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Les aventures extraordinaires d’Alec Orbusier – Acte 1 : Le Tombeau de Taâl Rash’a
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INTUS
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Tom the Postgirl
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29 Oct, 2026
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29 Oct, 2026
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29 Oct, 2026
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30 Oct, 2026
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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.
Pixel Coloring World
Milk Poison
Pixel Coloring World is a pixel colouring game in which players fill numbered grids to reveal 12 themed images, ranging in size from 50×50 to 200×200 pixels.
Les aventures extraordinaires d'Alec Orbusier - Acte 1 : Le Tombeau de Taâl Rash'a
Icosaèdre
A puzzle-adventure game in which university archaeologist Alec Orbusier explores the tomb of Taâl Rash'a. Developed by Pharazon of Studio Icosaèdre.
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.
Tiny Capsule Collector
Playing Mantis
An idle game in which the player runs a small Gachapon capsule shop along the bottom of the desktop screen. Animal customers visit, collectables are gathered, and Twitch viewers can appear as visitors.
Night Plane
Liquid Static Studio, Snapping Turtle
Night Plane is a flight attendant job simulation set in 1999. The player checks tickets, serves passengers and identifies shape-shifting non-human entities that try to board the plane.
Kleromancy
kleroslab
Kleromancy is a deckbuilding roguelike where players use physics-based dice instead of cards. It is set aboard the Theseus Ark, a generational station, and was made by solo developer Kleros Lab.
Die Severed
Philip Markowski
Die Severed is a dice-based gambling roguelike in which the player rolls five dice to build poker hands and clear score targets at an underground casino to pay off a debt.
Projects with Demos
Fill The Void
Fill The Void is a physics-driven incremental 3D platformer in which the player controls a black hole that consumes objects in themed levels, with online and local multiplayer and a level creator.
Yooka-Replaylee
Yooka-Replaylee is a re-imagined 3D platformer in which Yooka and Laylee collect Pagies from a stolen book across several worlds, with new areas, moves, challenges and an orchestral score.
wageslave
A short narrative dystopian office survival game. As new programmer Job Cyphus, the player ships code to earn food money, manages consumables to stay sane, and works towards retirement.
ZOMBUTCHER: Monster Business Simulator
Meat shop simulator where you play as a ZOMBIE! Sell meat to humans by day, butcher them by night, and manage a dark business through stealth and resource management all while eating BRA-A-A-INS!
Circle Test Suite
Circle Test Suite is a puzzle game in which the player guides a Character through Test Chambers, delivering an Object to a Main Target while managing a limited supply of Action Points.
Well Dweller
Well Dweller is a dark fairy-tale metroidvania in which Glimmer, a small bird with a matchstick, explores a rotted kingdom to burn the wicked queen and rescue his family.
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.
Riruri Tachibana : Reincarnated
A first-person horror adventure in which players control Haruka, a virtual streamer whose real life becomes unsettling after a livestream is cut off by a glitch. It has multiple endings.
Deck of Haunts
Deck of Haunts casts the player as a haunted house. Players design the mansion's layout, then use a deck of haunt cards to frighten human intruders and harvest their essence.
Mortal Shell II
Mortal Shell II is a standalone sequel to Mortal Shell. Players possess the Shells of eight lost warriors and fight through a ravaged, interconnected world using melee and ranged weapons.
Empires of the Undergrowth
A real-time strategy game in which the player builds and manages an ant colony, digs nests, gathers food and fights insects, other animals and rival colonies across underground and surface maps.
Bait Soul
Bait Soul is an action roguelite with a cultivation theme. Players use a Soul Orb and Support Item loadout, with automatic attacks, to fight through a dungeon.
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
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.
DWARRF: A Pinball Roguelike
Sam Stubbings
DWARRF is a roguelike mixing pinball, pachinko and bubble shooter play. As Arf, a pirate dwarf, the player fires balls from a cannon to fight enemies through four levels in the mines.
Released Indie Games
The Mortuary Assistant
The Mortuary Assistant is a horror game in which an apprentice at River Fields Mortuary carries out embalmings overnight while identifying and banishing demonic entities.
Dungeon Madness
Dungeon Madness is a dark fantasy survivor roguelite in which players pick a hero class and fight waves of monsters and bosses in a dungeon, with upgrades, relics and unlockable characters.
Shroom and Gloom Demo
Shroom and Gloom Demo is an early-development double-deckbuilding roguelike in which players build two decks and fight through 26 handcrafted tunnels against spore-swarming enemies.
Fright Train
Fright Train is a third-person action survival horror roguelike set on a large train travelling through Antarctica, where the player maintains the train while fighting monsters.
Thunder Trucks: Heavy Racers
Thunder Trucks: Heavy Racers is a racing game in which players drive semi trucks in events against opponents, with upgrades and tuning options available to adjust each truck's performance.
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.
Millions of Minions: An Underground Adventure
Millions of Minions is a dungeon crawler in which the player commands an undead army through randomly generated caverns, working upwards from the Deep Depths towards the surface.
Trials of Dash
Trials of Dash is a precision platformer in which the player's colour changes with every jump. Across 22 stages, players must land on matching platforms while a wall advances from behind.
[WoG] War of Genesis: Idle Loot
An idle loot RPG that runs with a transparent background in a corner of the desktop. A 3D hero fights automatically, collects gear, and can trade items on the Steam Community Market.
1348 Ex Voto
A third-person action-adventure set in 14th-century-inspired Italy. Players control Aeta, a young knight errant, who travels the country to find and save Bianca, using sword combat based on historical European martial arts.
Revolver 21
Revolver 21 is a narrative card game set in the Soviet Union during World War II. Blackjack rounds end with Russian Roulette, and the story centres on a soldier named Mikhail.
Permaban
Permaban is a forum moderation game set in 2007, inspired by Papers, Please. Players review posts, cite rules, and use moderation tools while exploring a usable retro desktop.
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