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Recently Released
NUVRATE
PELKOCHA
NUVRATE is a single-player arcade action game combining arena survival, pattern-based boss encounters and a lane-based rhythm campaign, playable fully offline.
Murmuring of Moth Mouth
VAINSANE
Murmuring of Moth Mouth is a short psychological horror visual novel in which Yuna, driving to a job interview, follows conflicting instructions along a strange highway.
KKUL-TTEOK!
YOUNGJUN0316
KKUL-TTEOK! is a co-op game for one to four players in which players control pieces of Korean honey rice cake that have been swallowed and must escape through the mouth and esophagus.
Factory Default: Build, Trade, Repeat
Chett Fitzgerald
Factory Default: Build, Trade, Repeat is an industrial management game played on a 3D globe. Players build supply chains, trade goods and manage company reputation across more than 100 regions.
Sous Raccoon
Novice Flow
Sous Raccoon is a cooking roguelite in which the player is a raccoon hired as sous chef by a short-tempered Chef. It is now fully released and supports online co-op for two players.
Second Monitor Football
Tramvay Games
Second Monitor Football is a physics-driven football simulation built to run in a small window. Matches can be watched hands-free or played directly, with multiplayer, Twitch integration and modding support.
Dicevaders
Pengonauts
Dicevaders is a dice-based roguelike deckbuilder in which players lead an alien invasion of Earth, placing units on a turn-based grid and manipulating dice rolls to build scoring combos.
Late Order
Judas Brothers, Rassl.me
Late Order is a supernatural horror game set in a fast-food restaurant. The player works a first night shift, cooking orders and obeying rules set by an entity that inhabits the restaurant's mascot.
Projects with Demos
Destiny Spire
Destiny Spire is a retro-style role-playing game with an active time battle system. The player travels as a king's envoy to peace talks between four kingdoms.
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.
Dungeons of Hinterberg
Dungeons of Hinterberg is an action-adventure game in which Luisa explores dungeons and open-world terrain in the Austrian Alps, combining puzzle-solving, combat and town-based social activities.
No Knock
No Knock is an open-world theft simulation game where players rob targets, build a crew and expand a criminal enterprise.
Upadillo
Upadillo is a physics-based platformer in which an armadillo climbs upwards to reach its family, using only movement and a chargeable jump with no air control.
PEGTURE: Peg Solitaire Roguelike
Pegture is a roguelike deck-building game built around classic peg solitaire. Players jump pegs, reach target scores, and choose from seven starting decks.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
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.
Dystopicon
Dystopicon is a dystopian time management game in which players earn money by watching television and decide whether to conform or rebel against a controlling society.
SENTO SURVIVOR : Slip, Grab, and Bathe in Glory!
Master the slippery floors of a Japanese public bathhouse and blast your rivals with water guns! Play solo or battle friends in local multiplayer—this shooting game is packed with unpredictable, chaotic mishaps! Survive the mayhem and claim the glory of being first in the bath!
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.
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.
Sea Sweeper
Sea Sweeper is an incremental, run-based game in which the player pilots a ship around a limited ocean area, collecting floating rubbish and spending the earnings on upgrades.
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
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.
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.
Big Dig
Dan Schumacher, Hjalte Tagmose
Big Dig is a short incremental narrative game in which you dig up historical artifacts to clear the way for a highway across the Animal Republic, then display your finds in a museum.
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 supports solo play or local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which players control Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across levels set in a spirit world.
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 ball that moves, jumps and sticks to platforms, collecting every orb in each level to open an exit portal.
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.
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 with a retro PSX and VHS-inspired look, in which players decode Morse code signals to escape a maze while a single mistake is fatal.
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.
Crown Of Hispania
Regalis Studio
Rewrite the Reconquista in a grand strategy game set in 11th-century Iberia, where population, religion, and war evolve dynamically based on your decisions. Move armies freely across 300 hand-built provinces, manage a deep medieval economy, and face an AI that actually fights back.
WilderDash
Wise and Wild
WilderDash is a tower defence roguelite for one to six players. Players gather resources and build towers by day, then defend their base from monsters at night on procedurally generated maps.
Released Indie Games
Asiden
Asiden is a desktop AI companion that runs locally on the user's PC, appearing as a 3D VRM avatar with configurable personality, memory, voice and optional screen awareness.
Modern Durak Online Services Access
A DLC for Modern Durak that unlocks the game's online services, including ranked matches in several player counts, leaderboards, private lobbies and avatar selection.
Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers
Battle your way through a seedy tavern filled with gambling addicted townspeople in this Blackjack Roguelike Adventure. From aces and face cards to tarot cards, business cards and more, create your unique deck to beat the house.
A Hat in Time
A Hat in Time is a 3D platformer following a young space traveller who collects lost Time Pieces and stitches magical hats for special abilities across five distinct worlds.
Screw IT
A workbench organising simulator in which the player sorts 777 nails and one screw by size and condition into storage boxes, using tools to repair damaged ones.
VHS Nights: The Tidy Up Shift
VHS Nights: The Tidy Up Shift is a sorting game set in a 1992 video rental store, where the player organises 1,120 fictional VHS tapes onto the correct shelves.
Halloween: The Game
An asymmetrical horror game set in Haddonfield on Halloween night 1978, where one player controls Michael Myers and up to four others defend the town, alongside a singleplayer story mode.
Dear Journey…
A card-based travel agency game in which the player reads traveller letters and pairs activity and destination cards into trips. It has no timers or fail states.
Toxic Yuri
Toxic Yuri is a visual novel romantic comedy. An office worker in Kyoto takes in Doku-chan, a woman made of slime, and the player's choices shape how the six-episode story unfolds.
Cité Alexandrie
In Cité Alexandrie, a narrative-management game in VR, you run an illegal cultural network in an alternate 1980s France where books, records and comics are forbidden. Recruit members. Give out jobs. Organize your network, but beware of rival gangs and the Cultural Interdiction Brigade.
Look Outside
Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
Eagle Knight Paradox
Eagle Knight Paradox is a story-driven action-adventure that blends high-speed mecha battles with slice-of-life exploration. Step into the neon-lit city of Comala 88, where every choice you make will shape not only the fate of the city but also the lives of the people you meet.
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