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We Were Here Tomorrow
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20 Oct, 2026
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22 Oct, 2026
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23 Oct, 2026
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23 Oct, 2026
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Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest
IQ Games
Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest is a two-player cooperative puzzle platformer in which players control elemental forest spirits, with the option to play solo by controlling both characters.
Pixel Washer
Valadria
Pixel Washer is a power washing game, now in early access, in which a pig cleans dirt from pixel art levels and spends earned coins on equipment upgrades.
Chicks In Trouble
Creamative
A peaceful farm is thrown into chaos when a mother hen's chicks mysteriously vanish! Team up with the brave father rooster and embark on a quirky, obstacle-filled adventure to bring them home. Grab your mouse or gamepad—it's time to save the flock!
Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction
Gilded Rune Games
A solo deduction roguelite with over 200 roles, set in a noir city run by a criminal syndicate. Investigate everyone, make arrests and protect your reputation. Take down the syndicate and don’t get duped like the rest. Everyone is a suspect, trust no one. No friends required.
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2
Auroch Digital
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 is a fast-paced retro FPS sequel set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, currently in development.
Good Heavens!
Nowhere Studios
Good Heavens! is a co-op survival RPG set on procedural floating islands, where up to eight players explore, fight, build a home and help rebuild the settlements of Xant-Rar.
Hungry Horrors
Clumsy Bear Studio
Hungry Horrors is a pixel art card game in which a reluctant princess cooks traditional British and Irish dishes to feed monsters from folklore and break a curse on her kingdom.
American Cooking Simulator: Multiplayer
Freedom Burger Games
A cooperative multiplayer cooking game for up to four players, in which burgers are prepared by shooting ingredients with firearms at a fast food restaurant called Joe's Freedom Burgers.
Projects with Demos
Sovereign Tower
Play as the Sovereign of a magical tower in this story-rich, Round Table management RPG. Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom's destiny. If destiny doesn’t go your way, keep turning back time, uncover secrets and rewrite fate again and again.
BloomKeeper
Bring life back to a world in ashes by guiding the Pouics, solo or in co-op, through a real-time tactical adventure where every region you save must be protected from falling back into the embers.
Chief Cenab : Şahmaran
Chief Cenab: Şahmaran is a puzzle adventure game in which players take the role of Chief Cenab, talking to characters and solving puzzles to investigate a series of unexplained events.
100 Cats Lost in China 2 Find & Color
A hidden object game in which players find 500 cats across five hand-drawn scenes, then colour each scene using a colour-by-numbers mode. It supports solo play and co-op.
Acceptable Losses
Acceptable Losses is a trench warfare management game in which the player, as an officer behind the front line, assigns missions to squads and deals with paperwork over twenty days.
Popcorn & Premieren
A cinema management game in which the player inherits a closed neighbourhood cinema, schedules parody films and expands it into a seven-screen multiplex.
I Need to Fix My Dream Car (But I Work at a Junkyard)
A junkyard game in which you break down piles of scrap, earn money, rebuild a rusty old car, complete customer orders and rescue dogs hiding among the junk.
Custom Corner
Custom Corner is a room decoration game with productivity tools, made by an indie couple. Players build an isometric pixel room while using a focus timer, to-do list and notes.
Dataminers
Dataminers is a turn-based logic-adventure built on Minesweeper-style deduction, in which players hack through the data towers of corporations across several game modes.
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.
Traveler Stories: Journeys of Real People
A visual novel with simulation elements set in a Tokyo bar for travellers. Around 80% of the story draws on the real experiences of Japanese travellers, including one who has visited 98 countries.
Path of Achra
Path of Achra is a dark fantasy roguelike of the ancient earth, with a focus on streamlined controls and rapid hero customization. A "broken build sandbox." Fight through the deadly lands of Achra to reach the horrors of the Obelisk, and discover what lies beyond...
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
SUSHI CHESS
Today's Special!
SUSHI CHESS is a turn-based board game where players move sushi pieces that each carry a price. Capturing a piece costs the capturer its price. It offers puzzles, CPU opponents, and local or online play.
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 build and customise cars, scavenge, trade with factions and fight warlords.
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.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia. The player works as an operator who watches citizens through cameras, enforces laws and makes decisions that affect the story.
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
A first-person shop simulation in which players run a store selling collectible mystery eggs, open them to find action figures, and build 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 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which players control Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across levels set in a spirit world.
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 2D platform game in which the player controls a small ball that sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open an exit portal. A controller is required.
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 an action roguelite with a cultivation theme. Players arrange Soul Orbs and Support Items in a loadout while the character attacks automatically and the player handles movement.
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 where the player decodes Morse code to survive a maze of corridors, rooms and vents, in a retro PSX and VHS-inspired style.
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
Lorenzo Ametrano
PSI: Pressure Climbing is a movement-based climbing game in which players use a jetpack to scale an underground hydropower grid on a mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
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.
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
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.
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.
Released Indie Games
ORBA
ORBA is a pixel art speedrunning game in which players strike an orb upward through the five floors of a tower before it shatters, competing for the fastest climb.
Mewgenics
Mewgenics is a turn-based tactics roguelite about breeding and battling with a growing army of mutant cats.
Touhou Koumakyou: New Classic – the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
A vertical-scrolling 2D shoot-'em-up remaster of the 2002 Touhou title, with upscaled graphics, rearranged music by ZUN and a bundled Classic version of the original.
Infinite Music Game
A 3D rhythm game with audio-reactive environments, local two-player co-op, Guitar and Dance modes, and support for custom MP3 files or live PC audio to generate notes.
Hades
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Esoteric Ebb
Esoteric Ebb is an isometric CRPG blending TTRPG dice mechanics with branching dialogue, set in a bizarre post-Arcanepunk fantasy city.
The Things We Don’t See: 10 Interactive Stories of Horror, Mystery, and the Unknown
An anthology of ten self-contained interactive horror, mystery and thriller stories, each shaped by player choices, with branching routes and more than 40 possible endings.
Capitalize
Capitalize is an educational financial life simulation in which the player lives from age 18 to retirement, managing a job, budget, housing, investments and businesses.
Fish Lab
A short incremental game about collecting fish for a laboratory, with collection timed to the beat of the music.
Mosaique Neko Waifus 6
Solve rotating puzzles with cute cat girls. Cozy, soft-incremental gameplay. Chat With Cat Girls. Somehow Get Better at Puzzles. Make Questionable Choices. Unlock Surprisingly Useful Stuff.
Super Glitch Dash
Super Glitch Dash is a first-person, music-driven runner in which players sprint through handcrafted abstract obstacle courses, dodging hazards and aiming for a Perfect Run.
[WoG] War of Genesis: Idle Loot
War of Genesis: Idle Loot is an idle loot RPG that runs with a transparent background in a corner of the desktop. A 3D hero fights automatically, and looted items can be traded on the Steam Community Market.
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