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OBITT Escape from the room
Bears
You stray from a shrine into a room and become a palm-sized person. This is an escape action game to find your way out through trial and error from a miniature perspective. Manage your HP to survive and break free from this giant room! A time attack mode is included for an extra challenge.
Neon Cadence
Meridian Studios
Neon Cadence is a four-lane keyboard rhythm game with 30 original songs across J-pop, K-pop, English and instrumental styles, each charted in three difficulties.
Sludgineers
Snickerdoodle Games, Funk Games
Sludgineers is an active incremental game in which players clean up pollution, mine and refine materials, and manage a growing refinery operation across the countryside.
F2 A! Idle Army
Chris Yu
F2 A! Idle Army is an idle strategy game in which players upgrade a hero and automated army units to defeat endless waves of monsters.
Ling House: Echoes Within
Chaotic System
Ling House: Echoes Within is a first-person horror game in which a person trapped in a shifting, sentient house must piece together fragmented memories to uncover the truth.
OPEN UP, MICHAEL!
LetsAdventurePlay
OPEN UP, MICHAEL! is a first-person puzzle game where players perform ritual-like actions in a changing hallway to reach room 13.
Blob of Ink
DGDev
Blob of Ink is a short incremental game in which players grow a living ink blob by consuming letters, gathering ink, and unlocking magic powers.
Snap the Cat
KORO.GAMES
Snap the Cat is an incremental game about photographing cats, gathering likes and followers while unlocking new biomes, cats and costumes.
Projects with Demos
Alien Morgue
Alien Morgue is a sci-fi pathologist simulator in which players examine alien bodies to determine cause of death and decide how to handle the deceased's remains and belongings.
A Case of Fraud
You've got every clue you need from the start. A missing CEO, a pile of documents, and a fraud only careful reading will crack.
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is a survival fleet-management roguelite combining procedural narrative events with real-time tactical space battles.
Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers
Blackjack meets deckbuilding roguelike in a twisted tavern where the house always has an edge, until you rewrite the rules yourself.
Scritchy Scratchy
Scratch cards, big payouts, and just enough chaos to keep you hooked. Scritchy Scratchy is the incremental game where luck does the heavy lifting.
Angel Clicker
Angel Clicker is an incremental clicker game with optional rhythm elements, in which players help an angelic architect compete in a soul-catching contest against Hell.
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die is a rogue-lite action adventure where Queen Aleksandra and her living die fight back against an ancient evil.
PlateUp!
Run a restaurant with up to four mates, cook like mad, and try not to burn the whole place down. Chaotic co-op cooking at its finest.
Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn’t
Cursed Words starts like Boggle and ends somewhere else entirely, letters, numbers, chess pieces, whatever the run throws at you. It's a roguelike word game that quietly stops being a word game.
Don’t Let It Starve
Pack bento boxes for a hungry monster in the walls and gamble your way to ridiculous scores. It's Tetris meets Resident Evil 4's inventory, but with food and way higher stakes.
Talespinner
Enter a captivating realm woven with the tapestry of Japanese mythology in Talespinner, a deck-building roguelike adventure. As the storyteller, you will guide your chosen hero through an ever-changing narrative shaped by your decisions and deck construction.
Echo Point Nova
Echo Point Nova is an open-world FPS from the makers of Severed Steel, playable solo or in 4-player co-op, combining grapple hook and hoverboard traversal with combat against mercenaries and colossal bosses.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
33 Immortals
Thunder Lotus
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.
WARCANA
1000 Orks
WARCANA is a real-time base defence strategy game combining deck-building with large-scale army summoning, playable in single-player campaigns or multiplayer battle royale modes.
Town to City
Galaxy Grove
Town to City is a grid-free city builder where players design towns and cities freely, growing population and economy across multiple connected settlements.
Tiny Glade
Pounce Light
Tiny Glade is a relaxing, free-form building game where players construct castles and cottages without goals, resource management, or failure states.
Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
Perspective Games, Bellwood Studios
A city-building simulation set in Aztec Mesoamerica, where players grow a single city into an empire while managing citizens, resources and religion.
The Scouring
Orc Group
The Scouring is a real-time strategy game combining base building, resource management, and army control with an action RPG hero mode and multiplayer battles for up to 8 players.
The Precinct
Fallen Tree Games Ltd
The Precinct is a 1980s-set police sandbox game where you play a rookie cop patrolling a living city, responding to crimes and investigating your father's murder.
The Darkest Files
Paintbucket Games
The Darkest Files is a narrative investigation game in which players prosecute Nazi-era war crimes in 1950s Germany as a young prosecutor working under Fritz Bauer.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Questline
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a first-person open-world RPG set in a dark fantasy realm inspired by Arthurian legend, offering branching quests and flexible character builds.
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
Gamexcite
A story-driven survival strategy game in which players command the U.S.S. Voyager, managing its crew and resources through the Delta Quadrant.
Rue Valley
Emotion Spark Studio
Rue Valley is a narrative game about escaping a time loop in a small town, where players shape their character's personality and relationships through repeated days.
Schedule I
TVGS
Schedule I is a business simulation game in which players build a drug empire from scratch in the fictional city of Hyland Point.
Revenge of the Savage Planet
Raccoon Logic Studios Inc.
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.
REPLACED
Sad Cat Studios
REPLACED is a narrative-driven 2.5D action-adventure set in an alternate 1980s America, following an AI named R.E.A.C.H. trapped in a human body.
MENACE
Overhype Studios
MENACE is a turn-based tactical RPG in which players command a strike force of marines, mercenaries, and criminals across a war-torn star system, managing squads, vehicles, and branching operations against human and alien threats.
Master of Command
Armchair Interactive
Master of Command is a real-time tactical strategy game set during the Seven Years' War, combining battlefield combat with campaign-level army and supply management.
Mars Attracts
Outlier
A theme park management game set on Mars where players run a Martian-owned amusement park stocked with abducted humans from throughout history.
Drova - Forsaken Kin
Just2D
Drova - Forsaken Kin is a pixel art Action-RPG set in a handcrafted open world inspired by Celtic mythology, where players choose a faction and shape the story through their actions.
Echo Point Nova
Greylock Studio
Echo Point Nova is an open-world FPS from the makers of Severed Steel, playable solo or in 4-player co-op, combining grapple hook and hoverboard traversal with combat against mercenaries and colossal bosses.
Cloudheim
Noodle Cat Games
Cloudheim is a physics-based action game where players rebuild a shattered world as a Runari, exploring islands, fighting monsters and crafting gear solo or in up to 4-player online co-op.
City Tales - Medieval Era
Irregular Shapes
City Tales - Medieval Era is a city-building game in which players shape organic medieval settlements, guided by companion characters with developing skills.
Cataclismo
Digital Sun
Cataclismo is a strategy game in which players build brick-by-brick fortresses to defend humanity's survivors against nightly waves of Horrors.
9 Kings
Sad Socket
9 Kings is a strategy game where players build a kingdom using combinations of buildings, units, and spells to outlast rival kings in single-player and asynchronous multiplayer modes.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
3Division
A Soviet-themed city builder in which players manage a planned economy, from resource extraction and manufacturing to transportation and public services, while balancing trade with Eastern and Western blocs.
Released Indie Games
Fireside Feelings
Grab a blanket and a hot drink, and settle in by the campfire to share your thoughts with real people at your own pace.
Risk of Rain 2
Risk of Rain 2 is a third-person roguelike shooter in which players fight through procedurally generated alien landscapes, collecting items and battling escalating enemy forces to survive.
Area Survivors
Paint the battlefield, hold your ground and defend the tower as endless hordes close in on you. Survival horde combat with a twist you actually control.
Schrödinger’s Call
Schrödinger's Call is a narrative picture-book-style game about Mary, an amnesiac woman who answers phone calls from souls caught between life and death in the moments before the moon falls and the world ends.
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.
Townscaper
Build quaint island towns with curvy streets. Build small hamlets, soaring cathedrals, canal networks, or sky cities on stilts.
Frog & Roll
Surf, Bhop, Climb, and blast your way to victory in Frog & Roll. A truly hardcore 3D platformer focused on speed and fast reactions. Chase the records of your friends and the world's best players.
How Asian Parents went to School
A 1-4 player co-op game where players climb mountains, dodge obstacles and outrun a bear to reach school on time.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
A procedurally generated roguelike known for its dark themes and deep item systems.
Voidship: The Long Journey
Design your battleship and fight your way through unforgiving space. This is a tale of a lone spaceship on a centuries-long mission.
DARQ: Complete Edition
DARQ is a 2.5d side-scroller that tells the story of Lloyd, a boy who finds himself in the middle of a lucid dream.
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