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Cloudbreaker
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Cloudbreaker

Ballast Games

Cloudbreaker is a roguelite survivors-like set in a sky-world, where players fight hordes of enemies and upgrade an airship through a grid-based inventory puzzle system.

Released
I was reincarnated as a mage.
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I was reincarnated as a mage.

SimulationJay

An isekai visual novel with turn-based RPG combat, in which a reincarnated mage named Jay joins an Adventurer's Guild, builds a party and rises through guild ranks.

Early Access
Heroes Suck Soundtrack
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Heroes Suck Soundtrack

The official soundtrack for Heroes Suck, composed and produced by Alan Hankers, combining orchestral music with folk instruments.

Released
Davy bones
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Davy bones

Yona games

Davy Bones is a roguelike score-strategy game based on Yacht Dice rules, in which players roll dice, build combinations and combine nautical relics to meet rising target scores across a cursed voyage.

Released
Suqare: Hired Gun
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Suqare: Hired Gun

2102 Game Studios

A shooter in which you play Suqare, a mercenary taking jobs from rival corporations. Mission choices affect available work, rewards and the story.

Released
Station Command
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Station Command

Respite Games

Station Command is a turn-based tactics game in which you command Watchpoint Station, assemble a fleet, and direct ships through a branching single player campaign.

Early Access
Batomon Showdown
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Batomon Showdown

berrymint

Batomon Showdown is a team-building battler in which players assemble squads of creatures called Batomon and face other players' teams through asynchronous multiplayer.

Released
BLIND SPOT
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BLIND SPOT

Kyle Simpson

BLIND SPOT is an observation game in which you drive through a multi-level parking facility as a Night Auditor, spotting changes between cycles and reporting them at a terminal.

Released

Projects with Demos

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Fuzz Force: Spook Squad

A roguelite deckbuilder featuring ghost-hunting animals with dice powered weapons.

Released
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Little Kitty, Big City

Little Kitty, Big City is an open-world adventure game in which a cat explores a city, meets other animals and works out how to find its way home.

Released
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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.

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Fading Serenades

Fading Serenades is a cozy top-down courier adventure where you deliver parcels, befriend islanders, and uncover mysteries on Clifford’s Island.

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Leap Tactics

A pixel-art platform puzzle game in which every jump toggles nearby mechanisms. Players combine jumps with interactive elements to find a route to each level's goal.

Released
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Heave Ho 2

Grab, swing and splatter your way through eight ridiculous worlds, now with online chaos alongside the local couch carnage. Heave Ho 2 is dumb fun at its finest.

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Cube Crusaders

Cube Crusaders is an action game set on the planet Adoros, featuring a metroidvania style campaign playable solo or in local co-op, plus a wave-based horde mode for up to 16 players online.

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Dreams of Another

Dreams of Another is a surreal shooter where every shot creates instead of destroys. From Baiyon (PixelJunk Eden), coming to PS5, PS VR2 & Steam.

Released
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Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator

Open your own VHS rental shop and relive the golden age of video stores, one late fee and rewound tape at a time.

Released
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Snuggle Nightmare

A stealth horror game set in an abandoned indoor theme park, where a journalist investigates disappearances while hiding from active animatronics.

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Nippets: A Hidden Object Game

Nippets is a hidden-object game full of handcrafted 2D maps just begging to be poked, prodded and shaken until they give up their secrets.

Released
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Vortha racing

Vortha Racing is an arcade time-trial racer in which players compete against their own best times and other players' ghosts across 20 tracks, unlocking new stages by earning medals.

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Early Access

Swordcery

11 Aug, 2026

Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.

Indie Demos

Apocalypter
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Apocalypter

SawyerK Games

Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players scavenge, fight and trade while customising cars to stay alive.

Development
BABELOMANIA
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BABELOMANIA

Team JPDE

BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure set at a wedding in a French château, combining visual novel storytelling with point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements.

Development
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow
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Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow

Vertex Horizons

Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow is a linear puzzle-adventure game set on a ruined planet, where solving puzzles gradually reveals the story of a lost civilisation.

Development
Monitor State
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Monitor State

Artur Pukhavoi

Monitor State is a narrative game in which you work as a surveillance operator in a retro-futuristic dystopia, monitoring citizens, enforcing laws and making choices that affect the story.

Development
DEVIL'S WAY: BOHEMIAN
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DEVIL'S WAY: BOHEMIAN

Rose Game Studio

A dark comedy survival game in which players guide James DUD through a surreal dystopia run by a malevolent AI, choosing between doors that lead to unpredictable, often hostile scenarios.

Development
Corpus et Spiritus
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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.

Development
Big Dig
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Big Dig

Dan Schumacher, Hjalte Tagmose

Big Dig is a short incremental narrative game in which you dig up historical artifacts to clear the way for a highway across the Animal Republic, then display your finds in a museum.

Development
Chomp Garden
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Chomp Garden

PawPaw Games

Chomp Garden is a puzzle game in which you play a small lamp guiding plants with light while searching a garden for your lost pup.

Development
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
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Mystery Egg Shop Simulator

Rocinante Games

A first-person simulation game about running a shop that sells collectible mystery eggs, with options to open eggs for figures, craft dioramas and trade on an online marketplace.

Development
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2
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Lawn Mowing Simulator 2

Skyhook Games

Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 is a working simulation set in the USA in which players run a lawn care business using licensed equipment from Kubota, SCAG and STIGA.

Development
Furyball: Rogue Revenge
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Furyball: Rogue Revenge

Rebound

An action roguelite in which you fight through the gang-ruled city of Neo-Arcadia using a bouncing Furyball, modifying it with modules and equipment across procedurally varied runs.

Early Access
Nomori
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Nomori

Enchanted Works

Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which Kiko, a girl trapped in a spirit world, uses portals and Spirit Powers to alter gravity and time across four seasonal domains.

Development
TrailRush
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TrailRush

Lyncornis Games

TrailRush is a speedrun-focused 2D platformer with multiple biomes, seasonal challenge modes and worldwide leaderboards.

Development
The Piper of Dawn
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The Piper of Dawn

Bone Nail

A story-driven management RPG set in Diamond City, where you play an alchemist growing magical crops and running a shop while dealing with six factions whose support decides the city's fate.

Going Gold
Stellar Embers: United Fleet
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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.

Development
Island Restoration
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Island Restoration

EliteTheDev

A cleaning game in which you sail between polluted islands, removing hazards, rescuing animals and upgrading tools to restore each one to a natural state.

Going Gold
Bait Soul
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Bait Soul

Bold Fish

A build-focused action roguelite in which you play a Bait Soul fighting through a dangerous dungeon, using auto-attacking weapons, dodging and a loadout system of Soul Orbs and Support Items.

Going Gold
Yami Kids
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Demo

Yami Kids

Yanako RPGs, GameDevTosh

Yami Kids is a retro-styled monster-taming RPG in which twins Yuki and Yuumi Yami collect and train more than 80 Oni while moving between the Overworld and the Underworld.

Going Gold
True Vikings
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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.

Going Gold
Important People of History: Presidents - Abraham Lincoln
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Important People of History: Presidents - Abraham Lincoln

Sunny Demeanor Games

A biographical kinetic novel about Abraham Lincoln, the third entry in the Important People of History series, covering his life, the US Civil War and the end of slavery through present-day photographs of historic sites.

Going Gold
Dash Dot Die
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Dash Dot Die

Iron Interactive Games

Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game built around Morse code, in which the player decodes signals through light, sound and timing to survive a captor's deadly game.

Going Gold
It's Fine
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It's Fine

Buma Games

It's Fine is an incremental game about surviving the last 24 hours of development crunch, in which players code, upgrade and prestige towards a stable build under a dog Project Manager named Joe.

Development
Gunclone Arena
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Gunclone Arena

Off North Games

Gunclone Arena is a top-down arena shooter set in the year 2250, in which a contestant fights waves of Gunclones and Mechs in a televised bloodsport for Cash and follower Likes.

Going Gold
PSI: Pressure Climbing
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PSI: Pressure Climbing

Book Club Games

A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.

Early Access

Released Indie Games

Breezy Blooms

Breezy Blooms is a sliding grid puzzle game in which the player chooses the direction of the wind to move seeds across a landscape towards their matching flower beds.

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Cube Boy

Cube Boy is a black-and-white point-and-click puzzle adventure in which a cube-shaped boy explores his late uncle's house, solving puzzles and uncovering hidden passages.

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Cannabis Clicker

Cannabis Clicker is a cannabis-themed incremental clicker game in which players generate buds, buy buildings and unlock upgrades, with a prestige system that carries progress between runs.

Released
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Train Sim World® 7

Train Sim World 7 is a train simulation game featuring three new routes in Florida, Yorkshire and Bavaria, alongside modes such as Free Roam, Conductor Mode and the new Freight Hauler.

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Rita

Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.

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Dicealot

Dicealot is a push-your-luck roguelike dice-builder where every roll could win you the battle or wipe your turn clean. Roll smart, build your dice pool, and save Camelot before your greed gets the better of you.

Released
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KasMind

KasMind is a 1v1 competitive game in which matches are won by taunting rather than by landing hits. It offers local, online and CPU play.

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TAMA JIGOKU

TAMA JIGOKU is a physics-based arcade game in which the player launches a ball to ricochet through alien formations across a 30-level single-player campaign.

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Vibe City Islands Architect

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.

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Daggermap

Daggermap is a tabletop roleplaying companion tool for running combat and scenes on a digital battlemap, with automatic grid detection, token snapping and optional live session sharing.

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Proper Tosser

An incremental physics game about tossing objects to earn money, which is then spent on upgrades to improve tossing ability.

Released
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Your Story: Games with Death

A text-based Choose Your Own Adventure game set in the Middle Ages, following a young adventurer who leaves home to explore unknown lands. Over 2,000 events and more than 200 ways to die.

Released
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