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Woman Simulator
Sebasa Games
A household simulation in which the player takes the role of a housewife completing domestic chores under the supervision of a controlling husband who punishes poor work.
AFK - Army For Keyboard
Lumethis Ekibi
Your army keeps fighting inside the taskbar while you get on with your day. AFK is an idle RPG built as a fake desktop OS: drag windows, forge gear across ten rarity tiers, climb an endless tower, and settle scores in asynchronous PvP the server replays back to you.
Travel Agency Simulator
World of Travel
An incremental management game about growing a travel agency from a single desk into a worldwide network of tours, hotels, cruises and landmark experiences.
Family Manners
Ronney
Family Manners is a first-person psychological horror game with an old cartoon aesthetic, following Mr Evans as he returns home to a family life that hides a darker truth. Playtime is around one hour.
Dragon Shelter
Wild Forest Studio
Rebuild your grandpa's abandoned farm, befriend loyal dragons with their own quirks and powers, and bring a forgotten world back to life.
Silky Rails
JoyDoza
Silky Rails is a train-building survival game where players assemble and upgrade carts to automatically battle waves of enemies along the Silk Road.
Vinyl Freak: Unsorted
ant ant games
A sorting and tidying game in which you inherit a record store from your late Aunt Jolie and must clean it, unpack boxes and organise vinyl records ahead of a grand re-opening.
Shuffle and Seek
Groovy Zebra Studio
Shuffle and Seek is a 2-4 player party game of memory and mischief! You split into two teams: one secretly rearranges everything in the room, and the other tries to figure out exactly what changed.
Projects with Demos
Moon Garden
Moon Garden is a cosy incremental game in which you plant flowers, tune machinery and grow a tree tall enough to carry you home.
Little Kitty, Big City
Little Kitty, Big City is an open-world adventure game in which a cat explores a city, meets other animals and works out how to find its way home.
Seekers Alliance: Hero’s Journey
Seekers Alliance: Hero’s Journey is a roguelite deckbuilder where every run expands your strategic options. Recruit Heroes from 3 rival Factions, unlock Talents, upgrade Skill Cards, forge Artifacts, and master each Hero’s unique abilities to create powerful synergies as you uncover their stories.
Cataclismo
Cataclismo is a strategy game in which players build brick-by-brick fortresses to defend humanity's survivors against nightly waves of Horrors.
Corsair Cove
Corsair Cove is a vertical city builder in which players construct a pirate settlement on cliffs and hilltops, managing production chains and an armada to resist the Crown's pirate hunters.
SENTO SURVIVOR : Slip, Grab, and Bathe in Glory!
Master the slippery floors of a Japanese public bathhouse and blast your rivals with water guns! Play solo or battle friends in local multiplayer—this shooting game is packed with unpredictable, chaotic mishaps! Survive the mayhem and claim the glory of being first in the bath!
The Skin Stapler
The Skin Stapler is a retro-styled PSX grindhouse horror adventure set in the rotting, crime-soaked sprawl of Carrion City. Players follow jaded detective Dick Slater and his eager rookie partner Robbie Knox as they hunt a mysterious serial killer known only as The Skin Stapler.
Suqare: Hired Gun
A shooter in which you play Suqare, a mercenary taking jobs from rival corporations. Mission choices affect available work, rewards and the story. Now released.
Who’s Lila?
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
CastleOn
Build a castle! Grow economy, recruit troops from Europe and the Holy Land, man the walls and towers! Place traps and defeat attackers with arrows, wood and stone, fire, disease and cold steel! Survive the Third Crusade and conquer enemy lands in Castleon!
Knuckle Jet
Knuckle Jet is a flight-based arcade action game in which Anastasia punches her way through mechanical enemies across standalone levels, with local co-op for two players.
How Many Dudes?
How many dudes does it take to beat up a gorilla? A thousand toddlers? A horse-sized duck? A GOD? Enter the Dude Ranch and find out in this roguelike dudebuilder where you recruit an army of dudes to fight ridiculous battles.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
A colossal blade has pierced the world of Armorial, unleashing a storm of enchanted swords from the heavens. Collect and wield an arsenal of these spellbound blades, turning them against the very force that summoned them. In this roguelike ARPG, you will defy the Celestial evil consuming the world!
Indie Demos
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players scavenge, fight and trade while customising cars to stay alive.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure set at a wedding in a French château, combining visual novel storytelling with point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements.
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow
Vertex Horizons
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow is a linear puzzle-adventure game set on a ruined planet, where solving puzzles gradually reveals the story of a lost civilisation.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a narrative game in which you work as a surveillance operator in a retro-futuristic dystopia, monitoring citizens, enforcing laws and making choices that affect the story.
Shuffle and Seek
Groovy Zebra Studio
Shuffle and Seek is a 2-4 player party game of memory and mischief! You split into two teams: one secretly rearranges everything in the room, and the other tries to figure out exactly what changed.
DEVIL'S WAY: BOHEMIAN
Rose Game Studio
A dark comedy survival game in which players guide James DUD through a surreal dystopia run by a malevolent AI, choosing between doors that lead to unpredictable, often hostile scenarios.
Corpus et Spiritus
Arpentor Studio
Corpus et Spiritus is a roguelite deckbuilder with no combat, in which the player, bound by a pact with a Homunculus, practises alchemy in a workshop while trying to escape the pact.
Big Dig
Dan Schumacher, Hjalte Tagmose
Big Dig is a short incremental narrative game in which you dig up historical artifacts to clear the way for a highway across the Animal Republic, then display your finds in a museum.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
A first-person simulation game about running a shop that sells collectible mystery eggs, with options to open eggs for figures, craft dioramas and trade on an online marketplace.
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2
Skyhook Games
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 is a working simulation set in the USA in which players run a lawn care business using licensed equipment from Kubota, SCAG and STIGA.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Jump, dash, dodge, and fight countless stellar bosses in a 2D action-platformer playable solo or with up to 8 players locally, featuring unlockable powers, upgrades, cinematic QTEs, and an emotional story.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which Kiko, a girl trapped in a spirit world, uses portals and Spirit Powers to alter gravity and time across four seasonal domains.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a speedrun-focused 2D platformer with multiple biomes, seasonal challenge modes and worldwide leaderboards.
Stellar Embers: United Fleet
SOT烈
A 2D real-time space combat game in which you pilot a flagship, command escorts and starfighters, customise your fleet and progress through randomly generated routes with roguelike elements.
Island Restoration
EliteTheDev
A cleaning game in which you sail between polluted islands, removing hazards, rescuing animals and upgrading tools to restore each one to a natural state.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
Bait Soul is a top-down Dungeon Crawler Roguelike. It blends dungeon exploration with Survivors-style auto-attacks. Accessible yet deep, it retains the thrill of looting, with unique, game-changing mechanics hidden everywhere.
True Vikings
Hamsters Gaming
A narrative Viking game set from 849 AD in which a warrior from a Northern village follows one of three paths through raids and battles across Europe, leading to more than 20 endings.
Important People of History: Presidents - Abraham Lincoln
Sunny Demeanor Games
Learn all about Abraham Lincoln in this visual novel biography containing rare photos of Lincoln’s hat the day he was shot, the Lincoln Memorial, where he gave the Gettysburg Address, and much more. Lawyer, President, Emancipator - this is Abraham Lincoln! Proudly made in the Washington DC area
Dash Dot Die
Iron Interactive Games
Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game built around Morse code, in which the player decodes signals through light, sound and timing to survive a captor's deadly game.
Monarchs at Play
MixedMoonGames
Monarchs at Play is a turn-based 4X strategy game built around placing buildings, with matches lasting around an hour and support for solo and multiplayer play.
It's Fine
Buma Games
It's Fine is an incremental game about surviving the last 24 hours of development crunch, in which players code, upgrade and prestige towards a stable build under a dog Project Manager named Joe.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Book Club Games
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Little Ghost
Alan Abbadessa, Law Jun Yan, Eduardo Alexandrino, Leaf Riifuneko
Chill metroidvania maximizes non-linear exploration & puzzle-platforming. Frequent checkpoints, no currency, no combat. Gain friends & abilities. Collectables-as-media; tarot cards, weird podcasts, and songs from over 20 bands; all found within a surreal papercraft world.
Dig Too Deep
Punch Up Games
A 2D side-scrolling action roguelite with tower defence elements, in which you play a troll who throws goblins to mine resources, craft defences and fight off waves of enemies.
Released Indie Games
ChessTan
Settle a kingdom, roll for resources, and build an army with real chess movesets on a hex battlefield. ChessTan fuses Catan-style economy with chess-style combat for 2-4 players — outbuild your rivals, then checkmate the last Nexus standing. Play locally, online with friends, or through Steam.
Dawson Oaks Trailer Park
A proximity voice chat social deduction game where criminals must commit secret crimes while a Supervisor hunts them, and a hidden Snitch betrays them from within.
ZERO Sievert
Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
Murmuring of Moth Mouth
A short psychological horror visual novel in which Yuna drives overnight toward a trial placement and receives videos from an abandoned account that appear to show her own journey.
Fortuna’s Ledger
A roguelike in which you control a knight's luck rather than the knight himself, spending and earning fortune as a conserved currency across a 24-floor dungeon.
At Face Value
Look, it's a deck of cards. Click it. Get Points. Make the number BIG. Stack four suits that all do different jobs, print gold, and feed an upgrade tree that seems endless, until a humble 52-card deck is doing things a deck of cards should not.
Chuddy Clicker
Chuddy Clicker is a released incremental clicker game in which players click on a character called Chuddy to earn ChuddyPoints, unlock upgrades and reach costume milestones.
Pawn Planet
Pawn Planet is a business simulation game where players run an intergalactic pawn shop, buying, repairing and selling alien artefacts.
King Assassination
A fast-paced multiplayer deception game where Guards protect the King and Assassins hunt their target. Work together, deceive your enemies, identify threats, and strike at the perfect moment to claim victory.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Hollow Knight: Silksong is an action-adventure game in which players control Hornet as she explores the insect kingdom of Pharloom, battling foes and uncovering ancient mysteries.
Nighthawks
The secret is out. Vampires have been exposed to the world… and you’re one of them. Seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, seduction, and forbidden supernatural gifts. Your second life begins tonight...
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