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Road Rage Royale

Road Rage Royale is a racing fighting game for 2 to 4 players set in a cyberpunk post-apocalyptic world.

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We Harvest Shadows

A quiet farm, a broken man, and something watching from the dark. We Harvest Shadows turns chores into dread one night at a time.

Development
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Space Boat

A humorous investigative narrative game set on intergalactic cruise-ship inhabited by various carpet based lifeforms.

Development
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The Dark West

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.

Early Access
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Deck of Haunts

Deck of Haunts unleashes its biggest free update yet with new creatures, cards, rooms, starter decks & more. Available now on Steam.

Released
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False Alarm

A stealth heist game where you break into offices, hotels and museums to nick whatever your clients want. Sneak, distract, manipulate, and if it all goes wrong, improvise.

Going Gold
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The Road of Dust and Sorrow

A miracle crop turned into humanity's downfall, and now Katherine just wants to get her daughter somewhere safe. Survival horror the old school way, with monsters, puzzles and nowhere left to hide.

Development
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Turnbound

Turnbound is a haunted grid-battler where you build your inventory, then send it off to fight the ghosts of other players' builds. Every tile placement matters.

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Reality Drift

Race through weird worlds, deliver packages to grumpy godlike beings, and build your car on the fly. Fast choices, faster driving.

Development
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VOIDFACE

VOIDFACE is a bullet hell game where every enemy is a boss fight and players have only one life to survive challenging encounters.

Going Gold
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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.

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Wild n Chill

Wild n Chill is a cozy wilderness survival game about hunting, fishing and building a cabin at your own pace, solo or with pals.

Development
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Early Access

Swordcery

11 Aug, 2026

Indie Demos

Silky Rails
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Silky Rails

JoyDoza

Silky Rails is a train-building survival game where players assemble and upgrade carts to automatically battle waves of enemies along the Silk Road.

Development
Lootbound
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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.

Released
Rita
76 MC
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Rita

SporkTank

Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.

Released
ShelfLife: Art School Detective
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Demo

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.

Development
Pixel Washer
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Demo

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.

Development
Nocturne
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Demo

Nocturne

Pracy Studios

Nocturne is a story-driven RPG set after humanity's extinction, combining rhythm-based combat with traditional RPG exploration and progression.

Development
Appulse
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Appulse

Le Rado

Appulse combines roguelite action, top-down shooting and pinball mechanics, tasking players with defending a fleet using recoil-based ball control.

Development
Hope in the City
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Demo

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.

Development
Woodo
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Demo

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.

Development
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2
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Demo

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.

Development
Holstin
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Demo

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.

Development
Toxic Crusaders
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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.

Development
Schrödinger's Call
89 MC
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Demo

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.

Released
Catechesis
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Demo

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.

Development
The Last Caretaker
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Demo

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.

Early Access
General Practice
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Demo

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.

Development
Mutter
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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.

Development
Croak
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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.

Development
The Dark West
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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.

Early Access
Time To Wake Up
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Demo

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.

Development
Mayak
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Mayak

Nikita Nplus1

Mayak is a linear, hand-painted 2D visual novel about a young astronomer investigating a mysterious prime-number signal from space.

Development
VOIDFACE
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Demo

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.

Going Gold
BOMBANANA!
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Demo

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.

Development
Smokey Mike
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Demo

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.

Development

Released Indie Games

A Case of Fraud

You've got every clue you need from the start. A missing CEO, a pile of documents, and a fraud only careful reading will crack.

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Swan Song

Swan Song is a cozy, emotional puzzle game where music guides a swan through challenges, revealing a touching story of family, memory, and loss.

Released
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The Holy Gosh Darn

Heaven's got six hours left and you're the angel stuck fixing it, armed with nothing but a time-travelling watch and a filthy mouth.

Released
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Mini Soccer Manager

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.

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Path of Achra

A complex roguelike RPG built around deep theorycrafting and build experimentation.

Released
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Hades

An indie roguelike action game combining fast combat, Greek mythology, and story-driven progression.

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Dead Cells

A fast, skill-focused action-platformer blending roguelike structure with tight combat.

Released
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Boneraiser Minions

A chaotic auto-battler where you raise undead armies and overwhelm enemies.

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Alchemist: Journey of the Soul

First-person adventure game, playable solo or co-op with up to 4 players. Use your magical abilities to solve puzzles or navigate through areas! Explore, use items, brew potions and unlock your full alchemical potential. Are you willing to do what it takes to claim a soul of your own?

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Idle Gumball Machine

A relaxing Plinko-style incremental where you shoot gumballs at gears and watch the numbers go delightfully out of control.

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Risk of Rain 2

Risk of Rain 2 is a third-person roguelike shooter in which players fight through procedurally generated alien landscapes, collecting items and battling escalating enemy forces to survive.

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Terraria

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Released
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