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American Cooking Simulator: Multiplayer
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Time To Wake Up
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12 Oct, 2026
Barfender: CO-OP Bar Simulator
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12 Oct, 2026
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2
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14 Oct, 2026
Good Heavens!
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14 Oct, 2026
Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction
Going Gold
15 Oct, 2026
Pixel Washer
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15 Oct, 2026
Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest
Going Gold
16 Oct, 2026
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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.
Home Alone: The Invasion — Playable Teaser
Total Studios Entertainment
Play as Bryan, a 25-year-old investigator, exploring an abandoned farmhouse, solving riddles with cassette tape recordings, and uncovering the dark mystery that leads to the gates of an industrial complex.
Kill Your Darlings
Stray Fawn Studio
Locked in a royal dungeon, you'll need to date your fellow monster inmates and fight alongside them just to survive. Every choice matters, and every playthrough plays out differently.
Truckful
MythicOwl
Truckful puts you behind the wheel of a battered pickup, running deliveries for villagers while a mysterious old forest waits to be uncovered.
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!
Tower Tactics II
asraworks
Deck-building roguelike meets tower defense, now bigger and meaner. Build decks, deploy towers, and hold the line against relentless waves.
Wildaria
SpaceFudge
Tame wild animals, ride them into battle, and explore an endless procedural fantasy world in this GBA-inspired action RPG.
Dragon Dinner
Menut Studios
Dragon Dinner is a fast-paced restaurant management game where players run dragon-staffed eateries, juggling orders, layouts and rising chaos with roguelike progression.
Projects with Demos
Deck of Haunts
Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.
Carnaval Marbles
Carnaval Marbles is a roguelike that combines French billiards with a dark-fantasy carnival setting, where players build each run from Talismans, Marble Bonuses and Runes.
Police Chief Simulator
Police Chief Simulator is a first-person management game in which the player runs a county police station, handling crime reports, staff and patrols across Winston Springs County.
Flamecraft
Flamecraft is a turn-based strategy board game for one to five players, in which players place artisan dragons in town shops to gather resources and earn reputation.
Schrödinger’s Call
When the world is coming to an end, who would you want to speak to one last time? Schrödinger’s Call is a visual novel that lets you experience the pain and salvation of human connection, as if you were turning the pages of a picture book.
Alpha Particle
Alpha Particle is sci-fi action game about a defenceless particle that must overcome it's obstacles creatively
Gnomes
Turn based tower defence meets roguelike as your gnomes defend the garden from an ever growing goblin horde. Every run's different, every night's a fresh fight for survival.
Eco Volunteer
Eco Volunteer is a nature exploration game in which you walk through parks, forests and beaches, collect and sort litter, rescue animals and people, and photograph wildlife.
Dystopicon
Dystopicon is a dystopian time management game in which players earn money by watching television and decide whether to conform or rebel against a controlling society.
Regions of Ruin: Runegate
Embark on an explorative RPG hack-and-slash adventure where you attempt to re-establish a haven for the lost dwarven civilization. Journey across varied lands, help those in need, gather resources and fight off goblins and monsters as you slowly rebuild a home for your people.
33 Immortals
33 Immortals is a co-op action-roguelike supporting up to 33 players in a single run, fighting monster hordes and bosses through instant matchmaking.
Roadhouse Simulator
Pour beer, break up brawls, distill your own liquor, run pig races, deal with gangs and keep the cops off your back as you turn a rundown Route 66 bar into one hell of a Road House.
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
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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 supports solo play or 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 ball that moves, jumps and sticks to platforms, collecting every orb in each level to open an exit portal.
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.
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 with a retro PSX and VHS-inspired look, in which players decode Morse code signals to escape a maze while a single mistake is fatal.
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.
Crown Of Hispania
Regalis Studio
Rewrite the Reconquista in a grand strategy game set in 11th-century Iberia, where population, religion, and war evolve dynamically based on your decisions. Move armies freely across 300 hand-built provinces, manage a deep medieval economy, and face an AI that actually fights back.
Released Indie Games
Lanky Looters
A multiplayer hide-and-seek heist game in which thieves try to steal goods before a timer expires while officers work to stop them, playable online with friends or offline against bots.
Paratopic: Overdub
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Little Ghost
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.
Bears In Space
Unleash your inner bear in this over-the-top bullet-hell FPS! Embark on a zany retro-futuristic adventure and destroy oil-thirsty robots with an outrageous arsenal. Transform into a bear, wield unique powers, and embrace the absurd fast-paced action of Bears in Space!
Node Factory
Node Factory is an idle game where players wire nodes into data pipelines that turn raw data into AI output for profit, while managing power and heat, with the aim of deploying an AGI.
Surviving Mars: Relaunched – Feeding the Future
An expansion for Surviving Mars: Relaunched that adds a food and delicacy system, new production and dining buildings, colonist traits, commander profiles and laws to the colony sim.
Balatro
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
郴州字牌：PaoHuZi
A digital version of Chenzhou Zipai (PaoHuZi), a traditional Hunan card game, with local rules, online multiplayer and private rooms. Now released on Steam.
BOMBANANA!
Chaotic bomb disposal fun with friends & monkeys! Work together as a 3-player co-op team of blind, deaf, and mute monkeys. Each player has only part of the needed information. Communicate, solve puzzles, and race against the clock. Can you defuse the bombs before they explode?
Sydless
Sydless is an ultra-fast movement shooter where your weapon is a chaotic ball that grows deadlier the more you move.
In Other Waters
Play as an Artificial Intelligence guiding a stranded xenobiologist through a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean. A non-violent sci-fi story, enter a world of wonder, fear and vulnerability, unraveling the history and ecology of an impossible planet. What will you discover together?
Elder Gate
Elder Gate is a frantic TD strategy game. Build mines for gold, deploy archers, mages, and spikes, and unleash meteor showers and lightning bolts on your enemies. Your only goal is to protect the portal from all possible monsters at all costs! Don't let a single monster break through!
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