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Abashed
Supantha Paul
Abashed is a 2.5D narrative side-scrolling game following Issac, a man living with psychosis, as he searches for his missing partner and uses medication to alter reality.
Backmarkers: A Racing Management Sim
Late Apex Games
Backmarkers is a racing management sim in which the player runs the weakest team in a fictional regional series, handling strategy, drivers, staff, sponsors, car parts and finances across a persistent three-tier pyramid.
Dead Sector
Lonely Cloud
Dead Sector is a single player data center simulation in which players build servers part by part, equip a facility with power and networking, and host client workloads while managing faults and costs.
Corpus et Spiritus
Arpentor Studio
Corpus et Spiritus is a roguelite deckbuilder in which the player forms a pact with a demonic Homunculus and uses alchemy to craft cards, transmute metals and find talismans.
Tabula
This Way Up
Tabula is a level-based puzzle game in which players overlap computer windows to form top-down paths for a character called Little Bit, set inside a mysterious operating system.
Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder
Green Parrot Games
Lucky Punk is a roguelike deckbuilder in which players choose each turn whether to draw another card or stop, with the odds of failure shown at all times. It is set in a comic-style post-apocalyptic world.
Deal Flipper
Roovel Studio
Deal Flipper is a first-person flipping simulation set in an online marketplace. Players buy underpriced items by negotiating with sellers in chat, then relist them at a higher price.
Agebound
Datasmart Enterprises
Agebound is an incremental farming idle game in which each in-game year lasts under a minute. Players plan fields, grow and sell crops, and automate work as they progress through different ages.
Projects with Demos
Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator
A video store management simulator set in the era of VHS rentals. Players run a store, stock tapes, manage staff and serve customers through the seasons.
Elemental Witches
In Elemental Witches world, you command Fire, Wind, and Thunder to craft unique spells from three elemental orbs. Merge identical elements to summon powerful pets. After each battle, upgrade elements, unlock items, and shape your own playstyle as you face new adventures.
Fading Serenades
Fading Serenades is a pixel art adventure in which the player delivers parcels to islanders on Clifford's Island while managing a limited backpack and uncovering a mystery involving a missing scientist.
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.
Voidling Bound
Voidling Bound is a sci-fi third-person shooter in which players control creatures called Voidlings, evolving and breeding them to clear corrupted planets of parasite-infected enemies.
KAPIA
KAPIA is a point-and-click adventure set in a dome city watched by an AI called The Eye. Players control Stefan and his granddaughter Reny as they solve puzzles and investigate a conspiracy.
Tide Of Tactics
Tide Of Tactics is a turn-based medieval strategy game played on a grid. Players choose a commander, build units, use terrain and traps, and capture all enemy castles.
Retail Hell
Retail Hell is a psychological horror job simulator set in a convenience store between life and death. The player serves supernatural customers and manages stock to pay off a debt to the management.
Scale the Depths
Scale the Depths is a fishing game in which a small robot catches, scales and serves fish to non-human customers across four locations, using the earnings to upgrade gear and fish deeper waters.
Chief Cenab : Şahmaran
Chief Cenab: Şahmaran is a puzzle adventure game in a black-and-white comic book style with colour highlights. Players take the role of Chief Cenab and investigate mysterious events.
Dragon Tiles
Dragon Tiles is a top-down action roguelite with bullet-hell survival elements. Players lead a snake-like chain of heroes that attack automatically, and build the team through a shop between rounds.
Agebound
Agebound is an incremental farming idle game in which each in-game year lasts under a minute. Players plan fields, grow and sell crops, and automate work as they progress through different ages.
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 match each arriving character with a suitable place to live.
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
OPEN UP, MICHAEL!
OPEN UP, MICHAEL! is a first-person puzzle game in which the player performs rituals in a hallway of doors, aiming to reach room 13. A first playthrough takes roughly 30 to 50 minutes.
Corgi Corgi Cor!
Corgi Corgi Cor! is a desktop companion game in which a virtual corgi lives on your screen, moves between monitors, and responds to feeding, watering, cleaning and other care.
FLASH AND DIE
A horror game in which the player is a photographer for a real estate agency, visiting dark properties at night to capture every required photo on a checklist while something unseen remains inside.
KN Tower – Build your skyscraper empire
KN Tower is a building management game in which the player grows a small building into a skyscraper, planning floors, elevators, services, waste disposal, security and finances.
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
A real-time strategy game set during the Crusades, in which players build desert castles and command armies. This expanded edition of Stronghold Crusader adds new units, AI lords, campaigns and updated visuals.
LED HEARTS
LED HEARTS is a sci-fi visual novel with romance elements about a programmer, Max, who creates an AI consciousness named Milly. Player choices lead to multiple endings.
Curve Fever Pro
Curve Fever Pro is an online multiplayer arena game in which up to ten players steer ships that leave trails, avoiding crashes while using equipped powers to survive and take points from opponents.
IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator
IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator is a first-person dieselpunk artillery simulator in which the player manually operates a 5,000 ton turret during a fictional civil conflict in 1920s Spain.
Aura Farmer 67
Aura Farmer 67 is a game in which the player starts as a regular bodybuilder, farms aura and makes upgrades. The Steam listing also refers to the word shine as part of the progression.
Fading Serenades
Fading Serenades is a pixel art adventure in which the player delivers parcels to islanders on Clifford's Island while managing a limited backpack and uncovering a mystery involving a missing scientist.
No More Room in Hell 2
A cooperative zombie survival horror game for up to eight players, featuring missions in the northeastern United States, permadeath and infection.
Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster
Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster is a Metroidvania-style adventure in which the player, the last Beastmaster, transforms using animal souls during a war between humans and non-humans.
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