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ShipShaper: Falconeer Chronicles
Tomas Sala
ShipShaper lets you pull, push and shape your own boats and ships from scratch, no 3D skills needed. Build anything from humble fishing boats to full-on dreadnoughts.
He Who Watches
Bobby Vanden
Walk on walls, walk on ceilings, and bend gravity itself to solve over 100 devious puzzles in this atmospheric first-person head-scratcher.
BOMBANANA!
Lefto Studio
Three monkeys, one bomb, zero shared senses. Blind hands, mute knowledge, deaf eyes - work out how to talk to each other before everything goes boom.
Vibe City Islands Architect
Day 1 to 100
A small gridless city-building game set on tropical islands, with a high score mode built around four objectives, a free sandbox mode and ten in-game radio stations.
Lumina:Last Bloom
ねむは
A short, atmosphere-focused pixel-art adventure about spending seven final days with a girl suffering from the mysterious Hanasaki Disease. Playtime is roughly one to two hours.
Peekablock
Goose Gang Games
Peekablock is a multiplayer party game where Hiders build custom disguises from shapes and Hunters try to spot which objects are fake.
OBITT Escape from the room
Bears
You stray from a shrine into a room and become a palm-sized person. This is an escape action game to find your way out through trial and error from a miniature perspective. Manage your HP to survive and break free from this giant room! A time attack mode is included for an extra challenge.
Neon Cadence
Meridian Studios
Neon Cadence is a four-lane keyboard rhythm game with 30 original tracks across J-pop, K-pop, English and instrumental styles, each charted at three difficulty levels.
Projects with Demos
Trouble Hunter Chronicles: The Stolen Creed
Explore mid 20th century Europe as an ex-OSS operative in this old school influenced point and click adventure game!
Anima Gate of Memories: I&II Remaster
Two action RPGs return remastered in one definitive collection with enhanced visuals, fast combat and branching storylines in the world of Gaia.
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.
Little Corners
Build tiny cosy worlds sticker by sticker, with lofi beats and thousands of stickers to peel and place. It's a chill sticker book that never runs out of pages.
PlateUp!
Run a restaurant with up to four mates, cook like mad, and try not to burn the whole place down. Chaotic co-op cooking at its finest.
NORCO
A Southern Gothic sci-fi adventure exploring identity, industry, and family in a decaying Louisiana town.
DualVerse86
DualVerse86 is a 2D retro-futuristic parkour platformer in which players switch between two virtual worlds in real time to avoid traps and complete timed levels.
Hotel Architect
Build, decorate and manage your own hotel empire from crumbling fixer-uppers to five-star towers. Keep guests happy or brace for the reviews.
Deck of Haunts
Deck of Haunts unleashes its biggest free update yet with new creatures, cards, rooms, starter decks & more. Available now on Steam.
Ling House: Echoes Within
A first-person horror game set in a shifting house where the player wakes with fragmented memories and must investigate anomalies to uncover what happened there.
Bears In Space
Stranded and alone on a strange planet after a scientific experiment went wrong, Maxwell Atoms must come to terms with his new found abilities.
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.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
EVERSPACE™ 2
ROCKFISH Games
EVERSPACE 2 is a single-player space shooter set in the Demilitarized Zone of Cluster 34, combining dogfighting, exploration and loot-based ship customisation across seven star systems.
Serial World
Serial Project
Serial World is a roguelike dungeon crawler RPG in which Milo explores the town of Bricktown and repeating dungeon loops with a trio of creatures called Anima.
2064: Read Only Memories
MidBoss, LLC.
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco, featuring a branching narrative shaped by player choices.
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds
SEMISOFT
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.
33 Immortals
Thunder Lotus
33 Immortals is a co-op action-roguelike supporting up to 33 players in a single run, fighting monster hordes and bosses through instant matchmaking.
WARCANA
1000 Orks
WARCANA is a real-time base defence strategy game combining deck-building with large-scale army summoning, playable in single-player campaigns or multiplayer battle royale modes.
Town to City
Galaxy Grove
Town to City is a grid-free city builder where players design towns and cities freely, growing population and economy across multiple connected settlements.
Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
Perspective Games, Bellwood Studios
A city-building simulation set in Aztec Mesoamerica, where players grow a single city into an empire while managing citizens, resources and religion.
Tiny Glade
Pounce Light
Tiny Glade is a relaxing, free-form building game where players construct castles and cottages without goals, resource management, or failure states.
The Scouring
Orc Group
The Scouring is a real-time strategy game combining base building, resource management, and army control with an action RPG hero mode and multiplayer battles for up to 8 players.
The Precinct
Fallen Tree Games Ltd
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.
The Darkest Files
Paintbucket Games
The Darkest Files is a narrative investigation game in which players prosecute Nazi-era war crimes in 1950s Germany as a young prosecutor working under Fritz Bauer.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Questline
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a first-person open-world RPG set in a dark fantasy realm inspired by Arthurian legend, offering branching quests and flexible character builds.
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
Gamexcite
A story-driven survival strategy game in which players command the U.S.S. Voyager, managing its crew and resources through the Delta Quadrant.
Schedule I
TVGS
Schedule I is a business simulation game in which players build a drug empire from scratch in the fictional city of Hyland Point.
Rue Valley
Emotion Spark Studio
Rue Valley is a narrative game about escaping a time loop in a small town, where players shape their character's personality and relationships through repeated days.
Revenge of the Savage Planet
Raccoon Logic Studios Inc.
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.
REPLACED
Sad Cat Studios
REPLACED is a narrative-driven 2.5D action-adventure set in an alternate 1980s America, following an AI named R.E.A.C.H. trapped in a human body.
MENACE
Overhype Studios
MENACE is a turn-based tactical RPG in which players command a strike force of marines, mercenaries, and criminals across a war-torn star system, managing squads, vehicles, and branching operations against human and alien threats.
Master of Command
Armchair Interactive
Master of Command is a real-time tactical strategy game set during the Seven Years' War, combining battlefield combat with campaign-level army and supply management.
Mars Attracts
Outlier
A theme park management game set on Mars where players run a Martian-owned amusement park stocked with abducted humans from throughout history.
Drova - Forsaken Kin
Just2D
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.
Echo Point Nova
Greylock Studio
Echo Point Nova is an open-world FPS from the makers of Severed Steel, playable solo or in 4-player co-op, combining grapple hook and hoverboard traversal with combat against mercenaries and colossal bosses.
Cloudheim
Noodle Cat Games
Cloudheim is a physics-based action game where players rebuild a shattered world as a Runari, exploring islands, fighting monsters and crafting gear solo or in up to 4-player online co-op.
Released Indie Games
The Phantom Fellows
The Phantom Fellows is a point & click adventure about 2 best friends who start a paranormal investigation business together, since one of them is already dead
Journeybound Idle
Another world needed a hero. It got you instead! A long fantasy-idle RPG: climb the adventurer's guild from F-Rank to S-Rank, max your skills, clear 114 quests, discover 1,300+ items, hire companions, farm, craft, fight, tons of QoL, a desktop widget, and lots more! Releasing August 7th!
Flock Around
Grab your camera and go birdwatching with up to 10 mates in Flock Around, a chill co-op nature sanctuary game about snapping birds and filling out your guide book.
North Hunt
North Hunt is a multiplayer social deduction game for 1-8 players where one player poses as a fake NPC hiding among a village while others try to expose them.
BOMBANANA!
Three monkeys, one bomb, zero shared senses. Blind hands, mute knowledge, deaf eyes - work out how to talk to each other before everything goes boom.
Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall
A cinematic kingdom management game in which players rule as a king, balancing resources, family and petitioners in a Slavic-folklore inspired world.
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.
MEMORIAPOLIS
Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where a dynasty guides a city's organic growth across five ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution.
Retail Hell
Retail Hell is a psychological horror job simulator where players run a convenience store trapped between life and death, serving supernatural customers to pay off their debt.
Frog & Roll
Surf, Bhop, Climb, and blast your way to victory in Frog & Roll. A truly hardcore 3D platformer focused on speed and fast reactions. Chase the records of your friends and the world's best players.
Alpha Particle
A sci-fi action game about a defenseless particle that has to overcome it's obstacles creatively
Master of Command
Master of Command is a real-time tactical strategy game set during the Seven Years' War, combining battlefield combat with campaign-level army and supply management.
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