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Cloudbreaker
Ballast Games
Cloudbreaker is a roguelite survivors-like set in a sky-world, where players fight hordes of enemies and upgrade an airship through a grid-based inventory puzzle system.
I was reincarnated as a mage.
SimulationJay
An isekai visual novel with turn-based RPG combat, in which a reincarnated mage named Jay joins an Adventurer's Guild, builds a party and rises through guild ranks.
Heroes Suck Soundtrack
The official soundtrack for Heroes Suck, composed and produced by Alan Hankers, combining orchestral music with folk instruments.
Davy bones
Yona games
Davy Bones is a roguelike score-strategy game based on Yacht Dice rules, in which players roll dice, build combinations and combine nautical relics to meet rising target scores across a cursed voyage.
Suqare: Hired Gun
2102 Game Studios
A shooter in which you play Suqare, a mercenary taking jobs from rival corporations. Mission choices affect available work, rewards and the story.
Station Command
Respite Games
Station Command is a turn-based tactics game in which you command Watchpoint Station, assemble a fleet, and direct ships through a branching single player campaign.
Batomon Showdown
berrymint
Batomon Showdown is a team-building battler in which players assemble squads of creatures called Batomon and face other players' teams through asynchronous multiplayer.
BLIND SPOT
Kyle Simpson
BLIND SPOT is an observation game in which you drive through a multi-level parking facility as a Night Auditor, spotting changes between cycles and reporting them at a terminal.
Projects with Demos
Fuzz Force: Spook Squad
A roguelite deckbuilder featuring ghost-hunting animals with dice powered weapons.
Little Kitty, Big City
Little Kitty, Big City is an open-world adventure game in which a cat explores a city, meets other animals and works out how to find its way home.
City Tales – Medieval Era
City Tales - Medieval Era is a city-building game in which players shape organic medieval settlements, guided by companion characters with developing skills.
Fading Serenades
Fading Serenades is a cozy top-down courier adventure where you deliver parcels, befriend islanders, and uncover mysteries on Clifford’s Island.
Leap Tactics
A pixel-art platform puzzle game in which every jump toggles nearby mechanisms. Players combine jumps with interactive elements to find a route to each level's goal.
Heave Ho 2
Grab, swing and splatter your way through eight ridiculous worlds, now with online chaos alongside the local couch carnage. Heave Ho 2 is dumb fun at its finest.
Cube Crusaders
Cube Crusaders is an action game set on the planet Adoros, featuring a metroidvania style campaign playable solo or in local co-op, plus a wave-based horde mode for up to 16 players online.
Dreams of Another
Dreams of Another is a surreal shooter where every shot creates instead of destroys. From Baiyon (PixelJunk Eden), coming to PS5, PS VR2 & Steam.
Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator
Open your own VHS rental shop and relive the golden age of video stores, one late fee and rewound tape at a time.
Snuggle Nightmare
A stealth horror game set in an abandoned indoor theme park, where a journalist investigates disappearances while hiding from active animatronics.
Nippets: A Hidden Object Game
Nippets is a hidden-object game full of handcrafted 2D maps just begging to be poked, prodded and shaken until they give up their secrets.
Vortha racing
Vortha Racing is an arcade time-trial racer in which players compete against their own best times and other players' ghosts across 20 tracks, unlocking new stages by earning medals.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players scavenge, fight and trade while customising cars to stay alive.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure set at a wedding in a French château, combining visual novel storytelling with point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements.
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow
Vertex Horizons
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow is a linear puzzle-adventure game set on a ruined planet, where solving puzzles gradually reveals the story of a lost civilisation.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a narrative game in which you work as a surveillance operator in a retro-futuristic dystopia, monitoring citizens, enforcing laws and making choices that affect the story.
DEVIL'S WAY: BOHEMIAN
Rose Game Studio
A dark comedy survival game in which players guide James DUD through a surreal dystopia run by a malevolent AI, choosing between doors that lead to unpredictable, often hostile scenarios.
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.
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.
Chomp Garden
PawPaw Games
Chomp Garden is a puzzle game in which you play a small lamp guiding plants with light while searching a garden for your lost pup.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
A first-person simulation game about running a shop that sells collectible mystery eggs, with options to open eggs for figures, craft dioramas and trade on an online marketplace.
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2
Skyhook Games
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 is a working simulation set in the USA in which players run a lawn care business using licensed equipment from Kubota, SCAG and STIGA.
Furyball: Rogue Revenge
Rebound
An action roguelite in which you fight through the gang-ruled city of Neo-Arcadia using a bouncing Furyball, modifying it with modules and equipment across procedurally varied runs.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which Kiko, a girl trapped in a spirit world, uses portals and Spirit Powers to alter gravity and time across four seasonal domains.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a speedrun-focused 2D platformer with multiple biomes, seasonal challenge modes and worldwide leaderboards.
The Piper of Dawn
Bone Nail
A story-driven management RPG set in Diamond City, where you play an alchemist growing magical crops and running a shop while dealing with six factions whose support decides the city's fate.
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.
Island Restoration
EliteTheDev
A cleaning game in which you sail between polluted islands, removing hazards, rescuing animals and upgrading tools to restore each one to a natural state.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
A build-focused action roguelite in which you play a Bait Soul fighting through a dangerous dungeon, using auto-attacking weapons, dodging and a loadout system of Soul Orbs and Support Items.
Yami Kids
Yanako RPGs, GameDevTosh
Yami Kids is a retro-styled monster-taming RPG in which twins Yuki and Yuumi Yami collect and train more than 80 Oni while moving between the Overworld and the Underworld.
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.
Important People of History: Presidents - Abraham Lincoln
Sunny Demeanor Games
A biographical kinetic novel about Abraham Lincoln, the third entry in the Important People of History series, covering his life, the US Civil War and the end of slavery through present-day photographs of historic sites.
Dash Dot Die
Iron Interactive Games
Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game built around Morse code, in which the player decodes signals through light, sound and timing to survive a captor's deadly game.
It's Fine
Buma Games
It's Fine is an incremental game about surviving the last 24 hours of development crunch, in which players code, upgrade and prestige towards a stable build under a dog Project Manager named Joe.
Gunclone Arena
Off North Games
Gunclone Arena is a top-down arena shooter set in the year 2250, in which a contestant fights waves of Gunclones and Mechs in a televised bloodsport for Cash and follower Likes.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Book Club Games
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Released Indie Games
Breezy Blooms
Breezy Blooms is a sliding grid puzzle game in which the player chooses the direction of the wind to move seeds across a landscape towards their matching flower beds.
Cube Boy
Cube Boy is a black-and-white point-and-click puzzle adventure in which a cube-shaped boy explores his late uncle's house, solving puzzles and uncovering hidden passages.
Cannabis Clicker
Cannabis Clicker is a cannabis-themed incremental clicker game in which players generate buds, buy buildings and unlock upgrades, with a prestige system that carries progress between runs.
Train Sim World® 7
Train Sim World 7 is a train simulation game featuring three new routes in Florida, Yorkshire and Bavaria, alongside modes such as Free Roam, Conductor Mode and the new Freight Hauler.
Rita
Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.
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.
KasMind
KasMind is a 1v1 competitive game in which matches are won by taunting rather than by landing hits. It offers local, online and CPU play.
TAMA JIGOKU
TAMA JIGOKU is a physics-based arcade game in which the player launches a ball to ricochet through alien formations across a 30-level single-player campaign.
Vibe City Islands Architect
A small gridless city-building game set on tropical islands, with a high score mode built around four objectives, a free sandbox mode and ten in-game radio stations.
Daggermap
Daggermap is a tabletop roleplaying companion tool for running combat and scenes on a digital battlemap, with automatic grid detection, token snapping and optional live session sharing.
Proper Tosser
An incremental physics game about tossing objects to earn money, which is then spent on upgrades to improve tossing ability.
Your Story: Games with Death
A text-based Choose Your Own Adventure game set in the Middle Ages, following a young adventurer who leaves home to explore unknown lands. Over 2,000 events and more than 200 ways to die.
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