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水浒英雄传：八幕战役
dztdash
A 2D isometric real-time strategy game based on the novel Water Margin, featuring eight campaign missions led by heroes such as Song Jiang, Lin Chong, Lu Zhida and Wu Song.
Worming from Home
Zach Northrop, Mason Sabharwal
You're a worm doing office work from home, flopping across the keyboard to answer emails and fudge spreadsheets. Corporate life has never been this floppy.
ShipShaper: Falconeer Chronicles
Tomas Sala
ShipShaper lets you pull, push and shape your own boats and ships from scratch, no 3D skills needed. Build anything from humble fishing boats to full-on dreadnoughts.
BOMBANANA!
Lefto Studio
Three monkeys, one bomb, zero shared senses. Blind hands, mute knowledge, deaf eyes - work out how to talk to each other before everything goes boom.
He Who Watches
Bobby Vanden
Walk on walls, walk on ceilings, and bend gravity itself to solve over 100 devious puzzles in this atmospheric first-person head-scratcher.
Vibe City Islands Architect
Day 1 to 100
A small gridless city-building game set on tropical islands, with a high score mode built around four objectives, a free sandbox mode and ten in-game radio stations.
Lumina:Last Bloom
ねむは
A short, atmosphere-focused pixel-art adventure about spending seven final days with a girl suffering from the mysterious Hanasaki Disease. Playtime is roughly one to two hours.
Peekablock
Goose Gang Games
Peekablock is a multiplayer hide-and-seek party game in which Hiders build and paint their own disguises from simple shapes while Hunters try to spot what does not belong in the map.
Projects with Demos
Sludgineers
An active incremental game about cleaning, mining and refining pollution, in which the player travels the countryside gathering cash and resources, builds a refinery and completes quests.
Road Rage Royale
Road Rage Royale is a racing fighting game for 2 to 4 players set in a cyberpunk post-apocalyptic world.
Fuzz Force: Spook Squad
A roguelite deckbuilder featuring ghost-hunting animals with dice powered weapons.
2064: Read Only Memories
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco, featuring a branching narrative shaped by player choices.
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.
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die is a rogue-lite action adventure where Queen Aleksandra and her living die fight back against an ancient evil.
City Tales – Medieval Era
City Tales - Medieval Era is a city-building game in which players shape organic medieval settlements, guided by companion characters with developing skills.
The Royal Writ
Command your cards into battle where every card that reaches the enemy base is gone for good. Sacrifice your subjects wisely and build a legacy worth remembering.
Pigeon: A Love Story
Fly through life-size versions of London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and Amsterdam looking for your one true pigeon soulmate. It's a slow game for fast times.
The Kind Camomille
A short relaxing 3rd person exploration game focused around the concept of random acts of kindness
Crumble
Crumble is a physics-based platformer where players swing, jump, and survive collapsing levels using a grappling tongue mechanic.
The Gate Must Stand
The Continent has fallen and Belrak's last gate needs a defender. Pick your hero, recruit followers, and fight tooth and nail to keep it standing.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
Whiskerwood
Minakata Dynamics
Whiskerwood is a city-building and colony management game in which mice settle procedurally generated islands, build production chains and automation, and meet the demands of their cat overlords.
Crabs: Chef's Story
3 Guns Ltd
Crabs: Chef's Story is a 2 to 8 player PvP brawler for online or LAN play, in which crabs fight across a hazard-filled kitchen in rounds lasting two to seven minutes.
EVERSPACE™ 2
ROCKFISH Games
EVERSPACE 2 is a single-player space shooter set in the Demilitarized Zone of Cluster 34, combining dogfighting, exploration and loot-based ship customisation across seven star systems.
Serial World
Serial Project
Serial World is a roguelike dungeon crawler RPG in which Milo explores the town of Bricktown and repeating dungeon loops with a trio of creatures called Anima.
2064: Read Only Memories
MidBoss, LLC.
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco, featuring a branching narrative shaped by player choices.
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds
SEMISOFT
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds is a JRPG-style adventure set in the hand-drawn fantasy world of Legrand, combining turn-based combat with tactical warfare.
33 Immortals
Thunder Lotus
33 Immortals is a co-op action-roguelike supporting up to 33 players in a single run, fighting monster hordes and bosses through instant matchmaking.
WARCANA
1000 Orks
WARCANA is a real-time base defence strategy game combining deck-building with large-scale army summoning, playable in single-player campaigns or multiplayer battle royale modes.
Town to City
Galaxy Grove
Town to City is a grid-free city builder where players design towns and cities freely, growing population and economy across multiple connected settlements.
Tiny Glade
Pounce Light
Tiny Glade is a relaxing, free-form building game where players construct castles and cottages without goals, resource management, or failure states.
Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
Perspective Games, Bellwood Studios
A city-building simulation set in Aztec Mesoamerica, where players grow a single city into an empire while managing citizens, resources and religion.
The Scouring
Orc Group
The Scouring is a real-time strategy game combining base building, resource management, and army control with an action RPG hero mode and multiplayer battles for up to 8 players.
The Precinct
Fallen Tree Games Ltd
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.
The Darkest Files
Paintbucket Games
The Darkest Files is a narrative investigation game in which players prosecute Nazi-era war crimes in 1950s Germany as a young prosecutor working under Fritz Bauer.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Questline
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a first-person open-world RPG set in a dark fantasy realm inspired by Arthurian legend, offering branching quests and flexible character builds.
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
Gamexcite
A story-driven survival strategy game in which players command the U.S.S. Voyager, managing its crew and resources through the Delta Quadrant.
Rue Valley
Emotion Spark Studio
Rue Valley is a narrative game about escaping a time loop in a small town, where players shape their character's personality and relationships through repeated days.
Schedule I
TVGS
Schedule I is a business simulation game in which players build a drug empire from scratch in the fictional city of Hyland Point.
Revenge of the Savage Planet
Raccoon Logic Studios Inc.
Revenge of the Savage Planet is a first-person exploration and platforming game in which a laid-off space employee explores alien worlds to gather upgrades and secrets.
REPLACED
Sad Cat Studios
REPLACED is a narrative-driven 2.5D action-adventure set in an alternate 1980s America, following an AI named R.E.A.C.H. trapped in a human body.
MENACE
Overhype Studios
MENACE is a turn-based tactical RPG in which players command a strike force of marines, mercenaries, and criminals across a war-torn star system, managing squads, vehicles, and branching operations against human and alien threats.
Master of Command
Armchair Interactive
Master of Command is a real-time tactical strategy game set during the Seven Years' War, combining battlefield combat with campaign-level army and supply management.
Mars Attracts
Outlier
A theme park management game set on Mars where players run a Martian-owned amusement park stocked with abducted humans from throughout history.
Drova - Forsaken Kin
Just2D
Drova - Forsaken Kin is a pixel art Action-RPG set in a handcrafted open world inspired by Celtic mythology, where players choose a faction and shape the story through their actions.
Released Indie Games
Blood of Mehran
Blood of Mehran is a vengeful hack-and-slash set in the Arabian desert. Wield blades, battle demons, and dismantle royalty in a tale of love and loss.
Monster Mop Up
Clean up messes, rescue fluffy lost monsters, and turn your home into a cosy sanctuary in this charming cleaning sim with heart.
Idle Gumball Machine
A relaxing Plinko-style incremental where you shoot gumballs at gears and watch the numbers go delightfully out of control.
Sludgineers
An active incremental game about cleaning, mining and refining pollution, in which the player travels the countryside gathering cash and resources, builds a refinery and completes quests.
TROLEU
TROLEU is a first-person action game in which players take on the role of a trolleybus conductor, checking fares and travel passes while managing unruly passengers.
Those Who Rule
Those Who Rule is a tactical turn-based RPG set in a low-fantasy world, where players recruit and train a party to fight through a morally ambiguous conflict.
The Gate Must Stand
The Continent has fallen and Belrak's last gate needs a defender. Pick your hero, recruit followers, and fight tooth and nail to keep it standing.
KAISERPUNK
Kaisenpunk is a city-building strategy game set between 1918 and 1945, combining industrial city management with global military conquest.
Area Survivors
Paint the battlefield, hold your ground and defend the tower as endless hordes close in on you. Survival horde combat with a twist you actually control.
Grizzly Cup Turbo Challenge ’92
A retro-styled arcade racer with single player races against CPU drivers and local multiplayer for up to four players on one screen, plus a built-in track editor with shareable track codes.
Drill Rift
Drill Rift is a turn-based colony sim where you manage a dwarven mining outpost, upgrade tech, roll dice events & risk awakening what lies below.
Echobreaker
Speedrun through live-fire combat courses where slowing down time is the only way to go faster. Precision, risk, and pure momentum.
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