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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.
Yokai Parade
CITTA FOX
A resident idle game where a yokai parade ambles along the bottom of your screen. Fill your codex while you work; the koban they gather unlock rarer, stranger spirits... maybe. Now and then, a festival lights up the night market. Care to let a habit-forming yokai world walk across your PC?
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.
HITLESS
YOHAKU GAMES
HITLESS is a dodge-only bullet hell with no attack button. Each stage is cleared by surviving 15 seconds, and your score is the stage you reach on the online leaderboards.
Furyball: Rogue Revenge
Rebound
An action roguelite in which you fight through the gang-ruled city of Neo-Arcadia using a bouncing Furyball, modifying it with modules and equipment across procedurally varied runs.
Projects with Demos
Don’t Stop The Pop!
An incremental game about popping popcorn. Players pop kernels by hovering the cursor over the screen, earn in-game money, and spend it on skill tree upgrades and new popcorn types.
Driving Rogue
Drift, slipstream, and chain risky near-misses at insane speeds to build huge combos. Adapt to procedurally generated streets and challenges, upgrade your ride, unlock abilities, and stack powerful cards to break records. Climb the Redline rankings and fight your way to the top of the leaderboards.
Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times
Rhell is a puzzle adventure where you mix and match 40 magic runes to solve puzzles however you like, playing a mage who's a bit too mouthy for her own good.
BALL x PIT
BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.
Upload Aliens
Have you ever seen a game where you throw enemies at a boss? Throw aliens at the boss and blow it up!
Cloudscrapers
Cloudscrapers is a minimalist strategy game about building towers as high as possible, unlocking upgrades between attempts and uncovering relics hidden within the clouds.
Alchemist: Journey of the Soul
First-person adventure game, playable solo or co-op with up to 4 players. Use your magical abilities to solve puzzles or navigate through areas! Explore, use items, brew potions and unlock your full alchemical potential. Are you willing to do what it takes to claim a soul of your own?
Vortha racing
A high-speed arcade racer inspired by Trackmania. Race against the clock across 20 unique tracks, compete for the top spot on global leaderboards, and earn your medals. Race agains you best time, or other players best times.
Fireside Feelings
Grab a blanket and a hot drink, and settle in by the campfire to share your thoughts with real people at your own pace.
EON Survivor
Battle relentless alien swarms, complete dynamic missions, gather valuable resources, and forge devastating builds in this fast-paced space survivor.
Fantasy Bird Woods
Fantasy Bird Woods is a desktop game in which fantasy birds hatch as chicks and grow into evolved forms while the player carries on with other tasks.
MORSE
Learn Morse code and blast the Kaiser's fleet out of the water in this tense two-control naval strategy game. Timing, tactics and telegraphy are your only weapons.
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
LiLM: Living language model
Set out with your AI into an ocean of information. Explore AI-generated worlds, balance existence between convergence and divergence, and nurture questions instead of answers in this idle roguelite observation game. The more you observe, the more your AI transforms.
Crazy Pocket
Crazy Pocket is a roguelike deckbuilder based on pocket billiards, in which players combine ball abilities to build synergies and clear the table in a single turn.
Pompeii: The Legacy
Pompeii: The Legacy is a city-building and strategy game in which players rebuild Pompeii after the eruption of Vesuvius while managing politics, trade and family influence.
Turning point
Turning Point is a narrative-driven platformer full of twists and turns. Follow a mysterious voice, navigate the unknown, and find your way forward. But can you trust what you hear?
CHAINSPIRE
CHAINSPIRE is a co-op soulslike platformer for one to four players in which the party is linked by a physically simulated chain that affects combat, platforming and puzzles.
The Farmer Was Replaced
Program a drone with a Python-like language and let it handle all the farming grind for you. Press execute and watch the automation magic happen.
Dataminers
Dataminers is a turn-based logic-adventure built on Minesweeper-style deduction, in which players hack through the data towers of corporations across several game modes.
Heat Signature
Heat Signature is a space infiltration game in which players board spaceships to steal loot, assassinate targets or rescue characters, using gadgets and pausable real-time combat.
MONOWAVE
MONOWAVE is a puzzle adventure through colorful worlds powered by four emotions. Alone or with a friend, express your feelings through song, empathize with your spirit friends, and solve puzzles to find your way forward.
Elder Gate
Elder Gate is a frantic TD strategy game. Build mines for gold, deploy archers, mages, and spikes, and unleash meteor showers and lightning bolts on your enemies. Your only goal is to protect the portal from all possible monsters at all costs! Don't let a single monster break through!
Shardkeep
Shardkeep is a run-based roguelike in which every battle is played out on a gem-matching board, with a spellbook, relics and three starting Callings across a three-act campaign.
Antscape Room
Antscape Room is a co-operative escape room puzzle game for one to seven players, in which you search a partially buried village to rescue a kidnapped aphid.
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