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Projects with Demos
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.
Soulfused
A dystopian sci-fi text adventure where you play as a part-human, part-machine soldier fighting for a collapsing Empire. A modern homage to classic text games.
The Abbess Garden
The Abbess Garden is a cozy historical gardening game set in 17th-century France, blending plant care with queer romance, spies, and court intrigue.
Lelu
A monochromatic action adventure where a tiny clockwork toy gains consciousness and fights to escape a sprawling toy factory filled with puzzles and danger.
Shrine’s Legacy
A SNES-inspired 16-bit action RPG where two heroes must restore the Sword of Shrine, master elemental magic, and save Ardemia—solo or in co-op.
Mazey Village
Mazey Village is a cozy town-restoring puzzle adventure where you solve sliding-tile mazes, rescue villagers & pets, and rebuild a thriving community.
Fading Serenades
Fading Serenades is a cozy top-down courier adventure where you deliver parcels, befriend islanders, and uncover mysteries on Clifford’s Island.
SYDLESS
SYDLESS is a fast FPS where your only weapon is a deadly bouncing ball. Punch it faster, control the chaos, and fight your way out of a twisted anomaly.
ION Shift
A brutal 2D platformer where you play as an alien fighting your way through a deadly spaceship full of soldiers, turrets, and drones.
Path of Achra
A complex roguelike RPG built around deep theorycrafting and build experimentation.
Yooka-Replaylee
Yooka-Replaylee is the definitive remaster of the 3D platforming collectathon, with new challenges, shiny currency, maps, customisation & orchestral music.
Anchor’s Lament
Assemble your crew, set your rhythm, and battle rival captains in Anchor’s Lament, a multiplayer roguelite strategy game where every move follows the beat
Swordsory Brings Sharp Combat and Fast Fantasy Action
Swordsory is a fast-paced fantasy action game that blends precise melee combat with roguelite-style progression and a playful sense of humour. Players wield a variety of swords and abilities while battling through dangerous arenas filled with monsters, traps, and unpredictable encounters.
Combat focuses on timing, positioning, and skill rather than button-mashing, rewarding players who learn enemy patterns and master their weapons. Each run offers upgrades and modifiers that change how you play, encouraging experimentation and replayability.
With its colourful presentation and lighthearted tone, Swordsory balances challenging gameplay with accessibility, making it easy to pick up while still offering depth for players who want to push their skills further.
Swordcery
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Released Indie Games
Who’s Lila?
A disturbing psychological horror game built around facial expressions and perception.
Tribes of Midgard
Tribes of Midgard is a co-op survival action game where Viking players defend their village against monsters and looming Ragnarök.
Warcat Parade
Warcat Parade is a Touhou-inspired bullet hell with 6 levels, 6 bosses, pixel art, chiptune music, and one determined punk catboy hero.
Millions of Minions
Millions of Minions is a dungeon crawler, in which you must strategically command your undead minions throughout the eerie caverns.
Shrine’s Legacy
A SNES-inspired 16-bit action RPG where two heroes must restore the Sword of Shrine, master elemental magic, and save Ardemia—solo or in co-op.
Awaken The Time
A Twisted Time Travel Action-adventure game has 3 Gameplay styles in one game : Samurai, shooter, cyborg Travel in Time and discover the story-based!
Outer Wilds
An exploration-focused adventure centred on discovery and environmental storytelling.
Velvet 89
Explore the Velvet Revolution through hidden-object puzzles and real stories from 1989 Czechoslovakia.
Deep Rock Galactic
Deep Rock Galactic is a co-op FPS where teams of space dwarves mine hostile alien caves in fully destructible environments.
ION Shift
A brutal 2D platformer where you play as an alien fighting your way through a deadly spaceship full of soldiers, turrets, and drones.
Espresso Tycoon
Espresso Tycoon – the future of tycoon games is here! The sound of the coffee machine, the unique aroma of coffee grounds... in your own café!
Crumble
Crumble is a physics-based platformer where players swing, jump, and survive collapsing levels using a grappling tongue mechanic.
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