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Worming from Home
Zach Northrop, Mason Sabharwal
You're a worm doing office work from home, flopping across the keyboard to answer emails and fudge spreadsheets. Corporate life has never been this floppy.
ShipShaper: Falconeer Chronicles
Tomas Sala
ShipShaper lets you pull, push and shape your own boats and ships from scratch, no 3D skills needed. Build anything from humble fishing boats to full-on dreadnoughts.
BOMBANANA!
Lefto Studio
Three monkeys, one bomb, zero shared senses. Blind hands, mute knowledge, deaf eyes - work out how to talk to each other before everything goes boom.
He Who Watches
Bobby Vanden
Walk on walls, walk on ceilings, and bend gravity itself to solve over 100 devious puzzles in this atmospheric first-person head-scratcher.
Vibe City Islands Architect
Day 1 to 100
A small gridless city-building game set on tropical islands, with a high score mode built around four objectives, a free sandbox mode and ten in-game radio stations.
Lumina:Last Bloom
ねむは
A short, atmosphere-focused pixel-art adventure about spending seven final days with a girl suffering from the mysterious Hanasaki Disease. Playtime is roughly one to two hours.
Peekablock
Goose Gang Games
Peekablock is a multiplayer party game where Hiders build custom disguises from shapes and Hunters try to spot which objects are fake.
OBITT Escape from the room
Bears
You stray from a shrine into a room and become a palm-sized person. This is an escape action game to find your way out through trial and error from a miniature perspective. Manage your HP to survive and break free from this giant room! A time attack mode is included for an extra challenge.
Projects with Demos
VOIDFACE
VOIDFACE is a bullet hell game where every enemy is a boss fight and players have only one life to survive challenging encounters.
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.
Settler’s Domain
Build up your settlement from scratch, manage resources, research new tech and decide whether to make friends or enemies of your neighbours. It's classic settlement building done right.
How Many Dudes?
Recruit an army of ridiculous Dudes and break the game with absurd synergies. It's roguelike autobattling chaos and we're obsessed with it.
Hexarchy
Hexarchy squeezes empire building, deckbuilding and hex tactics into games that wrap up in under an hour. Turns out 4X doesn't need to eat your whole evening.
Road Rage Royale
Road Rage Royale is a racing fighting game for 2 to 4 players set in a cyberpunk post-apocalyptic world.
Venice After Dark
A point-and-click adventure and visual novel set in Venice, following programmer Aiko and AI companion Thea as they investigate a mysterious crime through puzzles and blurred realities.
Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn’t
Cursed Words starts like Boggle and ends somewhere else entirely, letters, numbers, chess pieces, whatever the run throws at you. It's a roguelike word game that quietly stops being a word game.
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.
Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts
Scriptorium is a relaxing creative game where players design illuminated manuscripts using medieval-style art assets, either through story commissions or free-form sandbox creation.
MORSE
Learn Morse code and blast the Kaiser's fleet out of the water in this tense two-control naval strategy game. Timing, tactics and telegraphy are your only weapons.
Fading Serenades
Fading Serenades is a cozy top-down courier adventure where you deliver parcels, befriend islanders, and uncover mysteries on Clifford’s Island.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
Crabs: Chef's Story
3 Guns Ltd
Crabs: Chef's Story is a 2 to 8 player PvP brawler for online or LAN play, in which crabs fight across a hazard-filled kitchen in rounds lasting two to seven minutes.
EVERSPACE™ 2
ROCKFISH Games
EVERSPACE 2 is a single-player space shooter set in the Demilitarized Zone of Cluster 34, combining dogfighting, exploration and loot-based ship customisation across seven star systems.
Serial World
Serial Project
Serial World is a roguelike dungeon crawler RPG in which Milo explores the town of Bricktown and repeating dungeon loops with a trio of creatures called Anima.
2064: Read Only Memories
MidBoss, LLC.
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco, featuring a branching narrative shaped by player choices.
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds
SEMISOFT
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds is a JRPG-style adventure set in the hand-drawn fantasy world of Legrand, combining turn-based combat with tactical warfare.
33 Immortals
Thunder Lotus
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.
WARCANA
1000 Orks
WARCANA is a real-time base defence strategy game combining deck-building with large-scale army summoning, playable in single-player campaigns or multiplayer battle royale modes.
Town to City
Galaxy Grove
Town to City is a grid-free city builder where players design towns and cities freely, growing population and economy across multiple connected settlements.
Tiny Glade
Pounce Light
Tiny Glade is a relaxing, free-form building game where players construct castles and cottages without goals, resource management, or failure states.
Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
Perspective Games, Bellwood Studios
A city-building simulation set in Aztec Mesoamerica, where players grow a single city into an empire while managing citizens, resources and religion.
The Scouring
Orc Group
The Scouring is a real-time strategy game combining base building, resource management, and army control with an action RPG hero mode and multiplayer battles for up to 8 players.
The Precinct
Fallen Tree Games Ltd
The Precinct is a 1980s-set police sandbox game where you play a rookie cop patrolling a living city, responding to crimes and investigating your father's murder.
The Darkest Files
Paintbucket Games
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.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Questline
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a first-person open-world RPG set in a dark fantasy realm inspired by Arthurian legend, offering branching quests and flexible character builds.
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
Gamexcite
A story-driven survival strategy game in which players command the U.S.S. Voyager, managing its crew and resources through the Delta Quadrant.
Rue Valley
Emotion Spark Studio
Rue Valley is a narrative game about escaping a time loop in a small town, where players shape their character's personality and relationships through repeated days.
Schedule I
TVGS
Schedule I is a business simulation game in which players build a drug empire from scratch in the fictional city of Hyland Point.
Revenge of the Savage Planet
Raccoon Logic Studios Inc.
Revenge of the Savage Planet is a first-person exploration and platforming game in which a laid-off space employee explores alien worlds to gather upgrades and secrets.
REPLACED
Sad Cat Studios
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.
MENACE
Overhype Studios
MENACE is a turn-based tactical RPG in which players command a strike force of marines, mercenaries, and criminals across a war-torn star system, managing squads, vehicles, and branching operations against human and alien threats.
Master of Command
Armchair Interactive
Master of Command is a real-time tactical strategy game set during the Seven Years' War, combining battlefield combat with campaign-level army and supply management.
Mars Attracts
Outlier
A theme park management game set on Mars where players run a Martian-owned amusement park stocked with abducted humans from throughout history.
Drova - Forsaken Kin
Just2D
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.
Echo Point Nova
Greylock Studio
Echo Point Nova is an open-world FPS from the makers of Severed Steel, playable solo or in 4-player co-op, combining grapple hook and hoverboard traversal with combat against mercenaries and colossal bosses.
Released Indie Games
Woodfel
Woodfel is a single/multiplayer, open-world building & crafting game.
Outer Wilds
An exploration-focused adventure centred on discovery and environmental storytelling.
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.
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.
Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn’t
Cursed Words starts like Boggle and ends somewhere else entirely, letters, numbers, chess pieces, whatever the run throws at you. It's a roguelike word game that quietly stops being a word game.
Escape the Backrooms
Get lost in the Backrooms with up to three mates, and try not to lose each other (or your minds) before you find the exit.
Future Knight
Future Knight is a 2D action shoot 'em up in which a robot and a sentient tumour travel eight hours into the past to stop a cult leader from wiping humanity's memories.
Party Animals
Party Animals is a chaotic multiplayer brawler where floppy physics, cute animals, and competitive party modes collide.
Espresso Tycoon
Espresso Tycoon – the future of tycoon games is here! The sound of the coffee machine, the unique aroma of coffee grounds... in your own café!
F2 A! Idle Army
F2 A! Idle Army is an idle strategy game in which players upgrade a hero, buy units and unlock tech while the army fights waves of monsters automatically.
Who’s Lila?
A disturbing psychological horror game built around facial expressions and perception.
Airborne Empire
Build a city that actually flies, keep it balanced in the sky, and fend off pirates while exploring a huge open world below and above the clouds.
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