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8 Nov, 2026
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FEED ME MORE BRAINS
Sheraf Studio Inc
FEED ME MORE BRAINS is a first person incremental game in which the player feeds brains to a dark god, spends Orbs on a skill tree to shape its mutations, and gradually automates the process.
Moon Swarm
Spyra_Labs
Moon Swarm is an idle auto-battler in which players defend a moon from alien waves using automated guns. It runs in a small corner of the desktop alongside other activities.
Clean Start
Serious Sim
Clean Start is a puzzle game in which players clean and tidy clients' homes as Lena, an immigrant maid, and learn each room's story from the objects they find. There are no time limits or game overs.
Diamonds and Spades
Ghostio Games
Diamonds and Spades is a roguelite card game in which players draw from a 100-card deck to score points, using tarot cards to change the rules. It includes a built-in editor for custom cards.
You'll Be Mined
Andrei Kovalev
An incremental dungeon crawler built around timed minesweeper fields. Players clear cells to gain time, avoid mines to keep their hearts, and buy upgrades between rounds.
Stamperor! The Jester's Decree
Moon Mind Studio
Stamperor! The Jester's Decree is a decision-driven city builder in which the player rules an empire as a jester, using stamps with special effects to answer citizens' requests.
Swarm Harvest
Purple Bean Games
Swarm Harvest is a survivors-like auto-shooter where players fight alien swarms, place defensive towers, and harvest resources for a space corporation.
Backmarkers: A Racing Management Sim
Late Apex Games
Backmarkers is a racing management sim in which the player runs a low-budget team in a fictional three-tier series, handling live race strategy, drivers, staff, sponsors, finances and car development.
Projects with Demos
Schrödinger’s Call
A narrative game in which Mary, with no memories, answers phone calls from souls caught between life and death in the final moments before the moon falls and the world ends.
Leap Tactics
Leap Tactics is a pixel-art platform puzzle game in which jumping toggles the mechanisms in each level. It includes over 80 levels and an undo function.
Dystopicon
Dystopicon is a dystopian time management game in which the player, a Class-2 citizen, watches television for pay, spends earnings on services, and chooses between obedience and rebellion.
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.
BuGarden
BuGarden is an idle gardening game that sits in the corner of the screen as a desktop companion. Players plant seeds, tend flowers and keep a snail companion with a customisable shell.
Drova – Forsaken Kin
Drova - Forsaken Kin is a pixel art action RPG with Celtic mythology influences, set in a handcrafted open world where the player's choices affect the story and surroundings.
Regions of Ruin: Runegate
Regions of Ruin: Runegate is an exploration-focused action RPG in which a lone dwarf rebuilds a haven for surviving dwarves while uncovering the history of their ancestors.
Too Many Balls
Too Many Balls is an incremental clean-up simulator in which players collect sports balls from arenas, earn money from drop-offs and spend it on upgrades. It also includes golf and basketball mini games.
2064: Read Only Memories
A cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco, in which a journalist helps a ROM named Turing search for their missing creator. It features a branching narrative and multiple endings.
Cloudbreaker
Cloudbreaker is a roguelite survivors-like set in a sky-world. Players pilot upgradeable airships, fight hordes of enemies and arrange Engine Parts in a grid-based inventory puzzle.
Snuggle Nightmare: Tung Tung Sahur Horror Story
A horror game in which journalist Max Brush investigates an abandoned indoor theme park, Brain World Rots, while avoiding animatronics that remain active inside.
ION Shift
ION Shift is a 2D platformer in which the player controls an alien creature surviving aboard a hostile space ship, using dashes, throwable items and enemy friendly fire in sandbox-style combat arenas.
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
DEEPLANDERS
SOPA Games
DEEPLANDERS is a minimalist construction puzzle game in which players build underground cities and match each arriving character with a suitable place to live.
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.
Released Indie Games
POWDR
POWDR is a GPU-accelerated particle sandbox simulating powders, liquids, gases, heat and combustion, with up to 1,000,000 active particles and autonomous stickmen who build settlements.
Gnomes
Turn based tower defence meets roguelike as your gnomes defend the garden from an ever growing goblin horde. Every run's different, every night's a fresh fight for survival.
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II
A turn-based tactics game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Players lead either the Adeptus Mechanicus or the Necrons through separate story campaigns for control of a contested world.
Aniimo
Aniimo is a free-to-play open-world creature-catching RPG set on the continent of Idyll, where players collect creatures called Aniimo and can Twine with them to use their abilities.
Custom Corner
Custom Corner is a room-decorating and desktop companion game from an indie couple team. Players build an isometric pixel room and use built-in focus timer, to-do list and notes widgets.
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.
SIDE OUT
SIDE OUT is a last-side-standing arena game in which each player defends one edge of a polygon against incoming balls. Eliminated players become saboteurs. It runs on Steam, web and phones.
Rogue Racer
Rogue Racer is a narrative-driven combat racing adventure in which two estranged brothers travel across a continent to obtain medicine for a loved one.
Another Eden Begins
Another Eden Begins is a command-battle RPG in which Aldo travels through time to search for his sister. It features full voice acting, 18 companions and a New Game+ mode with over 10 endings.
Little Corners
Little Corners is a sticker book style creative game. Players peel and place stickers to decorate eight themed rooms, with lofi music, hidden stickers and an in-game screenshot feature.
Dark Farts: Parody Smell Edition
Dark Farts: Parody Smell Edition is a comedic action-RPG parodying Souls-like games. Players control a blacksmith with dragon powers who uses gas-based abilities in combat.
Post Office: Tidy Up!
Post Office: Tidy Up! is a single-player sorting simulator in which the player returns 3,360 parcels to their racks in a depot after an earthquake. There are no timers and no fail state.
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