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It’s About Pirates
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8 Nov, 2026
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FEED ME MORE BRAINS
Sheraf Studio Inc
FEED ME MORE BRAINS is a first person incremental game in which the player feeds brains to a dark god, spends Orbs on a skill tree to shape its mutations, and gradually automates the process.
Moon Swarm
Spyra_Labs
Moon Swarm is an idle auto-battler in which players defend a moon from alien waves using automated guns. It runs in a small corner of the desktop alongside other activities.
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.
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.
Backmarkers: A Racing Management Sim
Late Apex Games
Backmarkers is a racing management sim in which the player runs a low-budget team in a fictional three-tier series, handling live race strategy, drivers, staff, sponsors, finances and car development.
Projects with Demos
Too Many Balls
Too Many Balls is an incremental clean-up simulator in which players collect sports balls from arenas, earn money from drop-offs and spend it on upgrades. It also includes golf and basketball mini games.
Remnants of the forsaken Past : Submerged Fantasy
A story-driven underwater adventure in which Raine pilots upgradeable submarines and fights on foot, uncovering the ancient past of a magical sea civilization while facing pirates and sea monsters.
Trading Card Inspector
Trading Card Inspector is a papers-please-style game in which the player checks trading cards for validity, values the genuine ones and shreds the rest, in Story and Endless modes.
Cataclismo
Cataclismo is a real-time strategy game where players build modular wood and stone fortresses and command troops to defend survivors against nightly waves of Horrors.
Dice Tavern: Farkle Roguelike
A roguelike deckbuilder built on the dice game Farkle. Players progress through six taverns and thirty opponents using dice with special abilities, synergies and modifications.
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.
Backmarkers: A Racing Management Sim
Backmarkers is a racing management sim in which the player runs a low-budget team in a fictional three-tier series, handling live race strategy, drivers, staff, sponsors, finances and car development.
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.
Meridian Strike
Meridian Strike is a turn-based tactical mech RPG in which the player leads a mercenary company through hex-based battles, with damage, injuries and finances carrying over between missions.
Finitimi
Finitimi is a Tentaizu logic puzzle game with scoring, controller support and clues shown in numeral systems from many cultures. Puzzles are generated automatically.
Voidling Bound
Voidling Bound is a sci-fi third-person shooter in which players control creatures called Voidlings, evolving and breeding them to clear corrupted planets of parasite-infected enemies.
Diaspora
Diaspora is a text-based interactive novel by Vincent Cunningham and JJ Laurier. The player leads a displaced clan south by sea and decides its alliances and future.
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
Rollick N’ Roll
Marble runs got a modern makeover. Press a button, watch the chaos unfold, and try not to laugh.
Unconventional Warfare
Unconventional Warfare is a top-down tactical shooter
Beyond Yardwork Simulator Prologue
Beyond Yardwork Simulator Prologue is a yard maintenance simulation with story-driven jobs such as mowing, power washing and leaf blowing, plus garden decoration between tasks.
Hungry Horrors
A pixel art card game in which a reluctant princess cooks British and Irish dishes to feed folklore creatures and break a curse. Decks are built from recipes matched to five flavours.
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.
Dataminers
Dataminers is a turn-based logic-adventure in which players use numbers to locate and hack datamines in corporate data towers. It draws on Minesweeper and includes several game modes.
Scale the Depths
Scale the Depths is a fishing game in which a small robot catches, scales and serves fish to non-human customers across four locations, using the earnings to upgrade gear and fish deeper waters.
The Mailroom
The Mailroom is a game in which the player works as a human mail clerk in hell, sorting mail using clues, preparing materials and looking for a way out. It is now released.
Cursed and Fading
Cursed and Fading is a procedurally generated roguelike in which every move reduces one of six stats. Players choose a class and search the map for the lich that cursed them.
Evymind Clips: Automatic Highlights & Shorts
Evymind Clips is a tool that follows the speech in a video to suggest standalone clips, which users can review, adjust and export in original, vertical or square formats.
Panzer Deck
Panzer Deck is a WWII-themed card and tactics game where geometric patterns on cards govern resource use, unit recruitment and combat. Players expand their deck after each encounter.
Deep Rock Galactic
A co-op first-person shooter for one to four players. Teams of dwarven miners explore procedurally generated caves on the planet Hoxxes IV, gather minerals and fight alien creatures.
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