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Recently Released
Swordcery
Temple Door Games
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Tide Of Tactics
Lyrical Games
Command a medieval army on a grid-based battlefield, master terrain and positioning, and siege your way to victory in Tide Of Tactics.
Mini Soccer Manager
Pedro Verpha
Take charge of the league’s weakest club and lead it to glory. Build your squad, develop players, set formations, adjust tactics, and fight your way from last place to champions.
Journeybound Idle
Max Luck Gaming
Another world needed a hero. It got you instead! A long fantasy-idle RPG: climb the adventurer's guild from F-Rank to S-Rank, max your skills, clear 114 quests, discover 1,300+ items, hire companions, farm, craft, fight, tons of QoL, a desktop widget, and lots more! Releasing August 7th!
Diaspora
Hosted Games
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.
We, Junk Artists
Perfect Day Studio
Forget paintbrushes, just chuck junk about. We, Junk Artists turns rubbish into hilarious collages for up to 6 mates.
Spiritstead
Turbo Dog Games
Spiritstead is a cosy city builder where humans and spirits team up to build a village that's as charming as it is functional.
CastleOn
Lord Castleon
Build your fortress, man the walls and survive the Third Crusade in this deep turn-based castle building strategy game.
Projects with Demos
BOMBANANA!
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.
Echo Zero
You're an expendable clone fighting a mutating hive organism underground, with only a suspiciously nice AI overseer keeping you company. Every death just means a new body and a fresh run.
Swordcery
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
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.
CastleOn
Build your fortress, man the walls and survive the Third Crusade in this deep turn-based castle building strategy game.
Axe & Bow Land
Retro Aztec platformer where brothers Axel & Bowie battle ancient darkness with magical weapons, pixel charm & tough arcade challenge.
Swan Song
Swan Song is a cozy, emotional puzzle game where music guides a swan through challenges, revealing a touching story of family, memory, and loss.
SENTO SURVIVOR : Slip, Grab, and Bathe in Glory!
Slide, Shoot, and Send Your Rivals Flying!Chaotic, tumbling shooter battle set in a Japanese Sento (public bathhouse). On these super slippery floors, you'll slide, shoot, and stumble to victory. Defeat your rivals and soak in the sublime bath reserved only for the winner!
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.
Thingamajigs
A hidden object game where you can poke, prod and shake absolutely everything. No timers, no stress, just vibes and bits and bobs to find.
Path of Achra
A complex roguelike RPG built around deep theorycrafting and build experimentation.
Deep Pixel Melancholy
Egor's stuck in a time loop in a polar night that never ends. A quiet, melancholy visual novel about finding a reason to keep going.
Indie Demos
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.
Mayak
Nikita Nplus1
Mayak is a linear, hand-painted 2D visual novel about a young astronomer investigating a mysterious prime-number signal from space.
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.
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.
Smokey Mike
Medium Energy
A point-and-click tragicomedy about a comedian chasing five perfect minutes on stage in early 2010s Buenos Aires. Funny, painful, and dead honest about what it takes to get up there.
One Coin Museum
Toadzillart
Play as Toadz the frog, sailing the seas to claw up treasures and fill a little museum with your finds. A cosy, chilled out collectathon with pixel art charm.
Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder
Green Parrot Games
Draw or stop, that's the whole game. Lucky Punk shows you the exact odds of every risk, so when you crash out spectacularly, you've only got yourself to blame.
Hazard Suits
Ceratops Games
Suit up, blast Zombot hordes and shut down toxic Sulphur Pumps in this procedurally-generated wave shooter built for solo play or split-screen chaos with mates.
The Tower Must Fall
Tidepool Games
Stack weird, wobbly tower defences and watch them somehow hold together against wave after wave of enemies. It won't last forever, but that's half the fun.
It's About Pirates
Elderwoof Games
It's About Pirates chucks you into wave after wave of enemy ships with cannons blazing and loot piling up. Kit your ship out into a proper floating fortress and see how long you last.
Beards Go Underground
PandaBee Studios
Deckbuilding meets mining chaos. Draft cards, chain explosions, and dig for treasure with a bunch of bearded, gold-hungry dwarves.
Tiny Capsule Collector
Playing Mantis
Run a tiny Gachapon shop that lives on your desktop, complete with cute animal customers and toys to collect. No pressure, just a calming little world to potter about in while you work.
Hamsteria
2WheelerDev
Hamsteria is a brutal 2 player co-op game where you and a mate control hamsters in attached wheels, no jumping, no turning, just pure teamwork.
Hakoniwa Electric
亜寝帯 - ANETTAI
A cosy little puzzle game about fixing up your grandpa's electronics shop, one breaker and broken gadget at a time, no stress attached.
Stickerino
contresort
Slap stickers on cards, watch your score go bonkers, and try to outsmart the Sticker Wizard in this roguelite deckbuilder. Simple idea, ridiculously moreish.
ShipShaper
Tomas Sala
ShipShaper lets you pull, push and shape your own boats and ships from scratch, no 3D skills needed. Build anything from humble fishing boats to full-on dreadnoughts.
Heretic's Rapture
9FingerGames
Tetris meets tower defence meets deck-building in this demon-blasting mash-up. Build a tower out of falling shapes and send escaped souls straight back to hell.
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Only A Model Games
You're the new checkpoint controller for HonkyTonk inc, checking papers and permits on space trucks while your choices decide who gets in and how the story ends.
The Skin Stapler
Tainted Pact
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.
Released Indie Games
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.
Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator
Open your own VHS rental shop and relive the golden age of video stores, one late fee and rewound tape at a time.
Bombergrounds: Reborn
Bombergrounds: Battle Royale is a fast-paced multiplayer action game where up to 25 players compete in explosive, top-down battles.
Dicealot
Dicealot is a push-your-luck roguelike dice-builder where every roll could win you the battle or wipe your turn clean. Roll smart, build your dice pool, and save Camelot before your greed gets the better of you.
Awaken The Time
A Twisted Time Travel Action-adventure game has 3 Gameplay styles in one game : Samurai, shooter, cyborg Travel in Time and discover the story-based!
Mini Soccer Manager
Take charge of the league’s weakest club and lead it to glory. Build your squad, develop players, set formations, adjust tactics, and fight your way from last place to champions.
Outbound
Turn an empty camper van into your dream home on wheels, exploring a colourful utopian world solo or with up to 3 mates.
RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike
A coin pusher roguelike where every drop can spiral into chaos. Stack synergies, chase combos and watch the tickets fly.
Undertale
An indie RPG that rethinks combat and player choice through narrative design.
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.
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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