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Breakout Garage
Early Access
22 Sep, 2026
Sproutmart – Grocery Store Simulator
Early Access
22 Sep, 2026
Crown Of Hispania
Early Access
22 Sep, 2026
RogueHanafuda
Early Access
22 Sep, 2026
Galvatein : Adventurers’ Guild
Early Access
22 Sep, 2026
Obscurity: Unknown Threat
Early Access
22 Sep, 2026
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Early Access
22 Sep, 2026
BONETOX
Early Access
23 Sep, 2026
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Realindustry
AssemblyPrime
Realindustry is a single-player factory-building and incremental game in which players develop a production chain from hand tools to antimatter in order to manufacture a Hyperdrive Engine.
Woman Simulator
Sebasa Games
A household simulation in which the player takes the role of a housewife completing domestic chores under the supervision of a controlling husband who punishes poor work.
False Hero
Torchlight Games
False Hero is an action game in which a masked scholar steals attacks from defeated enemies and chooses whether to serve the gods of life or Death.
Imberite Idle
Chnappi
Imberite Idle is a steampunk idle incremental game in which you place structures on a grid to gather resources, open chests to collect new structures and arrange them to increase production.
Evymind Clips: Automatic Highlights & Shorts
Magilith
Evymind Clips is a video tool that analyses the spoken content of a recording to identify self-contained moments, which can then be reviewed, adjusted and exported as clips or shorts.
Curve Fever Pro
Jos Games
Curve Fever Pro is an online multiplayer arena game in which players steer a constantly moving ship that leaves a trail, competing against up to nine others in rounds of survival and point stealing.
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance: Evolution
Slitherine Ltd.
A story expansion for the real-time strategy game Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance, adding an eight-mission campaign set in Canada with new units, factions and human augmentation technology.
WilderDash
Wise and Wild
WilderDash is a tower defence roguelite for one to six players, in which you gather resources and build towers by day, then defend your base against monsters by night.
Projects with Demos
The Plant Shop
A cozy horror game where you craft plants for late-night customers while you manage a small plant shop. Expand your plant collection, upgrade your shop & grow your business.
MORSE
Learn Morse code and blast the Kaiser's fleet out of the water in this tense two-control naval strategy game. Timing, tactics and telegraphy are your only weapons.
Settler’s Domain
Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.
Driving Rogue
Drift, slipstream, and chain risky near-misses at insane speeds to build huge combos. Adapt to procedurally generated streets and challenges, upgrade your ride, unlock abilities, and stack powerful cards to break records. Climb the Redline rankings and fight your way to the top of the leaderboards.
Chief Cenab : Şahmaran
Follow Chief Cenab on the trail of the Şahmaran legend. Told in a black-and-white comic book style with color accents unique to each part, this point-and-click adventure draws you into a deep atmosphere and mysterious events.
ORBA
ORBA is a time-based climbing game in which players strike an orb upward through a five-floor tower before it shatters, collecting random ability charms and racing other players' ghosts.
A Case of Fraud
A short, non-linear detective adventure where every clue is hidden in plain sight. Carefully read and cross-reference documents to unravel a CEO’s disappearance and expose a case of fraud.
Roman Sands RE:Build
A service industry adventure with an apocalyptic flavor. A manic genre mashup told across two broken realities. Step through the cracks: find your Exit.
The Bird of the North
In 1921: a kidnapping, a revolution... Investigate and uncover the truth behind a dark, mysterious story.
Golden Swirl
Golden Swirl is a deckbuilding roguelike with semi-real-time combat, in which players move and dodge enemy attacks while choosing when to play cards from a deck built during each run.
Tiny Farmie
An ultra-tiny idle farming simulation you can place anywhere on your desktop. Start your cozy farming life anytime.
AKIBA LOST
Thirteen years ago, six girls vanished in Akihabara in the unsolved case “The Akiba Vanishing”. Daiki Shinjo announces a live-action game based on the incident, gathering six women who embody Akihabara’s subculture. But their story begins to seep into reality. Can AKIBA LOST be finished?
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
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players scavenge, fight and trade while customising cars to stay alive.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure set at a wedding in a French château, combining visual novel storytelling with point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements.
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow
Vertex Horizons
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow is a linear puzzle-adventure game set on a ruined planet, where solving puzzles gradually reveals the story of a lost civilisation.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a narrative game in which you work as a surveillance operator in a retro-futuristic dystopia, monitoring citizens, enforcing laws and making choices that affect the story.
Shuffle and Seek
Groovy Zebra Studio
Shuffle and Seek is a 2-4 player party game of memory and mischief! You split into two teams: one secretly rearranges everything in the room, and the other tries to figure out exactly what changed.
DEVIL'S WAY: BOHEMIAN
Rose Game Studio
A dark comedy survival game in which players guide James DUD through a surreal dystopia run by a malevolent AI, choosing between doors that lead to unpredictable, often hostile scenarios.
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.
Chomp Garden
PawPaw Games
Chomp Garden is a puzzle game in which you play a small lamp guiding plants with light while searching a garden for your lost pup.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
A first-person simulation game about running a shop that sells collectible mystery eggs, with options to open eggs for figures, craft dioramas and trade on an online marketplace.
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2
Skyhook Games
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 is a working simulation set in the USA in which players run a lawn care business using licensed equipment from Kubota, SCAG and STIGA.
Furyball: Rogue Revenge
Rebound
An action roguelite in which you fight through the gang-ruled city of Neo-Arcadia using a bouncing Furyball, modifying it with modules and equipment across procedurally varied runs.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Jump, dash, dodge, and fight countless stellar bosses in a 2D action-platformer playable solo or with up to 8 players locally, featuring unlockable powers, upgrades, cinematic QTEs, and an emotional story.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which Kiko, a girl trapped in a spirit world, uses portals and Spirit Powers to alter gravity and time across four seasonal domains.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a speedrun-focused 2D platformer with multiple biomes, seasonal challenge modes and worldwide leaderboards.
The Piper of Dawn
Bone Nail
A story-driven management RPG set in Diamond City, where you play an alchemist growing magical crops and running a shop while dealing with six factions whose support decides the city's fate.
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.
Island Restoration
EliteTheDev
A cleaning game in which you sail between polluted islands, removing hazards, rescuing animals and upgrading tools to restore each one to a natural state.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
A build-focused action roguelite in which you play a Bait Soul fighting through a dangerous dungeon, using auto-attacking weapons, dodging and a loadout system of Soul Orbs and Support Items.
Yami Kids
Yanako RPGs, GameDevTosh
Yami Kids is a retro-styled monster-taming RPG in which twins Yuki and Yuumi Yami collect and train more than 80 Oni while moving between the Overworld and the Underworld.
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
A biographical kinetic novel about Abraham Lincoln, the third entry in the Important People of History series, covering his life, the US Civil War and the end of slavery through present-day photographs of historic sites.
Dash Dot Die
Iron Interactive Games
Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game built around Morse code, in which the player decodes signals through light, sound and timing to survive a captor's deadly game.
It's Fine
Buma Games
It's Fine is an incremental game about surviving the last 24 hours of development crunch, in which players code, upgrade and prestige towards a stable build under a dog Project Manager named Joe.
Released Indie Games
GridEnergy
Become the ultimate energy tycoon in this strategic incremental game. Start with humble coal mines, build complex supply chains, manipulate the stock market, and fund cutting-edge research to build the ultimate power source: a Dyson Sphere.
Important People of History: Presidents – Abraham Lincoln
A biographical kinetic novel about Abraham Lincoln, the third entry in the Important People of History series, covering his life, the US Civil War and the end of slavery through present-day photographs of historic sites.
STAMPED
NEXUS CORP, sub-basement 7-A. Stamp the forms. Ask nothing. Since 1952, forty-six clerks have vanished at this desk - you are the forty-seventh. Cross-check every claim on your terminal, rule APPROVED or REJECTED, and try not to wonder what the paperwork is really sealing.
Berserk Boy
BERSERK BOY is a high speed action packed Platformer, with Metroidvania elements. Packed with vibrant and stylish pixel art. Go Berserk! as you change into different forms and use the power of Lightning, Fire, Ice, Air, and Earth to save the planet!
Date Everything!
Date Everything! is a dating simulator in which household objects become dateable characters after the player receives a pair of magical glasses.
Sort The Toys
Sort The Toys is a relaxing organizing simulator where you place over 3,400 toys onto their designated shelves. Play at your own pace, unlock helpful skills, and enjoy the satisfying process of bringing complete order to a cluttered toy store.
Baryum
Baryum is a first-person space sim set in a solar system modelled at real scale, with planets positioned from actual orbital data. Players take contracts, mine, trade and fight from a base at the ISS.
A Short Hike
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
A Hat in Time
A Hat in Time is a 3D platformer following a young space traveller who collects lost Time Pieces and stitches magical hats for special abilities across five distinct worlds.
Stack Together: To the Moon – Stack, Build & Escape
A physics-based co-op stacking game for up to four players, in which you build a tower from boxes delivered through portals while identifying anomalous boxes and slowing an approaching meteor.
Immortal Dao Idle
Immortal Dao Idle is an idle cultivation game inspired by xianxia and wuxia novels, in which the player gathers Qi, breaks through realm barriers and competes against rivals.
Peacemaker: Bloody Emperor
A turn-based JRPG following a princess knight whose ideals erode as she fights a usurping emperor, with difficulty options ranging from combat-free to extreme.
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