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THUD: Dicey Reload 0% · 1 review -29% $2.47

THUD: Dicey Reload

TahaStudios

ActionIndieSimulation

OPEN cylinder. INSERT round. AIM well and SHOOT. COUNT your remaining rounds. Become a true gunslinger! Your revolver is not a toy, you MUST respect it in order to survive! Oh and you have a DICE too...

Sep 22, 2026 Windows
Five Nights with Dino 100% · 12 reviews -30% $0.69

Five Nights with Dino

Allegoly Team

CasualIndie

Six hours. One power supply. Three dinosaurs.

Sep 22, 2026 Windows
TocoToco -15% $4.24

TocoToco

Napoterulle

AdventureIndie

Designed to challenge your reflexes. A precision platformer where every pixel counts and death is just part of the learning process

Sep 22, 2026 Windows
Beat Boxy 100% · 2 reviews -25% $4.68

Beat Boxy

JoMito Games

ActionCasualIndie

Beat Boxy is a 3D rhythm-based auto-runner. Play as Boxy, a shipping crate running, skateboarding & rollerblading to make his delivery. Jump & slide through dozens of rhythm-fueled levels, and build your own custom levels! Collect gems, unlock gear & survive the chaos while listening to epic music.

Sep 22, 2026 Windows, macOS, Linux
Jarred Defense 89% · 18 reviews -25% $9.74

Jarred Defense

Jarred Cat Studios

Strategy

A difficult maze-building tower defense about Yuki, a cat trapped in a teleporting jar. Protect it from robots and endure its unhelpful comments. Build your own paths, adapt as levels change, unlock powerful items, and uncover Yuki’s story. A love letter to Warcraft III custom maps.

Sep 22, 2026 Windows, macOS, Linux
Isernsmith 100% · 10 reviews -30% $7.69

Isernsmith

Tirazis

AdventureIndieRPG

Isernsmith is a gothic, crafting-heavy, RPG where you have to explore dungeons, gather resources, and forge new weapons and tools to overcome a tyrannical order that rules through dark forces.

Sep 22, 2026 Windows
Flutter Plane 100% · 1 review -33% $2.00

Flutter Plane

Neon Dream Games

ActionCasualIndie

Take flight in Flutter Plane! Guide your paper plane through tricky handcrafted levels and infinite, randomly generated challenges. Master the timing with simple single button controls, avoid the trees, and stick the landing. A charmingly tough arcade flyer awaits!

Sep 22, 2026 Windows
Curve Fever Pro 80% · 59 reviews Free

Curve Fever Pro

Jos Games

ActionCasualIndie

Curve Fever is a high-energy multiplayer snake-like game with powers, easy to learn and hard to master. Steer your ship, avoid deadly trails, steal points, and outplay up to 9 opponents in fast-paced online arenas. Climb the ranked ladder, level up, and unlock new powers.

Sep 22, 2026 Windows, macOS, Linux
Normal Golf Game 99% · 763 reviews -20% $7.99

Normal Golf Game

Luke Muscat

SimulationSports

A very normal golf simulator. Hit anything. Shoot from anywhere. But remember: you’re not leaving until Luke Muscat himself (Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride) is satisfied.

Sep 21, 2026 Windows
DIY Dadish 75% · 4 reviews $15.00

DIY Dadish

Thomas K. Young

ActionAdventureIndie

Create your own adventure and share it with the world! Everyone's favorite radish dad is back, but this time the story is up to you! in DIY Dadish gives players the ability to design any Dadish level they can imagine.

Sep 20, 2026 Windows
Aenoic Abyss 67% · 3 reviews -10% $8.09

Aenoic Abyss

Planescape Game Studio

ActionAdventureIndie

Swap between two heroines (Paladin/Mage/Assassin/Centaur Archer) instantly in this 2D pixel-art roguelite platformer, forge permanent Diablo-inspired builds with 200+ affix combinations to conquer cycle-reborn abyssal labyrinths and rend the holy veil of the Purification Ritual.

Sep 20, 2026 Windows
Darby Is Here Forever 100% · 18 reviews -15% $2.54

Darby Is Here Forever

Gaua Games

ActionAdventureIndie

Help little Darby escape from his castle and reclaim his land from the Demon King's claws in this challenging 2d precision platformer. Explore every hidden corner, use your vampiric powers wisely and face the Demon King to get your home back before your family returns from holiday.

Sep 20, 2026 Windows
Fluttering 100% · 1 review -10% $4.32

Fluttering

LL

AdventureIndie

Pushed from his nest for being born prematurely, Pip must prove Mother Nature wrong. Fluttering is a punishing precision platformer where determination is key. Master a unique momentum-based flutter mechanic, survive brutal falls, and climb back to the nest. Flutter. Fall. Rage. Repeat.

Sep 19, 2026 Windows
Glitch Protocol -20% $5.59

Glitch Protocol

Boogygames Studios

ActionIndie

A brutal precision platformer where the level itself is lying to you. Run, jump and die through 200 handcrafted rooms of vanishing floors, fleeing doors and gravity that flips mid-jump. Then build your own lies in the editor and share them as codes.

Sep 18, 2026 Windows, macOS, Linux
Pull Me Up! 100% · 2 reviews -10% $6.29

Pull Me Up!

Murat Akin

ActionAdventureCasual

Pull Me Up! is a challenging parkour adventure where every jump takes you higher. Face your fears in Horror Mode, featuring dark environments, unexpected jumpscares, and terrifying surprises. Are you brave enough to reach the top?

Sep 18, 2026 Windows
Beat-Sensei $54.99

Beat-Sensei

NoName-Epic

ActionCasualIndie

Beat-Sensei is a VR rhythm game built around real blade-combat: swing katana, energy blade, or dual blades to the beat across 7 unique worlds. Enjoy 260+ songs, 50+ quests, 5 difficulty levels, unlockable rewards, and the freedom to add your own music.

Sep 18, 2026 Windows
STRATA 100% · 10 reviews -40% $29.99

STRATA

Gamesforgames

CasualIndie

STRATA is an arcade descent through rock that is destroyed cell by cell. You pilot a drilling capsule from a dome on the surface, and everything below the first metre is procedurally generated geology: dirt, clay, stone, shale, granite, basalt, obsidian, ironstone.

Sep 18, 2026 Windows
Pigeon Valera 100% · 10 reviews -40% $29.99

Pigeon Valera

Gamesforgames

CasualIndie

You are Valera the pigeon: slingshot off a roof, flap through the city, and chase distance while stamina lasts. Grab seed packets, smash windows for a boost, bounce power lines, take a babushka yeet — just don’t wipe out on a car.

Sep 18, 2026 Windows
Jumping Jimothy -20% $2.39

Jumping Jimothy

Sky Wolf Studio

ActionCasualIndie

Hop Seattle's favorite little nugget through Seattle avoiding traffic and diving gulls. 100 fixed levels across ten chapters, five ways to play, fun soundtrack and 45 critters and costumes to unlock. Plus one Daily course a day, the same road for everyone. Everything is included and it runs offline.

Sep 18, 2026 Windows
Lander 100% · 3 reviews $8.99

Lander

DextericGames

IndieRacing

Fly the Lander, collect the fuel, avoid obstacles and perfect your skills to attempt a soft landing in this difficult precision platformer.

Sep 18, 2026 Windows
Super Moncat 100% · 1 review -20% $0.79

Super Moncat

Urulginka Studio

CasualIndie

Fly, dodge, and score points — this is a real test of reaction and concentration, where every new record feels like a big victory over the ruthless cosmos.

Sep 18, 2026 Windows, Linux
Biovoid -15% $12.74

Biovoid

Dzedou

IndieSimulationStrategy

Biovoid is a creature-building roguelike game where you slay hordes of hostile aliens. Combine a variety of cells and mutations to create game-breaking builds and evolve from a fragile hatchling to a deadly predator.

Sep 18, 2026 Windows
Neural Maze 100% · 2 reviews -20% $4.79

Neural Maze

unCurieux Studio

ActionCasualIndie

2 neurons. 2 sticks. One brain has to drive both at once: yours. Guide your stray neurons through ever-more-twisted mazes — inverted controls, power cuts, memory mode — under the eye of a doctor who's in over his head.

Sep 18, 2026 Windows
Bot slash Bot 100% · 7 reviews -10% $7.19

Bot slash Bot

Traveller's Box

ActionAdventureIndie

You click - You dash - You slash. Bot slash Bot is a fast-paced, top-down Hack n‘ Slash in which you control a rogue robot slashing & dashing through your former co-machines holding you captive! It's all about speed. Time is running out.

Sep 18, 2026 Windows

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