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Corpus et Spiritus
Arpentor Studio
Corpus et Spiritus is a roguelite deckbuilder in which the player makes a pact with a demon called the Homunculus and uses alchemy to craft cards, transmute metals and find talismans.
Tabula
This Way Up
Tabula is a level-based puzzle game in which players overlap computer windows to form top-down paths for a character called Little Bit, set inside a mysterious operating system.
Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder
Green Parrot Games
Lucky Punk is a roguelike deckbuilder in which players choose each turn whether to draw another card or stop, with the odds of failure shown at all times. It is set in a comic-style post-apocalyptic world.
Dead Sector
Lonely Cloud
Dead Sector is a single player data center simulation in which players build servers part by part, equip a facility with power and networking, and host client workloads while managing faults and costs.
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.
Projects with Demos
Alien Morgue
Alien Morgue is a sci-fi pathologist simulator in which the player identifies alien bodies, examines damage and performs autopsies to establish how each victim died.
Rita
Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.
Toxic Yuri
Toxic Yuri is a visual novel in which an office worker in Kyoto takes in Doku-chan, a woman made of slime. Player choices across six episodes shape the story and lead to multiple endings.
Driving Rogue
Driving Rogue is a roguelike driving game in which players race through a changing city, defeat rival drivers to unlock their cars, and build each run with modifier cards.
Vibe City Islands Architect
Vibe City Islands Architect is a small gridless city-building game set on tropical islands, with a High Score Mode, a Sandbox Mode, 200 buildings and 10 radio stations.
Golden Swirl
Golden Swirl is a deckbuilder with semi-real-time action combat, in which players move and dodge enemy attacks while playing cards through procedurally generated dungeons.
Drill Rift
Drill Rift is a punishing outpost management game in which players lead a crew of dwarfs through a portal, drilling for resources while managing supplies, machinery and rising madness.
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.
Anima Gate of Memories: I&II Remaster
A remaster bundling two third-person action RPGs, Anima: Gate of Memories and The Nameless Chronicles, set in a fantasy world based on the Anima Beyond Fantasy tabletop RPG.
Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts
Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts is a creative game in which players design illuminated manuscript pages, either by fulfilling client commissions in Story Mode or freely in Sandbox Mode.
The Bird of the North
A deduction game set in 1921, in which an ice age has halted the Industrial Revolution. Players explore scenes and piece together events from a series of visions involving birds.
This Is No Cave
A 2D platformer in which a crash-landed player uses thrusters and a grapple hook to escape underground tunnels and giant worms. It can be played with a mouse alone.
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
DEEPLANDERS
SOPA Games
DEEPLANDERS is a minimalist construction puzzle game in which players build underground cities and match each arriving character with a suitable place to live.
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.
Released Indie Games
Goddess of Fate: Waifu Strategy RPG
A free-to-play anime strategy RPG where players collect over 100 characters, arrange a six-character squad on a 2x3 grid, and fight turn-based 6v6 battles with idle progression.
PlateUp!
A cooperative restaurant management game for up to four players, in which you design a kitchen, cook dishes and serve customers over 15 days before moving on to a new franchise location.
HITLESS
HITLESS is a bullet-dodging game with no attack button. Each stage is cleared by surviving 15 seconds, and the stage reached is the score on the leaderboards.
Send Them to Hell
Send Them to Hell is a 2.5D action roguelite in which players fight demon hordes solo or in online co-op for up to four players, across several game modes with item-based character builds.
Spellsteel
Spellsteel is a free-to-play competitive collectible card game set in the world of Kharadum. Players build decks around six civilizations and Champions, then face other players online.
BALL x PIT
BALL x PIT is a fantasy roguelite in which heroes fire magical balls at monsters while descending into a pit, and use the treasure they find to rebuild the fallen city of Ballbylon.
Driving Test Simulator
Driving Test Simulator is a driving game with a choice of cars, manual and automatic gearbox controls, left-hand and right-hand drive support, and several game modes.
Bite Night
Bite Night is a first-person comedy horror game in which the player works a night shift at a rural gas station while a monster causes trouble. It has retro graphics and runs for about 30 minutes.
Poopy’s Playland
A first-person horror game in which the player is a mother investigating her child's disappearance inside a playland that has been abandoned for a year, while avoiding robots.
Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction
A solo deduction roguelite set in a noir city. The player is a detective who questions suspects on a grid, works out which are lying, and arrests syndicate members without losing reputation.
Sneaky Squad
Sneaky Squad is an online multiplayer game in which some players hide among identical soldiers while one player, the Seeker, tries to work out which soldiers are real players.
Chicken Bomb
Chicken Bomb is a top-down bomber-style game with light RPG elements. The player controls a chicken and uses bomb eggs to defeat other animals.
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