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Recently Released
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Projects with Demos
Mayak
Mayak is a linear, hand-painted 2D visual novel about a young astronomer investigating a mysterious prime-number signal from space.
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.
Ultrapool
Ultrapool is a colourful roguelike where you build a wonky set of pool balls with wild effects and try to survive 10 rounds behind the bar.
Woodo
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 Steps as we know them
A chess based puzzle game. Using the moves of chess you find your way through different worlds.
Path of Achra
A complex roguelike RPG built around deep theorycrafting and build experimentation.
My Helpers
My Helpers hides a group of unsettling virtual assistants somewhere in your actual computer, and you've got to dig through your real files and apps to find them.
Voidling Bound
Voidling Bound is a monster-taming 3rd-person shooter with branching evolution, DNA splicing & high-octane battles. Coming Q1 2026 to Steam.
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2
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.
Aaero2
A rhythm driven rail shooter where you trace light, fire to the beat, and fly through music powered worlds with tracks from Monstercat and Black Razor Records.
Hungry Horrors
Cook for monsters in this folklore-inspired roguelite deckbuilder where every dish decides your fate. Feed them fast—or be their next meal.
NORCO
A Southern Gothic sci-fi adventure exploring identity, industry, and family in a decaying Louisiana town.
Indie Demos
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.
Rita
SporkTank
Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.
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.
Released Indie Games
UnderMine
UnderMine is an action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in.
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.
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.
Flock Around
Grab your camera and go birdwatching with up to 10 mates in Flock Around, a chill co-op nature sanctuary game about snapping birds and filling out your guide book.
Dogpile
Two of the same dog touch and BAM, bigger dog. Merge your way to an absolute unit of a pup.
Road Rage Royale
Road Rage Royale is a racing fighting game for 2 to 4 players set in a cyberpunk post-apocalyptic world.
Balatro
Poker meets roguelike deckbuilding and it's a stupidly good combo. One run and you'll be hooked on chasing that next mad synergy.
Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite
Every organism eventually evolves into a crab. Except yours, if you've got the guts. Build your own weird, wonderful survivor in this brilliant action roguelite.
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.
Chapeau
Chapeau is a local co-op party game where players control hats that bounce and float, competing to land on heads and score points across various modes.
NORCO
A Southern Gothic sci-fi adventure exploring identity, industry, and family in a decaying Louisiana town.
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