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AFK - Army For Keyboard
Lumethis Ekibi
Your army keeps fighting inside the taskbar while you get on with your day. AFK is an idle RPG built as a fake desktop OS: drag windows, forge gear across ten rarity tiers, climb an endless tower, and settle scores in asynchronous PvP the server replays back to you.
Travel Agency Simulator
World of Travel
An incremental management game about growing a travel agency from a single desk into a worldwide network of tours, hotels, cruises and landmark experiences.
Yokai Parade
CITTA FOX
A resident idle game where a yokai parade ambles along the bottom of your screen. Fill your codex while you work; the koban they gather unlock rarer, stranger spirits... maybe. Now and then, a festival lights up the night market. Care to let a habit-forming yokai world walk across your PC?
Family Manners
Ronney
Family Manners is a first-person psychological horror game with an old cartoon aesthetic, following Mr Evans as he returns home to a family life that hides a darker truth. Playtime is around one hour.
Dragon Shelter
Wild Forest Studio
Rebuild your grandpa's abandoned farm, befriend loyal dragons with their own quirks and powers, and bring a forgotten world back to life.
Silky Rails
JoyDoza
Silky Rails is a train-building survival game where players assemble and upgrade carts to automatically battle waves of enemies along the Silk Road.
HITLESS
YOHAKU GAMES
HITLESS is a dodge-only bullet hell with no attack button. Each stage is cleared by surviving 15 seconds, and your score is the stage you reach on the online leaderboards.
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.
Projects with Demos
Duo Quest
Your bond is your greatest weapon! Team up with a friend to battle monsters by answering quirky and thought-provoking questions about each other, while building decks and exploring an ever-changing world. Can your relationship survive the ultimate test?
Moss: The Forgotten Relic
Moss: The Forgotten Relic is an atmospheric puzzle-adventure combining Moss and Moss: Book II into a single adventure, guiding a small mouse hero through a fallen kingdom.
Axiomatik
Squeaky colored VR arcade platformer. Beat the clock as a robot with a draining battery. Crazy new Shoot-2-See! mechanic: Find your way in the dark, shoot glowing laser neons! Travel through quantum portals. And open Schroedinger Boxes: get cute kittens - dead or alive.
Dragon Shelter
Rebuild your grandpa's abandoned farm, befriend loyal dragons with their own quirks and powers, and bring a forgotten world back to life.
Slash-Out: Fantasy Dueling
In Slash-Out, master the sword and shield to survive in a land where every fight is a boss fight. Darkness is rising. An ancient evil has returned. Embark on a quest to restore peace, but be warned, a gauntlet of fearsome opponents stand in your way. Many have tried and failed, will you prevail?
Hazard Pay
Hazard Pay is a pixel-art, grid-based block-pushing puzzle game set in a dystopian world, in which the player works alone to destroy evidence in abandoned and contaminated facilities.
Echoes of Mora VR
Swim with your own arms through a mysterious sunken village in VR. Hidden in flooded houses lie traces of those who lived here. One of them is Mora. Follow her trail through portals to the days before the flood and help her find her lost brother. What you uncover could change everything.
Shuffle and Seek
Shuffle and Seek is a 2-4 player party game of memory and mischief! You split into two teams: one secretly rearranges everything in the room, and the other tries to figure out exactly what changed.
Drova – Forsaken Kin
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.
Anima Gate of Memories: I&II Remaster
A third-person action RPG that brings to life the world of Gaia from the Anima: Beyond Fantasy RPG table-top books. Explore a deep and multifaceted story where your choices and actions directly impact the journey and decide the fate of the characters.
Fish Lab
A short incremental game about collecting fish for a laboratory, with collection timed to the beat of the music.
Heroes Suck
A dungeon defence game in which you lay out a route of physics-based traps and use active powers to stop heroes reaching your treasure, with permanent upgrades and a town to rebuild.
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
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.
Shuffle and Seek
Groovy Zebra Studio
Shuffle and Seek is a 2-4 player party game of memory and mischief! You split into two teams: one secretly rearranges everything in the room, and the other tries to figure out exactly what changed.
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.
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.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Jump, dash, dodge, and fight countless stellar bosses in a 2D action-platformer playable solo or with up to 8 players locally, featuring unlockable powers, upgrades, cinematic QTEs, and an emotional story.
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.
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
Bait Soul is a top-down Dungeon Crawler Roguelike. It blends dungeon exploration with Survivors-style auto-attacks. Accessible yet deep, it retains the thrill of looting, with unique, game-changing mechanics hidden everywhere.
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 built around Morse code, in which the player decodes signals through light, sound and timing to survive a captor's deadly game.
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.
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.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Book Club Games
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Little Ghost
Alan Abbadessa, Law Jun Yan, Eduardo Alexandrino, Leaf Riifuneko
Chill metroidvania maximizes non-linear exploration & puzzle-platforming. Frequent checkpoints, no currency, no combat. Gain friends & abilities. Collectables-as-media; tarot cards, weird podcasts, and songs from over 20 bands; all found within a surreal papercraft world.
Dig Too Deep
Punch Up Games
A 2D side-scrolling action roguelite with tower defence elements, in which you play a troll who throws goblins to mine resources, craft defences and fight off waves of enemies.
Released Indie Games
Outbound
Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.
The Doomed Draw (大凶)
One fortune slip a day. With a one-in-a-thousand chance, your day of great misfortune arrives. If there is something you keep putting off deciding — then make your decision when that day of great misfortune arrives.
Flamecraft
Flamecraft is a 1-5 player cozy strategy game filled with magic. Become a Flamekeeper and help adorable dragon artisans find the perfect home. Enchant the town’s stores and fill them with dragon cards as you watch the whimsical shopping district come to life.
Green vs Tan
Green vs Tan is a tower defence game in which players place plastic toy soldiers to defend a toy box across more than 100 levels, playable solo, in co-op or in multiplayer battles.
Duty Guvnor
Duty Guvnor is a roguelike about running a police station on night duty in 1975, managing four constables, four cells and three meters across a single eight-hour shift.
Pop! Pachinko
Pop! Pachinko is a pachinko roguelite with city pop vibes. Build up your collection of enchanted balls to fire into the machine. Collect charms to build up powerful synergies between your balls. Listen to some pop music as you expand your Chibi Pop collection!
Halloween: The Game
An asymmetrical horror game set in Haddonfield on Halloween night 1978, where one player controls Michael Myers and up to four others defend the town, alongside a singleplayer story mode.
Pibcremental
Pibcremental is an idle-incremental clicker in which you grow a civilisation of creatures called Pibbles inside a giant tree, set in a post-human world.
Tsugunohi -The Thread That Beckons to Heaven-
A horror game in the Tsugunohi series in which the player repeatedly walks a girl home from school by pressing the left arrow key while her neighbourhood gradually changes.
Fruitbearer
A visceral reimagining of the Suika-style physics puzzler, rebuilt as a punishing dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder. Awaken as forgotten deity of bounty, stripped of grandeur, now facing sunless barrens and monsters. To restore balance, you must grow. To grow, you must sacrifice.
GRID/
GRID/ is an arcade-style boss rush action game in which the player moves across a 7 by 6 grid, dodges enemy attack zones and fights nine bosses using three unlockable weapons.
My Jigsaw Adventures
My Jigsaw Adventures is a PC/MAC/LINUX jigsaw game series that puts jigsaws at the very heart of a narrative adventure.
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