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KKUL-TTEOK!
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KKUL-TTEOK!

YOUNGJUN0316

KKUL-TTEOK! is a co-op game for one to four players in which players control pieces of Korean honey rice cake that have been swallowed and must escape through the mouth and esophagus.

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Factory Default: Build, Trade, Repeat
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Factory Default: Build, Trade, Repeat

Chett Fitzgerald

Factory Default: Build, Trade, Repeat is an industrial management game played on a 3D globe. Players build supply chains, trade goods and manage company reputation across more than 100 regions.

Early Access
Sous Raccoon
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Sous Raccoon

Novice Flow

Sous Raccoon is a cooking roguelite in which the player is a raccoon hired as sous chef by a short-tempered Chef. It is now fully released and supports online co-op for two players.

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Second Monitor Football
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Second Monitor Football

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Second Monitor Football is a physics-driven football simulation built to run in a small window. Matches can be watched hands-free or played directly, with multiplayer, Twitch integration and modding support.

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Dicevaders
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Dicevaders

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Late Order
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Late Order

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PSI: Pressure Climbing
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PSI: Pressure Climbing

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Early Access
Debt of Life
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Debt of Life

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Debt of Life is a short narrative game in which a wealthy, terminally ill man must decide each day what to sacrifice to pay for the weekly treatment that keeps him alive.

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Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator

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PlateUp!

Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!

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Space Carrier Zero is a retro space action game with an incremental twist. The player commands a carrier through a five-act route to destroy a final planet, using weapons, relics and permanent card upgrades.

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Swordcery logo with ornate sword and blue magical flame effects
Early Access

Swordcery

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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
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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.

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Apocalypter
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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.

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BABELOMANIA
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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.

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Monitor State
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Monitor State

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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.

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Corpus et Spiritus
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Corpus et Spiritus

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Big Dig
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Big Dig

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Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
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Mystery Egg Shop Simulator

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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.

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Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
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Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale

LEON GAGIN

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Nomori
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Nomori

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Telly No Vision
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Telly No Vision

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TrailRush
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TrailRush

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Noir
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Noir

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Stellar Embers: United Fleet
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Stellar Embers: United Fleet

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True Vikings
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True Vikings

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Important People of History: Presidents - Abraham Lincoln

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Dash Dot Die
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Dash Dot Die

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Monarchs at Play
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Monarchs at Play

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PSI: Pressure Climbing
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PSI: Pressure Climbing

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Little Ghost
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Little Ghost

Alan Abbadessa, Law Jun Yan, Eduardo Alexandrino, Leaf Riifuneko

A 2D puzzle-platforming metroidvania in which you play an inch-high ghost exploring a collage-style home office, using movement abilities and a float mechanic instead of combat.

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Dig Too Deep
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Dig Too Deep

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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.

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Jarred Defense
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Jarred Defense

Jarred Cat Studios

Jarred Defense is a tower defense game in which players place towers anywhere to shape the enemy path. It includes a story campaign, Endless Mode with leaderboards and a level editor.

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Cards, Blades & Fine Print
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Demo

Cards, Blades & Fine Print

Crooked Seal Games

A dryly funny single-player card adventure with turn-based battles, 170 enemies, 583 illustrated equipment items, 60 collectible sets, and three freely mixable talent paths – in a fantasy world full of dangerous administration.

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Crown Of Hispania
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Demo

Crown Of Hispania

Regalis Studio

Rewrite the Reconquista in a grand strategy game set in 11th-century Iberia, where population, religion, and war evolve dynamically based on your decisions. Move armies freely across 300 hand-built provinces, manage a deep medieval economy, and face an AI that actually fights back.

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WilderDash
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Demo

WilderDash

Wise and Wild

WilderDash is a tower defence roguelite for one to six players. Players gather resources and build towers by day, then defend their base from monsters at night on procedurally generated maps.

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The Kind Camomille

A wholesome 3D exploration game about random acts of kindness and the joy of discovery. Take control of Camomille, a kind mouse on her way to her dear grandmother 100th birthday. On a relaxing and beautiful journey she encounters people in need of a hand.

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Other Minds

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771

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Dicealot

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Meridian Strike

Meridian Strike is a turn-based tactical mech RPG in which players command a mercenary company on a hex battlefield, with damage, injuries and finances carrying between missions.

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Don’t Let It Starve

A horror roguelike bento-builder. You're trapped in an underground kitchen, forced to feed a half-chef monster. Gamble with your life, assemble meals, and master your multipliers. Whatever you do, Don't Let it Starve.

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Outbound

Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.

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Nice Day for Fishing

Nice Day for Fishing is an RPG-adventure game in which a fisherman becomes an Adventurer, battling fish with timing-based combat and magic while rebuilding his town.

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WilderDash

WilderDash is a tower defence roguelite for one to six players. Players gather resources and build towers by day, then defend their base from monsters at night on procedurally generated maps.

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Unemployment Simulator 2018

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