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8 Oct, 2026
Wildaria
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8 Oct, 2026
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Early Access
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Chicks In Trouble
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Home Alone: The Invasion — Playable Teaser
Going Gold
9 Oct, 2026
CHAINSPIRE
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A first-person psychological horror game set in a roadside minimarket during a Halloween night shift, where routine shop work forms part of the story and atmosphere.
NUVRATE
PELKOCHA
NUVRATE is a single-player arcade action game combining arena survival, pattern-based boss encounters and a lane-based rhythm campaign, playable fully offline.
Murmuring of Moth Mouth
VAINSANE
Murmuring of Moth Mouth is a short psychological horror visual novel in which Yuna, driving to a job interview, follows conflicting instructions along a strange highway.
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.
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.
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.
Second Monitor Football
Tramvay Games
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.
Dicevaders
Pengonauts
Dicevaders is a dice-based roguelike deckbuilder in which players lead an alien invasion of Earth, placing units on a turn-based grid and manipulating dice rolls to build scoring combos.
Projects with Demos
Apocalypter
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.
Knuckle Jet
Knuckle Jet is an arcade flight action game in which Anastasia uses jet-powered fists to smash through levels of mechanical enemies, with optional local co-op.
Alpha Particle
Alpha Particle is sci-fi action game about a defenceless particle that must overcome it's obstacles creatively
Space Carrier Zero
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.
The Ayna
The Ayna is a psychological anomaly-spotting game set in Türkiye, taking place in the concert area of a female stage artist and designed to be completed in one sitting.
Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator
Manage your very own video store in the early 90s! Rent, sell, decorate and expand your business from the ground up and relive the golden ages of video rentals!
Catnip Fever Dreamland
A level-based action game in which players guide a cat named Krum through his mind, collecting catnip to progress, fighting demon cats and unlocking flashbacks. Supports up to four players.
Deck of Haunts
Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.
Clamor: Bounty Hunter Pinball
Clamor: Bounty Hunter Pinball is an arcade game that combines traditional pinball tables with video game elements, including enemies to defeat and randomly generated tables.
Empires of the Undergrowth
A real-time strategy game in which players build and manage an ant colony, controlling worker and warrior ants to gather food, expand nests and battle rival colonies and predators.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
A Soviet-themed city builder in which players manage a planned economy, from resource extraction and manufacturing to transportation and public services, while balancing trade with Eastern and Western blocs.
Duo Quest
Duo Quest is a two-player co-op roguelite deck builder set in an 8-bit fantasy world, where partners answer questions and try to match their responses to defeat enemies.
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
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 supports solo play or 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 ball that moves, jumps and sticks to platforms, collecting every orb in each level to open an exit portal.
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.
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 with a retro PSX and VHS-inspired look, in which players decode Morse code signals to escape a maze while a single mistake is fatal.
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.
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.
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.
Released Indie Games
Rior’s Arena – Supporter Pack
A cosmetic supporter pack for Rior's Arena containing six items, with proceeds directed towards the game's ongoing development.
Gallipoli
Gallipoli is a class-based multiplayer first-person shooter set on the Ottoman fronts of the First World War, with 25v25 objective-based battles between British and Ottoman forces.
Animaly Bar: NO HUMANITY!
A bar management game set after animals have defeated humans, in which you play a gorilla bartender who serves drinks while identifying and eliminating humans disguised as animals.
Speed Weaver
Speed Weaver is an endless lane-splitting driving game in which players weave through procedurally generated highway traffic, earning score multipliers for near misses.
Dream Draw Dungeons
Dream Draw Dungeons is a top-down pixel art action RPG set across seven realms and 49 dungeons, based on a boy's drawing of his dream. It is an offline single-player game.
BTR Ringfall
BTR Ringfall is a lane-based tower defence strategy game in which players position seven elemental operatives across five lanes to protect the Ring from waves of enemies.
Pawn Planet
Pawn Planet is a business simulation game where players run an intergalactic pawn shop, buying, repairing and selling alien artefacts.
Custom Corner
Custom Corner is a room-decorating game by an indie couple. Players build an isometric pixel-art room and use built-in productivity tools such as a focus timer, to-do list and notes.
Cosmodrill
Explore the vastness of space, dig deep into planets to find resources, upgrade your ship and survive against alien life in this short space mining adventure! How far are you willing to travel into the dark unknown?
SPACEJK – 月市 常連札
A permanent Regular's Tag for the Moon Market in SPACE JK, letting account holders buy from each month's rotating stock without purchasing a monthly entry ticket.
Veridus The Walking Nightmare
Veridus The Walking Nightmare is a single-player dark-fantasy action roguelite in which Ganon battles through fifteen waves of nightmare creatures to rescue Abigail.
AI-VJ – Abstract 6 Visuals
A DLC pack for AI-VJ that adds over 430 pre-generated, abstract art themed AI visuals across 11 styles, recorded at 60fps for use in DJ and VJ sets.
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