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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.
Agebound
Datasmart Enterprises
Agebound is an incremental farming idle game in which each in-game year lasts under a minute. Players plan fields, grow and sell crops, and automate work as they progress through different ages.
Projects with Demos
Quiet Hour
Quiet Hour is a management game in which the player builds and runs an underground speakeasy, serving customers and hiring staff while keeping noise levels low enough to avoid being caught.
Rue Valley
Rue Valley is a narrative game set in a small town caught in a time loop. The player shapes a custom personality that changes dialogue and interactions across repeated days.
The Bird of the North
A deduction game set in 1921, in which an ice age has halted the Industrial Revolution. Players explore scenes and piece together events from a series of visions involving birds.
PlateUp!
A cooperative restaurant management game for up to four players, in which you design a kitchen, cook dishes and serve customers over 15 days before moving on to a new franchise location.
INDUSTRIA 2
INDUSTRIA 2 is a narrative first-person shooter and sequel to INDUSTRIA. Nora, stranded in a parallel dimension, is drawn back into the artificial intelligence ATLAS.
Museum Disarter
Museum DisARTer is a first-person organisation and deduction game in which the player returns hundreds of paintings to their collections by matching them to informal written descriptions.
Popcorn & Premieren
Popcorn & Premieren is a cinema management game in which the player restores a closed neighbourhood cinema, schedules parody films on a time grid and expands it into a seven-screen multiplex.
DiceRoll
DiceRoll is a strategic roguelite game set in endless rooms, where players carry accessories and abilities between runs and compete on leaderboards.
Toxic Yuri
Toxic Yuri is a visual novel in which an office worker in Kyoto takes in Doku-chan, a woman made of slime. Player choices across six episodes shape the story and lead to multiple endings.
Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game
Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game is a historically grounded fantasy farming and survival game set in Eastern Oregon, following siblings Shane and Áine as they cope with loss and magical beasts.
MORSE
Learn Morse code and blast the Kaiser's fleet out of the water in this tense two-control naval strategy game. Timing, tactics and telegraphy are your only weapons.
Cube Crusaders
Cube Crusaders is a metroidvania-style game set in the underground of Adoros, with a campaign for one or two local players and a horde mode playable locally or online.
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
DiceRoll
DiceRoll is a strategic roguelite game set in endless rooms, where players carry accessories and abilities between runs and compete on leaderboards.
Time to Morp
Time to Morp is a cooperative base-building adventure for one to four players. Players care for creatures called Morps, farm, fish, cook, decorate homes and explore an island on an unknown planet.
VOXEL DRIFT RACER
A top-down arcade drift racer set in a voxel world, with 12 game modes, online multiplayer for 2 to 8 players, and built-in editors for tracks, cars and arenas.
Fireside Feelings
Grab a blanket and a hot drink, and settle in by the campfire to share your thoughts with real people at your own pace.
Rollick N’ Roll
Marble runs got a modern makeover. Press a button, watch the chaos unfold, and try not to laugh.
Stock Market Crash 2
A stock trading game in which players buy and sell stocks that react to weather, a bull, a bear and each other. It has five modes, including a two-year career, and was made by solo developer CartoonDan.
Berserk Boy
Berserk Boy is a 2D action platformer in which rookie hero Kei gains elemental forms from Berserk Orbs and fights the villain Dr. Genos and his Dark Energy minions across a future Earth.
Infinite Music Game
Infinite Music Game is a 3D rhythm game with audio-reactive neon environments. It supports solo play, 2-player local co-op, MP3 loading and live PC audio input.
Zero Stress King: Idle Defense
Zero Stress King: Idle Defense is a tower defense game in which enemies run at your walls but always fall into a lava river. You buy defenders and upgrade production, with no way to lose.
Stormgate
Stormgate is a real-time strategy game set in a science fantasy universe, with three asymmetric factions, a campaign, co-op play against AI, a ranked ladder and a built-in map editor.
Brawlhalla
Brawlhalla is a free-to-play platform fighting game with ranked and casual modes, a large roster of Legends, crossovers with other franchises, and cross-play across PC, consoles and mobile.
Hades
Hades is a roguelike dungeon crawler by Supergiant Games. The player controls the Prince of the Underworld, who fights through procedurally changing areas to escape the realm of the dead.
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