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Full calendarSeptember 2026
Iron grid
Going Gold
7 Sep, 2026
Shelf Happens
Going Gold
7 Sep, 2026
Pierline
Going Gold
7 Sep, 2026
Tower Lab
Early Access
7 Sep, 2026
Arcaneering: Beyond Automation
Early Access
7 Sep, 2026
Pumpkin Woods
Early Access
7 Sep, 2026
Soft(A)ware
Going Gold
7 Sep, 2026
Chronime Puzzle: Animals
Going Gold
7 Sep, 2026
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Aethercrypt
AtneGames
Aethercrypt is a fantasy, party-based, turn-based roguelike deckbuilder with two class decks, playable solo or in co-op for up to four players via LAN or online.
Leap Tactics
Mingri Studio
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.
Ninja Cards and Ninja Battle Master
Ldk
Ninja Cards and Ninja Battle Master is a two-mode game combining a turn-based attribute card game with a floor-based ninjutsu mode in which players defeat monsters to progress.
Arcanum Idle
Lanier Labs LLC
Arcanum Idle is an incremental game set in an inherited study, where eight tiers of Sigils feed into one another and progress is reset across five distinct layers.
Don't Touch Me - Goblin Zombies
Candy Studio
A fast-paced action game set in a cursed underground realm, where players fight goblins, undead warriors, hooded hunters and beasts while trying to survive as long as possible.
Texture Map Studio
lonelystar_game
Texture Map Studio is a tool for generating and editing PBR texture maps from an Albedo texture, with 2D and 3D previews and export presets for Unity URP, Unreal Engine and generic workflows.
Speed Weaver
Andrew Ferguson
Speed Weaver is an endless lane-splitting driving game in which players weave through procedurally generated highway traffic, earn near-miss score multipliers and unlock 20 tiers of vehicles.
Last Haven: Idle Survival
WishHaveFun OPC
Last Haven: Idle Survival is an idle post-apocalyptic survival game in which players build and maintain a shelter that continues to run while they are away.
Projects with Demos
Ravenous Devils
Ravenous Devils is a point and click management game about a tailor shop and pub that turn customers into ingredients and clothing materials.
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.
INDUSTRIA 2
INDUSTRIA 2 is a narrative first-person shooter in which Nora returns to a machine-dominated parallel dimension to confront her role in creating the artificial intelligence ATLAS.
I.T. Never Ends
A tech-support simulator where players process surreal help desk tickets, swiping to approve or deny requests while balancing four shifting metrics.
The Steps as we know them
A chess based puzzle game. Using the moves of chess you find your way through different worlds.
Crack That Smile
Crack That Smile is a 2D incremental game in which you hover a circular cursor over frozen ice blocks to break them apart and free the emojis trapped inside.
Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown
A story-driven survival strategy game in which players command the U.S.S. Voyager, managing its crew and resources through the Delta Quadrant.
Crumble
Crumble is a physics-based platformer where players swing, jump, and survive collapsing levels using a grappling tongue mechanic.
Scale the Depths
A fishing and cooking game where a small robot catches, prepares and serves fish to mythical and animal customers across four distinct locations.
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.
Voidling Bound
Voidling Bound is a monster-taming 3rd-person shooter with branching evolution, DNA splicing & high-octane battles. Coming Q1 2026 to Steam.
Alien Morgue
Alien Morgue is a sci-fi pathologist simulator in which players examine alien bodies to determine cause of death and decide how to handle the deceased's remains and belongings.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
Nine to Never
BowsZtar, Alter, PinkFresh
Routine is safe. Predictable. Comfortable. But what if that comfort hides something… dangerous? In this game, your job isn’t just to work. Will you stay where it’s safe, or risk everything to uncover what’s beyond?
Second Monitor Football
Tramvay Games
A lightweight, physics-based football auto-simulation designed to be played or watched on a second monitor just press play and let the match unfold.
Normal Golf Game
Luke Muscat
A very normal golf simulator. Hit anything. Shoot from anywhere. But remember: you’re not leaving until Luke Muscat himself (Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride) is satisfied.
Fruitbearer
Mangobits Studios, Aico Labs
A visceral reimagining of the Suika-style physics puzzler, rebuilt as a punishing dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder. Awaken as forgotten deity of bounty, stripped of grandeur, now facing sunless barrens and monsters. To restore balance, you must grow. To grow, you must sacrifice.
Echoes of Mora
Selkies Interactive
A boy went missing. A village drowned. And somehow, you can reach into the past. Dive into the sunken ruins of Mora's village, unlock portals to the days before the flood, and share what you find with Mora across time. What you uncover could change her fate, and that of everyone she loves.
CITADEL
Liam Atkinson
Awake from your slumber and venture out to the mighty CITADEL.
Echoes of Mora VR
Selkies Interactive
Swim with your own arms through a mysterious sunken village in VR. Hidden in flooded houses lie traces of those who lived here. One of them is Mora. Follow her trail through portals to the days before the flood and help her find her lost brother. What you uncover could change everything.
IGTAP: an Incremental Game That's Also a Platformer
Pepper Tango Games
Amass an army of clones to follow your tightly-optimised path. Generate massive amounts of power to upgrade your production and movement abilities.
Custom Corner
Crowd of Two
Custom Corner is a cozy simulation and focus tool that runs quietly in a corner of your screen. Create your own isometric room with over 325 items and enjoy lo-fi music. Boost your productivity while working or relaxing with devices like a to-do list and focus timer.
PixelPop 2087
StylerFunk Games
Enter the rooms, grab the keys, proceed and... try to stay alive! Choose your style: melee or fireguns? Fight your way through, get the keys and unlock new rooms!
Dear Journey...
Cosynook Games
Run a cosy little travel agency, one letter at a time. Travellers write in and tell you what they are hoping for. Plan the journey that gives it to them, card by card, and watch it unfold. Satisfy them, and they may write back...
Night of the Living Bubble
Studio Nailgun
NOT YOUR AVERAGE NIGHT SHIFT... When clocking into work, you find that your business has been overrun by monsters borne from the products on the shelves. Constructed by a mad scientist bent on world domination, only YOU can stop them and save the world by shooting monsters with your Nailgun.
At Face Value
SplishSplash Games
Look, it's a deck of cards. Click it. Get Points. Make the number BIG. Stack four suits that all do different jobs, print gold, and feed an upgrade tree that seems endless, until a humble 52-card deck is doing things a deck of cards should not.
Dewdrop
Second State Games
Turn physics into music. Draw vines, guide dewdrops through vibrant puzzles, unlock new sounds, and create your own melodies in a relaxing musical sandbox.
Bot slash Bot
Traveller's Box
You click - You dash - You slash. Bot slash Bot is a fast-paced, top-down Hack n‘ Slash in which you control a rogue robot slashing & dashing through your former co-machines holding you captive! It's all about speed. Time is running out.
Tape 101: Liminal Descent
Suversa, Nana
A psychological horror descending through liminal spaces shaped by the Kübler Ross model - the five stages of grief, where your perception and an RC car are the only tools to grasp what’s real.
Sunken Realms
Magic Puncher Games
Sunken Realms is a focused, ARPG dungeon crawler with rogue-lite elements, about a son searching for answers. Descend into an abandoned underground city, battle monsters, craft new gear, and master forgotten spells. Get stronger. Go deeper. Find the truth.
Too Many Balls
HeartBerry Studio
There are too many balls. No one knows why. Your only option? Collect them. All of them. Yes, even that one in the corner.
Draco and the Seven Scales
Ice Goat Games
Set sail on a voyage full of pirates, dark magic, and the thrill of discovery! Draco and the Seven Scales is a retro-inspired adventure that harkens back to an age of top down dungeon crawlers and lovable, crunchy pixel art.
Nightwater
Studio Ashty
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Toxic Yuri
Yuri Kissaten
An overworked office lady discovers a sludge girl abandoned in a box in an alleyway and takes her home. A poisonous and fluffy romance begins. Experience the most toxic love story the world has ever seen.
Noctiria
Daniele Doesn't Matter
Noctiria is a horror roguelite deckbuilder set in a decaying 1990s city. Choose one of six heroes, combine brutal status effects, manage your Sanity and consumable relics, and permanently upgrade your arsenal between descents.
WomboCombo
wannabe
Become the hero in this fast-paced incremental roguelike game! Show off your reaction skills to your Overlord, earn massive gold, stack game-breaking upgrades, and forge powerful combos to survive relentless enemy waves.
Waterjacked!
A Frog's Pond
Waterjacked! is a turn-based roguelike where you are a gunslinging succulent chosen to wield the GRID. Uncover destructive combos and develop clever strategies from an assortment of Modules, Augments, and Herbals to push back the invading robots from The Valley.
Released Indie Games
ZERO Sievert
A brutal single-player survival shooter inspired by extraction-based gameplay.
CastleOn
Build your fortress, man the walls and survive the Third Crusade in this deep turn-based castle building strategy game.
DualVerse86
DualVerse86 is a 2D retro-futuristic parkour platformer in which players switch between two virtual worlds in real time to avoid traps and complete timed levels.
Balatro
Poker meets roguelike deckbuilding and it's a stupidly good combo. One run and you'll be hooked on chasing that next mad synergy.
My Darling Dark Elf
A linear visual novel following Nienke, a dark elf working in her parents' café, whose quiet routine is disrupted when a stranger claiming to be a childhood friend arrives.
Drova – Forsaken Kin
Drova - Forsaken Kin is a pixel art Action-RPG set in a handcrafted open world inspired by Celtic mythology, where players choose a faction and shape the story through their actions.
Shroom and Gloom Demo
Shroom and Gloom is a roguelike deckbuilder where you fight monstrous mushrooms, build mega-combos, and even cook your foes into game-changing soups.
Settler’s Domain
Build up your settlement from scratch, manage resources, research new tech and decide whether to make friends or enemies of your neighbours. It's classic settlement building done right.
Voidling Bound
Voidling Bound is a monster-taming 3rd-person shooter with branching evolution, DNA splicing & high-octane battles. Coming Q1 2026 to Steam.
Boreal Tenebrae Act 0: Sundowning
A narrative adventure prequel to Boreal Tenebrae Act 1, set in the town of Tamarack Narrows during a centennial celebration that goes wrong. It uses PS1-style visuals and analogue horror imagery.
Palworld
Palworld is a survival and crafting game in which players capture, breed and work alongside creatures called Pals in an open world.
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is a checkpoint management game where players screen survivors for infection during a zombie outbreak while managing base resources and defences.
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