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Peekablock
Goose Gang Games
Peekablock is a multiplayer party game where Hiders build custom disguises from shapes and Hunters try to spot which objects are fake.
OBITT Escape from the room
Bears
You stray from a shrine into a room and become a palm-sized person. This is an escape action game to find your way out through trial and error from a miniature perspective. Manage your HP to survive and break free from this giant room! A time attack mode is included for an extra challenge.
Neon Cadence
Meridian Studios
Neon Cadence is a four-lane keyboard rhythm game with 30 original songs across J-pop, K-pop, English and instrumental styles, each charted in three difficulties.
Blob of Ink
DGDev
Blob of Ink is a short incremental game in which players grow a living ink blob by consuming letters, gathering ink, and unlocking magic powers.
Ling House: Echoes Within
Chaotic System
Ling House: Echoes Within is a first-person horror game in which a person trapped in a shifting, sentient house must piece together fragmented memories to uncover the truth.
F2 A! Idle Army
Chris Yu
F2 A! Idle Army is an idle strategy game in which players upgrade a hero and automated army units to defeat endless waves of monsters.
OPEN UP, MICHAEL!
LetsAdventurePlay
OPEN UP, MICHAEL! is a first-person puzzle game where players perform ritual-like actions in a changing hallway to reach room 13.
How Asian Parents went to School
Andy Yeet
A 1-4 player co-op game where players climb mountains, dodge obstacles and outrun a bear to reach school on time.
Projects with Demos
ZOMBUTCHER: Monster Business Simulator
A stealth action simulator where players run a butcher shop for monsters, gathering meat and human flesh under the cover of night while avoiding patrols.
IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator
IRON NEST is a brutal dieselpunk heavy-artillery game where you dominate the battlefield through a colossal war machine. Take map measurements based on the received coordinates, strain the hydraulics, and gunlay the cannons to unleash devastating blows ⟹ Will you obey High Command, Operator?
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a first-person open-world RPG set in a dark fantasy realm inspired by Arthurian legend, offering branching quests and flexible character builds.
Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game
A historically-grounded fantasy homesteading game about finding your way after loss.
Revenge of the Savage Planet
Revenge of the Savage Planet is a first-person exploration and platforming game in which a laid-off space employee explores alien worlds to gather upgrades and secrets.
Voidling Bound
Voidling Bound is a monster-taming 3rd-person shooter with branching evolution, DNA splicing & high-octane battles. Coming Q1 2026 to Steam.
I.T. Never Ends
A tech-support simulator where players process surreal help desk tickets, swiping to approve or deny requests while balancing four shifting metrics.
Empires of the Undergrowth
A real-time strategy game in which players build and manage an ant colony, controlling worker and warrior ants to gather food, expand nests and battle rival colonies and predators.
Ultrapool
Ultrapool is a colourful roguelike where you build a wonky set of pool balls with wild effects and try to survive 10 rounds behind the bar.
BALL x PIT
Chuck balls into a bottomless pit, fuse them into ridiculous combos, and rebuild a city while you're at it. BALL x PIT is roguelite chaos in the best way.
Crumble
Crumble is a physics-based platformer where players swing, jump, and survive collapsing levels using a grappling tongue mechanic.
Alien Morgue
Alien Morgue is a sci-fi pathologist simulator in which players examine alien bodies to determine cause of death and decide how to handle the deceased's remains and belongings.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
Serial World
Serial Project
Serial World is a roguelike dungeon crawler RPG in which Milo explores the town of Bricktown and repeating dungeon loops with a trio of creatures called Anima.
2064: Read Only Memories
MidBoss, LLC.
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco, featuring a branching narrative shaped by player choices.
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds
SEMISOFT
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds is a JRPG-style adventure set in the hand-drawn fantasy world of Legrand, combining turn-based combat with tactical warfare.
33 Immortals
Thunder Lotus
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.
WARCANA
1000 Orks
WARCANA is a real-time base defence strategy game combining deck-building with large-scale army summoning, playable in single-player campaigns or multiplayer battle royale modes.
Town to City
Galaxy Grove
Town to City is a grid-free city builder where players design towns and cities freely, growing population and economy across multiple connected settlements.
Tiny Glade
Pounce Light
Tiny Glade is a relaxing, free-form building game where players construct castles and cottages without goals, resource management, or failure states.
Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
Perspective Games, Bellwood Studios
A city-building simulation set in Aztec Mesoamerica, where players grow a single city into an empire while managing citizens, resources and religion.
The Scouring
Orc Group
The Scouring is a real-time strategy game combining base building, resource management, and army control with an action RPG hero mode and multiplayer battles for up to 8 players.
The Precinct
Fallen Tree Games Ltd
The Precinct is a 1980s-set police sandbox game where you play a rookie cop patrolling a living city, responding to crimes and investigating your father's murder.
The Darkest Files
Paintbucket Games
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.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Questline
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a first-person open-world RPG set in a dark fantasy realm inspired by Arthurian legend, offering branching quests and flexible character builds.
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
Gamexcite
A story-driven survival strategy game in which players command the U.S.S. Voyager, managing its crew and resources through the Delta Quadrant.
Rue Valley
Emotion Spark Studio
Rue Valley is a narrative game about escaping a time loop in a small town, where players shape their character's personality and relationships through repeated days.
Schedule I
TVGS
Schedule I is a business simulation game in which players build a drug empire from scratch in the fictional city of Hyland Point.
Revenge of the Savage Planet
Raccoon Logic Studios Inc.
Revenge of the Savage Planet is a first-person exploration and platforming game in which a laid-off space employee explores alien worlds to gather upgrades and secrets.
REPLACED
Sad Cat Studios
REPLACED is a narrative-driven 2.5D action-adventure set in an alternate 1980s America, following an AI named R.E.A.C.H. trapped in a human body.
MENACE
Overhype Studios
MENACE is a turn-based tactical RPG in which players command a strike force of marines, mercenaries, and criminals across a war-torn star system, managing squads, vehicles, and branching operations against human and alien threats.
Master of Command
Armchair Interactive
Master of Command is a real-time tactical strategy game set during the Seven Years' War, combining battlefield combat with campaign-level army and supply management.
Mars Attracts
Outlier
A theme park management game set on Mars where players run a Martian-owned amusement park stocked with abducted humans from throughout history.
Echo Point Nova
Greylock Studio
Echo Point Nova is an open-world FPS from the makers of Severed Steel, playable solo or in 4-player co-op, combining grapple hook and hoverboard traversal with combat against mercenaries and colossal bosses.
Drova - Forsaken Kin
Just2D
Drova - Forsaken Kin is a pixel art Action-RPG set in a handcrafted open world inspired by Celtic mythology, where players choose a faction and shape the story through their actions.
Cloudheim
Noodle Cat Games
Cloudheim is a physics-based action game where players rebuild a shattered world as a Runari, exploring islands, fighting monsters and crafting gear solo or in up to 4-player online co-op.
City Tales - Medieval Era
Irregular Shapes
City Tales - Medieval Era is a city-building game in which players shape organic medieval settlements, guided by companion characters with developing skills.
Released Indie Games
Tide Of Tactics
Command a medieval army on a grid-based battlefield, master terrain and positioning, and siege your way to victory in Tide Of Tactics.
Diplomacy is Not an Option
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a base-building RTS in which players defend a castle against tens of thousands of enemies across procedurally generated maps.
Little Kitty, Big City
Little Kitty, Big City is an open-world adventure game in which a cat explores a city, meets other animals and works out how to find its way home.
MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls
MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls is a 4v4 tag team fighting game featuring 20 Marvel characters, developed by Arc System Works with PlayStation Studios and Marvel Games.
Traveler Stories: Journeys of Real People
A visual novel with simulation elements based largely on the true stories of real Japanese travellers, told through conversations at a Tokyo bar.
Spiritstead
Spiritstead is a cosy city builder where humans and spirits team up to build a village that's as charming as it is functional.
OBITT Escape from the room
You stray from a shrine into a room and become a palm-sized person. This is an escape action game to find your way out through trial and error from a miniature perspective. Manage your HP to survive and break free from this giant room! A time attack mode is included for an extra challenge.
Dig, Dig, Die
Online co-op horror for 1–6 players. Board a cursed flying ship, raid haunted graveyards for loot, and survive monsters that hear every sound. Beware of UFO abductions, grab boosters from vending machines, gamble in the onboard casino, and embrace pure chaos with friends in voice chat.
Montabi – Art Book
Dive into the visual The Art of Montabi with this digital artbook. Packed with 154 pages of behind-the-scenes concept art, playable creature design sheets, character animation planning, and developer lore insights. The ultimate companion piece for any trainer.
Road Rage Royale
Road Rage Royale is a racing fighting game for 2 to 4 players set in a cyberpunk post-apocalyptic world.
ZEPHON
ZEPHON is a turn-based strategy game combining city building, tactical combat and diplomacy in a post-apocalyptic Earth reshaped by alien forces.
ZERO Sievert
A brutal single-player survival shooter inspired by extraction-based gameplay.
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