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Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder
Going Gold
3 Nov, 2026
Corpus et Spiritus
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3 Nov, 2026
Dead Sector
Early Access
3 Nov, 2026
Tabula
Going Gold
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Abashed
Going Gold
4 Nov, 2026
Backmarkers: A Racing Management Sim
Going Gold
4 Nov, 2026
Diamonds and Spades
Going Gold
5 Nov, 2026
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Recently Released
Deal Flipper
Roovel Studio
Deal Flipper is a first-person flipping simulation set in an online marketplace. Players buy underpriced items by negotiating with sellers in chat, then relist them at a higher price.
Mikey The Hero: MANIA
MIKEYGAMESSTUDIOS
Mikey The Hero: MANIA is an entry in the Mikey The Hero series. Players control pairs of characters through 27 main stages to stop Fred, collecting Mystic Gems that affect the ending.
INTUS
Nahuel Martinez
INTUS is a short, first-person psychological horror game set in a rented apartment, where the player spends a weekend operating an inspection robot remotely to complete work reports.
Oddments & Offerings
Black Pine Games
Oddments & Offerings is an Early Access game in which the player runs an antique shop by day and explores dangerous locations by night to find items to sell or collect.
Totally Safe Moon Project
Fake Moon
A solo or online co-op game for up to four players in which players build a tower to the Moon and deliver a laser to destroy an asteroid threatening Earth.
CryptidCam
Mothman Mothman Studios
CryptidCam is a short photography adventure in which the player photographs cryptids in the woods for a cryptozoologist named Dr. Ted Krupp. It features eight creatures to find and photograph.
Tom the Postgirl
Oopsie Daisies, ARTE France
Tom's just a postgirl doing her rounds, but she can't resist peeking through every window and door in this weird little village. Turns out everyone's got something to hide.
Danchi Days
sandy powder, Melos Han-Tani, mogumu, gingham games
A 12-year-old girl tries to revive her danchi's summer festival while reconnecting with her grandma, who's living with dementia. Sweet, funny, and a little sad.
Projects with Demos
Alembic
Alembic is a falling-sand sandbox built on the periodic table, where reactions come from element properties rather than fixed recipes. Players can also build machines and nuclear reactors.
ORBA
ORBA is a speed-climbing game in which the player strikes an Orb upward through a five-floor tower before it shatters, using random Lucky Charm abilities and racing other players' ghosts.
Scale the Depths
Scale the Depths is a fishing game in which a small robot catches, scales and serves fish to non-human customers across four locations, using the earnings to upgrade gear and fish deeper waters.
Weekend Solitaire 7 Grace In Motion
Weekend Solitaire 7: Grace in Motion is a card matching puzzle game set in forest landscapes, with over 200 handcrafted levels across three game modes.
Police Chief Simulator
Police Chief Simulator is a first person strategy and management game in which the player runs a county police station in Winston Springs, registering crimes, investigating cases and arresting criminals.
Path of Achra
Path of Achra is a roguelike made by a solo developer. Players combine culture, class and religion to create a hero, then build powers and equipment while progressing through levels.
Cloudscrapers
Cloudscrapers is a minimalist strategy game in which players build towers up into the clouds, unlocking upgrades between attempts and discovering relics and mysteries as the structure rises.
KAPIA
KAPIA is a point-and-click adventure set in a dome city watched by an AI called The Eye. Players control Stefan and his granddaughter Reny as they solve puzzles and investigate a conspiracy.
Little Ghost
Little Ghost is a 2D puzzle-platforming metroidvania in which an inch-high character explores a collage-style home office world and uncovers the plans of a corporation.
SmashCore
SmashCore is a short, physics-based incremental game in which players destroy asteroids with gravity powers and feed the dust to a core in exchange for riches.
BABELOMANIA
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure with visual novel storytelling, point and click puzzles and light survival elements, set at a French wedding.
Jarred Defense
Jarred Defense is a maze-building tower defense game in which players place towers anywhere to shape enemy paths. It features a story campaign, Endless Mode, and a level editor.
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
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.
DWARRF: A Pinball Roguelike
Sam Stubbings
DWARRF is a roguelike mixing pinball, pachinko and bubble shooter play. As Arf, a pirate dwarf, the player fires balls from a cannon to fight enemies through four levels in the mines.
Released Indie Games
CloverPit
CloverPit is a rogue-lite horror game in which the player is locked in a cell with a slot machine and an ATM, and must repay a debt at the end of each round to avoid ruin.
Eco Volunteer
Eco Volunteer is a game about exploring natural areas while collecting and sorting litter, rescuing animals and people, and photographing wildlife across parks, forests and beaches.
Tumblebee
Tumblebee is a short horror game in which a bumblebee searches a silk-filled cave for its family while spiders wake. It has an N64-inspired look.
AFK – Army For Keyboard
AFK - Army For Keyboard is an idle RPG with a desktop-style interface. Battles play out in a taskbar strip while players manage a party of heroes, loot rules and builds.
Pyra
Pyra is a precision platformer in which the player controls a small living flame climbing through an ancient temple filled with traps, collapsing structures and other obstacles.
Hard Rock Clicker
Hard Rock Clicker is a clicker game in which players break rocks to earn Gold, buy upgrades, choose random Augments and collect pickaxes with varying rarities and stats.
Alien Morgue
Alien Morgue is a sci-fi pathologist simulator in which the player identifies alien bodies, examines damage and performs autopsies to establish how each victim died.
Kilnborn
Kilnborn is a 1v1 platform fighting game in which each fighter is defeated by a single hit. Players move around the stage to land a decisive strike, choosing from characters with different playstyles.
Animaly Bar: NO HUMANITY!
Animaly Bar: NO HUMANITY! casts the player as a gorilla bartender in an animal-ruled world, serving drinks and identifying humans disguised as animal customers.
cm360
cm360 is a tool that converts mouse sensitivity settings from one game to another. It also includes a keyboard bind visualiser and a controller dead zone visualiser.
Chronicle of Wuxia & Xianxia Survivors
Chronicle of Wuxia & Xianxia Survivors is a survivors-style roguelite with deckbuilding elements, set in a martial arts and immortal cultivation world. Players fight demon hordes using randomly offered techniques.
Journey to Echo
Journey to Echo is a survival adventure set after civilisation's collapse. The player leaves an underground bunker to scavenge, drive a vehicle and deliver an experimental serum.
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