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Going Gold
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Going Gold
9 Oct, 2026
CHAINSPIRE
Going Gold
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Truckful
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9 Oct, 2026
American Cooking Simulator: Multiplayer
Going Gold
12 Oct, 2026
Time To Wake Up
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Recently Released
Dragon Dinner
Menut Studios
Dragon Dinner is a fast-paced restaurant management game where players run dragon-staffed eateries, juggling orders, layouts and rising chaos with roguelike progression.
Wildaria
SpaceFudge
Tame wild animals, ride them into battle, and explore an endless procedural fantasy world in this GBA-inspired action RPG.
Tower Tactics II
asraworks
Deck-building roguelike meets tower defense, now bigger and meaner. Build decks, deploy towers, and hold the line against relentless waves.
Chicks In Trouble
Creamative
A peaceful farm is thrown into chaos when a mother hen's chicks mysteriously vanish! Team up with the brave father rooster and embark on a quirky, obstacle-filled adventure to bring them home. Grab your mouse or gamepad—it's time to save the flock!
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING GOOD
EMIKA_GAMES
A first-person psychological horror game set in a roadside minimarket during a Halloween night shift, where routine shop work forms part of the story and atmosphere.
NUVRATE
PELKOCHA
NUVRATE is a single-player arcade action game combining arena survival, pattern-based boss encounters and a lane-based rhythm campaign, playable fully offline.
Murmuring of Moth Mouth
VAINSANE
Murmuring of Moth Mouth is a short psychological horror visual novel in which Yuna, driving to a job interview, follows conflicting instructions along a strange highway.
Sous Raccoon
Novice Flow
Sous Raccoon is a cooking roguelite in which the player is a raccoon hired as sous chef by a short-tempered Chef. It is now fully released and supports online co-op for two players.
Projects with Demos
Jack’s Achievements Simulator: Dog & Lava
A 3D platformer in which a dog named Jack disrupts the player across nine levels in three stages. The game launches with 100 achievements, with 1,000 more planned.
VOIDFACE
Face off in this challenging bullet-hell arena shooter, and try to clear bite-sized boss rush encounters. Learn to dodge their attacks, cast offensive and defensive spells, and kill everything that gets in your way.
Border Pioneer
As the kingdom's most promising pioneer, embark on a legendary journey to tame the frontier! Build thriving towns across various landscapes, fending off waves of diverse enemies until you establish a firm foothold and have explored everything the eye can see!
Soft(A)ware
Soft(A)ware is a surreal puzzle-platformer set in a virtual prison, where players shift gravity and rewind time to solve puzzles and evade hostile constructs. Now released.
Mortal Shell II
Mortal Shell II is a standalone sequel featuring open-world exploration and stamina-free combat, in which players seek out and possess the Shells of eight lost warriors.
Empires of the Undergrowth
A real-time strategy game in which players build and manage an ant colony, controlling worker and warrior ants to gather food, expand nests and battle rival colonies and predators.
Eco Volunteer
Eco Volunteer is a nature exploration game in which you walk through parks, forests and beaches, collect and sort litter, rescue animals and people, and photograph wildlife.
Pigeon: A Love Story
A game about flying across to-scale replicas of London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and Amsterdam in search of a pigeon soulmate.
Another Eden Begins
A role-playing game in which Aldo travels through time to find his sister Feinne. It features turn-based command battles, 18 companions and a New Game+ mode with over 10 endings.
771
771 is a first-person horror walking simulator in which the player leaves their bed and explores an apartment that leads into strange, dark places. Playtime is approximately 30 minutes.
Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster
Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster is a Metroidvania-style action game in which the last Beastmaster uses the souls of animals and creatures to transform and explore.
Deck of Haunts
Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.
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
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.
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.
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 supports solo play or local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which players control Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across levels set in a spirit world.
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 ball that moves, jumps and sticks to platforms, collecting every orb in each level to open an exit portal.
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.
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 with a retro PSX and VHS-inspired look, in which players decode Morse code signals to escape a maze while a single mistake is fatal.
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
Rewrite the Reconquista in a grand strategy game set in 11th-century Iberia, where population, religion, and war evolve dynamically based on your decisions. Move armies freely across 300 hand-built provinces, manage a deep medieval economy, and face an AI that actually fights back.
WilderDash
Wise and Wild
WilderDash is a tower defence roguelite for one to six players. Players gather resources and build towers by day, then defend their base from monsters at night on procedurally generated maps.
Released Indie Games
100 Cats Lost in China 2 Find & Color
🐱 Discover 500 hidden cats across 5 artistic hand-drawn scenes 🖌️. Relax with color-by-numbers 🎨 and add life to every detail. Play solo or in cozy co-op 👯♂️, while Meow FM 🎶 sets the perfect creative mood.
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.
EbiTapes
EbiTapes is an adventure game where you record sounds with a sound recorder, solve puzzles and make mixtapes to help save a city's Annual Festival, with a cat companion called Zongy.
ASCII Art Tool
ASCII Art Tool is a desktop editor for creating ASCII art, either by converting images into text or by drawing character by character.
The Abbess Garden
Cozy third-person gardening in 1643 France. As Agnès, restore a forbidden abbey garden, grow and identify real plants through the seasons, uncover a spy plot, help the community, and find queer romance.
Aaero2
Tune into Aaero2 - a heart-pounding rhythm-shooter with 20 stunning alien worlds, each powered by a legendary Monstercat track. Trace ribbons of light, unleash devastating firepower, and conquer colossal bosses! Play solo or co-op and feel every beat as you fight to the soundtrack.
771
771 is a first-person horror walking simulator in which the player leaves their bed and explores an apartment that leads into strange, dark places. Playtime is approximately 30 minutes.
Doomsayer
Doomsayer is a turn-based tactics roguelike in which you declare your next move before acting, enemies commit their response, and you may then break your word to outmanoeuvre them.
Old Market Restored
A market-cleanup game from the developers of Old Market Simulator. Players return misplaced products to their correct crates, shelves and stands, either alone or with friends.
ARETIAS: Cursed Island
Travel to an isolated island, use your camera to reveal what the naked eye cannot see, and uncover the truth behind a forgotten curse. ARETIAS: Cursed Island is a story-driven first-person horror game focused on exploration, environmental puzzles, and atmospheric tension.
Dewdrop
Dewdrop is a physics-based music puzzle game in which players draw vines that produce sounds when falling droplets bounce off them.
Well Dweller
Well Dweller is a dark fairy-tale metroidvania in which Glimmer, a small bird carrying a matchstick, sets out to burn a wicked queen and rescue his family.
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