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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.
Crypt Survivor
cloud6552
Crypt Survivor is a dark fantasy roguelite in which players pick a class and fight through a series of handmade dungeon rooms, collecting gold and experience to unlock upgrades between encounters.
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.
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.
SuperStore Simulator
Berleus Studio
SuperStore Simulator is a supermarket management game in which the player builds a small grocery store into a larger retail business, handling layout, stock, pricing, checkout and staff.
Elsewhere
Four White Cats
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.
Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest
IQ Games
A cooperative puzzle platformer for two players, or one playing both characters, featuring forest spirits with different elemental abilities and physics-based levels.
Projects with Demos
Going Medieval
Going Medieval is a medieval colony-building strategy game in which players guide a group of plague survivors as they build, defend and expand a settlement in a post-calamity world.
Don’t Let It Starve
A horror roguelike bento-builder. You're trapped in an underground kitchen, forced to feed a half-chef monster. Gamble with your life, assemble meals, and master your multipliers. Whatever you do, Don't Let it Starve.
Schrödinger’s Call
When the world is coming to an end, who would you want to speak to one last time? Schrödinger’s Call is a visual novel that lets you experience the pain and salvation of human connection, as if you were turning the pages of a picture book.
S.A.N.D.Y. – Beach Cleaner
S.A.N.D.Y. - Beach Cleaner is a game about a cleaning robot who clears trash from a resort beach and sorts debris while uncovering a narrative set in a polluted future.
Drova – Forsaken Kin
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.
HR: Human Remains
In HR: Human Remains, the player is a human survivor in a demon-ruled city who must complete tasks set by their boss in order to keep the survival ticket that protects them.
Undying Flame
Undying Flame is a top-down wave-survival rogue-lite in which players shoot enemies, collect the wood they drop and feed a campfire that serves as the health indicator.
The Rabbit Haul
Nurture your farm by day and defend your haul of crops from the thieving Trash Panda Posse at night. This farming and tower defense roguelite challenges you to grow powerful and symbiotic defenses to battle tough critters and rebuild your hometown one haul at a time!
Knuckle Jet
Knuckle Jet is an arcade flight action game in which Anastasia uses jet-powered fists to smash through levels of mechanical enemies, with optional local co-op.
Future Knight
Future Knight is a 2D action shoot 'em up in which a robot and a sentient tumour travel eight hours into the past to stop a cult leader from wiping humanity's memories.
IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator
IRON NEST is a brutal dieselpunk heavy-artillery game where you dominate the battlefield through a colossal war machine. Take map measurements based on the received coordinates, strain the hydraulics, and gunlay the cannons to unleash devastating blows ⟹ Will you obey High Command, Operator?
Dewdrop
Dewdrop is a physics-based music puzzle game in which players draw vines that produce sounds when falling droplets bounce off them.
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
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SUSHI CHESS is a turn-based board game where players move sushi pieces that each carry a price. Capturing a piece costs the capturer its price. 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.
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.
Crown Of Hispania
Regalis Studio
Crown Of Hispania is a grand strategy game set in 1035 AD Iberia, where the player leads a noble dynasty across more than 300 provinces. It is planned for Early Access.
Released Indie Games
(TwwwT) The Witches Who Weave Timelines
A 2D action roguelite in which players take seven witches through seven distorted timelines, fighting through stages to correct a collapsing history.
The Ratline
The Ratline is a 1971-set detective game in which players investigate a murdered priest's connection to a network smuggling Nazi war criminals to freedom.
Boundless AI Fantasy
Boundless AI Fantasy is an indie RPG that pairs AI-narrated roleplaying with turn-based tactical combat on an isometric grid. Its language models run locally on the player's own PC.
Rollick N’ Roll
Marble runs got a modern makeover. Press a button, watch the chaos unfold, and try not to laugh.
Green vs Tan
Green vs Tan is a tower defence game in which players place plastic toy soldiers to defend a toy box across more than 100 levels, playable solo, in co-op or in multiplayer battles.
Grim Trials
Grim Trials is a heavy metal action roguelite in which players craft weapons and equipment while fighting through hex-grid arenas as Avelin, a newly recruited Reaper of Death.
Shiba Sweet
Shiba Sweet is a cooking game in which the player helps a shiba dog progress from a beginner to a professional chef by making and selling shiba-shaped desserts.
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.
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.
StarL 9 Ashes Of The Past
StarL 9 Ashes Of The Past is an adventure game in which a woman wakes on a magical island after a balloon accident and is called a princess by its inhabitants. She must break curses and restore a mirror.
Lumina:Last Bloom
Lumina: Last Bloom is a short pixel-art adventure game in which the player spends seven days with a girl affected by the mysterious "Hanasaki Disease". It takes about one to two hours to play.
Balatro
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
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