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CHAINSPIRE
SKYWARD FRAME
CHAINSPIRE is a co-op soulslike platformer for one to four players in which the party is linked by a physically simulated chain that shapes combat, platforming and puzzles.
Life of a Thug
trippysloth
Life of a Thug is a crime simulation game in which the player works their way up from a street-level nobody to an underworld kingpin in the fictional Corrupticut City.
THE DEAD WE KNEW: Open World Survival
MAY19 STUDIO
Explore a dangerous open world, loot abandoned places, build your shelter, produce food, and manage your resources. Survive alone or in co-op against zombies, hostile humans, and the growing dangers that come with the fog.
AKIBA LOST
IzanagiGames
AKIBA LOST is a live-action suspense game set in Akihabara, Tokyo. Players switch between seven characters in a branching story about a game creator and a new series of disappearances.
Crosstalk
Ongakken
Crosstalk is a sandbox toolset for designing custom computer architectures, SystemVerilog hardware and software, with a built-in simulator, emulator and toolchain. It supports solo and networked play.
We Were Here Tomorrow
Total Mayhem Games
We Were Here Tomorrow is a two-player online co-op puzzle adventure set in a facility run by Norček Industries, where players communicate by walkie-talkie to solve puzzles.
Crypt Survivor
cloud6552
Crypt Survivor is an action roguelite in which players pick a class and descend five floors of a crypt, fighting enemies and bosses to collect the crystals needed to break a curse.
Big Dig
Dan Schumacher, Hjalte Tagmose
Big Dig is a short incremental narrative game in which players dig up artifacts to clear the way for Mayor Dog's highway across the Animal Republic.
Projects with Demos
Axiomatik
Axiomatik is a VR puzzle platformer in which a low-battery robot shoots bouncing balls to light up a dark environment while searching for a charging station before time runs out.
Scale the Depths
Scale the Depths is a fishing game in which a small robot catches, scales and serves fish to non-human customers across four locations, using the earnings to upgrade gear and fish deeper waters.
The Loopler
The Loopler is a roguelite deckbuilder in which a slot car drives around looping tracks while the player drafts cards, places gates and collects charms.
Pigeon: A Love Story
A game about flying across to-scale replicas of London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and Amsterdam in search of a pigeon soulmate.
Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night
A text-based interactive novel by Josh Labelle, set in the World of Darkness, in which the player hunts supernatural creatures in Hollywood or chases a film career.
Apocalypter
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players build and customise cars, scavenge, trade with factions and fight warlords.
Cralon
Cralon is a first-person adventure game inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and RPGs. The player controls a hunter who falls into an abandoned mine shaft and must find a way out.
Songs of Silence
Songs of Silence is a strategy game combining a story-driven single-player campaign with multiplayer skirmish modes set in a hand-crafted fantasy world.
Sewer Crawler
Sewer Crawler is a roguelike that combines 3D dungeon exploration with tactical autobattler combat. Players explore generated sewers and build a team across 7 stages.
Bullet Train
Welcome on the Bullet Train: destroy enemy towers, collect powerful orbs and improve your train! Fight through escalating enemy territory to defeat the creatures that destroyed your town!
ZOMBUTCHER: Monster Business Simulator
A stealth action simulator in which the player is a zombie butcher in a Louisiana town, supplying food and resources to other monsters while avoiding night patrols.
NORCO
NORCO is a point and click narrative adventure set in a fictionalised South Louisiana. The player searches for a missing brother by following a fugitive security android through suburban New Orleans.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
A colossal blade has pierced the world of Armorial, unleashing a storm of enchanted swords from the heavens. Collect and wield an arsenal of these spellbound blades, turning them against the very force that summoned them. In this roguelike ARPG, you will defy the Celestial evil consuming the world!
Indie Demos
SUSHI CHESS
Today's Special!
SUSHI CHESS is a turn-based board game where players move sushi pieces that each carry a price. Capturing a piece costs the capturer its price. It offers puzzles, CPU opponents, and local or online play.
The Tally
Olivia Gonsher
The Tally is a life simulation set in Corvid City, where everyday choices are recorded and totalled on a receipt when the player's life ends, deciding where they are sent next.
Emberville
Cygnus Cross
Emberville is an action-focused adventure game in which the player escapes a vast prison called the Vitromotus, rescues trapped townsfolk, and helps them rebuild their town.
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players build and customise cars, scavenge, trade with factions and fight warlords.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure combining visual novel storytelling, point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements, set at a wedding in France.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia. The player works as an operator who watches citizens through cameras, enforces laws and makes decisions that affect the story.
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.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
A first-person shop simulation in which players run a store selling collectible mystery eggs, open them to find action figures, and build themed dioramas to sell.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
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 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which the player controls Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across a spirit world divided into four seasonal domains.
Telly No Vision
TheMysticSword
Telly No Vision is an action game set in a virtual space where the surroundings are invisible and must be navigated by watching floating TVs that show the world from other perspectives.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a 2D platformer built around speedrunning, with seasonal modes, worldwide leaderboards and biomes that each have their own physics.
Noir
Bœuf Musqué
Noir is a 2D platform game in which the player controls a small ball that sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open an exit portal. A controller is required.
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.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
Bait Soul is an action roguelite with a cultivation theme. Players arrange Soul Orbs and Support Items in a loadout while the character attacks automatically and the player handles movement.
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
Learn all about Abraham Lincoln in this visual novel biography containing rare photos of Lincoln’s hat the day he was shot, the Lincoln Memorial, where he gave the Gettysburg Address, and much more. Lawyer, President, Emancipator - this is Abraham Lincoln! Proudly made in the Washington DC area
Dash Dot Die
Iron Interactive Games
Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game where the player decodes Morse code to survive a maze of corridors, rooms and vents, in a retro PSX and VHS-inspired style.
Monarchs at Play
MixedMoonGames
Monarchs at Play is a turn-based 4X strategy game built around placing buildings, with matches lasting around an hour and support for solo and multiplayer play.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Lorenzo Ametrano
PSI: Pressure Climbing is a movement-based climbing game in which players use a jetpack to scale an underground hydropower grid on a mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Little Ghost
Alan Abbadessa, Law Jun Yan, Eduardo Alexandrino, Leaf Riifuneko
A 2D puzzle-platforming metroidvania in which you play an inch-high ghost exploring a collage-style home office, using movement abilities and a float mechanic instead of combat.
Dig Too Deep
Punch Up Games
Dig Too Deep is a 2D side-scrolling action roguelite with tower defence elements, in which players throw goblins to mine resources, craft defences and fight waves of enemies.
Jarred Defense
Jarred Cat Studios
Jarred Defense is a tower defense game in which players place towers anywhere to shape the enemy path. It includes a story campaign, Endless Mode with leaderboards and a level editor.
Cards, Blades & Fine Print
Crooked Seal Games
A dryly funny single-player card adventure with turn-based battles, 170 enemies, 583 illustrated equipment items, 60 collectible sets, and three freely mixable talent paths – in a fantasy world full of dangerous administration.
Released Indie Games
Slime Slayer: Endless Loot
Slime Slayer: Endless Loot is a loot-focused action game in which the player stays in place and shoots at waves of slimes, building up a character through items, gems and talents.
Gallipoli
Gallipoli is a class-based multiplayer first-person shooter set on the Ottoman Fronts of World War 1, with 25v25 objective battles between British and Ottoman forces.
Memnon: Give Your Games a Voice
Memnon is a Windows app that reads on-screen game dialogue aloud using OCR and assigns a chosen voice to each character. It includes 28 built-in offline voices and needs no modification of the game.
Infinity: HexaDome Tactics
Infinity: HexaDome Tactics is a turn-based tactics game set in the Infinity universe, with a campaign, tactical challenges and duels against AI, friends or other players.
Boundless AI Fantasy
Boundless AI Fantasy is an indie RPG that pairs AI-narrated roleplaying with turn-based tactical combat on an isometric grid. Its language models run locally on the player's own PC.
Arcanum Idle
Arcanum Idle is an incremental game by solo developer rior. Players generate mana from a chalk circle, then progress through six layers of resets, with offline progress and several play styles.
TRUDGE
TRUDGE is a psychological game set in a silent city of repeating days, where the player can break routines, resist temptation and explore unfamiliar paths. It has multiple endings and no dialogue.
SIDE OUT
SIDE OUT is a last-side-standing arena game in which each player defends one edge of a polygon against a ball. Eliminated players become saboteurs who alter the arena for the survivors.
Space Carrier Zero
Space Carrier Zero is a retro space action game in which the player commands a carrier through five acts of route choices, with permanent card upgrades carrying over between runs.
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?
It’s Fine
It's Fine is an incremental game set during the final 24 hours of dev crunch, where players code, upgrade and prestige under Joe, a dog who acts as Project Manager.
Medieval Market Simulator
A shop management game set in a medieval town. Players stock shelves, set prices, customise their store and build a reputation, playing solo or in online co-op with a friend.
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