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20 Oct, 2026
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22 Oct, 2026
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23 Oct, 2026
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23 Oct, 2026
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Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest
IQ Games
Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest is a two-player cooperative puzzle platformer in which players control elemental forest spirits, with the option to play solo by controlling both characters.
Pixel Washer
Valadria
Pixel Washer is a power washing game, now in early access, in which a pig cleans dirt from pixel art levels and spends earned coins on equipment upgrades.
Chicks In Trouble
Creamative
A peaceful farm is thrown into chaos when a mother hen's chicks mysteriously vanish! Team up with the brave father rooster and embark on a quirky, obstacle-filled adventure to bring them home. Grab your mouse or gamepad—it's time to save the flock!
Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction
Gilded Rune Games
A solo deduction roguelite with over 200 roles, set in a noir city run by a criminal syndicate. Investigate everyone, make arrests and protect your reputation. Take down the syndicate and don’t get duped like the rest. Everyone is a suspect, trust no one. No friends required.
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2
Auroch Digital
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 is a fast-paced retro FPS sequel set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, currently in development.
Good Heavens!
Nowhere Studios
Good Heavens! is a co-op survival RPG set on procedural floating islands, where up to eight players explore, fight, build a home and help rebuild the settlements of Xant-Rar.
Hungry Horrors
Clumsy Bear Studio
Hungry Horrors is a pixel art card game in which a reluctant princess cooks traditional British and Irish dishes to feed monsters from folklore and break a curse on her kingdom.
American Cooking Simulator: Multiplayer
Freedom Burger Games
A cooperative multiplayer cooking game for up to four players, in which burgers are prepared by shooting ingredients with firearms at a fast food restaurant called Joe's Freedom Burgers.
Projects with Demos
Cat Me If You Can
Cat Me If You Can is a charming and cozy game where you explore beautifully handcrafted black-and-white worlds, searching for hidden cats to photograph and bring their colours back into the world.
Undying Flame
Undying Flame is a top-down wave-survival rogue-lite in which players shoot enemies, collect the wood they drop and feed a campfire that serves as the health indicator.
VOIDFACE
VOIDFACE is a bullet hell game where every enemy is a boss and the player has only one life. Players dodge and shoot, use spells, and unlock hats and artworks.
Town to City
Town to City is a grid-free city builder where players design towns and cities freely, growing population and economy across multiple connected settlements.
Aaero2
Tune into Aaero2 - a heart-pounding rhythm-shooter with 20 stunning alien worlds, each powered by a legendary Monstercat track. Trace ribbons of light, unleash devastating firepower, and conquer colossal bosses! Play solo or co-op and feel every beat as you fight to the soundtrack.
Weekend Solitaire 7 Grace In Motion
Weekend Solitaire 7: Grace in Motion is a card-matching solitaire game set in forest landscapes, with over 200 levels across three game modes.
Space Carrier Zero
Space Carrier Zero is a retro space action game with an incremental twist. The player commands a carrier through a five-act route to destroy a final planet, using weapons, relics and permanent card upgrades.
Look to the Birds
A first-person birdwatching game in which a young birder on a family road trip photographs more than 30 bird species across the forests, wetlands and shores of New England and Atlantic Canada.
Nightwater
Nightwater is a resource-gathering and automation game set on an island in a starlit void, where players build factories and advance through technology to reach a lighthouse.
Jarred Defense
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.
Dash Dot Die
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.
The Darkest Files
The Darkest Files is a narrative investigation game in which players prosecute Nazi-era war crimes in 1950s Germany as a young prosecutor working under Fritz Bauer.
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.
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.
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.
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 players control Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across levels set in a spirit world.
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
Zero Stress King: Idle Defense
A short relaxing incremental game disguised as a tower defense, but enemies can’t reach your walls. Thanks to lava.
Temple 13 – Time Collapse
Temple 13 - Time Collapse is a survival horror game set in an ancient temple, where players investigate anomalies, avoid creatures and traps, solve puzzles and uncover the fates of earlier explorers.
Zone//Zero
Zone//Zero is a sci-fi first person shooter in which players run through mazes that change on every playthrough, using an arcade structure and leaderboards.
Important People of History: Presidents – Abraham Lincoln
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
My Darling Dark Elf
A linear visual novel about Nienke, a dark elf in the village of Alpenrose, whose quiet life changes when a tall, cheerful dark elf named Merel claims to be her childhood friend.
Aquarium Anomaly
A short first-person observational game set in a looping aquarium shark tunnel, where players spot anomalies to progress and are sent back to the start if they choose wrongly.
How to Fish
How to Fish is a physics-based fishing simulator for one to four players, in which a boating accident leaves players stranded on a small island.
Vortha racing
A high-speed arcade racer inspired by Trackmania. Race against the clock across 20 unique tracks, compete for the top spot on global leaderboards, and earn your medals. Race agains you best time, or other players best times.
Trumps Of Albion
Trumps Of Albion is a persistent online card game set in a post-Camlann Britain, where a single hand of cards is used both to travel a map of the British Isles and to fight tactical duels.
Town to City
Town to City is a grid-free city builder where players design towns and cities freely, growing population and economy across multiple connected settlements.
Suba Pogo
A 2D precision platformer where the player climbs using a single pogo stick, setting an angle and charging a jump gauge. It is published under CCMC Corp.'s holo Indie brand.
Cards, Blades & Fine Print
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.
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