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19 Oct, 2026
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20 Oct, 2026
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Recently Released
Good Heavens!
Nowhere Studios
Good Heavens! is a co-op survival RPG set on procedural floating islands, where up to eight players explore, fight, build a home and help rebuild the settlements of Xant-Rar.
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2
Auroch Digital
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 is a fast-paced retro FPS sequel set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, currently in development.
Hungry Horrors
Clumsy Bear Studio
Hungry Horrors is a pixel art card game in which a reluctant princess cooks traditional British and Irish dishes to feed monsters from folklore and break a curse on her kingdom.
Time To Wake Up
Eye Blink Twice
Time To Wake Up is a psychological thriller in which the player is stuck in a dream and uses blinking to alter surreal school environments, guided by a voice that is fond of their eyes.
American Cooking Simulator: Multiplayer
Freedom Burger Games
A cooperative multiplayer cooking game for up to four players, in which burgers are prepared by shooting ingredients with firearms at a fast food restaurant called Joe's Freedom Burgers.
Barfender: CO-OP Bar Simulator
Proto Division
Barfender: CO-OP Bar Simulator is an online co-op bar management game in which players serve drinks, clean up messes and break up fights as customers get drunk and the bar descends into chaos.
Coin Rush
DAEKYUNG
Coin Rush is an online party brawler in which up to eight players collect coins, punch rivals to make them drop their hauls, and race to be the first to bank 50 coins.
100 Cats Lost in China 2 Find & Color
Two Cats Games
A hidden object game in which players find 500 cats across five hand-drawn scenes, then colour each scene using a colour-by-numbers mode. It supports solo play and co-op.
Projects with Demos
JettFuel+
JettFuel+ is a 3D platformer in which Jett, a robot who escaped a closing factory, searches for his missing brother Brody by collecting Power Gems. It expands on the 2024 game JettFuel.
PEGTURE: Peg Solitaire Roguelike
Pegture is a roguelike deck-building game built around classic peg solitaire. Players jump pegs, reach target scores, and choose from seven starting decks.
Little Ghost
A 2D puzzle-platforming metroidvania in which you play an inch-high ghost exploring a collage-style home office, using movement abilities and a float mechanic instead of combat.
Wait, Cards I Memorized?
A memory training game based on the Memory Palace technique, in which players memorise playing cards using body-based memory hooks and association images across three phases.
Golden Swirl
Golden Swirl is a deckbuilding game with semi-real-time action combat, where players build decks, collect relics and dodge enemy attacks while exploring procedurally generated dungeons.
The Solyani’s Code
The Solyani's Code is a 3D sci-fi action adventure in which a lunar maintenance technician and her luminous companion explore alien ruins on the moon Selene.
Seekers Alliance: Hero’s Journey
A roguelite deckbuilder in which players recruit Heroes from three Factions and place Skill Cards into Attack, Defense and Speed Zones during battles. Unlocks carry over between runs.
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is a survival fleet-management roguelite combining procedural narrative events with real-time tactical space battles.
Monster Meals
Monster Meals is a time-based cooking game in which players run a food truck, hunting creatures like rats and pigeons to cook for monstrous customers, solo or in co-op.
Settler’s Domain
Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.
Moon Garden
Moon Garden is a cosy incremental game in which you plant flowers, tune machinery and grow a tree tall enough to carry you home.
Cloudscrapers
Cloudscrapers is a minimalist strategy game in which players build a tower as high as they can, unlocking upgrades after each attempt to reach greater heights.
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
SUSHI CHESS
Today's Special!
SUSHI CHESS is a turn-based board game where players move sushi pieces that each carry a price. Capturing a piece costs the capturer its price. It offers puzzles, CPU opponents, and local or online play.
The Tally
Olivia Gonsher
The Tally is a life simulation set in Corvid City, where everyday choices are recorded and totalled on a receipt when the player's life ends, deciding where they are sent next.
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players build and customise cars, scavenge, trade with factions and fight warlords.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure combining visual novel storytelling, point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements, set at a wedding in France.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia. The player works as an operator who watches citizens through cameras, enforces laws and makes decisions that affect the story.
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 shop simulation in which players run a store selling collectible mystery eggs, open them to find action figures, and build themed dioramas to sell.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale is a 2D action-platformer with boss battles and animated cinematics. It can be played solo or in local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which players control Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across levels set in a spirit world.
Telly No Vision
TheMysticSword
Telly No Vision is an action game set in a virtual space where the surroundings are invisible and must be navigated by watching floating TVs that show the world from other perspectives.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a 2D platformer built around speedrunning, with seasonal modes, worldwide leaderboards and biomes that each have their own physics.
Noir
Bœuf Musqué
Noir is a 2D platform game in which the player controls a small ball that sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open an exit portal. A controller is required.
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.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
Bait Soul is an action roguelite with a cultivation theme. Players arrange Soul Orbs and Support Items in a loadout while the character attacks automatically and the player handles movement.
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 where the player decodes Morse code to survive a maze of corridors, rooms and vents, in a retro PSX and VHS-inspired style.
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.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Lorenzo Ametrano
PSI: Pressure Climbing is a movement-based climbing game in which players use a jetpack to scale an underground hydropower grid on a mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Little Ghost
Alan Abbadessa, Law Jun Yan, Eduardo Alexandrino, Leaf Riifuneko
A 2D puzzle-platforming metroidvania in which you play an inch-high ghost exploring a collage-style home office, using movement abilities and a float mechanic instead of combat.
Dig Too Deep
Punch Up Games
Dig Too Deep is a 2D side-scrolling action roguelite with tower defence elements, in which players throw goblins to mine resources, craft defences and fight waves of enemies.
Jarred Defense
Jarred Cat Studios
Jarred Defense is a tower defense game in which players place towers anywhere to shape the enemy path. It includes a story campaign, Endless Mode with leaderboards and a level editor.
Cards, Blades & Fine Print
Crooked Seal Games
A dryly funny single-player card adventure with turn-based battles, 170 enemies, 583 illustrated equipment items, 60 collectible sets, and three freely mixable talent paths – in a fantasy world full of dangerous administration.
Released Indie Games
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is a survival fleet-management roguelite combining procedural narrative events with real-time tactical space battles.
Honeycomb: The World Beyond
A survival game set on the alien planet Sota7, where players take the role of a bioengineer exploring ecosystems, crossbreeding lifeforms and building a base of operations.
KAPIA
A mystery adventure about propaganda, surveillance and AI control, seen through the eyes of a grandfather and granddaughter.
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.
Upload Aliens
Upload Aliens is a pixel art action roguelite in which players dodge bullets, slash falling enemies and knock them into bosses, using unlockable robots and abilities to build a loadout.
Cupid Parasite
Cupid Parasite is an otome visual novel in which the player takes the role of a goddess of love working as a matchmaker, finding partners for five unlikely bachelors in the city of Los York.
WARDOGS – Supporter Pack
WARDOGS - Supporter Pack is an optional cosmetic add-on for the Early Access game WARDOGS by BULKHEAD, adding weapon camos, a scoreboard icon and two bobbleheads.
Golden Swirl
Golden Swirl is a deckbuilding game with semi-real-time action combat, where players build decks, collect relics and dodge enemy attacks while exploring procedurally generated dungeons.
Dicevaders
Dicevaders is a dice-based roguelike deckbuilder where players lead an alien invasion of Earth, placing units on a grid and using dice combinations to build their score.
Kitchen Gore
Kitchen Gore is a physics-based horror cooking simulator in which players prepare food for a monster kept in a basement, balancing cooking tasks with distraction and calming mechanics.
Ball Scratch Simulator
Ball Scratch Simulator is a score-based game in which players scratch an itch in public while avoiding being seen. It supports up to four players and has optional VR support.
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.
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