Brazil]
Gravity Rifters - Cosminers [Poland]
Grimware Games LLC - Ghost Knight: A Dark Tale [United States]
Gruby Entertainment - Project Titan [Poland]
Guillotine - Tiny Hero Courier [Poland]
Harebrained Schemes - Graft [United States]
IMPRNT STUDIOS - Hounded [United Kingdom]
Ironward - Atre: Dominance Wars [Croatia]
Jackbox Games, Inc. - Trivia Murder Party 3 [United States]
James Nicholas/Japan Productions - Resonant Q [Philippines]
Lag Lab - PixelFrenzy [China]
LucidDreamLab - 千禧梦 | MillenniumDream [China]
Luminous Games - AFTERBLAST [Poland]
MARC O MATIC - JUNKYARD ZOO [Australia]
Marco Camiolo - Quantic River [France]
Mooncube Games Inc. - Spirit City: Lofi Sessions [Canada]
PARA - Stalhart [Canada]
Parry Frames Team - Crimson Oath [China]
Plot Twist - Erosion [Poland]
Polydin Studio - Fractured Tenements [Hungary]
Pyramid Games - Overgrown Cleaner [Poland]
Riyo Games - Threads of Time [Canada]
SGI Games - Double Whammy [Canada]
Snow Leaf Studios AS - Brew [Norway]
Topotes Studio - Ambroise Niflette & the Gleaned Bell [France]
Torbie Inc - Everbloom [United States]
TRS Studio - Xiwang Ave N 3rd Section [China]
Venekamp Studios - Little Red Riding Hood [Netherlands]
XING HAN MING KONG HANG ZHOU Network Technology Limited Liability Company - Celestial Fall (骤影·绯月杀) [China]
周泽旺 Zhou Ze Wang - Mindstray《心灵迷途》[China]
UEFN
Alisa Kopric - Monster Tamer: The Hunt Is On [Croatia]
Atelier 11 - Moontopia [United Kingdom]
Atlas Creative LLC - Fortville RP [United States]
Bifrost Studios & VerySpicyGames - Valhalla 2 [United States]
Bio Games GmbH - CATCH IT! [FISHING] [Germany]
Blackrock Studios - Labyrinth RPG [United Kingdom]
Dead Monkey - Cook For Moonface [Colombia]
Dev Quest Team - Dev Quest - From Player to Creator [Serbia]
Dudiing and Poka - Door Dashers [Spain]
Earthshot - Cleantech Fortnite Island [United States]
Eggs with Legs - Eggs with Legs -The Devil's Eggs [Jersey]
Escape AI Media Inc. - Escape Castle Experience [United States]
Fresh TV Inc. - Total Drama Island Fortnite [Canada]
JivanMaps - Arcade Tycoon [United States]
JOGO Studios - Unannounced upcoming project [United States]
Karol Gaida - UEFN Chase [Poland]
PQ Studios - Eclipse Protocol [Netherlands]
Neverty - おかめの館儀 [Japan]
Nikola Adamović - Fortune Realms [Serbia]
NULLFRAME - KAGAMI 鏡2 [United States]
Prosimetrum LLC - Shark Snatch [United States]
Red Wolves Studios LLC - Skywolves: Ultimate Heist [United States]
regularcris & Company - Retroscape [United States]
Shinohara / BBL - Eagles' Nest - King of the Tower [Brazil]
Silver Comet Productions - Start Forest [United States]
Sonia - Thanatos [Japan]
Space Cadet Studios - Evo : Worlds [Australia]
TyoNite - VALAKA LEGENDS [Austria]
Velocity_Zero - Drift And Race [Germany]
Vysena | madmoods & Woyka - Castle Wars Tycoon [Belgium]
Yakosimo Games - Vexis Moon [Malta]
Zumbastico Studios - Paper Port and the Island of the Magic Coconut [Chile]
Non-Games Vertical
Adam Yuster - Dr. Supernova’s Evil Plan [United States]
AlloSphere, University of California Santa Barbara - Unreal Plugins for Deployment to High-Fidelity Immersive Facilities [United States]
ALT Creative, Inc. - ORION [United States]
Anthony Koithra - LCAT (Locodrome Character Animation Toolkit) [United States]
Artineering - Flair for Unreal Engine [Estonia]
Asteria Film Co. / Everyday Mischief - ChikaBOOM! [United States]
Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc. - Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance [Japan]
Bhupender Kumar - The Rise of Hanuman [India]
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center - Anatomic-Physiologic Digital Twin Platform for Virtual Surgical Planning [United States]
Blender Foundation - Blender Development [Netherlands]
Druids Inc. - Druids AI [United States]
Duality AI - Vibe Sim: Agent Workflows for Interactive World Building [United States]
Febucci - Text Animator for Unreal [Italy]
Magnopus LLC - Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures [United States]
mcsGear G.K - ueGear 2.0 Rigging Framework [Japan]
MVNT, Inc. - Unreal Dance Editor [Republic of Korea]
Nekki Limited - Cascadeur - Creating an Unreal Livelink Plugin [Cyprus]
swyvl - swyvl [Canada]
Tryll Engine - Tryll Engine [Germany]
Xinpeng Wang - MOCView [China]
지호박 - Joint Plugin & Ecosystem [Republic of Korea]
That’s it from the MegaGrants Team for now! We look forward to giving more amazing Unreal Engine and UEFN projects a helping hand in 2026.