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It’s About Pirates
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8 Nov, 2026
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FEED ME MORE BRAINS
Sheraf Studio Inc
FEED ME MORE BRAINS is a first person incremental game in which the player feeds brains to a dark god, spends Orbs on a skill tree to shape its mutations, and gradually automates the process.
Moon Swarm
Spyra_Labs
Moon Swarm is an idle auto-battler in which players defend a moon from alien waves using automated guns. It runs in a small corner of the desktop alongside other activities.
Clean Start
Serious Sim
Clean Start is a puzzle game in which players clean and tidy clients' homes as Lena, an immigrant maid, and learn each room's story from the objects they find. There are no time limits or game overs.
Diamonds and Spades
Ghostio Games
Diamonds and Spades is a roguelite card game in which players draw from a 100-card deck to score points, using tarot cards to change the rules. It includes a built-in editor for custom cards.
You'll Be Mined
Andrei Kovalev
An incremental dungeon crawler built around timed minesweeper fields. Players clear cells to gain time, avoid mines to keep their hearts, and buy upgrades between rounds.
Stamperor! The Jester's Decree
Moon Mind Studio
Stamperor! The Jester's Decree is a decision-driven city builder in which the player rules an empire as a jester, using stamps with special effects to answer citizens' requests.
Swarm Harvest
Purple Bean Games
Swarm Harvest is a survivors-like auto-shooter where players fight alien swarms, place defensive towers, and harvest resources for a space corporation.
Backmarkers: A Racing Management Sim
Late Apex Games
Backmarkers is a racing management sim in which the player runs a low-budget team in a fictional three-tier series, handling live race strategy, drivers, staff, sponsors, finances and car development.
Projects with Demos
Tabula
Tabula is a level-based puzzle game in which players overlap computer windows to form top-down paths for a character called Little Bit, set inside a mysterious operating system.
The Precinct
The Precinct is a top-down 1980s-set police game in which a rookie officer patrols Averno City, responds to crimes, takes part in chases, and investigates his father's murder.
Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
A city-building simulation set in Mesoamerica in which the player grows an Aztec city into a network of city-states and an empire, managing citizens, resources, religion and diplomacy.
Lootbound
Lootbound is a run-based game in which players travel a map, recruit companions and arrange items in a grid inventory. Item auras affect adjacent items, and each run ends with a final Guardian boss.
Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game
Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game is a historically grounded fantasy farming and survival game set in Eastern Oregon, following siblings Shane and Áine as they cope with loss and magical beasts.
Send Them to Hell
Send Them to Hell is a 2.5D action roguelite for one to four players, in which players fight demon hordes across several game modes and combine upgrades to build powerful characters.
Monster Meals
Monster Meals is a cooking game in which players run a food truck as a monster chef, hunting animals for ingredients and serving monstrous customers. It supports solo and co-op play.
Dunebound Tactics
Dunebound Tactics is a turn-based tactics game in which players lead a caravan crew across desert territory held by an empire, searching for a place called Haven.
Turnbound
Turnbound is a strategic autobattler in which players arrange items on a grid and fight asynchronous PvP battles against builds saved by other players, set within a haunted board game.
Look to the Birds
A first-person birdwatching game set in New England and Atlantic Canada. The player photographs over 30 bird species across five locations while on a family road trip.
Dirty Laundry
Unable to hold down a job, Emily tries her luck on the night shift at a local laundromat. However, what starts as an ordinary job quickly turns into a nightmare as bizarre customers arrive, and the dark secrets of one particularly suspicious nightly visitor change her life forever.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Euro Truck Simulator 2 is a driving simulation game by SCS Software in which players deliver cargo between more than 60 European cities and build up their own trucking business.
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
DEEPLANDERS
SOPA Games
DEEPLANDERS is a minimalist construction puzzle game in which players build underground cities and match each arriving character with a suitable place to live.
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.
Snackrifice
Karnage Studios
Snackrifice is a roguelike with procedurally generated dungeons in which players enter Purgatory to retrieve Imps for their Master. It supports online co-op for up to four players.
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.
Released Indie Games
VHS Nights: The Tidy Up Shift
VHS Nights: The Tidy Up Shift is a sorting game set in a 1992 video rental store, where players organise 1,120 fictional VHS tapes by genre and year.
Flip & Shop Simulator: Prologue
Flip & Shop Simulator: Prologue is a free co-op city simulator in which players run businesses together, including a pizzeria, a liquor store and a mystical goods shop.
How Asian Parents went to School
A co-op and solo game based on a tall-tale commute to school, with mountain climbing, hazards and a bear in a cat mask. It supports one to four players online.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
An action-adventure sequel to Hollow Knight in which the player controls Hornet, a hunter taken to the kingdom of Pharloom and climbing towards its peak.
Röki
Röki is a non-violent adventure game in which a girl named Tove travels through a hidden world of Scandinavian folklore to save her family, solving puzzles and meeting creatures along the way.
Artillery Miner
Artillery Miner is an incremental game in which players use artillery to break large blocks into ores, then smelt, craft and upgrade through a large upgrade tree across multiple worlds.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 – Sage of Joseon
A downloadable content pack for Hunt: Showdown 1896 that adds the Hunter Roaming Sage, two weapons, two consumables, an avatar and a frame, themed around a scholar from Joseon-era Korea.
EMBERDEEP
EMBERDEEP is a turn-based RPG in which a child who has fallen beneath Mount Aldercap carries an ember through five regions, dodging bullet patterns and choosing whether to fight or spare each spirit.
Chop Chop Together
Chop Chop: Together is a co-op party game for one to four players in which teams complete timed jobs across different professions, such as fishing and warehouse work.
Peacemaker: Bloody Emperor
A JRPG about a princess knight who must fight a usurper emperor while her ideals gradually erode. It features turn-based combat, 2.5D camerawork and difficulty modes.
Pool Shark
Pool Shark is a roguelike take on 8-ball in which the player wins money matches across six rooms to pay off a $12,500 debt owed by a friend. It is free and includes online 1v1 play.
Gnomes
Turn based tower defence meets roguelike as your gnomes defend the garden from an ever growing goblin horde. Every run's different, every night's a fresh fight for survival.
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