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Recently Released
Zodiac Mountain
Mystic Road
Climb a mythic mountain as a card-slinging panda, wielding Yin and Yang hands to outsmart gods, demons and zodiac bosses.
Chronime Puzzle: Dogs
Quantum Quiver Games
Chronime Puzzle: Dogs is a relaxing puzzle game featuring beautiful steampunk anime-inspired artwork.
Swordcery
Temple Door Games
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Mini Soccer Manager
Pedro Verpha
Take charge of the league’s weakest club and lead it to glory. Build your squad, develop players, set formations, adjust tactics, and fight your way from last place to champions.
Tide Of Tactics
Lyrical Games
Command a medieval army on a grid-based battlefield, master terrain and positioning, and siege your way to victory in Tide Of Tactics.
Journeybound Idle
Max Luck Gaming
Another world needed a hero. It got you instead! A long fantasy-idle RPG: climb the adventurer's guild from F-Rank to S-Rank, max your skills, clear 114 quests, discover 1,300+ items, hire companions, farm, craft, fight, tons of QoL, a desktop widget, and lots more! Releasing August 7th!
Spiritstead
Turbo Dog Games
Spiritstead is a cosy city builder where humans and spirits team up to build a village that's as charming as it is functional.
Diaspora
Hosted Games
Navigate unknown waters, deadly politics, and ancient magic in this low-fantasy adventure. Can you turn the tides of war and forge a future for your clan? A text-based interactive novel, 1 million words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Projects with Demos
Fireside Feelings
Grab a blanket and a hot drink, and settle in by the campfire to share your thoughts with real people at your own pace.
Deep Pixel Melancholy
Egor's stuck in a time loop in a polar night that never ends. A quiet, melancholy visual novel about finding a reason to keep going.
Tide Of Tactics
Command a medieval army on a grid-based battlefield, master terrain and positioning, and siege your way to victory in Tide Of Tactics.
lily’s world XD
Snoop through a missing teenage girl's old laptop and blog to uncover what really happened to her. Equal parts creepy mystery and painfully authentic 2000s internet nostalgia.
NORCO
A Southern Gothic sci-fi adventure exploring identity, industry, and family in a decaying Louisiana town.
Time to Morp
A cosy base-building adventure where you look after adorable Morps, farm, fish, and build a whole town with up to three mates. Solo or co-op, it's all about slowing down and making a home somewhere strange.
Sleeping with the Phish
You're the new intern stuck sorting real emails from phishing scams, one dodgy request at a time. Get it wrong and it's your salary (and secrets) on the line.
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.
Welcome, [Employee Name]
You're the new checkpoint controller for HonkyTonk inc, checking papers and permits on space trucks while your choices decide who gets in and how the story ends.
Settler’s Domain
Build up your settlement from scratch, manage resources, research new tech and decide whether to make friends or enemies of your neighbours. It's classic settlement building done right.
Glory On Pluto
Build a rocket engine out of absolutely anything, fuel it with weird synergies, and boost your way to Pluto in this engine-building roguelite.
Voidling Bound
Voidling Bound is a monster-taming 3rd-person shooter with branching evolution, DNA splicing & high-octane battles. Coming Q1 2026 to Steam.
Indie Demos
The Last Caretaker
Channel37 Ltd
A first-person survival-crafting game in which a robotic Caretaker explores a flooded ruined Earth to recover human seeds and prepare humanity for launch into orbit.
General Practice
Mokum Games
General Practice is a co-op game for up to four players in which players run a chaotic GP clinic, treating patients using various medical devices and contraptions.
Mutter
DeadlyCrow Games
Mutter is a stop-motion styled adventure game set in 1940s rural England, following a boy caring for his mother as she transforms into something monstrous.
Croak
WoodRunner Games
Croak is a fast-paced 2D platformer in which a Frog Prince uses tongue-grapple and bounce mechanics to navigate hand-drawn levels and break a curse on his kingdom.
The Dark West
Black Hand
The Dark West is an occult western Action RPG set in a corrupted 19th century frontier, combining lethal ranged combat with deep character building and loot systems.
Time To Wake Up
Eye Blink Twice
Time To Wake Up is an atmospheric psychological thriller in which players navigate a dream built from surreal school memories, using their eyes to alter the environment.
Mayak
Nikita Nplus1
Mayak is a linear, hand-painted 2D visual novel about a young astronomer investigating a mysterious prime-number signal from space.
VOIDFACE
Frog Hat Labs
VOIDFACE is a bullet hell game where every enemy is a boss fight and players have only one life to survive challenging encounters.
BOMBANANA!
Lefto Studio
Three monkeys, one bomb, zero shared senses. Blind hands, mute knowledge, deaf eyes - work out how to talk to each other before everything goes boom.
Smokey Mike
Medium Energy
A point-and-click tragicomedy about a comedian chasing five perfect minutes on stage in early 2010s Buenos Aires. Funny, painful, and dead honest about what it takes to get up there.
One Coin Museum
Toadzillart
Play as Toadz the frog, sailing the seas to claw up treasures and fill a little museum with your finds. A cosy, chilled out collectathon with pixel art charm.
Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder
Green Parrot Games
Draw or stop, that's the whole game. Lucky Punk shows you the exact odds of every risk, so when you crash out spectacularly, you've only got yourself to blame.
Hazard Suits
Ceratops Games
Suit up, blast Zombot hordes and shut down toxic Sulphur Pumps in this procedurally-generated wave shooter built for solo play or split-screen chaos with mates.
The Tower Must Fall
Tidepool Games
Stack weird, wobbly tower defences and watch them somehow hold together against wave after wave of enemies. It won't last forever, but that's half the fun.
It's About Pirates
Elderwoof Games
It's About Pirates chucks you into wave after wave of enemy ships with cannons blazing and loot piling up. Kit your ship out into a proper floating fortress and see how long you last.
Beards Go Underground
PandaBee Studios
Deckbuilding meets mining chaos. Draft cards, chain explosions, and dig for treasure with a bunch of bearded, gold-hungry dwarves.
Tiny Capsule Collector
Playing Mantis
Run a tiny Gachapon shop that lives on your desktop, complete with cute animal customers and toys to collect. No pressure, just a calming little world to potter about in while you work.
Hamsteria
2WheelerDev
Hamsteria is a brutal 2 player co-op game where you and a mate control hamsters in attached wheels, no jumping, no turning, just pure teamwork.
Hakoniwa Electric
亜寝帯 - ANETTAI
A cosy little puzzle game about fixing up your grandpa's electronics shop, one breaker and broken gadget at a time, no stress attached.
Stickerino
contresort
Slap stickers on cards, watch your score go bonkers, and try to outsmart the Sticker Wizard in this roguelite deckbuilder. Simple idea, ridiculously moreish.
ShipShaper
Tomas Sala
ShipShaper lets you pull, push and shape your own boats and ships from scratch, no 3D skills needed. Build anything from humble fishing boats to full-on dreadnoughts.
Heretic's Rapture
9FingerGames
Tetris meets tower defence meets deck-building in this demon-blasting mash-up. Build a tower out of falling shapes and send escaped souls straight back to hell.
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Welcome, [Employee Name]
Only A Model Games
You're the new checkpoint controller for HonkyTonk inc, checking papers and permits on space trucks while your choices decide who gets in and how the story ends.
The Skin Stapler
Tainted Pact
A serial killer's skinning victims and stapling them to walls. You've got one grimy, neon-lit night to catch them before they catch you.
Released Indie Games
Mundaun
A hand-drawn folk horror adventure inspired by Alpine mythology and slow-burn psychological fear.
Diaspora
Navigate unknown waters, deadly politics, and ancient magic in this low-fantasy adventure. Can you turn the tides of war and forge a future for your clan? A text-based interactive novel, 1 million words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
The Kind Camomille
A short relaxing 3rd person exploration game focused around the concept of random acts of kindness
Tide Of Tactics
Command a medieval army on a grid-based battlefield, master terrain and positioning, and siege your way to victory in Tide Of Tactics.
A Very Simple Idle Game
Idle game with a twist: reward grows while you wait and resets with each purchase. 6 upgrades, 3 currencies, prestige and super upgrades. Simple but deep.
Blood of Mehran
Blood of Mehran is a vengeful hack-and-slash set in the Arabian desert. Wield blades, battle demons, and dismantle royalty in a tale of love and loss.
PatriotMemoirs 4K
A narrative spy game set during China's War of Resistance against Japan, following an undercover agent posing as a collaborator while secretly aiding the resistance.
Voidship: The Long Journey
Design your battleship and fight your way through unforgiving space. This is a tale of a lone spaceship on a centuries-long mission.
Nimillion – The last expedition
Retro-inspired Metroidvania rocket ship adventure with physics-based thruster flight, upgrades, puzzles and brutal terrain to master.
Void Eclipse
A turn-based strategy, with a focus on choice. Evolve your army, explore the galaxy, and earn a Reputation.
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.
Echobreaker
Speedrun through live-fire combat courses where slowing down time is the only way to go faster. Precision, risk, and pure momentum.
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