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KICKSLAUGHT
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KICKSLAUGHT

RedenelGO

KICKSLAUGHT is a football-themed action game with character progression, in which a lone footballer runs towards goal, shoots past defenders and beats goalkeepers to climb from the lowest league to the championship.

Early Access
Toad Land
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Toad Land

Hard Shark Games

Toad Land is an Early Access platformer in which you play a toad exploring a single large level, solving puzzles and collecting coins.

Early Access
Mancala Party
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Mancala Party

Hard Shark Games

Mancala Party is a digital version of the board game mancala, set in a forest, with a tutorial, AI opponents at three difficulty levels and local two-player matches.

Early Access
Barman
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Barman

Hard Shark Games

Barman is a cocktail-mixing game set at a beachside bar, with a free play mode for endless drink experimentation and a career mode of eight levels.

Early Access
ORACLE: Humanity, Automated
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ORACLE: Humanity, Automated

ZANKYO GAMES

An idle civilisation game in which a settlement that starts with two people grows through ages of knowledge, with each human skill trained, mastered and eventually automated.

Early Access
Roach with Bike
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Roach with Bike

Hard Shark Games

An endless-runner bike game in which the player controls a character called Mr. Roach, dodging traffic and police while performing flips and chasing a high score.

Early Access
Fish Lab
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Demo

Fish Lab

stonecodes

Fish Lab is a short incremental game in which players collect fish for a laboratory by hovering the cursor over them in time with music, earning money to expand the lab.

Released
Pilot Force Simulator
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Pilot Force Simulator

Hard Shark Games

Pilot Force Simulator is a space shoot 'em up in which you pilot a single ship through waves of enemy fire. The first chapter ends with a boss battle and is available in Early Access.

Early Access

Projects with Demos

Key art for the indie game Yooka-Replaylee Logo for Yooka-Replaylee

Yooka-Replaylee

Yooka-Replaylee is the definitive remaster of the 3D platforming collectathon, with new challenges, shiny currency, maps, customisation & orchestral music.

Released
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100 for Justice

A text-driven political roguelite and life-management simulation in which up to 100 successive citizens resist an oppressive government, with progress carried over between lives.

Released
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Settler’s Domain

Build up your settlement from scratch, manage resources, research new tech and decide whether to make friends or enemies of your neighbours. It's classic settlement building done right.

Released
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Monster Mop Up

Clean up messes, rescue fluffy lost monsters, and turn your home into a cosy sanctuary in this charming cleaning sim with heart.

Released
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Going Medieval

Going Medieval is a medieval colony-building strategy game in which players guide a group of plague survivors as they build, defend and expand a settlement in a post-calamity world.

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The Ayna

The Ayna is a psychological anomaly-spotting game set in Türkiye, taking place in the concert area of a female stage artist and designed to be completed in one sitting.

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Waterpark Simulator

Build and run your own waterpark solo or with friends. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a diamond five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!

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Orebits

Orebits is an incremental mining game set in space, in which players bounce a pickaxe to break asteroids, explore a roguelite tech tree and send resources back to Earth.

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33 Immortals

33 Immortals is a co-op action-roguelike supporting up to 33 players in a single run, fighting monster hordes and bosses through instant matchmaking.

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Screenshot of an Aspendale Beginner Crossword puzzle with partially filled answers including RITA and A Crossword puzzle with word RITTA and yellow figure holding binoculars

Rita

Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.

Released
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Warcat Parade

Warcat Parade is a Touhou-inspired bullet hell with 6 levels, 6 bosses, pixel art, chiptune music, and one determined punk catboy hero.

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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.

Released
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Early Access

Swordcery

11 Aug, 2026

Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.

Indie Demos

Apocalypter
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Demo

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.

Development
BABELOMANIA
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Demo

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.

Development
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow
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Demo

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.

Development
Monitor State
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Demo

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.

Development
DEVIL'S WAY: BOHEMIAN
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Demo

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.

Development
Corpus et Spiritus
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Demo

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.

Development
Big Dig
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Demo

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.

Development
Chomp Garden
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Demo

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.

Development
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
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Demo

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.

Development
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2
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Demo

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.

Development
Furyball: Rogue Revenge
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Demo

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.

Early Access
Nomori
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Demo

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.

Development
TrailRush
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Demo

TrailRush

Lyncornis Games

TrailRush is a speedrun-focused 2D platformer with multiple biomes, seasonal challenge modes and worldwide leaderboards.

Development
The Piper of Dawn
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Demo

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.

Development
Stellar Embers: United Fleet
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Demo

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.

Development
Island Restoration
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Demo

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.

Development
Bait Soul
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Demo

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.

Development
Yami Kids
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Demo

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.

Development
True Vikings
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Demo

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.

Development
Important People of History: Presidents - Abraham Lincoln
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Demo

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.

Development
Dash Dot Die
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Demo

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.

Development
It's Fine
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Demo

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.

Development
Gunclone Arena
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Demo

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.

Development
PSI: Pressure Climbing
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Demo

PSI: Pressure Climbing

Book Club Games

A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.

Early Access

Released Indie Games

Chapeau

Chapeau is a local co-op party game where players control hats that bounce and float, competing to land on heads and score points across various modes.

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SmashCore

SmashCore is a short physics-based incremental game in which you break apart asteroids with gravity powers, gather the dust and feed it to a core to earn upgrades.

Released
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Escape From Duckov

Escape From Duckov is a survival extraction game where players scavenge, loot and fight their way through duck-themed maps to escape with their supplies intact.

Released
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Aethercrypt

Aethercrypt is a fantasy, party-based, turn-based roguelike deckbuilder with two class decks, playable solo or in co-op for up to four players via LAN or online.

Released
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Caromble!

Caromble! takes brick breaking and blows it wide open with 3D physics, pinball chaos, and boss fights that'll test every trick you've learned.

Released
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The Kind Camomille

A short relaxing 3rd person exploration game focused around the concept of random acts of kindness

Released
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Hazard Pay

Hazard Pay is a pixel-art, grid-based block-pushing puzzle game set in a dystopian world, in which the player clears evidence from abandoned and contaminated facilities for an unseen employer.

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Sludgineers

An active incremental game about cleaning, mining and refining pollution, in which the player travels the countryside gathering cash and resources, builds a refinery and completes quests.

Released
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VRetro

VRetro is a VR puzzle-platformer in which the player finds a key on each floor of a tower, unlocks a case and builds the next floor, up to a maximum of one hundred floors.

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Baby Steps

Baby Steps puts you in control of every single footstep as a washed-up loser hikes a massive mountain. It's a walking simulator, but properly, painfully literal.

Released
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Put Back Stuff

A low-pressure organisation game in which players pick up thousands of misplaced objects and return them to shelves, sorting products by department and category at their own pace.

Released
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Chicken Bomb

A top-down style game with RPG elements, inspired by the Bomberman franchise.

Released
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