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FEED ME MORE BRAINS
Sheraf Studio Inc
FEED ME MORE BRAINS is a first person incremental game in which the player feeds brains to a dark god, spends Orbs on a skill tree to shape its mutations, and gradually automates the process.
Moon Swarm
Spyra_Labs
Moon Swarm is an idle auto-battler in which players defend a moon from alien waves using automated guns. It runs in a small corner of the desktop alongside other activities.
Clean Start
Serious Sim
Clean Start is a puzzle game in which players clean and tidy clients' homes as Lena, an immigrant maid, and learn each room's story from the objects they find. There are no time limits or game overs.
Diamonds and Spades
Ghostio Games
Diamonds and Spades is a roguelite card game in which players draw from a 100-card deck to score points, using tarot cards to change the rules. It includes a built-in editor for custom cards.
You'll Be Mined
Andrei Kovalev
An incremental dungeon crawler built around timed minesweeper fields. Players clear cells to gain time, avoid mines to keep their hearts, and buy upgrades between rounds.
Stamperor! The Jester's Decree
Moon Mind Studio
Stamperor! The Jester's Decree is a decision-driven city builder in which the player rules an empire as a jester, using stamps with special effects to answer citizens' requests.
Swarm Harvest
Purple Bean Games
Swarm Harvest is a survivors-like auto-shooter where players fight alien swarms, place defensive towers, and harvest resources for a space corporation.
Backmarkers: A Racing Management Sim
Late Apex Games
Backmarkers is a racing management sim in which the player runs a low-budget team in a fictional three-tier series, handling live race strategy, drivers, staff, sponsors, finances and car development.
Projects with Demos
Circle Test Suite
Circle Test Suite is a puzzle game in which the player guides a Character through Test Chambers, delivering an Object to a Main Target while managing a limited supply of Action Points.
The Precinct
The Precinct is a top-down 1980s-set police game in which a rookie officer patrols Averno City, responds to crimes, takes part in chases, and investigates his father's murder.
Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown
A story-driven survival strategy game in which the player commands the U.S.S. Voyager in the Delta Quadrant, managing the ship, crew and resources. It includes a rogue-lite mode called Q Trials.
Cité Alexandrie
Cité Alexandrie is a VR narrative management game set in an alternate 1980s France where books, music and comics are banned. Players run a covert network that smuggles cultural goods.
REPLACED
A 2.5D pixel art narrative action-adventure in which the player controls R.E.A.C.H., an artificial intelligence in a human body, in Phoenix-City, set in an alternate 1980s America.
Revenge of the Savage Planet
Revenge of the Savage Planet is a co-op exploration adventure in which a laid-off space worker is stranded on alien worlds and must scan life, capture creatures and craft upgrades to get home.
Swan Song
Swan Song is a puzzle game in which players place musical notes to program a music box and guide a swan to each level's exit, while a story about family, loss and grief unfolds.
INTUS
INTUS is a short psychological horror game lasting around 30 to 35 minutes. The player rents an apartment for a weekend and remotely operates an inspection robot for a domestic robot company.
TrailRush
TrailRush is a 2D speedrunning platformer with several game modes, worldwide leaderboards and three biomes (ice, moon and clay), each of which changes how the character moves.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
A first-person open-world RPG set in a dark fantasy realm inspired by Arthurian legend, 600 years after King Arthur's fall. It features a branching story, build customisation and real-time combat.
Songs of Silence
Songs of Silence is a single-player and multiplayer fantasy strategy game with an eight-map story campaign, three factions, and skirmish modes for up to six players.
AKIBA LOST
AKIBA LOST is a live-action suspense game set in Akihabara. Players switch between seven characters, make branching choices and investigate disappearances linked to an unsolved case from 13 years earlier.
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
Farthest Frontier
Farthest Frontier is a town-building survival game in which players guide a small group of settlers to build a settlement in untamed wilderness, managing resources, farming, trade and defence.
Rusted Awakening
Rusted Awakening is a first person horror shooter set in an underground facility, with combat inspired by Doom and Quake. It is designed to be completed in about an hour.
Ball Scratch Simulator
Ball Scratch Simulator is a game in which players score points by scratching in public without being seen. It supports up to four players and includes optional VR.
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.
Pirouette & Smile
Pirouette & Smile is a puzzle platformer in which players jump on pieces of animated watercolour video puzzles to solve them. It has 215 puzzles across four seasons, with single player and two player modes.
Space Scavenger
Space Scavenger is a roguelike in which players build and command spaceships, scavenging parts through procedurally generated, alien-infested galaxies while searching for their lost home.
Bar After Bar
Bar After Bar is a multiplayer game where 5 friends drive to the top of a mountain. You will be mixing drinks and throwing them at each other the whole way up. The drunker you get, the harder it is to drive. How far can you make it?
Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator
A video store management simulator set in the era of VHS rentals. Players run a store, stock tapes, manage staff and serve customers through the seasons.
Isekai Eternal Alpha
Isekai Eternal Alpha is an early development MOBA in which players lead summoned champions in the Isekai Wars on the world of Nava, with three lanes, a jungle and a boss objective.
In Other Waters
In Other Waters is a narrative exploration game in which the player acts as the AI of a diving suit, guiding xenobiologist Ellery through an alien ocean on the planet Gliese 677Cc.
Old School Rally
Old School Rally is an arcade-style rally racing game with retro visuals inspired by late 1990s rally titles. Players drive varied cars on tracks around the world and compete on global leaderboards.
MEMORIAPOLIS
Memoriapolis is a historical city builder in which a city and its ruling dynasty develop across five ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution, ending with the construction of a final Wonder.
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