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Blob of Ink
DGDev
Blob of Ink is a short incremental game in which players grow a living ink blob by consuming letters, gathering ink, and unlocking magic powers.
OPEN UP, MICHAEL!
LetsAdventurePlay
OPEN UP, MICHAEL! is a first-person puzzle game where players perform ritual-like actions in a changing hallway to reach room 13.
Tsugunohi -The Thread That Beckons to Heaven-
Vaka Game Magazine, ImCyan
A horror walking simulator in which players repeatedly walk home along the same street as a summer neighbourhood gradually changes into something unsettling.
How Asian Parents went to School
Andy Yeet
A 1-4 player co-op game where players climb mountains, dodge obstacles and outrun a bear to reach school on time.
Snap the Cat
KORO.GAMES
Snap the Cat is an incremental game about photographing cats, gathering likes and followers while unlocking new biomes, cats and costumes.
Sludgineers
Snickerdoodle Games, Funk Games
Sludgineers is an active incremental game in which players clean up pollution, mine and refine materials, and manage a growing refinery operation across the countryside.
Color Blocks
Molleja
Color Blocks is a precision platformer where players can only stand on platforms matching their current colour, playable solo or in co-op groups linked by physics-based ropes.
Goaldeck
Pro Nobis Studio
GoalDeck is a single-player roguelike deck-building game where players coach a football squad through escalating tournaments, building decks and managing player morale.
Projects with Demos
Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times
Rhell is a puzzle adventure where you mix and match 40 magic runes to solve puzzles however you like, playing a mage who's a bit too mouthy for her own good.
Time to Morp
A cosy base-building adventure where you look after adorable Morps, farm, fish, and build a whole town with up to three mates. Solo or co-op, it's all about slowing down and making a home somewhere strange.
Curved Space
Curved Space is an intense synthwave arcade shooter about battling cosmic energy spiders across warped, physics-defying battlefields.
Sleeping with the Phish
You're the new intern stuck sorting real emails from phishing scams, one dodgy request at a time. Get it wrong and it's your salary (and secrets) on the line.
The Kind Camomille
A short relaxing 3rd person exploration game focused around the concept of random acts of kindness
Fading Serenades
Fading Serenades is a cozy top-down courier adventure where you deliver parcels, befriend islanders, and uncover mysteries on Clifford’s Island.
Hexarchy
Hexarchy squeezes empire building, deckbuilding and hex tactics into games that wrap up in under an hour. Turns out 4X doesn't need to eat your whole evening.
Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn’t
Cursed Words starts like Boggle and ends somewhere else entirely, letters, numbers, chess pieces, whatever the run throws at you. It's a roguelike word game that quietly stops being a word game.
ZOMBUTCHER: Monster Business Simulator
A stealth action simulator where players run a butcher shop for monsters, gathering meat and human flesh under the cover of night while avoiding patrols.
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.
Dicealot
Dicealot is a push-your-luck roguelike dice-builder where every roll could win you the battle or wipe your turn clean. Roll smart, build your dice pool, and save Camelot before your greed gets the better of you.
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.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
Going Medieval
Foxy Voxel
Going Medieval is a medieval colony-building strategy game in which players guide a group of plague survivors as they build, defend and expand a settlement in a post-calamity world.
The Ratline
Owlskip Games
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.
Venice After Dark
Sebastian Grünwald, Weltenwandler Designagentur GmbH
A point-and-click adventure and visual novel set in Venice, following programmer Aiko and AI companion Thea as they investigate a mysterious crime through puzzles and blurred realities.
Cralon
Pithead Studio
Cralon is a first-person adventure game in which a hunter falls into an abandoned mine shaft and must fight, craft, and explore to survive and escape.
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
Unfrozen
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a turn-based strategy game combining empire building, city management, and tactical battles across six fantasy factions.
INDUSTRIA 2
Bleakmill
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.
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
Alt Shift
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is a survival fleet-management roguelite combining procedural narrative events with real-time tactical space battles.
Corsair Cove
Limbic Entertainment
Corsair Cove is a vertical city builder in which players construct a pirate settlement on cliffs and hilltops, managing production chains and an armada to resist the Crown's pirate hunters.
Mortal Shell II
Cold Symmetry
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.
Vibe City Islands Architect
Day 1 to 100
Vibe City Islands Architect is an indie city-building game where players design island cities across a High Score ranking mode or a restriction-free Sandbox mode.
Hell Cleaners
WFP Entertainment
Hell Cleaners is a first-person automation game about clearing demon rot from Hell and building machinery that eventually runs the cleanup on its own.
Eslabong
shirowita
Eslabong is an arena combat game combining real-time fighter control with team management, where players build and upgrade a roster of mercenaries across seasons of league and tournament play.
MINECORE
PEGAX Studios
MINECORE is an incremental RPG in which players dig toward the centre of the Earth, mining resources, fighting monsters and upgrading their character along the way.
Blob of Ink
DGDev
Blob of Ink is a short incremental game in which players grow a living ink blob by consuming letters, gathering ink, and unlocking magic powers.
Mops & Mobs: A Sweeping Dungeon Adventure
Rat King Entertainment
Mops & Mobs is a retro-styled dungeon crawler where the player takes a job cleaning and managing a dungeon rather than fighting its monster inhabitants.
CryptidCam
Mothman Mothman Studios
CryptidCam is a short photography adventure where players explore the woods to photograph cryptids for a cryptozoologist's research report.
Roughly Crafted
Possum Riot
Roughly Crafted is a comedic fantasy crafting game where players run a weapon shop, combining odd materials to fulfil customer orders.
Clerks and Quirks
ALTKEY Games
Clerks and Quirks is a cooperative management game where players cook meals and craft adventuring gear in a chaotic multiverse store, working alongside appliances that have minds of their own.
REMOTE CONTROL
Canteen
A sci-fi horror typing adventure in which you type commands to remotely control human proxies exploring a silent, abandoned ship.
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2
Auroch Digital
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 is a fast-paced retro FPS sequel set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, currently in development.
Neo Junk City
Starblade Games
Neo Junk City is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in a half-sunken metropolis, blending investigation, arcade-style racing and shootout sequences. The game is currently in development.
Tridan
HRUST
Tridan is a fast-paced card roguelite based on 3-card poker, where players build synergies and survive escalating rounds.
DualVerse86
J1G Studio
DualVerse86 is a 2D retro-futuristic parkour game where players switch between two worlds in real time to dodge traps and beat the clock.
Smashing Bottles
Blue Makes Games, Quinn Dymalski
Smashing Bottles is a short incremental game about breaking bottles for money, upgrading your bat, and unlocking new bottle types.
Released Indie Games
Awaken The Time
A Twisted Time Travel Action-adventure game has 3 Gameplay styles in one game : Samurai, shooter, cyborg Travel in Time and discover the story-based!
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.
Border Pioneer
Build a town from scratch, deck-build your way through it, then defend it every month when the enemies come knocking. Pixel art frontier life has never been this tense.
Espresso Tycoon
Espresso Tycoon – the future of tycoon games is here! The sound of the coffee machine, the unique aroma of coffee grounds... in your own café!
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.
Forbidden Solitaire
A cursed 1995 CD-ROM comes back to life. Bloodletting solitaire, FMV dread and a watchful eye that really wants you to keep playing.
VOIDFACE
VOIDFACE is a bullet hell game where every enemy is a boss fight and players have only one life to survive challenging encounters.
Look Outside
Whatever you do, don't look out the window. Look Outside traps you in one apartment building with monsters, mystery, and some genuinely unsettling body horror.
Space Scavenger
Design, build and command unique spaceships through mysterious alien infested galaxies while scavenging for spaceship parts
Going Medieval
Going Medieval is a medieval colony-building strategy game in which players guide a group of plague survivors as they build, defend and expand a settlement in a post-calamity world.
Outer Wilds
An exploration-focused adventure centred on discovery and environmental storytelling.
Shrine’s Legacy
A SNES-inspired 16-bit action RPG where two heroes must restore the Sword of Shrine, master elemental magic, and save Ardemia—solo or in co-op.
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