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Family Manners
Ronney
Family Manners is a first-person psychological horror game with an old cartoon aesthetic, following Mr Evans as he returns home to a family life that hides a darker truth. Playtime is around one hour.
Dragon Shelter
Wild Forest Studio
Rebuild your grandpa's abandoned farm, befriend loyal dragons with their own quirks and powers, and bring a forgotten world back to life.
HITLESS
YOHAKU GAMES
HITLESS is a dodge-only bullet hell with no attack button. Each stage is cleared by surviving 15 seconds, and your score is the stage you reach on the online leaderboards.
Pioneers of Pagonia - Echoes of Aldramar
Envision Entertainment
Echoes of Aldramar is a story campaign expansion for the settlement builder Pioneers of Pagonia, set across four desert island maps with restorable ruins and a new stone warrior enemy.
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.
Vinyl Freak: Unsorted
ant ant games
A sorting and tidying game in which you inherit a record store from your late Aunt Jolie and must clean it, unpack boxes and organise vinyl records ahead of a grand re-opening.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Jump, dash, dodge, and fight countless stellar bosses in a 2D action-platformer playable solo or with up to 8 players locally, featuring unlockable powers, upgrades, cinematic QTEs, and an emotional story.
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.
Projects with Demos
Future Knight
Future Knight is a 2D action shoot 'em up in which a robot and a sentient tumour travel eight hours into the past to stop a cult leader from wiping humanity's memories.
Gnomes
Turn based tower defence meets roguelike as your gnomes defend the garden from an ever growing goblin horde. Every run's different, every night's a fresh fight for survival.
A Case of Fraud
A short, non-linear detective adventure where every clue is hidden in plain sight. Carefully read and cross-reference documents to unravel a CEO’s disappearance and expose a case of fraud.
Dicealot
Discover a high-stakes roguelike dice-builder where every roll is a risk, every risk is a thrill, and every thrill teeters between triumph and disaster. Set in charmingly chaotic Camelot, chance collides with strategy, mastery dances with madness, and one single roll can rewrite your fate.
Runeomicon
Draw runes, summon dark gods and take bloody revenge on the peasants who wronged you. Precision is everything in this frantic ritual survival game.
Welcome To Mars 9
You wake up in a luxurious space station orbiting Mars with no memory of your past. Explore, solve puzzles, and make ethical choices in this narrative adventure with multiple endings.
PEGTURE: Peg Solitaire Roguelike
Pegture is a peg solitaire-themed roguelike, deck-building game. Build your deck, enhance your pegs, perform frenetic combos, beat bosses, reach the highest score and get the best peg solitaire experience.
Retail Hell
Retail Hell is a psychological horror job simulator where players run a convenience store trapped between life and death, serving supernatural customers to pay off their debt.
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is a survival fleet-management roguelite combining procedural narrative events with real-time tactical space battles.
Forsworn
Stack game-breaking synergies until your party can slay gods. Command a party of heroes, forge powerful synergies, and level them up across runs in this turn-based tactics roguelite. Battle the gods solo or in co-op, where defeat is just another beginning.
Soggy Beans
Fish will come, fish will go. Take photos, collect beans, decorate your seascape, then relax or do other things while your friends swim by in this calming side-idler.
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.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
A colossal blade has pierced the world of Armorial, unleashing a storm of enchanted swords from the heavens. Collect and wield an arsenal of these spellbound blades, turning them against the very force that summoned them. In this roguelike ARPG, you will defy the Celestial evil consuming the world!
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.
Shuffle and Seek
Groovy Zebra Studio
Shuffle and Seek is a 2-4 player party game of memory and mischief! You split into two teams: one secretly rearranges everything in the room, and the other tries to figure out exactly what changed.
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.
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.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Jump, dash, dodge, and fight countless stellar bosses in a 2D action-platformer playable solo or with up to 8 players locally, featuring unlockable powers, upgrades, cinematic QTEs, and an emotional story.
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.
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
Bait Soul is a top-down Dungeon Crawler Roguelike. It blends dungeon exploration with Survivors-style auto-attacks. Accessible yet deep, it retains the thrill of looting, with unique, game-changing mechanics hidden everywhere.
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
Learn all about Abraham Lincoln in this visual novel biography containing rare photos of Lincoln’s hat the day he was shot, the Lincoln Memorial, where he gave the Gettysburg Address, and much more. Lawyer, President, Emancipator - this is Abraham Lincoln! Proudly made in the Washington DC area
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.
Monarchs at Play
MixedMoonGames
Monarchs at Play is a turn-based 4X strategy game built around placing buildings, with matches lasting around an hour and support for solo and multiplayer play.
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.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Book Club Games
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Little Ghost
Alan Abbadessa, Law Jun Yan, Eduardo Alexandrino, Leaf Riifuneko
Chill metroidvania maximizes non-linear exploration & puzzle-platforming. Frequent checkpoints, no currency, no combat. Gain friends & abilities. Collectables-as-media; tarot cards, weird podcasts, and songs from over 20 bands; all found within a surreal papercraft world.
Dig Too Deep
Punch Up Games
A 2D side-scrolling action roguelite with tower defence elements, in which you play a troll who throws goblins to mine resources, craft defences and fight off waves of enemies.
Released Indie Games
Animaly Bar: NO HUMANITY!
A bar management game set after animals have defeated humans, in which you play a gorilla bartender who serves drinks while identifying and eliminating humans disguised as animals.
The Steps as we know them
Use the moves of chess to solve puzzles. Find your way with six different pieces, through six different worlds. Use a varying way of thinking in each world.
DiceRoll
DiceRoll is a roguelite in which players progress through an endless series of rooms, carrying accessories and abilities found in one run over into the next.
Popcorn & Premieren
Book “The Terminationator”, “The Borrow Witch Project” and 198 other shameless parody films, pack the house and find out live whether your audience laughs, gasps or boos. Grow a rescued neighborhood cinema into a seven-screen multiplex.
Mikey The Hero: MANIA
Run through the stage as Mikey, John, Ralph, Rosever, and Sarah to stop Fred. find the Mystic Gems to determine your ending, and maybe along the way find out some lore of Rosever's past in this all new entry into the Mikey The Hero series.
水浒英雄传：八幕战役
A 2D isometric real-time strategy game based on Water Margin, with eight campaign missions, a wave-based defence mode, AI skirmishes, an arena and a scenario editor.
Capes
Capes is a turn based superhero strategy game in which players build a team of heroes to fight back against a city ruled by supervillains.
EbiTapes
Set off on a musical journey with Ebi, navigating through challenges to save the Annual City Festival from the threats of the Shushinator. Meet friends, collect sounds, and hold your own live concerts & remixes!
Talespinner
Enter a captivating realm woven with the tapestry of Japanese mythology in Talespinner, a deck-building roguelike adventure. As the storyteller, you will guide your chosen hero through an ever-changing narrative shaped by your decisions and deck construction.
Mundaun
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
Guinea Pig Gunner
Play as a cyborg guinea pig armed with a throwable teleporter in a fast 2D run-and-gun. Blink through walls, telefrag enemies, chain acrobatic movement, and tear through an arsenal of weapons to stop a reptilian invasion.
INDUSTRIA 2
INDUSTRIA 2 is a narrative FPS adventure about a woman stranded in a parallel dimension. Explore, scavenge and fight your way through a mysterious boreal landscape consumed by an ever-hungry artificial intelligence to find a way home.
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