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Recently Released
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.
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!
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.
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.
Projects with Demos
Border Pioneer
Build a town from scratch, deck-build your way through it, then defend it every month when the enemies come knocking. Pixel art frontier life has never been this tense.
Demon Bluff
A single-player social deduction game where your own deck is lying to you. Every card could be a friendly villager or a demon in disguise.
Stickerino
Slap stickers on cards, watch your score go bonkers, and try to outsmart the Sticker Wizard in this roguelite deckbuilder. Simple idea, ridiculously moreish.
Inquisitor Shepherd
Play an Inquisitor sent to root out heresy in a remote village, where every conversation, clue and verdict you deliver shapes a different ending.
Drill Rift
Drill Rift is a turn-based colony sim where you manage a dwarven mining outpost, upgrade tech, roll dice events & risk awakening what lies below.
ION Shift
A brutal 2D platformer where you play as an alien fighting your way through a deadly spaceship full of soldiers, turrets, and drones.
Swordcery
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Aaero2
A rhythm driven rail shooter where you trace light, fire to the beat, and fly through music powered worlds with tracks from Monstercat and Black Razor Records.
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?
Well Dweller
A tiny bird armed with a matchstick sets out to burn a wicked queen and save his family in this dark fairy-tale metroidvania from the folks behind Crypt Custodian and Islets.
Soulfused
A dystopian sci-fi text adventure where you play as a part-human, part-machine soldier fighting for a collapsing Empire. A modern homage to classic text games.
Yooka-Replaylee
Yooka-Replaylee is the definitive remaster of the 3D platforming collectathon, with new challenges, shiny currency, maps, customisation & orchestral music.
Indie Demos
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.
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.
Released Indie Games
Disco Elysium – The Final Cut
A narrative-driven RPG where dialogue and decision-making shape the experience.
The Steps as we know them
A chess based puzzle game. Using the moves of chess you find your way through different worlds.
Sydless
SYDLESS is a fast FPS where your only weapon is a deadly bouncing ball. Punch it faster, control the chaos, and fight your way out of a twisted anomaly.
PEAK
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where one silly mistake can end it all, and only teamwork gets you to the top.
Mythicard
Mythicard is an Online Auto Battler game based on Mythology.
Path of Kami: Journey Begins
A relaxing puzzle exploration game following a recently-deceased Japanese wolf Kazeyo as he navigates the trials of the Mortal and Spirit World through puzzles.
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.
Dreams of Another
Dreams of Another is a surreal shooter where every shot creates instead of destroys. From Baiyon (PixelJunk Eden), coming to PS5, PS VR2 & Steam.
Road Rage Royale
Road Rage Royale is a racing fighting game for 2 to 4 players set in a cyberpunk post-apocalyptic world.
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.
RV There Yet?
A co-op adventure about driving your Recreational Vehicle home.
Wobbly Life
Grandma's kicked you out and told you to get a job, so welcome to Wobbly Life. Grab a mate or three and go make a mess of an entire open world.
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