Release Archive
Indie Games Released on May 12, 2026
Steam and itch.io indie games released on May 12, 2026.
51 catalog games with real release data, store links, tags, and prices when available.
Games released on May 12, 2026
A.R.A. ASTRO RESCUE ALLIANCE
At the heart of a sci‑fi world awaits a series of logic puzzles that reward prudence, perseverance, and ingenuity. Skills you hone here prove useful in everyday life. No violence — just thrilling, high‑stakes challenges. Curious how it works? Play!
Better Than Dead
A brutal bodycam FPS set in Hong Kong. Kill your captors, rescue the others, and record every second of your revenge.
Black Jacket
Gamble your way out of hell in this blackjack-inspired rogue-lite deckbuilder. Play powerful card combos or cheat to outwit your opponents and earn your freedom. Win their Soul coins! Bribe the ferryman! And uncover the story of those who stand in your way.
Call of the Elder Gods
Journey to the far corners of the Earth and unearth ancient horrors in this Lovecraftian narrative puzzle adventure and sequel to 2020’s critically acclaimed Call of the Sea.
Canvas of Thoughts Demo
An emotional point-and-click puzzle adventure which invites you into Evi's vibrant but loud inner world.
Cloud Crashers
Cloud Crashers is an action-packed, character-based arena platform fighting game. Choose from a diverse roster of challengers with unique weapons and abilities, and battle it out across airborne stages in fast-paced PvP matches.
Dice Biology
Dice Biology is a roguelike dice-builder where you mutate dice sides, stack base and multiplier synergies, and discover powerful card combinations to push your score to the top of the leaderboard.
DinD
Will the Earth be better off when it loses humans？ Kill all kinds of hostile creatures and find out the answer to the world.
Discard the Heart
“Discard the Heart” is an extreme survival puzzle game. A spaceship has lost power near the Kuiper Belt. As the captain, you must make a decision to survive... Every turn, you must choose: discard cargo or discard crew. And in the end, believe in a miracle.
CookWorm
Bob the cook worm against mutant vegetables
Dungeon Buddy
A tiny pixel hero lives in the corner of your screen, automatically exploring dungeons. Check in to manage loot, combine relics, and risk equipment upgrades. Progress continues even when closed! A desktop idle RPG companion for busy people.
Elfie: A Sand Plan
Elfie: A Sand Plan is a relaxing and intuitive puzzle game where you help a small ambitious elephant build some sand castles. Enjoy spending time at the beach with your new rotund friend!
Epic Idle Quest II
Idle crawler RPG with elemental combat, 900+ monsters, crafting, PvP, and 1,000 achievements (96 at launch). Fight actively or let the server grind while you're away. No cheats — all progress is server-verified. Cross-platform with web and Android.
Exit, Seriously?
An observation horror game by a student dev and a tired AI. As a solo dev, I built this tribute to The Exit 8 using 30% logic and 50% blind faith in AI. Observe the hallway carefully: if you find an anomaly, turn back; if not, keep going. No saves, just pure student-made "artistic" chaos.
Crossin
A tiny adventure
Fail Fail Succeed
Logic driven puzzle platformer set in an uncomfortable dream world, where failures let you pave the way through a deadly environment. Fail, reflect and uncover the way out, while finding quiet comfort in your dog along the way.
Flat 207
A surrealist exploration of the mind of a man trapped in a room. Part game, part short film, part disaster, Flat 207 is a cursed video game with no traditional game mechanics that takes roughly 40 minutes to finish.
FLAW
Find a way out of here and get back to earth in FLAW, a retro-FPS inspired by cult classics: Unreal, Quake 2, Half-Life and many others. You and the Flaming Dawn’s passengers were looking for a better life among the stars, you have yet found only despair and darkness.
Forgotten Records
What would you do if you were stuck in an ancient shrine filled with creatures unknown to reality? Forgotten Records is a romance visual novel set in the modern world, where the protagonist wanders into the wrong shrine at the wrong time and has to escape.
Line Tactics
Tactical Strategy, 1-2 Players, Pass & Play, Great Music, Playdate
Hell's Bell
Hell's Bell is a story-driven brawler meant to be enjoyed in a 1-hour session. Bell, after learning a family secret, finds herself fighting endless demons in the underworld.
Inquiry Counsel逆转茶食人
"Hold on!" A court battle game set in ancient China's Song Dynasty! In the government office of Lin'an County during the Song Dynasty of ancient China, many bizarre murder cases occurred! The protagonist engages in intense court battles with the county captain of Lin'an to find the real culprit!
Mining Goblins Idle
Hire goblins. Build mines. Watch everything go chaotically wrong in this short incremental game
Minute Mark
Minute Mark is a 2D singleplayer platformer where you run, jump, and slide across hand-drawn levels at incredible speed, racing against a strict timer. Rewind your mistakes and make creative skips to chase the leaderboard.
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Orbit's Grocery
Manage the galaxy’s quirkiest store in Orbit’s Grocery! Balance retail tasks like window wiping and shelf stocking with chaotic mini-games. Encounter eccentric aliens that trigger FPS, racing, and horror events. Survive cosmic phenomena in this genre-bending workplace adventure.
Orcavan: Idle RPG
Enter a medieval orc-themed idle RPG where every choice matters. Pick 1 of 3 character types, build your team, place your items wisely, and overcome increasingly difficult battles in a satisfying climb toward greater power.
pixel arabi
A challenging 2D platformer full of traps, pranks, and surprises. Explore five unique islands, each with five handcrafted stages, and survive a world designed to test your skill and patience.
Plantation Simulator
Plantation Simulator is a simple farming simulator where you motivate workers to pick your crops! Maintain a beautiful farm by repairing fences to keep workers focused. Choose multiple crops to grow and enhance upgrades to maximize your success!
Open House
It was supposed to be a fresh start.
Popfall Arena
Popfall Arena is a fast-paced action arcade game set in an arena filled with colorful balloons. Pop the bouncing balloons, collect power-ups, and fight to survive for the highest score!
PROMulti-TableTournament
PROMulti-TableTournament is a Texas Hold’em multi-table tournament strategy simulator. read hands by position, stack depth, blinds, and opponent actions, then choose fold, call, raise, or all-in to practice MTT pacing. GTOrange judgment, stack control, and final table decisions.
Renegade Cat Marbles
Renegade Cat Marbles is a stage-based incremental marble game: start with a few Cat Marbles, earn coins, unlock upgrades, buy more marbles to fill the screen, and use physics gadgets to clear stage after stage. Can you lead the Cat Marbles to a clean escape?
Saint of Chains
Psychological single-player first-person horror. Explore dark environments, fight with melee and guns, and solve puzzles in this retro 2000s-inspired nightmare where the truth is more terrifying than the monsters.
Pythagore : LA CRISE D'ENCLUME
Jeu 2D ou l'on joue Martin Junior, un tueur débutant dans un monde extrêmement étrange.
Samsara
Death is not the end in SAMSARA® - a souls-like, action-RPG inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Trapped after life in a dreamlike, cyclic purgatory. Seek a way to escape within 49 days or be eternally reincarnated as six unique avatars based on the karma of your past life.
SeaQuestDungeon
SeaQuest Dungeon is a fast-paced, twin-stick shooter roguelite. With limited resources, choose different props to create powerful combinations to challenge higher difficulties and unlock new skills and weapons.
Shadow Solitaire
Shadow Solitaire is a roguelite, turn-based score-chasing card strategy game where you chain plays across multiple lanes, build powerful skill synergies, and manage risk through shop upgrades, casino bets, bank loans, and market trading.
Sill Cats
Tiny cats have moved onto your desktop. They pad along the tops of your windows, swat at your cursor, curl up for a nap somewhere, then suddenly bolt across the screen at 2 a.m. Adore them for their cat-like antics. Two breeds are free to invite home.
Tavern Talk: Pirate Palooza
A Tavern Talk costume DLC
Slime's Blacksmith
Forge powerful slimes, craft resources, and grow your blacksmith empire in this relaxing idle clicker. A simple yet addictive incremental game made by a solo developer.
The Azure One
Follow the young boy Qiuxu to meet the girl who always sprints in the sunshine, and get to know three other girls with distinct personalities. In the daily life of the Second Municipal High School, you will witness a youth that cannot be turned back — a story destined to go somewhere.
The Company
The Company wants you productive. The Company wants you calm. The Company wants you compliant.
The Door in The Skybox
“The Door in The Skybox” is a third-person puzzle game about manipulating door frames to connect fragmented spaces. Featuring a surreal, dreamlike style inspired by 19th–20th century art, the game spans fifteen levels, each with a distinct visual identity.
Tavern Talk: Tempest Tantrum
A Tavern Talk story DLC
The TEAM game:Corgi&me
From a washed-up, obscure player to the star hitter of a... Welsh Corgi baseball team?! You made a wish on a Monkey's Paw, and now you must lead a team of cute but hopeless Corgi beastmen to a league championship to save your soul. Overcome failures, bend reality, and make your choice.
The Wilds of Dacrima: Field Notes from a Poorly Supervised Alchemist and his Unruly Clockwork Companion
Uncover the secrets of the forest in this tale of two unlikely friends, with alchemist Edric Tayte and L-P1N. Forage for weird and wonderful ingredients, brew Potions to empower you with potent abilities, and all the while discovering that this adventure isn't quite what it seems..
Uncle Lee’s Cookbook: Five Recipes for Disaster
Uncle Lee has done it again. It’s up to you to pick up the pieces. Join rebellious teen Ines as she deals with the fallout of her uncle Lee’s experiments/inventions/cooking, in a modern point & click adventure in five self-contained episodes.
Warfront Vanguard
An action-packed tower defense where you face waves of enemies with unique strengths and weaknesses. Build and upgrade towers, adapt your strategy, and overcome increasingly powerful enemies in a dynamic mix of action and strategy.
TAXI BOY for GameBoy-GameBoyColor by PCNONOGames
The best arcade game is now on the portable console in your collection
World-Wide Warp
The Earth has broken into pieces, now it's up to the W.T.A reps from around the globe to restore the Earth back together