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Deal Flipper
Early Access
2 Nov, 2026
Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder
Going Gold
3 Nov, 2026
Corpus et Spiritus
Going Gold
3 Nov, 2026
Dead Sector
Early Access
3 Nov, 2026
Tabula
Going Gold
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Abashed
Going Gold
4 Nov, 2026
Backmarkers: A Racing Management Sim
Going Gold
4 Nov, 2026
Diamonds and Spades
Going Gold
5 Nov, 2026
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Recently Released
Oddments & Offerings
Black Pine Games
Oddments & Offerings is an Early Access game in which the player runs an antique shop by day and explores dangerous locations by night to find items to sell or collect.
Totally Safe Moon Project
Fake Moon
A solo or online co-op game for up to four players in which players build a tower to the Moon and deliver a laser to destroy an asteroid threatening Earth.
CryptidCam
Mothman Mothman Studios
CryptidCam is a short photography adventure in which the player photographs cryptids in the woods for a cryptozoologist named Dr. Ted Krupp. It features eight creatures to find and photograph.
Tom the Postgirl
Oopsie Daisies, ARTE France
Tom's just a postgirl doing her rounds, but she can't resist peeking through every window and door in this weird little village. Turns out everyone's got something to hide.
Danchi Days
sandy powder, Melos Han-Tani, mogumu, gingham games
A 12-year-old girl tries to revive her danchi's summer festival while reconnecting with her grandma, who's living with dementia. Sweet, funny, and a little sad.
Crosstalk
Ongakken
Crosstalk is a sandbox toolset for designing custom computer architectures, SystemVerilog hardware designs, and software, with built-in simulation, emulation, and a bundled LLVM and Clang toolchain.
INTUS
Nahuel Martinez
INTUS is a short, first-person psychological horror game set in a rented apartment, where the player spends a weekend operating an inspection robot remotely to complete work reports.
Pixel Coloring World
Milk Poison
Pixel Coloring World is a colour-by-number pixel art game with 12 themed images across four canvas sizes, from 50×50 to 200×200 pixels.
Projects with Demos
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.
(TwwwT) The Witches Who Weave Timelines
A 2D action roguelite in which players control witches across seven distorted timelines, fighting through stages to correct a collapsing history. Each witch has her own mechanics and level design.
Songs of Silence
Songs of Silence is a single-player and multiplayer fantasy strategy game with an eight-map story campaign, three factions, and skirmish modes for up to six players.
Nuktedan: The Forgotten Emotions
Nuktedan: The Forgotten Emotions is a top-down puzzle-adventure in which a small bird restores colour to a monochrome world shaped by Alzheimer's, solving laser puzzles with emotion-based abilities.
Hexarchy
Hexarchy is a turn-based 4X strategy game combining city building, deckbuilding and hex-based tactics. Games are designed to last less than an hour.
The Ratline
A detective game set in 1971. The player investigates a murdered priest in Budapest and a secret list of Nazi fugitives, following leads across continents to identify them.
Acceptable Losses
Acceptable Losses is a strategy game set in trench warfare in which the player is an officer assigning missions to squads over twenty days, balancing orders from HQ against the lives of their men.
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.
Dirty Laundry
Unable to hold down a job, Emily tries her luck on the night shift at a local laundromat. However, what starts as an ordinary job quickly turns into a nightmare as bizarre customers arrive, and the dark secrets of one particularly suspicious nightly visitor change her life forever.
Roguecraft DX
A roguelike with procedurally generated dungeons and three playable heroes. Originally written in Assembly for the Commodore Amiga, it has been ported to PC.
Dewdrop
Dewdrop is a physics-based music puzzle game in which players draw vines that work as instruments. Falling droplets produce sounds as they bounce off them. No music theory is needed.
VOIDFACE
VOIDFACE is a bullet hell game in which every enemy is a boss and the player has a single life. Players dodge and shoot through encounters, using spells and unlocking hats and artworks.
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
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.
DWARRF: A Pinball Roguelike
Sam Stubbings
DWARRF is a roguelike mixing pinball, pachinko and bubble shooter play. As Arf, a pirate dwarf, the player fires balls from a cannon to fight enemies through four levels in the mines.
Released Indie Games
Hello Golf
Hello Golf is a minimalist 2D golf game with procedurally generated courses. It offers a career mode, a daily course, side modes and local multiplayer for up to 16 players.
Driving Test Simulator
Driving Test Simulator is a driving game with a choice of cars, manual and automatic gearbox controls, left-hand and right-hand drive support, and several game modes.
Depth of Mind
Depth of Mind is a dark roguelike deckbuilder with JRPG elements. Players descend through procedurally generated layers of consciousness, fighting ideas, fears and distorted fragments of personality.
Before Your Eyes
A first-person narrative adventure in which the player's real-life blinks, detected by webcam, control the story of a soul recounting their life to a Ferryman on the way to the afterlife.
Celeste
A single-player platformer in which the player guides Madeline up Celeste Mountain. It is made by the creators of TowerFall and follows a story about self-discovery.
False Hero – Supporter Offering
Supporter Offering is an optional pack for False Hero that includes the Spectral Set, which has no gameplay effect. Buying it supports the developer, Florian, and his future games.
Mudang
Mudang is an endless survival game with a Korean shamanic theme. A Mudang performs a rite across six worlds, serving one of five gods while fending off waves of wraiths.
Skyrift
Skyrift is an arcade game in which the player controls the last robot of its kind and defends a planet by deflecting projectiles back at attacking alien spaceships.
A Short Hike
A Short Hike is an exploration game set in Hawk Peak Provincial Park. Players hike, climb and glide across a mountainside island while heading for the summit.
Neon Cadence
Neon Cadence is a keyboard rhythm game set on a synthwave highway. Players hit notes across four lanes using the D, F, J and K keys, with 30 original songs across three difficulties.
Dragon Dinner
An explosive cocktail of intense strategic action and deceivingly cute dragons! Manage chaotic clients and strategically design your restaurants layouts to handle the rush and serve endless waves of hungry dragons.
Monster Meals
Monster Meals is a cooking game in which players run a food truck as a monster chef, hunting animals for ingredients and serving monstrous customers. It supports solo and co-op play.
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