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What's Coming
Full calendarSeptember 2026
Code: Terraform
Early Access
9 Sep, 2026
War of Genesis: Idle Loot
Early Access
9 Sep, 2026
SuperStore Simulator
Early Access
9 Sep, 2026
Travel Agency Simulator
Early Access
9 Sep, 2026
Crosstalk
Early Access
9 Sep, 2026
WARDOGS – Supporter Pack
Going Gold
10 Sep, 2026
Cursed and Fading
Going Gold
10 Sep, 2026
Infinity: HexaDome Tactics
Going Gold
10 Sep, 2026
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Super Glitch Dash
David Marquardt Studios
Super Glitch Dash is a first-person, music-driven runner in which players dodge hazards across handcrafted abstract courses, learning each level through repeated attempts.
Super Takoyaki Battle
SAT-BOX
A takoyaki cooking game in which players fill a grill with batter and ingredients, flip the balls with a pick and compete for points across party, versus and score attack modes for up to four players.
Travel Agency Simulator
World of Travel
An incremental management game about growing a travel agency from a single desk into a worldwide network of tours, hotels, cruises and landmark experiences.
SPACE JK
FaSPel
SPACE JK is a life sim in which players care for pixel-art roommates called JK, decorate their room and collect daily stickers. It requires an internet connection and a free account.
Cockroach Simulation
WIZWIN
Cockroach Simulation is a life simulator in which the player controls a cockroach living in the house of an old hunter, searching for food while avoiding traps and the homeowner.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 - Sage of Joseon
Crytek
A cosmetic DLC for Hunt: Showdown 1896 that adds the Roaming Sage Hunter, two weapon variants, two consumable variants, an avatar and a frame, all themed around a Joseon scholar.
Backseat
HOGO Games
Backseat is a night-time taxi driving game in which you follow orders from a figure called BK26, transporting dangerous passengers and gathering information to recover your kidnapped wife.
SPACEJK - 月市 常連札
FaSPel
A permanent Regular's Tag for the Moon Market in SPACE JK, letting account holders buy from each month's rotating stock without purchasing a monthly entry ticket.
Projects with Demos
Aaero2
A rhythm driven rail shooter where you trace light, fire to the beat, and fly through music powered worlds with tracks from Monstercat and Black Razor Records.
Cat Me If You Can
A hidden-object game set in black-and-white comic-style 3D worlds, where players search for over 725 cats, photograph them and solve puzzles across nine levels.
SmashCore
SmashCore is a short physics-based incremental game in which the player smashes asteroids using gravity powers, feeds the resulting dust to a core and spends the rewards on upgrades.
Leap Tactics
A pixel-art platform puzzle game in which every mechanism is toggled by the player's jumps. Combine jumping with interactive mechanics to open a route to each level's goal.
Mortal Shell II
Mortal Shell II is a standalone sequel featuring open-world exploration and stamina-free combat, in which players seek out and possess the Shells of eight lost warriors.
CastleOn
Build your fortress, man the walls and survive the Third Crusade in this deep turn-based castle building strategy game.
Cataclismo
Cataclismo is a strategy game in which players build brick-by-brick fortresses to defend humanity's survivors against nightly waves of Horrors.
BALL x PIT
Chuck balls into a bottomless pit, fuse them into ridiculous combos, and rebuild a city while you're at it. BALL x PIT is roguelite chaos in the best way.
Trading Card Inspector
A chilled-out papers-please style card checking sim set inside a deeply weird trading card corporation. Spot the fakes, value the real ones, and try not to lose your mind.
Pigeon: A Love Story
Fly through life-size versions of London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and Amsterdam looking for your one true pigeon soulmate. It's a slow game for fast times.
33 Immortals
33 Immortals is a co-op action-roguelike supporting up to 33 players in a single run, fighting monster hordes and bosses through instant matchmaking.
NORCO
A Southern Gothic sci-fi adventure exploring identity, industry, and family in a decaying Louisiana town.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
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.
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.
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.
Gunclone Arena
Off North Games
Gunclone Arena is a top-down arena shooter set in the year 2250, in which a contestant fights waves of Gunclones and Mechs in a televised bloodsport for Cash and follower Likes.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Lorenzo Ametrano
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Released Indie Games
Surviving Mars: Relaunched – Feeding the Future
Feeding the Future is an expansion for Surviving Mars: Relaunched that adds delicacies, new food production and dining buildings, food-related colonist traits, commander profiles and laws.
Last Signal
An exploration simulator set on a deserted island after a shipwreck, where the player uses an in-game operating system and hands-on interaction to uncover what happened there.
Dice Tavern: Farkle Roguelike
A roguelike deckbuilder based on the dice game Farkle, in which players collect and modify dice to beat thirty opponents across six taverns.
BALL x PIT
Chuck balls into a bottomless pit, fuse them into ridiculous combos, and rebuild a city while you're at it. BALL x PIT is roguelite chaos in the best way.
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II
A turn-based tactical strategy game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, offering two playable factions, the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Necrons, each with their own campaign.
Scritchy Scratchy
Scratch cards, big payouts, and just enough chaos to keep you hooked. Scritchy Scratchy is the incremental game where luck does the heavy lifting.
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.
Spiritstead
Spiritstead is a cosy city builder where humans and spirits team up to build a village that's as charming as it is functional.
Woodfel
Woodfel is a single/multiplayer, open-world building & crafting game.
SPACEJK – 月市 常連札
A permanent Regular's Tag for the Moon Market in SPACE JK, letting account holders buy from each month's rotating stock without purchasing a monthly entry ticket.
Nothing Strange Here
A mystery adventure in which you play a newly arrived journalist in the town of Larcenest Gap, photographing events and publishing articles that change how the town reacts.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Euro Truck Simulator 2 is a driving simulation game in which players deliver cargo by truck across more than 60 European cities.
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