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Deal Flipper
Early Access
2 Nov, 2026
Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder
Going Gold
3 Nov, 2026
Corpus et Spiritus
Going Gold
3 Nov, 2026
Dead Sector
Early Access
3 Nov, 2026
Tabula
Going Gold
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Abashed
Going Gold
4 Nov, 2026
Backmarkers: A Racing Management Sim
Going Gold
4 Nov, 2026
Diamonds and Spades
Going Gold
5 Nov, 2026
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Recently Released
Oddments & Offerings
Black Pine Games
Oddments & Offerings is an Early Access game in which the player runs an antique shop by day and explores dangerous locations by night to find items to sell or collect.
Totally Safe Moon Project
Fake Moon
A solo or online co-op game for up to four players in which players build a tower to the Moon and deliver a laser to destroy an asteroid threatening Earth.
CryptidCam
Mothman Mothman Studios
CryptidCam is a short photography adventure in which the player photographs cryptids in the woods for a cryptozoologist named Dr. Ted Krupp. It features eight creatures to find and photograph.
Tom the Postgirl
Oopsie Daisies, ARTE France
Tom's just a postgirl doing her rounds, but she can't resist peeking through every window and door in this weird little village. Turns out everyone's got something to hide.
Danchi Days
sandy powder, Melos Han-Tani, mogumu, gingham games
A 12-year-old girl tries to revive her danchi's summer festival while reconnecting with her grandma, who's living with dementia. Sweet, funny, and a little sad.
Crosstalk
Ongakken
Crosstalk is a sandbox toolset for designing custom computer architectures, SystemVerilog hardware designs, and software, with built-in simulation, emulation, and a bundled LLVM and Clang toolchain.
INTUS
Nahuel Martinez
INTUS is a short, first-person psychological horror game set in a rented apartment, where the player spends a weekend operating an inspection robot remotely to complete work reports.
Pixel Coloring World
Milk Poison
Pixel Coloring World is a colour-by-number pixel art game with 12 themed images across four canvas sizes, from 50×50 to 200×200 pixels.
Projects with Demos
The Village Above the Well
A village-building and resource management game in which the player gathers materials, hires workers and forges gear for an adventurer who descends seven dungeons beneath an old well.
Chief Cenab : Şahmaran
Chief Cenab: Şahmaran is a puzzle adventure game in a black-and-white comic book style with colour highlights. Players take the role of Chief Cenab and investigate mysterious events.
Path of Achra
Path of Achra is a roguelike made by a solo developer. Players combine culture, class and religion to create a hero, then build powers and equipment while progressing through levels.
Corsair Fleet: Tides of Plunder
Corsair Fleet: Tides of Plunder is a pixel-art idle RPG in which players grow a single sloop into a pirate fleet through turn-based naval battles, card-based crews and offline voyages.
Toxic Yuri
Toxic Yuri is a visual novel in which an office worker in Kyoto takes in Doku-chan, a woman made of slime. Player choices across six episodes shape the story and lead to multiple endings.
I Need to Fix My Dream Car (But I Work at a Junkyard)
A junkyard game in which the player digs through scrap piles, fills customer orders, rescues dogs and earns money to rebuild a rusty old car into their dream car.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale is a 2D action-platformer with boss battles and animated cinematics. It can be played solo or in local co-op for up to eight players.
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.
Leap Tactics
Leap Tactics is a pixel-art platform puzzle game in which jumping toggles the mechanisms in each level. It includes over 80 levels and an undo function.
CastleOn
CastleOn is a turn-based castle building strategy game set in the late 12th century. Players either survive a set number of turns or conquer all rival Lords.
Regions of Ruin: Runegate
Regions of Ruin: Runegate is an exploration-focused action RPG in which a lone dwarf rebuilds a haven for surviving dwarves while uncovering the history of their ancestors.
REPLACED
A 2.5D pixel art narrative action-adventure in which the player controls R.E.A.C.H., an artificial intelligence in a human body, in Phoenix-City, set in an alternate 1980s America.
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.
Snackrifice
Karnage Studios
Snackrifice is a roguelike with procedurally generated dungeons in which players enter Purgatory to retrieve Imps for their Master. It supports online co-op for up to four players.
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.
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.
Released Indie Games
Garden Ink
Garden Ink is a cosy game in which players start with an empty world and fill it with creatures and plants by merging elements, colouring the scenery and playing minigames.
Cosmodrill
Cosmodrill is a space mining adventure in which the player drills into planets and asteroids, collects resources, upgrades a drill and follows distress signals across an unknown star system.
groky
groky is a puzzle game in which the player guides a creature around a board to eat every ghost and reach an exit portal. It contains 100 levels.
Date Everything!
A dating simulator in which a player who has lost their job to AI receives magic glasses called Dateviators, which let them date the objects in their home.
Burger Shift: Team Rush
Burger Shift: Team Rush is a fast food kitchen game playable solo or in co-op with up to 8 players, where players run stations and fill customer orders.
Dataminers – Artbook and Making-of
A 29-page PDF artbook and making-of for Dataminers, covering the game's development through concept art, sketches, design boards and background information.
A Short Hike
A Short Hike is an exploration game set in Hawk Peak Provincial Park. Players hike, climb and glide across a mountainside island while heading for the summit.
Terrablox
Terrablox is a 3D voxel virtual tabletop for running tabletop RPGs. The GM builds maps from blocks, places tokens, and runs sessions with fog of war and dice. It has no built-in rules or content.
Roll
Roll is a dice-based game where players have 2500 rolls to earn points, then spend them on dice upgrades. It draws on strategy, clicker and roguelike deckbuilder genres.
Chromosome Evil
Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival. Assemble your team using different classes, skills, and weaponry. Will you find the source of the darkness?
Parry Survivor
Parry Survivor is an action game where an anime heroine fights endless waves of enemies called Kuns, using timed deflects to break their guard and finish them with execution moves.
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