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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
This Is No Cave
A 2D platformer in which a crash-landed player uses thrusters and a grapple hook to escape underground tunnels and giant worms. It can be played with a mouse alone.
Woodo
Woodo is a diorama puzzle game in which players assemble wooden 3D scenes piece by piece, following the story of Foxy and Ben the frog across a series of connected dioramas.
Custom Corner
Custom Corner is a room-decorating and desktop companion game from an indie couple team. Players build an isometric pixel room and use built-in focus timer, to-do list and notes widgets.
Empires of the Undergrowth
A real-time strategy game in which the player builds and manages an ant colony, digs nests, gathers food and fights insects, other animals and rival colonies across underground and surface maps.
Blood Lily: Killers Can’t Sink a Yuri Ship
A B-horror mystery comedy adventure in which college student Lily tries to romance her crush Sally on holiday while serial killers keep interrupting. It has ten endings and 2.5D camerawork.
Nocturne
Nocturne is a story-driven RPG with rhythm-based combat, set in a Digital Afterlife a thousand years after humanity's disappearance. It includes 101 playable tracks and a campaign of over ten hours.
Moon Swarm
Moon Swarm is an idle auto-battler in which players defend a moon from alien waves using automated guns. It runs in a small corner of the desktop alongside other activities.
Goaldeck
Goaldeck is a single-player roguelike deck-building card game in which the player coaches a football squad through a series of tournaments, managing both tactics and player morale.
The Bird of the North
A deduction game set in 1921, in which an ice age has halted the Industrial Revolution. Players explore scenes and piece together events from a series of visions involving birds.
GRID/
GRID/ is an arcade-style boss rush action game in which the player, a Visual Debugger, fights nine Bug Entity bosses on a 7x6 grid using one of three unlockable weapons.
Catnip Fever Dreamland
Catnip Fever Dreamland is a game in which players guide Krum through his mind, collecting catnip to progress through levels. It offers a Story mode and multiplayer for up to four players.
The Sinking City 2
The Sinking City 2 is a third-person survival horror game set in flooded 1920s Arkham. Players manage scarce resources, solve puzzles and investigate cases while searching for a woman trapped in the Dreamlands.
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
Brick by Brick
Brick by Brick is a first-person sorting and building sandbox in which players organise roughly 4,000 loose bricks onto shelves, then build freely or reset the room. It supports solo and online play.
Pompeii: The Legacy
Pompeii: The Legacy is a city-building game set twenty years after the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. Players lead a Roman family and manage the rebuilding of Pompeii.
Dawn Dew – Realm Heart
Dawn Dew - Realm Heart is a DLC expansion for Dawn Dew that adds two new explorable scenes, six bosses and a new mobility ability. It continues the story and difficulty of the main game.
BIG BANG TO US
BIG BANG TO US is an interactive science application covering 13.8 billion years of cosmic history, from the Big Bang to the present, explored through touch interaction across 8 chapters.
Unmurk
Unmurk is a minimalist puzzle game in which players assemble puzzles on voxel objects by rotating them and matching pieces, after which the completed object comes to life.
Flip & Shop Simulator: Prologue
Flip & Shop Simulator: Prologue is a free co-op city simulator in which players run businesses together, including a pizzeria, a liquor store and a mystical goods shop.
Modern Durak Online Services Access
Modern Durak Online Services is a DLC for Modern Durak that adds ranked matches, leaderboards, private lobbies and avatar customisation to the card game's online play.
Cast n Chill
Cast n Chill is a relaxed fishing game with 16 locations, over 50 fish species, active and passive play modes, and co-op for two players.
Moon Shop Simulator
Moon Shop Simulator is a first-person management game in which the player runs a small shop beneath the lunar surface, ordering goods from Earth, storing stock in racks and shipping customer orders.
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.
Grizzly Cup Turbo Challenge ’92
Grizzly Cup Turbo Challenge '92 is a local multiplayer arcade racing game for up to four players, with a retro 16-bit style, multiple cars and a built-in track editor.
Mexican Ninja
A fast, chaotic 2.5D roguelike beat 'em up where Narcos and Yakuzas collided into one mad city, and you're the ninja out to smash it apart.
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