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Projects with Demos

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Aaero2

A rhythm driven rail shooter where you trace light, fire to the beat, and fly through music powered worlds with tracks from Monstercat and Black Razor Records.

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Hotel Architect

Build, decorate and manage your own hotel empire from crumbling fixer-uppers to five-star towers. Keep guests happy or brace for the reviews.

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Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game

A historically-grounded fantasy homesteading game about finding your way after loss.

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Anima Gate of Memories: I&II Remaster

Two action RPGs return remastered in one definitive collection with enhanced visuals, fast combat and branching storylines in the world of Gaia.

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Sovereign Tower

Rule a kingdom of squabbling knights, nosy advisors and a time-bending demon in the crypt. Every decision is yours, every consequence is too.

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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.

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PlateUp!

Run a restaurant with up to four mates, cook like mad, and try not to burn the whole place down. Chaotic co-op cooking at its finest.

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This Is No Cave

This Is No Cave is a minimalist 2D platformer and runner where precision and speed are everything. Navigate alien tunnels using your thrusters and grapple hook.

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Scritchy Scratchy

Scratch cards, big payouts, and just enough chaos to keep you hooked. Scritchy Scratchy is the incremental game where luck does the heavy lifting.

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Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn’t

Cursed Words starts like Boggle and ends somewhere else entirely, letters, numbers, chess pieces, whatever the run throws at you. It's a roguelike word game that quietly stops being a word game.

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Lootbound

Lootbound is a roguelike where players build a squad of companions, manage inventory-based item auras, and assemble a boss across multiple biomes.

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Alchemist: Journey of the Soul

First-person adventure game, playable solo or co-op with up to 4 players. Use your magical abilities to solve puzzles or navigate through areas! Explore, use items, brew potions and unlock your full alchemical potential. Are you willing to do what it takes to claim a soul of your own?

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Early Access

Swordcery

11 Aug, 2026

Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.

Indie Demos

Grim Trials
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Grim Trials

Glory Jam

Grim Trials is a heavy metal action roguelite in which players craft weapons and armour to battle through hex-grid arenas as a Reaper named Avelin.

Released
Book Nook
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Demo

Book Nook

Malapata Studio

Book Nook is a relaxing puzzle game in which players assemble miniature diorama scenes piece by piece, placing furniture, decorations and small details to complete cosy book nook designs.

Development
Moss: The Forgotten Relic
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Moss: The Forgotten Relic

Polyarc, Blackbird Interactive

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
Kint
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Demo

Kint

Conor Souness

Kint is a text-based online multiplayer RPG in which players explore the world of Seram and vote collectively to determine which discovered lore fragments become canon.

Development
Silky Rails
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Silky Rails

JoyDoza

Silky Rails is a train-building survival game where players assemble and upgrade carts to automatically battle waves of enemies along the Silk Road.

Development
Lootbound
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Lootbound

ArtDock

Lootbound is a roguelike where players build a squad of companions, manage inventory-based item auras, and assemble a boss across multiple biomes.

Released
Rita
76 MC
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Rita

SporkTank

Rita is a cozy puzzle-adventure following a chicklet who solves word puzzles to explore her town and shape her life story.

Released
ShelfLife: Art School Detective
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ShelfLife: Art School Detective

Fnife Games

A detective dating sim in which psychic art student Johana investigates nine suspects to uncover who has been destroying priceless artworks.

Development
Pixel Washer
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Pixel Washer

Valadria

Pixel Washer is a cleaning game where players control a piggy using a power washer to remove grime and reveal pixel art scenes across a town.

Development
Nocturne
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Nocturne

Pracy Studios

Nocturne is a story-driven RPG set after humanity's extinction, combining rhythm-based combat with traditional RPG exploration and progression.

Development
Appulse
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Appulse

Le Rado

Appulse combines roguelite action, top-down shooting and pinball mechanics, tasking players with defending a fleet using recoil-based ball control.

Development
Hope in the City
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Hope in the City

Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.

Hope in the City is a narrative mystery game set in Shenyang, following 17-year-old Hope Song as she investigates her parents' sudden disappearance.

Development
Woodo
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Woodo

Tiny Monks Tales

Woodo is a cozy diorama puzzle game where players assemble wooden scenes piece by piece, following the story of Foxy and Ben the frog.

Development
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2
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The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2

D'Avekki Studios Ltd

A Lovecraftian mystery game in which players act as both therapist and detective, questioning suspects to uncover a killer whose identity is randomised each playthrough.

Development
Holstin
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Holstin

Sonka

Holstin is a survival horror game set in a decaying 1992 Polish town, where the player searches for a missing friend amid monstrous corruption.

Development
Toxic Crusaders
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Toxic Crusaders

Retroware

Toxic Crusaders is a beat 'em up featuring seven playable characters battling across eleven pixel-art levels, with local co-op for up to four players.

Development
Schrödinger's Call
89 MC
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Demo

Schrödinger's Call

Acrobatic Chirimenjako

Schrödinger's Call is a narrative picture-book-style game about Mary, an amnesiac woman who answers phone calls from souls caught between life and death in the moments before the moon falls and the world ends.

Released
Catechesis
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Catechesis

Baroque Decay

Catechesis is a Horror RPG in which a demon-possessed altar boy must stay virtuous by day and battle demons by night to save his grandfather.

Development
The Last Caretaker
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The Last Caretaker

Channel37 Ltd

A first-person survival-crafting game in which a robotic Caretaker explores a flooded ruined Earth to recover human seeds and prepare humanity for launch into orbit.

Early Access
General Practice
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General Practice

Mokum Games

General Practice is a co-op game for up to four players in which players run a chaotic GP clinic, treating patients using various medical devices and contraptions.

Development
Mutter
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Mutter

DeadlyCrow Games

Mutter is a stop-motion styled adventure game set in 1940s rural England, following a boy caring for his mother as she transforms into something monstrous.

Development
Croak
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Croak

WoodRunner Games

Croak is a fast-paced 2D platformer in which a Frog Prince uses tongue-grapple and bounce mechanics to navigate hand-drawn levels and break a curse on his kingdom.

Development
The Dark West
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The Dark West

Black Hand

The Dark West is an occult western Action RPG set in a corrupted 19th century frontier, combining lethal ranged combat with deep character building and loot systems.

Early Access
Time To Wake Up
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Time To Wake Up

Eye Blink Twice

Time To Wake Up is an atmospheric psychological thriller in which players navigate a dream built from surreal school memories, using their eyes to alter the environment.

Development

Released Indie Games

HELLBREAK

You're a World War soldier stuck in hell, fighting through demon hordes with 19 nasty weapons and a pile of spells to earn your soul back. Fast, brutal, first-person combat where no run plays out the same.

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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?

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Sleeping with the Phish

You're the new intern stuck sorting real emails from phishing scams, one dodgy request at a time. Get it wrong and it's your salary (and secrets) on the line.

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Escape the Backrooms

Get lost in the Backrooms with up to three mates, and try not to lose each other (or your minds) before you find the exit.

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Chapeau

Chapeau is a local co-op party game where players control hats that bounce and float, competing to land on heads and score points across various modes.

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Woodfel

Woodfel is a single/multiplayer, open-world building & crafting game.

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Flock Around

Grab your camera and go birdwatching with up to 10 mates in Flock Around, a chill co-op nature sanctuary game about snapping birds and filling out your guide book.

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Dorfromantik

A relaxing puzzle strategy game about building beautiful landscapes tile by tile.

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Röki

It's a game about MONSTERS that shouldn't exist, but DO.

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Axe & Bow Land

Retro Aztec platformer where brothers Axel & Bowie battle ancient darkness with magical weapons, pixel charm & tough arcade challenge.

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Dicealot

Dicealot is a push-your-luck roguelike dice-builder where every roll could win you the battle or wipe your turn clean. Roll smart, build your dice pool, and save Camelot before your greed gets the better of you.

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OFF

A surreal cult classic RPG where players guide the Batter through a strange world filled with unforgettable characters, mysterious zones, and unsettling

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