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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.
Blightstone
Unfinished Pixel
Blightstone is a strategy roguelike in which players protect the Earthglass Crystal and deliver it to the Infernal Rift to defeat the demon overlord Korghul. It is now fully released.
Elsewhere
Four White Cats
Elsewhere is a massive sandbox crafting game where you go from stone tools to fusion power and particle accelerators, with magic, monsters and castles thrown in for good measure.
Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest
IQ Games
A cooperative puzzle platformer for two players, or one playing both characters, featuring forest spirits with different elemental abilities and physics-based levels.
Pixel Washer
Valadria
Pixel Washer is a cleaning game in which the player controls a pig with a power washer, removing dirt from pixel art levels and earning coins to upgrade equipment.
Chicks In Trouble
Creamative
Chicks In Trouble is a 3D farm adventure in which a father rooster searches for his missing chicks. It has separate single-player and co-op campaigns, plus four mini-games.
Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction
Gilded Rune Games
Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction is a noir roguelite in which the player is a detective. Using clues from characters who may be lying, they arrest syndicate members in procedurally generated cases.
Good Heavens!
Nowhere Studios
Good Heavens! is a survival RPG set on procedural floating islands. Players explore, build a home, restore cities and fight bosses, solo or online with up to 8 players.
Projects with Demos
Trading Card Inspector
Trading Card Inspector is a papers-please-style game in which the player checks fictional trading cards for validity, values the genuine ones and shreds the rest, set within Habubis Corporation.
Fantasy Network
Join Lyn in a colorful, cartoonish world of Holua where "Likes" are the ultimate power! Explore a non-linear world, master umbrella-based combat, and smash your way through talent-show boss battles. It’s a metroidvania with a social media soul- no subscription needed.
Nippets: A Hidden Object Game
A hand-drawn hidden object game inspired by the joy of people watching and telling small stories. Shake trees, peek through windows and spin curious objects to uncover secrets and follow the lives of its charming inhabitants.
Noctiria
Noctiria is a horror roguelite deckbuilder set in a decaying 1990s city, featuring six playable heroes, turn-based card combat and card upgrades that carry over between runs.
Vibe City Islands Architect
Vibe City Islands Architect is a small gridless city-building game in which players design and construct a city across a group of tropical islands.
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.
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.
Discremental
Discremental is a released incremental game in which you start with a single disk, loot floors for resources, and spend them on abilities, weapons and skill tree upgrades.
The Bird of the North
The Bird of the North is a deduction game set in 1921, where an ice age has halted the Industrial Revolution and an expedition sets out to find a solution.
Wait, Cards I Memorized?
A memory training game based on the Memory Palace technique, in which players memorise playing cards using body-based memory hooks and association images across three phases.
DualVerse86
DualVerse86 is a 2D retro-futuristic parkour platformer in which players switch between two virtual worlds in real time to avoid traps and complete timed levels.
False Hero
False Hero is an action game in which you use a mask to copy enemy combat skills and choose between rescuing the gods of Life or becoming an apostle of Death.
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 can be played solo or in local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which the player controls Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across a spirit world divided into four seasonal domains.
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 small ball that sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open an exit portal. A controller is required.
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.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
Bait Soul is an action roguelite with a cultivation theme. Players arrange Soul Orbs and Support Items in a loadout while the character attacks automatically and the player handles movement.
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 where the player decodes Morse code to survive a maze of corridors, rooms and vents, in a retro PSX and VHS-inspired style.
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.
Released Indie Games
Echobreaker
Echobreaker is a speedrunning action game set in 2097, where players test an experimental rig on live-fire courses, slowing time and defeating enemies to gain speed and post faster completion times.
Superball
Superball is a multiplayer 3v3 action game. An all-out blast of football in a cyberpunk setting. Choose a hero with unique abilities and conquer the sport of the future. Your accurate passes and strikes, as well as artful defense will lead your team to victory!
Blood Lily: Killers Can’t Sink a Yuri Ship
A B-horror mystery comedy adventure in which college student Lily tries to romance her crush Sally on a trip while serial killers keep interfering. The game has ten endings.
Yooka-Replaylee
Embark on an epic 3D platforming collectathon adventure with Yooka and Laylee! Yooka-Replaylee is packed with new moves, more story, exciting challenges, hidden secrets, and more than double the collectibles to uncover. Can you help them rescue the world’s biggest treasure?
Curve Fever Pro
An online multiplayer arena game where up to 10 players steer constantly moving ships that leave deadly trails, using equipped powers to outlast rivals and take points from them.
Terrablox
A voxel-based virtual tabletop with full 3D building, movement, and fog-of-war. Place voxels in any color with a variety of 3D shape tools like rectangles, cylinders, ramps, pyramids, etc. Import any image as custom standees. Detailed GM control over player vision, teams, dice, and more!
Dirty Laundry
Dirty Laundry is a first-person horror-comedy walking simulator in which Emily, short of money, takes a night shift at a laundry and deals with strange customers.
INKUBO
INKUBO is a horror game in which Eve, trapped in a looping nightmare version of her own home, must spot anomalies, evade hostile entities and make correct decisions to escape.
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LIMINAL SORTING
Liminal Sorting is a relaxing organizing simulator set in a mysterious liminal space. Sort more than 6,000 objects, discover strange rooms, unlock abilities, and enjoy a peaceful experience with moments of suspense and timed challenges. Who knows what secrets that mysterious cat is hiding...
Taskbar Colony
Taskbar Colony is an idle space colony game for Windows that runs in a transparent strip above the taskbar, with colonists building and hauling cargo while you use your PC.
Touhou Koumakyou: New Classic – the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
A vertical-scrolling 2D shoot-'em-up remaster of the 2002 Touhou title, with upscaled graphics, rearranged music by ZUN and a bundled Classic version of the original.
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