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THE DEAD WE KNEW: Open World Survival
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THE DEAD WE KNEW: Open World Survival

MAY19 STUDIO

Explore a dangerous open world, loot abandoned places, build your shelter, produce food, and manage your resources. Survive alone or in co-op against zombies, hostile humans, and the growing dangers that come with the fog.

Early Access
AKIBA LOST
81 MC
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Demo

AKIBA LOST

IzanagiGames

Thirteen years ago, six girls vanished in Akihabara in the unsolved case “The Akiba Vanishing”. Daiki Shinjo announces a live-action game based on the incident, gathering six women who embody Akihabara’s subculture. But their story begins to seep into reality. Can AKIBA LOST be finished?

Released
Crypt Survivor
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Demo

Crypt Survivor

cloud6552

Crypt Survivor is a dark fantasy roguelite in which players pick a class and fight through a series of handmade dungeon rooms, collecting gold and experience to unlock upgrades between encounters.

Released
We Were Here Tomorrow
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We Were Here Tomorrow

Total Mayhem Games

You and your partner awaken inside a mysterious Norček facility with little recollection of how you got there. Communicate, cooperate, and unravel the secrets in this asymmetrical co-op adventure. Only together will you decide the fate of Tomorrow…

Released
Big Dig
Big Dig logo
Demo

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.

Released
SuperStore Simulator
SuperStore Simulator logo
Demo

SuperStore Simulator

Berleus Studio

SuperStore Simulator is a supermarket management game in which the player builds a small grocery store into a larger retail business, handling layout, stock, pricing, checkout and staff.

Released
Elsewhere
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Elsewhere

Four White Cats

Elsewhere is a massive sandbox crafting game where you go from stone tools to fusion power and particle accelerators, with magic, monsters and castles thrown in for good measure.

Released
Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest
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Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest

IQ Games

A cooperative puzzle platformer for two players, or one playing both characters, featuring forest spirits with different elemental abilities and physics-based levels.

Released

Projects with Demos

The Ratline

The Ratline is a 1971-set detective game in which players investigate a murdered priest's connection to a network smuggling Nazi war criminals to freedom.

Released
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Destiny Spire

Destiny Spire is a retro-style RPG with active time battles. The player is sent as an envoy to peace talks between four kingdoms and uncovers a wider mystery on the way.

Released
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United Heist: Facility Zero

A co-op puzzle heist for two. One of you breaks into a secret bunker. The other sits in the observation office, watching the bunker. A walkie-talkie is your only link. Talk to each other and find out how good your teamwork really is.

Released
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BWAG

BWAG is a vertical run-and-gun arcade shooter in which a gunslinger stripped of their trousers fights through five stages of hostile vegetables to recover stolen toilet paper, known as PLY.

Released
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Davy bones

Davy Bones is a score-chasing pirate roguelike based on Yacht Dice, in which players roll, lock and reroll five dice while buying trinkets and upgrades between rounds.

Released
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Key art for the indie game Who’s Lila? Logo for Who’s Lila?

Who’s Lila?

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Released
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Finitimi

Finitimi is a unique single-player logic puzzle game built around a simple yet engaging mechanic, featuring multiple score-based game modes and 40 colorful environments.

Released
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Rue Valley

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.

Released
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The Mortuary Assistant

A horror game in which you work as a mortuary apprentice, performing embalmings while identifying and banishing a demonic presence hidden among the dead.

Released
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Bears In Space

Unleash your inner bear in this over-the-top bullet-hell FPS! Embark on a zany retro-futuristic adventure and destroy oil-thirsty robots with an outrageous arsenal. Transform into a bear, wield unique powers, and embrace the absurd fast-paced action of Bears in Space!

Released
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Wasteland Bites

Wasteland Bites is a post-apocalyptic food truck simulator where players prepare strange meals for unusual customers while managing stress and resources.

Released
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Mars Attracts

Mars Attracts is a theme park management game set on Mars, in which players run a Martian amusement park that exhibits humans abducted from different periods of history.

Released
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Swordcery logo with ornate sword and blue magical flame effects
Early Access

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

SUSHI CHESS
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Demo

SUSHI CHESS

Today's Special!

SUSHI CHESS is a turn-based board game where players move sushi pieces that each carry a price. Capturing a piece costs the capturer its price. It offers puzzles, CPU opponents, and local or online play.

Development
The Tally
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Demo

The Tally

Olivia Gonsher

The Tally is a life simulation set in Corvid City, where everyday choices are recorded and totalled on a receipt when the player's life ends, deciding where they are sent next.

Development
Apocalypter
Apocalypter logo
Demo

Apocalypter

SawyerK Games

Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players build and customise cars, scavenge, trade with factions and fight warlords.

Released
BABELOMANIA
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Demo

BABELOMANIA

Team JPDE

BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure combining visual novel storytelling, point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements, set at a wedding in France.

Released
Monitor State
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Demo

Monitor State

Artur Pukhavoi

Monitor State is a game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia. The player works as an operator who watches citizens through cameras, enforces laws and makes decisions that affect the story.

Released
Corpus et Spiritus
Corpus et Spiritus logo
Demo

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.

Development
Big Dig
Big Dig logo
Demo

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.

Released
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator logo
Demo

Mystery Egg Shop Simulator

Rocinante Games

A first-person shop simulation in which players run a store selling collectible mystery eggs, open them to find action figures, and build themed dioramas to sell.

Released
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
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Demo

Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale

LEON GAGIN

Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale is a 2D action-platformer with boss battles and animated cinematics. It can be played solo or in local co-op for up to 8 players.

Released
Nomori
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Demo

Nomori

Enchanted Works

Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which the player controls Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across a spirit world divided into four seasonal domains.

Released
Telly No Vision
Telly No Vision logo
Demo

Telly No Vision

TheMysticSword

Telly No Vision is an action game set in a virtual space where the surroundings are invisible and must be navigated by watching floating TVs that show the world from other perspectives.

Development
TrailRush
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Demo

TrailRush

Lyncornis Games

TrailRush is a 2D platformer built around speedrunning, with seasonal modes, worldwide leaderboards and biomes that each have their own physics.

Released
Noir
Noir logo
Demo

Noir

Bœuf Musqué

Noir is a 2D platform game in which the player controls a small ball that sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open an exit portal. A controller is required.

Released
Stellar Embers: United Fleet
Stellar Embers: United Fleet logo
Demo

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.

Going Gold
Bait Soul
Bait Soul logo
Demo

Bait Soul

Bold Fish

Bait Soul is an action roguelite with a cultivation theme. Players arrange Soul Orbs and Support Items in a loadout while the character attacks automatically and the player handles movement.

Released
True Vikings
True Vikings logo
Demo

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.

Development
Important People of History: Presidents - Abraham Lincoln
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Demo

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

Released
Dash Dot Die
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Demo

Dash Dot Die

Iron Interactive Games

Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game where the player decodes Morse code to survive a maze of corridors, rooms and vents, in a retro PSX and VHS-inspired style.

Released
Monarchs at Play
Monarchs at Play logo
Demo

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.

Development
PSI: Pressure Climbing
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Demo

PSI: Pressure Climbing

Lorenzo Ametrano

PSI: Pressure Climbing is a movement-based climbing game in which players use a jetpack to scale an underground hydropower grid on a mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.

Early Access
Little Ghost
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Demo

Little Ghost

Alan Abbadessa, Law Jun Yan, Eduardo Alexandrino, Leaf Riifuneko

A 2D puzzle-platforming metroidvania in which you play an inch-high ghost exploring a collage-style home office, using movement abilities and a float mechanic instead of combat.

Released
Dig Too Deep
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Demo

Dig Too Deep

Punch Up Games

Dig Too Deep is a 2D side-scrolling action roguelite with tower defence elements, in which players throw goblins to mine resources, craft defences and fight waves of enemies.

Early Access
Jarred Defense
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Demo

Jarred Defense

Jarred Cat Studios

Jarred Defense is a tower defense game in which players place towers anywhere to shape the enemy path. It includes a story campaign, Endless Mode with leaderboards and a level editor.

Released
Cards, Blades & Fine Print
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Demo

Cards, Blades & Fine Print

Crooked Seal Games

A dryly funny single-player card adventure with turn-based battles, 170 enemies, 583 illustrated equipment items, 60 collectible sets, and three freely mixable talent paths – in a fantasy world full of dangerous administration.

Released

Released Indie Games

Key art for the indie game Dead Cells Logo for Dead Cells

Dead Cells

Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

Released
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ClayMonsters

ClayMonsters is a game in which players sculpt and paint clay-like monsters, train them over a five-day regimen, and enter them in real-time one-on-one battles against the CPU or other players.

Released
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Pocket Chief!

Pocket Chief! is a desktop companion who sits in the corner of the screen, records what the user works on and sorts it into a timeline and daily review.

Released
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He Who Watches

Walk on walls. Manipulate gravity. Discover secrets. In this first-person puzzle game, delve deep into an ancient labyrinth of intricate conundrums, seeking an imprisoned god at the centre.

Released
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SPACE JK

SPACE JK is a pixel-art life sim in which players look after roommates called JK, decorate their room, and collect daily stickers. It needs an internet connection and a free account.

Released
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Hitherto: School of Swordcery and Shieldjuration

A turn-based tactics game in which you teach three magic students, each gaining experience in a different way, across nine stages leading to a final exam.

Released
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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.

Released
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Curve Fever Pro

An online multiplayer arena game where up to 10 players steer constantly moving ships that leave deadly trails, using equipped powers to outlast rivals and take points from them.

Released
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False Hero – Supporter Offering

False Hero - Supporter Offering is an optional purchase for False Hero. It gives no gameplay content or advantages and includes a cosmetic Spectral Set as a thank-you to supporters.

Released
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Remnants of the forsaken Past : Submerged Fantasy

An underwater action adventure in which players pilot submarines and fight on foot as Raine, uncovering the fate of an ancient magical civilisation while battling pirates and sea creatures.

Released
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Key art for the indie game Deck of Haunts Logo for Deck of Haunts

Deck of Haunts

Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.

Released
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Ultimate Chicken Horse

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.

Released
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