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Deal Flipper
Early Access
2 Nov, 2026
Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder
Going Gold
3 Nov, 2026
Corpus et Spiritus
Going Gold
3 Nov, 2026
Dead Sector
Early Access
3 Nov, 2026
Tabula
Going Gold
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Abashed
Going Gold
4 Nov, 2026
Backmarkers: A Racing Management Sim
Going Gold
4 Nov, 2026
Diamonds and Spades
Going Gold
5 Nov, 2026
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Recently Released
Deal Flipper
Roovel Studio
Deal Flipper is a first-person flipping simulation set in an online marketplace. Players buy underpriced items by negotiating with sellers in chat, then relist them at a higher price.
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.
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.
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.
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
Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter
A role-playing game and direct sequel to Trails in the Sky. Estelle searches for her missing partner Joshua while facing the secretive society Ouroboros in the Kingdom of Liberl.
Fruitbearer
Fruitbearer is a roguelike deckbuilder built on Suika-style fruit merging. Players take the role of a summoned deity who restores a corrupted land through card-driven merging combos.
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die is a dark fantasy action game with dice mechanics. Players control Queen Aleksandra through four biomes in a stand-alone story with repeatable runs.
Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator
A video store management simulator set in the era of VHS rentals. Players run a store, stock tapes, manage staff and serve customers through the seasons.
Talespinner
Talespinner is a deck-building roguelike set in Japanese mythology. Players guide one of three heroes through scenarios featuring yokai, using cards that can be upgraded during a run.
Flamecraft
Flamecraft is a turn-based strategy board game for 1 to 5 players. Players place artisan dragons in shops, gather resources and enchant shops to earn the most reputation points.
Well Dweller
Well Dweller is a dark fairy-tale metroidvania in which Glimmer, a small bird with a matchstick, explores a rotted kingdom to burn the wicked queen and rescue his family.
Fangtopia
Fangtopia is a cosy hex-tile puzzler where you build a monster-friendly paradise, no scares, no timers, just gentle chills and satisfying landscapes.
Slash-Out: Fantasy Dueling
Slash-Out: Fantasy Dueling is a twin-stick fighting game in which the player uses a sword and shield to face a series of fantasy boss opponents in one-on-one duels.
Yooka-Replaylee
Yooka-Replaylee is a re-imagined 3D platformer in which Yooka and Laylee collect Pagies from a stolen book across several worlds, with new areas, moves, challenges and an orchestral score.
Bullet Train
Bullet Train is a reverse tower defense roguelike with train combat. Players fit a train with weapons, upgrade orbs and trinkets to fight creatures that destroyed their town.
Huglings
Huglings is a cooperative life simulation adventure for one to four players. You play a Hugling who rebuilds a village, farms, crafts and decorates a home while making peace with nearby goblins.
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
[WoG] War of Genesis: Idle Loot
An idle loot RPG that runs with a transparent background in a corner of the desktop. A 3D hero fights automatically, collects gear, and can trade items on the Steam Community Market.
cm360
cm360 is a tool that converts mouse sensitivity settings from one game to another. It also includes a keyboard bind visualiser and a controller dead zone visualiser.
Nocturne
Nocturne is a story-driven RPG with rhythm-based combat, set in a Digital Afterlife a thousand years after humanity's disappearance. It includes 101 playable tracks and a campaign of over ten hours.
Forty Depths Beneath Knossos: The Minotaur’s Maze
A maze-descent game in which the player controls Daedalus, trapped in his own labyrinth beneath Knossos. It features forty hand-built mazes, five playable characters and ten weapons and items.
Discremental
Discremental is an incremental game in which players begin with a single disk and spend loot resources to unlock abilities and weapons, upgrade stats, and progress through floors.
Super Clown Spookyland
Super Clown Spookyland is a third-person platformer with ten horror-themed levels. The player jumps past traps and enemies, defeats a rock boss and collects a star to finish each level.
No Knock
No Knock is an open-world theft simulation game in which the player robs targets, builds a crew of burglars, sells stolen goods, and takes on police and rival gangs.
Boreal Tenebrae Act 0: Sundowning
A narrative adventure set in the declining town of Tamarack Narrows, played through several linked characters on the night of a centennial celebration. It is a standalone prequel to Boreal Tenebrae: Act 1.
Save Mom
Save Mom is a post-apocalyptic action game in which players protect their mother during a motorhome journey across the United States. It can be played solo or in co-op with up to three friends.
MOUSE: P.I. For Hire
A single-player first-person shooter with hand-drawn black and white 1930s cartoon visuals. Players control private investigator Jack Pepper through a noir crime story set in the city of Mouseburg.
The Architect of Nowhere
A visual novel about the mage Oyuun, who opens a Pandora's Box with irreversible consequences. It features hand drawn art, about 24,000 words of text and a light gacha mechanic for recruiting party members.
Iron Wasteland
Iron Wasteland is a post-nuclear survival game in which the player scavenges, completes missions and defends a settlement from enemy attacks that occur every six days.
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