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Recently Released
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.
Lootbound
ArtDock
Lootbound is a roguelike where players build a squad of companions, manage inventory-based item auras, and assemble a boss across multiple biomes.
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.
Area Survivors
Furo-Pizza Studio
Paint the battlefield, hold your ground and defend the tower as endless hordes close in on you. Survival horde combat with a twist you actually control.
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.
Projects with Demos
Road Rage Royale
Road Rage Royale is a racing fighting game for 2 to 4 players set in a cyberpunk post-apocalyptic world.
We Harvest Shadows
A quiet farm, a broken man, and something watching from the dark. We Harvest Shadows turns chores into dread one night at a time.
Space Boat
A humorous investigative narrative game set on intergalactic cruise-ship inhabited by various carpet based lifeforms.
The Dark West
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.
Deck of Haunts
Deck of Haunts unleashes its biggest free update yet with new creatures, cards, rooms, starter decks & more. Available now on Steam.
False Alarm
A stealth heist game where you break into offices, hotels and museums to nick whatever your clients want. Sneak, distract, manipulate, and if it all goes wrong, improvise.
The Road of Dust and Sorrow
A miracle crop turned into humanity's downfall, and now Katherine just wants to get her daughter somewhere safe. Survival horror the old school way, with monsters, puzzles and nowhere left to hide.
Turnbound
Turnbound is a haunted grid-battler where you build your inventory, then send it off to fight the ghosts of other players' builds. Every tile placement matters.
Reality Drift
Race through weird worlds, deliver packages to grumpy godlike beings, and build your car on the fly. Fast choices, faster driving.
VOIDFACE
VOIDFACE is a bullet hell game where every enemy is a boss fight and players have only one life to survive challenging encounters.
Gnomes
Turn based tower defence meets roguelike as your gnomes defend the garden from an ever growing goblin horde. Every run's different, every night's a fresh fight for survival.
Wild n Chill
Wild n Chill is a cozy wilderness survival game about hunting, fishing and building a cabin at your own pace, solo or with pals.
Indie Demos
Silky Rails
JoyDoza
Silky Rails is a train-building survival game where players assemble and upgrade carts to automatically battle waves of enemies along the Silk Road.
Lootbound
ArtDock
Lootbound is a roguelike where players build a squad of companions, manage inventory-based item auras, and assemble a boss across multiple biomes.
Rita
SporkTank
Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.
ShelfLife: Art School Detective
Fnife Games
A detective dating sim in which psychic art student Johana investigates nine suspects to uncover who has been destroying priceless artworks.
Pixel Washer
Valadria
Pixel Washer is a cleaning game where players control a piggy using a power washer to remove grime and reveal pixel art scenes across a town.
Nocturne
Pracy Studios
Nocturne is a story-driven RPG set after humanity's extinction, combining rhythm-based combat with traditional RPG exploration and progression.
Appulse
Le Rado
Appulse combines roguelite action, top-down shooting and pinball mechanics, tasking players with defending a fleet using recoil-based ball control.
Hope in the City
Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.
Hope in the City is a narrative mystery game set in Shenyang, following 17-year-old Hope Song as she investigates her parents' sudden disappearance.
Woodo
Tiny Monks Tales
Woodo is a cozy diorama puzzle game where players assemble wooden scenes piece by piece, following the story of Foxy and Ben the frog.
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2
D'Avekki Studios Ltd
A Lovecraftian mystery game in which players act as both therapist and detective, questioning suspects to uncover a killer whose identity is randomised each playthrough.
Holstin
Sonka
Holstin is a survival horror game set in a decaying 1992 Polish town, where the player searches for a missing friend amid monstrous corruption.
Toxic Crusaders
Retroware
Toxic Crusaders is a beat 'em up featuring seven playable characters battling across eleven pixel-art levels, with local co-op for up to four players.
Schrödinger's Call
Acrobatic Chirimenjako
Schrödinger's Call is a narrative picture-book-style game about Mary, an amnesiac woman who answers phone calls from souls caught between life and death in the moments before the moon falls and the world ends.
Catechesis
Baroque Decay
Catechesis is a Horror RPG in which a demon-possessed altar boy must stay virtuous by day and battle demons by night to save his grandfather.
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.
Released Indie Games
A Case of Fraud
You've got every clue you need from the start. A missing CEO, a pile of documents, and a fraud only careful reading will crack.
Swan Song
Swan Song is a cozy, emotional puzzle game where music guides a swan through challenges, revealing a touching story of family, memory, and loss.
The Holy Gosh Darn
Heaven's got six hours left and you're the angel stuck fixing it, armed with nothing but a time-travelling watch and a filthy mouth.
Mini Soccer Manager
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.
Path of Achra
A complex roguelike RPG built around deep theorycrafting and build experimentation.
Hades
An indie roguelike action game combining fast combat, Greek mythology, and story-driven progression.
Dead Cells
A fast, skill-focused action-platformer blending roguelike structure with tight combat.
Boneraiser Minions
A chaotic auto-battler where you raise undead armies and overwhelm enemies.
Alchemist: Journey of the Soul
First-person adventure game, playable solo or co-op with up to 4 players. Use your magical abilities to solve puzzles or navigate through areas! Explore, use items, brew potions and unlock your full alchemical potential. Are you willing to do what it takes to claim a soul of your own?
Idle Gumball Machine
A relaxing Plinko-style incremental where you shoot gumballs at gears and watch the numbers go delightfully out of control.
Risk of Rain 2
Risk of Rain 2 is a third-person roguelike shooter in which players fight through procedurally generated alien landscapes, collecting items and battling escalating enemy forces to survive.
Terraria
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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