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AKIBA LOST
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AKIBA LOST

IzanagiGames

Thirteen years ago, six girls vanished in Akihabara in the unsolved case “The Akiba Vanishing”. Daiki Shinjo announces a live-action game based on the incident, gathering six women who embody Akihabara’s subculture. But their story begins to seep into reality. Can AKIBA LOST be finished?

Released
Crypt Survivor
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Crypt Survivor

cloud6552

Crypt Survivor is a dark fantasy roguelite in which players pick a class and fight through a series of handmade dungeon rooms, collecting gold and experience to unlock upgrades between encounters.

Released
We Were Here Tomorrow
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We Were Here Tomorrow

Total Mayhem Games

You and your partner awaken inside a mysterious Norček facility with little recollection of how you got there. Communicate, cooperate, and unravel the secrets in this asymmetrical co-op adventure. Only together will you decide the fate of Tomorrow…

Released
Big Dig
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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.

Released
Elsewhere
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Elsewhere

Four White Cats

Elsewhere is a massive sandbox crafting game where you go from stone tools to fusion power and particle accelerators, with magic, monsters and castles thrown in for good measure.

Released
Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest
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Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest

IQ Games

A cooperative puzzle platformer for two players, or one playing both characters, featuring forest spirits with different elemental abilities and physics-based levels.

Released
Blightstone
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Blightstone

Unfinished Pixel

Blightstone is a strategy roguelike in which players protect the Earthglass Crystal and deliver it to the Infernal Rift to defeat the demon overlord Korghul. It is now fully released.

Released
Chicks In Trouble
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Chicks In Trouble

Creamative

Chicks In Trouble is a 3D farm adventure in which a father rooster searches for his missing chicks. It has separate single-player and co-op campaigns, plus four mini-games.

Released

Projects with Demos

BALL x PIT

BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.

Released
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The Ratline

The Ratline is a 1971-set detective game in which players investigate a murdered priest's connection to a network smuggling Nazi war criminals to freedom.

Released
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Cité Alexandrie

In Cité Alexandrie, a narrative-management game in VR, you run an illegal cultural network in an alternate 1980s France where books, records and comics are forbidden. Recruit members. Give out jobs. Organize your network, but beware of rival gangs and the Cultural Interdiction Brigade.

Released
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Moss: The Forgotten Relic

Moss: The Forgotten Relic is an atmospheric puzzle-adventure combining Moss and Moss: Book II into a single adventure, guiding a small mouse hero through a fallen kingdom.

Released
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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.

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Driving Rogue

Driving Rogue is a run-based driving game where players race through a changing city, beat rival drivers to unlock their cars and upgrade their vehicle with modifier cards.

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Snuggle Nightmare: Tung Tung Sahur Horror Story

A first-person horror game in which journalist Max Brush explores the abandoned Brain World Rots theme park, hiding from active animatronics while solving puzzles to escape.

Released
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Custom Corner

Custom Corner is a room decoration game with productivity tools, made by an indie couple. Players build an isometric pixel room while using a focus timer, to-do list and notes.

Released
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Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

A first-person open-world RPG set in a dark fantasy land inspired by Arthurian legend, 600 years after King Arthur's fall. It features a branching story, flexible character builds and three zones.

Released
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Node Factory

Node Factory is an idle game where players wire nodes into data pipelines that turn raw data into AI output for profit, while managing power and heat, with the aim of deploying an AGI.

Released
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Deadliest Pigeon

Unleash total destruction to avenge the little chick! Soar through chaos, weaponize yourself to obliterate physics-based enemies and everything in your path.

Released
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Trading Card Inspector

Trading Card Inspector is a papers-please-style game in which the player checks fictional trading cards for validity, values the genuine ones and shreds the rest, set within Habubis Corporation.

Released
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Swordcery logo with ornate sword and blue magical flame effects
Early Access

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
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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.

Development
The Tally
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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.

Development
Apocalypter
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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.

Released
BABELOMANIA
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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.

Released
Monitor State
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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.

Released
Corpus et Spiritus
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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.

Development
Big Dig
Big Dig logo
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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.

Released
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
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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.

Released
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
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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.

Released
Nomori
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Nomori

Enchanted Works

Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which the player controls Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across a spirit world divided into four seasonal domains.

Released
Telly No Vision
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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.

Development
TrailRush
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TrailRush

Lyncornis Games

TrailRush is a 2D platformer built around speedrunning, with seasonal modes, worldwide leaderboards and biomes that each have their own physics.

Released
Noir
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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.

Released
Stellar Embers: United Fleet
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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.

Going Gold
Bait Soul
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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.

Released
True Vikings
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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.

Development
Important People of History: Presidents - Abraham Lincoln
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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

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Dash Dot Die
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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.

Released
Monarchs at Play
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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.

Development
PSI: Pressure Climbing
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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.

Early Access
Little Ghost
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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.

Released
Dig Too Deep
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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.

Early Access
Jarred Defense
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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.

Released
Cards, Blades & Fine Print
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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

Released Indie Games

After the Silence

After the Silence is a first-person psychological horror game. Players control Alfredo, a 40-year-old man trapped in a nightmare connected to a 1989 crime in Mexico.

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Cité Alexandrie

In Cité Alexandrie, a narrative-management game in VR, you run an illegal cultural network in an alternate 1980s France where books, records and comics are forbidden. Recruit members. Give out jobs. Organize your network, but beware of rival gangs and the Cultural Interdiction Brigade.

Released
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Traveler Stories: Journeys of Real People

A visual novel with simulation elements set in a Tokyo bar for travellers. Around 80% of the story draws on the real experiences of Japanese travellers, including one who has visited 98 countries.

Released
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Remnants of the forsaken Past : Submerged Fantasy

An underwater action adventure in which players pilot submarines and fight on foot as Raine, uncovering the fate of an ancient magical civilisation while battling pirates and sea creatures.

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Timberborn

Timberborn is a city-building game set on a post-human Earth, where players manage a colony of beavers and prepare it for recurring droughts and waves of toxic waste.

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Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder

A mini citybuilding roguelike. Place buildings, stack combos, and master deep strategy in short bursts to create a tiny thriving metropolis!

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The Hunter’s Inn

The Hunter's Inn is a turn based dark fantasy RPG in which the player takes quest board contracts from an inn, explores via a dice-based board loop and fights using simultaneous turns.

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Truckful

Truckful puts you behind the wheel of a battered pickup, running deliveries for villagers while a mysterious old forest waits to be uncovered.

Released
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AIGENROBO

AIGENROBO is a 3D arena shooter in which players assemble a combat robot from interchangeable parts and fight CPU machines, bosses and other players online.

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ESCAPEAWAY!

ESCAPEAWAY! is a retro-styled endless runner and platformer in which the player flees the Underdepths, where the Devil has brought them. It was originally made for a game jam in two weeks.

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Slash-Out: Fantasy Dueling

Slash-Out: Fantasy Dueling is a twin-stick fighting game in which players use a sword and shield to take on a series of fantasy boss duels.

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Quiet Hour

Quiet Hour is a game about building and running an underground speakeasy, serving customers and keeping noise low enough to avoid being caught.

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