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Recently Released
Lootbound
ArtDock
Lootbound is a roguelike where players build a squad of companions, manage inventory-based item auras, and assemble a boss across multiple biomes.
Zodiac Mountain
Mystic Road
Climb a mythic mountain as a card-slinging panda, wielding Yin and Yang hands to outsmart gods, demons and zodiac bosses.
Area Survivors
Furo-Pizza Studio
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.
Chronime Puzzle: Dogs
Quantum Quiver Games
Chronime Puzzle: Dogs is a relaxing puzzle game featuring beautiful steampunk anime-inspired artwork.
Swordcery
Temple Door Games
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Journeybound Idle
Max Luck Gaming
Another world needed a hero. It got you instead! A long fantasy-idle RPG: climb the adventurer's guild from F-Rank to S-Rank, max your skills, clear 114 quests, discover 1,300+ items, hire companions, farm, craft, fight, tons of QoL, a desktop widget, and lots more! Releasing August 7th!
Tide Of Tactics
Lyrical Games
Command a medieval army on a grid-based battlefield, master terrain and positioning, and siege your way to victory in Tide Of Tactics.
Mini Soccer Manager
Pedro Verpha
Take charge of the league’s weakest club and lead it to glory. Build your squad, develop players, set formations, adjust tactics, and fight your way from last place to champions.
Projects with Demos
KAPIA
KAPIA is a story-driven point-and-click adventure executed in a classical style of 3D quests from the mid-2000s.
The Royal Writ
Command your cards into battle where every card that reaches the enemy base is gone for good. Sacrifice your subjects wisely and build a legacy worth remembering.
Hotel Architect
Build, decorate and manage your own hotel empire from crumbling fixer-uppers to five-star towers. Keep guests happy or brace for the reviews.
CleanFall
A little cleaning bot builds warships, mixes alchemic turrets, and dives into a monstrous underground world, all to tidy up one messy planet.
Catechesis
Catechesis is a Horror RPG in which a demon-possessed altar boy must stay virtuous by day and battle demons by night to save his grandfather.
POLYARIS
You're stranded in the Arctic after a nuclear blast with no one else around. Survive the cold, ski across the ice, and piece together what happened before it's too late.
VOIDFACE
VOIDFACE is a bullet hell game where every enemy is a boss fight and players have only one life to survive challenging encounters.
Dicevaders
A dice-based roguelike deckbuilder where skill beats luck every time. Lead your alien invasion and break the game with mad combos.
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.
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.
Lootbound
Lootbound is a roguelike where players build a squad of companions, manage inventory-based item auras, and assemble a boss across multiple biomes.
Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times
Rhell is a puzzle adventure where you mix and match 40 magic runes to solve puzzles however you like, playing a mage who's a bit too mouthy for her own good.
Indie Demos
Lootbound
ArtDock
Lootbound is a roguelike where players build a squad of companions, manage inventory-based item auras, and assemble a boss across multiple biomes.
Rita
SporkTank
Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.
ShelfLife: Art School Detective
Fnife Games
A detective dating sim in which psychic art student Johana investigates nine suspects to uncover who has been destroying priceless artworks.
Pixel Washer
Valadria
Pixel Washer is a cleaning game where players control a piggy using a power washer to remove grime and reveal pixel art scenes across a town.
Nocturne
Pracy Studios
Nocturne is a story-driven RPG set after humanity's extinction, combining rhythm-based combat with traditional RPG exploration and progression.
Appulse
Le Rado
Appulse combines roguelite action, top-down shooting and pinball mechanics, tasking players with defending a fleet using recoil-based ball control.
Hope in the City
Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.
Hope in the City is a narrative mystery game set in Shenyang, following 17-year-old Hope Song as she investigates her parents' sudden disappearance.
Woodo
Tiny Monks Tales
Woodo is a cozy diorama puzzle game where players assemble wooden scenes piece by piece, following the story of Foxy and Ben the frog.
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2
D'Avekki Studios Ltd
A Lovecraftian mystery game in which players act as both therapist and detective, questioning suspects to uncover a killer whose identity is randomised each playthrough.
Holstin
Sonka
Holstin is a survival horror game set in a decaying 1992 Polish town, where the player searches for a missing friend amid monstrous corruption.
Toxic Crusaders
Retroware
Toxic Crusaders is a beat 'em up featuring seven playable characters battling across eleven pixel-art levels, with local co-op for up to four players.
Schrödinger's Call
Acrobatic Chirimenjako
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.
Catechesis
Baroque Decay
Catechesis is a Horror RPG in which a demon-possessed altar boy must stay virtuous by day and battle demons by night to save his grandfather.
The Last Caretaker
Channel37 Ltd
A first-person survival-crafting game in which a robotic Caretaker explores a flooded ruined Earth to recover human seeds and prepare humanity for launch into orbit.
General Practice
Mokum Games
General Practice is a co-op game for up to four players in which players run a chaotic GP clinic, treating patients using various medical devices and contraptions.
Mutter
DeadlyCrow Games
Mutter is a stop-motion styled adventure game set in 1940s rural England, following a boy caring for his mother as she transforms into something monstrous.
Croak
WoodRunner Games
Croak is a fast-paced 2D platformer in which a Frog Prince uses tongue-grapple and bounce mechanics to navigate hand-drawn levels and break a curse on his kingdom.
The Dark West
Black Hand
The Dark West is an occult western Action RPG set in a corrupted 19th century frontier, combining lethal ranged combat with deep character building and loot systems.
Time To Wake Up
Eye Blink Twice
Time To Wake Up is an atmospheric psychological thriller in which players navigate a dream built from surreal school memories, using their eyes to alter the environment.
Mayak
Nikita Nplus1
Mayak is a linear, hand-painted 2D visual novel about a young astronomer investigating a mysterious prime-number signal from space.
VOIDFACE
Frog Hat Labs
VOIDFACE is a bullet hell game where every enemy is a boss fight and players have only one life to survive challenging encounters.
BOMBANANA!
Lefto Studio
Three monkeys, one bomb, zero shared senses. Blind hands, mute knowledge, deaf eyes - work out how to talk to each other before everything goes boom.
Smokey Mike
Medium Energy
A point-and-click tragicomedy about a comedian chasing five perfect minutes on stage in early 2010s Buenos Aires. Funny, painful, and dead honest about what it takes to get up there.
One Coin Museum
Toadzillart
Play as Toadz the frog, sailing the seas to claw up treasures and fill a little museum with your finds. A cosy, chilled out collectathon with pixel art charm.
Released Indie Games
Sovereign Tower
Rule a kingdom of squabbling knights, nosy advisors and a time-bending demon in the crypt. Every decision is yours, every consequence is too.
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Build the level with your mates, then place traps and hope they don't make it to the end. Chaos guaranteed.
The Skin Stapler
A serial killer's skinning victims and stapling them to walls. You've got one grimy, neon-lit night to catch them before they catch you.
DEADLINE DELIVERY
Race as Carl the monkey mailman in a chaotic racer where your truck’s rigged to blow. Deliver fast, dodge obstacles & survive solo or with 8 players.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
A procedurally generated roguelike known for its dark themes and deep item systems.
Tales & Tactics
Tales & Tactics mixes roguelike strategy with squad-based autobattling, no timers, no pressure, just you building the perfect team for The Grand Tournament.
Trouble Hunter Chronicles: The Stolen Creed
Explore mid 20th century Europe as an ex-OSS operative in this old school influenced point and click adventure game!
Pigeon: A Love Story
Fly through life-size versions of London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and Amsterdam looking for your one true pigeon soulmate. It's a slow game for fast times.
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.
Disco Elysium – The Final Cut
A narrative-driven RPG where dialogue and decision-making shape the experience.
helionaut
Helionaut is an open-world space adventure game focused on exploration, crafting, and travelling between procedurally generated planets.
Before Your Eyes
A short, emotional narrative experience controlled by blinking.
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