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SYNTAX WARS
Mosan Game Studio
SYNTAX WARS is a cyberpunk duelling game in which both players choose a move in secret and reveal together. Six fighters are available, with CPU, arcade and local two-player modes.
JOHN GLEEP
monthbug
JOHN GLEEP is an action-roguelike in which a small alien pilots a UFO to abduct gamblers from planets and fill a pachinko-style casino, aiming to repay a debt to a mob boss.
Gas N Cars
Yorf Studio
Gas N Cars is a petrol station game where players fuel, clean and repair customers' cars, buy new tools from a delivery truck, and can choose to cause chaos instead of providing good service.
Hope in the City
Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.
A narrative mystery set in Shenyang, China. Players control 17-year-old Hope Song, who uses sketches to investigate her parents' disappearance.
The Vast White
Horizon Games
The Vast White is a snowboarding exploration game in which a mouse arrives at a nearly forgotten ski resort and helps its residents reopen it.
Reality Drift
Arganoid Industries
A racing game where players deliver packages to godlike creatures across strange worlds, choosing each next track and its linked upgrades in real time. It includes 26 missions and some roguelike deckbuilding.
The Devil's Due
Games People Play
A roguelike poker game in which the player fights demonic monsters one-on-one. Poker hand strength sets damage dealt, and both sides draw from a shared deck.
TANUKI: Pon's Summer
Denkiworks
Hop on your BMX and deliver packages as a tanuki with one summer to save its shrine before the big festival. Wholesome, busy and full of charm.
Projects with Demos
Die Severed
Die Severed is a dice-based gambling roguelike in which players roll five dice to build poker hands and reach score targets at an underground casino to pay off a debt.
Town to City
Town to City is a grid-less city builder with voxel graphics. Players build and manage towns in story or sandbox mode, shaping terrain and connecting multiple settlements.
Fish Lab
Fish Lab is a short incremental game in which players collect fish for a lab, with the action synced to music. Fish are collected by hovering the cursor over them.
Revolver 21
Revolver 21 is a narrative card game set in the Soviet Union during World War II. Blackjack rounds end with Russian Roulette, and the story centres on a soldier named Mikhail.
Fangtopia
Fangtopia is a cosy hex-tile puzzler where you build a monster-friendly paradise, no scares, no timers, just gentle chills and satisfying landscapes.
771
771 is a first-person horror walking simulator with a playtime of about 30 minutes. Seven developers each spent one day building it, without seeing what the others had made.
Master of Command
A real-time tactical strategy game set during the Seven Years' War. Players lead an army through a procedurally generated campaign, managing supplies, regiments and battles.
Tiny Glade
Tiny Glade is a free-form building game in which players create castles and small dioramas from meadow settings. It has no management, combat or failure states.
Bullet Train
Bullet Train is a reverse tower defense roguelike with train combat. Players fit a train with weapons, upgrade orbs and trinkets to fight creatures that destroyed their town.
Jarred Defense
Jarred Defense is a maze-building tower defense game in which players place towers anywhere to shape enemy paths. It features a story campaign, Endless Mode, and a level editor.
The Loopler
The Loopler is a roguelite deckbuilder in which a slot car drives repeated laps of a track. Players draft cards, place gates and collect charms to build up scores and speed.
Riruri Tachibana : Reincarnated
A first-person horror adventure in which players control Haruka, a virtual streamer whose real life becomes unsettling after a livestream is cut off by a glitch. It has multiple endings.
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
DEEPLANDERS
SOPA Games
DEEPLANDERS is a minimalist construction puzzle game in which players build underground cities and find a suitable home for each arriving character. It is currently in Early Access.
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.
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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.
Released Indie Games
Olga – Episode 1
Olga - Episode 1 is a short, episodic first-person narrative walking simulator. The player follows Olga, who stays with her grandparents in the isolated mountain village of Belovodica.
Sea Sweeper
Sea Sweeper is an incremental, run-based game in which the player pilots a ship around a limited stretch of ocean, collecting floating rubbish before the fuel runs out.
Silky Rails
Silky Rails is a game where players build a train from different carts and travel the Silk Road, defending against waves of enemies at each station. Combat is handled automatically.
Esoteric Ebb
Esoteric Ebb is a single-player CRPG inspired by the freedom of tabletop adventures. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Become a cleric of legends or completely ruin the campaign.
Code Velocity
Code Velocity is a 2D multiplayer chase game set in an animal city, where players type to move as either a police officer or a thief. It supports 1V1, 2V2 and 1V3 online matches.
Unemployment Simulator 2018
A survival game set in 2018 in a single-bedroom flat in a Nordic welfare state. The player manages the bodily needs and mental health of a long-term unemployed person and plays through dream sequences.
Secrets of Thoth
Secrets of Thoth is a first-person adventure set at a remote Templar outpost in the Alps, in which players take the role of a knight named Caelan and explore ancient sites while solving puzzles.
Big Dig
Big Dig is a short incremental narrative game in which the player digs up artifacts to clear the way for Mayor Dog's highway across the Animal Republic, and displays finds in a museum.
FlashBoss – Greek Roots
FlashBoss - Greek Roots is a flashcard-based vocabulary pack that teaches English words through their Greek roots, prefixes and endings, using 1,000 cards grouped into word families.
A Very Simple Idle Game
An idle game with six upgrades and three currencies. Income grows with each tick but resets when the player buys an upgrade, so holding back from purchases raises rewards.
Iron Wasteland
Iron Wasteland is a post-nuclear survival game in which the player scavenges, completes missions and defends a settlement from enemy attacks that occur every six days.
Let Me Poo!
Let Me Poo! is an incremental idle clicker and desktop companion in which a bald man headbutts through walls built by his landlord. It can run full screen or as a floating overlay on the desktop.
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