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Dicevaders
Pengonauts
Dicevaders is a dice-based roguelike deckbuilder about leading the ultimate alien invasion. Set in the StarVaders universe, draft and manipulate the dice row, build an unstoppable army, and unleash adrenaline pumping combos through powerful synergies and strategic play.
HR: Human Remains
dennisCorner
In a broken world ruled by demons, the gears of productivity still turn. Complete tasks, solve puzzles, and explore a society under demonic regime from the perspective of an ordinary office clerk.
Desktop Gremlins
ShuGhost
Desktop Gremlins is a desktop companion in which a small creature lives on screen, wanders between open windows and evolves through five forms as the player looks after it.
Star Space
Corey Evans
Star Space is a 3D third-person science fiction starship shooter for Mac and PC, with online and LAN deathmatch modes and a target practice mode.
Crime Podcast: 1976
Midnight Archive
Crime Podcast: 1976 is a first-person psychological horror walking simulator in which a retiring FBI agent confronts evidence he hid at home many years earlier.
Hyperboard Extreme
SlyBalto
Hyperboard Extreme is an arcade racing game by SlyBalto and friends, featuring takedowns, powerups and local multiplayer for up to four players.
Sneaky Squad
IndieDev_Studio
Sneaky Squad is an online multiplayer hide-and-seek game in which players disguise themselves among identical soldiers while a Seeker tries to identify them.
Raiders 1941
Ruttsoft
Raiders 1941 is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up in which players fly one of two experimental planes against Axis forces across Europe, with the campaign ending in Berlin.
Projects with Demos
Grim Trials
Grim Trials is a heavy metal action roguelite in which players craft weapons and equipment while fighting through hex-grid arenas as Avelin, a newly recruited Reaper of Death.
Diaspora
Navigate unknown waters, deadly politics, and ancient magic in this low-fantasy adventure. Can you turn the tides of war and forge a future for your clan? A text-based interactive novel, 1 million words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Cursed and Fading
Cursed and Fading is a game in which every step costs one of six stats as you cross a procedurally generated world to find and defeat the lich that cursed you.
Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey is a romantic comedy visual novel adapted from Jane Austen's nineteenth-century novel, following a seventeen-year-old on a first visit to Bath.
Custom Corner
Custom Corner is a cozy simulation and focus tool that runs quietly in a corner of your screen. Create your own isometric room with over 325 items and enjoy lo-fi music. Boost your productivity while working or relaxing with devices like a to-do list and focus timer.
100 for Justice
A text-driven political roguelite and life-management simulation in which up to 100 successive citizens resist an oppressive government, with progress carried over between lives.
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die is a run-based action game in which Queen Aleksandra fights through four biomes using weapons, cards, relics and a die companion named Fortune.
Corpus et Spiritus
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.
The Gate Must Stand
Fend off brutal waves of demonic hordes in this epic fantasy tower defense survivors like! Hack and slash among the action or zoom to strategically control the battlefield. You are the city’s last line of defense, build your base, defend the gate!
FLASH AND DIE
FLASH AND DIE is a horror game where players work as a photographer taking night-time photos of real estate listings, uncovering a hidden truth along the way.
Tide Of Tactics
Tide Of Tactics is a medieval turn-based tactics game. Choose a commander to play, each with their own unique unit and abilities, then go to battle on a grid-based battlefield. Use the terrain to your advantage, place traps on the ground, and build the right units to counter your enemy.
Carnaval Marbles
Carnaval Marbles is a tactical roguelike inspired by French billiards. Combine magical Talismans and Marble Bonuses to bend the rules, create unexpected synergies, and push the limits of your score.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
A colossal blade has pierced the world of Armorial, unleashing a storm of enchanted swords from the heavens. Collect and wield an arsenal of these spellbound blades, turning them against the very force that summoned them. In this roguelike ARPG, you will defy the Celestial evil consuming the world!
Indie Demos
The Tally
Olivia Gonsher
The Tally is a life simulation set in Corvid City, where everyday choices are recorded and totalled on a receipt when the player's life ends, deciding where they are sent next.
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players scavenge parts to customise cars, fight warlords and trade with factions.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure combining visual novel storytelling, point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements, set at a wedding in France.
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow
Vertex Horizons
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow is a linear puzzle-adventure game in which players explore a ruined world, solve puzzles and restore a corrupted environment.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a surveillance game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia, in which the player works as an operator watching citizens through cameras and enforcing the law.
Shuffle and Seek
Groovy Zebra Studio
Shuffle and Seek is a team-based multiplayer game by Groovy Zebra Studio in which Shufflers rearrange a room against the clock and Seekers try to work out what has changed.
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.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator is a first-person simulation game about running a shop that sells collectible mystery eggs, which can be sold sealed or opened for the figures inside.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale is a 2D action-platformer with boss battles, interactive cinematics and local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which Kiko, a girl stranded in a spirit world, uses portals and Spirit Powers to alter gravity and control time.
Telly No Vision
TheMysticSword
Telly No Vision is an action game set in a virtual space where the surroundings are invisible and must be navigated by watching floating TVs that show the world from other perspectives.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a 2D platformer built around speedrunning, with seasonal modes, worldwide leaderboards and biomes that each have their own physics.
Noir
Bœuf Musqué
Noir is a colourful 2D platform game in which players control a small ball that jumps and sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open the exit portal.
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.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
Bait Soul is a top-down Dungeon Crawler Roguelike. It blends dungeon exploration with Survivors-style auto-attacks. Accessible yet deep, it retains the thrill of looting, with unique, game-changing mechanics hidden everywhere.
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
Learn all about Abraham Lincoln in this visual novel biography containing rare photos of Lincoln’s hat the day he was shot, the Lincoln Memorial, where he gave the Gettysburg Address, and much more. Lawyer, President, Emancipator - this is Abraham Lincoln! Proudly made in the Washington DC area
Dash Dot Die
Iron Interactive Games
Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game with retro PSX and VHS-style visuals, in which every puzzle is solved by decoding Morse code.
Monarchs at Play
MixedMoonGames
Monarchs at Play is a turn-based 4X strategy game built around placing buildings, with matches lasting around an hour and support for solo and multiplayer play.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Book Club Games
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Little Ghost
Alan Abbadessa, Law Jun Yan, Eduardo Alexandrino, Leaf Riifuneko
Chill metroidvania maximizes non-linear exploration & puzzle-platforming. Frequent checkpoints, no currency, no combat. Gain friends & abilities. Collectables-as-media; tarot cards, weird podcasts, and songs from over 20 bands; all found within a surreal papercraft world.
Dig Too Deep
Punch Up Games
Dig Too Deep is a 2D side-scrolling action roguelite with tower defence elements, in which players throw goblins to mine resources, craft defences and fight waves of enemies.
Jarred Defense
Jarred Cat Studios
A difficult maze-building tower defense about Yuki, a cat trapped in a teleporting jar. Protect it from robots and endure its unhelpful comments. Build your own paths, adapt as levels change, unlock powerful items, and uncover Yuki’s story. A love letter to Warcraft III custom maps.
Released Indie Games
Slime Slayer: Endless Loot
Slime Slayer: Endless Loot is a loot-focused action game in which the player stays in place and shoots at waves of slimes, building up a character through items, gems and talents.
Voidling Bound
Hatch, evolve, and upgrade powerful space creatures in this action-packed sci-fi 3rd person shooter that reinvents the monster taming genre!
Bite Night: Dine or Die
Bite Night: Dine or Die is a first-person horror game set during a night shift at a roadside diner, where a mysterious fog traps staff and customers with a hidden vampire.
Katana Dragon
An action, adventure & dungeon exploration RPG, where you play as the ninjas Shin & Nobi in their quest to save the world of Sogen!
TOWERPULSE
Climb a living tower in this tactical survival roguelite. Build your arsenal on the move, survive shifting objectives, and break the signal before the tower consumes you.
Endzone 2
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
aMazeing 98
aMazeing 98 is a first-person maze game with a late-1990s visual style, in which players navigate procedurally generated labyrinths to find the exit as quickly as they can.
Tiny Eden
Tiny Eden is an indoor gardening game set in a city apartment, where you grow plants from seed to harvest, cook with the produce and expand into new rooms and a rooftop greenhouse.
Sea Sweeper
Sea Sweeper is a relaxing incremental game where you clean the ocean with your ship. Collect garbage, manage fuel, earn money, and upgrade your ship to clean faster and sweep larger sea areas each run.
TRUDGE
TRUDGE is a slow-paced, dialogue-free psychological game set in a silent city, in which the player breaks daily routines and resists habits to reach one of several endings.
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.
Dirty Laundry
A first-person narrative walking simulator in which Emily takes a night shift at a laundry, dealing with unusual customers while washing clothes.
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