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Wizzy the Wood
Lukasz Cnota
Wizzy the Wood is a single-player 3D platformer in which a wooden character called Wizzy sets out to recover a stolen artefact, the Stone of Eternity, from the sorcerer Malachite.
The Totemist
ShutinStudio
The Totemist is a narrative-driven shop simulator in which the player runs an occult shop, crafting totems and talismans while a mystery unfolds in a quiet town.
Glory On Pluto
LittleBigEars Games
Glory on Pluto is a roguelite in which players fill a rocket engine with fuel items and manage a crew to travel from Earth to Pluto. Builds must generate enough power to reach each destination.
The Vast White
Horizon Games
The Vast White is a snowboarding exploration game in which a mouse arrives at a nearly forgotten ski resort and helps its residents reopen it.
Reality Drift
Arganoid Industries
A racing game where players deliver packages to godlike creatures across strange worlds, choosing each next track and its linked upgrades in real time. It includes 26 missions and some roguelike deckbuilding.
JOHN GLEEP
monthbug
JOHN GLEEP is an action-roguelike in which a small alien pilots a UFO to abduct gamblers from planets and fill a pachinko-style casino, aiming to repay a debt to a mob boss.
Hope in the City
Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.
A narrative mystery set in Shenyang, China. Players control 17-year-old Hope Song, who uses sketches to investigate her parents' disappearance.
Gas N Cars
Yorf Studio
Gas N Cars is a petrol station game where players fuel, clean and repair customers' cars, buy new tools from a delivery truck, and can choose to cause chaos instead of providing good service.
Projects with Demos
Abashed
Abashed is a short 2.5D narrative psychological adventure following Issac, a man with psychosis, as he searches for his missing partner. Players use medication to alter the environment and solve puzzles.
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.
Vibe City Islands Architect
Vibe City Islands Architect is a small gridless city-building game set on tropical islands, with a High Score Mode, a Sandbox Mode, 200 buildings and 10 radio stations.
Master of Command
A real-time tactical strategy game set during the Seven Years' War. Players lead an army through a procedurally generated campaign, managing supplies, regiments and battles.
STILLTRACE
STILLTRACE is a top-down survival horror game set in a quarantined zone. Players scavenge by day and defend a beacon from the infected over 14 nights, alone or in co-op.
Police Chief Simulator
Police Chief Simulator is a first person strategy and management game in which the player runs a county police station in Winston Springs, registering crimes, investigating cases and arresting criminals.
Cobble Climber
Cobble Climber is a difficult climbing game in which the player controls each hand separately while ascending a well, with rising water and timed holds adding pressure.
Fading Serenades
Fading Serenades is a pixel art adventure in which the player delivers parcels to islanders on Clifford's Island while managing a limited backpack and uncovering a mystery involving a missing scientist.
Duppy Detective Tashia
A mystery game in which Tashia investigates a murder among the ghostly residents of the Halfway Market, questioning seven suspects and cross-referencing clues to identify the culprit.
Port of Jumanah
Port of Jumanah is a nautical exploration game in which players recruit friends and a cat as crew, sail through varied oceans, complete missions and upgrade their gear.
Little Kitty, Big City
Little Kitty, Big City is an open-world adventure game in which the player guides a cat around a city, meeting animals and exploring, while trying to find the way home after a nap.
Going Medieval
A colony-building game set after a plague has ended civilisation. Players guide a small group of survivors in building a settlement, managing their needs and defending it against raiders and beasts.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a roguelike action game in which players control Colt, using magical swords with unique abilities to fight a Celestial evil across the world of Armorial.
Indie Demos
Hunt for the Lost Folktales
Howling Lost Tales
A turn-based tactical creature collector in which a cursed hunter tracks escaped folktale beasts, battles them on a grid by stacking Fear, and returns their tales to the Library of Lost Tales.
DOSMIC
Black Cheeze
DOSMIC is a cinematic puzzle-platform adventure in which a boy named Nero searches a dark fantasy world of colossal beings for Snoa, a girl who has vanished after a catastrophe.
Draftula
Team Draftula
Draftula is a roguelike block-dropping puzzler in which players drop rooms onto a board to build a castle as high as possible, using bonuses from room placement.
COCOBOY
cocoteam
COCOBOY is a level-based platformer set in an alternate 2005, where players use hacked cartridge mods to change how the game plays and decorate a bedroom with collectible merchandise.
Back of Beyond
Kibi Games, Poly Poly Games
Back of Beyond is an occult strategy card game in which players build a cult of animal townsfolk, place facilities on a grid, and forge Eldritch Power to repel invading Eldritch Gods.
Cages: Hidden Worlds
Big Loop Studios
Cages: Hidden Worlds is a first-person puzzle escape game set in a decrepit mansion that holds the remains of a freak show carnival. Players solve mechanical puzzles and uncover what happened there.
Welcome, Dear Human
Kiki Can, Ronkad
Welcome, Dear Human is a monster dating sim in which the player explores first contact with monsters and other supernatural beings through branching choices across ten character routes.
Catto Chateau
Guac GameDev LLC
Catto Chateau is a non-linear metroidvania platformer set in a haunted chateau. Players control Memo, a ghost cat who defeats phantoms and bosses using stomps and spells.
Nightbound
Crooked Cats Studio
Nightbound is a turn-based tactics game in which two survivors, Loren and Jun, defend a house against the Bloom at night and spend their days building trust and preparing to travel north.
Deep Fog Signals
Symmetry Break Studio
Deep Fog Signals is a puzzle investigation game in which the player is a radio operator guiding a stranded research crew at Arrowflight Station through a fog storm. It has multiple endings.
Shadows of Christmas Eve
InLoop Studios
Shadows of Christmas Eve is a game in which a young girl has worsening nightmares over the Christmas season while her home changes around her. Players solve puzzles and look for clues.
isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey
TamagawaSoft
A side-scrolling platformer in which players control Kijino, a two-tailed cat-eared adventurer, exploring forest ruins on Isekizima through combat, platforming and skill upgrades.
Crimson Animatronic
Gabilva Studios
Crimson Animatronic is a horror visual novel in which werecat radio host Daiane is stalked by a vampire cult and a hunting wolf animatronic. Choices lead to one of five endings.
Caroline's Underworld
Dead Curious Games
Caroline's Underworld is an adventure game by Dead Curious Games. A girl named Caroline falls into Limbo and talks to creatures, solves puzzles and plays mini-games to find a way out.
Meander
Matchstick Studio
Meander is a crochet-inspired drawing, animating and scrapbooking game with no goals or pressure. Players create custom brushes, animate their drawings and save them to scrapbook pages.
MODice
moonburn
MODice is a dice-building roguelike in which players roll five dice, rearrange them to raise their score, and turn that score into movement around a board of shops, coins and buildings.
Strange Days
Urigami
Strange Days is a comedy-thriller adventure with Game Boy Color-style pixel art. Players control several characters and investigate a mysterious package and reported UFO sightings in the town of Triton.
Toy Worlds Atlas
Intentionally Blank Unlimited
Toy Worlds Atlas is a sandbox colouring game in which players solve philosophy-themed puzzles by applying colours. It also includes a desktop companion mode and local co-op.
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Hitobashira [人柱]
Bone Halo
Hitobashira is a survival horror game in which the player controls Yuzu, a student trapped in an alternate version of her school, solving puzzles and avoiding a pursuer. It has a PSX-inspired style.
No Murders in Grimwick
Bee and Boo Games
A short story-driven mystery adventure in which a visiting journalist investigates a death at the harvest festival in the small town of Grimwick. It has no combat or time pressure.
Rattle Spring
oddginger
Rattle Spring is a surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure inspired by Rusty Lake. The player searches a desert resort for their missing cousin, Vera Radcliff.
Spirits of Baciu
Horns Level Up Games
Spirits of Baciu is an adventure puzzle game set in Hoia Baciu forest. Players guide The Lost One, a small spirit, through point-and-click and platform puzzles.
DWARRF: A Pinball Roguelike
Sam Stubbings
DWARRF is a roguelike mixing pinball, pachinko and bubble shooter play. As Arf, a pirate dwarf, the player fires balls from a cannon to fight enemies through four levels in the mines.
Abashed
Supantha Paul
Abashed is a short 2.5D narrative psychological adventure following Issac, a man with psychosis, as he searches for his missing partner. Players use medication to alter the environment and solve puzzles.
Released Indie Games
Moon Garden
Moon Garden is an incremental game in which the player plants flowers, upgrades machinery and grows a tree tall enough to escape and return home.
Parry Survivor
Parry Survivor is an action game where an anime heroine fights endless waves of enemies called Kuns, using timed deflects to break their guard and finish them with execution moves.
Aquarium Anomaly
Aquarium Anomaly is a short first-person observational game set in an aquarium shark tunnel. Players watch for anomalies and decide whether to turn back or continue forward.
Dear Journey…
A cosy card-based travel agency game. Players read traveller letters, pair activity, destination and extra cards into journeys, and grow their agency across seven regions with no timers or fail states.
North Hunt
North Hunt is a social deduction game for one to eight players in which a Thief poses as a villager NPC while a Chief tries to identify the impostor. Bots can fill either team.
Rior’s Arena – Supporter Pack
Rior's Arena - Supporter Pack is a bundle of six cosmetic items for Rior's Arena, made by solo developer Thomas (rior). Revenue from the pack goes towards the game.
Le Fishe
Le Fishe is a short fishing game in which players visit different islands, talk to characters and try to catch the biggest fish. It has a relaxed tone and a focus on exploration.
EVERSPACE™ 2
A single-player space shooter set in the Demilitarized Zone of Cluster 34. Players pilot customisable ships through dogfights, exploration and loot-driven progression as clone pilot Adam.
Letter Lost
Letter Lost is a game in which you work as the only employee of the Wistvale Post Office on Kharnym Isle, stamping, sorting and delivering mail while living on site.
Terraria
Terraria is a 2D sandbox action game in which players dig, fight, explore and build in randomly generated worlds, gathering materials to craft gear and construct their own settlements.
Wanker
Wanker is a rhythm and timing game where players drag through video tracks with scrubbing gestures, aiming to hit an IN-OUT-IN sequence that triggers on-screen feedback.
Super Clown Spookyland
Super Clown Spookyland is a third-person platformer with ten horror-themed levels. The player jumps past traps and enemies, defeats a rock boss and collects a star to finish each level.
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