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Settler's Domain
rick
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.
Zodiac Mountain
Mystic Road
Climb a mythic mountain as a card-slinging panda, wielding Yin and Yang hands to outsmart gods, demons and zodiac bosses.
False Alarm
Scattered Discs
A stealth heist game where you break into offices, hotels and museums to nick whatever your clients want. Sneak, distract, manipulate, and if it all goes wrong, improvise.
Mexican Ninja
Madbricks
A fast, chaotic 2.5D roguelike beat 'em up where Narcos and Yakuzas collided into one mad city, and you're the ninja out to smash it apart.
Grim Trials
Glory Jam
Grim Trials is a heavy metal action roguelite in which players craft weapons and armour to battle through hex-grid arenas as a Reaper named Avelin.
VOIDFACE
Frog Hat Labs
VOIDFACE is a bullet hell game where every enemy is a boss fight and players have only one life to survive challenging encounters.
Lootbound
ArtDock
Lootbound is a roguelike where players build a squad of companions, manage inventory-based item auras, and assemble a boss across multiple biomes.
Area Survivors
Furo-Pizza Studio
Paint the battlefield, hold your ground and defend the tower as endless hordes close in on you. Survival horde combat with a twist you actually control.
Projects with Demos
The Royal Writ
Command your cards into battle where every card that reaches the enemy base is gone for good. Sacrifice your subjects wisely and build a legacy worth remembering.
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.
IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator
IRON NEST is a brutal dieselpunk heavy-artillery game where you dominate the battlefield through a colossal war machine. Take map measurements based on the received coordinates, strain the hydraulics, and gunlay the cannons to unleash devastating blows ⟹ Will you obey High Command, Operator?
Deck of Haunts
Deck of Haunts unleashes its biggest free update yet with new creatures, cards, rooms, starter decks & more. Available now on Steam.
The Kind Camomille
A short relaxing 3rd person exploration game focused around the concept of random acts of kindness
DEADLINE DELIVERY
Race as Carl the monkey mailman in a chaotic racer where your truck’s rigged to blow. Deliver fast, dodge obstacles & survive solo or with 8 players.
Time to Morp
A cosy base-building adventure where you look after adorable Morps, farm, fish, and build a whole town with up to three mates. Solo or co-op, it's all about slowing down and making a home somewhere strange.
Alchemist: Journey of the Soul
First-person adventure game, playable solo or co-op with up to 4 players. Use your magical abilities to solve puzzles or navigate through areas! Explore, use items, brew potions and unlock your full alchemical potential. Are you willing to do what it takes to claim a soul of your own?
The Gate Must Stand
The Continent has fallen and Belrak's last gate needs a defender. Pick your hero, recruit followers, and fight tooth and nail to keep it standing.
Border Pioneer
Build a town from scratch, deck-build your way through it, then defend it every month when the enemies come knocking. Pixel art frontier life has never been this tense.
Axe & Bow Land
Retro Aztec platformer where brothers Axel & Bowie battle ancient darkness with magical weapons, pixel charm & tough arcade challenge.
Moss: The Forgotten Relic
Moss: The Forgotten Relic is an atmospheric puzzle-adventure combining Moss and Moss: Book II into a single adventure, guiding a small mouse hero through a fallen kingdom.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
Grim Trials
Glory Jam
Grim Trials is a heavy metal action roguelite in which players craft weapons and armour to battle through hex-grid arenas as a Reaper named Avelin.
Book Nook
Malapata Studio
Book Nook is a relaxing puzzle game in which players assemble miniature diorama scenes piece by piece, placing furniture, decorations and small details to complete cosy book nook designs.
Moss: The Forgotten Relic
Polyarc, Blackbird Interactive
Moss: The Forgotten Relic is an atmospheric puzzle-adventure combining Moss and Moss: Book II into a single adventure, guiding a small mouse hero through a fallen kingdom.
Kint
Conor Souness
Kint is a text-based online multiplayer RPG in which players explore the world of Seram and vote collectively to determine which discovered lore fragments become canon.
Silky Rails
JoyDoza
Silky Rails is a train-building survival game where players assemble and upgrade carts to automatically battle waves of enemies along the Silk Road.
Lootbound
ArtDock
Lootbound is a roguelike where players build a squad of companions, manage inventory-based item auras, and assemble a boss across multiple biomes.
Rita
SporkTank
Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.
ShelfLife: Art School Detective
Fnife Games
A detective dating sim in which psychic art student Johana investigates nine suspects to uncover who has been destroying priceless artworks.
Pixel Washer
Valadria
Pixel Washer is a cleaning game where players control a piggy using a power washer to remove grime and reveal pixel art scenes across a town.
Nocturne
Pracy Studios
Nocturne is a story-driven RPG set after humanity's extinction, combining rhythm-based combat with traditional RPG exploration and progression.
Appulse
Le Rado
Appulse combines roguelite action, top-down shooting and pinball mechanics, tasking players with defending a fleet using recoil-based ball control.
Hope in the City
Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.
Hope in the City is a narrative mystery game set in Shenyang, following 17-year-old Hope Song as she investigates her parents' sudden disappearance.
Woodo
Tiny Monks Tales
Woodo is a cozy diorama puzzle game where players assemble wooden scenes piece by piece, following the story of Foxy and Ben the frog.
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2
D'Avekki Studios Ltd
A Lovecraftian mystery game in which players act as both therapist and detective, questioning suspects to uncover a killer whose identity is randomised each playthrough.
Holstin
Sonka
Holstin is a survival horror game set in a decaying 1992 Polish town, where the player searches for a missing friend amid monstrous corruption.
Toxic Crusaders
Retroware
Toxic Crusaders is a beat 'em up featuring seven playable characters battling across eleven pixel-art levels, with local co-op for up to four players.
Schrödinger's Call
Acrobatic Chirimenjako
Schrödinger's Call is a narrative picture-book-style game about Mary, an amnesiac woman who answers phone calls from souls caught between life and death in the moments before the moon falls and the world ends.
Catechesis
Baroque Decay
Catechesis is a Horror RPG in which a demon-possessed altar boy must stay virtuous by day and battle demons by night to save his grandfather.
The Last Caretaker
Channel37 Ltd
A first-person survival-crafting game in which a robotic Caretaker explores a flooded ruined Earth to recover human seeds and prepare humanity for launch into orbit.
General Practice
Mokum Games
General Practice is a co-op game for up to four players in which players run a chaotic GP clinic, treating patients using various medical devices and contraptions.
Mutter
DeadlyCrow Games
Mutter is a stop-motion styled adventure game set in 1940s rural England, following a boy caring for his mother as she transforms into something monstrous.
Croak
WoodRunner Games
Croak is a fast-paced 2D platformer in which a Frog Prince uses tongue-grapple and bounce mechanics to navigate hand-drawn levels and break a curse on his kingdom.
The Dark West
Black Hand
The Dark West is an occult western Action RPG set in a corrupted 19th century frontier, combining lethal ranged combat with deep character building and loot systems.
Time To Wake Up
Eye Blink Twice
Time To Wake Up is an atmospheric psychological thriller in which players navigate a dream built from surreal school memories, using their eyes to alter the environment.
Released Indie Games
Echobreaker
Speedrun through live-fire combat courses where slowing down time is the only way to go faster. Precision, risk, and pure momentum.
Townscaper
Build quaint island towns with curvy streets. Build small hamlets, soaring cathedrals, canal networks, or sky cities on stilts.
Montabi – Art Book
Dive into the visual The Art of Montabi with this digital artbook. Packed with 154 pages of behind-the-scenes concept art, playable creature design sheets, character animation planning, and developer lore insights. The ultimate companion piece for any trainer.
The Gate Must Stand
The Continent has fallen and Belrak's last gate needs a defender. Pick your hero, recruit followers, and fight tooth and nail to keep it standing.
The Royal Writ
Command your cards into battle where every card that reaches the enemy base is gone for good. Sacrifice your subjects wisely and build a legacy worth remembering.
FlashBoss – Greek Roots
FlashBoss - Greek Roots is a vocabulary study tool with 1,000 flashcards teaching English words through their Greek roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
Alpha Particle
A sci-fi action game about a defenseless particle that has to overcome it's obstacles creatively
Tap Tap Loot
Type your way to loot glory as a tiny cat hero. Every keystroke pushes you forward through bosses, biomes, and way too much treasure.
Hypergate
Hypergate is an arcade-style 3D space combat game. Its emphasis is on action and high-speed combat rather than ultra-realistic physics or resource management.
Party Animals
Party Animals is a chaotic multiplayer brawler where floppy physics, cute animals, and competitive party modes collide.
PEAK
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where one silly mistake can end it all, and only teamwork gets you to the top.
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.
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