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Cobble Climber
Henry Mead
Cobble Climber is a difficult climbing game in which the player controls each hand separately while ascending a well and avoiding rising water.
It's About Pirates
Elderwoof Games
It's About Pirates is a pirate-themed survivor game in which players fight waves of enemies at sea, collect loot and upgrade their ship with weapons and items.
Stamperor! The Jester's Decree
Moon Mind Studio
Stamperor! The Jester's Decree is a decision-driven city builder in which the player rules an empire as a jester, using stamps with special effects to answer citizens' requests.
Swarm Harvest
Purple Bean Games
Swarm Harvest is a survivors-like auto-shooter where players fight alien swarms, place defensive towers, and harvest resources for a space corporation.
Clean Start
Serious Sim
Clean Start is a puzzle game in which players clean and tidy clients' homes as Lena, an immigrant maid, and learn each room's story from the objects they find. There are no time limits or game overs.
Diamonds and Spades
Ghostio Games
Diamonds and Spades is a roguelite card game in which players draw from a 100-card deck to score points, using tarot cards to change the rules. It includes a built-in editor for custom cards.
You'll Be Mined
Andrei Kovalev
An incremental dungeon crawler built around timed minesweeper fields. Players clear cells to gain time, avoid mines to keep their hearts, and buy upgrades between rounds.
Abashed
Supantha Paul
Abashed is a short 2.5D narrative psychological adventure following Issac, a man with psychosis, as he searches for his missing partner. Players use medication to alter the environment and solve puzzles.
Projects with Demos
Cards, Blades & Fine Print
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.
Don’t Stop The Pop!
Don't Stop The Pop! is an incremental game in which players sweep a cursor across the screen to pop popcorn against a timer, earning cash to spend on upgrades, new flavours and scratch cards.
100 for Justice
A single-player, text-driven political roguelite and life-management simulation. Players guide up to 100 citizens of a fictional country under an oppressive government, carrying progress between lives.
While We Wait Here
A kitchen management game with dialogue choices and multiple endings. The player runs a diner near a mountain range while customers react to news that the world is about to end.
Circle Test Suite
Circle Test Suite is a puzzle game in which the player guides a Character through Test Chambers, delivering an Object to a Main Target while managing a limited supply of Action Points.
Increvaders
Increvaders is a game in which players destroy swarms of enemies to earn points, spend those points on powers, and face bosses.
Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator
A first-person management game in which the player builds and runs an early 1900s oil operation, from clearing land and constructing derricks to maintaining machinery and hiring workers.
Apocalypter
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.
Don’t Stop Cutting The Trees!
An incremental game in which an automated lumberjack travels through forest regions, chopping trees and bosses while the player manages upgrades, abilities and companions.
Tiny Glade
Tiny Glade is a free-form building game in which players create castles and small dioramas from meadow settings. It has no management, combat or failure states.
Grim Trials
Grim Trials is a heavy metal action roguelite in which the player controls Avelin, a new Reaper, fighting through hex-grid arenas with craftable scythes, crossbows and randomised Blessings.
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
DEEPLANDERS
SOPA Games
DEEPLANDERS is a minimalist construction puzzle game in which players build underground cities and find a suitable home for each arriving character. It is currently in Early Access.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Released Indie Games
Crosstalk
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.
RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike
RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike combines arcade coin pusher gameplay with roguelike deckbuilding. Players collect special coins and items across runs, choosing from six characters.
ANOMALOGIST: Inumaki Manor
A Japanese horror game in which the player investigates an abandoned mansion as a paranormal investigator, exploring by day and recording supernatural phenomena with devices from a fixed room at night.
Super Video Golf – Craewall County DLC
Craewall County is a DLC for Super Video Golf adding two full-size courses, Craig Galed and Harmouth Dale, playable in Free Play, Career and Custom Tournaments.
Going Medieval
A colony-building game set after a plague has ended civilisation. Players guide a small group of survivors in building a settlement, managing their needs and defending it against raiders and beasts.
Rico Rite
Rico Rite is a roguelike variant of Breakout. The player moves the paddle while drafted hero balls attack on their own as they bounce, and swarms of bricks advance toward the player.
Critical Chaos
Critical Chaos is a turn-based RPG inspired by SNES and PlayStation-era games. A former martial artist searches for a missing loved one in the war-torn world of Statera.
Paver: Tidy Up Together
Paver: Tidy Up Together is a first-person organising game in which players place 4,064 pavers to restore a castle plaza. It can be played solo or in online co-op.
Caromble!
Caromble! is a 3D physics-based brick breaker that mixes in pinball, platforming and trick-shot puzzles. Players progress through six story chapters with interconnected playfields and boss fights.
SENTO SURVIVOR : Slip, Grab, and Bathe in Glory!
A water-gun battle game set in Japanese public bathhouses. It has a single-player campaign with 36 stages and local multiplayer for up to four players, including Steam Remote Play Together.
Espresso Tycoon
Espresso Tycoon is a coffee shop simulation and tycoon game in which players build and run a cafe, managing staff, supplies, budgets and customer preferences.
Silver Bullet
Silver Bullet is a pixel art shooter in which Van Helsing travels the world to rescue puppies from the vampire Reggie, with help from his dog Silver. It is based on Cabal-style shooters.
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