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EQUILIBRIUM
Early Access
10 Sep, 2026
Monster Alchemy
Early Access
10 Sep, 2026
Titan’s Shadow Killers
Early Access
10 Sep, 2026
Night Club Simulator: Party King
Early Access
10 Sep, 2026
Shroom and Gloom
Early Access
10 Sep, 2026
WARDOGS
Early Access
10 Sep, 2026
Gunman Contracts – Stand Alone
Early Access
10 Sep, 2026
Mad Mads Madsen
Going Gold
11 Sep, 2026
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Samgood Chronicles DragonFall
sammy chainsaws studios
Samgood Chronicles DragonFall is a retro pixel-art fantasy RPG with turn-based combat, in which a party of four heroes investigates dragon sightings across three kingdoms.
RIPGRAZE
Hullspark
RIPGRAZE is a short arcade score-attack game set in a deep sea, where the player flips gravity and grazes past hazards to build up score.
Play the Wor!d
Sweet Turtles
Play the Wor!d is a deckbuilding roguelite in which players form words from randomly drawn letter tiles and link them by parts of speech to build sentences that generate score.
Bible Trivia – Alchemy
Astro Game Studio
Bible Trivia - Alchemy is a DLC combination puzzle covering the opening events of Genesis, from Creation to the departure from Eden, across eight chapters.
Riruri Tachibana : Reincarnated
OTL GAME
A first-person horror adventure in which players control Haruka, the woman behind virtual streamer Riruri Tachibana, as strange events follow a corrupted livestream. Fully voiced in Japanese with multiple endings.
Dirt Fishing: Metal Detecting Simulator
CalmBee
A metal detecting simulator in which players search forests, beaches and deserts for buried coins, relics and metals, selling finds to fund better equipment.
Temple 13 - Time Collapse
Myhail Systems Studio
Temple 13 - Time Collapse is a survival horror game set in an ancient temple, where the player identifies anomalies, avoids creatures and traps, and solves puzzles to escape.
Skibidi Wars - Supporter Pack
Pakumi
Skibidi Wars - Supporter Pack is a paid DLC for Skibidi Wars that adds a coloured in-game nickname and 20 bonus health at the start of every match.
Projects with Demos
Monster Meals
Monster Meals is a time-based cooking game in which players run a food truck, hunting creatures like rats and pigeons to cook for monstrous customers, solo or in co-op.
Settler’s Domain
Build up your settlement from scratch, manage resources, research new tech and decide whether to make friends or enemies of your neighbours. It's classic settlement building done right.
A Case of Fraud
You've got every clue you need from the start. A missing CEO, a pile of documents, and a fraud only careful reading will crack.
DEADLINE DELIVERY
Race as Carl the monkey mailman in a chaotic racer where your truck’s rigged to blow. Deliver fast, dodge obstacles & survive solo or with 8 players.
Scale the Depths
A fishing and cooking game where a small robot catches, prepares and serves fish to mythical and animal customers across four distinct locations.
Axe & Bow Land
Retro Aztec platformer where brothers Axel & Bowie battle ancient darkness with magical weapons, pixel charm & tough arcade challenge.
Grandpa’s Bee Haven
An idle beekeeping simulator designed to sit at the bottom of the screen while you work. Place hives, assign bees, harvest honey and beeswax, and expand across three maps.
Catnip Fever Dreamland
A level-based action game in which players guide a cat named Krum through his mind, collecting catnip to progress, fighting demon cats and unlocking flashbacks. Supports up to four players.
Dungeons of Hinterberg
Dungeons of Hinterberg is an action-adventure game in which Luisa explores dungeons and open-world terrain in the Austrian Alps, combining puzzle-solving, combat and town-based social activities.
The Mortuary Assistant
A horror game in which you work as a mortuary apprentice, performing embalmings while identifying and banishing a demonic presence hidden among the dead.
Pigeon: A Love Story
Fly through life-size versions of London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and Amsterdam looking for your one true pigeon soulmate. It's a slow game for fast times.
KAPIA
KAPIA is a story-driven point-and-click adventure executed in a classical style of 3D quests from the mid-2000s.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players scavenge, fight and trade while customising cars to stay alive.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure set at a wedding in a French château, combining visual novel storytelling with point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements.
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow
Vertex Horizons
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow is a linear puzzle-adventure game set on a ruined planet, where solving puzzles gradually reveals the story of a lost civilisation.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a narrative game in which you work as a surveillance operator in a retro-futuristic dystopia, monitoring citizens, enforcing laws and making choices that affect the story.
DEVIL'S WAY: BOHEMIAN
Rose Game Studio
A dark comedy survival game in which players guide James DUD through a surreal dystopia run by a malevolent AI, choosing between doors that lead to unpredictable, often hostile scenarios.
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.
Chomp Garden
PawPaw Games
Chomp Garden is a puzzle game in which you play a small lamp guiding plants with light while searching a garden for your lost pup.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
A first-person simulation game about running a shop that sells collectible mystery eggs, with options to open eggs for figures, craft dioramas and trade on an online marketplace.
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2
Skyhook Games
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 is a working simulation set in the USA in which players run a lawn care business using licensed equipment from Kubota, SCAG and STIGA.
Furyball: Rogue Revenge
Rebound
An action roguelite in which you fight through the gang-ruled city of Neo-Arcadia using a bouncing Furyball, modifying it with modules and equipment across procedurally varied runs.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which Kiko, a girl trapped in a spirit world, uses portals and Spirit Powers to alter gravity and time across four seasonal domains.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a speedrun-focused 2D platformer with multiple biomes, seasonal challenge modes and worldwide leaderboards.
The Piper of Dawn
Bone Nail
A story-driven management RPG set in Diamond City, where you play an alchemist growing magical crops and running a shop while dealing with six factions whose support decides the city's fate.
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.
Island Restoration
EliteTheDev
A cleaning game in which you sail between polluted islands, removing hazards, rescuing animals and upgrading tools to restore each one to a natural state.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
A build-focused action roguelite in which you play a Bait Soul fighting through a dangerous dungeon, using auto-attacking weapons, dodging and a loadout system of Soul Orbs and Support Items.
Yami Kids
Yanako RPGs, GameDevTosh
Yami Kids is a retro-styled monster-taming RPG in which twins Yuki and Yuumi Yami collect and train more than 80 Oni while moving between the Overworld and the Underworld.
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
A biographical kinetic novel about Abraham Lincoln, the third entry in the Important People of History series, covering his life, the US Civil War and the end of slavery through present-day photographs of historic sites.
Dash Dot Die
Iron Interactive Games
Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game built around Morse code, in which the player decodes signals through light, sound and timing to survive a captor's deadly game.
It's Fine
Buma Games
It's Fine is an incremental game about surviving the last 24 hours of development crunch, in which players code, upgrade and prestige towards a stable build under a dog Project Manager named Joe.
Gunclone Arena
Off North Games
Gunclone Arena is a top-down arena shooter set in the year 2250, in which a contestant fights waves of Gunclones and Mechs in a televised bloodsport for Cash and follower Likes.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Lorenzo Ametrano
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Released Indie Games
Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers
Blackjack meets deckbuilding roguelike in a twisted tavern where the house always has an edge, until you rewrite the rules yourself.
Elysium Skies
Set out on an epic adventure to restore peace to the world
Fuzz Force: Spook Squad
A roguelite deckbuilder featuring ghost-hunting animals with dice powered weapons.
Deck of Haunts
Deck of Haunts unleashes its biggest free update yet with new creatures, cards, rooms, starter decks & more. Available now on Steam.
Faaast Penguin Original Soundtrack vol.2
The second official soundtrack release for the racing game Faaast Penguin, containing eight tracks based on the game's worlds.
Venice After Dark
A point-and-click adventure and visual novel set in Venice, following programmer Aiko and AI companion Thea as they investigate a mysterious crime through puzzles and blurred realities.
Retail Hell
Retail Hell is a psychological horror job simulator where players run a convenience store trapped between life and death, serving supernatural customers to pay off their debt.
Warcat Parade
Warcat Parade is a Touhou-inspired bullet hell with 6 levels, 6 bosses, pixel art, chiptune music, and one determined punk catboy hero.
ESCAPEAWAY!
ESCAPEAWAY! is a retro-styled endless runner and platformer in which the player flees the Underdepths after being taken there by the Devil.
Angel Clicker
Angel Clicker is an incremental clicker game with optional rhythm elements, in which players help an angelic architect compete in a soul-catching contest against Hell.
Killer Chase
Killer Chase is a reaction-based arcade game in which the player completes rapid input sequences to outrun a killer through Salazar Manor. It includes five levels and an endless mode.
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