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HAAK is a Metroidvania-Platformer. As the mysterious wanderer Haak, you embarked on an epic expedition across the vast cyber-wasteland to find your lost brother. Explore deserted cities and metro, refine your weapons and hack skills, and uncover the secrets behind metal and dust.
Based on real life trick-or-treating experiences, Halloween '99 is a nostalgic adventure through a small town on Halloween night. First, dress up for Halloween by assembling different pieces of costumes to create your very own look, then hit the streets and get as much candy as you can. Interact with the kids and adults and explore to find all that the night has in store.
After witnessing the destruction of her village by the Oni demon, Hiroko has only one goal: revenge. Join the young samurai in this 2D side-scrolling adventure as you travel and fight through different landscapes based on traditional Japanese paintings.
A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?
- Brand new psychedelic horror adventure from the creators of Botanicula and CHUCHEL
- Endure and escape three unforgettable nightmares
- Solve deeply disturbing puzzles in (not so) charming environments
- Deal with suspicious smiley faces and pink bunnies
- Creepy songs and screeches from the Czech freak-folk band DVA
Congrats, you're hired! Serve customers and maintain the Happy's Humble Burger Farm restaurant alone on the overnight. But be careful; things fall apart if you mess up! After work, head home and keep your eyes open for a way to escape the Barnyard Buds and their fast food fever-dream.
Welcome to LYNX, the solar system's leader in spaceship salvaging! Experience the daily life of a working-class spaceship salvager in Hardspace: Shipbreaker, a sandbox game with next-gen physics and demolition effects set in a realistic industrial sci-fi future three hundred years from now. You'll need to master scanning, cutting and dismantling a variety of increasingly hazardous spaceships for valuable components and resources to pay off your astronomical credit debt to the massive LYNX corporation. Death lurks around every bulkhead, but danger is how you earn your paycheck. Discover the immersive, space-bound setting where you'll experience the life of a spaceship salvager through a gripping, story-driven campaign or relax while practicing your skills in free play mode. Get a lesson on the salvaging processes and tools and let the lure of an outstanding zero-g simulation draw you into ever more hazardous shifts! Expect danger and excitement, as space is already an unforgiving environment, but your corporate overlords at LYNX Corporation aren't helping matters much. The good news? You may have more power than you think to improve working conditions for all the brave Shipbreakers currently in space. On top of the compelling campaign and casual free-play that make up your solo journey as a space worker, test your skills in the R.A.C.E mode and win timed competitions against other Shipbreakers to climb the leaderboard!
Harmony's Odyssey is a cozy 3D adventure puzzle game based on solving interactive tile-based dioramas, enriched with accessible yet challenging mini games and a wholesome story filled with mythical creatures.
A game about sex work and trauma.
It's a visual novel playable in browser or with a gameboy/gameboy pocket emulator.
Trigger warnings are listed in game.
Hell is others is a unique and fresh take on the online multiplayer extraction genre. Hell is Others allows you to progress your character by way of customizable items you obtain for your apartment. Grow your own ammunition via blood-thirsty plants, explore the noir urban setting, explore the main story, confront The Others, and do your best to live to see another day… A day which never seems to come.
Demons are searching for a new home—what better place than Sin City? Play solo or in a team of up to four in this wave-based first-person shooter survival game. Fight to escape the hellbreach as the demon army invades Las Vegas. How long can you survive?
Think you can you trust your neighbors? Think again. Hello Neighbor 2 is a family friendly horror game that invites you to a seemingly quiet town of Raven Brooks where everyone is hiding something. You are an investigative journalist looking to uncover the darkest secrets of your neighbors and solve the case of Mr.Peterson, infamous antagonist of Hello Neighbor 1. Sneak around, search for clues behind the mysteries and play against complex opponents controlled by advanced multiply AIs - the whole town is your playground now!
"Hello Puppets: Midnight Show" is a stealth horror adventure set in the 1980s on the set of a children's TV show. You are a master puppet maker whose prized creations--the Handeemen--have come to life and are hunting you. Play hide and seek against advanced AI that forces you to adapt and improvise.
A mysterious puzzle adventure about learning the power of words. In Her Name, players discover a magical symbolic language of words from a mysterious man who seeks to get back what he lost. In the world of Her Name, all things have secret, magical names. Water, fire, an object – or even a person – will have a true name. And… to know the name of something is to have power over it. Her Name is from Tom Greenaway, the co-creator of the award-winning mobile game Duet. Her Name is his first game after a 7 year hiatus.
Set in Madagascar in 1942, Hiboka is a single-player third-person survival horror game that tells a moving tale of grief, love, and deception. The game features two main playable characters: Alexandre Leblanc, a wealthy teenage boy grieving the loss of his mother, and Ramala Fifaliana, a Malagasy girl whom Alexandre encounters during his search to find the entrance to Hiboka, the spirit underworld of Malagasy folklore. Key characteristics: A beautiful story of intrigue and horror based on folklore from Madagascar. A unique real time decision system that affects both main characters through their respective timelines. Play as Alexandre and then as Ramala in perfect synchronization in order to uncover the truth behind the Sanatry Mansion.
How Deep Is the Dark Water? is an experimental game that imagines a cross-strait war. The player, guided by a fleeing man, slowly wanders through memories and visions constructed by the context of the war and individual experiences. At the same time, the player finds another layer of meaning of war for individuals, cultures and nations by discovering the messages hidden in each scene.
THE JOURNEY OF A LITTLE GHOST
How to say Goodbye tells the story of someone who has recently been turned into a ghost, lost in an unfamiliar world populated by disoriented spirits.
In this narrative puzzle game, move the decor to help the characters escape the liminal world in which they are lost. Help them on their quest to move on and escape from the grasp of a mysterious Wizard.
A PUZZLE GAME BASED ON WORLD MANIPULATION
Overcome tricky grid-based puzzles to lead the ghosts onward and travel through more than 15 chapters, from your kitchen to the moon.
Solve numerous conundrums in a universe inspired by illustration and great classics of children's literature (Tomi Ungerer, Tove Jansson, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Maurice Sendak...)
A STRONG AND UNIQUE THEME
A poignant puzzle game that deals with grief with kindness and subtlety
Save your friends before they disappear forever
Guide the ghosts out of the strange world in which they are trapped
Meet various characters, help them find peace and mourn their own death
Unveil the secret of the Wizard and the Spleens, the misguided spirits that haunt the other side
Howloween Hero is a sugary sweet trick-or-treat adventure where you run around town as a mischievous puppy on a mission to track down your owner's favorite candy. Meet a colorful cast of characters, unlock new outfits, and track down every last confectionery crumb in this wholesome Halloween adventure for players of all ages. But beware! Rumor has it, a menacing monster is on the prowl and sniffing around for their next victim...
Hyper Gunsport is an arcade action game about shooting a ball into a goal. It's cyberpunk volleyball with guns.
At its core, Hyper Gunsport is a cooperatively competitive action game where the object is to shoot the ball into goals of varying difficulty, while the opposing team tries to do the same. Each time the ball crosses the net its point value goes up, so longer volleys mean bigger points and higher stakes.
In this surreal horror visual novel, you take the role of Candelaria, a professional mourner whose job takes her from one funeral to the next. One day, her bus ticket inexplicably transforms into one for the "Eigengrau Line", where odd events and people will force her to confront her trauma-filled past.
I Just Want To Get Away From All Of This is a choose-your-own-adventure video game that represents the search for purpose in one's life as they enter adulthood. You play as a recent college graduate trying to find your place in the world. Now that you are no longer a student, who are you? What is your purpose in life? The world is at your feet - what are you going to do with it? You are facing an internal conflict. On one hand, you feel that your whole life thus far has led to this point, and you must continue down the "traditional" path of getting a job as soon as possible and devoting your life to your career. On the other hand, however, you feel an urge to break away from that path. You don't want to devote your life to a single discipline and spend your life as a cog in a giant capitalistic machine. You are struggling to find yourself in a world where "purpose" is so highly valued, and is defined largely by one's career path. How do you balance your need for stability and comfort with this urge to break away from the traditional path? Of course you need to survive, but you also want to live. In this game, you must navigate life, making decisions that align with your values while trying to support yourself financially and maintain your physical and mental health. Each choice you make has consequences, for good or for bad, and will ultimately affect where you end up at the end of the narrative.
I See Red is a frantic twin-stick shooter roguelite where you must rage through different spaceships filled with enemies. Steal their weapons, destroy every room, and use all you can find to attack. Are you strong enough to fulfill your revenge? Take on the role of an outlaw traversing the infinitely dark space in search of revenge. You are so angry and focused on fulfilling your purpose that your world is colorless except for what you most care about: your wrath and the blood of your enemies turn your objectives RED.
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is a narrative life sim with deckbuilding and time loop elements. It takes place over ten years as you grow up, again and again, to decide who you'll become and how you'll shape your colony's future.
It features a 600,000 word dynamic narrative, a minigame where every card is a memory from your life, a diverse variety of relationships and characters to love and/or hate, gorgeous watercolor style art, an ensemble electronic soundtrack, and more angst and catharsis than could fit into just one adolescence.
A young girl named Ib visits an art gallery with her parents. While perusing the various works of art, Ib suddenly realizes that she is alone. As she searches for someone – anyone – else, the museum begins to change... A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery. Inspect the area around you, discovering items and disarming traps to find your way out of the strange gallery.
IDEA is a game about discovering and sharing. Explore gorgeous landscapes, roll down highways and stumble upon welcoming cottages and abandoned dumpsters. Help your ideas find their way – and share them with the world when they stop, before beginning your journey anew.
Take on the role of manager at a small (but growing!) talent agency. As you cultivate and train the newest generation of young pop stars, you'll have to decide who to hire and who to fire, who gets promoted and who gets reprimanded. The personal lives of these young celebrities are a part of your business, and the life of a pop star isn't always sunshines and rainbows. Their crowning personal achievements can be your greatest commercial successes, but their emotional meltdowns and PR nightmares can spell financial disaster for your company.
Illuminaria is a welcoming resource management game that incorporates elements of base-building, tower defense, and dungeon exploration. You will command a swarm of intelligent robots in their mission to bring back the light to the world. Mine resources, build multiple bases, and manage them all at the same time. Go on expeditions and fight enemies in auto-battles. Research new technologies. Light beacons and create your own army of golems to bring back the light.
The story takes place on a planet in an unknown part of the universe. Centuries ago this planet was full of life. Then, darkness appeared and took it all away. The Illumi, the world's inhabitants, tried to stop the darkness but couldn't do it in time. So as a last resort, they created an automated system to save the world. It's now up to the player to control this high-tech system and restore light to save Illuminaria.
Imagine Earth is a civilization builder, an economic strategy game and maybe the first holistic climate crisis simulator. Players develop and supply their own global civilizations, develop infrastructure and trade to thrive and prosper. The challenge is also doing research for sustainable production and invest in renewable energy sources to lower emissions and avoid global warming, melting polar caps, increasing disasters and rising sea levels. Imagine Earth starts as a relaxed city builder and resource management game but it can turn into an environmental survival thriller based on the players development decisions. The game puts you in the position of a global economic actor. Compete economically against rival corporations or form strategic alliances to address diplomatic and environmental issues in the world congress. The final challenge is to preserve the quality of life for your inhabitants and establish a balance between growth and sustainability.
Marissa Marcel was going to be a star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared.
IMMORTALITY is the haunting new game from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.
Use the cinematic ability to teleport from scene to scene via match-cut to explore a treasure trove of newly unearthed footage from the lost films of Marissa Marcel. Traverse decades of movie history across Ambrosio (1968), Minsky (1970) and Two of Everything (1999).
Match cut your own path through the footage and solve the mystery: WHAT HAPPENED TO MARISSA MARCEL?
Impasto is a first-person horror adventure game inspired by the works and legacy of Francisco Goya, the revered yet tortured Spanish painter. Follow the path of Mariano Goya as he enters the dark and twisted Painted World of his grandfather, the famed and tortured artist Francisco Goya, in order to uncover his secret legacy. Plunge deep into the tragic fall of one of history's greatest artists and come face to face with his darkest creations brought to life.
This is a student-made project created by undergraduate students at the University of Southern California in collaboration with students from Otis College of Art and Design, and California State University Fullerton, as well as volunteers from around the world.
In Stars and In Time is a turn-based RPG that follows a group of adventurers at the end of their journey to defeat a king who is slowly freezing the land in time. Following an uncomfortably close encounter with a trap, party leader Siffrin discovers they are actually stuck in a time loop, able to start the day over again with nobody else the wiser.
But what seems like a handy trick to ensure victory quickly begins to weigh on Siffrin as he experiences the loop over and over with no end in sight. Unwilling to open up to their friends and companions, and with the literal weight of the world on their shoulders, can Siffrin find a way to break the loop before it breaks him?
In The Rural Village of Nagoro is a short, side-scrolling game with minimalist gameplay 'Interact button' to tell a fate that falls on Nagoro village. Explore and press 'F' button' to greet all cheerful neighborhood.
Press buttons, pull levers, and use your body to discover a strange world in this VR game about increasing. There's nothing "idle" about this game. Immerse yourself in weird, colorful, reactive environments in this experimental, thought-provoking, hour-long incremental adventure. Inspired by the classic gameplay of clicker and idle games, Increment flips the genre on its head with an active, kinetic incremental experience. Use your full body to make numbers go in the only direction that matters, up!
Indiepocalypse x kuš! is a collaborative game collection organized by the alternative small press games anthology Indiepocalypse and the Latvian alternative comics publisher kuš!. Developers and artists were paired together randomly with the simple instruction of "just make a game".
Little Dronich Inside Putin's Palace by Nikita Lavretski & thecatamites is a satire on Russian politics where you are tasked with exploring Putin's palace.
a tiny web-zine about climate change by Gvidas Pakarklis & Nathalie Lawhead is exactly what it says it is. Mushroom Season by Lote Vilma & Ash K & Amber Hope is a solitary exploration game about a hermit collecting mushrooms and talking to the strange inhabitants of the forest.
The Dead Migraine Army by Samplerman & Kultisti is an abstract puzzle and hidden object game about assembling THE DEAD MIGRAINE ARMY!
Infernax follows Alcedor, a famed knight who discovers an unholy magic has spread throughout his land while he was away. Armed with a skull-splitting mace and a trusty shield, Alcedor vows to obliterate the grotesque beasts roaming his home in an epic side-scrolling quest recalling the essence of classically difficult action adventure games
Super Crate Box meets Slay the Spire in this deckbuilding arcade platformer. Discover powerful synergies as you battle your way through waves of enemies while intermittently honing your deck – removing, upgrading, and adding new cards.
Inventory Hero is a frantically paced role-playing game where you leave the exploration and the monster battles to the computer so you can focus on the true meaning of adventure: managing your inventory. Drop the trash, equip the good stuff, save the potions for a rainy day, and remember to watch out for rabbits…
A roguelite where you traverse a factory run by an evil corporation, equip yourself with the best of parts (that hardly have any defects!) and fight your way to the end. However, the parts you don't equip the factory applies elsewhere...
Isaiah 13 is an RTS (real time strategy) game. You fly around a planet using your spaceship's cannons to destroy enemies while charging up your ship's main cannon. But with a limited supply of energy and ammo, the trick to the game is carefully planning your attacks so that you optimize your resources, but take too long and the enemies will destroy the very planets you are trying to protect.
Isle of Arrows is a fusion of board game and tower defense, in which you place randomly drawn tiles to build defenses on an ever-growing piece of land.
The game offers a unique blend of genres that adds a new strategic puzzle element to the Tower Defense formula.
Photograph strange creatures and open portals to surreal realms in this open-world photography adventure. Isle of Pan is an alternative perceptual experience that recreates the joy of instant photography in the form of a supernatural walking sim. Guided by your compendium, find and take photographs of the strange inhabitants to unlock pages and learn more about them. Take your time and embrace your creativity on a imaginative trip through mythological realities.
Your child was sacrificed to an evil god demanding live human sacrifices, in order to save your child you yourself jump into the maw of the god! Now it's up to you to travel from organ to organ trying to find a way out - most likely by killing the god from the inside! It's Dark Inside is a dark and gritty turn-based RPG that forces you to take strategic decisions as you progress through the adventure, which of the NPCs can you trust? and will you get out alive?
Build colorful puzzles in a cozy house you can design! Invite friends over to play. Show off your completed puzzles by hanging them on the wall.
Created by puzzle lovers who wanted to make the best puzzle game there was.
We included everything, including the kitchen sink.
▶ Procedurally generated puzzle pieces.
Every piece is unique, no two pieces will ever be alike!
▶ Full 3d puzzle building.
Stack pieces in piles.
Build on the table, the floor, or anywhere in the room.
▶ Multiplayer
Invite friends to your room to play!
They will be able to see your room design, puzzles on the wall, and of course help with the puzzling!
Friends can join through steam or by room code.
Show the code on screen for your stream community to join in the fun too!
▶ High resolution images hand picked to be great for puzzles.
No matter if you are doing 100 pieces or thousands of pieces, higher quality images make it easier to find details and make puzzling more fun!
▶ Custom images with workshop support.
Only the host needs the image, everyone can join in for free.
▶ Kitchen Sink
No seriously.
Are you tired of cooperative multiplayer games that really skimp on the cooperation? Then this just might be the adventure you're looking for. Pass a magic water balloon between yourself and a friend to hit bad guys and collect items.
Penguin the penguin has been framed for a certain crime and has gone on the lam. His bestie, Joey the monkey, is determined to prove his innocence! Embark on a quest for the truth that is filled with magic, mystery and mayhem! If you hope to succeed, working with your friend is not only recommended, it is ESSENTIAL!
JUSTICE SUCKS is a stealth/action game where you play as Dusty, a killer robot vacuum on a quest for vengeance.
When burglars break into the McClean home, Dusty must go rogue to protect his family. Unfortunately, his heroic actions attract the attention of FamilyCorp, and a fight with the warranty squad sends Dusty flying into the living room TV.
Waking up in the TV dimension, Dusty must hack, hide and suck his way to freedom. Join forces with your fighting spirit, Sexy McClean, and develop deadly abilities to help him defeat FamilyCorp and save his family!
Kabaret is a dark fantasy folklore adventure game. The story unfolds through the eyes of Jebat, a cursed boy who is uprooted from his small town to a mystical, violent, and unforgiving monster realm. Astray and lonely in a place of unfathomable cruelty, Jebat confronts monsters both supernatural and human in the Kabaret.
Play out a Kaiju movie as the (hopelessly) outclassed military in this stylish 2D turn-based strategy game. Construct buildings and defend your city with cannon-fodder tanks, jets and more as the devastating kaiju grow in power with every attack.
Use your military as cannon fodder to buy time; park tanks in the monster's path to slow it down (don't worry, we have a good insurance policy). If we can hold them off long enough, our scientists will finish their anti-monster serum. If the monster approaches the laboratory, we'll have to evacuate using transport trucks, boats or planes. Inspired by Into the Breach and Advance Wars.
You are the newest owner of a local game shop in the thriving town of Parakeet Bay. Live the ultimate card enthusiast dream! Collect, buy, and sell rare cards to drive your sales up and develop a bond with the locals to increase your reputation. Beautify your space by decorating it from a wide assortment of unlockable embellishments and awards to solidify your spot in the Kardboard Kingdom.
King of the Castle is a multiplayer party game of shifting power dynamics and intrigue. Navigate politics, treachery, and even all-out rebellion as your untrustworthy vassals scheme to overthrow you. As the Monarch, you can invite friends in browsers or your Twitch chat to form a Council of squabbling Nobles, who vote on your decisions and steer your Kingdom wildly off-course.
Knotwords is a minimal and elegant logic puzzle — with words. The rules are simple: arrange the letters in each section so every word is valid, across and down. Each puzzle may seem difficult at first — but like all my favorite newspaper puzzles, it gets easier as you progress. Each step guides you naturally towards the solution. This is the kind of game I've been trying to make my whole career — I'm amazed Jack and I discovered this design. We hope you like it.
Guide a young man through his first day in Bright City – a bustling island paradise with a horrible secret. Find a new job, make new friends, and attempt to solve a mystery revolving around a ludicrous gang and a fanatical cult. In this RPG, you defeat enemies in turn-based battles by completing minigames unique to the foe you're facing. These minigames are made up of a variety of challenges, including rhythm games, shoot-em'-ups, memory puzzles, and quick-time events.
Kristine Is Not Well is a 20-minute VR narrative social media simulation. It visualizes how Internet users resist algorithmic surveillance & censorship through the creative use of homophones to emojis and memes (or so-called "algospeak") that can fool AI detection. The simulation invites its user to join Owlet, a good-vibes-only VR social platform created from a cultural snapshot combining TikTok and VRChat. Users will find cheerful content and its creators, ranging from French lessons between two reindeer to a VR workout led by a well-muscled dog. Then suddenly, everything about a popular Owlet influencer @KristineMusic starts to be censored by the platform. To get around the censorship and find out what happened to Kristine, a battle between creativity and AI detection begins.
Kudzu is a non-linear action-adventure for Game Boy about a man trying to save his mentor from a world-eating plant! You are Max, the apprentice gardener, who discovers that his mentor, Zoen, has mysteriously wandered into the nearby kudzu field. The revelations that follow will lead Max and his friends through a mystery centuries in the making! Max will need to face down dangerous creatures such as snakes, bugs, living flowers, and unimaginable monsters controlled by the kudzu itself. ~ Explore ruined fields, gardens, forests, a haunted estate, and mysterious caverns. ~ Master a variety of gardening tools including the machete, hoe, gardening gloves, and rake! ~ Meet weird and helpful characters through a variety of quests and side-missions! ~ Battle over 8 epic bosses! ~ Solve the mysteries of the kudzu field in a story that spans centuries.
