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THE DEAD WE KNEW: Open World Survival
Early Access
17 Sep, 2026
Skibidi Wars
Early Access
17 Sep, 2026
Splatt
Early Access
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CONDEMNED: Nightfall
Early Access
Q3 2026
Trivia Murder Party 3
Early Access
17 Sep, 2026
OpenFront
Early Access
17 Sep, 2026
33 Days till Extraction
Early Access
17 Sep, 2026
Megastore Chaos
Early Access
18 Sep, 2026
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Splatt
sixfeet LLC
A competitive online obstacle racer for two to four players. Sprint, jump and climb through physics-driven courses while carrying a fragile egg that shatters on impact. Trigger trap crates, shove rivals off ledges, and finish with your egg intact for full points, or empty-handed for half.
Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night
Choice of Games
These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World of Darkness shared story universe.
Flamecraft
Monster Couch
Flamecraft is a 1-5 player cozy strategy game filled with magic. Become a Flamekeeper and help adorable dragon artisans find the perfect home. Enchant the town’s stores and fill them with dragon cards as you watch the whimsical shopping district come to life.
Alchemess: Tidy Up Your Potion Shop!
Dan Fury, Sunny;)
A cozy first-person sorting game. 2080 hand-named, physically reacting bottles scattered across the floor. A real mess. No, wait.. A real Alchemess! Join the mesmerizing flow of clicking each potion into its individual correct position. Tidy alone, or bring a friend. Or race one. Made with love.
Tumblebee
Agelvik
Play as a tumbling bumblebee on a quest to rescue its captured family from a cave filled with arachnid nightmares.
Frog It Up
Starfall Games
Frog It Up is an incremental clicker game where you lure frogs to a pond and help them build their own cozy little city. As the pond grows, you’ll decide which upgrades to unlock, shaping how the city expands over time and steering progress in the direction you prefer.
Dawson Oaks Trailer Park
Striped Panda Studios
A proximity voice chat social deduction game where criminals must commit secret crimes while a Supervisor hunts them, and a hidden Snitch betrays them from within.
Rooster
Sticky Brain Studios
A heartfelt, story-rich casual puzzle adventure celebrating the best of ancient Chinese culture. Explore an exquisitely hand-drawn world with delightful surprises, from cooking, finding hidden objects, paper crafting, and more. Guide Rooster in an emotionally rewarding tale about family and love.
Projects with Demos
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a first-person open-world RPG set in a dark fantasy realm inspired by Arthurian legend, offering branching quests and flexible character builds.
Ravenous Devils
Ravenous Devils is a point and click management game about a tailor shop and pub that turn customers into ingredients and clothing materials.
I Need to Fix My Dream Car (But I Work at a Junkyard)
A junkyard game about sorting through piles of scrap to earn money, complete customer orders and gradually rebuild a rusty old car into your dream car.
CastleOn
Build your fortress, man the walls and survive the Third Crusade in this deep turn-based castle building strategy game.
JettFuel+
A 3D platformer in which Jett, a factory robot, searches for his missing brother Brody by collecting Power Gems across a range of stages.
The Kind Camomille
A short relaxing 3rd person exploration game focused around the concept of random acts of kindness
Look to the Birds
A cozy first-person birdwatching game about slowing down, noticing nature, and finding peace in small moments. Photograph 30+ bird species across five hand-crafted dioramas and fill your journal as you travel through the Canadian Maritimes.
The Bird of the North
In 1921: a kidnapping, a revolution... Investigate and uncover the truth behind a dark, mysterious story.
Wasteland Bites
Wasteland Bites is a post-apocalyptic food truck simulator where players prepare strange meals for unusual customers while managing stress and resources.
Cloudscrapers
Cloudscrapers is a minimalist strategy game about building towers into the clouds, unlocking upgrades between attempts and uncovering relics and mysteries as the tower rises.
Hazard Pay
Hazard Pay is a pixel-art, grid-based block-pushing puzzle game set in a dystopian world, in which the player clears evidence from abandoned and contaminated facilities for an unseen employer.
lily’s world XD
Lily was an ordinary teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop. Read her diary, message her friends, and piece together what happened to her before it’s too late. But you're not the only one with access to her computer… A fourth wall-breaking psychological horror experience featuring LilyPichu
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
VOIDFACE
VOIDFACE is a bullet hell game where every enemy is a boss fight and players have only one life to survive challenging encounters.
Rico Rite
Rico Rite is a roguelike that combines Breakout-style paddle play with a party of hero balls, each attacking automatically as it bounces through descending swarms of bricks.
Terraria
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
United Heist: Facility Zero – Supporter Pack
Support the future development of United Heist and grab some exclusive goodies as a thank you
Lucent
Lucent is a logic puzzle game in which players direct a laser to hit a target within a set number of moves, across 80 hand-made levels.
How Many Dudes?
Recruit an army of ridiculous Dudes and break the game with absurd synergies. It's roguelike autobattling chaos and we're obsessed with it.
Grandpa’s Bee Haven
An idle beekeeping simulator designed to sit at the bottom of the screen while you work. Place hives, assign bees, harvest honey and beeswax, and expand across three maps.
Crack That Smile
Crack That Smile is a 2D incremental game in which you hover a circular cursor over frozen ice blocks to break them apart and free the emojis trapped inside.
Pibcremental
Pibcremental is an idle-incremental clicker in which players grow a civilisation of creatures called Pibbles inside a giant tree, set in a post-human world.
Fading Serenades
Fading Serenades is a cozy top-down courier adventure where you deliver parcels, befriend islanders, and uncover mysteries on Clifford’s Island.
PawMart Tiny Market
PawMart Tiny Market is an idle supermarket simulation, staffed by animal characters, that sits at the bottom of your screen so you can manage your shop while doing other things.
Desk Top Racer — Crate Storage Expansion
A downloadable add-on for Desk Top Racer that adds ten extra crate storage slots, giving players more room to hold rewards earned from races before opening them.
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