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Die Severed
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CHAINSPIRE
SKYWARD FRAME
CHAINSPIRE is a co-op soulslike platformer for one to four players in which the party is linked by a physically simulated chain that shapes combat, platforming and puzzles.
Life of a Thug
trippysloth
Life of a Thug is a crime simulation game in which the player works their way up from a street-level nobody to an underworld kingpin in the fictional Corrupticut City.
THE DEAD WE KNEW: Open World Survival
MAY19 STUDIO
Explore a dangerous open world, loot abandoned places, build your shelter, produce food, and manage your resources. Survive alone or in co-op against zombies, hostile humans, and the growing dangers that come with the fog.
AKIBA LOST
IzanagiGames
AKIBA LOST is a live-action suspense game set in Akihabara, Tokyo. Players switch between seven characters in a branching story about a game creator and a new series of disappearances.
Crosstalk
Ongakken
Crosstalk is a sandbox toolset for designing custom computer architectures, SystemVerilog hardware and software, with a built-in simulator, emulator and toolchain. It supports solo and networked play.
We Were Here Tomorrow
Total Mayhem Games
We Were Here Tomorrow is a two-player online co-op puzzle adventure set in a facility run by Norček Industries, where players communicate by walkie-talkie to solve puzzles.
Crypt Survivor
cloud6552
Crypt Survivor is an action roguelite in which players pick a class and descend five floors of a crypt, fighting enemies and bosses to collect the crystals needed to break a curse.
Big Dig
Dan Schumacher, Hjalte Tagmose
Big Dig is a short incremental narrative game in which players dig up artifacts to clear the way for Mayor Dog's highway across the Animal Republic.
Projects with Demos
Mythmon: Mythic Monsters
Mythmon: Mythic Monsters is a hack-and-slash strategy game in which the player assembles a party of monsters to fight the Demon King's army. Battles play out automatically after setup.
Remote Gamepad
Remote Gamepad is a PC app that turns a phone into a game controller. It works with PC games that support controllers and connects over Wi-Fi or USB.
BuGarden
BuGarden is an idle gardening game that runs as a small desktop companion in the corner of the screen, where players grow flowers with the help of a snail.
Temple 13 – Time Collapse
Temple 13 - Time Collapse is a survival horror game in which the player explores an ancient temple, identifying real anomalies among normal surroundings while avoiding creatures and traps.
DualVerse86
DualVerse86 is a 2D retro-futuristic parkour platformer in which players switch between two virtual worlds in real time to avoid traps and complete timed levels.
Panzer Deck
Panzer Deck is a WWII-themed card and strategy game in which geometric patterns on cards govern resource use and unit recruitment on a map, with units fighting in turn-based combat.
Turnbound
Turnbound is a strategic autobattler in which players arrange items on a grid and face builds saved by other players in asynchronous PvP battles set in a haunted board game.
JettFuel+
JettFuel+ is a 3D platformer in which Jett, a robot who escaped a closing factory, searches for his missing brother Brody by collecting Power Gems. It expands on the 2024 game JettFuel.
Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
A city-building simulation set in Aztec Mesoamerica, where players grow a single city into an empire while managing citizens, resources and religion.
Settler’s Domain
Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.
The Sinking City 2
The Sinking City 2 is a third-person survival horror game set in flooded 1920s Arkham. Players manage scarce resources, solve puzzles and investigate cases while searching for a woman trapped in the Dreamlands.
Realindustry
Realindustry is a single-player factory-building simulation in which the player directs industrial colony NIZ-08 and builds production chains based on real science to make a Hyperdrive Engine.
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
SUSHI CHESS
Today's Special!
SUSHI CHESS is a turn-based strategy game in which players move sushi pieces that each have a price. Capturing a piece means paying for it. It offers puzzles, CPU opponents, and local or online play.
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.
Emberville
Cygnus Cross
Emberville is an action-focused adventure game in which the player escapes a vast prison called the Vitromotus, rescues trapped townsfolk, and helps them rebuild their town.
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players build and customise cars, scavenge, trade with factions and fight warlords.
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.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia. The player works as an operator who watches citizens through cameras, enforces laws and makes decisions that affect the story.
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.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
A first-person shop simulation in which players run a store selling collectible mystery eggs, open them to find action figures, and build themed dioramas to sell.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale is a 2D action-platformer with boss battles and animated cinematics. It can be played solo or in local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which the player controls Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across a spirit world divided into four seasonal domains.
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 2D platform game in which the player controls a small ball that sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open an exit portal. A controller is required.
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 an action roguelite with a cultivation theme. Players arrange Soul Orbs and Support Items in a loadout while the character attacks automatically and the player handles movement.
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 where the player decodes Morse code to survive a maze of corridors, rooms and vents, in a retro PSX and VHS-inspired style.
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
Lorenzo Ametrano
PSI: Pressure Climbing is a movement-based climbing game in which players use a jetpack to scale an underground hydropower grid on a mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Little Ghost
Alan Abbadessa, Law Jun Yan, Eduardo Alexandrino, Leaf Riifuneko
A 2D puzzle-platforming metroidvania in which you play an inch-high ghost exploring a collage-style home office, using movement abilities and a float mechanic instead of combat.
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
Jarred Defense is a tower defense game in which players place towers anywhere to shape the enemy path. It includes a story campaign, Endless Mode with leaderboards and a level editor.
Cards, Blades & Fine Print
Crooked Seal Games
A dryly funny single-player card adventure with turn-based battles, 170 enemies, 583 illustrated equipment items, 60 collectible sets, and three freely mixable talent paths – in a fantasy world full of dangerous administration.
Released Indie Games
Waterpark Simulator
Waterpark Simulator is a first-person management game in which players design, build and run a waterpark, either solo or with friends. It includes custom slides, staff, quests and a day and night cycle.
Zero Stress King: Idle Defense
A short relaxing incremental game disguised as a tower defense, but enemies can’t reach your walls. Thanks to lava.
EMBERDEEP
A turn-based RPG in which a child falls beneath a mountain and carries a dying ember through five underground regions, with the option to spare every enemy encountered.
Forbidden Solitaire
A cursed 1995 CD-ROM comes back to life. Bloodletting solitaire, FMV dread and a watchful eye that really wants you to keep playing.
REPLACED
A 2.5D pixel art narrative action-adventure in which the player controls R.E.A.C.H., an artificial intelligence in a human body, in Phoenix-City, set in an alternate 1980s America.
American Cooking Simulator: Multiplayer
A cooperative multiplayer cooking game for up to four players in which burgers are prepared by shooting ingredients with firearms at a fast food restaurant called Joe's Freedom Burgers.
Planet Killer
Planet Killer is a physics-driven destruction roguelite in which players attack procedurally generated, fully destructible pixel-based planets, with online co-op for up to six players.
Millions of Minions: An Underground Adventure
Millions of Minions is a dungeon crawler in which the player commands an undead army through randomly generated caverns, working upwards from the Deep Depths towards the surface.
Hades II
Hades II is a rogue-like action dungeon crawler by Supergiant Games, set in the Underworld of Greek myth, following the immortal Princess of the Underworld as she battles the Titan of Time.
VYCE (DEMO)
VYCE (DEMO) is a demo of a tactical RPG in which players collect, trade and battle creatures that parody real-world vices, each moving like a chess piece on a grid.
The Ratline
A detective game set in 1971. The player investigates a murdered priest in Budapest and a secret list of Nazi fugitives, following leads across continents to identify them.
Put Back Stuff
Put Back Stuff is a low-pressure organisation game in which players return thousands of misplaced items to the correct shelves, starting with an Australian supermarket level.
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