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Another Card Game
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8 Nov, 2026
Neo Junk City
Going Gold
9 Nov, 2026
Late Shift
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The Devil’s Due
Going Gold
10 Nov, 2026
TANUKI: Pon’s Summer
Going Gold
10 Nov, 2026
Midwest 90: Rapid City
Early Access
10 Nov, 2026
Hope in the City
Going Gold
11 Nov, 2026
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Going Gold
11 Nov, 2026
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Recently Released
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.
Cobble Climber
Henry Mead
Cobble Climber is a difficult climbing game in which the player controls each hand separately while ascending a well, with rising water and timed holds adding pressure.
Hextracer
Amenadude
Hextracer is a time-trial puzzle game set in hex mazes that are only partly visible. Players can run solo or race up to six others online on the same mazes.
It's About Pirates
Elderwoof Games
It's About Pirates is a survivors-like in which players command a ship against waves of enemies, collecting loot and upgrading weapons and parts. It is now released, with one DLC item on Steam.
The Tally
Olivia Gonsher
The Tally is a life simulation set in Corvid City, in which the player lives out a full life and receives a final itemised account of their choices. It is made by aninsecurecarrot.
Abashed
Supantha Paul
Abashed is a short 2.5D narrative psychological adventure following Issac, a man with psychosis, as he searches for his missing partner. Players use medication to alter the environment and solve puzzles.
FEED ME MORE BRAINS
Sheraf Studio Inc
FEED ME MORE BRAINS is a first person incremental game in which the player feeds brains to a dark god, spending Orbs on a skill tree to evolve the deity and automate the process.
Clean Start
Serious Sim
Clean Start is a puzzle game in which players clean and organise other people's homes as Lena, an immigrant maid, and learn about the residents through the objects they find.
Projects with Demos
NORCO
NORCO is a point and click narrative adventure set in a fictionalised South Louisiana. The player searches for a missing brother by following a fugitive security android through suburban New Orleans.
ClearIt M4
ClearIt M4 is a ball-matching puzzle game in which players shoot coloured balls from the edges of the field to clear the board. Levels add special elements and a competition mode against the computer.
America Against Ants
A story-driven tactical defence game set in 1951, in which players command Task Force Sable against giant mutant fire ants spreading across the American Southwest after failed atomic experiments in Nevada.
Cards, Blades & Fine Print
A turn-based card RPG set in the village of Oakford, with a comedic bureaucratic tone. Players build an action deck, read telegraphed enemy intentions and develop a hero across three class paths.
DiceRoll
DiceRoll is a strategic roguelite game set in endless rooms, where players carry accessories and abilities between runs and compete on leaderboards.
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
A survival fleet-management roguelite with real-time space battles and procedural narrative events. Players lead survivors pursued by the Cylons while trying to rejoin the Battlestar Galactica.
DEADLINE DELIVERY
Deadline Delivery is a time-attack driving game in which Carl, a monkey mailman, delivers mail across 21 maps in a rigged truck. It supports up to 8 players.
Huglings
Huglings is a cooperative life simulation adventure for one to four players. You play a Hugling who rebuilds a village, farms, crafts and decorates a home while making peace with nearby goblins.
Knuckle Jet
Knuckle Jet is an arcade flight action game in which Anastasia punches mechanical enemies across standalone levels in Motorland. It supports local co-op and includes collectible and upgradeable gear.
Sovereign Tower
Sovereign Tower is a kingdom management game in which the player rules from a throne, resolves subjects' requests and sends a court of Knights on quests, with the option to rewind time.
Axe & Bow Land
Axe & Bow Land is a pixel art platformer and shoot 'em up with an Aztec-inspired setting. Players control brothers Axel and Bowie across six worlds to remove a dark energy from their homeland.
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.
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
Outer Wilds
Outer Wilds is an open world mystery game set in a solar system caught in an endless time loop. Players join a space program and explore planets that change over time.
wageslave
A short narrative dystopian office survival game. As new programmer Job Cyphus, the player ships code to earn food money, manages consumables to stay sane, and works towards retirement.
ZEPHON
ZEPHON is a turn-based strategy game set on a ruined Earth after an alien-origin apocalypse. Players lead human survivors through city building, tactical combat, research and diplomacy.
Normal Golf Game
Normal Golf Game is a golf game by solo developer Luke Muscat in which players control a club using physics on a large course. The premise has the player trapped on the course and owing a $100,000 fee.
Cubed
Cubed is a puzzle and arcade game playable in VR and without VR. It offers a puzzle mode and an arcade mode, with arcade supporting two players as a team or as rivals.
FEED ME MORE BRAINS
FEED ME MORE BRAINS is a first person incremental game in which the player feeds brains to a dark god, spending Orbs on a skill tree to evolve the deity and automate the process.
MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls
MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls is a 4v4 tag team fighting game from PlayStation Studios, Arc System Works and Marvel Games, featuring 20 Marvel characters at launch in an anime-inspired art style.
Aethercrypt
Aethercrypt is a fantasy, turn-based roguelike deckbuilder with four class decks. It can be played solo or in co-op with up to four players, locally over LAN or online.
Kepler 186F – Voice Pack: Yuer
A voice pack add-on for Kepler-186F that replaces the game's status alerts with voice lines from a licensed online personality known as Yuer. It is set to receive more lines as the game updates.
Swarmvore
Swarmvore is a game in which the player commands a swarm of small predators against armed living structures, descending through eleven depths while collecting biomass and upgrading between runs.
Mythicard
Mythicard is a free online auto battler with a mythology theme. Six players draw from a shared card pool and fight automatically until one is left standing.
New Home
New Home is a short horror game in the anomaly and liminal style. The player explores a changing house, watches for anomalies and looks for a way out.
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