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Les aventures extraordinaires d’Alec Orbusier – Acte 1 : Le Tombeau de Taâl Rash’a
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INTUS
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Going Gold
29 Oct, 2026
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29 Oct, 2026
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29 Oct, 2026
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29 Oct, 2026
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30 Oct, 2026
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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 pixel colouring game in which players fill numbered grids to reveal 12 themed images, ranging in size from 50×50 to 200×200 pixels.
Les aventures extraordinaires d'Alec Orbusier - Acte 1 : Le Tombeau de Taâl Rash'a
Icosaèdre
A puzzle-adventure game in which university archaeologist Alec Orbusier explores the tomb of Taâl Rash'a. Developed by Pharazon of Studio Icosaèdre.
Emberville
Cygnus Cross
Emberville is an action-focused adventure game in which the player escapes a vast prison called the Vitromotus, rescues trapped townsfolk, and helps them rebuild their town.
Tiny Capsule Collector
Playing Mantis
An idle game in which the player runs a small Gachapon capsule shop along the bottom of the desktop screen. Animal customers visit, collectables are gathered, and Twitch viewers can appear as visitors.
Night Plane
Liquid Static Studio, Snapping Turtle
Night Plane is a flight attendant job simulation set in 1999. The player checks tickets, serves passengers and identifies shape-shifting non-human entities that try to board the plane.
Kleromancy
kleroslab
Kleromancy is a deckbuilding roguelike where players use physics-based dice instead of cards. It is set aboard the Theseus Ark, a generational station, and was made by solo developer Kleros Lab.
Die Severed
Philip Markowski
Die Severed is a dice-based gambling roguelike in which the player rolls five dice to build poker hands and clear score targets at an underground casino to pay off a debt.
Projects with Demos
Spiritus Sancti
Spiritus Sancti is a first-person psychological horror game in which a priest investigates a suspected possession in an apartment, using spoken invocations via microphone to repel a demon.
Dungeons of Hinterberg
An action adventure set in a fictional Austrian Alps resort town. Players control Luisa, a former office worker who explores dungeons, solves puzzles and fights monsters with a sword and magic.
Die Severed
Die Severed is a dice-based gambling roguelike in which the player rolls five dice to build poker hands and clear score targets at an underground casino to pay off a debt.
Tape 101: Liminal Descent
Tape 101: Liminal Descent is a puzzle exploration game set in a repetitive liminal world, where the player controls a camera-equipped RC car to solve spatial and timing-based puzzles.
Frog It Up
Frog It Up is an idle game in which players spawn frogs, earn resources and spend frog points on a branching skill tree to upgrade and expand their pond ecosystem.
Important People of History: Presidents – Abraham Lincoln
A biographical kinetic novel in the Important People of History series. Abraham Lincoln narrates key events of his life and era alongside more than 250 real-life photographs of historic sites.
Knuckle Jet
Knuckle Jet is an arcade flight action game in which Anastasia punches mechanical enemies across standalone levels in Motorland. It supports local co-op and includes collectible and upgradeable gear.
Mycelium Heaven
Mycelium Heaven is a puzzle game in which the player guides a fungus with an unusual diet to save its forest home from a zombie outbreak, spending energy to spread, bloom or consume.
Hotel Architect
Hotel Architect is a hotel construction and management game in which players design, build and run hotels in locations around the world, with a Career Mode and a Sandbox Mode.
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.
ORBA
ORBA is a speed-climbing game in which the player strikes an Orb upward through a five-floor tower before it shatters, using random Lucky Charm abilities and racing other players' ghosts.
Sniper Dan
Sniper Dan is a 3D hidden object game in which the player uses a sniper rifle to fix everyday problems across six locations. Each job involves following clues, finding the fault and shooting it.
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
Important People of History: Presidents – Abraham Lincoln
A biographical kinetic novel in the Important People of History series. Abraham Lincoln narrates key events of his life and era alongside more than 250 real-life photographs of historic sites.
Play the Wor!d
Play the Wor!d is a deckbuilding roguelite in which players form words from letter tiles and link them into sentences by part of speech, scoring points to reach a target each round.
Iron Blight
Iron Blight is a survival horror game set in a collapsed Eastern Bloc town, where the player searches for his wife, Valeria, while managing scarce ammunition, supplies and inventory space.
Super Glitch Dash
Super Glitch Dash is a first-person, music-driven runner with handcrafted obstacle courses. Players dodge hazards, grind rails and flip gravity across abstract levels.
Mars 2099
Mars 2099 is an arcade space shooter set in the first human colony on Mars. The player pilots a defence fighter against asteroid storms and hostile UFOs while chasing high scores.
Thimbleweed Park™
Thimbleweed Park is a point-and-click mystery set in 1987, in which five playable characters investigate a dead body and a connected set of secrets in a run-down town.
Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall
A kingdom management game in which the player rules as a king, receives petitioners, manages resources, employs agents and looks after their family in a world inspired by Slavic folklore.
Alchemess: Tidy Up Your Potion Shop!
A first-person sorting game in which the player puts 2,080 numbered potion bottles back on the correct shelves in a potion shop. It has no timer or fail state and supports co-op, couch co-op and versus play.
Snuggle Nightmare: Tung Tung Sahur Horror Story
A horror game in which journalist Max Brush investigates an abandoned indoor theme park, Brain World Rots, while avoiding animatronics that remain active inside.
Rivage
Rivage is a sci-fi puzzle adventure set aboard the A.R.E.S. space station in orbit around the planet VESTA. Players control Miranda, who wakes alone and must solve puzzles to uncover what happened to the crew.
Dicealot
Dicealot is a roguelike dice-builder set in Camelot. Players roll dice in a Farkle-inspired push-your-luck system to defeat enemies and lift a curse on King Arthur.
Aniimo
Aniimo is a free-to-play open-world creature-catching RPG set on the continent of Idyll, where players collect creatures called Aniimo and can Twine with them to use their abilities.
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