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Slap The Gamer Interactive Studios
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Star Space
Going Gold
20 Sep, 2026
DIY Dadish
Going Gold
20 Sep, 2026
Dear Journey…
Going Gold
20 Sep, 2026
PixelPop 2087
Early Access
20 Sep, 2026
Pirouette & Smile
Going Gold
20 Sep, 2026
Augmented Yut
Going Gold
Coming soon
Cyberpunk Survivor
Going Gold
20 Sep, 2026
Lootborne
Going Gold
21 Sep, 2026
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Slap the Gamer
Tired Game Dev Interactive Studios
Slap an obnoxious gamer, rack up an absurd slap count, unlock achievements, and endure increasingly annoying taunts in this deliberately stupid arcade clicker inspired by the chaotic spirit of classic Flash games.
Screw IT
Kyrel
Screw IT is a workbench organising simulator in which the player sorts 777 nails and one screw by type and size, repairs damaged nails with tools and places them into storage boxes.
Emo Lisa
Playshare Ventures S.R.L.
Emo Lisa is a facial expression training game built around the Japanese concept of kuuki wo yomu, or reading the room. Players learn to recognise eight fundamental human emotions.
Cube Crusaders
Frentwick Indie
Cube Crusaders is a metroidvania style action game set on the planet Adoros, playable solo or in local co-op, with a separate wave-based PvE horde mode that supports online play.
cm360
shel
cm360 is a utility for converting mouse sensitivity settings between games, launching with support for more than 50 titles alongside keyboard bind and controller dead zone visualisers.
Noctiria
Daniele Doesn't Matter
Noctiria is a horror roguelite deckbuilder set in a decaying 1990s city. Choose one of six heroes, combine brutal status effects, manage your Sanity and consumable relics, and permanently upgrade your arsenal between descents.
Save Mom
Amigos Entertainment
A co-op action game about protecting your mom in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore ruined cities, gather resources, upgrade your motorhome, build defenses, and battle enemies. Your mission: Get Mom to safety. Her survival is in your hands!
Vibe Lab: Idle Dev Sim
Green Growth Digital
A cozy idle game about vibe-coding with AI. Hire a crew of agents, climb a five-branch upgrade tree, and dress the whole lab from 80 cosmetics across five tiers. Progress lands in minutes, not days — no subscriptions, no daily check-in. Numbers go up, vibes stay immaculate.
Projects with Demos
Golden Swirl
Golden Swirl is a deckbuilding roguelike with semi-real-time combat, in which players move and dodge enemy attacks while choosing when to play cards from a deck built during each run.
The Solyani’s Code
A 3D sci-fi action adventure set on the moon Selene, in which maintenance technician Elara and her luminous companion Luma explore alien ruins, fight, solve puzzles and craft potions.
Road Rage Royale
Road Rage Royale is a racing fighting game for 2 to 4 players set in a cyberpunk post-apocalyptic world.
Heave Ho 2
Grab, swing and splatter your way through eight ridiculous worlds, now with online chaos alongside the local couch carnage. Heave Ho 2 is dumb fun at its finest.
REPLACED
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.
Dungeons of Hinterberg
Dungeons of Hinterberg is an action-adventure game in which Luisa explores dungeons and open-world terrain in the Austrian Alps, combining puzzle-solving, combat and town-based social activities.
Soft(A)ware
Soft(A)ware is a surreal puzzle-platformer set in a virtual prison, where players shift gravity and rewind time to solve puzzles and evade hostile constructs. Now released.
Corsair Cove
Corsair Cove is a vertical city builder in which players construct a pirate settlement on cliffs and hilltops, managing production chains and an armada to resist the Crown's pirate hunters.
Planet Killer
Planet Killer is a physics-driven destruction roguelite in which players pilot a ship and bombard fully simulated pixel-based planets, carving craters and surviving planetary defences.
Cloudscrapers
Cloudscrapers is a minimalist strategy game about building towers as high as possible, unlocking upgrades between attempts and uncovering relics hidden within the clouds.
Trading Card Inspector
Inspect your way through dozens of unique, hilarious cards in this chilled-out papers-please-em-up! Identify and appraise cards from The World's Most Coolest TCG! Start your new job as an official Habubis Trading Card Inspector and uncover a tale of friendship, corporate espionage and murder?!
Gun Shop 3
Gun Shop 3 is a shop management simulation in which the player runs a firearms store, assembling custom weapons, appraising used guns and completing contracts.
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
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players scavenge, fight and trade while customising cars to stay alive.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure set at a wedding in a French château, combining visual novel storytelling with point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements.
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow
Vertex Horizons
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow is a linear puzzle-adventure game set on a ruined planet, where solving puzzles gradually reveals the story of a lost civilisation.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a narrative game in which you work as a surveillance operator in a retro-futuristic dystopia, monitoring citizens, enforcing laws and making choices that affect the story.
Shuffle and Seek
Groovy Zebra Studio
Shuffle and Seek is a 2-4 player party game of memory and mischief! You split into two teams: one secretly rearranges everything in the room, and the other tries to figure out exactly what changed.
DEVIL'S WAY: BOHEMIAN
Rose Game Studio
A dark comedy survival game in which players guide James DUD through a surreal dystopia run by a malevolent AI, choosing between doors that lead to unpredictable, often hostile scenarios.
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.
Chomp Garden
PawPaw Games
Chomp Garden is a puzzle game in which you play a small lamp guiding plants with light while searching a garden for your lost pup.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
A first-person simulation game about running a shop that sells collectible mystery eggs, with options to open eggs for figures, craft dioramas and trade on an online marketplace.
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2
Skyhook Games
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 is a working simulation set in the USA in which players run a lawn care business using licensed equipment from Kubota, SCAG and STIGA.
Furyball: Rogue Revenge
Rebound
An action roguelite in which you fight through the gang-ruled city of Neo-Arcadia using a bouncing Furyball, modifying it with modules and equipment across procedurally varied runs.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Jump, dash, dodge, and fight countless stellar bosses in a 2D action-platformer playable solo or with up to 8 players locally, featuring unlockable powers, upgrades, cinematic QTEs, and an emotional story.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which Kiko, a girl trapped in a spirit world, uses portals and Spirit Powers to alter gravity and time across four seasonal domains.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a speedrun-focused 2D platformer with multiple biomes, seasonal challenge modes and worldwide leaderboards.
The Piper of Dawn
Bone Nail
A story-driven management RPG set in Diamond City, where you play an alchemist growing magical crops and running a shop while dealing with six factions whose support decides the city's fate.
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.
Island Restoration
EliteTheDev
A cleaning game in which you sail between polluted islands, removing hazards, rescuing animals and upgrading tools to restore each one to a natural state.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
A build-focused action roguelite in which you play a Bait Soul fighting through a dangerous dungeon, using auto-attacking weapons, dodging and a loadout system of Soul Orbs and Support Items.
Yami Kids
Yanako RPGs, GameDevTosh
Yami Kids is a retro-styled monster-taming RPG in which twins Yuki and Yuumi Yami collect and train more than 80 Oni while moving between the Overworld and the Underworld.
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
A biographical kinetic novel about Abraham Lincoln, the third entry in the Important People of History series, covering his life, the US Civil War and the end of slavery through present-day photographs of historic sites.
Dash Dot Die
Iron Interactive Games
Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game built around Morse code, in which the player decodes signals through light, sound and timing to survive a captor's deadly game.
It's Fine
Buma Games
It's Fine is an incremental game about surviving the last 24 hours of development crunch, in which players code, upgrade and prestige towards a stable build under a dog Project Manager named Joe.
Released Indie Games
Alien Morgue
Alien Morgue is a sci-fi pathologist simulator in which players examine alien bodies to determine cause of death and decide how to handle the deceased's remains and belongings.
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.
Waterpark Simulator
Build and run your own waterpark solo or with friends. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a diamond five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!
Wanker
Wanker is a rhythm-based interactive title in which the player drags through video tracks using physical scrubbing gestures, with timing and direction changes triggering on-screen feedback.
Reus 2 – Jurassic
Re-create the age of dinosaurs with this new expansion, introducing the Mesozoic Wilds, a whole new biome that shifts between three distinct modes depending on the biotica you place there.
Save Mom
A co-op action game about protecting your mom in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore ruined cities, gather resources, upgrade your motorhome, build defenses, and battle enemies. Your mission: Get Mom to safety. Her survival is in your hands!
RimWorld
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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.
TapyBuddy
TapyBuddy is a desktop companion featuring a capybara that reacts to your keystrokes while you work or play, with more than 100 collectable accessories used to customise its appearance.
Tidy or Treat
Tidy or Treat is a co-op organising game in which players return scattered Halloween stock to the shelves of a shop before 31st October. It can be played solo or with friends.
Ratten Reich
Ratten Reich is a steampunk/dieselpunk RTS set in a war between anthropomorphic rat, mouse, cockroach and lizard factions across three continents.
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Build the level with your mates, then place traps and hope they don't make it to the end. Chaos guaranteed.
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