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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 songs across J-pop, K-pop, English and instrumental styles, each charted in three difficulties.
Sludgineers
Snickerdoodle Games, Funk Games
Sludgineers is an active incremental game in which players clean up pollution, mine and refine materials, and manage a growing refinery operation across the countryside.
F2 A! Idle Army
Chris Yu
F2 A! Idle Army is an idle strategy game in which players upgrade a hero and automated army units to defeat endless waves of monsters.
Ling House: Echoes Within
Chaotic System
Ling House: Echoes Within is a first-person horror game in which a person trapped in a shifting, sentient house must piece together fragmented memories to uncover the truth.
OPEN UP, MICHAEL!
LetsAdventurePlay
OPEN UP, MICHAEL! is a first-person puzzle game where players perform ritual-like actions in a changing hallway to reach room 13.
How Asian Parents went to School
Andy Yeet
A 1-4 player co-op game where players climb mountains, dodge obstacles and outrun a bear to reach school on time.
Blob of Ink
DGDev
Blob of Ink is a short incremental game in which players grow a living ink blob by consuming letters, gathering ink, and unlocking magic powers.
Projects with Demos
wageslave
Wageslave is a short, narrative dystopian office survival game in which players guide a programmer through the pressures of corporate life to earn enough to retire.
Settler’s Domain
Build up your settlement from scratch, manage resources, research new tech and decide whether to make friends or enemies of your neighbours. It's classic settlement building done right.
While We Wait Here
A kitchen management game set in a mountain diner, blending cooking tasks with dialogue choices as customers react to news of an impending apocalypse.
Moss: The Forgotten Relic
Moss: The Forgotten Relic is an atmospheric puzzle-adventure combining Moss and Moss: Book II into a single adventure, guiding a small mouse hero through a fallen kingdom.
The Ratline
The Ratline is a 1971-set detective game in which players investigate a murdered priest's connection to a network smuggling Nazi war criminals to freedom.
Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn’t
Cursed Words starts like Boggle and ends somewhere else entirely, letters, numbers, chess pieces, whatever the run throws at you. It's a roguelike word game that quietly stops being a word game.
Artis Impact
A hand-drawn post-apocalyptic RPG that mixes classic turn-based combat with proper cosy home life vibes. Simple to pick up, lovely to look at.
IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator
IRON NEST is a brutal dieselpunk heavy-artillery game where you dominate the battlefield through a colossal war machine. Take map measurements based on the received coordinates, strain the hydraulics, and gunlay the cannons to unleash devastating blows ⟹ Will you obey High Command, Operator?
Medieval Market Simulator
Medieval Market Simulator is a shop management game where players stock, price and sell goods in a medieval town, alone or in online co-op.
Scritchy Scratchy
Scratch cards, big payouts, and just enough chaos to keep you hooked. Scritchy Scratchy is the incremental game where luck does the heavy lifting.
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.
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.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
City Tales - Medieval Era
Irregular Shapes
City Tales - Medieval Era is a city-building game in which players shape organic medieval settlements, guided by companion characters with developing skills.
Cataclismo
Digital Sun
Cataclismo is a strategy game in which players build brick-by-brick fortresses to defend humanity's survivors against nightly waves of Horrors.
9 Kings
Sad Socket
9 Kings is a strategy game where players build a kingdom using combinations of buildings, units, and spells to outlast rival kings in single-player and asynchronous multiplayer modes.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
3Division
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.
Released Indie Games
Void Eclipse
A turn-based strategy, with a focus on choice. Evolve your army, explore the galaxy, and earn a Reputation.
No More Room in Hell 2
No More Room in Hell 2 is an 8-player co-op survival horror game in which Responders complete missions in zombie-infested locations, facing permadeath and infection risks.
Ultrapool
Ultrapool is a colourful roguelike where you build a wonky set of pool balls with wild effects and try to survive 10 rounds behind the bar.
A Very Simple Idle Game
Idle game with a twist: reward grows while you wait and resets with each purchase. 6 upgrades, 3 currencies, prestige and super upgrades. Simple but deep.
Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times
Rhell is a puzzle adventure where you mix and match 40 magic runes to solve puzzles however you like, playing a mage who's a bit too mouthy for her own good.
Little Kitty, Big City
Little Kitty, Big City is an open-world adventure game in which a cat explores a city, meets other animals and works out how to find its way home.
Color Blocks
Color Blocks is a precision platformer where players can only stand on platforms matching their current colour, playable solo or in co-op groups linked by physics-based ropes.
Ratten Reich
Ratten Reich is a steampunk/dieselpunk RTS set in a war between anthropomorphic rat, mouse, cockroach and lizard factions across three continents.
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.
No Knock
No Knock is an open-world theft simulation game where players rob targets, build a crew and expand a criminal enterprise.
Echo Point Nova
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.
Tales & Tactics
Tales & Tactics mixes roguelike strategy with squad-based autobattling, no timers, no pressure, just you building the perfect team for The Grand Tournament.
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