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Early Access
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Mage Fight
Early Access
16 Sep, 2026
Sky Scaffold
Early Access
16 Sep, 2026
Nahualli
Early Access
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Pop! Pachinko
Going Gold
17 Sep, 2026
Quote Typer
Going Gold
17 Sep, 2026
33 Days till Extraction
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Axiomatik
J&J
Squeaky colored VR arcade platformer. Beat the clock as a robot with a draining battery. Crazy new Shoot-2-See! mechanic: Find your way in the dark, shoot glowing laser neons! Travel through quantum portals. And open Schroedinger Boxes: get cute kittens - dead or alive.
Midnight News Report
Lunarbound Games
You watch a news program in the middle of the night featuring an unsettling reporter. As you watch, the world around you begins to warp and become unrecognizable. This is one broadcast you won't soon forget.
BloomKeeper
Resonance Interactive
Bring life back to a world in ashes by guiding the Pouics, solo or in co-op, through a real-time tactical adventure where every region you save must be protected from falling back into the embers.
Tidy Up History
Alienline Softworks
Tidy Up History is a cozy cleaning sim where you inherit a chaotic museum. Tidy messy rooms, unlock new abilities, and find hidden keys to open new wings. Uncover historical knowledge to properly identify and showcase artifacts, returning the museum to its former glory.
The Architect of Nowhere
kollegi51
Young wizard stumbles on an ancient power and becomes a hunted man. A Visual Novel with rpg elements.
Hollow Parish: Dead Frequency
Bakula Vasiliy
Supernatural investigation and management, played from one desk. Read the evidence, identify what is out there, choose who to send, then guide them by radio while the timer runs. A wrong theory kills the people who trusted you. You hear the horror; you never see it.
AFK - Army For Keyboard
Lumethis Ekibi
Your army keeps fighting inside the taskbar while you get on with your day. AFK is an idle RPG built as a fake desktop OS: drag windows, forge gear across ten rarity tiers, climb an endless tower, and settle scores in asynchronous PvP the server replays back to you.
Mars 2099
Oldschool Tobias
Defend humanity's first Mars colony in this fast-paced modern arcade space shooter. Battle asteroid storms, hostile UFOs, complete challenging missions, and master skill-based gameplay inspired by the golden age of arcade classics.
Projects with Demos
Lamp Clicker
Lamp Clicker is an incremental idle clicker game in which players click a lamp to earn money and unlock new lamp types, working towards building a lamp empire.
TOWERPULSE
TOWERPULSE is a single-player tactical survival roguelite set inside a hostile signal tower, where players assemble builds from weapons, upgrades and relics while climbing floor by floor.
FLASH AND DIE
FLASH AND DIE is a horror game where players work as a photographer taking night-time photos of real estate listings, uncovering a hidden truth along the way.
Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter
Turn the page on the explosive 2nd chapter of Nihon Falcom’s legendary Trails saga! Estelle Bright sets out on a new journey across Liberl to uncover the truth behind Joshua’s disappearance and defeat the sinister Ouroboros organization.
BALL x PIT
Chuck balls into a bottomless pit, fuse them into ridiculous combos, and rebuild a city while you're at it. BALL x PIT is roguelite chaos in the best way.
How Asian Parents went to School
A co-operative platforming game for one to four players about making the difficult journey to school, featuring mountain climbs, a flamethrowing bear in a cat mask and an insulting bully character.
Sleeping with the Phish
You're the new intern stuck sorting real emails from phishing scams, one dodgy request at a time. Get it wrong and it's your salary (and secrets) on the line.
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.
Creator Chronicles
A guild management game in which a developer trapped inside their own game must grow a village, recruit guild members and clear dungeons, with members who quit permanently after dying.
The Gate Must Stand
The Continent has fallen and Belrak's last gate needs a defender. Pick your hero, recruit followers, and fight tooth and nail to keep it standing.
Big Breakfast 2
Big Breakfast 2 is a turn-based RPG from Stahmpin' Grounds Studios, styled after 8-bit fantasy RPGs, in which a party travels a world without breakfast in search of food and answers.
Ultrapool
Ultrapool is a colourful roguelike where you build a wonky set of pool balls with wild effects and try to survive 10 rounds behind the bar.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players scavenge, fight and trade while customising cars to stay alive.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure set at a wedding in a French château, combining visual novel storytelling with point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements.
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow
Vertex Horizons
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow is a linear puzzle-adventure game set on a ruined planet, where solving puzzles gradually reveals the story of a lost civilisation.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a narrative game in which you work as a surveillance operator in a retro-futuristic dystopia, monitoring citizens, enforcing laws and making choices that affect the story.
DEVIL'S WAY: BOHEMIAN
Rose Game Studio
A dark comedy survival game in which players guide James DUD through a surreal dystopia run by a malevolent AI, choosing between doors that lead to unpredictable, often hostile scenarios.
Corpus et Spiritus
Arpentor Studio
Corpus et Spiritus is a roguelite deckbuilder with no combat, in which the player, bound by a pact with a Homunculus, practises alchemy in a workshop while trying to escape the pact.
Big Dig
Dan Schumacher, Hjalte Tagmose
Big Dig is a short incremental narrative game in which you dig up historical artifacts to clear the way for a highway across the Animal Republic, then display your finds in a museum.
Chomp Garden
PawPaw Games
Chomp Garden is a puzzle game in which you play a small lamp guiding plants with light while searching a garden for your lost pup.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
A first-person simulation game about running a shop that sells collectible mystery eggs, with options to open eggs for figures, craft dioramas and trade on an online marketplace.
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2
Skyhook Games
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 is a working simulation set in the USA in which players run a lawn care business using licensed equipment from Kubota, SCAG and STIGA.
Furyball: Rogue Revenge
Rebound
An action roguelite in which you fight through the gang-ruled city of Neo-Arcadia using a bouncing Furyball, modifying it with modules and equipment across procedurally varied runs.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which Kiko, a girl trapped in a spirit world, uses portals and Spirit Powers to alter gravity and time across four seasonal domains.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a speedrun-focused 2D platformer with multiple biomes, seasonal challenge modes and worldwide leaderboards.
The Piper of Dawn
Bone Nail
A story-driven management RPG set in Diamond City, where you play an alchemist growing magical crops and running a shop while dealing with six factions whose support decides the city's fate.
Stellar Embers: United Fleet
SOT烈
A 2D real-time space combat game in which you pilot a flagship, command escorts and starfighters, customise your fleet and progress through randomly generated routes with roguelike elements.
Island Restoration
EliteTheDev
A cleaning game in which you sail between polluted islands, removing hazards, rescuing animals and upgrading tools to restore each one to a natural state.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
A build-focused action roguelite in which you play a Bait Soul fighting through a dangerous dungeon, using auto-attacking weapons, dodging and a loadout system of Soul Orbs and Support Items.
Yami Kids
Yanako RPGs, GameDevTosh
Yami Kids is a retro-styled monster-taming RPG in which twins Yuki and Yuumi Yami collect and train more than 80 Oni while moving between the Overworld and the Underworld.
True Vikings
Hamsters Gaming
A narrative Viking game set from 849 AD in which a warrior from a Northern village follows one of three paths through raids and battles across Europe, leading to more than 20 endings.
Important People of History: Presidents - Abraham Lincoln
Sunny Demeanor Games
A biographical kinetic novel about Abraham Lincoln, the third entry in the Important People of History series, covering his life, the US Civil War and the end of slavery through present-day photographs of historic sites.
Dash Dot Die
Iron Interactive Games
Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game built around Morse code, in which the player decodes signals through light, sound and timing to survive a captor's deadly game.
It's Fine
Buma Games
It's Fine is an incremental game about surviving the last 24 hours of development crunch, in which players code, upgrade and prestige towards a stable build under a dog Project Manager named Joe.
Gunclone Arena
Off North Games
Gunclone Arena is a top-down arena shooter set in the year 2250, in which a contestant fights waves of Gunclones and Mechs in a televised bloodsport for Cash and follower Likes.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Book Club Games
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Released Indie Games
Rehaunted
Rehaunted is a first-person psychological detective horror game in which detective Connor Raines investigates a woman's death inside a house where the evidence contradicts itself.
Dawn Dew – Realm Heart
Realm Heart is a DLC for Dawn Dew that continues the main game's story, adding two explorable areas, six new bosses and a dash ability restricted to the new scenes.
ZapStick
ZapStick is a physics-based party game in which players use crystal-charged magic sticks to zap opponents across a forest arena, playing solo, against AI or with friends.
Water Sort:Alchemy
Water Sort: Alchemy is a 3D liquid-sorting puzzle game set in an alchemy workshop, in which players pour coloured liquids between glass bottles until each contains a single colour.
OminouSushi
OminouSushi is a merge puzzle game set in a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant, where players combine matching sushi in a tank while spotting anomalies that appear on the belt and around the shop.
Strip Mall Simulator
A management simulation in which players run a strip mall, starting from a single convenience store and expanding across four shop types, playable solo or in co-op for up to four players.
Awaken The Time
A Twisted Time Travel Action-adventure game has 3 Gameplay styles in one game : Samurai, shooter, cyborg Travel in Time and discover the story-based!
Forty Depths Beneath Knossos: The Minotaur’s Maze
A maze-navigation game in which players take the role of Daedalus, sealed inside the labyrinth he built for King Minos, and must descend through forty hand-made mazes to reach the surface.
Orebits
Orebits is an incremental mining game set in space, in which players bounce a pickaxe to break asteroids, explore a roguelite tech tree and send resources back to Earth.
Of Nooks and Nonsense: A Pirate Hidden Object Game
A hidden object game set in a chaotic pirate scene at sea, where players search a hand drawn illustration to find 100 unique objects.
The Last of RAM
The Last of RAM is a movement-focused first-person shooter in which the player breaks into high-security data centres to steal RAM, combining parkour, gunplay and melee combat.
Heave Ho 2
Grab, swing and splatter your way through eight ridiculous worlds, now with online chaos alongside the local couch carnage. Heave Ho 2 is dumb fun at its finest.
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