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SYNTAX WARS
Mosan Game Studio
SYNTAX WARS is a cyberpunk duelling game in which both players choose a move in secret and reveal together. Six fighters are available, with CPU, arcade and local two-player modes.
JOHN GLEEP
monthbug
JOHN GLEEP is an action-roguelike in which a small alien pilots a UFO to abduct gamblers from planets and fill a pachinko-style casino, aiming to repay a debt to a mob boss.
Hope in the City
Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.
A narrative mystery set in Shenyang, China. Players control 17-year-old Hope Song, who uses sketches to investigate her parents' disappearance.
Gas N Cars
Yorf Studio
Gas N Cars is a petrol station game where players fuel, clean and repair customers' cars, buy new tools from a delivery truck, and can choose to cause chaos instead of providing good service.
The Vast White
Horizon Games
The Vast White is a snowboarding exploration game in which a mouse arrives at a nearly forgotten ski resort and helps its residents reopen it.
Reality Drift
Arganoid Industries
A racing game where players deliver packages to godlike creatures across strange worlds, choosing each next track and its linked upgrades in real time. It includes 26 missions and some roguelike deckbuilding.
The Devil's Due
Games People Play
A roguelike poker game in which the player fights demonic monsters one-on-one. Poker hand strength sets damage dealt, and both sides draw from a shared deck.
TANUKI: Pon's Summer
Denkiworks
Hop on your BMX and deliver packages as a tanuki with one summer to save its shrine before the big festival. Wholesome, busy and full of charm.
Projects with Demos
The Darkest Files
A narrative investigation game set in 1956 West Germany. Players take the role of prosecutor Esther Katz, who investigates Nazi-era crimes as part of Fritz Bauer's special unit.
Echo Point Nova
Echo Point Nova is an open-world first-person shooter for solo or four-player co-op, set on a planet controlled by a mercenary force that uses ancient technology to build weapons.
Northanger Abbey
A romantic comedy visual novel based on Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. The player controls Kit, Catherine or Christopher Morland, a seventeen year old visiting Bath for the first time.
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.
The Bird of the North
A deduction game set in 1921, in which an ice age has halted the Industrial Revolution. Players explore scenes and piece together events from a series of visions involving birds.
Monster Mop Up
Monster Mop Up is a cleaning simulator in which players act as a Custodian for the Ministry of Monster Concealment, cleaning locations and rescuing lost creatures called Ragamuffins.
The Rabbit Haul
The Rabbit Haul is a roguelite farming and tower defence game. As a rabbit named Sprout, the player grows crops by day and defends them from waves of raccoons at night.
S.A.N.D.Y. – Beach Cleaner
S.A.N.D.Y. - Beach Cleaner is a game in which the player controls a beach-cleaning and trash-sorting robot on the shore of a former top resort, in a world overwhelmed by waste and pollution.
Blood Lily: Killers Can’t Sink a Yuri Ship
A B-horror mystery comedy adventure in which college student Lily tries to romance her crush Sally on holiday while serial killers keep interrupting. It has ten endings and 2.5D camerawork.
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.
VOIDFACE
VOIDFACE is a bullet hell game in which every enemy is a boss and the player has a single life. Players dodge and shoot through encounters, using spells and unlocking hats and artworks.
Antscape Room
Antscape Room is a puzzle game in which players search an abandoned, partially buried village to rescue a kidnapped aphid named Count Ferdinand III. It can be played solo or in co-op.
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 find a suitable home for each arriving character. It is currently in Early Access.
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
PROMulti-TableTournament – Career 2.0
Career 2.0 is an add-on for PROMulti-TableTournament that adds a long-term career mode with player profiles, bankroll management, cash games and multi-table tournaments using virtual currency.
Plan B: Terraform – Worlds of Fire and Water
Plan B: Terraform - Worlds of Fire and Water adds two new planets to the terraforming game. One is a volcanic world and the other is covered in oceans. Each has its own environmental challenges.
Survivor’s Notes
Survivor's Notes is a zombie survival FMV game in which players control two protagonists at once, making choices and completing quick-time events that lead to different endings.
Beyond Yardwork Simulator Prologue
Beyond Yardwork Simulator Prologue is a yard maintenance simulation with story-driven jobs such as mowing, power washing and leaf blowing, plus garden decoration between tasks.
Duty Guvnor
Duty Guvnor is a roguelike set in 1975 in which the player runs a police station's night shift, managing four constables, four cells and three meters across a seven-night campaign.
Vacation Adventures: Park Ranger Mega Bundle 1
A bundle of the first three Park Ranger games, in which the player helps the Pinecreek Hills Park Rangers run a US National Park by hiking, completing ranger tasks and spotting wildlife.
Endzone 2
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder in which players guide a settlement bus across wastelands, found multiple settlements in separate zones, and manage resources, trade and threats.
Breathedge
Breathedge is a comedic outer space survival adventure. A man carrying his grandfather's ashes to a funeral is stranded in debris after a space hearse crashes and becomes caught up in a conspiracy.
Soft(A)ware
Soft(A)ware is a surreal puzzle-platformer set in a virtual prison. Players shift gravity and rewind time to solve puzzles and evade hostile constructs across Story, Story Plus and Endless modes.
DOGEZA
DOGEZA is a first-person Japanese horror exploration adventure set in an Edo period castle. The player is a feudal lord trapped for one night and must find a way out by apologising to the dead.
Drill Rift
Drill Rift is a punishing outpost management game in which players lead a crew of dwarfs through a portal, drilling for resources while managing supplies, machinery and rising madness.
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