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Projects with Demos

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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Turnbound

Turnbound is a haunted grid-battler where you build your inventory, then send it off to fight the ghosts of other players' builds. Every tile placement matters.

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Deadliest Pigeon

Forget the breadcrumbs, Albert the Pigeon wants blood. A physics based shooter where you're the angriest bird in town.

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The Holy Gosh Darn

Heaven's got six hours left and you're the angel stuck fixing it, armed with nothing but a time-travelling watch and a filthy mouth.

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Fading Serenades

Fading Serenades is a cozy top-down courier adventure where you deliver parcels, befriend islanders, and uncover mysteries on Clifford’s Island.

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The Gate Must Stand

The Continent has fallen and Belrak's last gate needs a defender. Pick your hero, recruit followers, and fight tooth and nail to keep it standing.

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Don’t Let It Starve

Pack bento boxes for a hungry monster in the walls and gamble your way to ridiculous scores. It's Tetris meets Resident Evil 4's inventory, but with food and way higher stakes.

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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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Fantasy Network

A hand-drawn metroidvania where you fight with an umbrella, chase likes, and try to save your mum from kidnappers by winning a talent show presidency race.

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Trouble Hunter Chronicles: The Stolen Creed

Explore mid 20th century Europe as an ex-OSS operative in this old school influenced point and click adventure game!

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Diaspora

Navigate unknown waters, deadly politics, and ancient magic in this low-fantasy adventure. Can you turn the tides of war and forge a future for your clan? A text-based interactive novel, 1 million words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

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MORSE

Learn Morse code and blast the Kaiser's fleet out of the water in this tense two-control naval strategy game. Timing, tactics and telegraphy are your only weapons.

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Swordcery logo with ornate sword and blue magical flame effects
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
Book Nook logo
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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Demo

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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Demo

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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Demo

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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Demo

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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Demo

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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Demo

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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Demo

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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Demo

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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Demo

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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Demo

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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Demo

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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Demo

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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Demo

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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Demo

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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Demo

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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Demo

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

Key art for the indie game Undertale Logo for Undertale

Undertale

An indie RPG that rethinks combat and player choice through narrative design.

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Drill Rift

Drill Rift is a turn-based colony sim where you manage a dwarven mining outpost, upgrade tech, roll dice events & risk awakening what lies below.

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Before Your Eyes

A short, emotional narrative experience controlled by blinking.

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Hollow Knight

A hand-drawn metroidvania focused on exploration, combat, and atmospheric world design.

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Forbidden Solitaire

A cursed 1995 CD-ROM comes back to life. Bloodletting solitaire, FMV dread and a watchful eye that really wants you to keep playing.

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PatriotMemoirs 4K

A narrative spy game set during China's War of Resistance against Japan, following an undercover agent posing as a collaborator while secretly aiding the resistance.

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Voidling Bound

Voidling Bound is a monster-taming 3rd-person shooter with branching evolution, DNA splicing & high-octane battles. Coming Q1 2026 to Steam.

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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.

Released
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Key art for the indie game Aaero2: Black Razor Edition Logo for Aaero2: Black Razor Edition

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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Dinner with an Owl

Break the puzzling spell of your eccentric host! Dinner with an Owl: A short surreal point and click adventure.

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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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MORSE

Learn Morse code and blast the Kaiser's fleet out of the water in this tense two-control naval strategy game. Timing, tactics and telegraphy are your only weapons.

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