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THE DEAD WE KNEW: Open World Survival
MAY19 STUDIO
Explore a dangerous open world, loot abandoned places, build your shelter, produce food, and manage your resources. Survive alone or in co-op against zombies, hostile humans, and the growing dangers that come with the fog.
AKIBA LOST
IzanagiGames
Thirteen years ago, six girls vanished in Akihabara in the unsolved case “The Akiba Vanishing”. Daiki Shinjo announces a live-action game based on the incident, gathering six women who embody Akihabara’s subculture. But their story begins to seep into reality. Can AKIBA LOST be finished?
Crypt Survivor
cloud6552
Crypt Survivor is a dark fantasy roguelite in which players pick a class and fight through a series of handmade dungeon rooms, collecting gold and experience to unlock upgrades between encounters.
We Were Here Tomorrow
Total Mayhem Games
You and your partner awaken inside a mysterious Norček facility with little recollection of how you got there. Communicate, cooperate, and unravel the secrets in this asymmetrical co-op adventure. Only together will you decide the fate of Tomorrow…
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.
SuperStore Simulator
Berleus Studio
SuperStore Simulator is a supermarket management game in which the player builds a small grocery store into a larger retail business, handling layout, stock, pricing, checkout and staff.
Elsewhere
Four White Cats
Elsewhere is a massive sandbox crafting game where you go from stone tools to fusion power and particle accelerators, with magic, monsters and castles thrown in for good measure.
Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest
IQ Games
A cooperative puzzle platformer for two players, or one playing both characters, featuring forest spirits with different elemental abilities and physics-based levels.
Projects with Demos
Echoes of Mora
A boy went missing. A village drowned. And somehow, you can reach into the past. Dive into the sunken ruins of Mora's village, unlock portals to the days before the flood, and share what you find with Mora across time. What you uncover could change her fate, and that of everyone she loves.
Scritchy Scratchy
Scritchy Scratchy is a super-satisfying scratch card incremental game. Buy stacks of scratch-offs, unlock auto-scratching, and chase massive jackpots. Will you play it safe or go all-in?
Journey to Echo
Journey to Echo is a post-apocalyptic survival adventure in which you leave an underground bunker to scavenge supplies, maintain a vehicle and search for other survivors across an open world.
Remote Gamepad
Remote Gamepad is an app that turns a phone into a game controller for PC games. It connects over Wi-Fi or USB and works with games that support game controllers.
The Legend of Fancy Realm Remake
The Legend of Fancy Realm Remake is a story-driven tactical RPG and official remake of a turn-based SRPG first released more than twenty years ago.
Tape 101: Liminal Descent
Tape 101: Liminal Descent is a puzzle exploration game in which players steer a camera-equipped RC car through repeating liminal spaces shaped by the stages of grief.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
A Soviet-themed city builder in which players manage a planned economy, from resource extraction and manufacturing to transportation and public services, while balancing trade with Eastern and Western blocs.
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.
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.
Nocturne
Nocturne is a story-driven RPG with rhythm-based combat, set in a Digital Afterlife a thousand years after humanity's disappearance. It includes 101 playable tracks and a campaign of over ten hours.
Locktale
Locktale is a story-driven puzzle game in which players decode secret messages using ciphers, symbols and visual tricks across more than 50 levels, each based on a different encoding technique.
Oops! You’re the Hero!
A fantasy adventure in which a Thief who stole an artifact is marked as the unwilling Hero and must return it, either fighting monsters or finding ways around them.
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
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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 can be played solo or in local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which the player controls Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across a spirit world divided into four seasonal domains.
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 small ball that sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open an exit portal. A controller is required.
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.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
Bait Soul is an action roguelite with a cultivation theme. Players arrange Soul Orbs and Support Items in a loadout while the character attacks automatically and the player handles movement.
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 where the player decodes Morse code to survive a maze of corridors, rooms and vents, in a retro PSX and VHS-inspired style.
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.
Released Indie Games
StarL 9 Ashes Of The Past
StarL 9 Ashes Of The Past is an adventure game in which a woman wakes on a magical island after a balloon accident and is called a princess by its inhabitants. She must break curses and restore a mirror.
HELLBREAK
HELLBREAK is a fast-paced roguelite, survivor-like FPS where you fight through escalating waves in brutal arenas in Hell. Build powerful loadouts, earn favor from demon lords to unlock new gear, and climb the leaderboards for your salvation.
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.
Seekers Alliance: Hero’s Journey
A roguelite deckbuilder in which players recruit Heroes from three Factions and place Skill Cards into Attack, Defense and Speed Zones during battles. Unlocks carry over between runs.
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.
Bite Night: Dine or Die
Bite Night: Dine or Die is a first-person horror game set during a night shift at a roadside diner, where a mysterious fog traps staff and customers with a hidden vampire.
Time to Morp
Time to Morp is a base-building adventure for one to four players. As an intern on a distant planet, you look after creatures called Morps, farm, fish, cook, automate production and decorate a home.
Tsugunohi -The Thread That Beckons to Heaven-
A horror game in the Tsugunohi series in which the player repeatedly walks a girl home from school by pressing the left arrow key while her neighbourhood gradually changes.
Jack’s Achievements Simulator: Dog & Lava
A 3D platformer in which many actions, including jumping and dying, earn achievements. Players deal with a dog named Jack and rising lava across nine levels, with 100 achievements at launch.
Mythmon: Mythic Monsters
A hack-and-slash strategy game in which you assemble a party of up to five monsters, equip them and set formations before battles that play out automatically.
Night of the Living Bubble
A first-person shooter set in a retail outlet mall overrun by sentient monsters. The player uses a store-issued nailgun and household tools to destroy the nests that spawn the creatures.
Eagle Knight Paradox
Eagle Knight Paradox is a story-driven action-adventure that blends high-speed mecha battles with slice-of-life exploration. Step into the neon-lit city of Comala 88, where every choice you make will shape not only the fate of the city but also the lives of the people you meet.
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