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What's Coming
Full calendarSeptember 2026
Backrooms Protocol
Early Access
11 Sep, 2026
Life of a Thug
Early Access
11 Sep, 2026
SoundStone
Early Access
11 Sep, 2026
WORDLACE
Going Gold
12 Sep, 2026
Urban Struggle
Early Access
12 Sep, 2026
Duty Guvnor
Going Gold
13 Sep, 2026
Stack Together: To the Moon – Stack, Build & Escape
Going Gold
13 Sep, 2026
Fantasy Bird Woods
Going Gold
13 Sep, 2026
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Sad Virus Ruined Land
Valkeala Software, Kendall Studios
Sad Virus Ruined Land is a third-person walking simulation game in which players guide Sad Virus through a dystopian ruined land to collect nine hidden beer bottles.
Burger Shift: Team Rush
Nova Telum Studio
A co-operative fast food kitchen simulation for one to eight players, in which teams run kitchen stations, fill orders and handle unexpected events together.
Your Story: Games with Death
BoldBox
A text-based Choose Your Own Adventure game set in the Middle Ages, following a young adventurer who leaves home to explore unknown lands. Over 2,000 events and more than 200 ways to die.
Post Office: Tidy Up!
Mao Den Games
Post Office: Tidy Up! is a single-player sorting simulator in which 3,360 parcels scattered by an earthquake must be returned to their correct slots across a 20 by 20 metre depot.
VRetro
fenigem
VRetro is a VR puzzle-platformer in which the player finds a key on each floor of a tower, unlocks a case and builds the next floor, up to a maximum of one hundred floors.
Mad Mads Madsen
Tomas Fawkes
Mad Mads Madsen is a story-driven psychological horror game in which you explore a house as a man from a family with a history of madness, uncovering his past while trying to find a way out.
Life of a Thug
trippysloth
Life of a Thug is a crime simulation game set in Corrupticut City, in which the player rises from a street-level nobody to an underworld kingpin through escalating criminal activity.
Murmuring of Moth Mouth
VAINSANE
A short psychological horror visual novel in which Yuna drives overnight toward a trial placement and receives videos from an abandoned account that appear to show her own journey.
Projects with Demos
Late Order
Late Order is a first-person horror game set in a fast-food restaurant, where you work the night shift while a supernatural entity possessing the restaurant's mascot enforces a set of rules.
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.
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.
Ravenous Devils
Ravenous Devils is a point and click management game about a tailor shop and pub that turn customers into ingredients and clothing materials.
PlateUp!
Run a restaurant with up to four mates, cook like mad, and try not to burn the whole place down. Chaotic co-op cooking at its finest.
Ling House: Echoes Within
A first-person horror game set in a shifting house where the player wakes with fragmented memories and must investigate anomalies to uncover what happened there.
Welcome to Elderfield
Welcome to Elderfield is a horror-themed farming and life sim RPG set in a strange town, combining crop growing, fishing, mining and relationships with optional turn-based combat against eldritch beings.
Cursed and Fading
A roguelike in which every tile you cross costs a stat point. Manage six fading attributes, gather equipment, and reach the lich who cursed you before your body fails.
Regions of Ruin: Runegate
Play the last of the dwarves, rebuild a shattered civilization, and hack your way through a monster-infested world in this explorative RPG.
Fill The Void
Fill The Void is a physics-based incremental 3D platforming collectathon in which players control a black hole that grows by consuming objects across themed diorama levels.
CloverPit
A rusty cell, a slot machine, and a debt that could kill you. CloverPit is Balatro meets Buckshot Roulette, and it's brutal.
Roguecraft DX
Roguecraft DX is a turn-based roguelike ported from the Commodore Amiga to PC, in which one of three heroes descends through a procedurally generated dungeon with permadeath.
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
Lorenzo Ametrano
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Released Indie Games
Road Rage Royale
Road Rage Royale is a racing fighting game for 2 to 4 players set in a cyberpunk post-apocalyptic world.
Murdercartel
Murdercartel is an online 2D fantasy MMORPG in which players fight monsters, clear dungeon bosses, gather resources, craft equipment and train a range of professions in a handcrafted world.
Nothing Strange Here
A mystery adventure in which you play a newly arrived journalist in the town of Larcenest Gap, photographing events and publishing articles that change how the town reacts.
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!
New Home
New Home is a short first-person horror game set in a changing house, where players spot anomalies, pass through doors to other locations and search for a way out.
EVERSPACE™
EVERSPACE is a single-player action space shooter with roguelike elements. Players fly through procedurally generated levels, fight in dogfights, gather resources and craft equipment across repeated runs.
Black Desert
Played by over 20 million Adventurers - Black Desert Online is an open-world, action MMORPG. Experience intense, action-packed combat, battle massive world bosses, fight alongside friends to siege and conquer castles, and train in professions such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and more!
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.
The Mortuary Assistant
A horror game in which you work as a mortuary apprentice, performing embalmings while identifying and banishing a demonic presence hidden among the dead.
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is a checkpoint management game where players screen survivors for infection during a zombie outbreak while managing base resources and defences.
Orc Incremental
Orc Incremental is an idle auto battler in which the player builds an orc warband by drafting unit and totem cards, sets formations, casts spells and ascends for permanent bonuses.
Bronzebeard’s Tavern
Bronzebeard's Tavern is a co-op restaurant management sim where up to 8 players run a dwarven tavern, serving customers and preparing food together.
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