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OPEN UP, MICHAEL!
LetsAdventurePlay
OPEN UP, MICHAEL! is a first-person puzzle game where players perform ritual-like actions in a changing hallway to reach room 13.
Sludgineers
Snickerdoodle Games, Funk Games
Sludgineers is an active incremental game in which players clean up pollution, mine and refine materials, and manage a growing refinery operation across the countryside.
Snap the Cat
KORO.GAMES
Snap the Cat is an incremental game about photographing cats, gathering likes and followers while unlocking new biomes, cats and costumes.
How Asian Parents went to School
Andy Yeet
A 1-4 player co-op game where players climb mountains, dodge obstacles and outrun a bear to reach school on time.
Goaldeck
Pro Nobis Studio
GoalDeck is a single-player roguelike deck-building game where players coach a football squad through escalating tournaments, building decks and managing player morale.
America Against Ants
Aartform Games, Mark Brendan
A tactical defence game set in 1951, where players command Task Force Sable against a growing invasion of giant mutant ants across the American Southwest.
Ling House: Echoes Within
Chaotic System
Ling House: Echoes Within is a first-person horror game in which a person trapped in a shifting, sentient house must piece together fragmented memories to uncover the truth.
Mouspionage
HawtLava Games
Mouspionage is an active incremental game where players direct a network of animal agents to break into homes, steal valuables, and gather intelligence.
Projects with Demos
The Skin Stapler
A serial killer's skinning victims and stapling them to walls. You've got one grimy, neon-lit night to catch them before they catch you.
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.
Talespinner
Enter a captivating realm woven with the tapestry of Japanese mythology in Talespinner, a deck-building roguelike adventure. As the storyteller, you will guide your chosen hero through an ever-changing narrative shaped by your decisions and deck construction.
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!
Swan Song
Swan Song is a cozy, emotional puzzle game where music guides a swan through challenges, revealing a touching story of family, memory, and loss.
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?
Lootbound
Lootbound is a tactical roguelite with turn-based combat, loot management and D&D elements set in a dark fantasy world. Fight dangerous enemies, collect epic loot, recruit allies and lead them on a path of adventure.
Regions of Ruin: Runegate
Play the last of the dwarves, rebuild a shattered civilization, and hack your way through a monster-infested world in this explorative RPG.
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.
KAPIA
KAPIA is a story-driven point-and-click adventure executed in a classical style of 3D quests from the mid-2000s.
Bears In Space
Stranded and alone on a strange planet after a scientific experiment went wrong, Maxwell Atoms must come to terms with his new found abilities.
Schrödinger’s Call
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.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
Swordcery is a rogue-lite, melee-based action-RPG whose treacherous, ever-evolving path will challenge players.
Indie Demos
Remain At Your Desk
Crunch Moonkiss Studios
Remain At Your Desk is a corporate simulation and hacking game where you juggle a mundane office job by day and covert data theft by night.
Stamperor! The Jester's Decree
Moon Mind Studio
Stamperor! The Jester's Decree is a decision-driven city builder where players use stamps to judge citizen requests and manage an empire's resources before it collapses.
Courier Beware
Crab Attack Games
A narrative game in which players connect to Leena, a food courier who can see the dead, and help her investigate a wave of restless spirits while balancing gig work and rent.
Red the Cook
Makarychev Danila
Red the Cook is a cosy cooking simulator where players manage a restaurant, preparing and serving dishes under time pressure.
Pocket Pilot
VS Virtual Style
Pocket Pilot is a relaxing flight game where players restore a polluted island using a plane, helicopter and drone.
Plobania 47/B
Two Bites
Plobania 47/B is a document-inspection game in which players review identification papers and records under shifting rules, deciding who is sent into mandatory sleep.
Late Night Duty
toastycedes
Late Night Duty is a short psychological horror walking simulator about a veteran with PTSD working his first night shift as a school security guard in Malaysia.
Angel Clicker
oldflowerGames
Angel Clicker is an incremental clicker game with optional rhythm elements, in which players help an angelic architect compete in a soul-catching contest against Hell.
I.T. Never Ends
Dadbod Games
A tech-support simulator where players process surreal help desk tickets, swiping to approve or deny requests while balancing four shifting metrics.
The Recipe for Life. A Journey Through Silent Apocalypses
Nozori Games
A narrative-driven journey in which a wanderer travels a decaying world by RV, engaging survivors in deep, branching conversations.
Retail Hell
LEAP Game Studios
Retail Hell is a psychological horror job simulator where players run a convenience store trapped between life and death, serving supernatural customers to pay off their debt.
Barfender
Proto Division
Barfender is a co-op bar simulation game where players serve drinks, manage unruly customers, and keep a bar running as chaos builds around them.
Dragon Dinner
Menut Studios
Dragon Dinner is a fast-paced restaurant management game where players run dragon-staffed eateries, juggling orders, layouts and rising chaos with roguelike progression.
Sludgineers
Snickerdoodle Games, Funk Games
Sludgineers is an active incremental game in which players clean up pollution, mine and refine materials, and manage a growing refinery operation across the countryside.
ZOMBUTCHER: Monster Business Simulator
ODIUS
A stealth action simulator where players run a butcher shop for monsters, gathering meat and human flesh under the cover of night while avoiding patrols.
Project P.I.T.T.
Froke
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.
FLASH AND DIE
AtmoPixel
FLASH AND DIE is a horror game where players work as a photographer taking night-time photos of real estate listings, uncovering a hidden truth along the way.
FiresOut!
Dreamonaut Studio
FiresOut! is a chaotic co-op firefighting game for up to 4 players, playable online or locally, where teams use a goldfish-powered water cannon to put out fires and rescue civilians.
S.A.N.D.Y. - Beach Cleaner
20 CALLS
S.A.N.D.Y. - Beach Cleaner is a game about a cleaning robot who clears trash from a resort beach and sorts debris while uncovering a narrative set in a polluted future.
Alien Morgue
BurGum Games
Alien Morgue is a sci-fi pathologist simulator in which players examine alien bodies to determine cause of death and decide how to handle the deceased's remains and belongings.
American Cooking Simulator: Multiplayer
Freedom Burger Games
A cooperative multiplayer game where up to four players use firearms to prepare and cook burgers for a fast food chain.
Wasteland Bites
CosmicDev
Wasteland Bites is a post-apocalyptic food truck simulator where players prepare strange meals for unusual customers while managing stress and resources.
Dystopicon
Palitroque
Dystopicon is a dystopian time management game in which players earn money by watching television and decide whether to conform or rebel against a controlling society.
Teddy's Haven
Teddy Bear Games LLC
Teddy’s Haven is a cozy shop sim filled with magic and charm. Sell over 400 items, decorate with 250+ decorations, and create the shop of your dreams. Meet mythical creatures, level up your skills, harvest the land, and uncover the peaceful wonders of life on Ursa.
Released Indie Games
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.
Dark Scrolls
Hack and slash through procedurally generated dungeons solo or with a mate, stacking perks until you're unleashing proper screen-filling carnage. Nine quirky heroes, endless surprises, zero mercy.
Awaken The Time
A Twisted Time Travel Action-adventure game has 3 Gameplay styles in one game : Samurai, shooter, cyborg Travel in Time and discover the story-based!
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
A procedurally generated roguelike known for its dark themes and deep item systems.
KAPIA
KAPIA is a story-driven point-and-click adventure executed in a classical style of 3D quests from the mid-2000s.
Mini Soccer Manager
Take charge of the league’s weakest club and lead it to glory. Build your squad, develop players, set formations, adjust tactics, and fight your way from last place to champions.
Undertale
An indie RPG that rethinks combat and player choice through narrative design.
Heave Ho 2
Grab, swing and splatter your way through eight ridiculous worlds, now with online chaos alongside the local couch carnage. Heave Ho 2 is dumb fun at its finest.
ION Shift
A brutal 2D platformer where you play as an alien fighting your way through a deadly spaceship full of soldiers, turrets, and drones.
Warcat Parade
Warcat Parade is a Touhou-inspired bullet hell with 6 levels, 6 bosses, pixel art, chiptune music, and one determined punk catboy hero.
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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