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Breakout Garage
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22 Sep, 2026
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Early Access
22 Sep, 2026
RogueHanafuda
Early Access
22 Sep, 2026
Crown Of Hispania
Early Access
22 Sep, 2026
Sproutmart – Grocery Store Simulator
Early Access
22 Sep, 2026
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Early Access
22 Sep, 2026
Obscurity: Unknown Threat
Early Access
22 Sep, 2026
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Going Gold
23 Sep, 2026
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Realindustry
AssemblyPrime
Realindustry is a single-player factory-building and incremental game in which players develop a production chain from hand tools to antimatter in order to manufacture a Hyperdrive Engine.
Woman Simulator
Sebasa Games
A household simulation in which the player takes the role of a housewife completing domestic chores under the supervision of a controlling husband who punishes poor work.
False Hero
Torchlight Games
False Hero is an action game in which a masked scholar steals attacks from defeated enemies and chooses whether to serve the gods of life or Death.
Imberite Idle
Chnappi
Imberite Idle is a steampunk idle incremental game in which you place structures on a grid to gather resources, open chests to collect new structures and arrange them to increase production.
Evymind Clips: Automatic Highlights & Shorts
Magilith
Evymind Clips is a video tool that analyses the spoken content of a recording to identify self-contained moments, which can then be reviewed, adjusted and exported as clips or shorts.
Curve Fever Pro
Jos Games
Curve Fever Pro is an online multiplayer arena game in which players steer a constantly moving ship that leaves a trail, competing against up to nine others in rounds of survival and point stealing.
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance: Evolution
Slitherine Ltd.
A story expansion for the real-time strategy game Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance, adding an eight-mission campaign set in Canada with new units, factions and human augmentation technology.
WilderDash
Wise and Wild
WilderDash is a tower defence roguelite for one to six players, in which you gather resources and build towers by day, then defend your base against monsters by night.
Projects with Demos
Tide Of Tactics
Tide Of Tactics is a medieval turn-based tactics game. Choose a commander to play, each with their own unique unit and abilities, then go to battle on a grid-based battlefield. Use the terrain to your advantage, place traps on the ground, and build the right units to counter your enemy.
Alembic
A falling-sand sandbox built on the **real periodic table**. Every element has genuine physical properties, and reactions emerge from real chemistry — rust iron, ignite thermite, run a galvanic cell, split a uranium pile to criticality. Discover it all in an encyclopedia that fills as you play.
Welcome to Elderfield
Welcome to Elderfield is a cosy horror farming and life sim RPG set in a town watched over by eldritch beings, with hand-drawn horror manga-style visuals and turn-based combat.
Gunshot Survivors VR
Gunshot Survivors VR is a VR roguelike shooter in which players upgrade a gun between waves and fight through a swarm of robot enemies across 12 waves in a single run.
Noctiria
Noctiria is a horror roguelite deckbuilder set in a decaying 1990s city. Choose one of six heroes, combine brutal status effects, manage your Sanity and consumable relics, and permanently upgrade your arsenal between descents.
Dataminers
Dataminers is a turn-based logic-adventure built on Minesweeper-style deduction, in which players hack through the data towers of corporations across several game modes.
Dreams of Another
Blast your way through millions of particles as you explore someone's dreams in this narrative driven adventure.
(TwwwT) The Witches Who Weave Timelines
A 2D action roguelite in which players control seven witches, each with their own combat style and stage, fighting through seven fractured timelines to restore the course of history.
Fish Lab
A short incremental game about collecting fish for a laboratory, with collection timed to the beat of the music.
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
Plunge into a living nightmare where every roll counts. Chain fluid combat with dice-fueled attacks, stack relics into ferocious synergies, and build unstoppable momentum. Slash through fate, bend chance to your will, and defeat the Black Die in this board-game inspired roguelite dungeon crawler.
Toxic Yuri
An overworked office lady discovers a sludge girl abandoned in a box and takes her home. A poisonous and fluffy romance begins. Will your relationship be healthy? Disastrous? Completely tepid? The choice is up to you in the only visual novel to prominently feature a literal dead dove.
Bookstore Incremental
An incremental game about running a bookstore, starting with one slow printer and a small shelf and expanding through a skill tree of upgrades over roughly five to six hours.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
A colossal blade has pierced the world of Armorial, unleashing a storm of enchanted swords from the heavens. Collect and wield an arsenal of these spellbound blades, turning them against the very force that summoned them. In this roguelike ARPG, you will defy the Celestial evil consuming the world!
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.
Shuffle and Seek
Groovy Zebra Studio
Shuffle and Seek is a 2-4 player party game of memory and mischief! You split into two teams: one secretly rearranges everything in the room, and the other tries to figure out exactly what changed.
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.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Jump, dash, dodge, and fight countless stellar bosses in a 2D action-platformer playable solo or with up to 8 players locally, featuring unlockable powers, upgrades, cinematic QTEs, and an emotional story.
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.
Released Indie Games
Cannabis Clicker
Cannabis Clicker is an incremental clicker game with a cannabis theme, in which players click to produce buds, buy buildings and unlock upgrades to grow their output.
Infinity Sweeper
Minesweeper with a roguelite twist, boards get bigger, meaner and weirder the further you push, and every run teaches you something new.
Millions of Minions: An Underground Adventure
You're locked away in the deepest, darkest dungeon. It's time to escape with your army of cute-looking minions. Use them as shields, leverage or to rule the land. Find out why you're locked away and defeat all who stand in your way.
Piano Warrior
Piano Warrior is a music creation game in which players compose songs from musical building blocks and instruments, then play tile-tapping battles to unlock more.
Deck of Haunts
Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.
Late Order
Late Order is a first-person horror game set in a fast-food restaurant, where you work the night shift while a supernatural entity possessing the restaurant's mascot enforces a set of rules.
Chronime Puzzle: Dogs
Chronime Puzzle: Dogs is a relaxing puzzle game featuring beautiful steampunk anime-inspired artwork.
Angel Clicker
Angel Clicker is an incremental clicker game with optional rhythm elements, in which players help an angelic architect compete in a soul-catching contest against Hell.
Creator Chronicles
A guild management game in which a developer trapped inside their own game must grow a village, recruit guild members and clear dungeons to return to the real world.
Bookstore Incremental
An incremental game about running a bookstore, starting with one slow printer and a small shelf and expanding through a skill tree of upgrades over roughly five to six hours.
Discremental
Discremental is a released incremental game in which you start with a single disk, loot floors for resources, and spend them on abilities, weapons and skill tree upgrades.
BeaterCore
BeaterCore is an arcade racing game built around old, cheap cars. Players buy, repair and tune a project car, race in career mode, and can play in split screen or online.
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