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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch? Nobody on board remembers her ever existing in the first place - nobody, except for you. Uncover the story in this mystery adventure game!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 Nov 2025
The Use of Life The Use of Life is a multi-ending adventure book style JRPG. The main character’s various attachments change in accordance with the choices the player makes, and the ending changes depending on “the use of life” you choose through your journey.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 Nov 2025
Cowboy Life Simulator “Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!

Price -69% 5.80€
Rating 8.6
Release 26 Nov 2025
Alice's World Alice's World is a story-driven 2D adventure puzzle game. Amidst desolate ruins and deserted cities in a world filled with death, the young girl Alice hears "your" voice from in front of the screen. You must guide her forward, solve the mysteries, and reach the top of the tower.

Price 13.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 Nov 2025
Captain Wayne - Vacation Desperation Captain Wayne is an intense, fast-action Retro Shooter about a sailor with a SHOTGUN for an ARM!! With a cartoony, hand-drawn art style and gory gameplay, you'll have to mow down enemies through 8 action-packed locales to take back what's yours. ARE YOU READY TO RAISE ANCHOR?

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.2
Release 25 Nov 2025
Repel The Rifts Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.

Price -37% 8.19€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Nov 2025
Abandoned Archive Abandoned Archive is a fantasy, spell-casting, rogue-like, featuring a wide variety of relics, a unique spell-upgrading system, with compelling and engaging bosses. Each floor is filled with items and mysteries for the player to uncover; what will you discover in the Abandoned Archive?

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Nov 2025
Cross Blitz Cross Blitz is a unique RPG deckbuilder featuring fast-paced tactical combat with loads of cards to collect and synergies to wield. Explore, level up, craft new cards and build the perfect decks as you carve your own path to victory!

Price -70% 7.01€
Rating 7.1
Release 24 Nov 2025
Maktala: Slime Lootfest An incremental game where you kill hordes of slimes and use their loot to become stronger and farm them. Collect powerful loot, master skills, and uncover tons of content.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 21 Nov 2025
SIDE EFFECTS A twisted trial of pill roulette for up to 4 players (solo or online). Pick your poison. Use experimental items to shift the odds. And remember: only one of you can survive.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 21 Nov 2025
Marisa!ReturnTheBook! Gensoukyo is a 2D top-down game set up for the stage. In the peaceful and tranquil Gensoukyo, a little girl with yellow hair who likes to borrow books everywhere has aroused Alice's anger. Therefore, she calls on everyone in Gensoukyo to gather in front of Marisa's house for a battle!!!!

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Nov 2025
Military Incremental Complex Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.0
Release 21 Nov 2025
Fallen Priestess: My Sister's Demonic Bloodline Embark on a thrilling quest to defeat the Demon King and save Trina from the curse of her demon blood. Protect her from those who seek to corrupt and steal her from you. Conquer dungeons, battle dangerous foes, and master unique Synthesis skills in this intense adventure!

Price 17.49€
Rating 6.8
Release 21 Nov 2025
IT Specialist Simulator Step into the world of IT! Diagnose network issues, manage servers, and repair devices while handling tasks under strict SLAs. Choose your career path, from HelpDesk to IT Project Manager. Develop real IT knowledge and climb the ranks in this realistic IT simulation!

Price 13.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 20 Nov 2025
Cursed Companions If we say the wrong words... WE DIE! This game kills you with your own voices! Online co-op where everyone gets a forbidden word, say it and you kill your friends. Explore spooky dungeons, cast spells and defeat monsters with your voices.

Price 8.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 20 Nov 2025
Roboquest VR The future is in flames, overrun by ruthless machines—but you’re built to fight back. Roboquest VR is a lightning-fast roguelite FPS where speed, firepower, and reflexes are your best weapons. Adapt, survive, and reboot the future!

Price 25.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 20 Nov 2025
Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked A cooperative tactical RPG set in the D&D universe. Embark on a fantasy tabletop adventure. Your quest, on your schedule.

Price 28.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 20 Nov 2025
Xenopurge Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat. Operate from a remote command center, issuing indirect orders via multi-screen interfaces. Plan routes, set priorities, and adapt as missions escalate and feel the true weight of being in command.

Price -53% 5.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Nov 2025
CURE - A Hospital Simulator Manage an ER during the apocalypse, solo or with friends online: diagnose patients, design and grow your hospital, and defend against the undead while treating the living. Integrate with Twitch chat for even more fun!

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 20 Nov 2025
Berserk B.I.T.S Berserk B.I.T.S is an idle-rpg, auto-battler, chip-collecting game that runs on your desktop. Let your B.I.T do battle and collect items. Collect rare chips and build your deck! Customize and Level up to take down intense Virus bosses as you unravel the mysteries behind the attacks on the Net.

Price 6.89€
Rating 7.8
Release 20 Nov 2025
Ultimate Zombie Defense 2 4-player co-op, zombie slaying, base building, boss battling mayhem! Cleanse the infected wave by wave and upgrade your base with traps & defenses in Ultimate Zombie Defense 2!

Price -88% 1.25€
Rating 7.2
Release 20 Nov 2025
Crusaders Quest : Mini Meet Little Friends on the PC with Crusaders Quest : Mini (CQ:Mini)! You can work and study During the game, Crusader Quest's warriors fought hard and saved the Hasla continent You're leaving. You can collect the original warriors and costumes just for this game, too. Let go of your boredom

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 19 Nov 2025
Brush Burial: Gutter World A murky first-person immersive sim with tightly-wound melee combat and tangled, vertical levels to explore. Use your forked tail to tie your enemies in knots and climb impossible heights. Kill your mark with quickness and cunning, using whatever tools you see fit.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.9
Release 19 Nov 2025
Penelope Pendrick and the Art of Deceit Pick up your magnifying glass as writer-turned-detective Penelope Pendrick in this first-person point and click mystery adventure! Three people have suddenly vanished from the sleepy town of Carlisle. Follow the clues, interrogate suspects, and solve puzzles to end this case - before it ends you.

Price 24.50€
Rating 9.0
Release 19 Nov 2025
Wretch: Divine Ascent A 1v1 tactical auto battler game with elements of roguelike mechanics and backpack management in a dark medieval art style. It was inspired by Backpack Battles and developed with Unreal Engine. Create your own unique attack combos by arranging items in your backpack to connect moves.

Price -57% 6.43€
Rating 7.5
Release 19 Nov 2025
SkyBrew: Entropic Strategist Experience entrepreneurship in a floating cloud cafe. Manage your flying cafe, customize construction, train staff, handle random events, and uncover the secrets of the commercial empire, growing from a small shop to the sky's brightest star.

Price 17.49€
Rating 7.3
Release 19 Nov 2025
Neon Inferno NYC 2055: a city beyond salvation. Blast your way through this dense cyberpunk jungle in NEON INFERNO, an explosive fusion of 2D run-and-gun and gallery-shooter, and help the Family dominate its streets!

Price -20% 15.60€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Nov 2025
Asbury Pines A grisly mystery in a small town unfolds across centuries through the stories of its residents. Orchestrate their work, grow resources, upgrade skills, and create automated production loops between past and future eras. All to uncover a sprawling secret embedded in the flow of time.

Price 12.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Nov 2025
Demonschool Demonschool is a new-style tactics RPG where motion equals action. Defeat big weirdos in between the human and demon worlds as Faye and her misfit companions, while navigating university life on a mysterious island.

Price 21.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 19 Nov 2025
Girls' Frontline As a Commander for Griffin & Kryuger PMC. Navigate faction power struggles, deploy forces strategically, and work to restore order in a war-torn world.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 18 Nov 2025
Kingdoms of the Dump A SNES styled JRPG set in a fantasy world of garbage, created by two janitors. Join Trash Can Knight, Dustin Binsley, as he fights his way through the Five and a Half Kingdoms of the Dump!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Nov 2025
Sektori Sektori is an intense, fast paced twin-stick shooter infused with hard hitting techno music. A game where the high-adrenaline gameplay, visuals, and music come together to transport you into another state of consciousness.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 18 Nov 2025
Morsels Morsels is a fast-paced creature collecting roguelite with a rotating roster of characters to switch between at will. Overcome a clique of killer cats as you fight your way out of the sewers in this unique, action-packed journey.

Price -47% 8.03€
Rating 7.3
Release 18 Nov 2025
Storebound A 1-3 co-op puzzle horror game. Lost in an accursed megastore, work together to find the exit before its lurking horrors trap you forever.

Price -66% 2.79€
Rating 7.5
Release 17 Nov 2025
Sheepherds! Sheepherds! is a cozy co-op party game for 1–4 players, where you and your sheepdog buddies guide colorful flocks through beautiful landscapes to collect their wool. There's no time limit: bark, run, and play together — or take on challenges to win even more rewards!

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 17 Nov 2025
Forestrike Forestrike is a martial arts roguelite where every death brings you closer to winning the fight before it begins. Use your ‘Foresight’ ability to experiment without consequences before fighting for real until earning the ultimate reward - victory without ‘Foresight’.

Price -31% 6.91€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Nov 2025

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Whether you're looking for a new game to play with friends, a single-player experience that will keep you entertained for hours, or something in between, we're sure you will find something you'll love.