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Recently Released
Emberville
Cygnus Cross
Emberville is an action-focused adventure game in which the player escapes a vast prison called the Vitromotus, rescues trapped townsfolk, and helps them rebuild their town.
Tiny Capsule Collector
Playing Mantis
An idle game in which the player runs a small Gachapon capsule shop along the bottom of the desktop screen. Animal customers visit, collectables are gathered, and Twitch viewers can appear as visitors.
Night Plane
Liquid Static Studio, Snapping Turtle
Night Plane is a flight attendant job simulation set in 1999. The player checks tickets, serves passengers and identifies shape-shifting non-human entities that try to board the plane.
Die Severed
Philip Markowski
Die Severed is a dice-based gambling roguelike in which the player rolls five dice to build poker hands and clear score targets at an underground casino to pay off a debt.
Kleromancy
kleroslab
Kleromancy is a deckbuilding roguelike where players use physics-based dice instead of cards. It is set aboard the Theseus Ark, a generational station, and was made by solo developer Kleros Lab.
The Mailroom
Crowfriend
The Mailroom is a game in which the player works as a human mail clerk in hell, sorting mail using clues, preparing materials and looking for a way out. It is now released.
Fangtopia
Absolutely Games
Fangtopia is a cosy hex-tile puzzler where you build a monster-friendly paradise, no scares, no timers, just gentle chills and satisfying landscapes.
Nuktedan: The Forgotten Emotions
Saydexi
A top-down puzzle-adventure in which a small bird called Nuktedan guides lasers to cubes in a black and white world, using emotion-based abilities tied to memories lost to Alzheimer's.
Projects with Demos
Finitimi
Finitimi is a Tentaizu logic puzzle game with scoring, controller support and clues shown in numeral systems from many cultures. Puzzles are generated automatically.
Boreal Tenebrae Act 0: Sundowning
A narrative adventure set in the declining town of Tamarack Narrows, played through several linked characters on the night of a centennial celebration. It is a standalone prequel to Boreal Tenebrae: Act 1.
Suqare: Hired Gun
Suqare: Hired Gun is a shooter in which the player controls a mercenary taking jobs from rival corporations. Choices made in missions affect available work, rewards and the story.
Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
A city-building simulation set in Mesoamerica in which the player grows an Aztec city into a network of city-states and an empire, managing citizens, resources, religion and diplomacy.
Meridian Strike
A turn-based tactical RPG in which the player commands a mercenary mech company on hex battlefields, managing heat, location-based damage, pilots, repairs and finances across a campaign.
I Need to Fix My Dream Car (But I Work at a Junkyard)
A junkyard game in which the player digs through scrap piles, fills customer orders, rescues dogs and earns money to rebuild a rusty old car into their dream car.
Noctiria
Noctiria is a horror roguelite deckbuilder set in a decaying 1990s city. Players pick one of six heroes and build a deck through turn-based combat across branching maps.
Remote Gamepad
Remote Gamepad is a PC app that turns a phone into a game controller. It works with PC games that support controllers and connects over Wi-Fi or USB.
Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times
Rhell is a puzzle adventure where you mix and match 40 magic runes to solve puzzles however you like, playing a mage who's a bit too mouthy for her own good.
Mythmon: Mythic Monsters
Mythmon: Mythic Monsters is a hack-and-slash strategy game in which the player assembles a party of monsters to fight the Demon King's army. Battles play out automatically after setup.
Cube Crusaders
Cube Crusaders is a metroidvania-style game set in the underground of Adoros, with a campaign for one or two local players and a horde mode playable locally or online.
Flamecraft
Flamecraft is a turn-based strategy board game for 1 to 5 players. Players place artisan dragons in shops, gather resources and enchant shops to earn the most reputation points.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a roguelike action game in which players control Colt, using magical swords with unique abilities to fight a Celestial evil across the world of Armorial.
Indie Demos
SUSHI CHESS
Today's Special!
SUSHI CHESS is a turn-based strategy game in which players move sushi pieces that each have a price. Capturing a piece means paying for it. It offers puzzles, CPU opponents, and local or online play.
The Tally
Olivia Gonsher
The Tally is a life-simulation game set in Corvid City. The player lives a full life over about 90 minutes, and their choices are totalled in a final receipt that determines where they end up.
Emberville
Cygnus Cross
Emberville is an action-focused adventure game in which the player escapes a vast prison called the Vitromotus, rescues trapped townsfolk, and helps them rebuild their town.
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players customise cars, scavenge, trade, fight factions and hunt warlords.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure with visual novel storytelling, point and click puzzles and light survival elements, set at a French wedding.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a narrative decision game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia. The player works as a camera operator who monitors citizens, applies changing laws and makes choices that affect the world.
Corpus et Spiritus
Arpentor Studio
Corpus et Spiritus is a roguelite deckbuilder in which the player makes a pact with a demon called the Homunculus and uses alchemy to craft cards, transmute metals and find talismans.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
A first-person shop management simulation in which players run a store selling collectible mystery eggs, open them to find figures, and craft themed dioramas to sell.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale is a 2D action-platformer with boss battles and animated cinematics. It can be played solo or in local co-op for up to eight players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which the player controls Kiko, a girl in a spirit world, placing and rotating portals to change the direction of gravity for herself and for other objects.
Telly No Vision
TheMysticSword
Telly No Vision is a game in which players navigate corrupted virtual channels using floating TVs that show the world from different angles, fighting opponents and destroying sources of signal corruption.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a 2D speedrunning platformer with several game modes, worldwide leaderboards and three biomes (ice, moon and clay), each of which changes how the character moves.
Noir
Bœuf Musqué
Noir is a 2D platform game in which a small ball sticks to platforms, jumps, and collects orbs to open an exit portal in each level. It is played with a controller.
Stellar Embers: United Fleet
SOT烈
Stellar Embers: United Fleet is a space combat game in which the player pilots a capital ship and commands a fleet across randomly generated star systems. It supports solo play and LAN co-op for up to four.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
Bait Soul is an action roguelite with a cultivation theme. Players use a Soul Orb and Support Item loadout, with automatic attacks, to fight through a dungeon.
True Vikings
Hamsters Gaming
True Vikings is a story-driven game set in the early Viking Age from 849, with side-view combat, tactical sieges, strategic battles and mini-games, and more than 20 possible endings.
Important People of History: Presidents - Abraham Lincoln
Sunny Demeanor Games
A biographical kinetic novel in the Important People of History series. Abraham Lincoln narrates key events of his life and era alongside more than 250 real-life photographs of historic sites.
Dash Dot Die
Iron Interactive Games
Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game with PSX and VHS-style visuals. Players decode Morse code from light, sound and timing to escape a maze of corridors, rooms and vents.
Monarchs at Play
MixedMoonGames
Monarchs at Play is a turn-based 4X strategy game in which players place buildings to grow an empire. A full match takes about 60 minutes and can be played solo or in multiplayer.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Lorenzo Ametrano
PSI: Pressure Climbing is a movement-based climbing game in which the player uses a jetpack to scale the walls of an underground hydropower grid on a mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Little Ghost
Alan Abbadessa, Law Jun Yan, Eduardo Alexandrino, Leaf Riifuneko
Little Ghost is a 2D puzzle-platforming metroidvania in which an inch-high character explores a collage-style home office world and uncovers the plans of a corporation.
Dig Too Deep
Punch Up Games
Dig Too Deep is a 2D side-scrolling action roguelite tower defence game in which the player directs goblins to mine, craft and fight off waves of enemies as a troll character.
Jarred Defense
Jarred Cat Studios
Jarred Defense is a maze-building tower defense game in which players place towers anywhere to shape enemy paths. It features a story campaign, Endless Mode, and a level editor.
Cards, Blades & Fine Print
Crooked Seal Games
A turn-based card RPG set in the village of Oakford, with a comedic bureaucratic tone. Players build an action deck, read telegraphed enemy intentions and develop a hero across three class paths.
Released Indie Games
Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster
Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster is a Metroidvania-style adventure in which the player, the last Beastmaster, transforms using animal souls during a war between humans and non-humans.
Secrets of Temple Isle
Secrets of Temple Isle is an adventure RPG in which a treasure hunter fights time-travelling pirates invading a peaceful island, exploring dungeons, collecting gear and decorating a home.
Draco and the Seven Scales
A top-down pixel art adventure in which a pirate captain travels by land and sea through seven dungeons to break free from a kraken's bargain and save his greatest treasure.
A Very Simple Idle Game
An idle game with six upgrades and three currencies. Income grows with each tick but resets when the player buys an upgrade, so holding back from purchases raises rewards.
Jotun: Valhalla Edition
Jotun: Valhalla Edition is a hand-drawn action-exploration game set in Norse mythology, in which Thora, a Viking warrior, must prove herself to the Gods to enter Valhalla.
Yooka-Replaylee
Yooka-Replaylee is a re-imagined 3D platformer in which Yooka and Laylee collect Pagies from a stolen book across several worlds, with new areas, moves, challenges and an orchestral score.
Pompeii: The Legacy
Pompeii: The Legacy is a city-building game set twenty years after the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. Players lead a Roman family and manage the rebuilding of Pompeii.
Piano Warrior
Piano Warrior is a music game in which players build songs from 700 musical building blocks, then use them in tile-tapping battles against opponents across seven genres.
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.
Mycelium Protocol: Prologue
A free, linear visual novel set in the cyberpunk and biopunk world of Kudesh. Players follow Grigore, an assistant who becomes a Rejected, across several pivotal days.
Mongirltroidvania
A monster girl themed Metroidvania style platform game
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2
Obliterate heretics in the name of the Emperor in Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2! Play as Ultramarine Malum Caedo or Sister of Battle Nyra Veyrath in this sequel to retro FPS Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun with MORE enemies, MORE weapons, and NEW ways to purge!
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