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Dicevaders
Pengonauts
Dicevaders is a dice-based roguelike deckbuilder about leading the ultimate alien invasion. Set in the StarVaders universe, draft and manipulate the dice row, build an unstoppable army, and unleash adrenaline pumping combos through powerful synergies and strategic play.
HR: Human Remains
dennisCorner
In a broken world ruled by demons, the gears of productivity still turn. Complete tasks, solve puzzles, and explore a society under demonic regime from the perspective of an ordinary office clerk.
Desktop Gremlins
ShuGhost
Desktop Gremlins is a desktop companion in which a small creature lives on screen, wanders between open windows and evolves through five forms as the player looks after it.
Star Space
Corey Evans
Star Space is a 3D third-person science fiction starship shooter for Mac and PC, with online and LAN deathmatch modes and a target practice mode.
Crime Podcast: 1976
Midnight Archive
Crime Podcast: 1976 is a first-person psychological horror walking simulator in which a retiring FBI agent confronts evidence he hid at home many years earlier.
Hyperboard Extreme
SlyBalto
Hyperboard Extreme is an arcade racing game by SlyBalto and friends, featuring takedowns, powerups and local multiplayer for up to four players.
Sneaky Squad
IndieDev_Studio
Sneaky Squad is an online multiplayer hide-and-seek game in which players disguise themselves among identical soldiers while a Seeker tries to identify them.
Raiders 1941
Ruttsoft
Raiders 1941 is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up in which players fly one of two experimental planes against Axis forces across Europe, with the campaign ending in Berlin.
Projects with Demos
Toxic Yuri
An overworked office lady discovers a sludge girl abandoned in a box and takes her home. A poisonous and fluffy romance begins. Will your relationship be healthy? Disastrous? Completely tepid? The choice is up to you in the only visual novel to prominently feature a literal dead dove.
Schrödinger’s Call
When the world is coming to an end, who would you want to speak to one last time? Schrödinger’s Call is a visual novel that lets you experience the pain and salvation of human connection, as if you were turning the pages of a picture book.
Going Medieval
Going Medieval is a medieval colony-building strategy game in which players guide a group of plague survivors as they build, defend and expand a settlement in a post-calamity world.
Goaldeck
GoalDeck is a single-player roguelike deck-building card game about coaching a football squad through eight tournaments, combining card collection with player management decisions.
Forsworn
Stack game-breaking synergies until your party can slay gods. Command a party of heroes, forge powerful synergies, and level them up across runs in this turn-based tactics roguelite. Battle the gods solo or in co-op, where defeat is just another beginning.
Big Breakfast 2
Big Breakfast 2 is a turn-based RPG from Stahmpin' Grounds Studios, styled after 8-bit era fantasy RPGs, in which one man sets out to find breakfast in a world without it.
Agents! Please?
Agents! Please? is a code review game in which the player is the last human checking software written and approved by AI agents, and must decide whether each ticket ships.
Chronicle of Wuxia & Xianxia Survivors
A survivors-style roguelite with deckbuilding elements, set in a wuxia and xianxia world. Players combine martial and cultivation techniques to fight waves of demons.
Drill Rift
Build and manage a remote drill outpost in this unforgiving turn-based strategy game. Upgrade strategic machinery and level up your dwarfs. Balance resource management, strategic upgrades, and madness. If you drill too deeply, you may awaken what should not be awakened.
Roman Sands RE:Build
Roman Sands RE:Build is an adventure game with two intertwined stories, one at a tropical resort and one at a decaying research station, set as the sun is days from swallowing the world.
CastleOn
Build a castle! Grow economy, recruit troops from Europe and the Holy Land, man the walls and towers! Place traps and defeat attackers with arrows, wood and stone, fire, disease and cold steel! Survive the Third Crusade and conquer enemy lands in Castleon!
Flamecraft
Flamecraft is a turn-based strategy board game for one to five players, in which players place artisan dragons in town shops to gather resources and earn reputation.
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 scavenge parts to customise cars, fight warlords and trade with factions.
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.
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow
Vertex Horizons
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow is a linear puzzle-adventure game in which players explore a ruined world, solve puzzles and restore a corrupted environment.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a surveillance game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia, in which the player works as an operator watching citizens through cameras and enforcing the law.
Shuffle and Seek
Groovy Zebra Studio
Shuffle and Seek is a team-based multiplayer game by Groovy Zebra Studio in which Shufflers rearrange a room against the clock and Seekers try to work out what has changed.
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
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator is a first-person simulation game about running a shop that sells collectible mystery eggs, which can be sold sealed or opened for the figures inside.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale is a 2D action-platformer with boss battles, interactive cinematics and local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which Kiko, a girl stranded in a spirit world, uses portals and Spirit Powers to alter gravity and control time.
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 colourful 2D platform game in which players control a small ball that jumps and sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open the 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.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
Bait Soul is a top-down Dungeon Crawler Roguelike. It blends dungeon exploration with Survivors-style auto-attacks. Accessible yet deep, it retains the thrill of looting, with unique, game-changing mechanics hidden everywhere.
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 retro PSX and VHS-style visuals, in which every puzzle is solved by decoding Morse code.
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
Book Club Games
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Little Ghost
Alan Abbadessa, Law Jun Yan, Eduardo Alexandrino, Leaf Riifuneko
Chill metroidvania maximizes non-linear exploration & puzzle-platforming. Frequent checkpoints, no currency, no combat. Gain friends & abilities. Collectables-as-media; tarot cards, weird podcasts, and songs from over 20 bands; all found within a surreal papercraft world.
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
A difficult maze-building tower defense about Yuki, a cat trapped in a teleporting jar. Protect it from robots and endure its unhelpful comments. Build your own paths, adapt as levels change, unlock powerful items, and uncover Yuki’s story. A love letter to Warcraft III custom maps.
Released Indie Games
The Precinct
The Precinct is a 1980s-set police sandbox game where you play a rookie cop patrolling a living city, responding to crimes and investigating your father's murder.
BABELOMANIA
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.
Secrets of Thoth
Secrets of Thoth is a first-person adventure in which a Knight named Caelan explores the land around a remote Templar outpost in the Alps, solving puzzles and uncovering ancient lore.
Pocket Chief!
Pocket Chief! is a desktop companion who sits in the corner of the screen, records what the user works on and sorts it into a timeline and daily review.
This Is No Cave
A one-click parkour game in space. Zoom through intricate levels using your suit's thrusters and grapple hook, all while evading colossal alien worms and racing against the clock.
Boreal Tenebrae Act 0: Sundowning
A narrative adventure prequel to Boreal Tenebrae Act 1, set in the town of Tamarack Narrows during a centennial celebration that goes wrong. It uses PS1-style visuals and analogue horror imagery.
Desk Top Racer — Premium Car Pack
Premium Car Pack is downloadable content for Desk Top Racer that adds three cars, each with its own performance attributes and appearance. The base game is required.
Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns
A remastered revival of the 1980s strategy classic Defender of the Crown, offering original, reimagined, and procedurally generated modes of play.
Well Dweller
Well Dweller is a dark fairy-tale metroidvania in which Glimmer, a small bird carrying a matchstick, sets out to burn a wicked queen and rescue his family.
DIY Dadish
Create your own adventure and share it with the world! Everyone's favorite radish dad is back, but this time the story is up to you! in DIY Dadish gives players the ability to design any Dadish level they can imagine.
Aaero2
Tune into Aaero2 - a heart-pounding rhythm-shooter with 20 stunning alien worlds, each powered by a legendary Monstercat track. Trace ribbons of light, unleash devastating firepower, and conquer colossal bosses! Play solo or co-op and feel every beat as you fight to the soundtrack.
Roulette Simulator 2027
Roulette Simulator 2027 is a roulette simulation with online multiplayer, in which players place bets at a shared table by typing text commands.
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