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Plan B: Terraform – Worlds of Fire and Water
Gaddy Games
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BONETOX
Early Access
23 Sep, 2026
Furyball: Rogue Revenge
Early Access
23 Sep, 2026
Dig Too Deep
Early Access
23 Sep, 2026
Dragon Shelter
Going Gold
24 Sep, 2026
Family Manners
Going Gold
Coming soon
AFK – Army For Keyboard
Going Gold
25 Sep, 2026
Travel Agency Simulator
Early Access
25 Sep, 2026
Woman Simulator
Going Gold
25 Sep, 2026
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Plan B: Terraform - Worlds of Fire and Water
Gaddy Games
Plan B: Terraform - Worlds of Fire and Water adds two new planets to terraform: a volcanic world with no surface minerals and an ocean world with only a handful of islands.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pioneers of Pagonia - Echoes of Aldramar
Envision Entertainment
Echoes of Aldramar is a story campaign expansion for the settlement builder Pioneers of Pagonia, set across four desert island maps with restorable ruins and a new stone warrior enemy.
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.
Vinyl Freak: Unsorted
ant ant games
A sorting and tidying game in which you inherit a record store from your late Aunt Jolie and must clean it, unpack boxes and organise vinyl records ahead of a grand re-opening.
Projects with Demos
Little Corners
Peel, place, and arrange stickers across tiny windows into different worlds. Relax and unwind to lofi beats, collect unique stickers and share your cozy creations with the world.
Vibe City Islands Architect
A small gridless city-building game set on tropical islands, with a high score mode built around four objectives, a free sandbox mode and ten in-game radio stations.
Channel 453
A gothic psychological horror otome visual novel. A man inside the screen calls your name — as if he has been waiting for you.
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.
Trading Card Inspector
Inspect your way through dozens of unique, hilarious cards in this chilled-out papers-please-em-up! Identify and appraise cards from The World's Most Coolest TCG! Start your new job as an official Habubis Trading Card Inspector and uncover a tale of friendship, corporate espionage and murder?!
Fading Serenades
Hike, jump, and climb to traverse the treacherous terrain of the island to help villagers deliver parcels and complete their tasks and requests. Experience a story of vanishing traditions, a missing scientist, and an unfolding mystery. Serenading a quieter life, the island calls!
Cursed and Fading
Cursed and Fading is a roguelike in which every tile you move costs one point from one of six stats, as you cross a procedurally generated map to reach and defeat the lich who cursed you.
Roadhouse Simulator
Pour beer, break up brawls, distill your own liquor, run pig races, deal with gangs and keep the cops off your back as you turn a rundown Route 66 bar into one hell of a Road House.
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.
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.
A Case of Fraud
A short, non-linear detective adventure where every clue is hidden in plain sight. Carefully read and cross-reference documents to unravel a CEO’s disappearance and expose a case of fraud.
Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts
Scriptorium is a relaxing creative game where players design illuminated manuscripts using medieval-style art assets, either through story commissions or free-form sandbox creation.
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
Runeomicon
Draw runes, summon dark gods and take bloody revenge on the peasants who wronged you. Precision is everything in this frantic ritual survival game.
Doomsday Diner
Doomsday Diner is a physics-based roguelike job sim where players cook hot dogs, serve customers and fight off raiders in a post-apocalyptic diner.
Ball Scratch Simulator
A comedy stealth game about scratching an itch in public without being seen. Score by scratching for as long as possible, alone or with up to four players, with optional VR support.
Into A Dream
You are his last hope. The only one who can rescue him. Delve deep into the dreams of Luke Williams, a man diagnosed with depression, unfold the heartbreaking story of his life and prevent him from... fading away.
Hollow Parish: Dead Frequency
Supernatural investigation and management, played from one desk. Read the evidence, identify what is out there, choose who to send, then guide them by radio while the timer runs. A wrong theory kills the people who trusted you. You hear the horror; you never see it.
Alpaca Ball: Allstars
Football with Alpacas! Bring the cup home in this hilarious and chaotic physics-based party game. Play with up to 8 players in versus mode, or tackle the career mode either solo or in 2 player co-op! Peru-ve yourself on the Picchu and win those Machus!
Rust
Rust is a multiplayer survival game in which players scavenge, build bases and craft weapons to survive on an island shared with other players and wildlife.
Roman Sands RE:Build
A service industry adventure with an apocalyptic flavor. A manic genre mashup told across two broken realities. Step through the cracks: find your Exit.
Evymind Clips: Automatic Highlights & Shorts
Save time turning long videos built around speech into clips worth sharing. Evymind Clips automatically finds moments that stand on their own, ready for you to refine and export.
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.
SPACE JK
SPACE JK is a life sim in which players care for pixel-art roommates called JK, decorate their room and collect daily stickers. It requires an internet connection and a free account.
Chicken Bomb
It’s not justa a bomb game. It’s a CHICKEN BOMB GAME. A modern game with the old games taste.
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