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Legends of Azamar
Early Access
13 Sep, 2026
Barman
Early Access
14 Sep, 2026
Toad Land
Early Access
14 Sep, 2026
Mancala Party
Early Access
14 Sep, 2026
KICKSLAUGHT
Early Access
14 Sep, 2026
Wukong Fights
Early Access
14 Sep, 2026
Battalion of Tanks
Early Access
14 Sep, 2026
ORACLE: Humanity, Automated
Early Access
14 Sep, 2026
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Shellbunny
A low-pressure organisation game in which players pick up thousands of misplaced objects and return them to shelves, sorting products by department and category at their own pace.
GAMBLE LIFE
Wingless
GAMBLE LIFE is a four-player Five-Card Draw poker game in which you use combinable abilities to win enough money to pay off a character's debt before a deadline.
Lanky Looters
Foxmoon Studios
Lanky Looters is a multiplayer hide-and-sneak heist game in which players take the roles of Thieves or Officers across four maps, with support for friends, custom lobbies and bots.
ORBA
Robro Games
ORBA is a speedrunning game in which the player strikes an Orb upward through a five-floor tower before it shatters, collecting random abilities and racing other players' recorded ghosts.
Water Sort:Alchemy
FWGames
Water Sort: Alchemy is a 3D liquid-sorting puzzle game set in an alchemy workshop, in which players pour coloured liquids between glass bottles until each contains a single colour.
You Will Get Rich!
fortunate bull
A minimal idle game in which players earn coins by waiting and tapping a piggy bank, then spend them on 100 written blessings. The developer describes it as a cyber-begging game.
Eternal Grove
Blobverse Studio
Eternal Grove is an idle incremental game in which players chop trees by hovering over them, spend earnings on an upgrade skill tree and reset progress through a prestige system to gain permanent Wisdom.
Fantasy Bird Woods
SouthBoat Games
Fantasy Bird Woods is a desktop application in which chicks grow into fantasy bird species over time while you use your computer.
Projects with Demos
Little Corners
Build tiny cosy worlds sticker by sticker, with lofi beats and thousands of stickers to peel and place. It's a chill sticker book that never runs out of pages.
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds is a JRPG-style adventure set in the hand-drawn fantasy world of Legrand, combining turn-based combat with tactical warfare.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
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.
Let Me Poo!
An incremental clicker in which a bald man headbutts through a series of walls built by his landlord in order to reach a toilet.
Destiny Spire
Destiny Spire is a retro-style role-playing game with an active time battle system, in which you serve as a king's envoy travelling to peace talks between four kingdoms.
Cataclismo
Cataclismo is a strategy game in which players build brick-by-brick fortresses to defend humanity's survivors against nightly waves of Horrors.
TOWERPULSE
TOWERPULSE is a single-player tactical survival roguelite set in a hostile signal tower, where players build an arsenal of weapons and upgrades while climbing floors under constant pressure.
Locktale
Locktale is a story-driven puzzle game about decoding secret messages, with over 50 levels that each use a different cipher or encoding technique.
Bookstore Incremental
An incremental game about running a bookstore, starting with a single printer and shelf and expanding through a skill tree of over 500 upgrade nodes across roughly five to six hours of active play.
Deck of Haunts
Deck of Haunts unleashes its biggest free update yet with new creatures, cards, rooms, starter decks & more. Available now on Steam.
The Village Above the Well
A village-building and idle dungeon game in which you rebuild a mining village, hire workers, forge equipment and send an adventurer down a well to recover a lost medallion.
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.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players scavenge, fight and trade while customising cars to stay alive.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure set at a wedding in a French château, combining visual novel storytelling with point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements.
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow
Vertex Horizons
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow is a linear puzzle-adventure game set on a ruined planet, where solving puzzles gradually reveals the story of a lost civilisation.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a narrative game in which you work as a surveillance operator in a retro-futuristic dystopia, monitoring citizens, enforcing laws and making choices that affect the story.
DEVIL'S WAY: BOHEMIAN
Rose Game Studio
A dark comedy survival game in which players guide James DUD through a surreal dystopia run by a malevolent AI, choosing between doors that lead to unpredictable, often hostile scenarios.
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.
Chomp Garden
PawPaw Games
Chomp Garden is a puzzle game in which you play a small lamp guiding plants with light while searching a garden for your lost pup.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
A first-person simulation game about running a shop that sells collectible mystery eggs, with options to open eggs for figures, craft dioramas and trade on an online marketplace.
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2
Skyhook Games
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 is a working simulation set in the USA in which players run a lawn care business using licensed equipment from Kubota, SCAG and STIGA.
Furyball: Rogue Revenge
Rebound
An action roguelite in which you fight through the gang-ruled city of Neo-Arcadia using a bouncing Furyball, modifying it with modules and equipment across procedurally varied runs.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which Kiko, a girl trapped in a spirit world, uses portals and Spirit Powers to alter gravity and time across four seasonal domains.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a speedrun-focused 2D platformer with multiple biomes, seasonal challenge modes and worldwide leaderboards.
The Piper of Dawn
Bone Nail
A story-driven management RPG set in Diamond City, where you play an alchemist growing magical crops and running a shop while dealing with six factions whose support decides the city's fate.
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.
Island Restoration
EliteTheDev
A cleaning game in which you sail between polluted islands, removing hazards, rescuing animals and upgrading tools to restore each one to a natural state.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
A build-focused action roguelite in which you play a Bait Soul fighting through a dangerous dungeon, using auto-attacking weapons, dodging and a loadout system of Soul Orbs and Support Items.
Yami Kids
Yanako RPGs, GameDevTosh
Yami Kids is a retro-styled monster-taming RPG in which twins Yuki and Yuumi Yami collect and train more than 80 Oni while moving between the Overworld and the Underworld.
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
A biographical kinetic novel about Abraham Lincoln, the third entry in the Important People of History series, covering his life, the US Civil War and the end of slavery through present-day photographs of historic sites.
Dash Dot Die
Iron Interactive Games
Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game built around Morse code, in which the player decodes signals through light, sound and timing to survive a captor's deadly game.
It's Fine
Buma Games
It's Fine is an incremental game about surviving the last 24 hours of development crunch, in which players code, upgrade and prestige towards a stable build under a dog Project Manager named Joe.
Gunclone Arena
Off North Games
Gunclone Arena is a top-down arena shooter set in the year 2250, in which a contestant fights waves of Gunclones and Mechs in a televised bloodsport for Cash and follower Likes.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Book Club Games
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Released Indie Games
Antihero
Antihero is a fast-paced digital board game set in a Victorian-inspired underworld, where players build gangs and compete to control a city through theft, sabotage and subterfuge.
Murdercartel
Murdercartel is an online 2D fantasy MMORPG in which players fight monsters, clear dungeon bosses, gather resources, craft equipment and train a range of professions in a handcrafted world.
Vernal Edge
2d Pixel Platformer, with character actiom combat and exploration
Medieval Market Simulator
Medieval Market Simulator is a shop management game where players stock, price and sell goods in a medieval town, alone or in online co-op.
Date Everything!
Date Everything! is a dating simulator in which household objects become dateable characters after the player receives a pair of magical glasses.
King Assassination
King Assassination is a multiplayer deception and action game in which one team of Guards escorts a King along a route while a team of Assassins tries to kill him.
Rior’s Arena – Supporter Pack
A supporter pack for Rior's Arena containing six cosmetic items. It is sold by the game's solo developer to help fund further creative work on the game.
DARKLING
DARKLING is a short first-person single-player horror game set in a haunted house. Players are locked inside, and must interact with objects and solve simple puzzles to find a way out.
JDM: Japanese Drift Master
JDM: Japanese Drift Master is an open world, story-driven racing game set in a fictional Japanese prefecture, focused on drift culture, car tuning and street racing.
Aura Farming Simulator
Aura Farming Simulator is a 3D arcade time-attack game in which players collect Aura in timed runs, level up to extend run length, and compete on global leaderboards.
Tribes of Midgard
Tribes of Midgard is a co-op survival action game where Viking players defend their village against monsters and looming Ragnarök.
Let Them Trade
A city-building strategy game where players found cities, manage autonomous economies, and protect trade routes from bandits.
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