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Recently Released
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
I.T.C.B – Interstellar Trade Compliance Bureau
A management sim in which an abducted logistics worker runs an alien planet's economy from Trade Terminal 7-G, building facilities, trading on a galactic market and reacting to news headlines.
Remote Gamepad
Remote Gamepad is a PC app that turns a phone into a game controller. It works with PC games that support controllers and connects over Wi-Fi or USB.
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.
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.
Echoes of Mora VR
A VR exploration game set in a flooded, abandoned village. Players swim with arm movements, find hidden objects, and unlock portals to the village as it was before the flood.
No Murders in Grimwick
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.
Roadhouse Simulator
Roadhouse Simulator is a standalone prelude to Gas Station Simulator. The player runs a rundown roadside bar on Route 66, handling customers, staff, distilling and the law.
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.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
A first-person shop management simulation in which players run a store selling collectible mystery eggs, open them to find figures, and craft themed dioramas to sell.
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.
BuGarden
BuGarden is an idle gardening game that sits in the corner of the screen as a desktop companion. Players plant seeds, tend flowers and keep a snail companion with a customisable shell.
Little Corners
Little Corners is a sticker book style creative game. Players peel and place stickers to decorate eight themed rooms, with lofi music, hidden stickers and an in-game screenshot feature.
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
The Ascendant Sect
The Ascendant Sect is a party-building game in which the player takes over a fallen sect and leads five disciples chosen from a roster of 36. Combat is automatic, so preparation decides the outcome.
Finitimi
Finitimi is a Tentaizu logic puzzle game with scoring, controller support and clues shown in numeral systems from many cultures. Puzzles are generated automatically.
Well Dweller
Well Dweller is a dark fairy-tale metroidvania in which Glimmer, a small bird with a matchstick, explores a rotted kingdom to burn the wicked queen and rescue his family.
STUNTBOOST
STUNTBOOST is a speed-focused racing game played on a fingerboard through cardboard tracks. Players complete timed courses to earn medals and compete on online leaderboards.
Daggermap
Daggermap is a lightweight battlemap tool for tabletop RPGs. It detects grids in map images, snaps tokens into place, and supports optional live session sharing.
Blob of Ink
Blob of Ink is a short incremental game in which the player grows a small living ink blob by consuming letters and gathering ink until it reaches its final form.
BuGarden
BuGarden is an idle gardening game that sits in the corner of the screen as a desktop companion. Players plant seeds, tend flowers and keep a snail companion with a customisable shell.
Skyrift
Skyrift is an arcade game in which the player controls the last robot of its kind and defends a planet by deflecting projectiles back at attacking alien spaceships.
Sixtar Gate: STARTRAIL – Berry Melody Collaboration Pack
A DLC pack for Sixtar Gate: STARTRAIL, released as a collaboration with Berry Melody. It adds 10 new songs to the base game.
Don’t Stop Cutting The Trees!
An incremental game in which an automated lumberjack travels through forest regions, chopping trees and bosses while the player manages upgrades, abilities and companions.
MAINLINE
MAINLINE is a roguelike first-person shooter in which the player is caffeine travelling through a human bloodstream, killing enemies to extend a four-second survival timer before reaching the brain.
OFF
OFF is a role-playing game in which the player guides the Batter, a character on a mission to purify the world, through a series of zones by solving puzzles and fighting hostile creatures.
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