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Midwest 90: Rapid City
Hidden Chest Studios
A tycoon simulation set in 1990s Rapid City, where the player runs a roadside diner in a failing economy and uses harvested monster meat as the main ingredient.
TANUKI: Pon's Summer
Denkiworks
Hop on your BMX and deliver packages as a tanuki with one summer to save its shrine before the big festival. Wholesome, busy and full of charm.
The Devil's Due
Games People Play
A roguelike poker game in which the player fights demonic monsters one-on-one. Poker hand strength sets damage dealt, and both sides draw from a shared deck.
Late Shift
AstronautCat Studios
Experience found-footage horror through the eyes of a missing cinema employee. Navigate a looping cinema, find anomalies, uncover the truth, and break the loop. Make sure every room is checked... thoroughly, or risk becoming another missing employee.
Neo Junk City
Starblade Games
A cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in the half-sunken Drowned City. The player controls Buster 09, investigating a murder they know they committed but cannot remember.
Terrablox
Digital Witchcraft
Terrablox is a 3D voxel virtual tabletop. Users build block-based maps, place tokens, and run sessions with line of sight, lighting and fog of war, using any rules system or genre.
Another Card Game
Use Your Imagination group
Another Card Game is a multiplayer PvP card game for up to 8 players per match, with a bot mode called No Friends. Players build spells of one to three cards to defeat opponents.
Arcane Architect
Mayak Studio
Arcane Architect is a VR tower defence game in which the player takes the role of a battle archmage, building towers and casting spells to defend a fantasy world from advancing monsters.
Projects with Demos
Aaero2
Aaero2 is an on-rails rhythm shooter in which players follow ribbons of light and fire at enemies in time with a Monstercat soundtrack. It has a campaign plus co-op and PvP modes.
Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster
Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster is a Metroidvania-style adventure in which the player, the last Beastmaster, transforms using animal souls during a war between humans and non-humans.
Warcat Parade
Warcat Parade is a bullet hell game inspired by Touhou Project. Punk catboy Lumi sets out to rescue his sister Lunta and free a town from the Viper dictatorship.
KAPIA
KAPIA is a point-and-click adventure set in a dome city watched by an AI called The Eye. Players control Stefan and his granddaughter Reny as they solve puzzles and investigate a conspiracy.
Space Carrier Zero
Space Carrier Zero is a retro space action game in which the player commands a carrier through five acts of route choices, with permanent card upgrades carrying over between runs.
S.A.N.D.Y. – Beach Cleaner
S.A.N.D.Y. - Beach Cleaner is a game in which the player controls a beach-cleaning and trash-sorting robot on the shore of a former top resort, in a world overwhelmed by waste and pollution.
Remnants of the forsaken Past : Submerged Fantasy
A story-driven underwater adventure in which Raine pilots upgradeable submarines and fights on foot, uncovering the ancient past of a magical sea civilization while facing pirates and sea monsters.
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.
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.
Monitor State
Monitor State is a narrative decision game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia. The player works as a camera operator who monitors citizens, applies changing laws and makes choices that affect the world.
Dragon Dinner
An explosive cocktail of intense strategic action and deceivingly cute dragons! Manage chaotic clients and strategically design your restaurants layouts to handle the rush and serve endless waves of hungry dragons.
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.
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 find a suitable home for each arriving character. It is currently in Early Access.
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
Big Breakfast 2
Big Breakfast 2 is a turn-based RPG from Stahmpin' Grounds Studios, styled after 8-bit fantasy RPGs. A man travels a world without breakfast in search of answers and food.
EVERSPACE™
EVERSPACE is a single-player space shooter with roguelike elements. Players fly one of three ships through procedurally generated levels, fighting enemies and crafting equipment.
King Assassination
King Assassination is a team-based multiplayer game in which Guards escort an NPC King along a route while Assassins pose as bystanders and try to kill him. Matches support up to 5 players per side.
Tom’s Last Adventure
Tom's Last Adventure is a 2D precision platformer in which Tom, a cat who is an angel, descends from the heavens to Earth using a dash, a double jump and collectible stars that change his movement.
The Loopler
The Loopler is a roguelite deckbuilder in which a slot car drives repeated laps of a track. Players draft cards, place gates and collect charms to build up scores and speed.
Beyond Yardwork Simulator Prologue
Beyond Yardwork Simulator Prologue is a yard maintenance simulation with story-driven jobs such as mowing, power washing and leaf blowing, plus garden decoration between tasks.
Dashing Krew
Dashing Krew is a 2D physics-based puzzle-platformer in which an alien crashes on an unknown planet and uses various UFOs to explore and return to the mothership. It includes a level editor.
Tiny Glade
Tiny Glade is a free-form building game in which players create castles and small dioramas from meadow settings. It has no management, combat or failure states.
Party Animals
Party Animals is a game played with friends, in which players can compete against each other or work together to eliminate others, with some fights centred on a Gummy Bear.
False Hero
False Hero is an action game in which the player takes the role of a scholar who wears a mask that copies enemy attacks, and chooses whether to serve the gods of Life or become an apostle of Death.
Mosaique Neko Waifus 6
Mosaique Neko Waifus 6 is a puzzle game with rotating puzzles, a skill tree and dialogue choices, in which the player meets up with the cat girl characters Ari and Niko.
HOT WHEELS™ Infinite Rush
HOT WHEELS Infinite Rush is an open-world racing game set across four islands, with over 150 collectable vehicles, a Track Builder, and single-player, split-screen and online modes.
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