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Darkness has fallen over Castle Watershot, a seat of ancient magic. You will need to fight your way through the twisted creatures within to unlock the power and secrets of the castle. Find powerful items, wield elemental magic, and battle dangerous monsters as you explore a dark and twisted castle. Combines the decision making and variety of a card game, with the fast paced combat of an ARPG.
Harvest Island is a horror, farming simulator. Pray to the gods and never ask questions as you enjoy your blissful farming days. Just don't wander off too far from the comfort of your home. It's safer to play around the farm than discovering the secrets and mysteries of this remote island.
Hauma is a noir deduction visual novel set in the heart of Munich. Step into the shoes of Judith, a former detective with a sharp wit and a knack for getting things done, as she uncovers a conspiracy amongst the city's upper echelons of society. Explore real locations in a unique art style, immersing you in the world of Bavaria's capital. From the historic House of Art to other unexpected locations, discover pieces of hidden history that shed light on the city's past.
Have a Nice Death is a hand-drawn 2D Action Roguelike where gamers will assume the role of Death,
Founder and CEO of Death Incorporated, the giant underworld organization responsible for processing
souls in the afterlife. As the company's supreme leader, they will explore the darkly charming,
procedurally generated departments of the corporation's headquarters to round up and rehabilitate rogue
employees who have been ignoring company protocol and snatching up far too many souls on Earth.
Getting the department bosses—also known as Sorrows—and their minions under control, however, is a
difficult task and will require multiple runs to complete. Luckily, players will have an arsenal of weapons,
spells and special skills on hand to get the job done. Developed by Magic Design Studios, Have a Nice
Death is now available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Steam and Steam Deck).
In Heart of the Abyss, you play as the Sea watcher, who has been awakened following the emergence of a mysterious and dangerous force that corrupts the depths. Your role will be to find a way to halt its progression as it possesses creatures and turns them into monstrous beings. It is a top-down hack and slash inspired by Souls-like games, where you will rely on determination to overcome the boss standing in your way.
Heavenstrafer is a fast paced movement shooter with a gun combo system that rewards aggressiveness and experimentation. Explore the ruins of hell and destroy angels (and demons) across three chapters filled with small but challenging arenas.
Play as a fallen angel seeking redemption by punishing satanic worshipers who don't play the holiest of sports....tennis! Use your blessed racket to wreak havoc and show that these satanic practices have no standing in God's land!
Hell of a Racket is a unique twist on an old-school genre: First-Person Shooter? No. First-Person Swinger! Engage with enemies in a unique way by reflecting projectiles at them with your racket or simply smacking them! Jump, dash, run, or wall-climb your way around the arena and kill your enemies as you work your way to the final boss: Pickle Ball Satan!
Core Mechanics and Features:
- Reflect projectiles and launch enemies into each other with a swing of your tennis racket.
- Charge your swing to send out faster projectiles.
- Dynamic environment that utilizes your skillset
- Be mindful of your timing; get it wrong, and suffer from inaccuracy.
- Rack up kills against enemies in exciting ways to increase your multiplier and achieve a high score!
- Utilize powerups to increase your strength or mobility!
ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES:
- Customizable HUD that allows players to toggle or change the color and size of HUD elements
- Enemy Highlights to help players locate enemies within the game and easily judge distance from them.
- Adjustable projectile reflection range. This gives players extra time to react to incoming projectiles.
- Control mapping across both keyboard and controller
How long can you survive in the Wave-Based First-Person Shooter - Hellbreach: Vegas?
Portals have spawned across Las Vegas, and hordes of demons are now between you and safety. Play as a solo survivor or a team of up to four trapped in the city. Shoot your way out of the hellbreach as waves of demon hordes attack, or set new records in the endless mode.
Fight wave after wave
Slay your way through a series of maps, each round more challenging than the last. Earning enough experience to upgrade your guns, ammo, and unlock other bonuses that will help you survive what's to come.
Hellcard is a roguelike deckbuilder with tabletop-like spatial battles where players simultaneously take their turns playing cards at monsters, the map itself, and positioning really matter. Featuring single-player, two-, and three-player cooperative modes the game tackles a challenging balancing issue - making a deckbuilder that is fair and fun.
There are three playable classes, each with over 100 cards that synergize both inside the deck and with other characters' decks.
Hellcard shares the unique pop-up book paper visual framework with its predecessor: the critically acclaimed Book of Demons.
Have fun!
Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games by expanding on the aspects of economy and resource management. Experience a modern take on the genre - enriched with a complex resource-based economy system. Highrise City combines two genres in new and interesting ways: City Builders and traditional Economy & Resource Management Simulations. Highrise City offers you challenging gameplay and gives you all the possibilities and tools you need to create a living, breathing city. Take care of your city and make it grow and flourish into a giant Metropolis!
What would our world look like on the brink of freedom from colonial oppression? Find out in this heart-pounding and atmospheric Indigenous cybernoir detective game! Play as Meeygen Hill, a hardboiled detective working in a thriving Indigenous (Néhinaw) Metropolis under the shadow of the towering NeXt Corps space elevator and it's Risen City of elite citizens. Find yourself drawn deeper into conspiracy and intrigue after you take on the seemingly straightforward case of a murdered woman.
Explore a never before seen cybernoir Indigenous future in a world inspired by pulpy noir mysteries, Ghost in the Shell, and Blade Runner. Immerse yourself in a world filled with colourful characters and saturated in the Cree language done up in neon. Wander the streets of Hill's beloved city or brave the deceptively bright Risen City and perhaps discover the origin of the shadow that looms over them both.
I think I found my battle Nam. - What? - My naval skirmish. Help your love Dei make his own movie. Sell empanadas to fund the film or rediscover the dark origins of your relationship. HITM3 is a third person, slice of life adventure where you control Nam on his days in Santiago de Chile.
Wake up each day with something different to do. Help with the movie or just go to a visual kei gathering. *Meow* Where did you come from? Spend your days with Dei, Astra, Belmo and Terco and get to know this strange family as his loving relationships are put to test as the movie takes over.
Horticular is a relaxing garden-builder that begins with mysterious gnomes summoning you. Their wish? For you to breathe new life into a long-lost garden, abandoned by its previous caretaker.
Enter a magical world where you build up and expand a lush garden at your own pace. In your journey, you attract adorable animals to inhabit every corner; uncover helpful upgrades; and assist quirky characters for rewards and story development—all while juggling decay and fending off corruption sent by your nemesis!
HouseKeeping is a 4 person couch Co-Op game with a similar style to "Overcooked" or "Moving Out". With gameplay being similar to "Splatoon". You play as either Keepers (House Cleaners) who are trying to clean the house or Cats who are trying to destroy the house. We currently plan to do more with this game after submission.
We are planning to work on:
-Balancing HouseKeeping
-At least one middle level introducing new tasks
-Updated tutorial teaching players how to use Cat "Puke"
-More animations and art replacing
-Remote/Networked multiplayer
-AI Teammates
and more! Our top focuses being balancing and enhancing the beginning level experiences.
Howl is a turn-based tactical folktale set in medieval times. A sinister 'howling plague' has ravaged the land, turning all who hear it into feral beasts. You play a deaf hero plunging into danger in search of a cure.
Use your weapons and your wits to survive, planning up to six steps in advance to outmanoeuvre your opponents. As you plot out your attack, you'll also craft your own prophecy, weaving a continuous piece of scripture during the fight.
The visuals of Howl are created through 'living ink', a flowing artstyle that paints the story as you play. Carve your way through a dark fairytale world, fighting and writing to rid the lands of the plague.
- Foretell the actions of your enemies in tactical, turn-based combat
- Beautifully illustrated in a unique, living ink artstyle
- Unlock and upgrade new skills like shadow step, exploding shot and more
- Save villagers from the claws - or howl - of the wolves
- Play through 60 levels in 4 chapters
- Plot your route on the world map to uncover new skills and secret paths
HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer is a puzzle-driven adventure set in a retro-sci-fi universe. You play the under-appreciated Humanoid Resources Officer aboard the Endeavor — a military spaceship with more than its fair share of crew rivalries, office politics, and erratic decision-makers. When the Endeavor stumbles into universe-shaking trouble, can you, the HRO wield the power of the bureaucracy to save your ship and crew?
A Visual Novel with a twist - improve skills, charm girls, and learn dangerous secrets... by any means necessary.
Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation, and mental health while leveling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.
I Doesn't Exist takes the fun of classic text-based adventure games, and adds a new dimension with beautiful, handcrafted pixel art. Though the game can be enjoyed in one sitting, repeat playthroughs are encouraged. Freed from the constraints that limited text adventures of the past, I Doesn't Exist uses a natural language processor (NLP) to offer more meaningful interactions with the game. The NLP technology allows the game to interpret a wide range of emotions and intent from player input, freeing the experience from predetermined commands.
Identity Crisis is an interactive narrative set between the pages of a young woman's journal. This 2D platformer makes use of mixed media to create journal pages with the words and images on the page representing the levels and platforms that the player engages with. The story follows Shaahidah - or Shay, as she prefers to be called - as she deals with different aspects of her identity as an American Muslim of Indian descent, in a world that pits those concepts against each other.
A platformer RPG based on a 2003 Game Maker game by my longtime friend and mentor. Design your own iguana using the character creator, talk with other iguanas, collect valuables, defeat strong invaders with strategy and clever use of items, and save the world.
Ikonei Island: an Earthlock Adventure is a cozy adventure RPG game. You play as one of 4 orphans stranded on a deserted island. Disaster struck many years before, destroying the island's magical source of protection, its shrines. Only by repairing them, the island can recover and strive again.
And how do you do that? By embarking on a wholesome adventure where you can befriend pet companions - who will follow and help you out! -, farm, build your base, decorate it, keep the monsters and pirates at bay, and uncover the island's secrets.
For those of you who are unable to see their loved ones ever again.
I can't see them anymore. But I really wish that I could see and hold them again. Where is my special person? I wonder if I will ever meet them again. "In His Time" is a 2D mystery-solving adventure game that faces these feelings. The main character Ollie, a young boy who lost his father early, lives with his mother Laila. His mother has recently become ill, so he is left to attend school and take care of the housework. Even at school, Ollie is bullied by Bobby the big kid, and his cronies Mila and Hugo. He is also scolded by his teachers every day....... It was as if the world was pushing Ollie into a corner.
One day Ollie is threatened by Bobby and his friends and together they sneak into a spooky mansion. They steal "parts" of a certain work and escape, only to be caught by the owner of the house - an old man named Joseph. Joseph, who claims to be a watchmaker, asks Ollie what happened to him and says he won't do anything bad to Ollie if he gets the "parts" back from Bobby and his friends. Will Ollie be able to reconcile with Bobby and the others? What will happen to his mother? And who is Joseph? Ollie's adventure begins. We hope you will join us to see how it ends and how he develops!
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?
Inkbound is a fluid turn-based roguelike that brings the best aspects of Shiny Shoe's award-winning title, Monster Train, to an online world where the whimsical and dangerous magic of the written word comes to life.
Explore a varied set of character classes while adapting your strategy during runs to craft powerful builds. With draftable abilities, ability upgrades, and hundreds of items to find there are many possible ways to play.
The Atheneum acts as a social hub where players can meet with friends and strangers to party up into groups of up to four for co-op play. Play solo or take on challenges as a team and strategize together to determine the most synergistic builds.
In this Point & Click puzzle game, you will be a sleepless girl surrounded by anxiety and restlessness. After constantly searching for her inner self and exploring the cause of her insomnia, the girl manages to face the source of her pressure and embrace a bright dawn.
Iron Meat is a run-and-gun arcade shooter that immerses players in an apocalyptic future overrun by "The Meat," an iron-ravenous mass mutating everything in its path. Blast your way through retro-inspired stages and bosses to uncover the shocking horrors behind secret experiments on the Moon.
A fantastical, oceanic, and open world puzzle adventure game. Solve innovative block-pushing puzzles while unearthing a mystifying narrative, awakening delightful new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking extraordinary powers that provide even more options for how you choose to progress through the enigmatic Isles of Sea and Sky.
It's a Wrap! is a challenging 2D puzzle game set in 1980s Hollywood, where you play both the director and the star of action-packed, low-budget films.
All you wanted to do today was shoot a nice little popcorn movie, but everything is going wrong! As the director, you need to synchronize the actors and props that are messing up their timings. Then, as the movie's star, you need to remember your script and play out the scene—without getting crushed by that giant boulder!
Jack Dragon is a retro love letter to 80 and 90s arcade games. Avoid nasties, jump on platforms, glide around the screen and collect gems! Sounds easy, right?
The tale of Jack Dragon:
The Stone of Peace, smashed to bits,
By Lord Moneybags, who got up and split.
Moneybags gains, and everyone suffers,
Everyone fighting, sisters and brothers.
Jack the Dragon,
He's just volunteered.
He'll find all the shards,
That have disappeared.
Collect all the gems,
To keep things on track.
Restore the peace stone,
To bring peace back.
Gameplay:
Collect all of the gem pieces to progress to the next level. Avoid the nasties. Collect the snowflake power up to freeze enemies in place (you are an ice dragon, after all!).
Welcome to Japan, the drift capital of the world! Compete, drift, and race on miles of varied roads and winding mountain trails. Drive through towns nestled at the scenic Haikama Lake. Spend your savings on new cars and get a taste of Japanese tuning style.
KERO is a cozy frog collecting game set on the Rana archipelago. Explore the islands and try to capture them'all !
KERO is a third person frog collecting game.
Kevin wants to show what his life would be and why. 他用没人懂的语言写了一本书。
A language-deciphering game.
Keyword 2: Nightfall is an expansive detective RPG set in a single city block, where each secret leads to another. Descend into every nook and cranny in the desolate slum, and scale the luxury mansions housing deadly conspiracies. Interrogate deadly witnesses, solve murders, eat hotpot and go on dates. Join Kurt on his journey of love and justice.
Keyword 2: Nightfall is the sequel to our debut game, Keyword: A Spider's Thread. It is a 3D, single-player, first-person open-world detective RPG with an emphasis on world-building and character development. The primary design goal for Keyword 2 is to create a living, breathing world with a diverse cast of NPCs, conspiracies as well as mind-bending puzzles.
KILLBUG is a fast-paced, first-person movement shooter set in an endless arena. Slash and shoot your way through hordes of ravenous insects, mastering fluid aerial movement mechanics as you fight for glory on the leaderboards.
Kiyo is a stealthy side scroller platform-adventure combining pixel art with modern visual effects.
It's built with a custom engine that we developed from scratch.
The game is story-based, full of satyrical humor, pole-dancing animals in dubious clubs, and surprising dialogues.
It's brutally hard, but you can outsmart most of the puzzles (and gun your way through the others).
It features a bunch of wacky characters (play as a tiger, fox or raccoon) and a funky world that you can explore freely on foot and by metro.
It has an original synthwave soundtrack and immersive sound effects.
You are recruited to take control of Kiyo's body and help him sabotage the evil bunny corporation that's killing his planet.
Sneak in the shadows, master archery, swing with ninja ropes, crack tough puzzles, and slay fluffy rabbits.
Handcrafted from scratch by an AAA coder gone rogue and a visionary artist - a starving two people team, indie all the way!
Konkan Coast Pirate Solutions is a cozy puzzle game about helping pirate ships do pirate things. Set up the simulations. Watch how the ships behave. Explore how the systems interact.
Each puzzle is a hand-crafted scenario designed to highlight interesting emergent mechanics that exist within the simulations. You start off by placing commands on the simulation board, and then seeing how the ships behave.
