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Urban Struggle
PIRITUBA HILLS STUDIO
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Urban Struggle
Early Access
12 Sep, 2026
Eternal Grove
Going Gold
13 Sep, 2026
Water Sort:Alchemy
Going Gold
13 Sep, 2026
Fantasy Bird Woods
Going Gold
13 Sep, 2026
Duty Guvnor
Going Gold
13 Sep, 2026
Put Back Stuff
Going Gold
13 Sep, 2026
Legends of Azamar
Early Access
13 Sep, 2026
Stack Together: To the Moon – Stack, Build & Escape
Going Gold
13 Sep, 2026
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Urban Struggle
PIRITUBA HILLS STUDIO
Urban Struggle is a 2D fighting game set in São Paulo in the year 2099, with 8-bit pixel graphics, a four-button control scheme and a Manifest Mode that boosts each character's abilities.
WORDLACE
Tilewise
WORDLACE is a word-search puzzle game in which every letter on the board belongs to exactly one answer, with no filler tiles. It contains 640 puzzles split evenly between English and Russian.
Antscape Room
Oxbone Studio
Antscape Room is a co-op puzzle game for one to seven players in which you search a partially buried village for clues and tools to rescue a kidnapped aphid named Count Ferdinand III.
Anime Shop Simulator ✨
One More Time
A first-person shop management simulation in which players run an anime merchandise store, stocking manga, figures and trading cards, either solo or in four-player online co-op.
Screen Survivors
atomco
Screen Survivors is an idle survivor-like that runs in a corner of your screen, where a hero fights endless waves of enemies either automatically or under manual control.
Moon Garden
Kairos Games LLC
Moon Garden is an incremental game in which you plant flowers, upgrade machinery and grow a tree tall enough to carry you home from the moon.
StarL 9 Ashes Of The Past
IteraLabs
A story-driven adventure set on a magical island, where a stranded traveller mistaken for a princess must break curses, restore a mystical mirror and uncover an ancient prophecy.
Burger Shift: Team Rush
Nova Telum Studio
A co-operative fast food kitchen simulation for one to eight players, in which teams run kitchen stations, fill orders and handle unexpected events together.
Projects with Demos
Medieval Market Simulator
Medieval Market Simulator is a shop management game where players stock, price and sell goods in a medieval town, alone or in online co-op.
Border Pioneer
Build a town from scratch, deck-build your way through it, then defend it every month when the enemies come knocking. Pixel art frontier life has never been this tense.
Mortal Shell II
Mortal Shell II is a standalone sequel featuring open-world exploration and stamina-free combat, in which players seek out and possess the Shells of eight lost warriors.
S.A.N.D.Y. – Beach Cleaner
S.A.N.D.Y. - Beach Cleaner is a game about a cleaning robot who clears trash from a resort beach and sorts debris while uncovering a narrative set in a polluted future.
Undying Flame
A top-down wave-survival rogue-lite in which the player defends a single campfire from creatures, collecting the wood they drop to keep the flame alight in place of a health bar.
A Case of Fraud
You've got every clue you need from the start. A missing CEO, a pile of documents, and a fraud only careful reading will crack.
Trading Card Inspector
A chilled-out papers-please style card checking sim set inside a deeply weird trading card corporation. Spot the fakes, value the real ones, and try not to lose your mind.
How Asian Parents went to School
A co-operative platforming game for one to four players about making the difficult journey to school, featuring mountain climbs, a flamethrowing bear in a cat mask and an insulting bully character.
Survivor’s Notes
A zombie survival full motion video game in which players control two protagonists at once, making choices and completing quick-time events that lead to different endings.
Path of Achra
A complex roguelike RPG built around deep theorycrafting and build experimentation.
IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator
IRON NEST is a brutal dieselpunk heavy-artillery game where you dominate the battlefield through a colossal war machine. Take map measurements based on the received coordinates, strain the hydraulics, and gunlay the cannons to unleash devastating blows ⟹ Will you obey High Command, Operator?
Magical Blush
Magical Blush is a Metroidvania-style action game in which the mage Arnin explores interconnected stages, casts elemental spells and searches for the truth behind her devastated kingdom of Wyn.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
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.
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.
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.
Gunclone Arena
Off North Games
Gunclone Arena is a top-down arena shooter set in the year 2250, in which a contestant fights waves of Gunclones and Mechs in a televised bloodsport for Cash and follower Likes.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Book Club Games
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Released Indie Games
City Tales – Medieval Era
City Tales - Medieval Era is a city-building game in which players shape organic medieval settlements, guided by companion characters with developing skills.
Nippets: A Hidden Object Game
Nippets is a hidden-object game full of handcrafted 2D maps just begging to be poked, prodded and shaken until they give up their secrets.
F2 A! Idle Army
F2 A! Idle Army is an idle strategy game in which players upgrade a hero, buy units and unlock tech while the army fights waves of monsters automatically.
KARMA: The Dark World
KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person psychological thriller set in an alternate 1984 East Germany, in which players investigate crime scenes and enter the minds of suspects.
Witchy Business
Witchy Business is a hand-drawn witch shop simulator combining potion brewing with fast-paced customer service across a shop, sanctuary and bazaar.
Zero Stress King: Idle Defense
A tower defence where you've already won. Buy defenders, watch numbers go up, and let the lava handle the rest.
Crafty Survivors: Wicked Winter
An expansion for Crafty Survivors set in the Snowy Peaks, adding two new playable professions, a new area with its own enemies, and a Beacon defence stage type.
Gnomes
Turn based tower defence meets roguelike as your gnomes defend the garden from an ever growing goblin horde. Every run's different, every night's a fresh fight for survival.
Shelf Happens
A record-sorting game in which you work as the clerk of a retro record store, reading vinyl sleeves to identify their genre and filing them into the correct crates, alone or in 2 to 4 player co-op.
Underkeep
Underkeep is a tower defence game in which you play the final boss, building a labyrinth of walls, monsters and traps to stop waves of adventurers reaching the boss room.
Aura Farmer 67
Aura Farmer 67 is a game in which the player begins as a regular bodybuilder and works to build up aura, upgrade, and eventually shine.
Medieval Crafter: Blacksmith
A medieval fantasy simulation game where players work as a Dwarven blacksmith, mining ore, crafting weapons and armour, and equipping heroes for quests.
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