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Zodiac Mountain
Mystic Road
Climb a mythic mountain as a card-slinging panda, wielding Yin and Yang hands to outsmart gods, demons and zodiac bosses.
Area Survivors
Furo-Pizza Studio
Paint the battlefield, hold your ground and defend the tower as endless hordes close in on you. Survival horde combat with a twist you actually control.
Chronime Puzzle: Dogs
Quantum Quiver Games
Chronime Puzzle: Dogs is a relaxing puzzle game featuring beautiful steampunk anime-inspired artwork.
Swordcery
Temple Door Games
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Mini Soccer Manager
Pedro Verpha
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.
Tide Of Tactics
Lyrical Games
Command a medieval army on a grid-based battlefield, master terrain and positioning, and siege your way to victory in Tide Of Tactics.
Journeybound Idle
Max Luck Gaming
Another world needed a hero. It got you instead! A long fantasy-idle RPG: climb the adventurer's guild from F-Rank to S-Rank, max your skills, clear 114 quests, discover 1,300+ items, hire companions, farm, craft, fight, tons of QoL, a desktop widget, and lots more! Releasing August 7th!
CastleOn
Lord Castleon
Build your fortress, man the walls and survive the Third Crusade in this deep turn-based castle building strategy game.
Projects with Demos
Reality Drift
Race through weird worlds, deliver packages to grumpy godlike beings, and build your car on the fly. Fast choices, faster driving.
GearGrit
Framed, hunted, and armed to the teeth, Tansy Geargrit fights back through the city of Mechanica in this action platformer that feels like a lost PS2 classic.
Hordestomp
Thousands of goblins, one very angry mob of heroes, and a car-launching jump kick. Hordestomp is chaotic survival horde action done right.
Croak
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.
Hope in the City
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.
Dragon Shelter
Rebuild your grandpa's abandoned farm, befriend loyal dragons with their own quirks and powers, and bring a forgotten world back to life.
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.
Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers
Blackjack meets deckbuilding roguelike in a twisted tavern where the house always has an edge, until you rewrite the rules yourself.
Catechesis
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.
Heave Ho 2
Grab, swing and splatter your way through eight ridiculous worlds, now with online chaos alongside the local couch carnage. Heave Ho 2 is dumb fun at its finest.
Chicks In Trouble
Play a dad rooster on a mission to rescue his missing chicks, sneaking past grumpy dogs and nosy farmers along the way. Cosy puzzle adventure fun for all ages.
Deck of Haunts
Deck of Haunts unleashes its biggest free update yet with new creatures, cards, rooms, starter decks & more. Available now on Steam.
Indie Demos
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.
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.
Nocturne
Pracy Studios
Nocturne is a story-driven RPG set after humanity's extinction, combining rhythm-based combat with traditional RPG exploration and progression.
Appulse
Le Rado
Appulse combines roguelite action, top-down shooting and pinball mechanics, tasking players with defending a fleet using recoil-based ball control.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mayak
Nikita Nplus1
Mayak is a linear, hand-painted 2D visual novel about a young astronomer investigating a mysterious prime-number signal from space.
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.
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.
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.
One Coin Museum
Toadzillart
Play as Toadz the frog, sailing the seas to claw up treasures and fill a little museum with your finds. A cosy, chilled out collectathon with pixel art charm.
Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder
Green Parrot Games
Draw or stop, that's the whole game. Lucky Punk shows you the exact odds of every risk, so when you crash out spectacularly, you've only got yourself to blame.
Hazard Suits
Ceratops Games
Suit up, blast Zombot hordes and shut down toxic Sulphur Pumps in this procedurally-generated wave shooter built for solo play or split-screen chaos with mates.
Released Indie Games
Party Animals
Party Animals is a chaotic multiplayer brawler where floppy physics, cute animals, and competitive party modes collide.
Look Outside
Whatever you do, don't look out the window. Look Outside traps you in one apartment building with monsters, mystery, and some genuinely unsettling body horror.
Dogpile
Two of the same dog touch and BAM, bigger dog. Merge your way to an absolute unit of a pup.
Heat Signature
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
The Gate Must Stand
The Continent has fallen and Belrak's last gate needs a defender. Pick your hero, recruit followers, and fight tooth and nail to keep it standing.
Area Survivors
Paint the battlefield, hold your ground and defend the tower as endless hordes close in on you. Survival horde combat with a twist you actually control.
Tide Of Tactics
Command a medieval army on a grid-based battlefield, master terrain and positioning, and siege your way to victory in Tide Of Tactics.
CloverPit
A rusty cell, a slot machine, and a debt that could kill you. CloverPit is Balatro meets Buckshot Roulette, and it's brutal.
Regions of Ruin: Runegate
Play the last of the dwarves, rebuild a shattered civilization, and hack your way through a monster-infested world in this explorative RPG.
Idols of Ash
Climb thousands of metres into a dark, ancient structure while something huge hunts you down. Grab your grappling hook and try not to look back.
Baby Steps
Baby Steps puts you in control of every single footstep as a washed-up loser hikes a massive mountain. It's a walking simulator, but properly, painfully literal.
Deck of Haunts
Deck of Haunts unleashes its biggest free update yet with new creatures, cards, rooms, starter decks & more. Available now on Steam.
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