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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
Cloudbreaker
Cloudbreaker is a roguelite survivors-like set in a sky-world, where players pilot airships against hordes of enemies and upgrade their builds through a grid-based inventory puzzle system.
Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey is a romantic comedy visual novel adapted from Jane Austen's nineteenth-century novel, following a seventeen-year-old on a first visit to Bath.
NORCO
NORCO is a dialogue-focused point & click adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an increasingly surreal and distorted South Louisiana.
Dystopicon
Dystopicon is a dystopian time management game in which players earn money by watching television and decide whether to conform or rebel against a controlling society.
Carnaval Marbles
Carnaval Marbles is a roguelike that combines French billiards with a dark-fantasy carnival setting, where players build each run from Talismans, Marble Bonuses and Runes.
Don’t Stop Cutting The Trees!
Don't Stop Cutting The Trees! is a colourful incremental game in which an automated lumberjack clears forest regions while the player manages upgrades, skills and companions.
Anima Gate of Memories: I&II Remaster
A third-person action RPG that brings to life the world of Gaia from the Anima: Beyond Fantasy RPG table-top books. Explore a deep and multifaceted story where your choices and actions directly impact the journey and decide the fate of the characters.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
A first-person open-world RPG set in a dark fantasy land inspired by Arthurian legend, 600 years after King Arthur's fall. It features a branching story, flexible character builds and three zones.
100 Cats Lost in China 2 Find & Color
🐱 Discover 500 hidden cats across 5 artistic hand-drawn scenes 🖌️. Relax with color-by-numbers 🎨 and add life to every detail. Play solo or in cozy co-op 👯♂️, while Meow FM 🎶 sets the perfect creative mood.
The Steps as we know them
Use the moves of chess to solve puzzles. Find your way with six different pieces, through six different worlds. Use a varying way of thinking in each world.
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.
Crumble
Crumble is a dynamic physics platformer. Move like a Slime, jump like a ball, swing like Spiderman!
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
Forty Depths Beneath Knossos: The Minotaur’s Maze
A maze game in which the imprisoned architect Daedalus descends through forty hand-built labyrinth levels, rescuing companions and using tools and divine favours to escape.
Ratten Reich
Ratten Reich is a steampunk/dieselpunk RTS set in a war between anthropomorphic rat, mouse, cockroach and lizard factions across three continents.
Noir
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.
This Is No Cave
A one-click parkour game in space. Zoom through intricate levels using your suit's thrusters and grapple hook, all while evading colossal alien worms and racing against the clock.
Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns
A remastered revival of the 1980s strategy classic Defender of the Crown, offering original, reimagined, and procedurally generated modes of play.
911 Dispatcher: Unknown Caller
911 Dispatcher: Unknown Caller — a first-person psychological horror game in which you work as a night-shift emergency dispatcher. Take calls, decide when to send a police unit, and get to the bottom of a mysterious call connected to an old closed case.
Acceptable Losses
Acceptable Losses is a trench warfare management game in which the player, as an officer behind the front line, assigns missions to squads and deals with paperwork over twenty days.
REPLACED
REPLACED is a 2.5D pixel art narrative action platformer in which an AI trapped in a human body, R.E.A.C.H., explores Phoenix-City in an alternate 1980s America.
Coloring Game 5.7
Coloring Game 5.7 is an add-on for Coloring Game 5 that provides a further set of 15 images, totalling 550,000 pixels, to colour in.
Lost Item
Lost Item is a first-person horror game set in a night-time office building, where the player patrols ten floors, collecting misplaced objects and placing them in a collection box.
My Darling Dark Elf
A linear visual novel about Nienke, a dark elf working at her parents' café, whose routine changes when an energetic dark elf named Merel arrives claiming to know her.
Little Ghost
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.
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