You Alone Can Defeat Evil
One impossible boss. Learn the fight or... be erased. Most players fail. Will you?
Released: Oct 19, 2026
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Snapped In The Act!
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.
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Starship Horizons: Bridge Simulator
Starship Horizons is a multi-player experience allowing 2-6 players commanding a Starship as the bridge officers in the roles of Captain, Flight, Tactical, Science, Operations, and Engineering.
Released: Oct 19, 2026
The Marquee: Lights. Camera. Legacy.
Build a film studio from the ground up, create original movies, manage talent and production, compete for audiences, and turn unexpected successes into a cinematic legacy.
Released: Oct 19, 2026
a Flower for you
a Flower, you can't smell it, but it will never die, a gentle, meditative space featuring a single red flower floating weightlessly against an open sky. Designed as an everlasting gift to someone special or keep as your own quiet sanctuary, it offers a peaceful moment to pause, breathe, and reflect.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
CHAMBER: ATOM BREAKER INC
A reactor made of breakable pixels. Stir the atoms with your hand, fuse them up the ladder, and chew through the chamber wall layer by layer until the fuel runs out. The playing field is what you spend.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
Mall Corp
John is an ordinary security guard at a shopping mall who has been working there for 40 years. It was supposed to be just another routine shift. But this night hits different.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
Scribble Tanks
Scribble Tanks is a survival roguelite on a sketch-styled 3D battlefield on graph paper. Fight zombie hordes, tanks and bosses, build your arsenal, reclaim besieged regions, and face the final boss—or keep fighting in Endless Mode.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
Recycled
Recycled is a calm first-person co-op game about clearing a landfill. Pick up trash from four towers of 34,027 physical items, take things apart at the workbench, sort every piece into the right bin, press bales and drive forklifts and a tower crane. Solo or with up to 3 friends.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
Armed Monsters
A story-driven action survival game. Explore dangerous locations, fight armed monsters, rescue civilians, and manage infection. Collect supplies and equipment, unlock harder difficulties, and work with teammates in online survival battles.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
Unlucky
A pile of identical slippers. Some explode. You're told how many, never which. Pick one up, look a friend in the eye, and throw. Or throw it at yourself and pray — prayer is a real item, along with an egg, a clown and somebody's mom. Online 2-4 players. Bring friends you can afford to lose.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
Poker Heroes
“Poker Heroes” blends poker hands, hero gacha, and roguelike adventure. Draw heroes with unique abilities, use skill cards, and choose evolution paths through changing stages and random rewards. Build your style and turn layered tactics into dazzling attacks that sweep the battlefield!
Released: Oct 18, 2026
DEMO
SuperStore Simulator
Build, manage, and expand your own supermarket from scratch! Stock shelves with popular products, set strategic prices, handle checkout payments, hire staff, and build the ultimate supermarket empire in town.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
Universal Tidy Up
A first-person puzzle game where tidying is the puzzle. Sort items into their correct place and solve puzzles across 20+ stages. This game features a mix of calm tidying and organizing puzzles.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
万古仙途
览凡仙迢迢道境，观万灵碌碌浮生。 从练气起步，在修炼、经营、战斗与收集之间建立自己的成长循环；当此世仙途抵达瓶颈，便以重修换取永久仙缘，让下一世走得更远。
Released: Oct 18, 2026
DEMO
Apoc Wilds
A turn-based creature-collector in the ruins under a tear in the sky. Seal what you find, choose whether it evolves, and build a team of six from 100+ creatures. In Early Access while the Barrowlands story and the Crypt beneath it are built out.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
Desktop Monsters
Turn your desktop into a digital battlefield. Build 5 attack towers and a Firewall Barrier, face 24 threats across 3 battlefields, conquer a 24-wave campaign and 7 challenges, or survive Endless. Local LAN multiplayer adds sabotage, virus deployment and Retaliation Mode.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
GRIDMINE
GRIDMINE is a short, retro tower defense built around incremental progression. Survive for as long as possible, then return to your skill tree to spend extracted resources on tower-based upgrades and abilities.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
DEMO
The Loomsong Chronicle Idle
Build a six-character party and explore a science-fantasy galaxy in a 2D-HD idle action RPG. Shape autonomous heroes through deep equipment, crafting and ability systems, develop your town, and challenge Grand Expeditions, Pinnacle bosses and endless dungeons.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
Obey the Beat
A fast-paced rhythm arcade game with 17 tracks, 3 difficulty levels, leaderboards, and a challenging Roguelike mode where you must survive the full setlist with one life bar while adapting to game-changing modifiers.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
One Thought to Buddhahood
One Thought to Buddhahood is a sci-fi mystery visual novel set in 3077. Examine evidence, inspect key moments in a nine-second recording, and question who owns a life shaped by erased memories. A complete 37-chapter story with ten languages, atmospheric music, and offline play.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
Dynamite Blue
A story-driven 2.5D turn-based RPG set in Vierhaven, a cyberpunk city of sky, street, and shadow. Follow 60+ heroes, each with their own story. From the team behind Exos Heroes.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
HELLBENT
HELLBENT is a souls like inspired game where you play as a knight of the Heavenly Order tasked with defeating a lord of hell who resides in purgatory.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
Kings Call 2
Become the Lord of Silver Heron Ridge in Kings Call 2. Collect cards to summon creatures, cast spells and defeat monsters. Four classes: Mage for area damage, Priest with Holy Light, Ranger for precision, Warrior boosting team power. Cards from White to Gold. Test your strategy and courage!
Released: Oct 18, 2026
Iron Coffin Ice Queen: Her Gaze Awakens My Beast
Former special forces analyst Barit wakes up and finds himself in a death cage. Under the brutal rule that anyone who lies will be executed immediately, he forms an alliance with the cold glamorous female doctor Evelyn to fight the behind-the-scenes game manipulator together.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
Solar Escape
The sun is swallowing the planet and the floor is melting. Solar Escape is a high-octane 2D survival platformer where you have no weapons—only your grapple hook and your will to endure. Master the crumbling terrain, outrun the solar inferno, and stay alive until extraction arrives.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
DEMO
SummitJourney
A little cat keeps climbing while you get on with your day. Keep it in a transparent desktop corner, enable automatic hiking and Do Not Disturb, then return to trail stories and finds. Idle and offline progress, optional repeat climbs, and about 150 real-world peaks await.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
Achilles-Sword-ll
Achilles-Sword II is a Viking exploration adventure combining a vast open world, a living city, tavern, NPCs, exploration, combat, and enemies.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
Arbiter
A third-person fantasy action game where you wield powerful magic, liberate towns, and battle dangerous foes across a chain of islands.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
SurgePoint
Craft weapons mid-run, strafe through chaos, chain recoil jumps, spawn platforms out of thin air. Pick cards. Break runs. Repeat.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
NightClub Simulator
Step into the wild world of Nightclub Simulator VR! Experience an exclusive party where you can dance, mingle, fight, or flirt your way through a chaotic nightclub scene. Interact with lifelike NPCs, build relationships, cause a little mayhem, or just enjoy the music. Your night, your rules..
Released: Oct 18, 2026
DEMO
AI Olympius
Join the rebels in a third-person shooter with RPG elements and base-building mode. Fight against various combat drone models under the control of the supreme AI.
Released: Oct 18, 2026
Curb Hoppers
Jump fences, slide beneath barriers and hop across car roofs in a colorful suburban arcade runner. Collect coins and stars, grab helpful power-ups, unlock new runners and chase better scores through changing streets and an unlockable endless mode.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Volleyball Mania
Free-to-play arcade volleyball. Time every pass, set and spike, aim past the block and win the rally. Four stadiums from the beach to a neon night court, a full 12-team Championship, the World Tour, and online matches against your friends.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Looks Like It Fits
A cargo-packing puzzle about making an awkward load survive the road. Keep ice cold, warm a dragon egg and strap down fragile parcels. Study the route, arrange your truck bed, then watch your plan face bumps, braking and changing weather across 40 deliveries.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Undead Gunline
Undead Gunline is a fast-paced, single-player turret shooter. Aim and fire with your mouse to stop zombie waves on a desert highway, then spend earned resources on upgrades to strengthen your rolling gun platform and push farther down the road.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Hero Football Manager
Run a small football club where ordinary players can wake up with superpowers. Train the squad, hire staff, upgrade the ground and keep the books. Then watch your plan play out in pixel-art matches.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Flockway
Flockway is a colorful 3D animal puzzle game. Drag animals along the direction they face, guide them to the exits, and pair matching arrivals in a limited holding tray. Plan each move carefully to clear the board before the tray fills.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
PenRogue
Catch a wide variety of Pens and battle all kinds of Trainers. Overcome the twists of a three-axis type system and survive 100 waves.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Ammo Eater
Swallow ammo, grow your black hole, and turn your haul into a boss-busting barrage. Race the clock across colorful arenas, upgrade your collecting power, and unlock new looks in this fast-paced arcade action game.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Deuce Dash
Drag to swing, aim and smash your way through bite-sized arcade tennis tournaments. Time powerful serves, chain rally combos, unleash fireball shots and earn diamonds to unlock a wardrobe of stylish players.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Bathyscaphe
Pilot a heavy submersible through dark underwater caves. Reveal the route with sonar, recover lost cargo and carry it to the far lock. Fight currents, falling rock and curious predators while propulsion, sonar and electric defense drain the same battery.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Pinecrest Mill
Run a colorful lumber yard in this relaxed, hands-on simulation. Carry logs, unlock processing machines, turn raw timber into useful materials, and fill outgoing shipments as your mill takes on new orders.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
RetroHub
A 1994 interactive-TV terminal, drawn pixel by pixel. Dial a number and play: backgammon, Yum dice, hangman, bowling, pinball, brick-breaker, Bizz-Billes… Solo, with friends around one screen, or online.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
中国式高考ChineseGaokao
The core gameplay is QTE, which mainly includes learning knowledge points, acquiring learning skills, and taking exams. After 30 weeks or upon early active application, students will participate in the college entrance examination and be allocated universities and majors based on their exam scores
Released: Oct 17, 2026
DEMO
AWAITING YOUR HORDERS
The best defense is offense. As long as you don't do anything stupid. Or do you? A serious and funny battle simulator where your smallest unit is an ARMY: click one soldier, 100,000 shout YAH! Up to 1,000,000 on screen climb into wobbly towers, get shelled, see stars, and charge again.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Needle Hunt
Search a massive haystack alone or in co-op with up to 4 players, explore a colorful cartoon barn, and find the tiny hidden needle.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Winter Creatures 2
Winter Creatures 2 is the sequel to the original 3D puzzle game, taking you to an unexplored world blanketed in snow and shrouded in mystery. It is home to little creatures that need your help!
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Tales of the Immortal Path
One sword breaks all arts, one thought attains immortality. Tales of the Immortal Path is an ink-wash xianxia single-player card roguelike. Countless artifacts and cards. Trample the heavens and seek the Dao of immortality!
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Headbutt Dino
A roguelite deckbuilder about a headbutting dinosaur. I wanted the thrill of blasting obstacles away, not dodging them. The higher your combo, the denser they get, and active cards are there to just feel good to fire off. Every stage ends with a boss. Ten stages to a run, as currently designed.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
touhou AICHATRPG
Touhou Project Fan Game An RPG where you can adventure while chatting with Touhou Project characters through AI!
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Odyssey Wars
Command a fleet from orbit, then drop into the cockpit of any ship in it. A space RTS and first-person flight hybrid with a shared PvE online galaxy: fight pirate raids beside other commanders, join clans, run co-op Operations and push the frontier. Solo campaign included.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
DEMO
Meteors Are Art
These days, destroying planets has become one of the hottest forms of art in the universe. The process is simple. Choose a meteor, attach some parts, and fire it at a planet. You can even choose your own judges. Would you like to join this world of art?
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Tower Survivor - Paper Invasion
A roguelite tower defense game about making the most of the choices you’re given. Choose from the weapons and upgrades offered to you, and see if your tower can survive the onslaught of paper enemies.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Crypto Market Rivals
Find your trading style in a single-player game with simulated funds. Explore markets, revisit crypto history, build a Wild run, and grow a career at your own pace.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Beta Earth: Sovereignty Next
Welcome to Beta Earth, a text-driven sci-fi RPG with two journeys. Explore Sprawl 15 in Sovereignty or brave the harsher survival of Second Chances. Choose your class, find your footing, and make the story your own. Includes the Beta Earth Digital Library.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
ArtRise Illustrator Growth Plan: Are you kidding me?
ArtRise Illustrator Growth Plan is a text-based role-playing game in which players take on the role of a freelance artist just starting out. By accepting commissions, communicating with clients, dealing with payment disputes, and experience the real-world challenges faced by professional artists.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Yatai 8
An endless loop in a dark Japanese corridor. Observe every detail carefully: if everything looks normal, keep walking. If you notice even the slightest anomaly, turn back immediately. Escape the loop before it's too late.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
DEMO
Fresh Stacker
A fast-paced, highly customizable tetromino stacking game featuring competitive multiplayer and everything you need to sharpen your skills, from guided opener practice to powerful custom training modes.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Dew of Y
《Dew of Y》是一款以能量积蓄与时机释放为核心的回合制角色扮演游戏，玩家通过积累“露”能量并在进攻与防护的临界点做出精准抉择，在单人流程中体验充满节奏感的战术博弈。
Released: Oct 17, 2026
DEMO
Bad Bunnies - Beyond Brackenridge
A bunny-based 3D platformer where you have to collect carrots while avoiding fiendish enemies and traps.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
P'tit Tchîf
A dungeon crawler in which you’ll explore different aspects from the Wallon’s culture. Face enemies in a dynamic turn based combat system and rally other Walloons to your cause. Together dive into the tale because you’d never be able to make it on your own…
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Gridiron Manager 2026
Build a career across professional and college American football as head coach and general manager. Control the roster, cap, recruiting, draft, playbook and every game-day call—then reshape the world with custom leagues, teams, players, portraits, logos, local mods and Steam Workshop content.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Cook with Card
Cook with Card is a casual cooking and restaurant management game where you prepare recipes using cards, fulfill customer orders, and upgrade your kitchen. Unlock new recipes, manage ingredients and build an efficient kitchen!
Released: Oct 17, 2026
First Principles: A Calculus Platformer
Run and jump across the graphs of real functions. Every level is a curve — its derivative shapes the platforms and hazards. 40+ stages from parabolas to Riemann sums, AP Calculus BC, physics, and aerospace curves, ending in a Mandelbrot boss. A platformer that teaches real calculus.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
DEMO
Vampire's Kiss: Time Paradox
Vampire's Kiss: Time Paradox – is a romantic anime novel about vampires and the distortion of time. Your choices will determine the fate of the heroine and her chosen one. Meet mysterious guys, uncover secrets, and find your unique ending!
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Xolotl's Escape
Help Xolotl and his friend Steve escape the wrath of the gods in this rogue lite bullet hell shooter with turret defense elements. Utilize a variety of weapons and abilities to evade and survive the waves of enemies. Upgrade your arsenal and see how long you can withstand the divine onslaught.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Silly Suspects
Play as a detective in this comical guess-who mystery. Investigate absurd crimes in a weird and wacky world. Question suspects, learn their habits, and rule them out one by one until you uncover the truth hiding beneath all the nonsense
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Dicey Desk
There's a die on your taskbar. It charges while you type, so the more work you get done the more you get to roll. Collect an unreasonable number of dies, trade your spares up into rarer ones, and watch it tumble across your desktop instead of finishing that email.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Leafman
The Mother Oak is forgetting. The Blight has made the guardians of her memories forget who they are, so she lets her last leaf fall. Be that leaf. Leafman scatters on the wind and strikes like a storm across seven realms in this 2D pixel-art action platformer.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Astrowar
AstroWar is a fast 2D multiplayer space arena shooter. Create quick lobbies, customize your ship, add bots, dodge meteorites, grab power-ups, and fight through chaotic battles across a wide starfield.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Double Envelopment
Double Envelopment is a real-time strategy game where you are a general in charge of conducting an invasion of foreign countries, using a mix of grand strategy, operational artistry, and tactical decision-making to capture enemy cities and infrastructure, and lead your army to inevitable victory!
Released: Oct 17, 2026
PATIENT ZERO
Enter high-risk extraction zones, plant containment bombs, and evacuate before the area is wiped out along with you and your team. Every decision matters. Death is permanent. A hardcore 6-player cooperative horror experience where survival is never guaranteed.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Retro Racers
Rev up for nostalgia! A co-op racing game where you choose vintage cars, customise wheels, and race through exciting tracks! 🚗💨🏁
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Gangster Clicker
Start with brass knuckles and empty pockets. Click rivals, upgrade your weapons and hire a crew to fight for you. Conquer 12 districts, defeat 12 bosses and build your criminal empire in a gangster idle clicker packed with dark humor, minigames and offline earnings.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Nothing Simulator
A game about doing absolutely nothing. Stare at a black screen, watch a timer and prove that time is still passing
Released: Oct 17, 2026
The Ripe Blood Anthology: This World Is Just for the Two of Us
Derek has a job, a beloved boyfriend, friends, and… “thought-piranhas.” Everything was almost perfect until one day his younger sister, Rina, returned to town and started claiming she was dead.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Cat Life
Explore a vast wild island as a cat. Climb anywhere, hunt, fight, and survive the elements as you uncover the island’s mysteries, either solo or in co-op.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Madcar Multiplayer
One rule : Press the pedal ! Madcar: Multiplayer brings together the craziest drivers ! Enjoy the funniest online races !
Released: Oct 17, 2026
Surrounded
A 6-player open world horror game. Explore a abandoned town, filled with mysteries, be chased around with your friends and survive creatures capable of ending your life. Uncover what really happened.
Released: Oct 17, 2026
DEMO
The Debt We Sow
Grow crops, automate your farm, unlock powerful systems, and confront an ever-growing debt in a story-driven incremental farming game.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
Jixo 6: Dolce Vita Collector’s Edition
Enjoy a little sunshine and something sweet as you explore charming places through relaxing jigsaws, hidden-object scenes, and clever puzzle challenges.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
Doomlander
Retro style FPS game where Doomlander hero mission to kill several enemies and find gold piles and star in different levels
Released: Oct 16, 2026
DEMO
Skystead
A 2D co-op SkyBlock sandbox where you build floating islands, grow farms, mine resources, earn money, and hire workers to automate your growing economy.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
Deep Space Siege
Break the siege in a space survival shooter with roguelite builds and a dome to defend. Flash through constellation barrages, grow six weapon families into devastating builds, and fight colossal bosses. Take on a 24-stage campaign, then push your limits in Endless.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
Dodo Zombies
The world is in danger! Zombie dodos have escaped from an egg-shaped meteor and are devouring anything made of flesh. Your goal: survive—and have fun doing it.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
Spear and Shot
Spear and Shot is a 2D pixel top-down bullet-hell shooter where you face off against 9 pattern-driven bosses. Dodge through waves of enemy bullets, chain combos using your spear, and leverage your built-up combos to power up your long-range shooting.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
Take Good Care of Your Cassava
A tiny Brazilian June festival that dances on your desktop. Mandioca dances on her own while you work: every step earns Cheer, Cheer brings guests.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
Tiny Paradise
Tiny Paradise is a cozy desktop companion. Earn shells as you work, write or chat, then add homes, plants and new friends. Each keystroke sets your world in motion. Enjoy nine scenes, day and night in local time, and a journal of small moments. Take your time; there's no hurry.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
Rock Hunter
Blast through flying rocks, earn cash, and purchase upgrades! Hire Hunters and watch them earn money in this incremental shooter.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
Veins of the Sleeping Moon
Aim each swing, break clusters of ore, and turn your haul into wares for a moonlit market. Grow your gear and six-branch skill tree in a single-player mining adventure shaped by the people you meet.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
DEMO
STICKSHOT: Comic War
A loud neon-comic stickman shooter. Drop into a 60-player Battle Royale on a destructible island, plant the bomb in tactical 5v5 or play the campaign. Proximity voice chat lets nearby enemies hear you, private matches with a code bring in friends or viewers. Real ragdolls, no pay-to-win.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
W DoBark
A musical match-three with 3D toy puppies. Every match plays a note, every park hides a secret gate to a treasure burrow of rare dogs, and your pup walks a glowing island map from Clover Meadow to the Snowy Pines. No timers, no lives, no ads.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
28 Dawns
Build by day. Hold the line by night. Shape an auto-battling army with branching classes, randomized equipment and powerful relics in this pixel-art roguelite defense game. Survive 28 nights on each expedition, and turn defeat into permanent progress.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
Bathyscaphe
Dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, 11,034 metres down. Short dives, a searchlight against the dark, rare samples, strange creatures and a small yellow bathyscaphe that goes a little deeper after every upgrade. What waits at the bottom? You will find out at the end.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
EmberQuest
EmberQuest is a cozy fantasy MMORPG where you can fish, mine, chop, cook, craft, collect rare items, battle monsters, and explore a persistent world with other players. Take it easy and build your character, or jump into world PvP, arenas, and group PvP events.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
DEMO
SMOKE HAVEN: Smoking Area Simulator
Build, grow and defend your own smoking haven. Arrange furniture and cafe equipment, attract regulars, and manage cleaning, repairs and defense in this comic 3D management and building game. Start on the roadside and expand all the way to the Moon.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
A Game About Needle In A Haystack
A first-person game about finding a needle in a giant haystack. Dig through the hay by hand, sell it at the cow, buy tools and upgrades in the workshop, and search the pile until you find the needle.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
THIS GAME COSTS $500
Can you reach $500 in one run? Clear lines and chain combos to climb ten VALUE milestones, from $0.01 to $500, in a falling-block puzzle that speeds up through 21 levels. $500 is an in-game goal, not the price. No real money is won or paid out.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
GRID64
Minimalist pixel-art chess in pure black and white. Solve mate puzzles, face an engine that thinks up to 8 moves ahead, or play strangers worldwide in rated matches and arena tournaments where the champion wins a golden card.
Released: Oct 16, 2026
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