Steal the art. Catch your friends in the act. Hide among museum visitors, pocket exhibits and photograph rival thieves. Get snapped mid-theft and you're out! A stealth party game for 2–10 players, with Solo, Duo and Thief / Photographer modes.
Bring order to a perfume archive of 3,240 bottles, solo or with a friend, in this relaxing first-person organizing game. Read labels, place bottles on the right shelves, develop helpful skills, and watch completed collections light up the archive.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
A cozy incremental on a retro desktop. Restore forgotten websites one block at a time, then connect them: where you place each page changes its income, traffic and repair speed. Upgrade, automate, and finish with a proper ending. No forced resets.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
Relax and collect over 500 unique mammals in this cozy idle game. Watch babies grow into magnificent adults in real-time, customize warm woodland habitats across 9 themed packs, and discover rare species from tiny shrews to great whales.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
Yule Dads is a chaotic multiplayer Christmas party game. Gather your friends and trick, grind, and race through the mall to win the last presents before closing time.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
[No AI] Sort My Pigs is a 2D organizing simulator where you sort over 5,000 cute pigs into their correct pens. Pick a pig, find its pen, earn coins, and unlock upgrades as your farm grows. No timer, no pressure, just pure, cozy sorting bliss.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
A cozy co-op tidy-up game with a compelling story. Clear an old barn filled with hay, explore rooms, upgrade your tools, and sell what you collect. Team up with friends to uncover the story as you search for a tiny needle.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
A quiet first-person game about honest work, kind employers with secrets, and a crow who steals. Mow the lawns, trim the hedges, water the flowers and send the harvest to market. Everyone who hires you is lovely. Everyone who hires you is hiding something.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
A turn-based roguelite JRPG where every battle begins with a slot machine SPIN! Match elemental heroes, stack relic synergies, and hire delightfully quirky crew from 800+ recruitable members as you sail through strange islands, comedic random events, and treasure-filled adventures.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
The Offering is an incremental game where you grab creatures to collect offerings, buy upgrades and defend your shrine at night. Stack boons, forge weapons, catch goblins and ascend through worlds!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
A cozy first-person game about restoring stained glass. Brush dusty shards, match their shapes and colours, and bring light back to a mountain chapel. Unlock magical upgrades and rebuild six windows at your own pace, with no deadlines or penalties.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
The Endless Harvest is an idle village-builder crossed with a tower defense. Build a farm that earns money on its own, invest it in towers and upgrades, and survive waves of raiders that grow stronger every round. Production continues while the game is closed — how far will you get?
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
Create your fortress, ready your arsenal, upgrade your defences, and prepare yourself! BIT ROT is a co-op and singleplayer retro siege survival game where every run is different. A new loadout, a new base, and a new way to die! How long can you survive the horde?
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
BROKE.EXE is a satirical trading simulator inside a fictional desktop OS. Earn cash in minigame jobs, then trade simulated stocks and crypto - long, short, leverage, stop-losses. Build passive income, run mining rigs and trading bots, and climb from $0 to $10,000,000. No real money involved.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
Restore the cats' damaged memory archives in this hand-drawn puzzle game. And you'll also discover the stories of these lovely cats before they returned to the stars! No timers, just enjoy the satisfaction of each piece falling into place. Come and enjoy some cozy moments with these lovely cats!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
Mine through millions of pixels to find the Golden Pixel. A mesmerizing incremental game about exploration and erosion.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
Burrow deep into the earth in this short incremental digging game. Hunt for treasure, upgrade your powers and experience the low-key story of a mole and his dad on a grand adventure.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
Build a bustling railway network and juggle cargo transport in real time. New stations appear, the flow of goods shifts constantly, deadlines loom, and trains collide if you don't keep your eyes on them. Keep your cool and master the chaos as orders pile up, and every second counts.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
Build a film and television empire in a living entertainment industry beginning in the 1980s. Create and manage productions, cast unique talent, outmaneuver rival studios, climb the box office and grab television ratings in this immersive, old-school tycoon sim.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
You are a real estate agent whose job is to determine which elderly woman is an ordinary seller and which one is a scammer granny.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
An idle survivor-like that sits in the corner of your screen.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
🍜 Run your own cozy Japanese ramen shop in this charming cooking simulator! 🐱 Prepare delicious ramen, serve hungry customers, and grow your restaurant with an adorable cat assistant. 🏮 But when night falls, mysterious yokai and spirits from Japanese folklore come looking for a warm meal! 👻
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
Cook Together is a chaotic co-op drug creating game where you and your friend run a basement lab, to create drugs for big boss. Finish the product in time without blowing yourselves up. Upgrade your lab, perfect the purity of your products and become the biggest producer in town.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
Take control of Dreadwinter, your very own magical coffee shop! Explore a vibrant, fantasy world, master your craft, and turn a small café into a legend in this spooky, cozy coffee shop sim!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
Pop your way to victory in a colorful next generation Bubble Shooter! Beat 24 other players in battle royale, play VS mode with friends or go on a singleplayer adventure. Bubbits is packed with cute customization, explosive power ups and crazy battle events to shake up the game!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
Illuminate the path in this Parkour experience across the constellations of Space
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
A paper airplane, two new neighbors, four autumns, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable, choice-heavy story where you grow from childhood to adulthood.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 27, 2026
A Gacha-Inspired Collectathon Game - FREE PULLS FOR LIFE!! Hundreds of cute Crinchures, sweet Swords, incredible Ingredients and more to collect, with a short novels's worth of flavor text, events, and lore! Experience the joy of ripping packs, without those pesky microtransactions!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 28, 2026
Learn Chinese from scratch with 1000 princes! Choose from Chinese courses at different levels and themed courses taught by the prince teachers, ask them questions and receive their answers. Each prince teacher shares his own story while teaching you Chinese.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 29, 2026
Path & Match is a strategic puzzle game where you must clear a path by matching spheres. Earn moves, overcome traps, obstacles and enemies, and adapt your route to reach the exit in time. Analyze the board and plan your moves.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 29, 2026
A magical book appears in the woods, transported somehow from another dimension. Pico32: The Lost Pages is packed cover-to-cover with 32 creative games spanning every genre. Its chapters recall the history of a doomed world, and whisper a warning for our own.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 29, 2026
Diaochan lives on your desktop. She speaks up when you're tired, remembers what you said last week, and writes you a letter when you're away. Not a chatbot in a tab — a companion with a voice, a memory, and moods of her own.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 29, 2026
Clean up the danger zone on an undeveloped planet and find hidden landmines! Planet Sweep Company is a game that brings the familiar fun of Minesweeper into 3D space. Analyze the number hints to deduce landmines, plant flags to clear dangerous zones, and build up your achievements!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 29, 2026
Orion Blue is a cozy fishing adventure set on a beautiful alien planet. Catch fish, gather resources, and build relationships with the locals. Play actively, or relax and let the game progress with Idle Mode.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 29, 2026
Move the chess pieces to visit all the light squares. Explore a dozen mechanics and their interactions across 300 hand-crafted puzzles.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 29, 2026
Aim, charge, and flick a sticky booger onto crazy obstacles! Your goal is simple: launch the booger, hit the target, and hold on for 2 agonizing seconds without slipping off. Easy controls, wobbly soft-body physics, and pure rage-inducing gameplay
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Flip two cards. Hear the word. Match the pair. Fuji Flip is a memory card game for language learners: every card shows a picture and a word and says it out loud, so you pick up real Japanese, Spanish and French words while you play.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
A Japanese-language quiz game with a dating-sim twist. Spin the roulette through a 365-day campus calendar, meet 10 heroines with 5,000+ questions. NOTE: This game is in Japanese only. No English text or voice-over.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Guide your orb through rotating planets and floating islands in this colorful 3D action platformer. Jump across gaps, dodge falling hazards, collect stars, and fight back with power-ups. From fiery worlds to slippery ice, every level brings a new challenge.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
1,248 animals. One island. Total farm chaos! Herd stubborn animals, catch runaway chickens, train your loyal sheepdog, and unlock new tools to bring every animal home. A cozy first-person animal-sorting adventure where every little creature has a mind of its own!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
4,000 socks. One giant mess. Find matching pairs, fill shelves, and complete orders in a cozy first-person sorting game. Then unlock a second workshop and build your own sorting lines with conveyors, robotic arms, and delivery robots.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
《科伊的逃亡》是一款2D回合制Roguelike卡牌游戏。带领三位命运交织的主角——科伊、莱斯莉与希娜，在崩坏的世界中搜集线索、构筑卡组、破解谜题，揭开末日背后的真相。200+张卡牌，无限可能的策略组合，每一次逃亡都是全新的故事。
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
A medieval fantasy village builder and auto battler. Gather resources, expand your settlement, and build a force of warriors, archers, and mages to face monster waves. When your village falls, spend earned Skulls on lasting upgrades and return stronger.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Pop bubbles, earn foam, and clean the album to recover photos of your adorable cats! Master your tools, chain combos, and discover a cute, colorful, bubbly arcade game packed with surprises. 🐱✨
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
An incremental mining game beneath the ocean. Pilot a drill-equipped submarine, gather ore and turn each haul into permanent upgrades. Fight deep-sea creatures with your spotlight, dodge their attacks and dive deeper.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
BibimBob is a simple game: just keep jumping and dashing forward. All you need to do is pass the traps and reach the goal.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Enter the witch’s hidden house, explore mysterious parallel worlds, switch between day and night, solve unique puzzles and minigames, uncover dark secrets, and break an ancient curse.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
After Closing is a 1–4 player co-op horror puzzle game. Explore an abandoned amusement park, solve puzzles, avoid the clown, and escape together.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
A spatial word puzzle: drag shaped letter pieces onto a cluttered grid and uncover hidden category words. Crossword-style intersections mean one placement can complete several words at once. Fit the pieces. Find the words. Feel the click.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Cozy Castle is a hand-crafted castle diorama you tend like a little world in a jar — warm rooms, shifting seasons, and the quiet company of visitors passing through. No timers, no pressure, just a calm place to make your own.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Process assigned defective items through the Advanced Observation System, harvest energy, upgrade your operation, and meet rising quotas to earn promotion benefits. Your role has been assigned. Further inquiry is neither required nor encouraged.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
You find yourself stranded alone on an island, and the first thing you see is a massive wall coming straight toward you. Blast your way through it, unlock upgrades, and try to make it farther every time.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Pencil Shavings Soup is an incremental about running an underground factory that makes soup from pencil shavings! Collect, sharpen and upgrade your way to becoming the richest critter ever!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Collapsle is a fast-paced match-three score attack roguelite set in the Gold Rush West. Create powerful synergies and score big, with tons of items, characters, customization options, and challenges to discover!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Perfectly Folded is a cozy organizing game in a clothing store the cats have wrecked. Fold, hang and shelve every shirt, hat and shoe, catch the cats hiding in plain sight, then hire them to help you tidy up.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Get hopelessly misunderstood by your two best friends. One of you goes blind, one goes deaf, one loses their voice, and no puzzle here can be solved by one person. Can the three of you work out how to understand each other?
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Start your journey in amateur races and climb your way to the top. Win races for prizes, open horse card packs, build your stable, manage your horses, and discover the perfect horse for every race. Rise through the ranks and become the ultimate champion. Do you have what it takes?
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Worm Capitalist is an incremental game about raising hungry worms, watching them devour everything pixel by pixel, and turning their poop into profit. Feed them, expand your colony, unlock upgrades, boost production, automate the process, and keep growing until the whole world is on the menu.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
An endless co-op action-RPG dungeon crawl. Descend floors that never scale to you, slot runes that rewrite your skills into new weapons, mine the walls, and loot relics of world myth. Play couch, LAN and online in one six-hero party, or host your own server. No microtransactions.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
CCR is a free-to-play online collection game where every draw brings a new discovery. Complete card sets, forge them into unique Relics, and build a museum that grows with you. With no battles or competitive pressure, you can relax, draw a few cards each day, and enjoy collecting for years.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Pickpocket is an incremental game about stealing. Learn from your victims, get better loot, and advance through an extensive skill tree. Build your own crime empire!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
这是一部关于爱与救赎的视觉小说。 被墟神选中的那一刻起，沈暮云就不再是人类了。 杀不死的身体、脑海中永不停歇的饥饿、随时可能失控伤及无辜的力量——这些足以压垮一个少女的东西，她独自背负了多年。 直到那个秋夜，在一条暗巷里，她遇到了那个隶属“第零部门”、嬉皮笑脸却深不可测的陆长明。 从互相戒备到彼此依靠，两个异类的生活就此交缠。然而平静之下，信徒的阴谋与墟神的苏醒正一步步逼近……
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
A Christian-themed, story driven, anime-styled bowling video game in the Project: Summer Ice franchise!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Ever seen a video of someone cleaning a really filthy carpet? This game is exactly that! A satisfying process of cleaning a carpet from filthy to perfectly spotless.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
One day after school, a boy walks home along a white line. His curfew is 5:00 p.m. The white line is filled with treasures that spark his imagination, turning the walk home into an adventure. Become that boy and journey through Hakusen, the childhood sanctuary where imagination comes to life.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Grind flesh. Gather blood. Upgrade. A first-person incremental horror game where you manage a macabre basement. Buy dark upgrades. boost your efficiency. and push your machinery to the limit while avoiding the terrifying entity that watches your every move.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Run a medieval tavern, grow ingredients, brew unique alcohols with custom flavor traits, and serve demanding customers. Expand your business, unlock new brewing tiers, and manage the tavern solo or with up to 4 players in online co-op.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Catollector is an incremental game where you play as a cat stranded in space. You must mine resources and level up your character to obtain a spaceship part and return the cat home to Earth.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Immortality is not a blessing, it is a burden. As Milton Clarke, you work at the 47/B Mandatory Sleep Hospital, review documents, surf the internet, and decide who will no longer exist. You don’t kill anyone. You only “put them to sleep.” The rules are clear. Every decision has consequences.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Run your own high-stakes quiz show by crafting questions, choosing contestants, and making production decisions to grow your audience, boost ratings, and earn more money!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Backflip Madness is a fast-paced, parkour-flavored extreme sports game. Your goal is simple - make tons of spectacular tricks and stunts. Take it to the extreme!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Boot up the world's oldest PC to take photo editing commissions from a colourful cast of virtual strangers. In PhotoLoop, the only thing stopping you is your imagination... and probably your entire editing interface.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Protect the helpless peasant Myson from an army of angry orcs for as long as possible in this action arcade game. Defeat hordes of orcs with simple and easy to learn intuitive controls, earn gold to customize Myson's appearance and compete with others to see who can survive the longest!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
October 21, 1998. You are the night clerk at Hollow Pine freight yard. Weigh the crates, check the seals, sign the manifests. Follow the rules on the board in the booth. When the signal is red, do not move. Do not look at the train that is not on the schedule.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
A roguelike strategy and survival game where ever-growing sacrifices are required to keep the mysterious Eternal Flame alive. Build a colony of Frogos and create unique builds every run.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Match & Magic is a roguelike match-n adventure. Players defeat enemies and cast skills by matching tiles while climbing randomly generated towers. With cute cartoon visuals, it offers unique runs, loot, upgrades, strategy and high replayability.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
A grand strategy card game set in the fantasy world of Tolria. Raise your banner, build your deck and lead your chosen lord to victory in single player or multi player modes with up to eight players. Featuring nine factions, 1,000 cards, a full original soundtrack and original card art.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
A dark fantasy tactical universe. Fight in hex-grid combat, collect cards, raise creatures, read the novel, and watch the webtoon — all free, all connected. Built over 23 years by a solo developer. Free to play. Season 1 is live now.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 30, 2026
Two buttons: climb, or turn and climb. One wrong press and you fall. A neon stair-climbing game of pure focus — rise from the city through the sky and space, all the way to the sun. Play 1v1, 4-player races with items, 2v2 or co-op online, plus a new daily course every day. Free to play.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
A chef trapped in a dungeon where the monsters are food. Your only weapon is a cheese wheel: throw it, watch it bounce through the horde, then run to grab it back before the onions close in. Hunt ingredients, cook dishes and survive as long as you can.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
Super clown mission is now to avoid different traps like spikes, cannons, blades etc and try to find stars to finish levels in this third person platformer game
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
You're a booger, and your life is hanging by a snot! Battle your friends in a chaotic multiplayer showdown inside a giant nose. Push, betray, dodge the finger, and try not to get picked first! Because here, it's not the strongest who survive - it's the slimiest.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
The first pack opening defense game you can play with friends! Crack booster packs to build your fleet, defend your core, and aim your own cannon while your stations fire. 1-4 player online co-op, short runs, hundreds of unlocks. Set in the Contested Space universe.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
A gentle idle game at the edge of your desktop. Follow a little lantern keeper, rescue lost spirits, and build safe places for them to rest. Cyan light brightens a world of charcoal and mist, while a Pomodoro timer and music accompany your work, study, or quiet moments.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
Grid & Loot is a casual turn-based RPG with unique gameplay: one click resolves combat on a 3x3 grid. Pick your class, explore areas, collect loot, forge legendary gear and survive traps, elites and bosses.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
You are Janusz, the bride's uncle, and the wedding has gone completely off the rails. Grab dancing guests and turn them into an army that orbits around you, watch your blood alcohol, pick from 30 upgrades and survive six halls and six bosses until dawn. Game in Polish.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
Fly a toy-sized Earth with nearly 2,900 real airports, 71 real cities and famous skylines. Climb from a tiny ultralight to a supersonic jet in a relaxed flying career, then swap passengers for guns in Dogfights: missions, 14 Legends battles, online PvP and co-op.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
Fetch() is a top-down territory game where you never touch the controls. Write a Lua script and your dog does exactly what it says, which is occasionally what you meant. Mark more tiles than the other packs before the clock runs out and the ground is yours.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
Santa's sleigh is out of control! Dodge elves, stumps, and hazards, grab cookies to keep going, and race through 24 fast-paced arcade stages. Think you can survive the ride?
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
A unique two-player fighting game where you must predict your opponent’s moves before they act, while preventing them from predicting yours. Plan five actions each round and outsmart your opponent in a fair battle of wits. Enjoy the thrill of mind games!
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
Build your defenses. Choose your class. Hold the Core. FortFall is a third-person fantasy defense game for solo play or private online co-op with up to five players. Raise walls, repair the damage, and fight escalating waves with melee weapons, bows, spells, and sentries.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
Tidy Up the Ark is a cozy sorting simulator where 3,100 animals from 155 species are waiting their turn to board the Ark. Gather them, sort them into the right pens, and unlock new abilities.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
Asteroid : Vector Zero is a fast-paced arcade space shooter where momentum, precision and quick reactions keep you alive. Blast through asteroids, dodge incoming threats and master your ship as the chaos escalates. Easy to learn. Hard to master. One more run.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
Take over the care of Bear Hollow’s overgrown cemetery. Wash weathered headstones, mow the grass, and bring a little peace to its residents. Your predecessor left you the tools for the job—but looking after this place means more than keeping it tidy.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
You awaken from a long sleep as a robot. All you know is that this game is called PW7A. Turn your insights into the power to open new paths in this compact 2D pixel-art puzzle adventure.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
Tower of Sequence is a beginner-friendly anime-style DBG developed by a solo developer.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
Solve puzzles, collect magical outfits, decorate your home, and help the heroine save the world.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
A RPG where you build and rule a fantasy kingdom, manage resources, command large-scale battles, and use your character's abilities to change the course of war.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
Grab one end, I'll take the other. Room Movers is a cozy two-player game about unboxing and arranging tiny diorama workplaces. No grid, no score, no timer. Just you, your friend, and a room that slowly becomes a place.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
Revive a silent speaker and rebuild the beat in this music-driven incremental arcade game. Shatter Crumbs, collect Echoes, unlock instruments, and stack upgrades into an evolving groove.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
A mouse wakes in a tiny community after a terrible storm brings more than just weather with it. Fight or flee monsters, mouse around puzzles, engage with locals, and uncover the source of the unnatural storm in this old-school, adventure game.
Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026
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