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Recently Released
Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest
IQ Games
A cooperative puzzle platformer for two players, or one playing both characters, featuring forest spirits with different elemental abilities and physics-based levels.
Blightstone
Unfinished Pixel
Blightstone is a strategy roguelike in which players protect the Earthglass Crystal and deliver it to the Infernal Rift to defeat the demon overlord Korghul. It is now fully released.
Elsewhere
Four White Cats
Elsewhere is a massive sandbox crafting game where you go from stone tools to fusion power and particle accelerators, with magic, monsters and castles thrown in for good measure.
Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction
Gilded Rune Games
Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction is a noir roguelite in which the player is a detective. Using clues from characters who may be lying, they arrest syndicate members in procedurally generated cases.
Pixel Washer
Valadria
Pixel Washer is a cleaning game in which the player controls a pig with a power washer, removing dirt from pixel art levels and earning coins to upgrade equipment.
Chicks In Trouble
Creamative
Chicks In Trouble is a 3D farm adventure in which a father rooster searches for his missing chicks. It has separate single-player and co-op campaigns, plus four mini-games.
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2
Auroch Digital
A single-player first-person shooter and sequel to Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. It features a branching campaign, two playable characters and enemies drawn from the four Chaos god factions.
Good Heavens!
Nowhere Studios
Good Heavens! is a survival RPG set on procedural floating islands. Players explore, build a home, restore cities and fight bosses, solo or online with up to 8 players.
Projects with Demos
Journey to Echo
Journey to Echo is a post-apocalyptic survival adventure in which you leave an underground bunker to scavenge supplies, maintain a vehicle and search for other survivors across an open world.
Roman Sands RE:Build
Roman Sands RE:Build is an adventure game that interweaves two stories, one set at a tropical resort and one at a decaying zoological research station, both against an apocalyptic backdrop.
Spiritus Sancti
Spiritus Sancti is a first-person psychological horror game in which a priest investigates a suspected possession in an apartment, using spoken invocations picked up by a microphone.
Police Chief Simulator
Police Chief Simulator is a first-person management game in which the player runs a county police station, handling crime reports, staff and patrols across Winston Springs County.
Lamp Clicker
Lamp Clicker is an incremental idle clicker game in which players click a lamp to earn money and unlock new lamps while building a lamp empire.
The Gate Must Stand
Fend off brutal waves of demonic hordes in this epic fantasy tower defense survivors like! Hack and slash among the action or zoom to strategically control the battlefield. You are the city’s last line of defense, build your base, defend the gate!
Increvaders
Increvaders is a game in which players destroy swarms of enemies to earn points, spend those points on new powers, and take on boss encounters.
Drill Rift
Build and manage a remote drill outpost in this unforgiving turn-based strategy game. Upgrade strategic machinery and level up your dwarfs. Balance resource management, strategic upgrades, and madness. If you drill too deeply, you may awaken what should not be awakened.
I Need to Fix My Dream Car (But I Work at a Junkyard)
A junkyard game in which you break down piles of scrap, earn money, rebuild a rusty old car, complete customer orders and rescue dogs hiding among the junk.
Dice Tavern: Farkle Roguelike
Dice Tavern: Farkle Roguelike is a roguelike deckbuilding game based on the traditional dice game Farkle, played across six taverns against thirty opponents.
wageslave
Wageslave is a short, narrative dystopian office survival game in which players guide a programmer through the pressures of corporate life to earn enough to retire.
Ravenous Devils
Ravenous Devils is a point and click management game about a tailor shop and pub that turn customers into ingredients and clothing materials.
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
SUSHI CHESS
Today's Special!
SUSHI CHESS is a turn-based board game where players move sushi pieces that each carry a price. Capturing a piece costs the capturer its price. It offers puzzles, CPU opponents, and local or online play.
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 build and customise cars, scavenge, trade with factions and fight warlords.
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 game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia. The player works as an operator who watches citizens through cameras, enforces laws and makes decisions that affect the story.
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
A first-person shop simulation in which players run a store selling collectible mystery eggs, open them to find action figures, and build themed dioramas to sell.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale is a 2D action-platformer with boss battles and animated cinematics. It can be played solo or in local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which the player controls Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across a spirit world divided into four seasonal domains.
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 2D platform game in which the player controls a small ball that sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open an exit portal. A controller is required.
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.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
Bait Soul is an action roguelite with a cultivation theme. Players arrange Soul Orbs and Support Items in a loadout while the character attacks automatically and the player handles movement.
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 where the player decodes Morse code to survive a maze of corridors, rooms and vents, in a retro PSX and VHS-inspired style.
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.
Released Indie Games
Elemental Witches
Elemental Witches is a roguelite survivor-style game in which players switch between Fire, Wind and Thunder witches in real time and combine elemental orbs into spells.
The Precinct
The Precinct is a 1980s-set police sandbox game where you play a rookie cop patrolling a living city, responding to crimes and investigating your father's murder.
Cast n Chill
Cast n Chill is a relaxing fishing game where you explore serene lakes, rivers, and oceans. Catch rare fish, upgrade your gear and reel in legendary catches - all with your loyal companion by your side.
Crafty Survivors: Wicked Winter
Crafty Survivors: Wicked Winter sends a group of survivors to the Snowy Peaks, beyond the Mountain region, to answer a distress signal and fight the Malignant Curse.
Before Your Eyes
Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.
VOXEL DRIFT RACER
A top-down arcade drift racer set in a voxel world, with 12 modes, unlockable cars and parts, track and car editors, and online multiplayer for two to eight players.
Pyra
Pyra is a precision platformer in which the player controls a small living flame climbing through an ancient temple filled with traps, collapsing structures and other obstacles.
F2 A! Idle Army
F2 A! Idle Army is an idle strategy game in which players upgrade a hero, buy units and unlock tech while the army fights waves of monsters automatically.
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.
Refund Me TD
A single-player tower defence game with fifty levels and a two-hour play limit. Players build mazes from fences across a meadow and use eight tower types against varied enemy waves.
Doomsday Diner
Doomsday Diner is a physics-based roguelike job sim where players cook hot dogs, serve customers and fight off raiders in a post-apocalyptic diner.
Idols of Ash
Grapple, clamber and fall thousands of meters down into a dark and ancient place in this first-person horror climbing game. You are being hunted.
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