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Send Them to Hell
cbgames
Send Them to Hell is a 2.5D action roguelite in which players fight demon hordes solo or in online co-op for up to four players, across several game modes with item-based character builds.
CryptidCam
Mothman Mothman Studios
A short photography adventure in which the player photographs cryptids such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster in the woods for cryptozoologist Dr. Ted Krupp's research report.
Tom the Postgirl
Oopsie Daisies, ARTE France
Tom's just a postgirl doing her rounds, but she can't resist peeking through every window and door in this weird little village. Turns out everyone's got something to hide.
Danchi Days
sandy powder, Melos Han-Tani, mogumu, gingham games
A 12-year-old girl tries to revive her danchi's summer festival while reconnecting with her grandma, who's living with dementia. Sweet, funny, and a little sad.
Pixel Coloring World
Milk Poison
Pixel Coloring World is a pixel colouring game in which players fill numbered grids to reveal 12 themed images, ranging in size from 50×50 to 200×200 pixels.
INTUS
Nahuel Martinez
INTUS is a short, first-person psychological horror game set in a rented apartment, where the player spends a weekend operating an inspection robot remotely to complete work reports.
Les aventures extraordinaires d'Alec Orbusier - Acte 1 : Le Tombeau de Taâl Rash'a
Icosaèdre
A puzzle-adventure game in which university archaeologist Alec Orbusier explores the tomb of Taâl Rash'a. Developed by Pharazon of Studio Icosaèdre.
Tiny Capsule Collector
Playing Mantis
An idle game in which the player runs a small Gachapon capsule shop along the bottom of the desktop screen. Animal customers visit, collectables are gathered, and Twitch viewers can appear as visitors.
Projects with Demos
Revenge of the Savage Planet
Revenge of the Savage Planet is a co-op exploration adventure in which a laid-off space worker is stranded on alien worlds and must scan life, capture creatures and craft upgrades to get home.
Pigeon: A Love Story
Pigeon: A Love Story is a flying game set in full-scale versions of five cities, where the player searches for a pigeon soulmate among hundreds of thousands of autonomous pigeon characters.
Cité Alexandrie
Cité Alexandrie is a VR narrative management game set in an alternate 1980s France where books, music and comics are banned. Players run a covert network that smuggles cultural goods.
I Need to Fix My Dream Car (But I Work at a Junkyard)
A junkyard game in which the player digs through scrap piles, fills customer orders, rescues dogs and earns money to rebuild a rusty old car into their dream car.
INDUSTRIA 2
INDUSTRIA 2 is a narrative first-person shooter and sequel to INDUSTRIA. Nora, stranded in a parallel dimension, is drawn back into the artificial intelligence ATLAS.
Don’t Stop The Pop!
Don't Stop The Pop! is an incremental game in which players sweep a cursor across the screen to pop popcorn against a timer, earning cash to spend on upgrades, new flavours and scratch cards.
Critical Chaos
Critical Chaos is a turn-based RPG inspired by SNES and PlayStation-era games. A former martial artist searches for a missing loved one in the war-torn world of Statera.
How Asian Parents went to School
A co-op and solo game based on a tall-tale commute to school, with mountain climbing, hazards and a bear in a cat mask. It supports one to four players online.
No Quarter
No Quarter is a Caribbean naval game in which a single captain sails a brig between ports, fights ships and forts, runs cargo contracts and manages faction reputation.
Waterpark Simulator
Waterpark Simulator is a first-person management game in which players design, build and run a waterpark, either solo or with friends. It includes custom slides, staff, quests and a day and night cycle.
The Gate Must Stand
A medieval fantasy roguelike tower defense game set in the city of Belrak. The player controls a hero and recruits followers to defend a city gate against waves of invaders.
Davy bones
Davy Bones is a pirate-themed roguelike based on Yacht Dice, in which players roll five dice, choose scoring categories and build up their score across a series of rounds.
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.
Snackrifice
Karnage Studios
Snackrifice is a roguelike with procedurally generated dungeons in which players enter Purgatory to retrieve Imps for their Master. It supports online co-op for up to four players.
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.
Released Indie Games
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.
helionaut
Helionaut is an open-world space adventure about fixing a TV. Players explore a procedurally generated universe, gather resources, craft gear and fight robots on the way to the centre of the universe.
Nothing Strange Here
Nothing Strange Here is a cozy mystery adventure set in the town of Larcenest Gap, where the player is a new journalist who photographs events and publishes articles that change how the town responds.
Put Back Stuff
Put Back Stuff is an organisation game in which players tidy a messy supermarket and craft store by returning thousands of misplaced items to their correct shelves, at their own pace.
Summer of Singing Insects
A casual game with a cicada-themed 25-key electronic keyboard, timed forest insect catching, and a breeding box. It features 42 singing insect species that unlock as keyboard tone skins.
DiceRoll
DiceRoll is a strategic roguelite game set in endless rooms, where players carry accessories and abilities between runs and compete on leaderboards.
Echo Point Nova
Echo Point Nova is an open-world first-person shooter for solo or four-player co-op, set on a planet controlled by a mercenary force that uses ancient technology to build weapons.
Fish Lab
Fish Lab is a short incremental game in which players collect fish for a lab, with the action synced to music. Fish are collected by hovering the cursor over them.
Cosmic Fear
Cosmic Fear is a first-person Lovecraftian horror adventure in which the player investigates signs of an ancient presence, solves puzzles and searches for hidden alien statuettes.
Lumina:Last Bloom
Lumina: Last Bloom is a short pixel-art adventure game in which the player spends seven days with a girl who has the "Hanasaki Disease". It is a linear story that takes about one to two hours.
F2 A! Idle Army
An idle strategy game in which players upgrade a hero, buy units and unlock tech while an automated army fights endless waves of monsters.
Warcat Parade
Warcat Parade is a bullet hell game inspired by Touhou Project. Punk catboy Lumi sets out to rescue his sister Lunta and free a town from the Viper dictatorship.
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