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Settler's Domain
rick
Build up your settlement from scratch, manage resources, research new tech and decide whether to make friends or enemies of your neighbours. It's classic settlement building done right.
False Alarm
Scattered Discs
A stealth heist game where you break into offices, hotels and museums to nick whatever your clients want. Sneak, distract, manipulate, and if it all goes wrong, improvise.
Mexican Ninja
Madbricks
A fast, chaotic 2.5D roguelike beat 'em up where Narcos and Yakuzas collided into one mad city, and you're the ninja out to smash it apart.
Grim Trials
Glory Jam
Grim Trials is a heavy metal action roguelite in which players craft weapons and armour to battle through hex-grid arenas as a Reaper named Avelin.
VOIDFACE
Frog Hat Labs
VOIDFACE is a bullet hell game where every enemy is a boss fight and players have only one life to survive challenging encounters.
Lootbound
ArtDock
Lootbound is a roguelike where players build a squad of companions, manage inventory-based item auras, and assemble a boss across multiple biomes.
Zodiac Mountain
Mystic Road
Climb a mythic mountain as a card-slinging panda, wielding Yin and Yang hands to outsmart gods, demons and zodiac bosses.
Chronime Puzzle: Dogs
Quantum Quiver Games
Chronime Puzzle: Dogs is a relaxing puzzle game featuring beautiful steampunk anime-inspired artwork.
Projects with Demos
Diaspora
Navigate unknown waters, deadly politics, and ancient magic in this low-fantasy adventure. Can you turn the tides of war and forge a future for your clan? A text-based interactive novel, 1 million words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Dreams of Another
Dreams of Another is a surreal shooter where every shot creates instead of destroys. From Baiyon (PixelJunk Eden), coming to PS5, PS VR2 & Steam.
The Royal Writ
Command your cards into battle where every card that reaches the enemy base is gone for good. Sacrifice your subjects wisely and build a legacy worth remembering.
Regions of Ruin: Runegate
Play the last of the dwarves, rebuild a shattered civilization, and hack your way through a monster-infested world in this explorative RPG.
CastleOn
Build your fortress, man the walls and survive the Third Crusade in this deep turn-based castle building strategy game.
Drill Rift
Drill Rift is a turn-based colony sim where you manage a dwarven mining outpost, upgrade tech, roll dice events & risk awakening what lies below.
Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times
Rhell is a puzzle adventure where you mix and match 40 magic runes to solve puzzles however you like, playing a mage who's a bit too mouthy for her own good.
NORCO
A Southern Gothic sci-fi adventure exploring identity, industry, and family in a decaying Louisiana town.
The Gate Must Stand
The Continent has fallen and Belrak's last gate needs a defender. Pick your hero, recruit followers, and fight tooth and nail to keep it standing.
Moss: The Forgotten Relic
Moss: The Forgotten Relic is an atmospheric puzzle-adventure combining Moss and Moss: Book II into a single adventure, guiding a small mouse hero through a fallen kingdom.
PlateUp!
Run a restaurant with up to four mates, cook like mad, and try not to burn the whole place down. Chaotic co-op cooking at its finest.
GODBREAKERS
GODBREAKERS is a chaotic co-op hack ’n’ slash where you absorb enemy powers, chain brutal combos, and unleash Godbreaks to crush bosses.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
Grim Trials
Glory Jam
Grim Trials is a heavy metal action roguelite in which players craft weapons and armour to battle through hex-grid arenas as a Reaper named Avelin.
Book Nook
Malapata Studio
Book Nook is a relaxing puzzle game in which players assemble miniature diorama scenes piece by piece, placing furniture, decorations and small details to complete cosy book nook designs.
Moss: The Forgotten Relic
Polyarc, Blackbird Interactive
Moss: The Forgotten Relic is an atmospheric puzzle-adventure combining Moss and Moss: Book II into a single adventure, guiding a small mouse hero through a fallen kingdom.
Kint
Conor Souness
Kint is a text-based online multiplayer RPG in which players explore the world of Seram and vote collectively to determine which discovered lore fragments become canon.
Silky Rails
JoyDoza
Silky Rails is a train-building survival game where players assemble and upgrade carts to automatically battle waves of enemies along the Silk Road.
Lootbound
ArtDock
Lootbound is a roguelike where players build a squad of companions, manage inventory-based item auras, and assemble a boss across multiple biomes.
Rita
SporkTank
Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.
ShelfLife: Art School Detective
Fnife Games
A detective dating sim in which psychic art student Johana investigates nine suspects to uncover who has been destroying priceless artworks.
Pixel Washer
Valadria
Pixel Washer is a cleaning game where players control a piggy using a power washer to remove grime and reveal pixel art scenes across a town.
Nocturne
Pracy Studios
Nocturne is a story-driven RPG set after humanity's extinction, combining rhythm-based combat with traditional RPG exploration and progression.
Appulse
Le Rado
Appulse combines roguelite action, top-down shooting and pinball mechanics, tasking players with defending a fleet using recoil-based ball control.
Hope in the City
Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.
Hope in the City is a narrative mystery game set in Shenyang, following 17-year-old Hope Song as she investigates her parents' sudden disappearance.
Woodo
Tiny Monks Tales
Woodo is a cozy diorama puzzle game where players assemble wooden scenes piece by piece, following the story of Foxy and Ben the frog.
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2
D'Avekki Studios Ltd
A Lovecraftian mystery game in which players act as both therapist and detective, questioning suspects to uncover a killer whose identity is randomised each playthrough.
Holstin
Sonka
Holstin is a survival horror game set in a decaying 1992 Polish town, where the player searches for a missing friend amid monstrous corruption.
Toxic Crusaders
Retroware
Toxic Crusaders is a beat 'em up featuring seven playable characters battling across eleven pixel-art levels, with local co-op for up to four players.
Schrödinger's Call
Acrobatic Chirimenjako
Schrödinger's Call is a narrative picture-book-style game about Mary, an amnesiac woman who answers phone calls from souls caught between life and death in the moments before the moon falls and the world ends.
Catechesis
Baroque Decay
Catechesis is a Horror RPG in which a demon-possessed altar boy must stay virtuous by day and battle demons by night to save his grandfather.
The Last Caretaker
Channel37 Ltd
A first-person survival-crafting game in which a robotic Caretaker explores a flooded ruined Earth to recover human seeds and prepare humanity for launch into orbit.
General Practice
Mokum Games
General Practice is a co-op game for up to four players in which players run a chaotic GP clinic, treating patients using various medical devices and contraptions.
Mutter
DeadlyCrow Games
Mutter is a stop-motion styled adventure game set in 1940s rural England, following a boy caring for his mother as she transforms into something monstrous.
Croak
WoodRunner Games
Croak is a fast-paced 2D platformer in which a Frog Prince uses tongue-grapple and bounce mechanics to navigate hand-drawn levels and break a curse on his kingdom.
The Dark West
Black Hand
The Dark West is an occult western Action RPG set in a corrupted 19th century frontier, combining lethal ranged combat with deep character building and loot systems.
Time To Wake Up
Eye Blink Twice
Time To Wake Up is an atmospheric psychological thriller in which players navigate a dream built from surreal school memories, using their eyes to alter the environment.
Released Indie Games
OFF
A surreal cult classic RPG where players guide the Batter through a strange world filled with unforgettable characters, mysterious zones, and unsettling
Dig, Dig, Die
Online co-op horror for 1–6 players. Board a cursed flying ship, raid haunted graveyards for loot, and survive monsters that hear every sound. Beware of UFO abductions, grab boosters from vending machines, gamble in the onboard casino, and embrace pure chaos with friends in voice chat.
Axe & Bow Land
Retro Aztec platformer where brothers Axel & Bowie battle ancient darkness with magical weapons, pixel charm & tough arcade challenge.
Chapeau
Chapeau is a local co-op party game where players control hats that bounce and float, competing to land on heads and score points across various modes.
Aaero2
A rhythm driven rail shooter where you trace light, fire to the beat, and fly through music powered worlds with tracks from Monstercat and Black Razor Records.
Deep Rock Galactic
Deep Rock Galactic is a co-op FPS where teams of space dwarves mine hostile alien caves in fully destructible environments.
Nippets: A Hidden Object Game
Nippets is a hidden-object game full of handcrafted 2D maps just begging to be poked, prodded and shaken until they give up their secrets.
CastleOn
Build your fortress, man the walls and survive the Third Crusade in this deep turn-based castle building strategy game.
The Falconeer: Revolution Remaster
The Falconeer puts you in control of the ultimate airborne warrior.
Moss: The Forgotten Relic
Moss: The Forgotten Relic is an atmospheric puzzle-adventure combining Moss and Moss: Book II into a single adventure, guiding a small mouse hero through a fallen kingdom.
Pikuniku
Pikuniku is a is a 2d platformer adventure game where the main goal is to stop an evil corporation run by Mr Sunshine
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