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Rytmik Studio Rytmik Studio is a music creation software based around a beautifully simple, yet wonderfully powerful concept. It’s flexible, instant and fun. Create a basic melody in a few steps, compose a great song in a few minutes, and show your musical flare with a whole range of instruments and effects.

Price 28.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Nov 2017
Computer Tycoon Computer Tycoon is a fairly complex Business Grand Strategy game about Computer Evolution. Start in the 70s, invent until 2034, create the best computer systems, upgrade your infrastructure, lead a team, and alter computer history! It is time to "Think Different"

Price -12% 14.89€
Rating 8.1
Release 12 Oct 2017
openCanvas 7 openCanvas is a painting software dedicated to Windows Operating System, that is suitable to beginners to advanced users. Equipped with analog-like brush strokes and functional yet user-friendly interface, openCanvas has the higher basic performance and the unique "Event" function that enables to record and replay the drawing...

Price 50.20€
Rating 7.3
Release 20 Sep 2017
RutonyChat RutonyChat is a program for receiving messages from chats and notifications from various streaming sites. A faithful assistant to the streamer and video blogger who wants to spice up or spruce up their content.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 19 Sep 2016
FireAlpaca SE FireAlpaca SE is painting software for Windows/Mac that has evolved as a higher brand of the regular version of FireAlpaca. We provide a professional creative environment where your creativity can be visualized immediately.

Price -20% 29.59€
Rating 8.6
Release 22 May 2016
Marmoset Hexels 3 Marmoset Hexels™ is a grid-based painting tool for vector art, pixel art, design, and animation. A geometric canvas grid lets artists create complex pixel and vector designs with the stroke of a brush.

Price 19.00€
Rating 8.5
Release 15 Feb 2016
Black Ink Explore Black Ink, a GPU-based painting app redefining creativity. Move beyond traditional tools, customize brushes, and let your imagination soar. Node-based system offers limitless control. Create in high-definition without performance loss.

Price 33.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 08 Feb 2016
Rytmik Ultimate Rytmik is a powerful music station allowing you not only to play with samples and musical instruments but also to mix them together, shape them and create music clips or whole songs for your Friday night set-list.

Price 17.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 10 Dec 2015
Driver Booster 3 for STEAM Driver Booster 3 for STEAM, as a powerful & easy-to-use driver updater, provides 1-click solution to rapidly & securely update drivers including the outdated, missing and faulty ones. Moreover, game components and game-related drivers are supported for enhanced gaming experience.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 28 Oct 2015
RPG Maker 2003 For the first time ever, RPG Maker 2003 is officially available in English! This legendary game development engine is both highly affordable and easy to use, and it remains one of the most popular RPG Maker installments to date.

Price -95% 1.11€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Apr 2015
TyranoBuilder Visual Novel Studio The EASIEST and FASTEST tool to make your own multi-platform visual novels! Quickly create your own games for Windows / MacOS / iOS / Android / HTML5 / CSS3, even if you know nothing about game programming or scripting!

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 Mar 2015
Spriter Pro Spriter makes it easy for anyone, regardless of experience, to create 2D game animations using a technique called Modular Animation. Individual sprite pieces can be attached to bones and then easily animated with the powerful, yet easy to use toolset.

Price 54.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 14 Nov 2014
openCanvas 6 openCanvas is a painting software dedicated to Windows Operating System, that is suitable to beginners to advanced users. Equipped with analog-like brush strokes and functional yet user-friendly interface, openCanvas has the higher basic performance and the unique "Event" function that enables to record and replay the drawing...

Price 45.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Sep 2014
Manga Maker Comipo Make your own manga with ComiPo! The next gen manga software! Quickly make your own unique stories and situations simply by choosing 3D characters, poses, and all the other necessary items (background, bubbles ...) out of hundreds provided with ComiPo!

Price 48.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 07 Mar 2014
Leadwerks Game Engine 5 Learn, Build, and Play with an all-new update that makes game development easier than ever. Dive into our video tutorials and learn everything you need to bring your ideas to life. Create with ease using our intuitive visual editor and Lua script. Publish your projects with a royalty-free license.

Price -60% 19.59€
Rating 6.8
Release 06 Jan 2014

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