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Shadows of the Afterland

Shadows of the Afterland

May 5, 2026 • Rated T

Madrid, 1960. A chilling incident unfolds at the city's old zoo, leading to a mysterious death that propels a soul to the threshold between the world of the living and the afterlife. But when the transition goes awry, the soul arrives with the memories of Carolina, one of the pioneers of the Madrid police force, who has not yet been born. Step into Carolina's shoes and immerse yourself in a detective mystery to unravel the enigma shrouding these events. Explore the wacky realm of the afterlife, teeming with unique characters and with its own rules. In your quest for the truth, you join forces with César, an elusive former ghost agent. Persuade this enigmatic ally to accompany you on a transformative journey to confront the sinister forces lurking in the world of the living. As you gain César’s trust, you'll have to solve tricky point-and-click puzzles, harness the power of magic, navigate between worlds and even possess the living.

Wax Heads

Wax Heads

Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!

Chorus of Carcosa

Chorus of Carcosa is a psychological horror game inspired by the classic horror fiction of 'The King in Yellow' collection by R. W. Chambers. You play as a sculptor who is forced to abandon his place of comfort one night, when a blood-soaked neighbor knocks on his door. Stay silent, survive its twisted labyrinths and escape the monsters. Just don’t lose your way in the shadows or within your own mind.

Duck Side of the Moon

Duck Side of the Moon

May 7, 2026 • Rated E

Waddle and fly as a duck in space! Explore every corner of the galaxy and find curious creatures and materials along the way. Craft gadgets, upgrade your spaceship, and get cozy in this relaxing adventure.

Blackspot: The Card Game

Blackspot: The Card Game

Blackspot is a fast paced pirate card duel where every decision could make you a legend or send you to the bottom of the sea. Draw your card. Read your enemy. Then choose to play it straight, run a bluff, or throw down a taunt. One wrong read and your streak is gone, but walk away too early and you will never know what you left on the table. Quick, tense duels resolve in seconds with a single bold choice. Face dangerous opponents with distinct personalities, from the sloppy Drunkard to the ruthless Captain. Endless Arcade mode lets you build your streak, spend your gold, and survive as long as you dare. Challenge Mode offers progressive trials that teach the ropes and push your limits. Deep meta progression allows you to earn Notoriety, unlock relics, cosmetics, and permanent advantages across every run. The Black Spot raises the stakes. Draw the Ace of Spades and you cannot run. You must win or die trying.

Akuma Rise

Akuma Rise

May 7, 2026 • Rated T

Set in the demon realm of Adribune, this story-driven JRPG follows Kaine, a demon who awakens with no memories after washing ashore on a remote island. With the Overlord gone, rival nations clash and heroes from the Radiant Realm invade, seeking to dominate the Shadow Realm. Joined by three demon princesses and a strange mascot, Kaine searches for fragments of his lost past while fighting to protect a world on the brink of collapse. Featuring classic turn-based RPG gameplay, battles play out in a side-view command system that rewards strategy and timing. Equip and grow magical orbs to learn powerful skills, unlock new abilities, and customize your party. Each character also wields unique POW skills that can turn the tide of battle when used at the right moment. With deep progression, charming companions, and nostalgic JRPG flair, this fantasy RPG delivers a satisfying experience for fans of turn-based battle games.

Lost Twins 2

Lost Twins 2

May 7, 2026 • Rated E

Lost Twins 2 is an incredibly cute puzzle adventure that will challenge, entertain and maybe even inspire you. Guide Abi and Ben on their journey to find a way back home across a whimsical polygonal playground crafted with an enormous amount of care. Team up in co-op mode and solve puzzles together! Work with a friend to swap tiles, activate mechanisms, and overcome obstacles as you guide Abi and Ben toward their long-awaited reunion. Whether playing solo or cooperatively, the journey is one of exploration, creativity, and heartwarming moments.

Cozy Cat Cafe

Cozy Cat Cafe

Welcome to Cozy Cat Cafe, a relaxing and adorable management game where cute chibi cats run the coziest food businesses in town! Serve customers, earn money, and grow your tiny shop into a thriving cat business. Upgrade your counters, add tables and furniture, expand your space, improve production, and keep your customers happy as your profits grow. Hire adorable cat workers, unlock new features, and build the perfect team to help your business run smoothly. You can also improve your own character with useful upgrades to work faster and manage even more efficiently.

DRIFTCRAFT

Driftcraft drops you into a colourful, fully explorable sandbox where the only limits are your imagination and your fuel tank. Crash through the environment to harvest resources. Use what you collect to build, expand, and customise your world the way you want it. It's part racing game, part survival, part creative playground - and it's all yours. No multiplayer lobbies. No waiting. Just you, a ridiculous amount of vehicles, and a sandbox that grows as you do. Driftcraft is the solo experience that gives you total creative freedom - build big, drive fast, and leave your mark on every corner of the map.

Antique Backgammon

Antique Backgammon

Antique Backgammon is a classic board game that is easy to learn and enjoyable at your own pace. It is suitable for both quick sessions and more thoughtful play. The game includes two modes: short backgammon and long backgammon - choose the one you prefer. You can play against an AI with adjustable difficulty or share the device and play with someone else. Clean visuals, intuitive controls, and smooth gameplay keep the experience simple and comfortable. Just roll the dice and play whenever you like.

Island Survive Simulator - Craft, Build, Grow

Island Survive Simulator - Craft, Build, Grow

After a shipwreck leaves you stranded on a remote island, survival becomes your only goal. Surrounded by ocean and unknown terrain, you must quickly learn how to adapt and use the environment to your advantage. With no tools, no shelter, and limited resources, every step you take matters. You begin by gathering what you can, crafting simple items, and building a safe place to survive the day and night cycle. As you spend more time on the island, new opportunities appear. You improve your equipment, expand your shelter, and explore deeper into different areas. Managing resources and making the right choices becomes essential as you try to stay alive and progress. What starts as a basic survival challenge gradually turns into a full experience of building, growing, and creating your own system on the island.

To Farm Lands: Sowing Fields

Get ready to return to the farm in a relaxing puzzle that will win your heart. In To Farm Lands : Sowing Fields, adorable animals in unique shapes await your strategic touch to perfectly fill each grid. Explore 30 new levels across 3 charming biomes, where every stage brings a gentle and clever challenge. With no time limits and no pressure, you can play at your own pace, testing combinations, rotating pieces and finding the perfect fit in total calm. With cozy visuals, a peaceful atmosphere and irresistible nostalgic charm, To Farm Lands : Sowing Fields is the ideal choice for fans of cute puzzles that stimulate the mind while delivering pure relaxation. Observe, plan and complete each board to watch your farm take shape piece by piece.

Drift & Stunt Mania

Drift & Stunt Mania is your ultimate playground on wheels. Take the wheel of powerful muscle cars and lose yourself in a hand-crafted open world - from rolling British countryside roads to muddy off-road trails and bustling city streets packed with secrets to uncover. Before you hit the road, hit the garage. Tweak the engine, tune the suspension, swap the tyres, slap on a fresh coat of paint - your car is yours to build from the ground up. Every adjustment you make, you feel on the road. The handling is raw, responsive, and deeply satisfying. Out in the world, there are no rules. Chain massive drifts through hairpin turns, launch off ramps, pull off insane stunts, and leave tyre marks across every surface you can find. The world is wide open and every corner hides a new opportunity to go faster, fly higher, and look cooler doing it. The detail is what sets this apart. The light catching the mud on your bonnet. The way the chassis shakes over rough terrain. The growl of a tuned engine hitting full throttle on an empty road. Drift & Stunt Mania doesn't just look good - it feels alive.

Pa!nt

Pa!nt

Explore the colorful world of Pa!nt, a joyful puzzle game. Step into a new dimension of puzzles with Pa!nt! Embark on a unique journey within the pages of a notebook, guiding the main character, Moonie. Unleash your imagination, immerse yourself in the charm of colors, and solve a variety of puzzles, each crafted with various types of Gimmicks within the notebook's pages, in this vibrant world!

Haneda Girl

Haneda Girl

Haneda Girl is an action-platformer game with brutal and frantic action. Clean stages swapping between two playable characters. Bullets or Slashes, your choice, but be creative. A wide variety of ways to solve each encounter are at your disposal. Dance the waltz of destruction, end the threat.

Akita: Legends Squad

Akita: Legends Squad

Take the leap into a gravity-defying action adventure! Akita: Legends Squad brings the classic thrill of the 3D platformer genre to the Nintendo Switch with modern, high-speed movement mechanics and stunning environments. Take control of Akita, a brave hero equipped with high-tech thrusters, and navigate through a series of challenging floating islands. From freezing snow-capped peaks and mysterious ancient ruins to futuristic cloud cities, every world offers a unique visual spectacle and a fresh set of deadly obstacles. Master the art of mid-air hovering, dodge giant rolling boulders, manoeuvre through massive spinning gears, and solve intricate platforming puzzles.

Versebound

Slay hordes of enemies and fight mythical bosses in this challenging action roguelike. In a desperate fight for survival you must perform rituals, buildcraft and learn from every misstep to become stronger. Use unique abilities and powerful artifacts to beat every trial in the world of Kalevala!

Korean Drone Flying Tour Tapjeong Lake

Korean Drone Flying Tour Tapjeong Lake

This game is a drone simulation game that allows you to experience real drone flight based on footage shot by a real flying drone. There is no up, down, left or right direction control, only the control to increase or decrease the drone speed. You can also change the drone's flight mode from Normal, Sport, and Eco to any of the 3. Enjoy the beautiful scenery of Tapjeong Lake, Korea with "Real" footage!

Claim the Forest: Settling Peace

Claim the Forest: Settling Peace

Get ready to relax in Claim the Forest: Settling Peace, a cozy puzzle where your mission is to fill each board with adorable capybara-shaped pieces. They arrive peacefully on little boats along the river, and it’s up to you to pick them up, rotate them, and find the perfect fit to complete every space. Across 30 handcrafted levels, boards vary in size and shape, offering gentle challenges that unfold at a calm and pleasant pace. It’s the perfect experience for puzzle fans, casual players, and anyone who enjoys quiet moments alongside the forest’s cutest capybaras. Observe the pieces, plan each move, and watch harmony take shape as the forest comes to life, piece by piece.

Froggy Hates Snow

Froggy Hates Snow

A survival roguelike where a frog digs through freezing snow, uncovers treasures, unlocks upgrades, and battles mystical creatures. Find the escape door — or defeat the final boss to survive.

TetherGeist

TetherGeist

A challenging and heartfelt precision-platformer. Use powers of Astral Projection to complete a dangerous coming-of-age pilgrimage. Master tight controls, overcome challenges, and let your spirit guide you to the journey's end.

Decline's Drops

Decline's Drops

May 8, 2026 • Rated E10+

Decline's Drops is a beautiful hand-drawn 2D platform-brawler, in which you play as Globule, a wooden boxing-gloved Puppet who seeks revenge for her destroyed Garden. It brings the unique gameplay of famous platform-fighters (Super Smash Bros., Rivals of Aether...) and set in a solo colorful and melancholic adventure.

Codename: Black Crow

Codename: Black Crow

Aurora never had a choice. Raised on the battlefield as a child soldier, now the past is back. Codename: Black Crow combines the relentless pace of top-down arcade shooters with RPG progression and a personal, emotional story.

KILL IT WITH FIRE! 2

KILL IT WITH FIRE! 2

The one good thing about spiders used to be that they were an "Earth" problem. Now they've invaded the entire multiverse. But wherever there exist spiders, there exists those destined to face them down: The Exterminator. That's you, by the way, so strap in, take a deep breath and plunge headlong into one of these convenient interdimensional portals. Arachnophobia. The Game. The Sequel. Travel across the multiverse and exterminate every. last. spider. The world's funniest spider murdering is back with advancements in cutting-edge sci-fi tech to hunt down the arachnid menace once and for all.

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