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Deal Flipper
Early Access
2 Nov, 2026
Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder
Going Gold
3 Nov, 2026
Corpus et Spiritus
Going Gold
3 Nov, 2026
Dead Sector
Early Access
3 Nov, 2026
Tabula
Going Gold
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Abashed
Going Gold
4 Nov, 2026
Backmarkers: A Racing Management Sim
Going Gold
4 Nov, 2026
Diamonds and Spades
Going Gold
5 Nov, 2026
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Recently Released
Oddments & Offerings
Black Pine Games
Oddments & Offerings is an Early Access game in which the player runs an antique shop by day and explores dangerous locations by night to find items to sell or collect.
Totally Safe Moon Project
Fake Moon
A solo or online co-op game for up to four players in which players build a tower to the Moon and deliver a laser to destroy an asteroid threatening Earth.
CryptidCam
Mothman Mothman Studios
CryptidCam is a short photography adventure in which the player photographs cryptids in the woods for a cryptozoologist named Dr. Ted Krupp. It features eight creatures to find and photograph.
Tom the Postgirl
Oopsie Daisies, ARTE France
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.
Danchi Days
sandy powder, Melos Han-Tani, mogumu, gingham games
A 12-year-old girl tries to revive her danchi's summer festival while reconnecting with her grandma, who's living with dementia. Sweet, funny, and a little sad.
Crosstalk
Ongakken
Crosstalk is a sandbox toolset for designing custom computer architectures, SystemVerilog hardware designs, and software, with built-in simulation, emulation, and a bundled LLVM and Clang toolchain.
INTUS
Nahuel Martinez
INTUS is a short, first-person psychological horror game set in a rented apartment, where the player spends a weekend operating an inspection robot remotely to complete work reports.
Pixel Coloring World
Milk Poison
Pixel Coloring World is a colour-by-number pixel art game with 12 themed images across four canvas sizes, from 50×50 to 200×200 pixels.
Projects with Demos
Kristala
Kristala is a dark fantasy action RPG in which the player controls a feline warrior in the world of Ailur, combining melee combat, spellcasting and parkour traversal while investigating a deadly curse.
Fangtopia
Fangtopia is a cosy hex-tile puzzler where you build a monster-friendly paradise, no scares, no timers, just gentle chills and satisfying landscapes.
Traveler Stories: Journeys of Real People
A visual novel with simulation elements in which the player works at a Tokyo bar for travellers. About 80% of the story is based on true events and the experiences of real Japanese travellers.
Trouble Hunter Chronicles: The Stolen Creed
A first-person point and click adventure set in post-war France. Players take the role of a former OSS operative searching for a missing friend and investigating a plot.
Bite Night: Dine or Die
A first-person horror game with comedy elements, set in a roadside diner. The player works a night shift with a vampire friend and tries to solve a mystery as people start dying.
Rita
Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.
Increvaders
Increvaders is a game in which players destroy swarms of enemies to earn points, spend those points on powers, and face bosses.
ZOMBUTCHER: Monster Business Simulator
Meat shop simulator where you play as a ZOMBIE! Sell meat to humans by day, butcher them by night, and manage a dark business through stealth and resource management all while eating BRA-A-A-INS!
Retail Hell
Retail Hell is a psychological horror job simulator set in a convenience store between life and death. The player serves supernatural customers and manages stock to pay off a debt to the management.
HELLDROP
HELLDROP is a minimalist flight shooter in which the player pilots a spaceship underground to detonate a nuclear bomb at a planet's core, upgrading the ship between missions.
Monster Meals
Monster Meals is a cooking game in which players run a food truck as a monster chef, hunting animals for ingredients and serving monstrous customers. It supports solo and co-op play.
Locktale
Locktale is a story-driven puzzle game in which players decode secret messages using ciphers, symbols and visual tricks across more than 50 levels, each with its own encoding method.
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
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.
DWARRF: A Pinball Roguelike
Sam Stubbings
DWARRF is a roguelike mixing pinball, pachinko and bubble shooter play. As Arf, a pirate dwarf, the player fires balls from a cannon to fight enemies through four levels in the mines.
Released Indie Games
Tribes of Midgard
Tribes of Midgard is a Norse-themed survival action RPG with procedurally generated worlds. Players build villages, craft gear and fight giant creatures, solo or in online co-op for up to 10 players.
ASCII Art Tool
ASCII Art Tool is a desktop editor for making ASCII art. It can convert images into text art or be used to draw character by character, with export presets for plain text, Discord and Steam.
Wayfinder
Wayfinder is a three-player co-op action RPG set in the shattered world of Evenor, where players use customisable abilities and adventure modifiers to fight the Gloom and collect gear.
Killer Chase
Killer Chase is a reaction-based arcade game in which the player flees a killer at Salazar Manor by completing rapid input sequences against the clock.
Kill Your Darlings
Locked in a royal dungeon, you'll need to date your fellow monster inmates and fight alongside them just to survive. Every choice matters, and every playthrough plays out differently.
Asteroid Destroyer
A 2D arcade shoot 'em up set in deep space. Players pilot an inertia-based spacecraft, destroy asteroids and avoid hazards while aiming for a high score.
Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator
A first-person management game in which the player builds and runs an early 1900s oil operation, from clearing land and constructing derricks to maintaining machinery and hiring workers.
Perfect Place
Perfect Place is a first-person farming simulator with a relaxed pace. Players tend a plot, harvest crops, set up automation and spend time on leisure activities, without detailed agronomy.
Emperor of Mahjong: Match Mahjong Tiles, Build Your City!
A free-to-play mahjong solitaire game with city-building elements, set in Ancient Rome. Players clear tile puzzles to rebuild a ruined town, and the game can be played offline.
EbiTapes
EbiTapes is an adventure game in which the player records sounds with a recorder to solve puzzles and make mixtapes while trying to save the Annual City Festival, accompanied by a cat named Zongy.
Museum Disarter
Museum DisARTer is a first-person organisation and deduction game in which the player returns hundreds of paintings to their collections by matching them to informal written descriptions.
ROGUELIKE CARD GAME:BUSINESS EMPIRE
A roguelike card game in which each card played is a factory that produces and sells goods automatically. Players pursue a chosen victory condition against random opponents and events within a turn limit.
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