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Abashed
Supantha Paul
Abashed is a 2.5D narrative side-scrolling game following Issac, a man living with psychosis, as he searches for his missing partner and uses medication to alter reality.
Backmarkers: A Racing Management Sim
Late Apex Games
Backmarkers is a racing management sim in which the player runs the weakest team in a fictional regional series, handling strategy, drivers, staff, sponsors, car parts and finances across a persistent three-tier pyramid.
Dead Sector
Lonely Cloud
Dead Sector is a single player data center simulation in which players build servers part by part, equip a facility with power and networking, and host client workloads while managing faults and costs.
Corpus et Spiritus
Arpentor Studio
Corpus et Spiritus is a roguelite deckbuilder in which the player makes a pact with a demon called the Homunculus and uses alchemy to craft cards, transmute metals and find talismans.
Tabula
This Way Up
Tabula is a level-based puzzle game in which players overlap computer windows to form top-down paths for a character called Little Bit, set inside a mysterious operating system.
Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder
Green Parrot Games
Lucky Punk is a roguelike deckbuilder in which players choose each turn whether to draw another card or stop, with the odds of failure shown at all times. It is set in a comic-style post-apocalyptic world.
Deal Flipper
Roovel Studio
Deal Flipper is a first-person flipping simulation set in an online marketplace. Players buy underpriced items by negotiating with sellers in chat, then relist them at a higher price.
Mikey The Hero: MANIA
MIKEYGAMESSTUDIOS
Mikey The Hero: MANIA is an entry in the Mikey The Hero series. Players control pairs of characters through 27 main stages to stop Fred, collecting Mystic Gems that affect the ending.
Projects with Demos
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.
Gun Shop 3
Gun Shop 3 is a business simulation in which the player runs a gun shop, building, customising and restoring weapons, fulfilling contracts and managing staff.
Seven Blasphemies
Seven Blasphemies is a turn-based roguelike with permadeath. Each dawn can bring a permanent curse, and the world ends when the seventh arrives.
Sewer Crawler
Sewer Crawler is a roguelike that combines 3D dungeon exploration with tactical autobattler combat. Players explore generated sewers and build a team across 7 stages.
Monster Mop Up
Monster Mop Up is a cleaning simulator in which players act as a Custodian for the Ministry of Monster Concealment, cleaning locations and rescuing lost creatures called Ragamuffins.
Cat Me If You Can
Cat Me If You Can is a hidden object game set in black-and-white comic style 3D worlds, where players find and photograph cats across nine levels and solve puzzles to reach more of them.
JettFuel+
JettFuel+ is a 3D platformer in which Jett, a robot, searches for his brother Brody by collecting Power Gems across varied stages. It expands on the 2024 game JettFuel.
The Skin Stapler
The Skin Stapler is a horror game in which players investigate a serial killer's murders as detective Dick Slater, and control other characters who are stalked across Carrion City.
Echoes of Mora VR
A VR exploration game set in a flooded, abandoned village. Players swim with arm movements, find hidden objects, and unlock portals to the village as it was before the flood.
The Holy Gosh Darn
The Holy Gosh Darn is a narrative action-adventure in which the angel Cassiel uses a time-travelling watch to stop Heaven being destroyed within six hours. It combines time travel with Metroidvania progression and puzzles.
Magical Blush
Magical Blush is a Metroidvania-style action game in which the mage Arnin uses elemental spells to explore the land of Wyn, fight enemies and bosses, and uncover the cause of its devastation.
I.T.C.B – Interstellar Trade Compliance Bureau
A management sim in which an abducted logistics worker runs an alien planet's economy from Trade Terminal 7-G, building facilities, trading on a galactic market and reacting to news headlines.
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
DEEPLANDERS
SOPA Games
DEEPLANDERS is a minimalist construction puzzle game in which players build underground cities and match each arriving character with a suitable place to live.
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.
Released Indie Games
Breathedge
Breathedge is a comedic outer space survival adventure. A man carrying his grandfather's ashes to a funeral is stranded in debris after a space hearse crashes and becomes caught up in a conspiracy.
Soft(A)ware
Soft(A)ware is a surreal puzzle-platformer set in a virtual prison. Players shift gravity and rewind time to solve puzzles and evade hostile constructs across Story, Story Plus and Endless modes.
Eagle Knight Paradox
Eagle Knight Paradox is a cyberpunk graphic novel with mecha combat. Players live as Ian in the city of Comala 88, talking to residents by day and piloting a combat mecha by night.
Kingdoms and Castles
A city-building simulation in which players grow a hamlet into a city with a castle, managing resources and citizen needs while defending against viking raiders and dragons.
Desk Top Racer — Premium Car Pack
Desk Top Racer - Premium Car Pack is add-on content for Desk Top Racer that adds three premium cars, each with its own performance profile and visual design. The base game is required.
Swarmvore
Swarmvore is a game in which the player commands a swarm of small predators against armed living structures, descending through eleven depths while collecting biomass and upgrading between runs.
The Legend of Fancy Realm Remake
A turn-based tactical RPG remake of a classic SRPG first released over twenty years ago, set on the continent of Faluosion, with branching story paths, multiple endings and class changes.
Fruit Golf
Fruit Golf is a VR mini golf party game in which players putt different fruits around themed courses while other players place obstacles to disrupt their shots.
HR: Human Remains
HR: Human Remains is a game set in a city ruled by demons after humanity lost a war. Players work tasks for a boss, explore the city, solve puzzles and reach one of multiple endings.
Honeycomb: The World Beyond
Honeycomb: The World Beyond is a survival game in which players control bioengineer Hennessy, exploring the alien planet Sota7 to study lifeforms, run experiments and build a base for EON Corp.
North Hunt
North Hunt is a social deduction game for one to eight players in which a Thief poses as a villager NPC while a Chief tries to identify the impostor. Bots can fill either team.
Fuel Up
Fuel Up is a game about planetary engineering. Players work for the Habitable Planet Coalition, calibrating drones and building technology to repair failing planets against a countdown.
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