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Recently Released
KKUL-TTEOK!
YOUNGJUN0316
KKUL-TTEOK! is a co-op game for one to four players in which players control pieces of Korean honey rice cake that have been swallowed and must escape through the mouth and esophagus.
Factory Default: Build, Trade, Repeat
Chett Fitzgerald
Factory Default: Build, Trade, Repeat is an industrial management game played on a 3D globe. Players build supply chains, trade goods and manage company reputation across more than 100 regions.
Sous Raccoon
Novice Flow
Sous Raccoon is a cooking roguelite in which the player is a raccoon hired as sous chef by a short-tempered Chef. It is now fully released and supports online co-op for two players.
Second Monitor Football
Tramvay Games
Second Monitor Football is a physics-driven football simulation built to run in a small window. Matches can be watched hands-free or played directly, with multiplayer, Twitch integration and modding support.
Dicevaders
Pengonauts
Dicevaders is a dice-based roguelike deckbuilder in which players lead an alien invasion of Earth, placing units on a turn-based grid and manipulating dice rolls to build scoring combos.
Late Order
Judas Brothers, Rassl.me
Late Order is a supernatural horror game set in a fast-food restaurant. The player works a first night shift, cooking orders and obeying rules set by an entity that inhabits the restaurant's mascot.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Lorenzo Ametrano
PSI: Pressure Climbing is a movement-based climbing game in which players use a jetpack to scale an underground hydropower grid on a mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Debt of Life
RedWolf Games
Debt of Life is a short narrative game in which a wealthy, terminally ill man must decide each day what to sacrifice to pay for the weekly treatment that keeps him alive.
Projects with Demos
Discremental
Discremental is a released incremental game in which you start with a single disk, loot floors for resources, and spend them on abilities, weapons and skill tree upgrades.
Circle Test Suite
Circle Test Suite is a puzzle game in which the player directs a character through a series of test chambers, delivering an object to a target using as few Action Points as possible.
Drova – Forsaken Kin
Drova - Forsaken Kin is a pixel art Action-RPG set in a handcrafted open world inspired by Celtic mythology, where players choose a faction and shape the story through their actions.
BABELOMANIA
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure combining visual novel storytelling, point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements, set at a wedding in France.
Spiritus Sancti
Spiritus Sancti is a first-person psychological horror game in which a priest investigates a suspected possession in an apartment, using spoken invocations picked up by a microphone.
Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator
Manage your very own video store in the early 90s! Rent, sell, decorate and expand your business from the ground up and relive the golden ages of video rentals!
Bears In Space
Unleash your inner bear in this over-the-top bullet-hell FPS! Embark on a zany retro-futuristic adventure and destroy oil-thirsty robots with an outrageous arsenal. Transform into a bear, wield unique powers, and embrace the absurd fast-paced action of Bears in Space!
KAPIA
A mystery adventure about propaganda, surveillance and AI control, seen through the eyes of a grandfather and granddaughter.
PlateUp!
Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!
Space Carrier Zero
Space Carrier Zero is a retro space action game with an incremental twist. The player commands a carrier through a five-act route to destroy a final planet, using weapons, relics and permanent card upgrades.
Angel Clicker
Angel Clicker is an incremental clicker game with optional rhythm elements, in which players help an angelic architect compete in a soul-catching contest against Hell.
Undying Flame
Undying Flame is a top-down wave-survival rogue-lite in which players shoot enemies, collect the wood they drop and feed a campfire that serves as the health indicator.
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
The Tally
Olivia Gonsher
The Tally is a life simulation set in Corvid City, where everyday choices are recorded and totalled on a receipt when the player's life ends, deciding where they are sent next.
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players scavenge parts to customise cars, fight warlords and trade with factions.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure combining visual novel storytelling, point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements, set at a wedding in France.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a surveillance game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia, in which the player works as an operator watching citizens through cameras and enforcing the law.
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
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator is a first-person simulation game about running a shop that sells collectible mystery eggs, which can be sold sealed or opened for the figures inside.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale is a 2D action-platformer with boss battles, interactive cinematics and local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which Kiko, a girl stranded in a spirit world, uses portals and Spirit Powers to alter gravity and control time.
Telly No Vision
TheMysticSword
Telly No Vision is an action game set in a virtual space where the surroundings are invisible and must be navigated by watching floating TVs that show the world from other perspectives.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a 2D platformer built around speedrunning, with seasonal modes, worldwide leaderboards and biomes that each have their own physics.
Noir
Bœuf Musqué
Noir is a colourful 2D platform game in which players control a small ball that jumps and sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open the exit portal.
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.
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 with retro PSX and VHS-style visuals, in which every puzzle is solved by decoding Morse code.
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.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Lorenzo Ametrano
PSI: Pressure Climbing is a movement-based climbing game in which players use a jetpack to scale an underground hydropower grid on a mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Little Ghost
Alan Abbadessa, Law Jun Yan, Eduardo Alexandrino, Leaf Riifuneko
A 2D puzzle-platforming metroidvania in which you play an inch-high ghost exploring a collage-style home office, using movement abilities and a float mechanic instead of combat.
Dig Too Deep
Punch Up Games
Dig Too Deep is a 2D side-scrolling action roguelite with tower defence elements, in which players throw goblins to mine resources, craft defences and fight waves of enemies.
Jarred Defense
Jarred Cat Studios
Jarred Defense is a tower defense game in which players place towers anywhere to shape the enemy path. It includes a story campaign, Endless Mode with leaderboards and a level editor.
Cards, Blades & Fine Print
Crooked Seal Games
A dryly funny single-player card adventure with turn-based battles, 170 enemies, 583 illustrated equipment items, 60 collectible sets, and three freely mixable talent paths – in a fantasy world full of dangerous administration.
Crown Of Hispania
Regalis Studio
Rewrite the Reconquista in a grand strategy game set in 11th-century Iberia, where population, religion, and war evolve dynamically based on your decisions. Move armies freely across 300 hand-built provinces, manage a deep medieval economy, and face an AI that actually fights back.
WilderDash
Wise and Wild
WilderDash is a tower defence roguelite for one to six players. Players gather resources and build towers by day, then defend their base from monsters at night on procedurally generated maps.
Released Indie Games
Augmented Yut
Augmented Yut is a turn-based strategy game built on Yut Nori rules, with online play for two to four players and 50 augments that change the rules of each match.
RXB Workstation
RXB Workstation is a pad-based music production and mixing application for Windows, with sixteen sample pads, a step sequencer, a bus mixer, song arrangement and DMX lighting output.
The Kind Camomille
A wholesome 3D exploration game about random acts of kindness and the joy of discovery. Take control of Camomille, a kind mouse on her way to her dear grandmother 100th birthday. On a relaxing and beautiful journey she encounters people in need of a hand.
771
771 is a first-person horror walking simulator in which the player leaves their bed and explores an apartment that leads into strange, dark places. Playtime is approximately 30 minutes.
Dicealot
Discover a high-stakes roguelike dice-builder where every roll is a risk, every risk is a thrill, and every thrill teeters between triumph and disaster. Set in charmingly chaotic Camelot, chance collides with strategy, mastery dances with madness, and one single roll can rewrite your fate.
Meridian Strike
Meridian Strike is a turn-based tactical mech RPG in which players command a mercenary company on a hex battlefield, with damage, injuries and finances carrying between missions.
Don’t Let It Starve
A horror roguelike bento-builder. You're trapped in an underground kitchen, forced to feed a half-chef monster. Gamble with your life, assemble meals, and master your multipliers. Whatever you do, Don't Let it Starve.
Outbound
Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.
Nice Day for Fishing
Nice Day for Fishing is an RPG-adventure game in which a fisherman becomes an Adventurer, battling fish with timing-based combat and magic while rebuilding his town.
WilderDash
WilderDash is a tower defence roguelite for one to six players. Players gather resources and build towers by day, then defend their base from monsters at night on procedurally generated maps.
Unemployment Simulator 2018
Unemployment Simulator 2018 is a story-driven survival game set in a single-bedroom apartment in an unnamed Nordic welfare state, where the player manages the daily struggle of long-term unemployment.
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