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Swordcery
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Swordcery

Temple Door Games

Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.

Early Access
Tide Of Tactics
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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.

Released
Mini Soccer Manager
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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.

Released
Journeybound Idle
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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!

Released
Diaspora
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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.

Released
We, Junk Artists
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We, Junk Artists

Perfect Day Studio

Forget paintbrushes, just chuck junk about. We, Junk Artists turns rubbish into hilarious collages for up to 6 mates.

Released
Spiritstead
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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.

Released
CastleOn
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CastleOn

Lord Castleon

Build your fortress, man the walls and survive the Third Crusade in this deep turn-based castle building strategy game.

Released

Projects with Demos

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.

Released
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By Sword & Road

A medieval strategy game where cutting off supply lines matters more than brute force. Capture nodes, manage the weather, outsmart your enemy.

Development
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Neko Ghost, Jump!

Neko Ghost, Jump! is a 2D/3D puzzle-platformer where you not only switch between 2D & 3D camera perspectives and physical form!

Early Access
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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.

Released
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Hexarchy

Hexarchy squeezes empire building, deckbuilding and hex tactics into games that wrap up in under an hour. Turns out 4X doesn't need to eat your whole evening.

Released
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The Steps as we know them

A chess based puzzle game. Using the moves of chess you find your way through different worlds.

Released
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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.

Released
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Nippets: A Hidden Object Game

Nippets is a hidden-object game full of handcrafted 2D maps just begging to be poked, prodded and shaken until they give up their secrets.

Released
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He Who Watches

Walk on walls, walk on ceilings, and bend gravity itself to solve over 100 devious puzzles in this atmospheric first-person head-scratcher.

Development
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Mexican Ninja

A fast, chaotic 2.5D roguelike beat 'em up where Narcos and Yakuzas collided into one mad city, and you're the ninja out to smash it apart.

Development
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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.

Early Access
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The Mailroom

Clock in, sort infernal mail, and try not to lose your soul before your shift ends. Hell's never had a worse temp.

Development
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Early Access

Swordcery

11 Aug, 2026

Indie Demos

The Last Caretaker
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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.

Early Access
General Practice
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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.

Development
Mutter
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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.

Development
Croak
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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.

Development
The Dark West
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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.

Early Access
Time To Wake Up
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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.

Development
Mayak
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Mayak

Nikita Nplus1

Mayak is a linear, hand-painted 2D visual novel about a young astronomer investigating a mysterious prime-number signal from space.

Development
VOIDFACE
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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.

Going Gold
BOMBANANA!
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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.

Development
Smokey Mike
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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.

Development
One Coin Museum
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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.

Development
Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder
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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.

Development
Hazard Suits
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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.

Development
The Tower Must Fall
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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.

Development
It's About Pirates
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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.

Development
Beards Go Underground
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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.

Early Access
Tiny Capsule Collector
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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.

Development
Hamsteria
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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.

Development
Hakoniwa Electric
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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.

Development
Stickerino
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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.

Development
ShipShaper
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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.

Early Access
Heretic's Rapture
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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.

Development
Welcome, [Employee Name]
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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.

Development
The Skin Stapler
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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

Released Indie Games

Escape the Backrooms

Get lost in the Backrooms with up to three mates, and try not to lose each other (or your minds) before you find the exit.

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Spiritstead

Spiritstead is a cosy city builder where humans and spirits team up to build a village that's as charming as it is functional.

Released
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Kaya’s Prophecy

Build a village, manage a deck, and keep a moody god fed and happy in this card-based village builder. Cross him and you'll regret it.

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Don’t Let It Starve

Pack bento boxes for a hungry monster in the walls and gamble your way to ridiculous scores. It's Tetris meets Resident Evil 4's inventory, but with food and way higher stakes.

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Cast n Chill

Cast n Chill is a chilled out fishing game where you set the pace, whether you're actively reeling in catches or letting the game tick along while you get on with something else.

Released
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Boneraiser Minions

A chaotic auto-battler where you raise undead armies and overwhelm enemies.

Released
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Fading Serenades

Fading Serenades is a cozy top-down courier adventure where you deliver parcels, befriend islanders, and uncover mysteries on Clifford’s Island.

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Dogpile

Two of the same dog touch and BAM, bigger dog. Merge your way to an absolute unit of a pup.

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Isekai Eternal Alpha

A Fantasy MOBA game that focuses on champions summoned from other worlds to fight in the Isekai Wars. Take control of powerful champions, and fight for freedom

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Mundaun

A hand-drawn folk horror adventure inspired by Alpine mythology and slow-burn psychological fear.

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The Steps as we know them

A chess based puzzle game. Using the moves of chess you find your way through different worlds.

Released
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Blast Off! Summer Showdown

Blast off and let the chaos begin! A party game for up to 4 players featuring 10 summer-themed minigames, including rocket fireworks, flowing somen races, and BBQ battles!

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