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SYNTAX WARS
Mosan Game Studio
SYNTAX WARS is a cyberpunk duelling game in which both players choose a move in secret and reveal together. Six fighters are available, with CPU, arcade and local two-player modes.
JOHN GLEEP
monthbug
JOHN GLEEP is an action-roguelike in which a small alien pilots a UFO to abduct gamblers from planets and fill a pachinko-style casino, aiming to repay a debt to a mob boss.
Hope in the City
Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.
A narrative mystery set in Shenyang, China. Players control 17-year-old Hope Song, who uses sketches to investigate her parents' disappearance.
Gas N Cars
Yorf Studio
Gas N Cars is a petrol station game where players fuel, clean and repair customers' cars, buy new tools from a delivery truck, and can choose to cause chaos instead of providing good service.
The Vast White
Horizon Games
The Vast White is a snowboarding exploration game in which a mouse arrives at a nearly forgotten ski resort and helps its residents reopen it.
Reality Drift
Arganoid Industries
A racing game where players deliver packages to godlike creatures across strange worlds, choosing each next track and its linked upgrades in real time. It includes 26 missions and some roguelike deckbuilding.
The Devil's Due
Games People Play
A roguelike poker game in which the player fights demonic monsters one-on-one. Poker hand strength sets damage dealt, and both sides draw from a shared deck.
TANUKI: Pon's Summer
Denkiworks
Hop on your BMX and deliver packages as a tanuki with one summer to save its shrine before the big festival. Wholesome, busy and full of charm.
Projects with Demos
S.A.N.D.Y. – Beach Cleaner
S.A.N.D.Y. - Beach Cleaner is a game in which the player controls a beach-cleaning and trash-sorting robot on the shore of a former top resort, in a world overwhelmed by waste and pollution.
Oops! You’re the Hero!
A fantasy adventure in which a Thief who stole an artifact is mistaken for a hero. He travels through levels in the world of Othaya, choosing whether to fight monsters or find ways around them.
Project P.I.T.T.
Project P.I.T.T. is a physics-based production game in which a new intern crafts rubber ducks and feeds them to a growing pit called the Maw, set in a PSX-style corporate facility.
Port of Jumanah
Port of Jumanah is a nautical exploration game in which players recruit friends and a cat as crew, sail through varied oceans, complete missions and upgrade their gear.
Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game
Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game is a historically grounded fantasy farming and survival game set in Eastern Oregon, following siblings Shane and Áine as they cope with loss and magical beasts.
No Quarter
No Quarter is a Caribbean naval game in which a single captain sails a brig between ports, fights ships and forts, runs cargo contracts and manages faction reputation.
Nuktedan: The Forgotten Emotions
Nuktedan: The Forgotten Emotions is a top-down puzzle-adventure in which a small bird restores colour to a monochrome world shaped by Alzheimer's, solving laser puzzles with emotion-based abilities.
Lamp Clicker
Lamp Clicker is an incremental idle clicker where the player clicks a lamp to earn income and unlocks new lamps, from candles and oil lamps to unusual designs such as the Toilet Lamp.
Sniper Dan
Sniper Dan is a 3D hidden object game in which the player uses a sniper rifle to fix everyday problems across six locations. Each job involves following clues, finding the fault and shooting it.
Nippets: A Hidden Object Game
Nippets is a hidden-object game set across handcrafted 2D maps, where players search for lost items and solve small puzzles that each reveal a short story.
Agents! Please?
A code-review game in which the player is the last human checking AI-written code. Each shift involves reading briefs and diffs, running code on chosen inputs, and deciding whether to approve or reject.
Artis Impact
A hand-drawn post-apocalyptic RPG that mixes classic turn-based combat with proper cosy home life vibes. Simple to pick up, lovely to look at.
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
Kill Your Darlings
Locked in a royal dungeon, you'll need to date your fellow monster inmates and fight alongside them just to survive. Every choice matters, and every playthrough plays out differently.
Reality Drift
A racing game where players deliver packages to godlike creatures across strange worlds, choosing each next track and its linked upgrades in real time. It includes 26 missions and some roguelike deckbuilding.
Pierline
Pierline is a short first-person psychological horror game in which a Florida traffic officer spends a night fishing at an old coastal pier. It runs for roughly 20 minutes.
Die Severed
Die Severed is a dice-based gambling roguelike in which players roll five dice to build poker hands and reach score targets at an underground casino to pay off a debt.
Your Story: Games with Death
An interactive text quest in the Choose Your Own Adventure style, set in the Middle Ages. Players guide a young adventurer through choices that can lead to many different endings, including death.
Tape 101: Liminal Descent
Tape 101: Liminal Descent is a puzzle exploration game set in a repetitive liminal world, where the player controls a camera-equipped RC car to solve spatial and timing-based puzzles.
DiceRoll
DiceRoll is a strategic roguelite game set in endless rooms, where players carry accessories and abilities between runs and compete on leaderboards.
Parasomnia
Parasomnia is a 2D pixel-style psychological horror game in which players guide a child named Sunny through nightmares caused by night terrors, escaping pursuers across several stages.
FEED ME MORE BRAINS
FEED ME MORE BRAINS is a first person incremental game in which the player feeds brains to a dark god, spending Orbs on a skill tree to evolve the deity and automate the process.
Pibcremental
Pibcremental is an idle incremental clicker set in a post-human world, where players grow a civilisation of Pibbles in a giant tree by gathering resources and constructing buildings.
Elsewhere
Elsewhere is a massive sandbox crafting game where you go from stone tools to fusion power and particle accelerators, with magic, monsters and castles thrown in for good measure.
Crack Smoking Simulator
A retro-style point-and-click game in which the player funds a crack habit across six locations, earning money, restoring health and risking legal consequences.
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