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Projects with Demos
Anima Gate of Memories: I&II Remaster
Two action RPGs return remastered in one definitive collection with enhanced visuals, fast combat and branching storylines in the world of Gaia.
Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator
Open your own VHS rental shop and relive the golden age of video stores, one late fee and rewound tape at a time.
Graytail
A pilot's gone missing on a strange island, and you're the one heading in to find him. Graytail mixes physics puzzles, proper weapon-based combat, and a story that rewards paying attention.
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.
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die is a rogue-lite action adventure where Queen Aleksandra and her living die fight back against an ancient evil.
Settler’s Domain
Build up your settlement from scratch, manage resources, research new tech and decide whether to make friends or enemies of your neighbours. It's classic settlement building done right.
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.
Clean Start
Tidy up cosy homes, piece together quiet stories, and see life through the eyes of an immigrant maid in a country whose language she barely speaks.
GNAW
Mack Ripley's just a small dino with big dreams, and now he's got weird science powers and a city full of trouble to sort out. GNAW is a chompy, ParkSaur-fuelled metroidvania through New Dino City.
Window Seat
Window Seat is a first-person detective game where you solve murders by cleaning windows. Keep your nose out of it. Or don't.
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.
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 Indie Games
In Other Waters
An alien ocean exploration game presented through abstract interfaces.
Nimillion – The last expedition
Retro-inspired Metroidvania rocket ship adventure with physics-based thruster flight, upgrades, puzzles and brutal terrain to master.
Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers
Blackjack meets deckbuilding roguelike in a twisted tavern where the house always has an edge, until you rewrite the rules yourself.
Velvet 89
Explore the Velvet Revolution through hidden-object puzzles and real stories from 1989 Czechoslovakia.
CastleOn
Build your fortress, man the walls and survive the Third Crusade in this deep turn-based castle building strategy game.
The Falconeer: Revolution Remaster
The Falconeer puts you in control of the ultimate airborne warrior.
Chromosome Evil
Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival. Assemble your team using different classes, skills, and weaponry. Will you find the source of the darkness?
Hollow Knight
A hand-drawn metroidvania focused on exploration, combat, and atmospheric world design.
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.
Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator
Open your own VHS rental shop and relive the golden age of video stores, one late fee and rewound tape at a time.
Drill Rift
Drill Rift is a turn-based colony sim where you manage a dwarven mining outpost, upgrade tech, roll dice events & risk awakening what lies below.
The Phantom Fellows
The Phantom Fellows is a point & click adventure about 2 best friends who start a paranormal investigation business together, since one of them is already dead
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