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Recently Released
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Projects with Demos
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.
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds
Legrand Legacy: Tale of the Fatebounds is a turn-based JRPG set in the hand-drawn fantasy world of Legrand, combining party combat with tactical battles between nations.
Mars Attracts
Mars Attracts is a theme park management game set on Mars, based on the Mars Attacks universe. Players run a Martian park by abducting historical humans and displaying them in enclosures.
Forty Depths Beneath Knossos: The Minotaur’s Maze
A maze-descent game in which the player controls Daedalus, trapped in his own labyrinth beneath Knossos. It features forty hand-built mazes, five playable characters and ten weapons and items.
Monster Mop Up
Monster Mop Up is a cleaning simulator in which players act as a Custodian for the Ministry of Monster Concealment, cleaning locations and rescuing lost creatures called Ragamuffins.
DiceRoll
DiceRoll is a strategic roguelite game set in endless rooms, where players carry accessories and abilities between runs and compete on leaderboards.
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.
Rita
Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.
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.
Another Eden Begins
Another Eden Begins is a command-battle RPG in which Aldo travels through time to search for his sister. It features full voice acting, 18 companions and a New Game+ mode with over 10 endings.
Time to Morp
Time to Morp is a cooperative base-building adventure for one to four players. Players care for creatures called Morps, farm, fish, cook, decorate homes and explore an island on an unknown planet.
Alembic
Alembic is a falling-sand sandbox built on the periodic table, where reactions come from element properties rather than fixed recipes. Players can also build machines and nuclear reactors.
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
Murdercartel
Murdercartel is an online 2D fantasy MMORPG with combat, dungeon bosses, gathering and crafting professions, a player marketplace and global leaderboards.
Deadliest Pigeon
Unleash total destruction to avenge the little chick! Soar through chaos, weaponize yourself to obliterate physics-based enemies and everything in your path.
Fireside Feelings
Grab a blanket and a hot drink, and settle in by the campfire to share your thoughts with real people at your own pace.
Anime Shop Simulator ✨
A first-person shop management simulation in which players run an anime store, stocking manga, figures and trading cards. It can be played solo or in online co-op for up to four players.
Hextracer
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.
SIDE OUT
SIDE OUT is a last-side-standing arena game in which each player defends one edge of a polygon against incoming balls. Eliminated players become saboteurs. It runs on Steam, web and phones.
ROUTINE
ROUTINE is a first-person sci-fi horror game set on an abandoned lunar base styled on an 80s vision of the future. The player explores the base, investigates what happened and tries to survive.
Breezy Blooms
Breezy Blooms is a sliding grid puzzle game in which players choose a wind direction to move seeds across a landscape and guide each one to a flower bed where it can bloom.
Mewgenics
Mewgenics is a turn-based tactics roguelite by Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel in which players breed cats, equip them with class collars and send them on battle-focused adventures.
ZERO Sievert
ZERO Sievert is a top-down extraction shooter set in a fictional post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe, where players scavenge across six procedurally generated maps and return to a bunker base.
Echobreaker
Echobreaker is a speedrunning game set in 2097, where a pilot tests an experimental rig on live-fire courses, combining fast movement and combat with time trials and leaderboards.
Worming from Home
Worming from Home is a job simulation in which the player controls a worm working as a junior financial analyst, using ragdoll physics to type, answer messages and complete tasks at a desk.
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