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Going Gold
16 Nov, 2026
OKUREK
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17 Nov, 2026
Save the Forest
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18 Nov, 2026
Classroom in Sora
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18 Nov, 2026
Cave Diving With Friends
Going Gold
19 Nov, 2026
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Recently Released
DEEPLANDERS
SOPA Games
DEEPLANDERS is a minimalist construction puzzle game in which players build underground cities and find a suitable home for each arriving character. It is currently in Early Access.
The Totemist
ShutinStudio
The Totemist is a narrative-driven shop simulator in which the player runs an occult shop, crafting totems and talismans while a mystery unfolds in a quiet town.
Glory On Pluto
LittleBigEars Games
Glory on Pluto is a roguelite in which players fill a rocket engine with fuel items and manage a crew to travel from Earth to Pluto. Builds must generate enough power to reach each destination.
Wizzy the Wood
Lukasz Cnota
Wizzy the Wood is a single-player 3D platformer adventure. A young hero named Wizzy must recover a stolen energy source to wake his sleeping village in the land of Woodland.
SYNTAX WARS
Mosan Game Studio
SYNTAX WARS is a cyberpunk duel game where both fighters choose their moves at once and reveal them together. It features six fighters, VS CPU, Arcade Gauntlet, Challenge Runs and local 2-player.
JOHN GLEEP
monthbug
JOHN GLEEP is an action-roguelike in which a small alien pilots a UFO to abduct gamblers from planets and fill a pachinko-style casino, aiming to repay a debt to a mob boss.
Hope in the City
Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.
A narrative mystery set in Shenyang, China. Players control 17-year-old Hope Song, who uses sketches to investigate her parents' disappearance.
Gas N Cars
Yorf Studio
Gas N Cars is a petrol station game where players fuel, clean and repair customers' cars, buy new tools from a delivery truck, and can choose to cause chaos instead of providing good service.
Projects with Demos
No Quarter
No Quarter is a Caribbean naval game in which a single captain sails a brig between ports, fights ships and forts, runs cargo contracts and manages faction reputation.
Backmarkers: A Racing Management Sim
Backmarkers is a racing management sim in which the player runs a low-budget team in a fictional three-tier series, handling live race strategy, drivers, staff, sponsors, finances and car development.
Monster Meals
Monster Meals is a cooking game in which players run a food truck as a monster chef, hunting animals for ingredients and serving monstrous customers. It supports solo and co-op play.
Fish Lab
Fish Lab is a short incremental game in which players collect fish for a lab, with the action synced to music. Fish are collected by hovering the cursor over them.
Another Eden Begins
A role-playing game by Masato Kato in which Aldo travels across time after his sister is taken, featuring command battles, 18 companions and a New Game+ mode with over 10 endings.
GRID/
GRID/ is an arcade-style boss rush action game in which the player, a Visual Debugger, fights nine Bug Entity bosses on a 7x6 grid using one of three unlockable weapons.
WARCANA
WARCANA is a fantasy real-time base defence strategy game with deck-building. Players act as a magician, summoning armies and surviving attack waves in single player or multiplayer modes.
Cataclismo
Cataclismo is a real-time strategy game where players build modular wood and stone fortresses and command troops to defend survivors against nightly waves of Horrors.
The Rabbit Haul
The Rabbit Haul is a roguelite farming and tower defence game. As a rabbit named Sprout, the player grows crops by day and defends them from waves of raccoons at night.
Tiny Glade
Tiny Glade is a free-form building game in which players create castles and small dioramas from meadow settings. It has no management, combat or failure states.
DualVerse86
DualVerse86 is a 2D retro-futuristic parkour platformer in which players switch between two virtual worlds in real time to clear timed levels. It has no combat.
Vibe City Islands Architect
Vibe City Islands Architect is a small gridless city-building game set on tropical islands, with a High Score Mode, a Sandbox Mode, 200 buildings and 10 radio stations.
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.
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.
Abashed
Supantha Paul
Abashed is a short 2.5D narrative psychological adventure following Issac, a man with psychosis, as he searches for his missing partner. Players use medication to alter the environment and solve puzzles.
Released Indie Games
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer for up to 4 players in which participants build the level together by placing traps and blocks, then race to the end. Points are scored by finishing when others cannot.
Cast n Chill
Cast n Chill is a relaxed fishing game with 16 locations, over 50 fish species, active and passive play modes, and co-op for two players.
Sunset Summit
Sunset Summit is a co-op climbing game for one to eight players. Teams tackle 16 handcrafted routes across four floating sky islands, aiming to reach each summit before sunset.
Bite Night
Bite Night is a first-person comedy horror game in which the player works a night shift at a rural gas station while a monster causes trouble. It has retro graphics and runs for about 30 minutes.
Wednesdays
The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard. Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
DiceRoll
DiceRoll is a strategic roguelite game set in endless rooms, where players carry accessories and abilities between runs and compete on leaderboards.
The Event
The Event is a first-person psychological horror game set in an asylum. The player wakes with no memory and pieces together past events using clues, notes and testimonies.
Pool Shark
Pool Shark is a roguelike take on 8-ball in which the player wins money matches across six rooms to pay off a $12,500 debt owed by a friend. It is free and includes online 1v1 play.
Escape Simulator 2: Apocalypse DLC
Apocalypse is a DLC for Escape Simulator 2 that adds four escape rooms set in a ruined near-future world. It can be played solo or in multiplayer, and includes new outfits and extra puzzles.
Dealer’s Dice
Dealer's Dice is a dice-based defence game in which players roll and reroll dice to stop invading entities reaching the end of a table. It is set in a game room run by a mysterious entity called [???].
THE WELL IS NOT EMPTY
A first-person horror game in which the player descends a village well into tunnels and the ruins of an abandoned prison, searching for the reason the water has run low.
Mini Court
Mini Court is a browser-based, pixel-art game in which the player acts as a criminal court judge, reviewing cases and evidence before choosing a sentence for each defendant.
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