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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.
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.
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.
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.
AFK - Army For Keyboard
Lumethis Ekibi
AFK - Army For Keyboard is an idle RPG presented as a desktop operating system, where battles run in a small strip inside the taskbar while players manage heroes, gear and builds.
Cursed Waters: Idle RPG
Tomo.
Cursed Waters: Idle RPG is a nautical idle RPG in which a five-member ship's crew fights automatic turn-based battles and keeps earning gold and experience while the game is closed.
Projects with Demos
Cat Me If You Can
Cat Me If You Can is a charming and cozy game where you explore beautifully handcrafted black-and-white worlds, searching for hidden cats to photograph and bring their colours back into the world.
SENTO SURVIVOR : Slip, Grab, and Bathe in Glory!
Master the slippery floors of a Japanese public bathhouse and blast your rivals with water guns! Play solo or battle friends in local multiplayer—this shooting game is packed with unpredictable, chaotic mishaps! Survive the mayhem and claim the glory of being first in the bath!
Jack’s Achievements Simulator: Dog & Lava
A crazy 3D platformer with 100 achievements! Escape from hot lava, peel plaster off walls, fly on a bungee near a nut, and blow on the acid dog Jack so that he doesn't throw you off the roof of the kennel!
Cube Crusaders
Cube Crusaders is a metroidvania-style action game set beneath the surface of Adoros, with a single-player or local co-op campaign and a PvE horde mode playable locally or online.
ZOMBUTCHER: Monster Business Simulator
A stealth action simulator in which you play a zombie running a butcher's shop in a Louisiana town, serving human customers by day and monsters by night.
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.
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.
Turnbound
Turnbound is an auto battler, where you manage a hero's inventory to escape a haunted boardgame. Each run is different from the last, with unique upgrades, combos and synergies. Async PvP lets you battle the ghosts of other players at your own pace in this unique new inventory battler.
Cataclismo
Cataclismo is a strategy game in which players build brick-by-brick fortresses to defend humanity's survivors against nightly waves of Horrors.
S.A.N.D.Y. – Beach Cleaner
S.A.N.D.Y. - Beach Cleaner is a game about a cleaning robot who clears trash from a resort beach and sorts debris while uncovering a narrative set in a polluted future.
Seekers Alliance: Hero’s Journey
Seekers Alliance: Hero’s Journey is a roguelite deckbuilder where every run expands your strategic options. Recruit Heroes from 3 rival Factions, unlock Talents, upgrade Skill Cards, forge Artifacts, and master each Hero’s unique abilities to create powerful synergies as you uncover their stories.
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.
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
Little Ghost
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.
Plan B: Colombia Edition
Plan B: Colombia Edition is a management simulator in which the player grows a small hidden lab into a network of production sites, warehouses and distribution routes, culminating in air export.
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.
False Hero – Supporter Offering
The Supporter Offering includes the Spectral Set, which has no gameplay benefits, but it looks mesmerizing and brings a little more beauty to this dying world. If you like False Hero and want to support the game, this is the way.
Don’t Stop Cutting The Trees!
Don't Stop Cutting The Trees! is a colourful incremental game in which an automated lumberjack clears forest regions while the player manages upgrades, skills and companions.
Gem Quest: Rush
An old wizard has fallen on hard times and can't afford their rent. RUSH into the underground dungeon in search of valuable hidden treasures before you get kicked to the streets! LOCATE chests, AVOID traps, PLAN an optimal route, and COLLECT all the gems as quickly as you can.
Grim Wanderings Reborn
Grim Wanderings Reborn is a party-based game in which players pick a race and hero, recruit a warband and explore a tile map where each space holds an encounter.
TOYARTWAR Demo Level2-Map1
This is the demo version of TOYARTWAR, which is actually one of the maps from Level 2. The game's objective is to collect all the keys that open the capsules containing the hats.
Empires of the Undergrowth
A real-time strategy game in which players build and manage an ant colony, controlling worker and warrior ants to gather food, expand nests and battle rival colonies and predators.
The Excavation: Beneath The Cathedral
The Excavation: Beneath The Cathedral is a first-person horror game about finding a way out of the tunnels and ruins beneath an abandoned cathedral after a collapse.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Hollow Knight: Silksong is an action-adventure game in which players control Hornet as she explores the insect kingdom of Pharloom, battling foes and uncovering ancient mysteries.
Tridan
Tridan is a card roguelite based on 3-card poker, in which players build synergies, score hands and survive as many rounds as possible across endless runs.
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