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Recently Released
KKUL-TTEOK!
YOUNGJUN0316
KKUL-TTEOK! is a co-op game for one to four players in which players control pieces of Korean honey rice cake that have been swallowed and must escape through the mouth and esophagus.
Factory Default: Build, Trade, Repeat
Chett Fitzgerald
Factory Default: Build, Trade, Repeat is an industrial management game played on a 3D globe. Players build supply chains, trade goods and manage company reputation across more than 100 regions.
Sous Raccoon
Novice Flow
Sous Raccoon is a cooking roguelite in which the player is a raccoon hired as sous chef by a short-tempered Chef. It is now fully released and supports online co-op for two players.
Second Monitor Football
Tramvay Games
Second Monitor Football is a physics-driven football simulation built to run in a small window. Matches can be watched hands-free or played directly, with multiplayer, Twitch integration and modding support.
Dicevaders
Pengonauts
Dicevaders is a dice-based roguelike deckbuilder in which players lead an alien invasion of Earth, placing units on a turn-based grid and manipulating dice rolls to build scoring combos.
Late Order
Judas Brothers, Rassl.me
Late Order is a supernatural horror game set in a fast-food restaurant. The player works a first night shift, cooking orders and obeying rules set by an entity that inhabits the restaurant's mascot.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Lorenzo Ametrano
PSI: Pressure Climbing is a movement-based climbing game in which players use a jetpack to scale an underground hydropower grid on a mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Debt of Life
RedWolf Games
Debt of Life is a short narrative game in which a wealthy, terminally ill man must decide each day what to sacrifice to pay for the weekly treatment that keeps him alive.
Projects with Demos
Remote Gamepad
Remote Gamepad is an app that turns a phone into a game controller for PC games. It connects over Wi-Fi or USB and works with games that support game controllers.
Swan Song
Swan Song is a cozy puzzle game that invites you to slow down, listen, and reflect. Set inside a magical music box, each puzzle asks players to place notes on a musical scale. When you turn the key, the composition plays, activating platforms and opening paths that guide a small swan to safety.
No Knock
No Knock is an open-world theft simulation game where players rob targets, build a crew and expand a criminal enterprise.
Realindustry
Realindustry is a single-player factory-building simulation in which the player directs colony NIZ-08 and builds production chains, based on real science, to make a Hyperdrive Engine.
Aaero2
Tune into Aaero2 - a heart-pounding rhythm-shooter with 20 stunning alien worlds, each powered by a legendary Monstercat track. Trace ribbons of light, unleash devastating firepower, and conquer colossal bosses! Play solo or co-op and feel every beat as you fight to the soundtrack.
Magical Blush
Magical Blush is a Metroidvania-style action game in which the mage Arnin uses elemental spells to explore interconnected stages and confront the released Elemental Lords.
Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game
A story-driven Survival/ Farm RPG about learning to live after loss. Explore 7 emotional story arcs tackling love, grief, purpose & struggle of many kinds. Farm, Forage, Hunt and Craft to endure the deserts of 1860's Oregon (on casual/ challenge). Walk the path from mere survival to something more.
Packed Lair
Packed Lair is a roguelike auto-battler and base builder in which you play an evil lord, fitting buildings into a cramped underground lair to build a minion army against waves of heroes.
Raiders 1941
Raiders 1941 is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up in which players fly one of two experimental planes against Axis forces across Europe, with the campaign ending in Berlin.
JettFuel+
JettFuel+ is a 3D platformer in which Jett, a former factory robot, gathers Power Gems across a range of stages in order to find its missing brother, Brody.
Path of Achra
Path of Achra is a dark fantasy roguelike of the ancient earth, with a focus on streamlined controls and rapid hero customization. A "broken build sandbox." Fight through the deadly lands of Achra to reach the horrors of the Obelisk, and discover what lies beyond...
Silky Rails
Silky Rails is a strategy game in which players assemble a train from individual carts and defend it against waves of enemies at stations along the Silk Road.
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
The Tally
Olivia Gonsher
The Tally is a life simulation set in Corvid City, where everyday choices are recorded and totalled on a receipt when the player's life ends, deciding where they are sent next.
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players scavenge parts to customise cars, fight warlords and trade with factions.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure combining visual novel storytelling, point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements, set at a wedding in France.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a surveillance game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia, in which the player works as an operator watching citizens through cameras and enforcing the law.
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.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator is a first-person simulation game about running a shop that sells collectible mystery eggs, which can be sold sealed or opened for the figures inside.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale is a 2D action-platformer with boss battles, interactive cinematics and local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which Kiko, a girl stranded in a spirit world, uses portals and Spirit Powers to alter gravity and control time.
Telly No Vision
TheMysticSword
Telly No Vision is an action game set in a virtual space where the surroundings are invisible and must be navigated by watching floating TVs that show the world from other perspectives.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a 2D platformer built around speedrunning, with seasonal modes, worldwide leaderboards and biomes that each have their own physics.
Noir
Bœuf Musqué
Noir is a colourful 2D platform game in which players control a small ball that jumps and sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open the exit portal.
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.
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
Learn all about Abraham Lincoln in this visual novel biography containing rare photos of Lincoln’s hat the day he was shot, the Lincoln Memorial, where he gave the Gettysburg Address, and much more. Lawyer, President, Emancipator - this is Abraham Lincoln! Proudly made in the Washington DC area
Dash Dot Die
Iron Interactive Games
Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game with retro PSX and VHS-style visuals, in which every puzzle is solved by decoding Morse code.
Monarchs at Play
MixedMoonGames
Monarchs at Play is a turn-based 4X strategy game built around placing buildings, with matches lasting around an hour and support for solo and multiplayer play.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Lorenzo Ametrano
PSI: Pressure Climbing is a movement-based climbing game in which players use a jetpack to scale an underground hydropower grid on a mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Little Ghost
Alan Abbadessa, Law Jun Yan, Eduardo Alexandrino, Leaf Riifuneko
A 2D puzzle-platforming metroidvania in which you play an inch-high ghost exploring a collage-style home office, using movement abilities and a float mechanic instead of combat.
Dig Too Deep
Punch Up Games
Dig Too Deep is a 2D side-scrolling action roguelite with tower defence elements, in which players throw goblins to mine resources, craft defences and fight waves of enemies.
Jarred Defense
Jarred Cat Studios
Jarred Defense is a tower defense game in which players place towers anywhere to shape the enemy path. It includes a story campaign, Endless Mode with leaderboards and a level editor.
Cards, Blades & Fine Print
Crooked Seal Games
A dryly funny single-player card adventure with turn-based battles, 170 enemies, 583 illustrated equipment items, 60 collectible sets, and three freely mixable talent paths – in a fantasy world full of dangerous administration.
Crown Of Hispania
Regalis Studio
Rewrite the Reconquista in a grand strategy game set in 11th-century Iberia, where population, religion, and war evolve dynamically based on your decisions. Move armies freely across 300 hand-built provinces, manage a deep medieval economy, and face an AI that actually fights back.
WilderDash
Wise and Wild
WilderDash is a tower defence roguelite for one to six players. Players gather resources and build towers by day, then defend their base from monsters at night on procedurally generated maps.
Released Indie Games
Sydless
Sydless is an ultra-fast movement shooter where your weapon is a chaotic ball that grows deadlier the more you move.
Proper Tosser
An incremental physics game in which earning money through successful tosses funds upgrades that improve the player's tossing ability.
Parasite Elevator
Parasite Elevator is a horror game in which players count parasites disguised as humans in a corridor, then take an elevator to the floor matching that number.
Ling House: Echoes Within
A first-person horror game set in a shifting house where the player wakes with fragmented memories and must investigate anomalies to uncover what happened there.
FLASH AND DIE
FLASH AND DIE is a horror game where players work as a photographer taking night-time photos of real estate listings, uncovering a hidden truth along the way.
Circle Test Suite
Circle Test Suite is a puzzle game in which the player directs a character through a series of test chambers, delivering an object to a target using as few Action Points as possible.
Temple 13 – Time Collapse
Temple 13 - Time Collapse is a survival horror game set in an ancient temple, where players investigate anomalies, avoid creatures and traps, solve puzzles and uncover the fates of earlier explorers.
Hidden in Plain Sight – Online Multiplayer
A DLC for Hidden in Plain Sight that adds online multiplayer, letting friends and family play together over the internet when they cannot meet in person.
Rusted Awakening
Rusted Awakening is a one hour nightmare with brutal first person combat, set inside an underground facility where humanity is kept asleep and harvested by those who remain awake. Find a way out.
Video Game Menu: The Game
A short game about the very best part of video games: the menus.
Cutie Clicker
Cutie Clicker is a released clicker game in which players click on cute animals to earn coins, then spend those coins on upgrades to increase their coin production.
Packed Lair
Packed Lair is a roguelike auto-battler and base builder in which you play an evil lord, fitting buildings into a cramped underground lair to build a minion army against waves of heroes.
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