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Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest
IQ Games
A cooperative puzzle platformer for two players, or one playing both characters, featuring forest spirits with different elemental abilities and physics-based levels.
Blightstone
Unfinished Pixel
Blightstone is a strategy roguelike in which players protect the Earthglass Crystal and deliver it to the Infernal Rift to defeat the demon overlord Korghul. It is now fully released.
Elsewhere
Four White Cats
Elsewhere is a massive sandbox crafting game where you go from stone tools to fusion power and particle accelerators, with magic, monsters and castles thrown in for good measure.
Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction
Gilded Rune Games
Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction is a noir roguelite in which the player is a detective. Using clues from characters who may be lying, they arrest syndicate members in procedurally generated cases.
Pixel Washer
Valadria
Pixel Washer is a cleaning game in which the player controls a pig with a power washer, removing dirt from pixel art levels and earning coins to upgrade equipment.
Chicks In Trouble
Creamative
Chicks In Trouble is a 3D farm adventure in which a father rooster searches for his missing chicks. It has separate single-player and co-op campaigns, plus four mini-games.
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2
Auroch Digital
A single-player first-person shooter and sequel to Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. It features a branching campaign, two playable characters and enemies drawn from the four Chaos god factions.
Good Heavens!
Nowhere Studios
Good Heavens! is a survival RPG set on procedural floating islands. Players explore, build a home, restore cities and fight bosses, solo or online with up to 8 players.
Projects with Demos
HELLDROP
HELLDROP is a minimalist flight shooter in which the player pilots a spaceship deep beneath a planet's surface to detonate a nuclear bomb at its core.
Cataclismo
Cataclismo is a strategy game in which players build brick-by-brick fortresses to defend humanity's survivors against nightly waves of Horrors.
Carnaval Marbles
Carnaval Marbles is a roguelike that combines French billiards with a dark-fantasy carnival setting, where players build each run from Talismans, Marble Bonuses and Runes.
Wasteland Bites
Wasteland Bites is a post-apocalyptic food truck simulator where players prepare strange meals for unusual customers while managing stress and resources.
Cursed and Fading
Cursed and Fading is a game in which every step costs one of six stats as you cross a procedurally generated world to find and defeat the lich that cursed you.
Monster Meals
Monster Meals is a time-based cooking game in which players run a food truck, hunting creatures like rats and pigeons to cook for monstrous customers, solo or in co-op.
Murmuring of Moth Mouth
Murmuring of Moth Mouth is a short psychological horror visual novel in which a woman named Yuna drives to a job interview along a highway where conflicting instructions guide her route.
Cat Me If You Can
Cat Me If You Can is a charming and cozy game where you explore beautifully handcrafted black-and-white worlds, searching for hidden cats to photograph and bring their colours back into the world.
Soggy Beans
Fish will come, fish will go. Take photos, collect beans, decorate your seascape, then relax or do other things while your friends swim by in this calming side-idler.
Runeomicon
Draw runes, summon dark gods and take bloody revenge on the peasants who wronged you. Precision is everything in this frantic ritual survival game.
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is a survival fleet-management roguelite combining procedural narrative events with real-time tactical space battles.
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.
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 can be played solo or in local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which the player controls Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across a spirit world divided into four seasonal domains.
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 small ball that sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open an exit portal. A controller is required.
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.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
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.
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 where the player decodes Morse code to survive a maze of corridors, rooms and vents, in a retro PSX and VHS-inspired style.
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.
Released Indie Games
Chop Chop Together
A chaotic 1–4 player co-op party game where housemates take on ridiculous jobs, earn cash, and put their friendships to the test during the wildest workdays imaginable. Work together under pressure, face unpredictable hazards, and survive fast-paced chaos where teamwork is the only way out.
Driving Rogue
Driving Rogue is a run-based driving game where players race through a changing city, beat rival drivers to unlock their cars and upgrade their vehicle with modifier cards.
Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest
A cooperative puzzle platformer for two players, or one playing both characters, featuring forest spirits with different elemental abilities and physics-based levels.
Capture Bridge (easy capture card share)
Capture Bridge is a Windows and macOS application that shows a USB capture card's feed in a low-latency window for screen-sharing or direct play, with built-in audio routing.
Island Restoration
Island Restoration is a cleaning game in which the player sails between polluted islands, removing hazards and rescuing animals. Islands are randomised and tools can be upgraded.
La eclissi
A single-player card RPG that alternates between a visual novel and blackjack-based card battles, following Rozet as he searches for his childhood friend Philae.
ION Shift
ION Shift delivers fast, high-stakes gameplay with precision controls and a unique sandbox-style approach to combat arenas. The campaign progressively challenges the player through evolving level design, tight mechanics, and a focus on player-driven mastery.
Escape From Duckov
Escape From Duckov is a survival extraction game where players scavenge, loot and fight their way through duck-themed maps to escape with their supplies intact.
HOT WHEELS™ Infinite Rush
HOT WHEELS Infinite Rush is an open-world racing game set across four islands, featuring over 150 collectable vehicles, a Track Builder and single-player, split-screen and online modes.
Dawn Dew – Realm Heart
A realm within a realm, it reveals countless faces to different people. Fiction and reality intertwine here, while the heart of this domain quietly awaits convergence. Embark on a journey of the soul, and discover where a reborn spirit shall go.
Gold and Robot
Gold and Robot is a puzzle game in which you guide a robot through 55 handcrafted maze levels, collecting gold, avoiding enemy tanks and planning routes before cells turn into walls.
Date Everything!
Date Everything! is a dating simulator in which household objects become dateable characters after the player receives a pair of magical glasses.
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