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Send Them to Hell
cbgames
Send Them to Hell is a 2.5D action roguelite in which players fight demon hordes solo or in online co-op for up to four players, across several game modes with item-based character builds.
CryptidCam
Mothman Mothman Studios
A short photography adventure in which the player photographs cryptids such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster in the woods for cryptozoologist Dr. Ted Krupp's research report.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Projects with Demos
Slash-Out: Fantasy Dueling
Slash-Out: Fantasy Dueling is a twin-stick fighting game in which the player uses a sword and shield to face a series of fantasy boss opponents in one-on-one duels.
Apocalypter
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players customise cars, scavenge, trade, fight factions and hunt warlords.
Duppy Detective Tashia
A mystery game in which Tashia investigates a murder among the ghostly residents of the Halfway Market, questioning seven suspects and cross-referencing clues to identify the culprit.
Voidling Bound
Voidling Bound is a sci-fi third-person shooter in which players control creatures called Voidlings, evolving and breeding them to clear corrupted planets of parasite-infected enemies.
WARCANA
WARCANA is a fantasy real-time base defence strategy game with deck-building. Players act as a magician, summoning armies and surviving attack waves in single player or multiplayer modes.
Crack That Smile
Crack That Smile is a 2D incremental game in which players hover a circular cursor over floating ice blocks to break them and free the emojis trapped inside.
Silky Rails
Silky Rails is a game where players build a train from different carts and travel the Silk Road, defending against waves of enemies at each station. Combat is handled automatically.
Cursed and Fading
Cursed and Fading is a procedurally generated roguelike in which every move reduces one of six stats. Players choose a class and search the map for the lich that cursed them.
Waterpark Simulator
Waterpark Simulator is a first-person management game in which players design, build and run a waterpark, either solo or with friends. It includes custom slides, staff, quests and a day and night cycle.
How Many Dudes? The Roguelike Autobattler
How Many Dudes? is a roguelike autobattler in which players recruit a team from 42 Dude types across six families, then combine them with relics and trinkets to fight escalating enemy waves.
Moss: The Forgotten Relic
Moss: The Forgotten Relic is a fantasy adventure set in a storybook world, combining Moss and Moss: Book II for PC. Players guide a mouse named Quill through a fallen kingdom.
Noir
Noir is a 2D platform game in which a small ball sticks to platforms, jumps, and collects orbs to open an exit portal in each level. It is played with a controller.
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
KN Tower – Build your skyscraper empire
KN Tower is a building management game in which the player grows a small building into a skyscraper, planning floors, elevators, services, waste disposal, security and finances.
UpDown DX
UpDown DX is an arcade game in which the player flips gravity to move through 27 levels. It offers six game modes and is an expanded rebuild of the original UpDown.
Sort The Toys
Sort The Toys is an organising simulator in which the player places over 3,400 scattered toys onto the correct shelves of a toy store, earning money to buy upgrades.
Shelf Happens
Shelf Happens is a sorting game set in a retro record store. Players pick up scattered vinyl, work out each album's genre from its title and sleeve, and file it in the correct crate, alone or in 2 to 4 player co-op.
Video Game Menu: The Game
A satirical game with no levels or challenges, where play consists of navigating menus. It uses buttons, toggles, sliders and text fields, and has optional flashing effects.
Put Back Stuff
Put Back Stuff is an organisation game in which players tidy a messy supermarket and craft store by returning thousands of misplaced items to their correct shelves, at their own pace.
Roman Sands RE:Build
Roman Sands RE:Build is an absurdist adventure from the studio behind Paratopic. It interweaves a story set at a tropical resort with one set in a decaying research station.
INTUS
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.
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
A real-time strategy game set during the Crusades, in which players build desert castles and command armies. This expanded edition of Stronghold Crusader adds new units, AI lords, campaigns and updated visuals.
Post Office: Tidy Up!
Post Office: Tidy Up! is a single-player sorting simulator in which the player returns 3,360 parcels to their racks in a depot after an earthquake. There are no timers and no fail state.
CITADEL
CITADEL is a philosophical sci-fi visual novel in which the player wakes in a primordial solution with no memory and travels to a large tower in search of answers about their existence.
Moon Shop Simulator
Moon Shop Simulator is a first-person management game in which the player runs a small shop beneath the lunar surface, ordering goods from Earth, storing stock in racks and shipping customer orders.
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