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The Tower Must Fall
Going Gold
16 Nov, 2026
OKUREK
Going Gold
17 Nov, 2026
Classroom in Sora
Going Gold
18 Nov, 2026
Save the Forest
Going Gold
18 Nov, 2026
Cave Diving With Friends
Going Gold
19 Nov, 2026
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Recently Released
DEEPLANDERS
SOPA Games
DEEPLANDERS is a minimalist construction puzzle game in which players build underground cities and find a suitable home for each arriving character. It is currently in Early Access.
The Totemist
ShutinStudio
The Totemist is a narrative-driven shop simulator in which the player runs an occult shop, crafting totems and talismans while a mystery unfolds in a quiet town.
Glory On Pluto
LittleBigEars Games
Glory on Pluto is a roguelite in which players fill a rocket engine with fuel items and manage a crew to travel from Earth to Pluto. Builds must generate enough power to reach each destination.
Wizzy the Wood
Lukasz Cnota
Wizzy the Wood is a single-player 3D platformer adventure. A young hero named Wizzy must recover a stolen energy source to wake his sleeping village in the land of Woodland.
SYNTAX WARS
Mosan Game Studio
SYNTAX WARS is a cyberpunk duelling game in which both players choose a move in secret and reveal together. Six fighters are available, with CPU, arcade and local two-player modes.
JOHN GLEEP
monthbug
JOHN GLEEP is an action-roguelike in which a small alien pilots a UFO to abduct gamblers from planets and fill a pachinko-style casino, aiming to repay a debt to a mob boss.
Hope in the City
Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.
A narrative mystery set in Shenyang, China. Players control 17-year-old Hope Song, who uses sketches to investigate her parents' disappearance.
Gas N Cars
Yorf Studio
Gas N Cars is a petrol station game where players fuel, clean and repair customers' cars, buy new tools from a delivery truck, and can choose to cause chaos instead of providing good service.
Projects with Demos
Dataminers
Dataminers is a turn-based logic-adventure in which players use numbers to locate and hack datamines in corporate data towers. It draws on Minesweeper and includes several game modes.
Weekend Solitaire 7 Grace In Motion
Weekend Solitaire 7: Grace in Motion is a card matching puzzle game set in forest landscapes, with over 200 handcrafted levels across three game modes.
Raiders 1941
Raiders 1941 is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up in which the player flies one of two experimental planes across Europe to Berlin, with 60Hz and 120Hz options and Steam leaderboards.
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.
Leap Tactics
Leap Tactics is a pixel-art platform puzzle game in which jumping toggles the mechanisms in each level. It includes over 80 levels and an undo function.
Time to Morp
Time to Morp is a cooperative base-building adventure for one to four players. Players care for creatures called Morps, farm, fish, cook, decorate homes and explore an island on an unknown planet.
The Totemist
The Totemist is a narrative-driven shop simulator in which the player runs an occult shop, crafting totems and talismans while a mystery unfolds in a quiet town.
Remnants of the forsaken Past : Submerged Fantasy
A story-driven underwater adventure in which Raine pilots upgradeable submarines and fights on foot, uncovering the ancient past of a magical sea civilization while facing pirates and sea monsters.
Planet Killer
Planet Killer is a physics-driven destruction roguelite in which players attack procedurally generated, fully destructible pixel-based planets, with online co-op for up to six players.
Little Kitty, Big City
Little Kitty, Big City is an open-world adventure game in which the player guides a cat around a city, meeting animals and exploring, while trying to find the way home after a nap.
Die Severed
Die Severed is a dice-based gambling roguelike in which players roll five dice to build poker hands and reach score targets at an underground casino to pay off a debt.
Bears In Space
Bears In Space is a first-person shooter with bullet-hell elements. Players control Maxwell Atoms, a castaway whose DNA is fused with a bear's, and fight robots across varied locations.
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.
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.
Abashed
Supantha Paul
Abashed is a short 2.5D narrative psychological adventure following Issac, a man with psychosis, as he searches for his missing partner. Players use medication to alter the environment and solve puzzles.
Released Indie Games
Nuktedan: The Forgotten Emotions
Nuktedan: The Forgotten Emotions is a top-down puzzle-adventure in which a small bird restores colour to a monochrome world shaped by Alzheimer's, solving laser puzzles with emotion-based abilities.
ZERO Sievert
ZERO Sievert is a top-down extraction shooter set in a fictional post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe, where players scavenge across six procedurally generated maps and return to a bunker base.
Chronicle of Wuxia & Xianxia Survivors
Chronicle of Wuxia & Xianxia Survivors is a survivors-style roguelite with deckbuilding elements, set in a martial arts and immortal cultivation world. Players fight demon hordes using randomly offered techniques.
Infinity: HexaDome Tactics
Infinity: HexaDome Tactics is a turn-based tactics game set in the Infinity universe, with a campaign, tactical challenges and duels against AI, friends or other players.
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions – Magical Library DLC
Magical Library is a DLC expansion for Spirit City: Lofi Sessions. It adds a customisable library setting, new Spirits, outfits and magical study activities.
Survivor’s Notes
Survivor's Notes is a zombie survival FMV game in which players control two protagonists at once, making choices and completing quick-time events that lead to different endings.
STUNTBOOST
STUNTBOOST is a speed-focused racing game played on a fingerboard through cardboard tracks. Players complete timed courses to earn medals and compete on online leaderboards.
Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder
Combolands is a roguelike citybuilder in which players grow a small settlement on a procedurally generated island, choosing two guilds per run and building synergies between structures.
PLUG IN
PLUG IN is a sokoban puzzle game inspired by Handshakes. Players push crates and guide a subject to connect a plug and socket in test chambers across 46 levels.
BrokenLore: DON’T LIE
BrokenLore: DON'T LIE is a first-person psychological horror game in which players control Junko, a hikikomori whose memories begin to merge with reality inside her apartment.
S.A.N.D.Y. – Beach Cleaner
S.A.N.D.Y. - Beach Cleaner is a game in which the player controls a beach-cleaning and trash-sorting robot on the shore of a former top resort, in a world overwhelmed by waste and pollution.
Diamonds and Spades
Diamonds and Spades is a roguelite card game in which players draw from a 100-card deck to score points, using tarot cards to change the rules. It includes a built-in tarot card editor.
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