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DEEPLANDERS
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The Tower Must Fall
Going Gold
16 Nov, 2026
OKUREK
Going Gold
17 Nov, 2026
Save the Forest
Going Gold
18 Nov, 2026
Classroom in Sora
Going Gold
18 Nov, 2026
Cave Diving With Friends
Going Gold
19 Nov, 2026
Runecast
Development
25 Nov, 2026
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25 Nov, 2026
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Recently Released
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.
Moon Swarm
Spyra_Labs
Moon Swarm is an idle auto-battler in which players defend a moon from waves of aliens using automated guns. The game runs in a small corner of the desktop screen.
Glory On Pluto
LittleBigEars Games
Glory on Pluto is a roguelite in which players fill a rocket engine with fuel items and manage a crew to travel from Earth to Pluto. Builds must generate enough power to reach each destination.
Wizzy the Wood
Lukasz Cnota
Wizzy the Wood is a single-player 3D platformer adventure. A young hero named Wizzy must recover a stolen energy source to wake his sleeping village in the land of Woodland.
9 Kings
Sad Socket
9 Kings is a strategy game in which players build a city and army using cards for buildings, units and spells. It offers single player and asynchronous multiplayer modes, and is now fully released.
The Totemist
ShutinStudio
The Totemist is a narrative-driven shop simulator in which the player runs an occult shop, crafting and imbuing totems and talismans while uncovering a mystery in a quiet town.
JOHN GLEEP
monthbug
JOHN GLEEP is an action-roguelike in which a small alien abducts gamblers from planets to fill his failing casino and repay a debt to a mob boss. It combines UFO piloting with pachinko-style play.
Gas N Cars
Yorf Studio
Gas N Cars is a petrol station game in which players fuel, clean and repair customers' cars, or cause chaos with tools bought from a delivery truck. It has released on Steam.
Projects with Demos
Fish Lab
Fish Lab is a short incremental game in which players collect fish for a lab, with the action synced to music. Fish are collected by hovering the cursor over them.
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 via microphone to repel a demon.
Raiders 1941
Raiders 1941 is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up in which the player flies one of two experimental planes across Europe to Berlin, with 60Hz and 120Hz options and Steam leaderboards.
Tiny Glade
Tiny Glade is a free-form building game in which players create castles and small dioramas from meadow settings. It has no management, combat or failure states.
The Kind Camomille
The Kind Camomille is a 3D exploration game in which a mouse named Camomille travels to her grandmother's 100th birthday and helps people she meets on the way.
Wizzy the Wood
Wizzy the Wood is a single-player 3D platformer adventure. A young hero named Wizzy must recover a stolen energy source to wake his sleeping village in the land of Woodland.
FLASH AND DIE
A horror game in which the player is a photographer for a real estate agency, visiting dark properties at night to capture every required photo on a checklist while something unseen remains inside.
Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator
A video store management simulator set in the era of VHS rentals. Players run a store, stock tapes, manage staff and serve customers through the seasons.
Yooka-Replaylee
Yooka-Replaylee is a re-imagined 3D platformer in which Yooka and Laylee collect Pagies from a stolen book across several worlds, with new areas, moves, challenges and an orchestral score.
Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn’t
Cursed Words is a roguelike word game in which players build scores using Characters, Stickers, Stamps and Tiles across staged encounters, with words that can later give way to numbers, symbols or nothing.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
A soviet-themed city builder in which the player runs a planned economy, managing resources, supply chains, transport, citizens and trade with both the Western and Soviet blocs.
The Mortuary Assistant
The Mortuary Assistant is a horror game in which an apprentice at River Fields Mortuary carries out embalmings overnight while identifying and banishing demonic entities.
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
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.
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.
DWARRF: A Pinball Roguelike
Sam Stubbings
DWARRF is a roguelike mixing pinball, pachinko and bubble shooter play. As Arf, a pirate dwarf, the player fires balls from a cannon to fight enemies through four levels in the mines.
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.
Released Indie Games
Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot
Build a squad of up to 10 Dwarves, gear them up, and set the perfect formation before letting the auto battles decide who lives and who dies for Glory, Death and Loot.
BOMBANANA!
BOMBANANA! is a co-op bomb defusal game for exactly three players. Each plays a monkey with restricted senses and must communicate with the others to defuse the bomb before it explodes.
Etude
Etude is a multiplayer music game for up to six players, who improvise together within a shared harmonic framework and are rated on how well they stay in key.
Clamor: Bounty Hunter Pinball
Clamor: Bounty Hunter Pinball is an arcade game that combines pinball tables with video game features. Players fight waves of enemies on randomly generated tables with a choice of 12 ball types.
CastleOn
CastleOn is a turn-based castle building strategy game set in the late 12th century. Players either survive a set number of turns or conquer all rival Lords.
ANOMALOGIST: Inumaki Manor
A Japanese horror game in which the player investigates an abandoned mansion as a paranormal investigator, exploring by day and recording supernatural phenomena with devices from a fixed room at night.
STUNTBOOST
STUNTBOOST is a speed-focused racing game played on a fingerboard through cardboard tracks. Players complete timed courses to earn medals and compete on online leaderboards.
Black Friday Janitor: Clean the Whole Mall
Black Friday Janitor is an organisation game in which the player tidies a mall after a shopping frenzy, shelving items, collecting rubbish, cleaning spills and righting fallen objects.
Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown
A story-driven survival strategy game in which the player commands the U.S.S. Voyager in the Delta Quadrant, managing the ship, crew and resources. It includes a rogue-lite mode called Q Trials.
Bookstore Incremental
Bookstore Incremental is an incremental game in which players print and sell books, expanding a small shop through a large skill tree of upgrades while dealing with thieves, queues and mess.
United Heist: Facility Zero
United Heist: Facility Zero is a two-player co-op puzzle game. Each player works in a separate location and uses in-game voice chat to help their partner solve puzzles and escape a secret bunker.
Acceptable Losses
Acceptable Losses is a strategy game set in trench warfare in which the player is an officer assigning missions to squads over twenty days, balancing orders from HQ against the lives of their men.
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