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Recently Released
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.
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.
Blightstone
Unfinished Pixel
Blightstone is a strategy roguelike in which players protect the Earthglass Crystal and deliver it to the Infernal Rift to defeat the demon overlord Korghul. It is now fully released.
Chicks In Trouble
Creamative
Chicks In Trouble is a 3D farm adventure in which a father rooster searches for his missing chicks. It has separate single-player and co-op campaigns, plus four mini-games.
Projects with Demos
Drova – Forsaken Kin
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.
CloverPit
A rogue-lite slot machine nightmare. Gamble for your life in a never-ending debt simulator!
Increvaders
Increvaders is a game in which players destroy swarms of enemies to earn points, spend those points on new powers, and take on boss encounters.
Moon Garden
Moon Garden is a cosy incremental game in which you plant flowers, tune machinery and grow a tree tall enough to carry you home.
Who’s Lila?
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Little Ghost
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.
33 Immortals
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.
Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers
Battle your way through a seedy tavern filled with gambling addicted townspeople in this Blackjack Roguelike Adventure. From aces and face cards to tarot cards, business cards and more, create your unique deck to beat the house.
Rita
Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.
Hazard Pay
Hazard Pay is a pixel-art, grid-based block-pushing puzzle game set in a dystopian world, in which the player works alone to destroy evidence in abandoned and contaminated facilities.
Alpha Particle
Alpha Particle is sci-fi action game about a defenceless particle that must overcome it's obstacles creatively
Wait, Cards I Memorized?
A memory training game based on the Memory Palace technique, in which players memorise playing cards using body-based memory hooks and association images across three phases.
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 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
Velvet 89
How did the communist regime in Czechoslovakia fall? This hidden-object game tells the story of ordinary people taking part in the peaceful demonstrations that changed the course of history. Big crowds hide those, who want to tell you why they took to the streets.
Hades
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Lucent
Lucent is a complex, logic-based puzzle game with a simple goal: Hit the target within the provided moves.
WORDLACE
WORDLACE is a word puzzle game where clues are traced through neighbouring letter tiles on a grid. It has 1,600 puzzles, split evenly between English and Russian.
MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls
MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls is a 4v4 tag team fighting game featuring 20 Marvel characters, developed by Arc System Works with PlayStation Studios and Marvel Games.
Doomsayer
Doomsayer is a turn-based tactics roguelike in which you declare your next move before acting, enemies commit their response, and you may then break your word to outmanoeuvre them.
Dear Journey…
Dear Journey... is a cosy card-based game in which you run a travel agency, reading traveller letters and pairing activity and destination cards to plan trips that meet each traveller's stated needs.
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.
Kaya’s Prophecy
Kaya’s Prophecy is a unique card based village builder! establish your village, gather resources, and craft tools and buildings in a vibrant world. Explore and combat various challenges and other groups in this colourful, deck-builder while appeasing your god to earn his favour.
RIPGRAZE
RIPGRAZE is a short arcade score-attack game set in a deep sea where a single input flips gravity and players earn power by grazing past hazards.
Sad Virus Ruined Land
Sad Virus Ruined Land is a third-person walking simulation game in which the player guides Sad Virus through a dystopian ruined world to find nine hidden beer bottles.
The Doomed Draw (大凶)
The Doomed Draw (大凶) is a game in which a cat girl on your screen gives you one fortune slip each day, with a one in a thousand chance of drawing the day of great misfortune.
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