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Armorer: Tidy Up the Armory Before Dawn

A cozy first-person sorting game. Three thousand weapons lie in a heap across a two-floor medieval armoury, and every one has exactly one right place. Learn the hall, earn the skills that reveal it, and set it all right before dawn — alone or with friends.

Casual, Indie·Demo available

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LumaEdge

Reactive ambience - no hardware required. Transform your desktop into dynamic ambient lighting that reacts to games, movies, streams, and more. No LED strips. No hubs. Just your existing displays.

Design & Illustration, Photo Editing·Demo available

Released: Oct 29, 2026

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ChronoGallery

A desktop aesthetics app blending clock, calendar and photo album. Multiple clock face designs with live decorations like rain, galaxy and snow flowing with time, album views for browsing photos and videos, and one-click light & dark theme switching.

Design & Illustration, Utilities·Demo available

Released: Oct 26, 2026

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Sparkle Mouse

Custom Desktop Particles 🐁✨ No more boring computer!!

Design & Illustration, Utilities·Demo available

Released: Oct 17, 2026

Graphmat

GraphMat is a real-time material editor that combines node-based workflows with familiar layers, giving you a fast and flexible way to design and export seamless PBR textures for games and 3D projects. A capable, affordable alternative for developers and artists.

Design & Illustration, Photo Editing·Released

Released: Oct 7, 2026

Mopet Studio

Create your own desktop pet called Mopet and share it with your friends or on the Steam Workshop. You can interact with your Mopet in various ways and right-click it to access special features.

Indie, Animation & Modeling·Released

Released: Oct 7, 2026

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Phluxel

Make your pixel art move: rain, snow, fire, water, glow and wind, without drawing frame by frame. Start from 90 animated scenes or 128 effect templates, tune them with sliders, and export seamless GIF loops or sprite sheets. Free demo available. Pay once, no subscription.

Indie, Simulation·Demo available

Released: Sep 30, 2026

DSprite

Start drawing with the retro game artists dream! A professional art suite that's easy to use, with the tools and charm of the best packages of the 1990s blended seamlessly with what modern pixel art and animation tools have to offer.

Indie, Animation & Modeling·Released

Released: Sep 29, 2026

Elqori

Draw, paint, animate and work with 3D - all in one creative app built by an independent developer. Buy once, no subscription.

Animation & Modeling, Design & Illustration·Released

Released: Sep 25, 2026

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HAELE 3D - Portrait Studio Pro - Drawing References

HAELE 3D - Portrait Studio Pro is 3D facial anatomy drawing reference tool for beginner and advanced artists, with various characters, proportions, expressions, lights and environments. It is an easy to use app to complement tutorials, for those who are learning how to draw faces and heads.

Adventure, Simulation·Demo available

Released: Sep 23, 2026

Hologram Engine

Hologram Engine is an ultra-lightweight desktop utility that lets you render up to 5 interactive 3D holograms over your active windows. Featuring advanced optimization, it delivers cinematic visual accuracy with 0% CPU overhead using your own .glb 3D assets.

Casual, Design & Illustration·Released

Released: Sep 1, 2026

Cycletex: Retro Texture Tool

Make 32 Bit era textures from photos, with streamlined background removal, perspective flattening, cropping, downscaling, color limiting, & more. Cycletex is an all in 32 bit texture tool.

Animation & Modeling, Design & Illustration·Released

Released: Aug 24, 2026

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Macro Mesh

Macro Mesh sits under every game you play. Macros in a node-based programming language, bound to anything. A crosshair you drew. The clip, after it happens. Game servers for your group, a password vault, screen savers. One app instead of five, built by a gamer and steered by gamers.

Action, Indie·Demo available

Released: May 8, 2026

Kodon

Kodon is a 3D sculpting software for VR and Desktop. We make beginners experts with our intuitive, easy to learn interface, and invite experts to become gods through speed, immersion and feel.

Simulation, Animation & Modeling·Released

Released: Dec 10, 2023

DEMO

Hex Composer

Hex Composer is a real-time video synthesizer for video artists, VJs, and musicians. Patch oscillators, shapes, and feedback live, without coding. Send visuals to Resolume, TouchDesigner, or OBS through Spout, Syphon, and NDI.

Indie, Animation & Modeling·Demo available

Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 5, 2026

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InkQuest: Text Game Engine

InkQuest is a simple way to make your own text adventure — the kind of game you play by reading and typing. Draw rooms on a map, fill them with things, set the rules from menus. No coding. When it's finished, share your game with anyone.

Adventure, RPG·Demo available

Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 6, 2026

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Figure Drawing Garden

Grab your sketchbook, relax, explore, and draw in your very own Figure Drawing Garden — an immersive virtual garden designed for you to practice and improve at figure drawing.

Casual, Indie·Demo available

Coming soon · Full game release: Dec 1, 2026

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Earthframe Studio

Try the demo before you buy. Create spectacular photorealistic images and videos of planet Earth in minutes with an intuitive, easy-to-use tool. Set the sun, clouds, city lights and atmosphere, animate with two keyframes and render stills up to 16K or MP4 and ProRes video.

Simulation, Animation & Modeling·Demo available

Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon

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Artist's Toolkit!

Your everyday art asset toolbox. Remove backgrounds, extract frames, split transparent images into layers, and arrange assets in freeform or grid layouts. With video and pixel tools plus PNG, ZIP and PSD export, Artist's Toolkits helps you spend less time preparing assets and more time creating.

Design & Illustration, Utilities·Demo available

Coming soon · Full game release: 2026

DEMO

Vǫrðr Forge

Vǫrðr is an ambitious game engine for making 2D, 2.5D and 3D games. Easily create the video games you want and release them royalty free. No proprietary art type, easy-to-use interface, built-in RPG systems, day/night cycle, weather, skybox, water, events, and much more. Your multiverse awaits.

Indie, RPG·Demo available

Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon

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Card Builder

Card Builder is everything you need to design, build and export a card game. Templates, artwork and effects for the design, your spreadsheet for the data, and print-ready or game-ready files at the end.

Design & Illustration, Photo Editing·Demo available

Coming soon · Full game release: Q4 2026

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