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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
AKIBA LOST is a live-action suspense game set in Akihabara, Tokyo. Players switch between seven characters in a branching story about a game creator and a new series of disappearances.
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
We Were Here Tomorrow is a two-player online co-op puzzle adventure set in a facility run by Norček Industries, where players communicate by walkie-talkie to solve puzzles.
Big Dig
Dan Schumacher, Hjalte Tagmose
Big Dig is a short incremental narrative game in which players dig up artifacts to clear the way for Mayor Dog's highway across the Animal Republic.
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
Catnip Fever Dreamland
A level-based action game in which players guide a cat named Krum through his mind, collecting catnip to progress, fighting demon cats and unlocking flashbacks. Supports up to four players.
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.
BABELOMANIA
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.
Realindustry
Realindustry is a single-player factory-building simulation in which the player directs industrial colony NIZ-08 and builds production chains based on real science to make a Hyperdrive Engine.
WilderDash
WilderDash is a tower defence roguelite for one to six players. Players gather resources and build towers by day, then defend their base from monsters at night.
Chief Cenab : Şahmaran
A puzzle adventure in which the player takes the role of Chief Cenab and investigates mysterious events, presented in a black-and-white comic book style with colour highlights.
VOIDFACE
VOIDFACE is a bullet hell game where every enemy is a boss and the player has only one life. Players dodge and shoot, use spells, and unlock hats and artworks.
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die is a run-based action game in which Queen Aleksandra fights through four biomes using weapons, cards, relics and a die companion named Fortune.
Destiny Spire
Destiny Spire is a retro-style RPG with active time battles. The player is sent as an envoy to peace talks between four kingdoms and uncovers a wider mystery on the way.
JettFuel+
JettFuel+ is a 3D platformer in which Jett, a robot who escaped a closing factory, searches for his missing brother Brody by collecting Power Gems. It expands on the 2024 game JettFuel.
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.
No Quarter
No Quarter is a naval game set on an open Caribbean sea, where the player captains a single brig, fights other ships, carries cargo and raids coastal forts.
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.
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.
Crown Of Hispania
Regalis Studio
Crown Of Hispania is a grand strategy game set in 1035 AD Iberia, where the player leads a noble dynasty across more than 300 provinces. It is planned for Early Access.
Released Indie Games
Draco and the Seven Scales
A top-down pixel art adventure in which a pirate captain travels on foot and by ship, clears seven dungeons and tries to escape a bargain made with a kraken.
Arrow Card Arena (箭域卡戰)
Arrow Card Arena is a turn-based card strategy game where arrows on each card determine its attack directions. It has a 15-stage single-player campaign and local two-player battles.
Loop Miner
Loop Miner is an incremental mining game in which a mole miner digs deeper into an endless mine, sells minerals, collects artefacts and carries progress across repeated runs.
Chronime Puzzle: Animals
Chronime Puzzle: Animals is a puzzle game in which players rotate and place pieces to restore steampunk anime-inspired illustrations across 50 levels.
KasMind
KasMind is a 1v1 competitive game where players win rounds by taunting opponents after landing hits. It uses four buttons and offers CPU, local, online and room-based play.
Millions of Minions: An Underground Adventure
You're locked away in the deepest, darkest dungeon. It's time to escape with your army of cute-looking minions. Use them as shields, leverage or to rule the land. Find out why you're locked away and defeat all who stand in your way.
Stack Together: To the Moon – Stack, Build & Escape
A physics-based co-op stacking game for up to four players, in which you build a tower from boxes delivered through portals while identifying anomalous boxes and slowing an approaching meteor.
Dewdrop
Dewdrop is a physics-based music puzzle game in which players draw vines that produce sounds when falling droplets bounce off them.
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.
La eclissi
A single-player card RPG that alternates between a visual novel and blackjack-based card battles, following Rozet as he searches for his childhood friend Philae.
Escape Simulator 2: Apocalypse DLC
Apocalypse is a DLC for Escape Simulator 2 that adds four escape rooms set in a devastated near-future world, playable solo or with friends who also own the DLC.
Crypt Survivor
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.
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