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12 Oct, 2026
Good Heavens!
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14 Oct, 2026
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2
Going Gold
14 Oct, 2026
Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction
Going Gold
15 Oct, 2026
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15 Oct, 2026
Chicks In Trouble
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15 Oct, 2026
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CHAINSPIRE
SKYWARD FRAME
CHAINSPIRE is a co-op soulslike platformer for one to four players in which the party is linked by a physically simulated chain that shapes combat, platforming and puzzles.
Home Alone: The Invasion — Playable Teaser
Total Studios Entertainment
A first-person investigation teaser in which Arthur, a private investigator, explores a dark farmhouse during a storm to solve a woman's disappearance from the 1990s. It lasts roughly two hours.
SPACEJK - 月市 常連札
FaSPel
Add-on content for SPACE JK. The Regular's Tag is a permanent pass for buying from the Moon Market's monthly stock without buying an entry ticket each month.
SPACE JK
FaSPel
SPACE JK is a life sim in which players look after pixel-art roommates called JK, decorate their room and collect daily stickers. It needs an internet connection and a free FaSPel ID account.
Capitalize
JL Games Studio
Capitalize is an educational financial life simulation in which the player lives from age 18 to retirement, managing a job, budget, housing, investments and businesses.
Truckful
MythicOwl
Truckful puts you behind the wheel of a battered pickup, running deliveries for villagers while a mysterious old forest waits to be uncovered.
Kill Your Darlings
Stray Fawn Studio
Locked in a royal dungeon, you'll need to date your fellow monster inmates and fight alongside them just to survive. Every choice matters, and every playthrough plays out differently.
Wildaria
SpaceFudge
Tame wild animals, ride them into battle, and explore an endless procedural fantasy world in this GBA-inspired action RPG.
Projects with Demos
ORBA
ORBA is a pixel art speedrunning game in which players strike an orb upward through the five floors of a tower before it shatters, competing for the fastest climb.
2064: Read Only Memories
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco, featuring a branching narrative shaped by player choices.
Frog It Up
Frog It Up is an idle game in which players click to spawn frogs, earn resources and use them to upgrade and expand a pond ecosystem.
Elemental Witches
Elemental Witches is a level-based roguelite survivor game where players combine Fire, Wind and Thunder elements into spells and switch between witch characters in real time.
Quiet Hour
Quiet Hour is a game about building and running an underground speakeasy, serving customers and keeping noise low enough to avoid being caught.
WomboCombo
WomboCombo is a short incremental roguelike in which the player gathers gold for an Overlord, assembles combinations of abilities and defends a temple.
Fright Train
Fright Train is a third-person action survival horror roguelike set aboard a procedurally generated train travelling through Antarctica, where players maintain the locomotive while facing monsters.
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds
Join the Fatebounds as they travel the world of Legrand in a desperate attempt to stop the Mugna Feud, a war of unparalleled savagery, and uncover the sinister forces behind it!
Gunshot Survivors VR
Gunshot Survivors VR is a VR roguelike shooter in which players upgrade a gun between waves and fight through a swarm of robot enemies across 12 waves in a single run.
The Ratline
The Ratline is a 1971-set detective game in which players investigate a murdered priest's connection to a network smuggling Nazi war criminals to freedom.
Apocalypter
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.
Museum Disarter
Museum DisARTer is a first-person organisation and deduction game in which the player returns hundreds of paintings to their collections by matching informal written descriptions to artworks.
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 supports solo play or local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which players control Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across levels set in a spirit world.
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 ball that moves, jumps and sticks to platforms, collecting every orb in each level to open an exit portal.
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.
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 with a retro PSX and VHS-inspired look, in which players decode Morse code signals to escape a maze while a single mistake is fatal.
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.
Crown Of Hispania
Regalis Studio
Crown of Hispania is a grand strategy game set in 1035 AD on the Iberian Peninsula. Players lead a noble through war, diplomacy, court politics and population management.
Released Indie Games
Davy bones
Davy Bones is a score-chasing pirate roguelike based on Yacht Dice, in which players roll, lock and reroll five dice while buying trinkets and upgrades between rounds.
Lanky Looters
A multiplayer hide-and-seek heist game in which thieves try to steal goods before a timer expires while officers work to stop them, playable online with friends or offline against bots.
Solvimus
Solvimus is a two-player online cooperative puzzle game set in the labs of the I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. Initiative. Players work together across 30 puzzles, each seen from a separate perspective.
Waterpark Simulator
Build and run your own waterpark solo or with friends. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a diamond five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!
Custom Corner
Custom Corner is a room-decorating game by an indie couple. Players build an isometric pixel-art room and use built-in productivity tools such as a focus timer, to-do list and notes.
Flock Around
Flock Around is a multiplayer bird watching game. Explore a nature sanctuary with friends, snap pictures of birds, and fill out the guide book!
Post Office: Tidy Up!
Post Office: Tidy Up! is a single-player sorting simulator in which players return 3,360 parcels, scattered by an earthquake, to their correct slots in a postal depot.
Deep Rock Galactic
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
Crime Podcast: 1976
Crime Podcast: 1976 is a first-person psychological horror walking simulator. The player controls Thomas Hayes, a retiring FBI agent, whose evening is upended by evidence he hid long ago.
Dataminers – Artbook and Making-of
Dataminers - Artbook and Making-of is a 29-page PDF companion to Dataminers, covering the game's creation with concept art, design boards and development background.
Leap Tactics
A pixel-art platform puzzle game in which every jump toggles nearby mechanisms. Players combine jumps with interactive elements to find a route to each level's goal.
Hotel Architect
Hotel Architect is a hotel construction and management game in which players design, build and run hotels at locations around the world, in either a Career Mode or a Sandbox Mode.
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