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Pulse Wings cover

Pulse Wings

By ShortPlay Studio

Dodge missiles and beat bosses in this endless arcade mash-up!

arcade

House Rules cover

House Rules

By dalichrome

Think you know chess? Forget some of that. Rulehouse is a pawn chess adventure where every stage rewrites the game.

puzzle

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Blissfully Unaware

By 0FreshBean

Make sure nothing goes wrong as a new player stumbles through a platformer...

platformer

Little Slime Blows Up cover

Little Slime Blows Up

By Jimmy C

A game about a growing and shrinking slime that just wants to collect some stars. Won the GMTK Game Jam 2024!

arcade

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ORB inc.

By BoneSheep

Welcome to ORB inc.

puzzle

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Scale Mail

By legoliomanikas

Dragon inventory management game!

puzzle

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Scalable

By Sharuu

Control a robot through a lab where you can enlarge and shrink everything! Explore the rooms and solve the puzzles!

puzzle

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Powderpath

By Lizardlike

A puzzle game about a person made of gunpowder

puzzle

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UVSU

By dietzribi

Outsmart yourself

puzzle

5 min without TV ! cover

5 min without TV !

By Les Gros Shlags

Stack objects to build a tower and place the antenna on top. Quick the show starts in five minutes!

puzzle

SUPER GIMBAL! cover

SUPER GIMBAL!

By Videozax

A Puzzle-Platformer taking place inside a game engine!?

platformer

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FIREHOSE

By Grobaworks

Burn down as much as you can with your trusty fire hose!

shooter

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STAHLWALD

By Justin1L8

Crush other machines, destroy planets, and scale till the galaxy itself is dwarfed by the Steel Forest.

arcade

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Purrfect Disaster

By liberato

Sometimes things go wrong, but that's no reason to get upset

arcade

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Bloccy

By ScottTheDev

Puzzle, Scale, Grow, Match

platformer

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Meep Machine

By rnsf

GMTK Game Jam 2024 - Built to Scale

puzzle

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Quack Attack

By HatWorm

It's Duck Hunt, but YOU are ducks.

shooter

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Trust Me Bro

By AAA Gaming Company

Cause mayhem, destroy public property, and maybe even find true love.

narrative

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EveryWare is Fine

By Bijoy K

Can you beat the clock as you pack the incoming flurry of orders at EveryWare? Remember... Nothing Can Go Wrong.

arcade

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re:scale

By Yogosoft

re:scale is a retro styled puzzle platformer with a unique scaling twist.

platformer

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Reversal Rooms

By TaelsDaFoox

Reverse the roles of the controls!

platformer

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PortalSnake

By bcat112a

Use Portals to solve puzzles

puzzle

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Trellis

By pixelrobin

Cozy game about growing up a building as a plant.

sim

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ARROWHEAD

By Sophie M

In ARROWHEAD, the bow shoots YOU!

platformer

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Wrong File

By flavedogame

Winner of Brackeys 2025.1

sim

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ÑAMTO

By Niko

Poop factory sandbox!

puzzle

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Picture Perfect

By Incredulous Interactive

A cozy puzzle game about forced perspective

puzzle

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NULL RUSH!

By Tulsonic

Count down to zero in this roguelike deckbuilder!

strategy

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Collapsing Tower

By ShortPlay Studio

See how high you can climb the tower while growing to the beat in this chill puzzle game. The floor slowly crumbles beneath you so don’t wait too long for your next move. You can move the number of spaces equal to the tile you stand on. When you move off a tile, that tile, and several tiles above it equal to the difficulty level multiplied by the tile’s number will be destroyed. You can wrap around the sides of the map, top-bottom, left-right. Green tiles highlight the available options. You lose if you run out of time or available moves. How high can you climb?

puzzle

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DEXFUSAL

By M3zik

Defuse bombs & drive with ONE HAND

reflex

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LedgePainter

By Charlie_Wagner

[EN] Guide the player to success!

puzzle

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Rotocube

By Leonhard Kohl-Lörting

Problem-solving puzzle with cubes.

strategy

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11:59

By Max Waldman

It's all due in 10 minutes!

arcade

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Downhill Dragons

By ShortPlay Studio

The Frost Troll has stolen a backpack full of dragon eggs and is waddling for his cave at the bottom of the mountain. Catch him! One button is all you need: hold to tuck and speed down the slopes, let go to launch off the hills, and tap to flap through the air. Your dragon breathes fire automatically. Stay close to the troll to burn him and shake the eggs loose. Dodge bats bursting out of the oak trees, icicles from the ice towers' evil birds, and goblin archers in their wooden forts, then torch the goblin guards at the cave mouth in a rainbow FIRESTORM when your flames join together. Play alone or with up to 4 players on one screen: a couch game made for families. All of the art was drawn by kids, on paper, and brought to life as paper cutouts.

action

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1 2 3 D

By Krias

Let's count down! 3D , 2.5D , 2D. . . 1D?

puzzle

Snake

By ShortPlay Studio

How long can you grow?

arcade

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Word Worm

By Ben James

Where big words will get you further

puzzle

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Dart 07

By Beetroot Paul

A scrolling shooter, built with PICO-8

shooter

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Oshi-Oshi!

By ShortPlay Studio

Shove your opponents out of the ring in this mascot themed sumo fighter!

fighting

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Lily Hopper

By Bladaa

A cozy game about hopping across lilypads

arcade

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Veggie Brawl

By the.rozen.tal

Bid on the best vegetables to win the Farmers Tournament!

strategy

Echo

By ShortPlay Studio

Build your own retro loops while remembering the pattern

rhythm

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Himegotchi

By Golen

Don't let the princess escape! Mobile friendly.

arcade

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Galaxy Hopper

By vidarn

On a space ship, something's always breaking

puzzle

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Car Escape

By SMYGames

Tap, drive, and match cars without crashing in this smart garage puzzle!

puzzle

There, happy! cover

There, happy!

By Thibaud Ligneul

Your therapist shares a little bit too much, can YOU help them?

narrative

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Combo Pool

By NuSan

A game about colliding and merging balls

puzzle

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Axion Rift

By Celronthegreat studio

A fast-paced top-down space shooter dodge asteroids, battle alien fleets upgrade your ship and unlock 30+ achievements.

action

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Failed State

By VoltekPlay

Politics, power, and a nation on the brink.

sim

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Pocket Broomball

By Simon Dalvai

The world's first Broomball video game with 100+ real teams

sports

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Gravitorque

By nikalego

Solve challenging problems and collect ship parts in this gravitational puzzle platformer!

puzzle

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The Last Word

By Mike Ren

Get closure with your ex... or at least get the last word.

arcade

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Squareworld

By Letipas

One button puzzle action game

puzzle

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PolyTrack

By Kodub

A high speed low-poly racing game.

runner

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Bikosaur

By Sleeping Panda

Help Rex to feed his family by collecting steaks

platformer

Z Bird cover

Z Bird

By enotofil

An arcade game about a bird jumping on cubes.

action

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Of Honey And Bees

By random-state-machine

A short, narrative adventure about harvesting honey and not getting eaten.

adventure

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Konkr.io

By Embair

Expand your kingdom, build up your economy, crush your enemies, then crush your allies too!

puzzle

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Moss Moss

By Noel Cody

Moss the world and find secrets (PICO-8).

puzzle

Rect! - A Shikaku Puzzle cover

Rect! - A Shikaku Puzzle

By shifty1013

A calm, satisfying Shikaku puzzle game. Divide the grid into rectangles — one number, one rect, perfect fit.

puzzle

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Vena

By Leonhard Kohl-Lörting

Hexagonal tile laying, roguelike

strategy

Yolka cover

Yolka

By enotofil

Snow battles on procedural 2D terrain

action

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Kilimanjaro

By Sleeping Colossus

Game Jam Submission

puzzle

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Netherworld Heroes

By enotofil

Fast-paced turn-based strategy game with tactical variety

strategy

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Ascent

By Johan Peitz

Explore a mysterious planet and uncover its secrets.

platformer

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Doomslinger Dungeon

By playinstinct

A first-person dungeon-crawling rougue-lite shooter for the Game Boy.

shooter

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Veggie Combo

By Achie

Movement puzzle game, where you use your tool to best aligh the farm and then harvest sweet sweet combo points.

puzzle

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Debriz

By ishmaru

Fight legions of rogue war bots, as you piece together who you are and what happened to this world.

shooter

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The Golden Caravan

By huevoquilmes

Embark on a high-stakes adventure in this Poker Roguelite game, where strategy and luck intertwine.

rpg

Only One cover

Only One

By Ismael Rodriguez

For Game Maker's Toolkit Game Jam - Theme = "Only One"

shooter

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Heads Or Tails

By arham_5109

A physics-based rage platformer about a coin escaping a magical wishing well.

puzzle

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PAKU PAKU

By ABA Games

1D Pac-Man PAKU PAKU: Outsmart Monsters in a Single Dimension

arcade

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Rail Rogue

By Nangi

Solve puzzles and collect the chests

arcade

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Six Cats Under

By Team Bean Loop

You died. Your unfinished business? The fate of your many cats!

puzzle

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Last Rampart

By Quiétude

Defend against the monsters' onslaught!

strategy

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Northburg

By Bill

A settlement-building game mixed with tower defense aspects, protect your valuables from the invaders!

strategy

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Margin Racers

By viktorgudkov

Race an AI rival across a doodled school notebook.

racing