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Dicevaders
Pengonauts
Dicevaders is a dice-based roguelike deckbuilder about leading the ultimate alien invasion. Set in the StarVaders universe, draft and manipulate the dice row, build an unstoppable army, and unleash adrenaline pumping combos through powerful synergies and strategic play.
HR: Human Remains
dennisCorner
In a broken world ruled by demons, the gears of productivity still turn. Complete tasks, solve puzzles, and explore a society under demonic regime from the perspective of an ordinary office clerk.
Desktop Gremlins
ShuGhost
Desktop Gremlins is a desktop companion in which a small creature lives on screen, wanders between open windows and evolves through five forms as the player looks after it.
Star Space
Corey Evans
Star Space is a 3D third-person science fiction starship shooter for Mac and PC, with online and LAN deathmatch modes and a target practice mode.
Crime Podcast: 1976
Midnight Archive
Crime Podcast: 1976 is a first-person psychological horror walking simulator in which a retiring FBI agent confronts evidence he hid at home many years earlier.
Hyperboard Extreme
SlyBalto
Hyperboard Extreme is an arcade racing game by SlyBalto and friends, featuring takedowns, powerups and local multiplayer for up to four players.
Sneaky Squad
IndieDev_Studio
Sneaky Squad is an online multiplayer hide-and-seek game in which players disguise themselves among identical soldiers while a Seeker tries to identify them.
Raiders 1941
Ruttsoft
Raiders 1941 is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up in which players fly one of two experimental planes against Axis forces across Europe, with the campaign ending in Berlin.
Projects with Demos
Roman Sands RE:Build
Roman Sands RE:Build is an adventure game with two intertwined stories, one at a tropical resort and one at a decaying research station, set as the sun is days from swallowing the world.
The Ayna
The Ayna is a psychological anomaly-spotting game set in Türkiye, taking place in the concert area of a female stage artist and designed to be completed in one sitting.
Alembic
A falling-sand sandbox built on the **real periodic table**. Every element has genuine physical properties, and reactions emerge from real chemistry — rust iron, ignite thermite, run a galvanic cell, split a uranium pile to criticality. Discover it all in an encyclopedia that fills as you play.
Fantasy Network
Join Lyn in a colorful, cartoonish world of Holua where "Likes" are the ultimate power! Explore a non-linear world, master umbrella-based combat, and smash your way through talent-show boss battles. It’s a metroidvania with a social media soul- no subscription needed.
Discremental
Discremental is a released incremental game in which you start with a single disk, loot floors for resources, and spend them on abilities, weapons and skill tree upgrades.
Dirty Laundry
A first-person narrative walking simulator in which Emily takes a night shift at a laundry, dealing with unusual customers while washing clothes.
Popcorn & Premieren
Popcorn & Premieren is a cinema management game in which players reopen a closed neighbourhood cinema and expand it into a seven-screen multiplex showing parody films.
HR: Human Remains
In a broken world ruled by demons, the gears of productivity still turn. Complete tasks, solve puzzles, and explore a society under demonic regime from the perspective of an ordinary office clerk.
Dungeons of Hinterberg
Dungeons of Hinterberg is an action-adventure game in which Luisa explores dungeons and open-world terrain in the Austrian Alps, combining puzzle-solving, combat and town-based social activities.
Bookstore Incremental
Bookstore Incremental is an active incremental game in which players print and sell books, starting with one slow printer and a small shelf and gradually expanding their shop.
The Skin Stapler
The Skin Stapler is a retro-styled PSX grindhouse horror adventure set in the rotting, crime-soaked sprawl of Carrion City. Players follow jaded detective Dick Slater and his eager rookie partner Robbie Knox as they hunt a mysterious serial killer known only as The Skin Stapler.
Quiet Hour
Quiet Hour is a game about building and running an underground speakeasy, where players serve customers and hire staff while keeping noise low enough to avoid being discovered.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
A colossal blade has pierced the world of Armorial, unleashing a storm of enchanted swords from the heavens. Collect and wield an arsenal of these spellbound blades, turning them against the very force that summoned them. In this roguelike ARPG, you will defy the Celestial evil consuming the world!
Indie Demos
The Tally
Olivia Gonsher
The Tally is a life simulation set in Corvid City, where everyday choices are recorded and totalled on a receipt when the player's life ends, deciding where they are sent next.
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players scavenge parts to customise cars, fight warlords and trade with factions.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure combining visual novel storytelling, point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements, set at a wedding in France.
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow
Vertex Horizons
Evergrow: Shards of Tomorrow is a linear puzzle-adventure game in which players explore a ruined world, solve puzzles and restore a corrupted environment.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a surveillance game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia, in which the player works as an operator watching citizens through cameras and enforcing the law.
Shuffle and Seek
Groovy Zebra Studio
Shuffle and Seek is a team-based multiplayer game by Groovy Zebra Studio in which Shufflers rearrange a room against the clock and Seekers try to work out what has changed.
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.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator is a first-person simulation game about running a shop that sells collectible mystery eggs, which can be sold sealed or opened for the figures inside.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale is a 2D action-platformer with boss battles, interactive cinematics and local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which Kiko, a girl stranded in a spirit world, uses portals and Spirit Powers to alter gravity and control time.
Telly No Vision
TheMysticSword
Telly No Vision is an action game set in a virtual space where the surroundings are invisible and must be navigated by watching floating TVs that show the world from other perspectives.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a 2D platformer built around speedrunning, with seasonal modes, worldwide leaderboards and biomes that each have their own physics.
Noir
Bœuf Musqué
Noir is a colourful 2D platform game in which players control a small ball that jumps and sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open the exit portal.
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.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
Bait Soul is a top-down Dungeon Crawler Roguelike. It blends dungeon exploration with Survivors-style auto-attacks. Accessible yet deep, it retains the thrill of looting, with unique, game-changing mechanics hidden everywhere.
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
Learn all about Abraham Lincoln in this visual novel biography containing rare photos of Lincoln’s hat the day he was shot, the Lincoln Memorial, where he gave the Gettysburg Address, and much more. Lawyer, President, Emancipator - this is Abraham Lincoln! Proudly made in the Washington DC area
Dash Dot Die
Iron Interactive Games
Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game with retro PSX and VHS-style visuals, in which every puzzle is solved by decoding Morse code.
Monarchs at Play
MixedMoonGames
Monarchs at Play is a turn-based 4X strategy game built around placing buildings, with matches lasting around an hour and support for solo and multiplayer play.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Book Club Games
A movement-based climbing game where you ascend on a suicide mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Little Ghost
Alan Abbadessa, Law Jun Yan, Eduardo Alexandrino, Leaf Riifuneko
Chill metroidvania maximizes non-linear exploration & puzzle-platforming. Frequent checkpoints, no currency, no combat. Gain friends & abilities. Collectables-as-media; tarot cards, weird podcasts, and songs from over 20 bands; all found within a surreal papercraft world.
Dig Too Deep
Punch Up Games
Dig Too Deep is a 2D side-scrolling action roguelite with tower defence elements, in which players throw goblins to mine resources, craft defences and fight waves of enemies.
Jarred Defense
Jarred Cat Studios
A difficult maze-building tower defense about Yuki, a cat trapped in a teleporting jar. Protect it from robots and endure its unhelpful comments. Build your own paths, adapt as levels change, unlock powerful items, and uncover Yuki’s story. A love letter to Warcraft III custom maps.
Released Indie Games
Journey to Echo
Journey to Echo is a post-apocalyptic survival adventure in which you leave an underground bunker to scavenge supplies, maintain a vehicle and search for other survivors across an open world.
The Plucky Squire
The Plucky Squire is an action-adventure game in which storybook hero Jot moves between 2D and 3D worlds to restore his book's story after being cast out by its villain.
Brick by Brick
A first-person sandbox in which players sort around 4,000 loose bricks onto shelves by style and colour, then use them to build freely, alone or online with a friend.
Sixtar Gate: STARTRAIL – Berry Melody Collaboration Pack
A downloadable content pack for the rhythm game Sixtar Gate: STARTRAIL, adding ten songs from a collaboration with Berry Melody.
ArmedAbyss
ArmedAbyss is a shooting game with unlimited ammunition in which players collect items and weapons, sell them for resources, and use skills to increase their firepower.
Alex & Arty
Restore a dying alien world through the bond between Alex and Arty. Use Alex’s tech to cleanse corruption, help Arty bring light back to each region, and watch the planet transform through your actions.
RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike
A coin-pushing dopamine machine. RACCOIN is a roguelike deckbuilder where you combine special coins with powerful items to trigger wildly satisfying combos. Stack shiny towers, spin the lucky wheel, and shake the machine until all the coins drop.
Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times
Rhell is a puzzle adventure where you mix and match 40 magic runes to solve puzzles however you like, playing a mage who's a bit too mouthy for her own good.
Mewgenics
Mewgenics is a turn-based tactics roguelite about breeding and battling with a growing army of mutant cats.
AIGENROBO
AIGENROBO is a 3D arena shooter in which players assemble a combat robot from interchangeable parts and fight CPU machines, bosses and other players online.
TROLEU
TROLEU is a first-person action game in which players take on the role of a trolleybus conductor, checking fares and travel passes while managing unruly passengers.
Wanker
Wanker is a rhythm-based interactive title in which the player drags through video tracks using physical scrubbing gestures, with timing and direction changes triggering on-screen feedback.
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