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What's Coming
Full calendarSeptember 2026
Restitutor: Empire Restored
Early Access
8 Sep, 2026
CARDCRAFTER
Early Access
8 Sep, 2026
Between Adventures IDLE
Early Access
8 Sep, 2026
Nuktedan: The Forgotten Emotions
Early Access
8 Sep, 2026
Cyberpunk Store Simulator
Early Access
8 Sep, 2026
Brutal Ball Manager 2
Early Access
8 Sep, 2026
Card Revolution Soccer
Early Access
8 Sep, 2026
Wanderburg
Early Access
8 Sep, 2026
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Cat Me If You Can
Cosmic Stag Games
A hidden-object game set in black-and-white comic-style 3D worlds, where players search for over 725 cats, photograph them and solve puzzles across nine levels.
aMazeing 98
Codestar Spectre Studios
aMazeing 98 is a first-person maze game with a late-1990s visual style, where players navigate procedurally generated mazes to find the exit as quickly as possible.
King Assassination
Softera Gaming
King Assassination is a multiplayer deception and action game in which one team of Guards escorts a King along a route while a team of Assassins tries to kill him.
Underkeep
chris lee
Underkeep is a tower defence game in which you play the final boss, building a labyrinth of walls, monsters and traps to stop waves of adventurers reaching the boss room.
Restitutor: Empire Restored
FishPond
A strategy game set in the fractured Roman Empire after 192 AD, in which the player governs a province and works to restore the empire through statecraft, diplomacy and conquest.
Might & Poison Mushroom
GooloolooGames
Might & Poison Mushroom is a free prologue for the auto-battler Might & Mushroom, in which players build a shop pool of mushroom heroes, position them on a board and watch them fight automatically.
郴州字牌：PaoHuZi
Wenyu Huang
A digital version of Chenzhou Zipai (PaoHuZi), a traditional Hunan card game, with local rules, online matchmaking and private rooms for PC.
Card Revolution Soccer
LetsPlaymaker Productions
Card Revolution Soccer is a football card game in which matches are simulated by revealing cards rather than by directly controlling players on the pitch.
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.
While We Wait Here
A kitchen management game set in a mountain diner, blending cooking tasks with dialogue choices as customers react to news of an impending apocalypse.
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.
Master of Command
Master of Command is a real-time tactical strategy game set during the Seven Years' War, combining battlefield combat with campaign-level army and supply management.
Vortha racing
Vortha is an arcade racer focused on time trials, where players race against their own best times or other players' ghosts across 17 tracks, unlocking new ones by earning medals.
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.
GODBREAKERS
GODBREAKERS is a chaotic co-op hack ’n’ slash where you absorb enemy powers, chain brutal combos, and unleash Godbreaks to crush bosses.
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.
DEADLINE DELIVERY
Race as Carl the monkey mailman in a chaotic racer where your truck’s rigged to blow. Deliver fast, dodge obstacles & survive solo or with 8 players.
BALL x PIT
Chuck balls into a bottomless pit, fuse them into ridiculous combos, and rebuild a city while you're at it. BALL x PIT is roguelite chaos in the best way.
Tiny Glade
Tiny Glade is a relaxing, free-form building game where players construct castles and cottages without goals, resource management, or failure states.
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.
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
Lorenzo Ametrano
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Released Indie Games
SENTO SURVIVOR : Slip, Grab, and Bathe in Glory!
Slide, Shoot, and Send Your Rivals Flying!Chaotic, tumbling shooter battle set in a Japanese Sento (public bathhouse). On these super slippery floors, you'll slide, shoot, and stumble to victory. Defeat your rivals and soak in the sublime bath reserved only for the winner!
Pigeon: A Love Story
Fly through life-size versions of London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and Amsterdam looking for your one true pigeon soulmate. It's a slow game for fast times.
Baryum
Baryum is a first-person space sim set in a real-scale solar system with planets placed from live orbital data. Players take contracts, mine, trade and fight from a base at the ISS.
KKUL-TTEOK!
KKUL-TTEOK! is a co-operative survival action game for one to four players in which you control a swallowed honey cake fighting through mouth and throat stages.
Hanzi Bird Soundtrack
The Hanzi Bird Original Soundtrack is a five-track album of Chinese-inspired music from the game Hanzi Bird, running for around twelve minutes in total.
Bite Night: Dine or Die
Bite Night: Dine or Die is a first-person horror game set during a night shift at a roadside diner, where a mysterious fog traps staff and customers with a hidden vampire.
Dinner with an Owl
Break the puzzling spell of your eccentric host! Dinner with an Owl: A short surreal point and click adventure.
UnderMine
UnderMine is an action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in.
Pikuniku
Pikuniku is a is a 2d platformer adventure game where the main goal is to stop an evil corporation run by Mr Sunshine
Dead Cells
A fast, skill-focused action-platformer blending roguelike structure with tight combat.
Project P.I.T.T.
Project P.I.T.T. is a physics-based factory game in which players craft objects, starting with rubber ducks, to feed an ever-growing pit at a mysterious company.
Crumble
Crumble is a physics-based platformer where players swing, jump, and survive collapsing levels using a grappling tongue mechanic.
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