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BALL x PIT

Chuck balls into a bottomless pit, fuse them into ridiculous combos, and rebuild a city while you're at it. BALL x PIT is roguelite chaos in the best way.

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The Skin Stapler

A serial killer's skinning victims and stapling them to walls. You've got one grimy, neon-lit night to catch them before they catch you.

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The Steps as we know them

A chess based puzzle game. Using the moves of chess you find your way through different worlds.

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Fading Serenades

Fading Serenades is a cozy top-down courier adventure where you deliver parcels, befriend islanders, and uncover mysteries on Clifford’s Island.

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Road Rage Royale

Road Rage Royale is a racing fighting game for 2 to 4 players set in a cyberpunk post-apocalyptic world.

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ION Shift

A brutal 2D platformer where you play as an alien fighting your way through a deadly spaceship full of soldiers, turrets, and drones.

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MORSE

Learn Morse code and blast the Kaiser's fleet out of the water in this tense two-control naval strategy game. Timing, tactics and telegraphy are your only weapons.

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Schrödinger’s Call

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.

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Monster Mop Up

Clean up messes, rescue fluffy lost monsters, and turn your home into a cosy sanctuary in this charming cleaning sim with heart.

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Anima Gate of Memories: I&II Remaster

Two action RPGs return remastered in one definitive collection with enhanced visuals, fast combat and branching storylines in the world of Gaia.

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Bears In Space

Stranded and alone on a strange planet after a scientific experiment went wrong, Maxwell Atoms must come to terms with his new found abilities.

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Who’s Lila?

A disturbing psychological horror game built around facial expressions and perception.

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Early Access

Swordcery

11 Aug, 2026

Indie Demos

Kint
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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.

Development
Silky Rails
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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.

Development
Lootbound
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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.

Released
Rita
76 MC
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Rita

SporkTank

Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.

Released
ShelfLife: Art School Detective
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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.

Development
Pixel Washer
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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.

Development
Nocturne
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Nocturne

Pracy Studios

Nocturne is a story-driven RPG set after humanity's extinction, combining rhythm-based combat with traditional RPG exploration and progression.

Development
Appulse
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Appulse

Le Rado

Appulse combines roguelite action, top-down shooting and pinball mechanics, tasking players with defending a fleet using recoil-based ball control.

Development
Hope in the City
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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.

Development
Woodo
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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.

Development
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2
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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.

Development
Holstin
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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.

Development
Toxic Crusaders
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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.

Development
Schrödinger's Call
89 MC
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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.

Released
Catechesis
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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.

Development
The Last Caretaker
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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.

Early Access
General Practice
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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.

Development
Mutter
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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.

Development
Croak
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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.

Development
The Dark West
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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.

Early Access
Time To Wake Up
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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.

Development
Mayak
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Mayak

Nikita Nplus1

Mayak is a linear, hand-painted 2D visual novel about a young astronomer investigating a mysterious prime-number signal from space.

Development
VOIDFACE
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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.

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BOMBANANA!
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BOMBANANA!

Lefto Studio

Three monkeys, one bomb, zero shared senses. Blind hands, mute knowledge, deaf eyes - work out how to talk to each other before everything goes boom.

Development

Released Indie Games

The Skin Stapler

A serial killer's skinning victims and stapling them to walls. You've got one grimy, neon-lit night to catch them before they catch you.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

A stylish turn-based RPG from Sandfall Interactive set in a dark fantasy world inspired by Belle Époque France, blending tactical combat with real-time elements

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Slay the Spire

A roguelike deckbuilding game where careful card choices and strategy shape every run.

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Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite

Every organism eventually evolves into a crab. Except yours, if you've got the guts. Build your own weird, wonderful survivor in this brilliant action roguelite.

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Heave Ho 2

Grab, swing and splatter your way through eight ridiculous worlds, now with online chaos alongside the local couch carnage. Heave Ho 2 is dumb fun at its finest.

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Echobreaker

Speedrun through live-fire combat courses where slowing down time is the only way to go faster. Precision, risk, and pure momentum.

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Party Animals

Party Animals is a chaotic multiplayer brawler where floppy physics, cute animals, and competitive party modes collide.

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The Holy Gosh Darn

Heaven's got six hours left and you're the angel stuck fixing it, armed with nothing but a time-travelling watch and a filthy mouth.

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Hypergate

Hypergate is an arcade-style 3D space combat game. Its emphasis is on action and high-speed combat rather than ultra-realistic physics or resource management.

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Silver Bullet

Play as Van Helsing in this gothic arcade shooter. Rescue puppies, blast monsters, and unleash chaos in haunted pixel-art worlds.

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Who’s Lila?

A disturbing psychological horror game built around facial expressions and perception.

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PatriotMemoirs 4K

A narrative spy game set during China's War of Resistance against Japan, following an undercover agent posing as a collaborator while secretly aiding the resistance.

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