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Recently Released
Late Shift
AstronautCat Studios
Experience found-footage horror through the eyes of a missing cinema employee. Navigate a looping cinema, find anomalies, uncover the truth, and break the loop. Make sure every room is checked... thoroughly, or risk becoming another missing employee.
Neo Junk City
Starblade Games
A cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in the half-sunken Drowned City. The player controls Buster 09, investigating a murder they know they committed but cannot remember.
Another Card Game
Use Your Imagination group
Another Card Game is a multiplayer PvP card game for up to 8 players per match, with a bot mode called No Friends. Players build spells of one to three cards to defeat opponents.
It's About Pirates
Elderwoof Games
It's About Pirates is a survivors-like in which players command a ship against waves of enemies, collecting loot and upgrading weapons and parts. It is now released, with one DLC item on Steam.
Hextracer
Amenadude
Hextracer is a time-trial puzzle game set in hex mazes that are only partly visible. Players can run solo or race up to six others online on the same mazes.
Cobble Climber
Henry Mead
Cobble Climber is a difficult climbing game in which the player controls each hand separately while ascending a well, with rising water and timed holds adding pressure.
The Tally
Olivia Gonsher
The Tally is a life simulation set in Corvid City, in which the player lives out a full life and receives a final itemised account of their choices. It is made by aninsecurecarrot.
Abashed
Supantha Paul
Abashed is a short 2.5D narrative psychological adventure following Issac, a man with psychosis, as he searches for his missing partner. Players use medication to alter the environment and solve puzzles.
Projects with Demos
WilderDash
WilderDash is a tower defense roguelite for one to six players. Players gather resources and build towers by day, then defend their base from monsters at night on procedurally generated maps.
United Heist: Facility Zero
United Heist: Facility Zero is a two-player co-op puzzle game. Each player works in a separate location and uses in-game voice chat to help their partner solve puzzles and escape a secret bunker.
Tabula
Tabula is a level-based puzzle game in which players overlap computer windows to form top-down paths for a character called Little Bit, set inside a mysterious operating system.
Bait Soul
Bait Soul is an action roguelite with a cultivation theme. Players use a Soul Orb and Support Item loadout, with automatic attacks, to fight through a dungeon.
Weekend Solitaire 7 Grace In Motion
Weekend Solitaire 7: Grace in Motion is a card matching puzzle game set in forest landscapes, with over 200 handcrafted levels across three game modes.
No Knock
No Knock is an open-world theft simulation game in which the player robs targets, builds a crew of burglars, sells stolen goods, and takes on police and rival gangs.
Clamor: Bounty Hunter Pinball
Clamor: Bounty Hunter Pinball is an arcade game that combines pinball tables with video game features. Players fight waves of enemies on randomly generated tables with a choice of 12 ball types.
Hextracer
Hextracer is a time-trial puzzle game set in hex mazes that are only partly visible. Players can run solo or race up to six others online on the same mazes.
Mycelium Heaven
Mycelium Heaven is a puzzle game in which the player guides a fungus with an unusual diet to save its forest home from a zombie outbreak, spending energy to spread, bloom or consume.
Diaspora
Diaspora is a text-based interactive novel by Vincent Cunningham and JJ Laurier. The player leads a displaced clan south by sea and decides its alliances and future.
Raiders 1941
Raiders 1941 is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up in which the player flies one of two experimental planes across Europe to Berlin, with 60Hz and 120Hz options and Steam leaderboards.
Another Card Game
Another Card Game is a multiplayer PvP card game for up to 8 players per match, with a bot mode called No Friends. Players build spells of one to three cards to defeat opponents.
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 find a suitable home for each arriving character. It is currently in Early Access.
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
Fantasy Network
Fantasy Network is a 2D hand-drawn metroidvania in which Lyn competes in talent shows across the land of Holua to win the President's Race and rescue her kidnapped mother.
Might & Poison Mushroom
Might & Poison Mushroom is a prologue to Might & Mushroom. Players build a team of mushroom heroes through a customisable shop and reroll system, then watch automatic battles play out in a dungeon.
Tabula
Tabula is a level-based puzzle game in which players overlap computer windows to form top-down paths for a character called Little Bit, set inside a mysterious operating system.
Increvaders
Increvaders is a game in which players destroy swarms of enemies to earn points, spend those points on powers, and face bosses.
Tom the Postgirl
Tom's just a postgirl doing her rounds, but she can't resist peeking through every window and door in this weird little village. Turns out everyone's got something to hide.
KARMA: The Dark World
A first-person psychological thriller set in an alternate 1984 East Germany, in which the player takes the role of a Roam Agent who investigates crimes by entering the memories of suspects.
The Plant Shop
The Plant Shop is a horror game in which the player runs a late-night plant shop as Silvia, crafting plants for customers while strange events linked to an old town curse unfold.
Tides of Caldmere
Tides of Caldmere is a dark-fantasy turn-based tactical RPG in which units act on a shared speed-based timeline instead of separate player and enemy phases.
False Alarm
False Alarm is a stealth game in which the player is a thief for hire, breaking into guarded buildings to steal targets by distracting security and avoiding detection.
Dawson Oaks Trailer Park
Dawson Oaks Trailer Park is a social deduction game in which suspects carry out role-specific urges, a Supervisor watches for crimes, and a hidden Snitch passes information on.
Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns
A remaster of the 1980s Amiga strategy game Defender of the Crown, in which players conquer territories, raise armies and storm castles. It offers three modes: Retro, Classic and Kingdom.
Project P.I.T.T.
Project P.I.T.T. is a physics-based production game in which a new intern crafts rubber ducks and feeds them to a growing pit called the Maw, set in a PSX-style corporate facility.
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