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Waterjacked!
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Three Kingdoms Born
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Epochlings
Early Access
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Second Nature: Night Authority
Early Access
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Dravo’s Twisted Show
Early Access
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Bot slash Bot
Early Access
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Havelyn
Early Access
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Megastore Chaos
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WomboCombo
wannabe
Become the hero in this fast-paced incremental roguelike game! Show off your reaction skills to your Overlord, earn massive gold, stack game-breaking upgrades, and forge powerful combos to survive relentless enemy waves.
Noctiria
Daniele Doesn't Matter
Noctiria is a horror roguelite deckbuilder set in a decaying 1990s city. Choose one of six heroes, combine brutal status effects, manage your Sanity and consumable relics, and permanently upgrade your arsenal between descents.
Vibe Lab: Idle Dev Sim
Green Growth Digital
A cozy idle game about vibe-coding with AI. Hire a crew of agents, climb a five-branch upgrade tree, and dress the whole lab from 80 cosmetics across five tiers. Progress lands in minutes, not days — no subscriptions, no daily check-in. Numbers go up, vibes stay immaculate.
Petrichor: Reverie Edition
6six6
Petrichor is an escape room type puzzle game that follows a fateful incident in a man's life. After an accident in the wilderness... What fate awaits him as rain falls down onto the forest below? Can you escape it?
Waterjacked!
A Frog's Pond
Waterjacked! is a turn-based roguelike where you are a gunslinging succulent chosen to wield the GRID. Uncover destructive combos and develop clever strategies from an assortment of Modules, Augments, and Herbals to push back the invading robots from The Valley.
Save Mom
Amigos Entertainment
A co-op action game about protecting your mom in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore ruined cities, gather resources, upgrade your motorhome, build defenses, and battle enemies. Your mission: Get Mom to safety. Her survival is in your hands!
Wobble Rumble
Voidy
PUSH! PUSH! PUSH! Climb sky-high waterways solo or in co-op, powered by pure pedal strength. Challenging tracks, chaos, and surprises await on your way up.
The Midnight 21
FKG
Dive into a night filled with blackjack, but also put your detective instincts to the test—because this night will be about much more than just blackjack. Only those with truly sharp eyes will be able to make it through the night.
Projects with Demos
Revenge of the Savage Planet
Revenge of the Savage Planet is a first-person exploration and platforming game in which a laid-off space employee explores alien worlds to gather upgrades and secrets.
Tiny Farmie
An ultra-tiny idle farming simulation you can place anywhere on your desktop. Start your cozy farming life anytime.
Dystopicon
Dystopicon is a dystopian time management game in which players earn money by watching television and decide whether to conform or rebel against a controlling society.
Davy bones
Davy Bones is a roguelike score-strategy game based on Yacht Dice rules, in which players roll dice, build combinations and combine nautical relics to meet rising target scores across a cursed voyage.
Hotel Architect
Build, decorate and manage your own hotel empire from crumbling fixer-uppers to five-star towers. Keep guests happy or brace for the reviews.
Time to Morp
A cosy base-building adventure where you look after adorable Morps, farm, fish, and build a whole town with up to three mates. Solo or co-op, it's all about slowing down and making a home somewhere strange.
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.
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.
Draco and the Seven Scales
Set sail on a voyage full of pirates, dark magic, and the thrill of discovery! Draco and the Seven Scales is a retro-inspired adventure that harkens back to an age of top down dungeon crawlers and lovable, crunchy pixel art.
Alembic
A falling-sand sandbox built on the **real periodic table**. Every element has genuine physical properties, and reactions emerge from real chemistry — rust iron, ignite thermite, run a galvanic cell, split a uranium pile to criticality. Discover it all in an encyclopedia that fills as you play.
Honeycomb: The World Beyond
A survival game set on the alien planet Sota7, where players take the role of a bioengineer exploring ecosystems, crossbreeding lifeforms and building a base of operations.
Lamp Clicker
Lamp Clicker is an incremental idle clicker game in which players click a lamp to earn money and unlock new lamp types, working towards building a lamp empire.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players scavenge, fight and trade while customising cars to stay alive.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure set at a wedding in a French château, combining visual novel storytelling with point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements.
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow
Vertex Horizons
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow is a linear puzzle-adventure game set on a ruined planet, where solving puzzles gradually reveals the story of a lost civilisation.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a narrative game in which you work as a surveillance operator in a retro-futuristic dystopia, monitoring citizens, enforcing laws and making choices that affect the story.
DEVIL'S WAY: BOHEMIAN
Rose Game Studio
A dark comedy survival game in which players guide James DUD through a surreal dystopia run by a malevolent AI, choosing between doors that lead to unpredictable, often hostile scenarios.
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.
Big Dig
Dan Schumacher, Hjalte Tagmose
Big Dig is a short incremental narrative game in which you dig up historical artifacts to clear the way for a highway across the Animal Republic, then display your finds in a museum.
Chomp Garden
PawPaw Games
Chomp Garden is a puzzle game in which you play a small lamp guiding plants with light while searching a garden for your lost pup.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
A first-person simulation game about running a shop that sells collectible mystery eggs, with options to open eggs for figures, craft dioramas and trade on an online marketplace.
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2
Skyhook Games
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 is a working simulation set in the USA in which players run a lawn care business using licensed equipment from Kubota, SCAG and STIGA.
Furyball: Rogue Revenge
Rebound
An action roguelite in which you fight through the gang-ruled city of Neo-Arcadia using a bouncing Furyball, modifying it with modules and equipment across procedurally varied runs.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which Kiko, a girl trapped in a spirit world, uses portals and Spirit Powers to alter gravity and time across four seasonal domains.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a speedrun-focused 2D platformer with multiple biomes, seasonal challenge modes and worldwide leaderboards.
The Piper of Dawn
Bone Nail
A story-driven management RPG set in Diamond City, where you play an alchemist growing magical crops and running a shop while dealing with six factions whose support decides the city's fate.
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.
Island Restoration
EliteTheDev
A cleaning game in which you sail between polluted islands, removing hazards, rescuing animals and upgrading tools to restore each one to a natural state.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
A build-focused action roguelite in which you play a Bait Soul fighting through a dangerous dungeon, using auto-attacking weapons, dodging and a loadout system of Soul Orbs and Support Items.
Yami Kids
Yanako RPGs, GameDevTosh
Yami Kids is a retro-styled monster-taming RPG in which twins Yuki and Yuumi Yami collect and train more than 80 Oni while moving between the Overworld and the Underworld.
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
A biographical kinetic novel about Abraham Lincoln, the third entry in the Important People of History series, covering his life, the US Civil War and the end of slavery through present-day photographs of historic sites.
Dash Dot Die
Iron Interactive Games
Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game built around Morse code, in which the player decodes signals through light, sound and timing to survive a captor's deadly game.
It's Fine
Buma Games
It's Fine is an incremental game about surviving the last 24 hours of development crunch, in which players code, upgrade and prestige towards a stable build under a dog Project Manager named Joe.
Gunclone Arena
Off North Games
Gunclone Arena is a top-down arena shooter set in the year 2250, in which a contestant fights waves of Gunclones and Mechs in a televised bloodsport for Cash and follower Likes.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Book Club Games
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Released Indie Games
Speed Weaver
Speed Weaver is an endless lane-splitting driving game in which players weave through procedurally generated highway traffic, earning score multipliers for near misses.
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.
Planet Killer
Planet Killer is a physics-driven destruction roguelite in which players pilot a ship and bombard fully simulated pixel-based planets, carving craters and surviving planetary defences.
Diplomacy is Not an Option
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a base-building RTS in which players defend a castle against tens of thousands of enemies across procedurally generated maps.
America Against Ants
A story-driven tactical defence game set in 1951, in which the player commands Task Force Sable against giant mutant fire ants across 30 missions in the American Southwest.
Breathedge
Breathedge is a survival adventure game set in space, following a man transporting his grandfather's ashes who becomes caught up in a conspiracy after a space hearse crash.
ChessTan
Settle a kingdom, roll for resources, and build an army with real chess movesets on a hex battlefield. ChessTan fuses Catan-style economy with chess-style combat for 2-4 players — outbuild your rivals, then checkmate the last Nexus standing. Play locally, online with friends, or through Steam.
Last Signal
An exploration simulator set on a deserted island after a shipwreck, where the player uses an in-game operating system and hands-on interaction to uncover what happened there.
King Assassination
A multiplayer social deduction game in which Guards escort an NPC King along a route while disguised Assassins attempt to kill him. Supports uneven team sizes from 1v1 up to 5v5.
Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown
A story-driven survival strategy game in which players command the U.S.S. Voyager, managing the ship, crew and resources on its journey home through the Delta Quadrant.
HELLBREAK
You're a World War soldier stuck in hell, fighting through demon hordes with 19 nasty weapons and a pile of spells to earn your soul back. Fast, brutal, first-person combat where no run plays out the same.
Surviving Mars: Relaunched – Feeding the Future
An expansion for Surviving Mars: Relaunched that adds a food and delicacy system, new production and dining buildings, colonist traits, commander profiles and laws to the colony sim.
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