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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.
Mikey The Hero: MANIA
MIKEYGAMESSTUDIOS
Mikey The Hero: MANIA is an entry in the Mikey The Hero series. Players control pairs of characters through 27 main stages to stop Fred, collecting Mystic Gems that affect the ending.
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.
Life of a Thug
trippysloth
A crime simulation game set in Corrupticut City, where the player rises from street-level offences to the top of the criminal hierarchy. It is intended for adults.
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.
Projects with Demos
Increvaders
Increvaders is a game in which players destroy swarms of enemies to earn points, spend those points on powers, and face bosses.
Draco and the Seven Scales
A top-down pixel art adventure in which a pirate captain travels by land and sea through seven dungeons to break free from a kraken's bargain and save his greatest treasure.
Temple 13 – Time Collapse
Temple 13 - Time Collapse is a survival horror game in which the player explores an ancient temple, identifies real anomalies among normal surroundings, solves puzzles, and avoids dangerous creatures.
Eco Volunteer
Eco Volunteer is a game about exploring natural areas while collecting and sorting litter, rescuing animals and people, and photographing wildlife across parks, forests and beaches.
Roman Sands RE:Build
Roman Sands RE:Build is an absurdist adventure from the studio behind Paratopic. It interweaves a story set at a tropical resort with one set in a decaying research station.
Ultrapool
Ultrapool is a roguelike pool game in which players build a set of balls with special effects, score by pocketing them, and spend earnings at a bar to improve their set across 10 rounds.
Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn’t
Cursed Words is a roguelike word game in which players build scores using Characters, Stickers, Stamps and Tiles across staged encounters, with words that can later give way to numbers, symbols or nothing.
Corsair Cove
Corsair Cove is a pirate-themed city builder set on a cliff-filled island, combining vertical construction, production chains, crew management and turn-based naval combat against the Crown.
Sea Sweeper
Sea Sweeper is an incremental, run-based game in which the player pilots a ship around a limited stretch of ocean, collecting floating rubbish before the fuel runs out.
Fright Train
Fright Train is a third-person action survival horror roguelike set on a large train travelling through Antarctica, where the player maintains the train while fighting monsters.
Golden Swirl
Golden Swirl is a deckbuilder with semi-real-time action combat, in which players move and dodge enemy attacks while playing cards through procedurally generated dungeons.
Heave Ho 2
Grab, swing and splatter your way through eight ridiculous worlds, now with online chaos alongside the local couch carnage. Heave Ho 2 is dumb fun at its finest.
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
Les aventures extraordinaires d’Alec Orbusier – Acte 1 : Le Tombeau de Taâl Rash’a
A French-language adventure game in which university archaeologist Alec Orbusier explores the forgotten tomb of Taâl Rash'a, solving puzzles and avoiding traps. Act 1 of a series.
Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times
Rhell is a puzzle adventure where you mix and match 40 magic runes to solve puzzles however you like, playing a mage who's a bit too mouthy for her own good.
Turnbound
Turnbound is a strategic autobattler in which players arrange items on a grid and fight asynchronous PvP battles against builds saved by other players, set within a haunted board game.
Jester: A Foolish Ritual
A horror game in which a resurrected knight explores a dark castle, collecting runes to banish a stalking Jester. It can be played solo or in online co-op for up to four players.
Rita
Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.
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.
Nothing Strange Here
Nothing Strange Here is a cozy mystery adventure set in the town of Larcenest Gap, where the player is a new journalist who photographs events and publishes articles that change how the town responds.
Stock Market Crash 2
A stock trading game in which players buy and sell stocks that react to weather, a bull, a bear and each other. It has five modes, including a two-year career, and was made by solo developer CartoonDan.
Sovereign Tower
Sovereign Tower is a kingdom management game in which the player rules from a throne, resolves subjects' requests and sends a court of Knights on quests, with the option to rewind time.
DARKLING
DARKLING is a short first-person, single-player horror game set in a haunted house. The player is locked inside and must find items and solve simple puzzles to escape.
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.
Totally Safe Moon Project
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.
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