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11 Nov, 2026
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Recently Released
Cobble Climber
Henry Mead
Cobble Climber is a difficult climbing game in which the player controls each hand separately while ascending a well, with rising water and timed holds adding pressure.
Hextracer
Amenadude
Hextracer is a time-trial puzzle game set in hex mazes that are only partly visible. Players can run solo or race up to six others online on the same mazes.
It's About Pirates
Elderwoof Games
It's About Pirates is a survivors-like in which players command a ship against waves of enemies, collecting loot and upgrading weapons and parts. It is now released, with one DLC item on Steam.
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.
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.
You'll Be Mined
Andrei Kovalev
You'll Be Mined is an incremental crawler built around timed minesweeper fields, where players clear cells, manage hearts and time, and try to escape a dungeon.
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 tarot card editor.
Projects with Demos
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.
Carnaval Marbles
Carnaval Marbles is a roguelike that combines French billiards with a dark-fantasy carnival setting. Players build runs using Talismans, Marble Bonuses and Runes.
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.
Popcorn & Premieren
Popcorn & Premieren is a cinema management game in which the player restores a closed neighbourhood cinema, schedules parody films on a time grid and expands it into a seven-screen multiplex.
Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown
A story-driven survival strategy game in which the player commands the U.S.S. Voyager in the Delta Quadrant, managing the ship, crew and resources. It includes a rogue-lite mode called Q Trials.
Space Carrier Zero
Space Carrier Zero is a retro space action game in which the player commands a carrier through five acts of route choices, with permanent card upgrades carrying over between runs.
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.
2064: Read Only Memories
A cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco, in which a journalist helps a ROM named Turing search for their missing creator. It features a branching narrative and multiple endings.
STILLTRACE
STILLTRACE is a top-down survival horror game set in a quarantined zone. Players scavenge by day and defend a beacon from the infected over 14 nights, alone or in co-op.
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.
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.
Node Factory
Node Factory is an idle management game where players wire together nodes to process data into AI output, manage heat and power, and work towards building an Artificial General Intelligence.
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
SIX SECOND SHADOW
Six Second Shadow is a precision platformer set in a neon city. Each room has a six-second timer, and a shadow copies the player's moves one second behind.
HR: Human Remains
HR: Human Remains is a game set in a city ruled by demons after humanity lost a war. Players work tasks for a boss, explore the city, solve puzzles and reach one of multiple endings.
Corsair Fleet: Tides of Plunder
Corsair Fleet: Tides of Plunder is a pixel-art idle RPG in which players grow a single sloop into a pirate fleet through turn-based naval battles, card-based crews and offline voyages.
Reverb
Reverb is a four-lane rhythm game in which players hit notes in time with music. It includes a built-in level editor and online community levels.
I.T.C.B – Interstellar Trade Compliance Bureau
A management sim in which an abducted logistics worker runs an alien planet's economy from Trade Terminal 7-G, building facilities, trading on a galactic market and reacting to news headlines.
Chapeau
Chapeau is a local co-op and versus game in which players bounce and fly through the air to land on opponents' heads and score points. It supports up to four players in split-screen or against bots.
1348 Ex Voto
A third-person action-adventure set in 14th-century-inspired Italy. Players control Aeta, a young knight errant, who travels the country to find and save Bianca, using sword combat based on historical European martial arts.
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.
Kovoclak
Kovoclak is a hand-drawn 2D platformer in which a businessman uses a boombox to wake hypnotised citizens in a polluted, grey city. It mixes action, exploration and optional dialogue.
Flip & Shop Simulator: Prologue
Flip & Shop Simulator: Prologue is a free co-op city simulator in which players run businesses together, including a pizzeria, a liquor store and a mystical goods shop.
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.
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.
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