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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
Alembic
Alembic is a falling-sand sandbox built on the periodic table, where reactions come from element properties rather than fixed recipes. Players can also build machines and nuclear reactors.
FLASH AND DIE
A horror game in which the player is a photographer for a real estate agency, visiting dark properties at night to capture every required photo on a checklist while something unseen remains inside.
Well Dweller
Well Dweller is a dark fairy-tale metroidvania in which Glimmer, a small bird with a matchstick, explores a rotted kingdom to burn the wicked queen and rescue his family.
Knuckle Jet
Knuckle Jet is an arcade flight action game in which Anastasia punches mechanical enemies across standalone levels in Motorland. It supports local co-op and includes collectible and upgradeable gear.
DiceRoll
DiceRoll is a strategic roguelite game set in endless rooms, where players carry accessories and abilities between runs and compete on leaderboards.
Custom Corner
Custom Corner is a room-decorating and desktop companion game from an indie couple team. Players build an isometric pixel room and use built-in focus timer, to-do list and notes widgets.
Bookstore Incremental
Bookstore Incremental is an incremental game in which players print and sell books, expanding a small shop through a large skill tree of upgrades while dealing with thieves, queues and mess.
Swan Song
Swan Song is a puzzle game in which players place musical notes to program a music box and guide a swan to each level's exit, while a story about family, loss and grief unfolds.
HR: Human Remains
HR: Human Remains is a game set in a city ruled by demons after humanity lost a war. Players work tasks for a boss, explore the city, solve puzzles and reach one of multiple endings.
Woodo
Woodo is a diorama puzzle game in which players assemble wooden 3D scenes piece by piece, following the story of Foxy and Ben the frog across a series of connected dioramas.
Dash Dot Die
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.
Retail Hell
Retail Hell is a psychological horror job simulator set in a convenience store between life and death. The player serves supernatural customers and manages stock to pay off a debt to the management.
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
Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot
Build a squad of up to 10 Dwarves, gear them up, and set the perfect formation before letting the auto battles decide who lives and who dies for Glory, Death and Loot.
The Village Above the Well
A village-building and resource management game in which the player gathers materials, hires workers and forges gear for an adventurer who descends seven dungeons beneath an old well.
Garage: Tidy Up!
Garage: Tidy Up! is a first-person organising simulator set in a messy auto workshop. Players pick up misplaced items and return them to the correct work zones.
Still Wakes the Deep
A first-person narrative horror game by The Chinese Room. The player is an offshore oil rig worker in 1970s Scotland, trying to survive a storm and an unknown threat in the North Sea.
Worming from Home
Worming from Home is a job simulation in which the player controls a worm working as a junior financial analyst, using ragdoll physics to type, answer messages and complete tasks at a desk.
Dawn Dew – Realm Heart
Dawn Dew - Realm Heart is a DLC expansion for Dawn Dew that adds two new explorable scenes, six bosses and a new mobility ability. It continues the story and difficulty of the main game.
Rior’s Arena – Supporter Pack
Rior's Arena - Supporter Pack is a bundle of six cosmetic items for Rior's Arena, made by solo developer Thomas (rior). Revenue from the pack goes towards the game.
Time To Wake Up
A psychological thriller in which the player, stuck in a dream, blinks to change their surroundings while a voice guides them through memories set in school environments.
Space Carrier Zero
Space Carrier Zero is a retro space action game in which the player commands a carrier through five acts of route choices, with permanent card upgrades carrying over between runs.
Pawn Planet
Pawn Planet is a shop management game set in space. Players run an intergalactic pawn shop, buying, repairing and selling alien items to customers from across the galaxy.
Fill The Void
Fill The Void is a physics-driven incremental 3D platformer in which the player controls a black hole that consumes objects in themed levels, with online and local multiplayer and a level creator.
BALL x PIT
BALL x PIT is a fantasy roguelite in which heroes fire magical balls at monsters while descending into a pit, and use the treasure they find to rebuild the fallen city of Ballbylon.
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