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Dear Journey…
Cosynook Games
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What's Coming
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PixelPop 2087
Early Access
20 Sep, 2026
Nine to Never
Early Access
21 Sep, 2026
Fruitbearer
Going Gold
21 Sep, 2026
Video Game Menu: The Game
Going Gold
21 Sep, 2026
Backrooms: Code Yellow
Early Access
21 Sep, 2026
Normal Golf Game
Going Gold
21 Sep, 2026
Second Monitor Football
Early Access
21 Sep, 2026
The Rabbit Haul
Going Gold
21 Sep, 2026
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Pirouette & Smile
Hands of Song
A jigsurfing puzzle game combining platformer and jigsaw gameplay with video challenges.
DIY Dadish
Thomas K. Young
Create your own adventure and share it with the world! Everyone's favorite radish dad is back, but this time the story is up to you! in DIY Dadish gives players the ability to design any Dadish level they can imagine.
Dear Journey...
Cosynook Games
Run a cosy little travel agency, one letter at a time. Travellers write in and tell you what they are hoping for. Plan the journey that gives it to them, card by card, and watch it unfold. Satisfy them, and they may write back...
PixelPop 2087
StylerFunk Games
Enter the rooms, grab the keys, proceed and... try to stay alive! Choose your style: melee or fireguns? Fight your way through, get the keys and unlock new rooms!
Augmented Yut
Ausuruk Games
It’s Yut Nori—but you can throw your pieces, summon a demon god, and even poop your way to victory! A 2–4 player online competitive game featuring 50 unique augments.
Star Space
Corey Evans
A starship shooter — Play Online/LAN Team Deathmatch, or Deathmatch on 3 levels. Or practice by breaking the targets.
Cyberpunk Survivor
mrtcnbykl
Survive with your skills and power-ups, destroy whatever comes your way, and reach the highest scores. Enjoy endless fun with thrilling gameplay and colorful art design that will satisfy your longing for the past!
Slap the Gamer
Tired Game Dev Interactive Studios
Slap an obnoxious gamer, rack up an absurd slap count, unlock achievements, and endure increasingly annoying taunts in this deliberately stupid arcade clicker inspired by the chaotic spirit of classic Flash games.
Projects with Demos
The Loopler
The Loopler is a roguelite deckbuilder about a slot car driving in mesmerizing loops. Pick cards, place gates, and collect charms. Settle into the loop as numbers go up and dopamine fills your brain. See how far you can go in the pursuit of infinity.
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?
Monster Mop Up
Rescue the scared little Ragamuffins from the human world and clean up all evidence of their existence. Mop stains, burn poop, and get rewarded with high tech gear and upgrades. Save enough, and you can even expand your home, decorate it, and live happily ever after with your fluffy little friends!
100 for Justice
A text-driven political roguelite and life-management simulation in which up to 100 successive citizens resist an oppressive government, with progress carried over between lives.
REPLACED
REPLACED is a narrative-driven 2.5D action-adventure set in an alternate 1980s America, following an AI named R.E.A.C.H. trapped in a human body.
Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator
A first-person management game about building and running an early 1900s oil drilling operation, from clearing land and erecting derricks to hiring a crew and selling crude.
Fantasy Bird Woods
Fantasy Bird Woods is a desktop game in which fantasy birds hatch as chicks and grow into evolved forms while the player carries on with other tasks.
Cralon
Cralon is a first-person adventure game in which a hunter falls into an abandoned mine shaft and must fight, craft, and explore to survive and escape.
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 holiday while serial killers keep interrupting. Ten endings depend on player choices.
Raiders 1941
A hardcore challenging Shoot 'Em Up set during WWII - battle, shoot, bomb and weave your way accross the European Theatre.
CloverPit
A rogue-lite slot machine nightmare. Gamble for your life in a never-ending debt simulator!
KAPIA
A mystery adventure about propaganda, surveillance and AI control, seen through the eyes of a grandfather and granddaughter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Released Indie Games
The Things We Don’t See: 10 Interactive Stories of Horror, Mystery, and the Unknown
An anthology of ten self-contained interactive horror, mystery and thriller stories, each shaped by player choices, with branching routes and more than 40 possible endings.
Palworld
Palworld is a survival and crafting game in which players capture, breed and work alongside creatures called Pals in an open world.
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
Plunge into a living nightmare where every roll counts. Chain fluid combat with dice-fueled attacks, stack relics into ferocious synergies, and build unstoppable momentum. Slash through fate, bend chance to your will, and defeat the Black Die in this board-game inspired roguelite dungeon crawler.
Journey to Echo
Journey to Echo is a post-apocalyptic survival adventure in which you leave an underground bunker to scavenge supplies, maintain a vehicle and search for other survivors across an open world.
Moon Shop Simulator
A first-person management game in which you run a small shop beneath the surface of the Moon, ordering stock from Earth, organising racks and shipping customer orders.
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.
Silver Bullet
Silver Bullet is a gothic arcade shooter: blast your way through spooky stages and macabre mini games as Van Helsing, to rescue your pet puppies who were dognapped by Reggie the Vampire!
Kaya’s Prophecy
Kaya’s Prophecy is a unique card based village builder! establish your village, gather resources, and craft tools and buildings in a vibrant world. Explore and combat various challenges and other groups in this colourful, deck-builder while appeasing your god to earn his favour.
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.
Dark Farts: Parody Smell Edition
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE INCOMING! The most absurd Souls-like parody ever! You’re a blacksmith with bean-powered dragon abilities, taking on evil corporations with maximum gasitude! Fart-dash, demolish bosses, and break the fourth wall in this hilarious action RPG. Smell the legend!
ChessTan
Settle a kingdom, roll for resources, and build an army with real chess movesets on a hex battlefield. ChessTan fuses Catan-style economy with chess-style combat for 2-4 players — outbuild your rivals, then checkmate the last Nexus standing. Play locally, online with friends, or through Steam.
Crumble
Crumble is a dynamic physics platformer. Move like a Slime, jump like a ball, swing like Spiderman!
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