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Corpus et Spiritus
Arpentor Studio
Corpus et Spiritus is a roguelite deckbuilder in which the player makes a pact with a demon called the 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.
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.
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.
Mikey The Hero: MANIA
MIKEYGAMESSTUDIOS
Mikey The Hero: MANIA is an entry in the Mikey The Hero series. Players control pairs of characters through 27 main stages to stop Fred, collecting Mystic Gems that affect the ending.
INTUS
Nahuel Martinez
INTUS is a short, first-person psychological horror game set in a rented apartment, where the player spends a weekend operating an inspection robot remotely to complete work reports.
Oddments & Offerings
Black Pine Games
Oddments & Offerings is an Early Access game in which the player runs an antique shop by day and explores dangerous locations by night to find items to sell or collect.
Projects with Demos
Cursed and Fading
Cursed and Fading is a procedurally generated roguelike in which every move reduces one of six stats. Players choose a class and search the map for the lich that cursed them.
Flamecraft
Flamecraft is a turn-based strategy board game for 1 to 5 players. Players place artisan dragons in shops, gather resources and enchant shops to earn the most reputation points.
Welcome To Mars 9
Welcome To Mars 9 is a short, narrative-driven sci-fi adventure set on a space station orbiting Mars. Players control River, who explores the station, solves puzzles and faces moral choices.
Magical Blush
Magical Blush is a Metroidvania-style action game in which the mage Arnin uses elemental spells to explore the land of Wyn, fight enemies and bosses, and uncover the cause of its devastation.
2064: Read Only Memories
A cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco, in which a journalist helps a ROM named Turing search for their missing creator. It features a branching narrative and multiple endings.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is a city builder with a planned economy, in which the player manages resources, production, citizens, transport and trade for a non-aligned nation.
Little Ghost
Little Ghost is a 2D puzzle-platforming metroidvania in which an inch-high character explores a collage-style home office world and uncovers the plans of a corporation.
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.
This Is No Cave
A 2D platformer in which a crash-landed player uses thrusters and a grapple hook to escape underground tunnels and giant worms. It can be played with a mouse alone.
Clamor: Bounty Hunter Pinball
Clamor: Bounty Hunter Pinball is an arcade game that combines pinball tables with video game features. Players fight waves of enemies on randomly generated tables with a choice of 12 ball types.
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.
Artis Impact
A hand-drawn post-apocalyptic RPG that mixes classic turn-based combat with proper cosy home life vibes. Simple to pick up, lovely to look at.
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
Heat Signature
Heat Signature is a single-player game of infiltration in space. The player pilots a pod to dock with ships, then completes missions inside using stealth, gunfights and gadgets.
Tidy or Treat
Tidy or Treat is a co-op organising game in which players restock a Halloween shop before October 31st. It supports one to four players and offers four play modes.
Tumblebee
Tumblebee is a short horror game in which a bumblebee searches a silk-filled cave for its family while spiders wake. It has an N64-inspired look.
Fish Lab
Fish Lab is a short incremental game in which players collect fish for a lab, with the action synced to music. Fish are collected by hovering the cursor over them.
Escape the Backrooms
Get lost in the Backrooms with up to three mates, and try not to lose each other (or your minds) before you find the exit.
CONCRETE BURIAL
CONCRETE BURIAL is a short first-person horror game set in ancient catacombs. Players control a Knight who uses a blood-fuelled weapon to seek four artifacts. It takes one to two hours to finish.
DinoBones: Tidy Up the Museum
DinoBones: Tidy Up the Museum is a game in which the player reassembles nine dinosaur skeletons from bones scattered across a museum after its crates have been tipped over.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
A turn-based RPG from Sandfall Interactive set in a fantasy world inspired by Belle Époque France, with real-time dodging, parrying and aiming added to combat.
We, Junk Artists
Forget paintbrushes, just chuck junk about. We, Junk Artists turns rubbish into hilarious collages for up to 6 mates.
Nightmare Frontier
Behold! The first-ever Tactical Extraction Looter where you pit your courage and leadership against fears made manifest: the Dreadweavers. Lead a band of Scavengers into a devastated West Coast City of the alternative 1900s. Get in, face the monsters, grab the loot you can carry and get out. Alive.
Space Scavenger
Space Scavenger is a roguelike in which players build and command spaceships, scavenging parts through procedurally generated, alien-infested galaxies while searching for their lost home.
Ved: Recure
Ved: Recure is an action roguelike in which a player who has lost interest in games is sent to another world and uses a chain-based buff system to fight through four stages with seven playable characters.
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