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水浒英雄传：八幕战役
dztdash
A 2D isometric real-time strategy game based on the novel Water Margin, featuring eight campaign missions led by heroes such as Song Jiang, Lin Chong, Lu Zhida and Wu Song.
Worming from Home
Zach Northrop, Mason Sabharwal
You're a worm doing office work from home, flopping across the keyboard to answer emails and fudge spreadsheets. Corporate life has never been this floppy.
ShipShaper: Falconeer Chronicles
Tomas Sala
ShipShaper lets you pull, push and shape your own boats and ships from scratch, no 3D skills needed. Build anything from humble fishing boats to full-on dreadnoughts.
BOMBANANA!
Lefto Studio
Three monkeys, one bomb, zero shared senses. Blind hands, mute knowledge, deaf eyes - work out how to talk to each other before everything goes boom.
He Who Watches
Bobby Vanden
Walk on walls, walk on ceilings, and bend gravity itself to solve over 100 devious puzzles in this atmospheric first-person head-scratcher.
Vibe City Islands Architect
Day 1 to 100
A small gridless city-building game set on tropical islands, with a high score mode built around four objectives, a free sandbox mode and ten in-game radio stations.
Lumina:Last Bloom
ねむは
A short, atmosphere-focused pixel-art adventure about spending seven final days with a girl suffering from the mysterious Hanasaki Disease. Playtime is roughly one to two hours.
Peekablock
Goose Gang Games
Peekablock is a multiplayer hide-and-seek party game in which Hiders build and paint their own disguises from simple shapes while Hunters try to spot what does not belong in the map.
Projects with Demos
Who’s Lila?
A disturbing psychological horror game built around facial expressions and perception.
Grim Trials
Grim Trials is a heavy metal action roguelite in which players craft weapons and equipment while fighting through hex-grid arenas as Avelin, a newly recruited Reaper of Death.
The Darkest Files
The Darkest Files is a narrative investigation game in which players prosecute Nazi-era war crimes in 1950s Germany as a young prosecutor working under Fritz Bauer.
The Kind Camomille
A short relaxing 3rd person exploration game focused around the concept of random acts of kindness
Deadliest Pigeon
Forget the breadcrumbs, Albert the Pigeon wants blood. A physics based shooter where you're the angriest bird in town.
Yooka-Replaylee
Yooka-Replaylee is the definitive remaster of the 3D platforming collectathon, with new challenges, shiny currency, maps, customisation & orchestral music.
Bite Night: Dine or Die
Bite Night: Dine or Die is a first-person horror game set during a night shift at a roadside diner, where a mysterious fog traps staff and customers with a hidden vampire.
Medieval Market Simulator
Medieval Market Simulator is a shop management game where players stock, price and sell goods in a medieval town, alone or in online co-op.
KAPIA
KAPIA is a story-driven point-and-click adventure executed in a classical style of 3D quests from the mid-2000s.
Little Corners
Build tiny cosy worlds sticker by sticker, with lofi beats and thousands of stickers to peel and place. It's a chill sticker book that never runs out of pages.
America Against Ants
A story-driven tactical defence game set in 1951, in which players command Task Force Sable against giant mutant fire ants spreading across the American Southwest over 30 missions.
CloverPit
A rusty cell, a slot machine, and a debt that could kill you. CloverPit is Balatro meets Buckshot Roulette, and it's brutal.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
Starship Simulator
Fleetyard Studios
A space exploration sandbox in which players take on crew roles aboard a simulated starship and travel through a full-scale model of the Milky Way galaxy.
Whiskerwood
Minakata Dynamics
Whiskerwood is a city-building and colony management game in which mice settle procedurally generated islands, build production chains and automation, and meet the demands of their cat overlords.
Crabs: Chef's Story
3 Guns Ltd
Crabs: Chef's Story is a 2 to 8 player PvP brawler for online or LAN play, in which crabs fight across a hazard-filled kitchen in rounds lasting two to seven minutes.
EVERSPACE™ 2
ROCKFISH Games
EVERSPACE 2 is a single-player space shooter set in the Demilitarized Zone of Cluster 34, combining dogfighting, exploration and loot-based ship customisation across seven star systems.
Serial World
Serial Project
Serial World is a roguelike dungeon crawler RPG in which Milo explores the town of Bricktown and repeating dungeon loops with a trio of creatures called Anima.
2064: Read Only Memories
MidBoss, LLC.
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco, featuring a branching narrative shaped by player choices.
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds
SEMISOFT
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds is a JRPG-style adventure set in the hand-drawn fantasy world of Legrand, combining turn-based combat with tactical warfare.
33 Immortals
Thunder Lotus
33 Immortals is a co-op action-roguelike supporting up to 33 players in a single run, fighting monster hordes and bosses through instant matchmaking.
WARCANA
1000 Orks
WARCANA is a real-time base defence strategy game combining deck-building with large-scale army summoning, playable in single-player campaigns or multiplayer battle royale modes.
Town to City
Galaxy Grove
Town to City is a grid-free city builder where players design towns and cities freely, growing population and economy across multiple connected settlements.
Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
Perspective Games, Bellwood Studios
A city-building simulation set in Aztec Mesoamerica, where players grow a single city into an empire while managing citizens, resources and religion.
Tiny Glade
Pounce Light
Tiny Glade is a relaxing, free-form building game where players construct castles and cottages without goals, resource management, or failure states.
The Scouring
Orc Group
The Scouring is a real-time strategy game combining base building, resource management, and army control with an action RPG hero mode and multiplayer battles for up to 8 players.
The Precinct
Fallen Tree Games Ltd
The Precinct is a 1980s-set police sandbox game where you play a rookie cop patrolling a living city, responding to crimes and investigating your father's murder.
The Darkest Files
Paintbucket Games
The Darkest Files is a narrative investigation game in which players prosecute Nazi-era war crimes in 1950s Germany as a young prosecutor working under Fritz Bauer.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Questline
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a first-person open-world RPG set in a dark fantasy realm inspired by Arthurian legend, offering branching quests and flexible character builds.
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
Gamexcite
A story-driven survival strategy game in which players command the U.S.S. Voyager, managing its crew and resources through the Delta Quadrant.
Rue Valley
Emotion Spark Studio
Rue Valley is a narrative game about escaping a time loop in a small town, where players shape their character's personality and relationships through repeated days.
Schedule I
TVGS
Schedule I is a business simulation game in which players build a drug empire from scratch in the fictional city of Hyland Point.
Revenge of the Savage Planet
Raccoon Logic Studios Inc.
Revenge of the Savage Planet is a first-person exploration and platforming game in which a laid-off space employee explores alien worlds to gather upgrades and secrets.
REPLACED
Sad Cat Studios
REPLACED is a narrative-driven 2.5D action-adventure set in an alternate 1980s America, following an AI named R.E.A.C.H. trapped in a human body.
MENACE
Overhype Studios
MENACE is a turn-based tactical RPG in which players command a strike force of marines, mercenaries, and criminals across a war-torn star system, managing squads, vehicles, and branching operations against human and alien threats.
Master of Command
Armchair Interactive
Master of Command is a real-time tactical strategy game set during the Seven Years' War, combining battlefield combat with campaign-level army and supply management.
Mars Attracts
Outlier
A theme park management game set on Mars where players run a Martian-owned amusement park stocked with abducted humans from throughout history.
Released Indie Games
Deep Rock Galactic
Deep Rock Galactic is a co-op FPS where teams of space dwarves mine hostile alien caves in fully destructible environments.
Mortal Shell II
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.
Gallipoli
Gallipoli is a class-based multiplayer WW1 FPS depicting the British and Ottoman campaigns across Mesopotamia and the Gallipoli Peninsula, featuring 25v25 objective-based combat.
OFF
A surreal cult classic RPG where players guide the Batter through a strange world filled with unforgettable characters, mysterious zones, and unsettling
Wayfinder
Wayfinder is a 3-player co-op action RPG set in the shattered world of Evenor, combining combat, character customisation and loot collection.
IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator
IRON NEST is a brutal dieselpunk heavy-artillery game where you dominate the battlefield through a colossal war machine. Take map measurements based on the received coordinates, strain the hydraulics, and gunlay the cannons to unleash devastating blows ⟹ Will you obey High Command, Operator?
Stormgate
Stormgate is a real-time strategy game set in a science fantasy universe, where three asymmetric factions battle for Earth's survival across competitive, co-op, and campaign modes.
Sludgineers
An active incremental game about cleaning, mining and refining pollution, in which the player travels the countryside gathering cash and resources, builds a refinery and completes quests.
Woodfel
Woodfel is a single/multiplayer, open-world building & crafting game.
PatriotMemoirs 4K
A narrative spy game set during China's War of Resistance against Japan, following an undercover agent posing as a collaborator while secretly aiding the resistance.
Wednesdays
The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard. Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Don’t Let It Starve
Pack bento boxes for a hungry monster in the walls and gamble your way to ridiculous scores. It's Tetris meets Resident Evil 4's inventory, but with food and way higher stakes.
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