Indie Games Released on January 6, 2026

8AM: The Swimming Pool

"8AM: The Swimming Pool" is a suspense game set in a public pool after closing hours. Observe the last swimmers through security cameras and decide whether their strange actions come from exhaustion or something far more disturbing, as you try to endure until 8:00 a.m.

Arcane Rivals

Arcane Rivals is a combo‑driven, voice‑interactive PvP fighter. Weave hand signs, then speak the spell into your mic to unleash anime‑inspired techniques. Chain, counter, and outplay in fast duels where precision, timing, and clear calls decide the winner.

Aye Leon

Glide your way to victory in this enchanting 2D platformer. Master your jetpack’s smooth glide through colorful, floating worlds packed with collectables. A full playthrough takes around 20 minutes, perfect for a quick burst of platforming adventure.

Brother Hai's Pho Restaurant

A story-driven psychological horror game where you must balance cooking authentic Vietnamese Pho with surviving chilling, unexpected events in a quiet, mysterious village.

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Cooking Time!

A chaotic multiplayer strategic shooter where players cook different dishes and throw them at their enemies.

Cosplayer's Quest

An introverted cosplayer, Koromo Kuroi, is flung into a fantasy world?! With dreams of opening her very own costume shop, she sets out on a quest to earn enough money to turn that dream into reality!

Death Machine

Conquer the mechanical citadel in Death Machine - a metroidvania, with a roguelite item system. Gather items to gain strength, navigate the perilous machine world, leverage the aid of ancient demons, and seek out dangerous denizens to defeat before the forces of the machine close in on you.

Deceived Of Joy

Step into a Psychological Horror Experience where you live in an apartment complex where the walls between reality and nightmares are crumbling. Run for your life, solve small puzzles and use items to help you survive.

2D space easy game

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Detective Dana

Detective Dana is a 2D story-rich game about an Arabic police officer investigating murder cases. Investigate the crime scene, interrogate the witnesses, solve the mysteries and uncover the secrets until you catch the criminal!

Echoes of the Cave

A peaceful puzzle adventure set in a forgotten cave filled with ancient Amazigh symbols. Decode the past, solve mystical riddles, and uncover the hidden path using light, stone, and silence. No combat—just exploration, meaning, and discovery.

Eclipse Protocol 2130

“A fast-paced action roguelite arena shooter where you battle relentless enemy waves, unlock new weapons and upgrades, and push your limits with every run. Survive dynamic challenges, face unique bosses, and become the final line of defense in 2130.”

Empyreus

A short, free danmaku bullet hell following two gun-wielding angels as war unfolds in Heaven. Dodge dense Touhou-style patterns, face demanding boss fights, and uncover skill-based secrets in this tight retro experience. Survive the bullet hell and restore the bullet heaven!

A clock's Tale

Help Timer protect his clock tower from crazy robots with the help of your extendable mechanical arm.

Endless Furry Slayer

Fight furries endlessly and survive for as long as possible.

Final Frontier Story

Dodge lasers and explore! Planetary Development Simulation

Idle Dragon Realm

This is an adventure AFK game based on text and images, where you can recruit heroes and collect equipment to defeat the demon king. Cultivate unique custom heroes in the game, create exclusive equipment as the main gameplay, easily place to complete the main storyline, and there is also an endless.

Lawn Care Simulator

Take Back the Yard in Lawn Care Simulator! Grab your mower and bring unruly lawns under control. From overgrown backyards to massive estates, cut through the chaos one blade at a time. Satisfyingly slice, edge, and clean your way to perfectly manicured greens — all in a day's mow.

Adult Hardcore Clicker

"Happiness is just a click away"

Lumi & The Lost Tablets

Lumi and the Lost Tablets is a family friendly 3D platformer. Jump, glide, and explore your way through multiple colorful areas and restore peace to the ocean!

N0-V4

N0-V4 is a science fiction/psychological horror art piece that treads along the lines of the ".exe" genre while taking inspiration from RPGMaker classics. You're a robot undergoing beta-testing. Is the end goal to ESCAPE THE GAME... or is it to OBEY Dr. (Mari) Machina, your creator?

Nightork Adventures 3 - Arena

Blast your way through magical chaos! Choose your totem, master the color-coded shield system, and unleash explosive power in Nightork Adventures 3 - the ultimate test of reflexes and strategy.

Nobu Jump

A game where you keep aiming upward, no matter how many times you fall. It's a high-difficulty action game — skilled players might clear it easily, but for those who aren’t good at games, it will be a real challenge.

Adult Hardcore Solitaire

"Play Hard. Win Harder."

Pet Hunter: Capture

Pet Hunter: Capture is an exploration and pet-collecting survival-style game. Players will take on the role of defeating various types of pets to obtain coins, pet eggs, fragments, and other items to enhance their attributes.

Phil and Leonardo

This here's the tale of a blind elder who stumbles into a whole other world, and a little piglet that comes to his rescue. In this wild, wacky realm full of strange sights, are you ready to tag along on their heartwarming, magical adventure?

Pneuma

Take the role of Zoe, Deaths apprentice, and fight back against the 7 Deadly sins who stole the fragments of your soul, engage in fast paced top-down hack and slash action, fending off hoards of Hell's spawn. Gain buffs throughout the different levels to increase your power to take on the bosses....

Press to Cry

The Manifesto Of Weeping (a minimalist emotional clicker) “Just click. Keep clicking. And in the end, it won’t be numbers that flow, it will be you.”

A Helping Hand DEMO

A Creepypasta based visual novel

Protocol Nightmare

Survive three nights of absolute terror while more than 10 monsters hunt you down. Explore secret paths, complete tasks, use your flashlight and scanner, upgrade your abilities, and face an intense survival experience.

Sales employee Takeru-Kun

Hello World!! This game is based on the image of a Japanese arcade game from the 70's to early 80's where you could easily play by inserting 1 coin. The player will work hard at his sales job to save L.Planning, a company that has been reincarnated into another world.

Snapshots

A short game about organizing messy spaces. Place every object back where it belongs, discovering and deciphering secrets hidden amongst the clutter.

Soul's Gambit

Soul's Gambit blends roguelike card mechanics with a deep RPG narrative. At this table, luck isn't enough; how you play your cards matters. Build your deck, analyze opponents, and wager your soul. Can you survive the dealer's game?

Air Hockey [UPDATE!]

Air Hockey

SpyFall

Spyfall is a multiplayer game for up to 8 players. Spies must complete missions without getting caught. One player is the Detective who must find the spies. Each map has different characters and tasks.

SUBFAULT

A cat-and-mouse style horror game where you descend into a rundown facility to service faulty subsystems. Exercise caution - you're not alone down there.

Super Star Adventure

Super Star Adventure is the 1-bit RPG which takes you on a wild ride through deep space gone wrong. Your ship hits a meteor field above Astralis, a rogue planet full of weird tech, weirder ruins, and even weirder creatures. It’s lonely out there, but not quiet.

The Dunkers

Great 1on1 fun! Homage to 2D basketball and keyboards! Dunks, shoots, layups and blocks you will feel! Dunk you very much!

Alex'sbox - Sprunki 5hifted coolguy's take

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The Long Way Home

A journey where some may never find their way back. ...Of course, you probably believe that won’t happen to you.

The Pivot of Tao – Six Falls

Built on the idea of “Characters as Maps,” it transforms the logic of Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, and the Bagua into a world you can walk through — where movement becomes thought.

Wordy Weapon

Fill in the blanks to forge weapons in this madlibs roguelite RPG! Play as the Wordsmith—a mythical blacksmith who crafts mighty weapons from words. Combine adjectives and nouns, target elemental weaknesses, and trigger chain reactions to create the ultimate Wordy Weapon!

Alien 3: Ripley to the Rescue

Three times the danger, three times the suspense, three times the terror!

Anarchy FLIPS!

Y2K Punk Skating Game

Andrew's Simple Cookie Clicker

Available for Windows

Antibody Attack

Arkanoid

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Astra: Ardent Show FREE DEMO

Hot furry visual novel

Axe Baldi

Pseudo-3D prototype project for ... Well, for my future pseudo-3D BBC Basic games.

Balls adventure

A modern, vibrant reimagining of that iconic game from the classic Nokia era

BeyBlade TikTok Arena - TikTok Live Game

Available for Windows

Bicycle simulator (with countersteering and balancing!)

Try to balance a simulated bicycle.

Bit by Bit

Demo game - project 1 of college

Bloodbound:Legacy

Available for Windows

BloodVein

Gothic FPS game

BOUND - Dungeon Masters Curse

"And so you shall dwell here... within these labyrinthine halls... BOUND."

Bugs

V1.02 from BBC Basic (SDL2 Edition), Richard Russell

BulletType

​Bullet Hell roguelite where the keyboard fights back.

bzz

turn-based strategy game

Calle pellin

A short story about Hispanic diaspora. The story explores tradition and contemporary ideologies.

CashLifeSimulator

Four playable childhood memories, exaggerated for accuracy.

Celeste 65: Strawberry Jam

Available for Windows, Linux

Chakram

Ты оружие, но не хочешь им быть!

Chedz vs the Graters

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Cheeses for Meeces

Get cheese, stay undetected, become ungovernable

Cleared For Impact Demo

A 2D precision flying game. Navigate the depths of a hostile world, avoid obstacles, dodge lasers and rescue your crew!

Clone Escape Remake

Platform rage game

Connected(Not)

Connect the circuit ! and Push the button !!

Crescent Fighters

Crusade Tower

Doctor Say Apple ii Medical Simulation

“This is an homebrew not official APPLE game, not affiliated with APPLE.”

Don't Panic!

All of time and space condensed into an easy-to-use guide.

Dressed For Work

A business casual dress-up horror game about taking care of a goat.

DungeonBall (Demake)

Games Programming Coursework

Dungeon Master

O jogo se trata de um dungeon defense, onde o jogador pode criar salas e invocar monstros para se defender.

Dynamic City Generation

Create your own procedurally generated city

EFAI2026

在夢境中消滅大腦晶片中的AI吧！

Empyreus

A short, free bullet hell following two gun-wielding angels as war unfolds in Heaven.

Endless Cold

Survive Christmas

Farm

Floor is Lava

Old Game kid play at least one in life

Flouri Flick

Flick coins and hit others

GDP Architect

Learning how to calculate GDP

GenshinImpact2D

Available for Windows

Get Dressed

Naked people killing clothes...

GVM in lua

grand vehicular manslaughter in lua

Hard Space

Shoot the beat. Save the Earth!

Hollow Mansion

Escape an infinite mansion!

HooksDay

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Hopshot

Hop. Aim. Dodge. Collect.

Ichtcreek_V1_Eng

English version of chapter 1

I hope you are still here.

Don’t look back, keep going.

I/ITSEC 2025 CCRT BOOTH

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Inku Gallery

A virtual gallery to show 2D and 3D proyects that I made on my carrer as a Digital Artist.

Interactable Modular Turrets

Interactive Modular Turrets is a highly versatile, plug and play turret system

i remember the first time you held my hand

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Island Life (Prototype)

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It's a Soundboard (CACTAS)

FOSS Soundboard I made in Godot

Jamstroids

V.1.4 Musical Asteroids by me (Music by Friso)