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What's Coming
Full calendarSeptember 2026
Arcaneering: Beyond Automation
Early Access
7 Sep, 2026
Who Haunts The Haunters?
Early Access
7 Sep, 2026
Syntax:Overload
Early Access
7 Sep, 2026
Deadzoned
Early Access
7 Sep, 2026
Little Ghosties
Early Access
7 Sep, 2026
Pumpkin Woods
Early Access
7 Sep, 2026
Falk
Early Access
7 Sep, 2026
Exit Ways
Early Access
7 Sep, 2026
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Little Ghosties
Acrylic Pixel Games
Little Ghosties is an idle desktop companion game in which ghosts live inside a terrarium on your screen. Hatch, feed and raise them while you work, study or browse.
Soft(A)ware
B0TLANNER Games
Soft(A)ware is a surreal puzzle-platformer set in a hostile virtual prison, where the player shifts gravity and rewinds time to solve challenges and evade the constructs hunting them.
Crazy Pocket
OFFMOON Inc.
Crazy Pocket is a roguelike deckbuilder based on pocket billiards, in which players combine ball abilities to build synergies and attempt to clear the table in a single turn.
Nothing Strange Here
Dandelion Developers
A mystery adventure in which you play a newly arrived journalist in the town of Larcenest Gap, photographing events and publishing articles that change how the town reacts.
Dealer's Dice
OFFMOON Inc.
A dice-based defence game in which you roll and reroll dice to stop invading entities from reaching the end of a table, collecting dice, modifier cards and unlocks between runs.
Soul Chained
Kyroware Games
Soul Chained is a co-op action game in which up to four players, cast as rival warlords bound together by a soul chain, fight their way up a tower in Purgatory using chain-based physics combat.
Dataminers - Artbook and Making-of
Electrocosmos
A 29-page PDF artbook and making-of document for Dataminers, covering the game's development with concept art, sketches, design boards and background information.
Tidy or Treat
Luriel
Tidy or Treat is a co-op organising game in which players return scattered Halloween stock to the shelves of a shop before 31st October. It can be played solo or with friends.
Projects with Demos
Mythmon: Mythic Monsters
A hack-and-slash strategy game in which players assemble a party of up to five Mythmon, equip them and set formations before automatic battles against the Demon King's army.
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds is a JRPG-style adventure set in the hand-drawn fantasy world of Legrand, combining turn-based combat with tactical warfare.
100 for Justice
A text-driven political roguelite and life-management simulation in which up to 100 successive citizens resist an oppressive government, with progress carried over between lives.
S.A.N.D.Y. – Beach Cleaner
S.A.N.D.Y. - Beach Cleaner is a game about a cleaning robot who clears trash from a resort beach and sorts debris while uncovering a narrative set in a polluted future.
Tiny Eden
Tiny Eden is a gardening and cooking game set in a city apartment, where players grow plants from seed to harvest, prepare dishes to sell, and expand into new rooms and a rooftop greenhouse.
Revenge of the Savage Planet
Revenge of the Savage Planet is a first-person exploration and platforming game in which a laid-off space employee explores alien worlds to gather upgrades and secrets.
Sleeping with the Phish
You're the new intern stuck sorting real emails from phishing scams, one dodgy request at a time. Get it wrong and it's your salary (and secrets) on the line.
A Case of Fraud
You've got every clue you need from the start. A missing CEO, a pile of documents, and a fraud only careful reading will crack.
2064: Read Only Memories
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco, featuring a branching narrative shaped by player choices.
VOIDFACE
VOIDFACE is a bullet hell game where every enemy is a boss fight and players have only one life to survive challenging encounters.
Locktale
Locktale is a story-driven puzzle game about decoding secret messages, with over 50 levels that each use a different cipher or encoding technique.
Discremental
Discremental is an incremental game in which you begin with a single disk, gather resources from loot to unlock abilities and weapons, and progress through floors of enemies.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
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.
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.
Chomp Garden
PawPaw Games
Chomp Garden is a puzzle game in which you play a small lamp guiding plants with light while searching a garden for your lost pup.
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.
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.
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.
The Piper of Dawn
Bone Nail
A story-driven management RPG set in Diamond City, where you play an alchemist growing magical crops and running a shop while dealing with six factions whose support decides the city's fate.
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
A build-focused action roguelite in which you play a Bait Soul fighting through a dangerous dungeon, using auto-attacking weapons, dodging and a loadout system of Soul Orbs and Support Items.
Yami Kids
Yanako RPGs, GameDevTosh
Yami Kids is a retro-styled monster-taming RPG in which twins Yuki and Yuumi Yami collect and train more than 80 Oni while moving between the Overworld and the Underworld.
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
A biographical kinetic novel about Abraham Lincoln, the third entry in the Important People of History series, covering his life, the US Civil War and the end of slavery through present-day photographs of historic sites.
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.
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.
Gunclone Arena
Off North Games
Gunclone Arena is a top-down arena shooter set in the year 2250, in which a contestant fights waves of Gunclones and Mechs in a televised bloodsport for Cash and follower Likes.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Lorenzo Ametrano
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Released Indie Games
Solarpunk™
Solarpunk is a survival game set among floating islands, where players build, farm and generate renewable energy alone or with up to four friends.
Kingdoms and Castles
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation where players grow a kingdom from a small hamlet into a city defended by a custom-built castle.
Venice After Dark
A point-and-click adventure and visual novel set in Venice, following programmer Aiko and AI companion Thea as they investigate a mysterious crime through puzzles and blurred realities.
Flood With Friends
A co-operative survival game for one to eight players in which a stranded crew nails scavenged objects into a raft before a flood submerges their island.
Yooka-Replaylee
Yooka-Replaylee is the definitive remaster of the 3D platforming collectathon, with new challenges, shiny currency, maps, customisation & orchestral music.
Swan Song
Swan Song is a cozy, emotional puzzle game where music guides a swan through challenges, revealing a touching story of family, memory, and loss.
Future Knight
Future Knight is a 2D action shoot 'em up in which a robot and a sentient tumour travel eight hours into the past to stop a cult leader from wiping humanity's memories.
The Precinct
The Precinct is a 1980s-set police sandbox game where you play a rookie cop patrolling a living city, responding to crimes and investigating your father's murder.
Project P.I.T.T.
Project P.I.T.T. is a physics-based factory game in which players craft objects, starting with rubber ducks, to feed an ever-growing pit at a mysterious company.
Shelf Happens
A record-sorting game in which you work as the clerk of a retro record store, reading vinyl sleeves to identify their genre and filing them into the correct crates, alone or in 2 to 4 player co-op.
Shroom and Gloom Demo
Shroom and Gloom is a roguelike deckbuilder where you fight monstrous mushrooms, build mega-combos, and even cook your foes into game-changing soups.
Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite
Every organism eventually evolves into a crab. Except yours, if you've got the guts. Build your own weird, wonderful survivor in this brilliant action roguelite.
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