Your Backstage Pass to Indie Games
Exclusive interviews, dev insights, fresh releases, and all the indie game buzz, straight from the source.
Out now
Released 12 Oct
Time To Wake Up
Eye Blink Twice
See the game
Out this week
All releasesWhat's Coming
Full calendarOctober 2026
Good Heavens!
Early Access
14 Oct, 2026
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2
Going Gold
14 Oct, 2026
Chicks In Trouble
Going Gold
15 Oct, 2026
Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction
Going Gold
15 Oct, 2026
Pixel Washer
Early Access
15 Oct, 2026
Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest
Going Gold
16 Oct, 2026
Big Dig
Going Gold
19 Oct, 2026
We Were Here Tomorrow
Going Gold
20 Oct, 2026
Fresh from the devlogs
Playable right now
594 games have a free demo up. Sorted by the ones that landed this week.
Open the demos hubStay in the loop
Never miss a game worth playing
Get the newsletter
New games and demos, what is releasing, and the giveaways that are open. Just an email address — confirm it and you are in.
We’ll email once to confirm your address, and nothing more until you do. Every issue has an unsubscribe link.
Recently Released
American Cooking Simulator: Multiplayer
Freedom Burger Games
A cooperative multiplayer game where up to four players use firearms to prepare and cook burgers for a fast food chain.
Time To Wake Up
Eye Blink Twice
You're stuck in a dream. Blink and change your surroundings to escape the shadows of your past.
Barfender: CO-OP Bar Simulator
Proto Division
Barfender is a co-op bar simulation game where players serve drinks, manage unruly customers, and keep a bar running as chaos builds around them.
CHAINSPIRE
SKYWARD FRAME
CHAINSPIRE is a co-op soulslike platformer for one to four players in which the party is linked by a physically simulated chain that shapes combat, platforming and puzzles.
Home Alone: The Invasion — Playable Teaser
Total Studios Entertainment
A first-person investigation teaser in which Arthur, a private investigator, explores a dark farmhouse during a storm to solve a woman's disappearance from the 1990s. It lasts roughly two hours.
Truckful
MythicOwl
Truckful puts you behind the wheel of a battered pickup, running deliveries for villagers while a mysterious old forest waits to be uncovered.
Kill Your Darlings
Stray Fawn Studio
Locked in a royal dungeon, you'll need to date your fellow monster inmates and fight alongside them just to survive. Every choice matters, and every playthrough plays out differently.
SPACE JK
FaSPel
SPACE JK is a life sim in which players look after pixel-art roommates called JK, decorate their room and collect daily stickers. It needs an internet connection and a free FaSPel ID account.
Projects with Demos
Goaldeck
GoalDeck is a single-player roguelike deck-building card game about coaching a football squad through eight tournaments, combining card collection with player management decisions.
How Many Dudes? The Roguelike Autobattler
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.
I Need to Fix My Dream Car (But I Work at a Junkyard)
A junkyard game in which you break down piles of scrap, earn money, rebuild a rusty old car, complete customer orders and rescue dogs hiding among the junk.
Jarred Defense
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.
lily’s world XD
lily's world XD is a mystery game set on the early web, in which players search a missing teenager's laptop for clues to where she has been taken.
Bullet Train
Welcome on the Bullet Train: destroy enemy towers, collect powerful orbs and improve your train! Fight through escalating enemy territory to defeat the creatures that destroyed your town!
Sniper Dan
Sniper Dan is a 3D hidden object game in which players use a sniper rifle to find and fix everyday problems from a distance, with no violence involved.
Too Many Balls
Too Many Balls is an incremental clean-up simulator in which players collect sports balls from arenas, earn money and spend it on upgraded tools and equipment.
Davy bones
Davy Bones is a score-chasing pirate roguelike based on Yacht Dice, in which players roll, lock and reroll five dice while buying trinkets and upgrades between rounds.
Frog It Up
Frog It Up is an idle game in which players click to spawn frogs, earn resources and use them to upgrade and expand a pond ecosystem.
Veil of the Damned
Veil of the Damned is a roguelite in which a Bound Soul descends through 7 dungeons in a shifting realm, fighting undead creatures and demons while the setting reacts to the player's choices.
The Darkest Files
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.
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
SUSHI CHESS
Today's Special!
SUSHI CHESS is a turn-based board game where players move sushi pieces that each carry a price. Capturing a piece costs the capturer its price. It offers puzzles, CPU opponents, and local or online play.
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 build and customise cars, scavenge, trade with factions and fight warlords.
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 game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia. The player works as an operator who watches citizens through cameras, enforces laws and makes decisions that affect the story.
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 shop simulation in which players run a store selling collectible mystery eggs, open them to find action figures, and build themed dioramas to sell.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale is a 2D action-platformer with boss battles and animated cinematics. It supports solo play or local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which players control Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across levels set in a spirit world.
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 2D platform game in which the player controls a ball that moves, jumps and sticks to platforms, collecting every orb in each level to open an 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 a retro PSX and VHS-inspired look, in which players decode Morse code signals to escape a maze while a single mistake is fatal.
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
Crown of Hispania is a grand strategy game set in 1035 AD on the Iberian Peninsula. Players lead a noble through war, diplomacy, court politics and population management.
Released Indie Games
Evymind Clips: Automatic Highlights & Shorts
Save time turning long videos built around speech into clips worth sharing. Evymind Clips automatically finds moments that stand on their own, ready for you to refine and export.
Halloween: The Game
An asymmetrical horror game set in Haddonfield on Halloween night 1978, where one player controls Michael Myers and up to four others defend the town, alongside a singleplayer story mode.
groky
A puzzle game in which you guide a creature to eat every ghost on the board and reach the exit portal across 100 levels.
Town to City
Town to City is a grid-free city builder where players design towns and cities freely, growing population and economy across multiple connected settlements.
Channel 453
Channel 453 is a one-on-one interactive visual novel in the psychological thriller, gothic horror and otome genres, in which a man named Liotte speaks to the player from inside a television.
Appointment
Appointment is a first-person survival horror game set in a dark, abandoned hospital. Explore, solve interconnected puzzles, search for essential items, and stay quiet as a relentless doctor hunts by sight, sound, and even the light of your flashlight.
Goddess of Fate: Waifu Strategy RPG
A free-to-play anime strategy RPG with 100+ collectible goddesses. Players build six-character squads on a 2x3 grid and fight turn-based 6v6 battles.
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!
Escape Simulator 2: Apocalypse DLC
A DLC for Escape Simulator 2 adding four escape rooms set in a devastated near-future world. Players solve puzzles solo or in multiplayer while searching for a place called Sanctuary.
Breathedge
Breathedge is a survival adventure game set in space, following a man transporting his grandfather's ashes who becomes caught up in a conspiracy after a space hearse crash.
The Last 15 Minutes on Tau Alpha 7
A 15 minute co-operative last stand shooter set on the colony world Tau Alpha 7, where a squad defends an evacuation point against waves of attackers while awaiting a dropship.
She Sucked Me Once, and Dry
A visual novel in which Breindeighn, a distribution centre wageslave, has his outlook on life changed after being sucked, and must decide how to spend his breaks at work.
Discover Indie Games Worth Playing
Rob’s Game Shack is an independent games publication focused on discovering and highlighting standout indie games across PC and console. We cover new releases, Early Access launches, demos, and upcoming projects on platforms like Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox, with an editorial approach that values accuracy, context, and genuine enthusiasm.
Our coverage includes indie game news, hands-on previews, feature articles, and curated game pages that bring together trailers, release details, and ongoing updates in one place. We aim to surface interesting and creative games early, helping players stay informed while giving developers meaningful visibility.
Updated regularly with the latest indie game announcements and releases, Rob’s Game Shack is built for readers who enjoy discovering new games, following emerging studios, and exploring the wider indie games scene.