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12 Oct, 2026
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14 Oct, 2026
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14 Oct, 2026
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Going Gold
15 Oct, 2026
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15 Oct, 2026
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15 Oct, 2026
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CHAINSPIRE
SKYWARD FRAME
CHAINSPIRE is a co-op soulslike platformer for one to four players in which the party is linked by a physically simulated chain that shapes combat, platforming and puzzles.
Home Alone: The Invasion — Playable Teaser
Total Studios Entertainment
A first-person investigation teaser in which Arthur, a private investigator, explores a dark farmhouse during a storm to solve a woman's disappearance from the 1990s. It lasts roughly two hours.
Truckful
MythicOwl
Truckful puts you behind the wheel of a battered pickup, running deliveries for villagers while a mysterious old forest waits to be uncovered.
Kill Your Darlings
Stray Fawn Studio
Locked in a royal dungeon, you'll need to date your fellow monster inmates and fight alongside them just to survive. Every choice matters, and every playthrough plays out differently.
Wildaria
SpaceFudge
Tame wild animals, ride them into battle, and explore an endless procedural fantasy world in this GBA-inspired action RPG.
Tower Tactics II
asraworks
Deck-building roguelike meets tower defense, now bigger and meaner. Build decks, deploy towers, and hold the line against relentless waves.
Hello Golf
Austin Carpenter
Hello Golf is a minimalist 2D golf game with procedurally generated courses, a career mode, a daily course and local multiplayer for up to 16 players. It is now released.
HazardousExtractions
Stifz
HazardousExtractions is a cooperative game for up to four players, seen through body cameras, in which a squad retrieves a briefcase from a facility beneath an outbreak-stricken hospital.
Projects with Demos
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.
Axiomatik
Axiomatik is a VR puzzle platformer in which a low-battery robot shoots bouncing balls to light up a dark environment while searching for a charging station before time runs out.
Clamor: Bounty Hunter Pinball
Clamor: Bounty Hunter Pinball is an arcade game that combines traditional pinball tables with video game elements, including enemies to defeat and randomly generated tables.
Suqare: Hired Gun
A shooter in which you play Suqare, a mercenary taking jobs from rival corporations. Mission choices affect available work, rewards and the story. Now released.
S.A.N.D.Y. – Beach Cleaner
S.A.N.D.Y. - Beach Cleaner is a game about a cleaning robot who clears trash from a resort beach and sorts debris while uncovering a narrative set in a polluted future.
Axe & Bow Land
Axe & Bow Land is a retro platformer and puzzle game where brothers Axel and Bowie battle an ancient darkness in Aztec lands. With their magical weapons and unique abilities, they must overcome challenges in pixel art worlds and restore peace to their home.
Fish Lab
A short incremental game about collecting fish for a laboratory, with collection timed to the beat of the music.
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.
This Is No Cave
A one-click parkour game in space. Zoom through intricate levels using your suit's thrusters and grapple hook, all while evading colossal alien worms and racing against the clock.
Police Chief Simulator
Police Chief Simulator is a first-person management game in which the player runs a county police station, handling crime reports, staff and patrols across Winston Springs County.
Toxic Yuri
Toxic Yuri is a visual novel romantic comedy. An office worker in Kyoto takes in Doku-chan, a woman made of slime, and the player's choices shape how the six-episode story unfolds.
The Darkest Files
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.
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 supports solo play or local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which players control Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across levels set in a spirit world.
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 ball that moves, jumps and sticks to platforms, collecting every orb in each level to open an exit portal.
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.
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 with a retro PSX and VHS-inspired look, in which players decode Morse code signals to escape a maze while a single mistake is fatal.
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 on the Iberian Peninsula. Players lead a noble through war, diplomacy, court politics and population management.
Released Indie Games
Put Back Stuff
Put Back Stuff is a low-pressure organisation game in which players return thousands of misplaced items to the correct shelves, starting with an Australian supermarket level.
Rior’s Arena – Supporter Pack
A cosmetic supporter pack for Rior's Arena containing six items, with proceeds directed towards the game's ongoing development.
Total Futsal Manager
A management simulation in which the player runs a futsal club within the Spanish futsal structure, handling squad, training, tactics, finances and dressing room morale over multiple seasons.
Violet Stardust
Violet Stardust is a roguelike deck-building card game by a solo developer in which both the creatures you command and the rooms you explore are cards. It has now been released.
Bait Soul
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.
ClayMonsters
ClayMonsters is a game in which players sculpt and paint clay-like monsters, train them over a five-day regimen, and enter them in real-time one-on-one battles against the CPU or other players.
Roll
Roll Dice. Get Dopamine. Roll is a highly replayable, deeply strategic, and ultra satisfying dicebuilding game!
Roulette Simulator 2027
Roulette Simulator 2027 is a roulette simulation with online multiplayer, in which players place bets at a shared table by typing text commands.
Dogpile
Dogpile is a roguelike deck builder about merging cute dogs into bigger dogs. Play dogs, get money, customize your dogs with special Traits, refine your deck, PLAY MORE DOGS! DOGS!
Pizza Revolution
Pizza Revolution is a 3D pizzeria simulator in which the player takes customer orders, prepares and bakes pizzas, and serves them to customers.
Neon Cadence
Neon Cadence is a four-lane keyboard rhythm game with 30 original tracks across J-pop, K-pop, English and instrumental styles, each charted at three difficulty levels.
The Things We Don’t See: 10 Interactive Stories of Horror, Mystery, and the Unknown
An anthology of ten self-contained interactive horror, mystery and thriller stories, each shaped by player choices, with branching routes and more than 40 possible endings.
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