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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.
Night Plane
Liquid Static Studio, Snapping Turtle
Night Plane is a flight attendant job simulation set in 1999. The player checks tickets, serves passengers and identifies shape-shifting non-human entities that try to board the plane.
The Mailroom
Crowfriend
Survive the horrors of hell’s deadest-end job: a human mail clerk. Process occult specimens, sort infernal mail, repair cursed machinery, and survive your shift in a cozy horror workplace simulator.
Fangtopia
Absolutely Games
Fangtopia is a cosy hex-tile puzzler where you build a monster-friendly paradise, no scares, no timers, just gentle chills and satisfying landscapes.
Die Severed
Philip Markowski
Die Severed is a dice-based gambling roguelike in which the player rolls five dice to build poker hands and clear score targets at an underground casino to pay off a debt.
Kleromancy
kleroslab
Kleromancy is a deckbuilding roguelike where players use physics-based dice instead of cards. It is set aboard the Theseus Ark, a generational station, and was made by solo developer Kleros Lab.
CHAINSPIRE
SKYWARD FRAME
CHAINSPIRE is a co-op soulslike platformer for one to four players in which the party is linked by a physically simulated chain that shapes combat, platforming and puzzles.
Life of a Thug
trippysloth
A crime simulation game set in Corrupticut City, where the player rises from street-level offences to the top of the criminal hierarchy. It is intended for adults.
Projects with Demos
Dreams of Another
Dreams of Another is a third-person exploration game directed by musician and multimedia artist Baiyon. Players shoot to create a point cloud dream world rather than destroy it.
The Holy Gosh Darn
The Holy Gosh Darn is a narrative action-adventure in which the angel Cassiel uses a time-travelling watch to stop Heaven being destroyed within six hours. It combines time travel with Metroidvania progression and puzzles.
TrailRush
TrailRush is a 2D platformer built around speedrunning, with seasonal modes, worldwide leaderboards and biomes that each have their own physics.
Ravenous Devils
Ravenous Devils is a point and click management game about a tailor shop and pub that turn customers into ingredients and clothing materials.
City Tales – Medieval Era
City Tales - Medieval Era is a medieval city-building game in which players zone districts, manage an economy and work with companions to grow a kingdom across two available maps.
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.
Raiders 1941
Raiders 1941 is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up in which players pilot one of two experimental planes across Europe to Berlin, with 60hz and 120hz framerate options.
Chronicle of Wuxia & Xianxia Survivors
Chronicle of Wuxia & Xianxia Survivors is a survivors-style roguelite with deckbuilding elements, set in a martial arts and immortal cultivation world. Players fight demon hordes using randomly offered techniques.
Tide Of Tactics
Tide Of Tactics is a medieval turn-based tactics game. Choose a commander to play, each with their own unique unit and abilities, then go to battle on a grid-based battlefield. Use the terrain to your advantage, place traps on the ground, and build the right units to counter your enemy.
Curved Space
Curved Space is a twin-stick shooter in which players fight spider invaders across curved 3D environments, where bullets follow the terrain. It includes a branching campaign and several leaderboard modes.
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.
Little Kitty, Big City
Little Kitty, Big City is an open-world adventure game in which a cat explores a city, meets other animals and works out how to find its way home.
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
SUSHI CHESS
Today's Special!
SUSHI CHESS is a turn-based strategy game in which players move sushi pieces that each have a price. Capturing a piece means paying for it. It offers puzzles, CPU opponents, and local or online play.
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.
Emberville
Cygnus Cross
Emberville is an action-focused adventure game in which the player escapes a vast prison called the Vitromotus, rescues trapped townsfolk, and helps them rebuild their town.
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players build and customise cars, scavenge, trade with factions and fight warlords.
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 game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia. The player works as an operator who watches citizens through cameras, enforces laws and makes decisions that affect the story.
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.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
A first-person shop simulation in which players run a store selling collectible mystery eggs, open them to find action figures, and build themed dioramas to sell.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale is a 2D action-platformer with boss battles and animated cinematics. It can be played solo or in local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which the player controls Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across a spirit world divided into four seasonal domains.
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 2D platform game in which the player controls a small ball that sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open an exit portal. A controller is required.
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.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
Bait Soul is an action roguelite with a cultivation theme. Players arrange Soul Orbs and Support Items in a loadout while the character attacks automatically and the player handles movement.
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 where the player decodes Morse code to survive a maze of corridors, rooms and vents, in a retro PSX and VHS-inspired style.
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.
Released Indie Games
Appointment
Appointment is a first-person survival horror game set in an abandoned hospital. The player explores, solves puzzles and avoids a patrolling doctor while searching for a way out.
Doomsday Diner
Doomsday Diner is a roguelike job sim in which the player runs a post-apocalyptic hot dog diner, cooking orders, serving customers and shooting raiders across as many days as they can survive.
Noctiria
Noctiria is a horror roguelite deckbuilder set in a decaying 1990s city. Players pick one of six heroes and build a deck through turn-based combat across branching maps.
lily’s world XD
A narrative exploration game in which the player searches a teenage girl's laptop, blog and messages for clues to her whereabouts, set in an early-web style interface.
Spellsteel
Spellsteel is a free-to-play competitive collectible card game set in the world of Kharadum. Players build decks around six civilizations and Champions, then face other players online.
GRID/
GRID/ is an arcade-style boss rush action game in which the player, a Visual Debugger, fights nine Bug Entity bosses on a 7x6 grid using one of three unlockable weapons.
Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn’t
From letters to lunacy, Cursed Words is a roguelike chasing ever-stronger synergies. Start with simple words like BUY or THIS or GAME, then use game-altering combos to break the rules. Before long you’ll be ¼♖♙K5XNG the ⅗H♗4 out of these 83VK??7?!
Tiny Farmie
Tiny Farmie is a casual farming game with a very small window that can be placed anywhere on the screen, so players can manage a farm while doing other tasks.
Farthest Frontier
Farthest Frontier is a town-building survival game in which players guide a small group of settlers to build a settlement in untamed wilderness, managing resources, farming, trade and defence.
Blue Sun Saga
Blue Sun Saga is a game set in a dying-sun future where an exile takes a mission to restore life to a desert Earth. It has eight levels, each ending in a boss fight.
DARKLING
DARKLING is a short first-person single-player horror game set in a haunted house. Players are locked inside, and must interact with objects and solve simple puzzles to find a way out.
Rita
Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.
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