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Oddments & Offerings
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Oddments & Offerings

Black Pine Games

Oddments & Offerings is an Early Access game in which the player runs an antique shop by day and explores dangerous locations by night to find items to sell or collect.

Early Access
Totally Safe Moon Project
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Totally Safe Moon Project

Fake Moon

A solo or online co-op game for up to four players in which players build a tower to the Moon and deliver a laser to destroy an asteroid threatening Earth.

Released
CryptidCam
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CryptidCam

Mothman Mothman Studios

CryptidCam is a short photography adventure in which the player photographs cryptids in the woods for a cryptozoologist named Dr. Ted Krupp. It features eight creatures to find and photograph.

Released
Tom the Postgirl
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Tom the Postgirl

Oopsie Daisies, ARTE France

Tom's just a postgirl doing her rounds, but she can't resist peeking through every window and door in this weird little village. Turns out everyone's got something to hide.

Released
Danchi Days
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Danchi Days

sandy powder, Melos Han-Tani, mogumu, gingham games

A 12-year-old girl tries to revive her danchi's summer festival while reconnecting with her grandma, who's living with dementia. Sweet, funny, and a little sad.

Released
Crosstalk
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Crosstalk

Ongakken

Crosstalk is a sandbox toolset for designing custom computer architectures, SystemVerilog hardware designs, and software, with built-in simulation, emulation, and a bundled LLVM and Clang toolchain.

Released
INTUS
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INTUS

Nahuel Martinez

INTUS is a short, first-person psychological horror game set in a rented apartment, where the player spends a weekend operating an inspection robot remotely to complete work reports.

Released
Pixel Coloring World
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Demo

Pixel Coloring World

Milk Poison

Pixel Coloring World is a colour-by-number pixel art game with 12 themed images across four canvas sizes, from 50×50 to 200×200 pixels.

Released

Projects with Demos

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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.

Released
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Chief Cenab : Şahmaran

Chief Cenab: Şahmaran is a puzzle adventure game in a black-and-white comic book style with colour highlights. Players take the role of Chief Cenab and investigate mysterious events.

Released
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Path of Achra

Path of Achra is a roguelike made by a solo developer. Players combine culture, class and religion to create a hero, then build powers and equipment while progressing through levels.

Released
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Corsair Fleet: Tides of Plunder

Corsair Fleet: Tides of Plunder is a pixel-art idle RPG in which players grow a single sloop into a pirate fleet through turn-based naval battles, card-based crews and offline voyages.

Released
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Toxic Yuri

Toxic Yuri is a visual novel in which an office worker in Kyoto takes in Doku-chan, a woman made of slime. Player choices across six episodes shape the story and lead to multiple endings.

Released
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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.

Released
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Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale

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.

Released
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GRID/

GRID/ is an arcade-style boss rush action game in which the player, a Visual Debugger, fights nine Bug Entity bosses on a 7x6 grid using one of three unlockable weapons.

Released
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Leap Tactics

Leap Tactics is a pixel-art platform puzzle game in which jumping toggles the mechanisms in each level. It includes over 80 levels and an undo function.

Released
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CastleOn

CastleOn is a turn-based castle building strategy game set in the late 12th century. Players either survive a set number of turns or conquer all rival Lords.

Released
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Pixel art scene of explorer in ancient temple with glowing crystal orb Regions of Ruin Runegate logo with fantasy characters and burning cityscape background

Regions of Ruin: Runegate

Regions of Ruin: Runegate is an exploration-focused action RPG in which a lone dwarf rebuilds a haven for surviving dwarves while uncovering the history of their ancestors.

Released
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REPLACED

A 2.5D pixel art narrative action-adventure in which the player controls R.E.A.C.H., an artificial intelligence in a human body, in Phoenix-City, set in an alternate 1980s America.

Released
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Early Access

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

Hunt for the Lost Folktales
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Hunt for the Lost Folktales

Howling Lost Tales

A turn-based tactical creature collector in which a cursed hunter tracks escaped folktale beasts, battles them on a grid by stacking Fear, and returns their tales to the Library of Lost Tales.

Development
DOSMIC
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DOSMIC

Black Cheeze

DOSMIC is a cinematic puzzle-platform adventure in which a boy named Nero searches a dark fantasy world of colossal beings for Snoa, a girl who has vanished after a catastrophe.

Early Access
Draftula
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Draftula

Team Draftula

Draftula is a roguelike block-dropping puzzler in which players drop rooms onto a board to build a castle as high as possible, using bonuses from room placement.

Development
COCOBOY
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Demo

COCOBOY

cocoteam

COCOBOY is a level-based platformer set in an alternate 2005, where players use hacked cartridge mods to change how the game plays and decorate a bedroom with collectible merchandise.

Development
Back of Beyond
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Back of Beyond

Kibi Games, Poly Poly Games

Back of Beyond is an occult strategy card game in which players build a cult of animal townsfolk, place facilities on a grid, and forge Eldritch Power to repel invading Eldritch Gods.

Development
Cages: Hidden Worlds
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Cages: Hidden Worlds

Big Loop Studios

Cages: Hidden Worlds is a first-person puzzle escape game set in a decrepit mansion that holds the remains of a freak show carnival. Players solve mechanical puzzles and uncover what happened there.

Development
Welcome, Dear Human
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Welcome, Dear Human

Kiki Can, Ronkad

Welcome, Dear Human is a monster dating sim in which the player explores first contact with monsters and other supernatural beings through branching choices across ten character routes.

Development
Snackrifice
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Demo

Snackrifice

Karnage Studios

Snackrifice is a roguelike with procedurally generated dungeons in which players enter Purgatory to retrieve Imps for their Master. It supports online co-op for up to four players.

Development
Catto Chateau
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Catto Chateau

Guac GameDev LLC

Catto Chateau is a non-linear metroidvania platformer set in a haunted chateau. Players control Memo, a ghost cat who defeats phantoms and bosses using stomps and spells.

Development
Nightbound
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Nightbound

Crooked Cats Studio

Nightbound is a turn-based tactics game in which two survivors, Loren and Jun, defend a house against the Bloom at night and spend their days building trust and preparing to travel north.

Development
Deep Fog Signals
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Deep Fog Signals

Symmetry Break Studio

Deep Fog Signals is a puzzle investigation game in which the player is a radio operator guiding a stranded research crew at Arrowflight Station through a fog storm. It has multiple endings.

Development
Shadows of Christmas Eve
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Demo

Shadows of Christmas Eve

InLoop Studios

Shadows of Christmas Eve is a game in which a young girl has worsening nightmares over the Christmas season while her home changes around her. Players solve puzzles and look for clues.

Development
isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey
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Demo

isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey

TamagawaSoft

A side-scrolling platformer in which players control Kijino, a two-tailed cat-eared adventurer, exploring forest ruins on Isekizima through combat, platforming and skill upgrades.

Development
Crimson Animatronic
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Crimson Animatronic

Gabilva Studios

Crimson Animatronic is a horror visual novel in which werecat radio host Daiane is stalked by a vampire cult and a hunting wolf animatronic. Choices lead to one of five endings.

Development
Caroline's Underworld
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Caroline's Underworld

Dead Curious Games

Caroline's Underworld is an adventure game by Dead Curious Games. A girl named Caroline falls into Limbo and talks to creatures, solves puzzles and plays mini-games to find a way out.

Development
Meander
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Meander

Matchstick Studio

Meander is a crochet-inspired drawing, animating and scrapbooking game with no goals or pressure. Players create custom brushes, animate their drawings and save them to scrapbook pages.

Development
MODice
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Demo

MODice

moonburn

MODice is a dice-building roguelike in which players roll five dice, rearrange them to raise their score, and turn that score into movement around a board of shops, coins and buildings.

Development
Strange Days
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Demo

Strange Days

Urigami

Strange Days is a comedy-thriller adventure with Game Boy Color-style pixel art. Players control several characters and investigate a mysterious package and reported UFO sightings in the town of Triton.

Development
Toy Worlds Atlas
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Demo

Toy Worlds Atlas

Intentionally Blank Unlimited

Toy Worlds Atlas is a sandbox colouring game in which players solve philosophy-themed puzzles by applying colours. It also includes a desktop companion mode and local co-op.

Development
Hitobashira [人柱]
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Hitobashira [人柱]

Bone Halo

Hitobashira is a survival horror game in which the player controls Yuzu, a student trapped in an alternate version of her school, solving puzzles and avoiding a pursuer. It has a PSX-inspired style.

Development
No Murders in Grimwick
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No Murders in Grimwick

Bee and Boo Games

A short story-driven mystery adventure in which a visiting journalist investigates a death at the harvest festival in the small town of Grimwick. It has no combat or time pressure.

Released
Rattle Spring
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Rattle Spring

oddginger

Rattle Spring is a surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure inspired by Rusty Lake. The player searches a desert resort for their missing cousin, Vera Radcliff.

Development
Spirits of Baciu
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Spirits of Baciu

Horns Level Up Games

Spirits of Baciu is an adventure puzzle game set in Hoia Baciu forest. Players guide The Lost One, a small spirit, through point-and-click and platform puzzles.

Development
DWARRF: A Pinball Roguelike
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DWARRF: A Pinball Roguelike

Sam Stubbings

DWARRF is a roguelike mixing pinball, pachinko and bubble shooter play. As Arf, a pirate dwarf, the player fires balls from a cannon to fight enemies through four levels in the mines.

Development

Released Indie Games

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Garden Ink

Garden Ink is a cosy game in which players start with an empty world and fill it with creatures and plants by merging elements, colouring the scenery and playing minigames.

Released
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Cosmodrill

Cosmodrill is a space mining adventure in which the player drills into planets and asteroids, collects resources, upgrades a drill and follows distress signals across an unknown star system.

Released
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groky

groky is a puzzle game in which the player guides a creature around a board to eat every ghost and reach an exit portal. It contains 100 levels.

Released
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Pixel art game scene with character standing on platform encountering alien creatures

Other Minds

Released
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Date Everything!

A dating simulator in which a player who has lost their job to AI receives magic glasses called Dateviators, which let them date the objects in their home.

Released
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Overhead view of burger assembly station with ingredients in containers and prepared components on counter Burger Shift Team Rush game banner featuring smiling worker with fast food items

Burger Shift: Team Rush

Burger Shift: Team Rush is a fast food kitchen game playable solo or in co-op with up to 8 players, where players run stations and fill customer orders.

Released
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Dataminers artbook and making-of promotional image with red geometric design and robot character Dataminers Artbook and Making-Of promotional image with red geometric shapes and mining equipment

Dataminers – Artbook and Making-of

A 29-page PDF artbook and making-of for Dataminers, covering the game's development through concept art, sketches, design boards and background information.

Released
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A Short Hike

A Short Hike is an exploration game set in Hawk Peak Provincial Park. Players hike, climb and glide across a mountainside island while heading for the summit.

Released
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Pixelated fantasy game scene showing characters and wooden structures on green terrain Pixel art game scene with "Terrablox" title text in magenta letters

Terrablox

Terrablox is a 3D voxel virtual tabletop for running tabletop RPGs. The GM builds maps from blocks, places tokens, and runs sessions with fog of war and dice. It has no built-in rules or content.

Released
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Roll

Roll is a dice-based game where players have 2500 rolls to earn points, then spend them on dice upgrades. It draws on strategy, clicker and roguelike deckbuilder genres.

Released
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Chromosome Evil

Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival. Assemble your team using different classes, skills, and weaponry. Will you find the source of the darkness?

Released
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Parry Survivor

Parry Survivor is an action game where an anime heroine fights endless waves of enemies called Kuns, using timed deflects to break their guard and finish them with execution moves.

Released
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