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Zodiac Mountain
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Zodiac Mountain

Mystic Road

Climb a mythic mountain as a card-slinging panda, wielding Yin and Yang hands to outsmart gods, demons and zodiac bosses.

Early Access
Chronime Puzzle: Dogs
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Chronime Puzzle: Dogs

Quantum Quiver Games

Chronime Puzzle: Dogs is a relaxing puzzle game featuring beautiful steampunk anime-inspired artwork.

Released
Area Survivors
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Area Survivors

Furo-Pizza Studio

Paint the battlefield, hold your ground and defend the tower as endless hordes close in on you. Survival horde combat with a twist you actually control.

Released
Swordcery
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Swordcery

Temple Door Games

Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.

Early Access
Mini Soccer Manager
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Mini Soccer Manager

Pedro Verpha

Take charge of the league’s weakest club and lead it to glory. Build your squad, develop players, set formations, adjust tactics, and fight your way from last place to champions.

Released
Journeybound Idle
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Journeybound Idle

Max Luck Gaming

Another world needed a hero. It got you instead! A long fantasy-idle RPG: climb the adventurer's guild from F-Rank to S-Rank, max your skills, clear 114 quests, discover 1,300+ items, hire companions, farm, craft, fight, tons of QoL, a desktop widget, and lots more! Releasing August 7th!

Released
Tide Of Tactics
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Tide Of Tactics

Lyrical Games

Command a medieval army on a grid-based battlefield, master terrain and positioning, and siege your way to victory in Tide Of Tactics.

Released
LiLM: Living language model
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LiLM: Living language model

Komeppy

LiLM is an idle roguelite about raising a little AI that watches the world instead of trying to explain it. Equal parts philosophy, curiosity, and cosy desktop companion.

Released

Projects with Demos

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Lelu

A monochromatic action adventure where a tiny clockwork toy gains consciousness and fights to escape a sprawling toy factory filled with puzzles and danger.

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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.

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Pigeon: A Love Story

Fly through life-size versions of London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and Amsterdam looking for your one true pigeon soulmate. It's a slow game for fast times.

Released
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Hope in the City

Hope in the City is a narrative mystery game set in Shenyang, following 17-year-old Hope Song as she investigates her parents' sudden disappearance.

Development
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Hungry Horrors

Cook for monsters in this folklore-inspired roguelite deckbuilder where every dish decides your fate. Feed them fast—or be their next meal.

Early Access
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Alchemist: Journey of the Soul

First-person adventure game, playable solo or co-op with up to 4 players. Use your magical abilities to solve puzzles or navigate through areas! Explore, use items, brew potions and unlock your full alchemical potential. Are you willing to do what it takes to claim a soul of your own?

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Dicealot

Dicealot is a push-your-luck roguelike dice-builder where every roll could win you the battle or wipe your turn clean. Roll smart, build your dice pool, and save Camelot before your greed gets the better of you.

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Path of Achra

A complex roguelike RPG built around deep theorycrafting and build experimentation.

Released
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One Coin Museum

Play as Toadz the frog, sailing the seas to claw up treasures and fill a little museum with your finds. A cosy, chilled out collectathon with pixel art charm.

Development
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Toymaker: Threads of Joy

Run a toy shop in 1910s Salamanca, stitching together plushies and folklore in equal measure. It's a cosy crafting sim with a bit of myth and mystery stitched into every seam.

Development
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Loss Prevention

One of you plays shopkeeper, the rest try to nick everything on the list without getting rumbled. Sneaky, tense, and brilliant with mates.

Development
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Who’s Lila?

A disturbing psychological horror game built around facial expressions and perception.

Released
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Early Access

Swordcery

11 Aug, 2026

Indie Demos

Rita
76 MC
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Rita

SporkTank

Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.

Released
ShelfLife: Art School Detective
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ShelfLife: Art School Detective

Fnife Games

A detective dating sim in which psychic art student Johana investigates nine suspects to uncover who has been destroying priceless artworks.

Development
Pixel Washer
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Pixel Washer

Valadria

Pixel Washer is a cleaning game where players control a piggy using a power washer to remove grime and reveal pixel art scenes across a town.

Development
Nocturne
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Nocturne

Pracy Studios

Nocturne is a story-driven RPG set after humanity's extinction, combining rhythm-based combat with traditional RPG exploration and progression.

Development
Appulse
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Appulse

Le Rado

Appulse combines roguelite action, top-down shooting and pinball mechanics, tasking players with defending a fleet using recoil-based ball control.

Development
Hope in the City
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Hope in the City

Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.

Hope in the City is a narrative mystery game set in Shenyang, following 17-year-old Hope Song as she investigates her parents' sudden disappearance.

Development
Woodo
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Woodo

Tiny Monks Tales

Woodo is a cozy diorama puzzle game where players assemble wooden scenes piece by piece, following the story of Foxy and Ben the frog.

Development
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2
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The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2

D'Avekki Studios Ltd

A Lovecraftian mystery game in which players act as both therapist and detective, questioning suspects to uncover a killer whose identity is randomised each playthrough.

Development
Holstin
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Holstin

Sonka

Holstin is a survival horror game set in a decaying 1992 Polish town, where the player searches for a missing friend amid monstrous corruption.

Development
Toxic Crusaders
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Toxic Crusaders

Retroware

Toxic Crusaders is a beat 'em up featuring seven playable characters battling across eleven pixel-art levels, with local co-op for up to four players.

Development
Schrödinger's Call
89 MC
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Schrödinger's Call

Acrobatic Chirimenjako

Schrödinger's Call is a narrative picture-book-style game about Mary, an amnesiac woman who answers phone calls from souls caught between life and death in the moments before the moon falls and the world ends.

Released
Catechesis
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Catechesis

Baroque Decay

Catechesis is a Horror RPG in which a demon-possessed altar boy must stay virtuous by day and battle demons by night to save his grandfather.

Development
The Last Caretaker
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The Last Caretaker

Channel37 Ltd

A first-person survival-crafting game in which a robotic Caretaker explores a flooded ruined Earth to recover human seeds and prepare humanity for launch into orbit.

Early Access
General Practice
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General Practice

Mokum Games

General Practice is a co-op game for up to four players in which players run a chaotic GP clinic, treating patients using various medical devices and contraptions.

Development
Mutter
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Mutter

DeadlyCrow Games

Mutter is a stop-motion styled adventure game set in 1940s rural England, following a boy caring for his mother as she transforms into something monstrous.

Development
Croak
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Croak

WoodRunner Games

Croak is a fast-paced 2D platformer in which a Frog Prince uses tongue-grapple and bounce mechanics to navigate hand-drawn levels and break a curse on his kingdom.

Development
The Dark West
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The Dark West

Black Hand

The Dark West is an occult western Action RPG set in a corrupted 19th century frontier, combining lethal ranged combat with deep character building and loot systems.

Early Access
Time To Wake Up
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Time To Wake Up

Eye Blink Twice

Time To Wake Up is an atmospheric psychological thriller in which players navigate a dream built from surreal school memories, using their eyes to alter the environment.

Development
Mayak
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Mayak

Nikita Nplus1

Mayak is a linear, hand-painted 2D visual novel about a young astronomer investigating a mysterious prime-number signal from space.

Development
VOIDFACE
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VOIDFACE

Frog Hat Labs

VOIDFACE is a bullet hell game where every enemy is a boss fight and players have only one life to survive challenging encounters.

Going Gold
BOMBANANA!
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BOMBANANA!

Lefto Studio

Three monkeys, one bomb, zero shared senses. Blind hands, mute knowledge, deaf eyes - work out how to talk to each other before everything goes boom.

Development
Smokey Mike
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Smokey Mike

Medium Energy

A point-and-click tragicomedy about a comedian chasing five perfect minutes on stage in early 2010s Buenos Aires. Funny, painful, and dead honest about what it takes to get up there.

Development
One Coin Museum
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Demo

One Coin Museum

Toadzillart

Play as Toadz the frog, sailing the seas to claw up treasures and fill a little museum with your finds. A cosy, chilled out collectathon with pixel art charm.

Development
Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder
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Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder

Green Parrot Games

Draw or stop, that's the whole game. Lucky Punk shows you the exact odds of every risk, so when you crash out spectacularly, you've only got yourself to blame.

Development

Released Indie Games

Curved Space Titled Hero

Curved Space

Curved Space is an intense synthwave arcade shooter about battling cosmic energy spiders across warped, physics-defying battlefields.

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Airborne Empire

Build a city that actually flies, keep it balanced in the sky, and fend off pirates while exploring a huge open world below and above the clouds.

Released
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GODBREAKERS

GODBREAKERS is a chaotic co-op hack ’n’ slash where you absorb enemy powers, chain brutal combos, and unleash Godbreaks to crush bosses.

Released
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ION Shift

A brutal 2D platformer where you play as an alien fighting your way through a deadly spaceship full of soldiers, turrets, and drones.

Released
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Turnbound

Turnbound is a haunted grid-battler where you build your inventory, then send it off to fight the ghosts of other players' builds. Every tile placement matters.

Released
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Scritchy Scratchy

Scratch cards, big payouts, and just enough chaos to keep you hooked. Scritchy Scratchy is the incremental game where luck does the heavy lifting.

Released
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Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite

Every organism eventually evolves into a crab. Except yours, if you've got the guts. Build your own weird, wonderful survivor in this brilliant action roguelite.

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Area Survivors

Paint the battlefield, hold your ground and defend the tower as endless hordes close in on you. Survival horde combat with a twist you actually control.

Released
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Yooka-Replaylee

Yooka-Replaylee is the definitive remaster of the 3D platforming collectathon, with new challenges, shiny currency, maps, customisation & orchestral music.

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We, Junk Artists

Forget paintbrushes, just chuck junk about. We, Junk Artists turns rubbish into hilarious collages for up to 6 mates.

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Outbound

Turn an empty camper van into your dream home on wheels, exploring a colourful utopian world solo or with up to 3 mates.

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Monster Mop Up

Clean up messes, rescue fluffy lost monsters, and turn your home into a cosy sanctuary in this charming cleaning sim with heart.

Released
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