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Recently Released
CryptidCam
Mothman Mothman Studios
A short photography adventure in which the player photographs cryptids such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster in the woods for cryptozoologist Dr. Ted Krupp's research report.
Tom the Postgirl
Oopsie Daisies, ARTE France
Tom's just a postgirl doing her rounds, but she can't resist peeking through every window and door in this weird little village. Turns out everyone's got something to hide.
Danchi Days
sandy powder, Melos Han-Tani, mogumu, gingham games
A 12-year-old girl tries to revive her danchi's summer festival while reconnecting with her grandma, who's living with dementia. Sweet, funny, and a little sad.
Pixel Coloring World
Milk Poison
Pixel Coloring World is a colour-by-number pixel art game with 12 themed images across four canvas sizes, from 50×50 to 200×200 pixels.
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.
Les aventures extraordinaires d'Alec Orbusier - Acte 1 : Le Tombeau de Taâl Rash'a
Icosaèdre
A puzzle-adventure game in which university archaeologist Alec Orbusier explores the tomb of Taâl Rash'a. Developed by Pharazon of Studio Icosaèdre.
Tiny Capsule Collector
Playing Mantis
An idle game in which the player runs a small Gachapon capsule shop along the bottom of the desktop screen. Animal customers visit, collectables are gathered, and Twitch viewers can appear as visitors.
Emberville
Cygnus Cross
Emberville is an action-focused adventure game in which the player escapes a vast prison called the Vitromotus, rescues trapped townsfolk, and helps them rebuild their town.
Projects with Demos
The Village Above the Well
A village-building and resource management game in which the player gathers materials, hires workers and forges gear for an adventurer who descends seven dungeons beneath an old well.
Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers
A run-based blackjack roguelike with deckbuilding. Players work through a tavern casino, challenging opponents with a modified version of blackjack and a deck that changes over each run.
JettFuel+
JettFuel+ is a 3D platformer in which Jett, a robot, searches for his brother Brody by collecting Power Gems across varied stages. It expands on the 2024 game JettFuel.
Deck of Haunts
Deck of Haunts casts the player as a haunted house. Players design the mansion's layout, then use a deck of haunt cards to frighten human intruders and harvest their essence.
ClearIt M4
ClearIt M4 is a ball-matching puzzle game in which players shoot coloured balls from the edges of the field to clear the board. Levels add special elements and a competition mode against the computer.
StarL 9 Ashes Of The Past
StarL 9: Ashes Of The Past is an adventure game in which a woman stranded on a magical island after a balloon accident is called a princess by its inhabitants and must break a witch's curse.
Angel Clicker
Angel Clicker is an incremental clicker with optional rhythm elements. Players help an angelic architect compete against Hell in a soul-catching contest.
Discremental
Discremental is an incremental game in which players begin with a single disk and spend loot resources to unlock abilities and weapons, upgrade stats, and progress through floors.
Quiet Hour
Quiet Hour is a management game in which the player builds and runs an underground speakeasy, serving customers and hiring staff while keeping noise levels low enough to avoid being caught.
America Against Ants
A story-driven tactical defence game set in 1951, in which players command Task Force Sable against giant mutant fire ants spreading across the American Southwest after failed atomic experiments in Nevada.
Project P.I.T.T.
Project P.I.T.T. is a physics-based production game in which a new intern crafts rubber ducks and feeds them to a growing pit called the Maw, set in a PSX-style corporate facility.
Nomori
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which the player controls Kiko, a girl in a spirit world, placing and rotating portals to change the direction of gravity for herself and for other objects.
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
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.
DWARRF: A Pinball Roguelike
Sam Stubbings
DWARRF is a roguelike mixing pinball, pachinko and bubble shooter play. As Arf, a pirate dwarf, the player fires balls from a cannon to fight enemies through four levels in the mines.
Released Indie Games
Soggy Beans
Soggy Beans is a low-intensity side-idle game in which fish visit a decorated seascape. Players photograph and log the fish, collect beans, and arrange furniture.
North Hunt
North Hunt is a social deduction game for one to eight players in which a Thief poses as a villager NPC while a Chief tries to identify the impostor. Bots can fill either team.
Seven Blasphemies
Seven Blasphemies is a turn-based roguelike with permadeath. Each dawn can bring a permanent curse, and the world ends when the seventh arrives.
Tide Of Tactics
Tide Of Tactics is a turn-based medieval strategy game played on a grid. Players choose a commander, build units, use terrain and traps, and capture all enemy castles.
The Mortuary Assistant
The Mortuary Assistant is a horror game in which an apprentice at River Fields Mortuary carries out embalmings overnight while identifying and banishing demonic entities.
Aaero2
Aaero2 is an on-rails rhythm shooter in which players follow ribbons of light and fire at enemies in time with a Monstercat soundtrack. It has a campaign plus co-op and PvP modes.
The Rallying Ball
The Rallying Ball is an arcade game in which the player rolls a ball along tracks containing lava, obstacles and enemy lava balls, using special abilities to reach the finish.
Tidy or Treat
Tidy or Treat is a co-op organising game in which players restock a Halloween shop before October 31st. It supports one to four players and offers four play modes.
EON Survivor
EON Survivor is a space combat game in which players deploy into hostile alien territory, harvest resources, complete missions and fight enemy swarms while upgrading their ship.
Gnomes
Turn based tower defence meets roguelike as your gnomes defend the garden from an ever growing goblin horde. Every run's different, every night's a fresh fight for survival.
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.
Chomp Garden
Chomp Garden is a puzzle game in which the player is a tiny lamp, using light to guide plants through a garden while searching for a lost pup.
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