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Abashed
Supantha Paul
Abashed is a 2.5D narrative side-scrolling game following Issac, a man living with psychosis, as he searches for his missing partner and uses medication to alter reality.
Backmarkers: A Racing Management Sim
Late Apex Games
Backmarkers is a racing management sim in which the player runs the weakest team in a fictional regional series, handling strategy, drivers, staff, sponsors, car parts and finances across a persistent three-tier pyramid.
Dead Sector
Lonely Cloud
Dead Sector is a single player data center simulation in which players build servers part by part, equip a facility with power and networking, and host client workloads while managing faults and costs.
Corpus et Spiritus
Arpentor Studio
Corpus et Spiritus is a roguelite deckbuilder in which the player forms a pact with a demonic Homunculus and uses alchemy to craft cards, transmute metals and find talismans.
Tabula
This Way Up
Tabula is a level-based puzzle game in which players overlap computer windows to form top-down paths for a character called Little Bit, set inside a mysterious operating system.
Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder
Green Parrot Games
Lucky Punk is a roguelike deckbuilder in which players choose each turn whether to draw another card or stop, with the odds of failure shown at all times. It is set in a comic-style post-apocalyptic world.
Deal Flipper
Roovel Studio
Deal Flipper is a first-person flipping simulation set in an online marketplace. Players buy underpriced items by negotiating with sellers in chat, then relist them at a higher price.
Agebound
Datasmart Enterprises
Agebound is an incremental farming idle game in which each in-game year lasts under a minute. Players plan fields, grow and sell crops, and automate work as they progress through different ages.
Projects with Demos
Pigeon: A Love Story
Pigeon: A Love Story is a flying game set in full-scale versions of five cities, where the player searches for a pigeon soulmate among hundreds of thousands of autonomous pigeon characters.
Corsair Cove
Corsair Cove is a pirate-themed city builder set on a cliff-filled island, combining vertical construction, production chains, crew management and turn-based naval combat against the Crown.
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.
Fuzz Force: Spook Squad
Fuzz Force: Spook Squad is a dice-based deckbuilding roguelite. Players control one of five agents tasked with capturing the prankster Polter Prince across three tabletop-themed areas.
Discremental
Discremental is an incremental game in which players begin with a single disk and spend loot resources to unlock abilities and weapons, upgrade stats, and progress through floors.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
A first-person open-world RPG set in a dark fantasy realm inspired by Arthurian legend, 600 years after King Arthur's fall. It features a branching story, build customisation and real-time combat.
Sewer Crawler
Sewer Crawler is a roguelike that combines 3D dungeon exploration with tactical autobattler combat. Players explore generated sewers and build a team across 7 stages.
Ravenous Devils
A point and click management game in which players run a tailor shop and a pub as two characters, Percival and Hildred, who kill clients and turn the bodies into meals.
Wait, Cards I Memorized?
A memory training game inspired by the Memory Palace technique. Players memorise playing cards using memory hooks and association images across three phases.
Monster Mop Up
Monster Mop Up is a cleaning simulator in which players act as a Custodian for the Ministry of Monster Concealment, cleaning locations and rescuing lost creatures called Ragamuffins.
Suqare: Hired Gun
Suqare: Hired Gun is a shooter in which the player controls a mercenary taking jobs from rival corporations. Choices made in missions affect available work, rewards and the story.
Important People of History: Presidents – Abraham Lincoln
A biographical kinetic novel in the Important People of History series. Abraham Lincoln narrates key events of his life and era alongside more than 250 real-life photographs of historic sites.
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 match each arriving character with a suitable place to live.
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
He Who Watches
He Who Watches is a first-person puzzle-platformer in which players use a bow and a single magical arrow to solve chambers by walking on walls and ceilings and shifting gravity.
Bible Trivia – Alchemy
Bible Trivia - Alchemy is a DLC combination game in which players mix elements to progress through the early events of Genesis, from Creation to the departure from the Garden of Eden.
The Plant Shop
The Plant Shop is a horror game in which the player runs a late-night plant shop as Silvia, crafting plants for customers while strange events linked to an old town curse unfold.
Kepler 186F – Voice Pack: Yuer
A voice pack add-on for Kepler-186F that replaces the game's status alerts with voice lines from a licensed online personality known as Yuer. It is set to receive more lines as the game updates.
Discremental
Discremental is an incremental game in which players begin with a single disk and spend loot resources to unlock abilities and weapons, upgrade stats, and progress through floors.
Space Scavenger
Space Scavenger is a roguelike in which players build and command spaceships, scavenging parts through procedurally generated, alien-infested galaxies while searching for their lost home.
wageslave
A short narrative dystopian office survival game. As new programmer Job Cyphus, the player ships code to earn food money, manages consumables to stay sane, and works towards retirement.
Spiritstead
Build a village in a world of magic and care for the people who live there, with the help of hidden spirits you discover along the way. Watch your town grow and flourish as you expand, create, and decorate.
Roman Sands RE:Build
Roman Sands RE:Build is an absurdist adventure from the studio behind Paratopic. It interweaves a story set at a tropical resort with one set in a decaying research station.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
An action-adventure sequel to Hollow Knight in which the player controls Hornet, a hunter taken to the kingdom of Pharloom and climbing towards its peak.
CoAnnCo
CoAnnCo is a four-player cooperative puzzle platformer in which rice ball characters must work together to clear 15 stages. It includes a Story Mode and a timed Speedrun Mode.
Lanky Looters
Lanky Looters is a multiplayer hide-and-sneak heist game in which cloaked Thieves try to steal goods before time runs out while Officers try to stop them. Bots can fill lobbies.
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