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CHAINSPIRE
SKYWARD FRAME
CHAINSPIRE is a co-op soulslike platformer for one to four players in which the party is linked by a physically simulated chain that shapes combat, platforming and puzzles.
Life of a Thug
trippysloth
Life of a Thug is a crime simulation game in which the player works their way up from a street-level nobody to an underworld kingpin in the fictional Corrupticut City.
THE DEAD WE KNEW: Open World Survival
MAY19 STUDIO
Explore a dangerous open world, loot abandoned places, build your shelter, produce food, and manage your resources. Survive alone or in co-op against zombies, hostile humans, and the growing dangers that come with the fog.
AKIBA LOST
IzanagiGames
AKIBA LOST is a live-action suspense game set in Akihabara, Tokyo. Players switch between seven characters in a branching story about a game creator and a new series of disappearances.
Crosstalk
Ongakken
Crosstalk is a sandbox toolset for designing custom computer architectures, SystemVerilog hardware and software, with a built-in simulator, emulator and toolchain. It supports solo and networked play.
We Were Here Tomorrow
Total Mayhem Games
We Were Here Tomorrow is a two-player online co-op puzzle adventure set in a facility run by Norček Industries, where players communicate by walkie-talkie to solve puzzles.
Crypt Survivor
cloud6552
Crypt Survivor is an action roguelite in which players pick a class and descend five floors of a crypt, fighting enemies and bosses to collect the crystals needed to break a curse.
Big Dig
Dan Schumacher, Hjalte Tagmose
Big Dig is a short incremental narrative game in which players dig up artifacts to clear the way for Mayor Dog's highway across the Animal Republic.
Projects with Demos
Journey to Echo
Journey to Echo is a post-apocalyptic survival adventure in which you leave an underground bunker to scavenge supplies, maintain a vehicle and search for other survivors across an open world.
Catnip Fever Dreamland
A level-based action game in which players guide a cat named Krum through his mind, collecting catnip to progress, fighting demon cats and unlocking flashbacks. Supports up to four players.
Well Dweller
Well Dweller is a dark fairy-tale metroidvania in which Glimmer, a small bird carrying a matchstick, sets out to burn a wicked queen and rescue his family.
ORBA
ORBA is a pixel art speedrunning game in which players strike an orb upward through the five floors of a tower before it shatters, competing for the fastest climb.
Fish Lab
A short incremental game about collecting fish for a laboratory, with collection timed to the beat of the music.
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.
Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers
A run-based blackjack roguelike with deckbuilding. Players work through a tavern casino, challenging opponents with a modified version of blackjack and a deck that changes over each run.
Eco Volunteer
Eco Volunteer is a game about exploring natural areas while collecting and sorting litter, rescuing animals and people, and photographing wildlife across parks, forests and beaches.
Duo Quest
Duo Quest is a two-player co-op roguelite deck builder in which partners answer relationship questions and match their responses to fight monsters in an 8-bit fantasy world.
Moss: The Forgotten Relic
Moss: The Forgotten Relic is an atmospheric puzzle-adventure combining Moss and Moss: Book II into a single adventure, guiding a small mouse hero through a fallen kingdom.
Port of Jumanah
Port of Jumanah is a nautical exploration game in which players recruit friends and a cat as crew, sail through varied oceans, complete missions and upgrade their gear.
Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night
A text-based interactive novel by Josh Labelle, set in the World of Darkness, in which the player hunts supernatural creatures in Hollywood or chases a film career.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
A colossal blade has pierced the world of Armorial, unleashing a storm of enchanted swords from the heavens. Collect and wield an arsenal of these spellbound blades, turning them against the very force that summoned them. In this roguelike ARPG, you will defy the Celestial evil consuming the world!
Indie Demos
SUSHI CHESS
Today's Special!
SUSHI CHESS is a turn-based board game where players move sushi pieces that each carry a price. Capturing a piece costs the capturer its price. It offers puzzles, CPU opponents, and local or online play.
The Tally
Olivia Gonsher
The Tally is a life simulation set in Corvid City, where everyday choices are recorded and totalled on a receipt when the player's life ends, deciding where they are sent next.
Emberville
Cygnus Cross
Emberville is an action-focused adventure game in which the player escapes a vast prison called the Vitromotus, rescues trapped townsfolk, and helps them rebuild their town.
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players build and customise cars, scavenge, trade with factions and fight warlords.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure combining visual novel storytelling, point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements, set at a wedding in France.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia. The player works as an operator who watches citizens through cameras, enforces laws and makes decisions that affect the story.
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.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
A first-person shop simulation in which players run a store selling collectible mystery eggs, open them to find action figures, and build themed dioramas to sell.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale is a 2D action-platformer with boss battles and animated cinematics. It can be played solo or in local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which the player controls Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across a spirit world divided into four seasonal domains.
Telly No Vision
TheMysticSword
Telly No Vision is an action game set in a virtual space where the surroundings are invisible and must be navigated by watching floating TVs that show the world from other perspectives.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a 2D platformer built around speedrunning, with seasonal modes, worldwide leaderboards and biomes that each have their own physics.
Noir
Bœuf Musqué
Noir is a 2D platform game in which the player controls a small ball that sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open an exit portal. A controller is required.
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.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
Bait Soul is an action roguelite with a cultivation theme. Players arrange Soul Orbs and Support Items in a loadout while the character attacks automatically and the player handles movement.
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
Learn all about Abraham Lincoln in this visual novel biography containing rare photos of Lincoln’s hat the day he was shot, the Lincoln Memorial, where he gave the Gettysburg Address, and much more. Lawyer, President, Emancipator - this is Abraham Lincoln! Proudly made in the Washington DC area
Dash Dot Die
Iron Interactive Games
Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game where the player decodes Morse code to survive a maze of corridors, rooms and vents, in a retro PSX and VHS-inspired style.
Monarchs at Play
MixedMoonGames
Monarchs at Play is a turn-based 4X strategy game built around placing buildings, with matches lasting around an hour and support for solo and multiplayer play.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Lorenzo Ametrano
PSI: Pressure Climbing is a movement-based climbing game in which players use a jetpack to scale an underground hydropower grid on a mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Little Ghost
Alan Abbadessa, Law Jun Yan, Eduardo Alexandrino, Leaf Riifuneko
A 2D puzzle-platforming metroidvania in which you play an inch-high ghost exploring a collage-style home office, using movement abilities and a float mechanic instead of combat.
Dig Too Deep
Punch Up Games
Dig Too Deep is a 2D side-scrolling action roguelite with tower defence elements, in which players throw goblins to mine resources, craft defences and fight waves of enemies.
Jarred Defense
Jarred Cat Studios
Jarred Defense is a tower defense game in which players place towers anywhere to shape the enemy path. It includes a story campaign, Endless Mode with leaderboards and a level editor.
Cards, Blades & Fine Print
Crooked Seal Games
A dryly funny single-player card adventure with turn-based battles, 170 enemies, 583 illustrated equipment items, 60 collectible sets, and three freely mixable talent paths – in a fantasy world full of dangerous administration.
Released Indie Games
Echoes of Mora VR
Echoes of Mora VR is a PC VR exploration game set in a flooded, abandoned village, where players swim with their own arm movements. It also includes a full non-VR mode.
How Many Dudes? The Roguelike Autobattler
How many dudes does it take to beat up a gorilla? A thousand toddlers? A horse-sized duck? A GOD? Enter the Dude Ranch and find out in this roguelike dudebuilder where you recruit an army of dudes to fight ridiculous battles.
水浒英雄传：八幕战役
A 2D isometric real-time strategy game based on Water Margin, with eight campaign missions, a wave-based defence mode, AI skirmishes, an arena and a scenario editor.
Pirouette & Smile
Pirouette & Smile is a puzzle game in which players jump on the pieces of watercolour video puzzles to free dancers. It has single player, computer rival and two player modes.
Gun Shop 3
Gun Shop 3 is a shop management simulation in which the player runs a firearms store, assembling custom weapons, appraising used guns and completing contracts.
Curved Space
Curved Space is a twin-stick shooter in which players fight spider invaders across curved 3D environments, where bullets follow the terrain. It includes a branching campaign and several leaderboard modes.
Crafty Survivors: Wicked Winter
Wicked Winter is an expansion for Crafty Survivors that adds two playable characters, the Snowy Peaks region and a new beacon defence stage type.
Nightmare Frontier
Nightmare Frontier is a turn-based tactical extraction looter. Players lead a crew of Scavengers through randomly generated city districts and return to a Hideout with loot.
Falk
Falk is a pixel art action adventure set in the Kurat Institute, where an amnesiac patient explores a connected map, uses five abilities, faces three bosses and works towards one of five endings.
No More Room in Hell 2
No More Room in Hell 2 is an 8-player co-op survival horror game in which Responders complete missions in zombie-infested locations, facing permadeath and infection risks.
Arrow Card Arena (箭域卡戰)
Arrow Card Arena is a turn-based card strategy game where arrows on each card determine its attack directions. It has a 15-stage single-player campaign and local two-player battles.
All Our Winters
All Our Winters is a god game set in a procedurally generated wilderness. The player shapes the land and its weather while villagers live, work, worship and fight without direct orders.
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