
Don't Starve
Don't Starve drops gentleman scientist Wilson into a strange wilderness run by a demon, where you gather, craft, farm, hunt and fight to stay alive.
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Don't Starve drops gentleman scientist Wilson into a strange wilderness run by a demon, where you gather, craft, farm, hunt and fight to stay alive. No guidance, no second chances: every randomly generated world wants you dead, and learning its rules is the fun.
Also in Survival crafting · Atmospheric, Dark, Tense
Explore the corners of a surrealistic post-human world to give life on Earth a second chance in this touching story about sacrifice and hope.
Atmospheric, Dark, Surreal
A solitary descent into a forbidden isle, where procedural labyrinths hide traps, monsters and a mystery the game refuses to explain. Manage hunger, thirst and a single precious lantern, fight with care, and see how far down you can get before the dark takes it all back.
Atmospheric, Dark, Tense
Welcome to the Deep: Pixelart platformer indie game located deep inside caves. You are a cave explorer who accidentally falls in a pit which leads to a big cave system. After some exploration, you find remains of an old civilization that used to live there and decide to explore it a little further.
Tense, Retro
A silent drifter with a deadly illness walks a ruined, vividly beautiful world. Hyper Light Drifter is a tough top-down action RPG where the story is told in images, not words, and every fight asks you to learn its rhythm. Explore, find secrets, upgrade, and piece together what happened here.
Also in Soulslike · Atmospheric, Dark, Tense
A dense pixel-art labyrinth full of strange creatures and secrets. No combat, no hand holding: you explore, experiment with odd tools that all have hidden uses, and slowly uncover layers of puzzles that go far deeper than the credits. Cute and unsettling at the same time, and quietly brilliant.
Atmospheric, Dark, Tense
Crash-land on a hostile planet, hunt for a teleporter and get out before the clock buries you. Every minute makes enemies stronger, every item stacks into glorious mayhem, and death is permanent. A pixel-art action roguelike with a soundtrack that outlives most games, playable alone or with three friends.
Tense, Retro
Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?
Also in Survival crafting · Tense, Surreal, Retro
You are about to get on a journey around small planet-like worlds as if you were in the Little Prince's world. However, these ones are filled with monsters that are striving to kill you, deadly traps and riddles, which require you to be quick-witted and attentive.
Atmospheric, Dark, Tense
REDO! is a game about a girl trying to find another human in a dystopian world overrun by biomachines. It's a lonely and evocative game about exploring the unknown and overcoming obstacles to see what is left.
Atmospheric, Dark, Tense
A lonely boy runs through a grey, hostile world with nothing but a cat and his hope. Seen is a short 2.5D puzzle platformer that mixes runner sections with quiet environmental puzzles, minimalist shapes, a strong soundtrack and a story that hits harder than its simple look suggests. Sad, strange and over far too soon.
Atmospheric, Dark, Tense
An ongoing apocalyptic meteor shower has forced the world’s population to settle underground. As Shell, a feline child who awakens to find her mother missing, drill downward from the surface layer through a tile-based underground and discover the Everdeep.
Atmospheric, Dark, Surreal

Don't Starve drops gentleman scientist Wilson into a strange wilderness run by a demon, where you gather, craft, farm, hunt and fight to stay alive.

Fight through a vivid ruined land, read its story in images, and learn each battle's rhythm the hard way.

Fight through a hostile alien world where every minute raises the stakes and every item makes you stronger.

Wander a strange little labyrinth, poke at odd tools and find out how deep the puzzles really go.

Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic…

A lonely boy runs through a grey, hostile world with nothing but a cat and his hope.

You are about to get on a journey around small planet-like worlds as if you were in the Little Prince's world.

REDO! is a game about a girl trying to find another human in a dystopian world overrun by biomachines.

An ongoing apocalyptic meteor shower has forced the world’s population to settle underground.

Survive blizzards and night creatures in a procedurally generated wilderness, building a sanctuary alone or with up to six players.

Echo of the Wilds is a puzzly narrativy adventure, featuring randomised wilderness survival. Explore and survive this mysterious tale of wilds.

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

Descend an alien planet's caves as an expendable test subject, patching wounds and crafting tools to survive each layer.

Darwin is a clever little octopus yanked from the ocean into a vast industrial complex, and he wants out.

Survive blizzards and night creatures in a procedurally generated wilderness, building a sanctuary alone or with up to six players.

An ongoing apocalyptic meteor shower has forced the world’s population to settle underground.

Stars vanished from the sky and scattered across a perfect endless wetland...

Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.

Cross a ruined world by learning its secrets, not by collecting powers, and find out what you are.

From the creators of Golf Club Nostalgia and Highwater. Return to their whimsical, neon-lit apocalypse in a Jungle Book meets The Armageddon fusion.

Explore the corners of a surrealistic post-human world to give life on Earth a second chance in this touching story about sacrifice and hope.

After a science experiment gets out of control, you need to survive and escape this dark prison that hides weird secrets.

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

HAAK is a hand-drawn metroidvania set in a sunken cyber-wasteland.

Descend an alien planet's caves as an expendable test subject, patching wounds and crafting tools to survive each layer.

Cross a ruined world by learning its secrets, not by collecting powers, and find out what you are.

Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.

Explore the haunting, dreamlike fantasy world of BEFORE I GO, a punishing Metroidvania where you embody the innocence of an inner child on an…

Darwin is a clever little octopus yanked from the ocean into a vast industrial complex, and he wants out.

Survive blizzards and night creatures in a procedurally generated wilderness, building a sanctuary alone or with up to six players.

An ongoing apocalyptic meteor shower has forced the world’s population to settle underground.

A uniquely stylised survival-horror adventure game. Explore a dying world, averting enemies, managing your resources, and solving puzzles.

Dive into the strange town of Rainybrook, taken over by the “Vile” in this 2.5D metroidvania!

Genopanic is a pixel-art, Metroidvania-inspired adventure-platformer.

Wander a strange little labyrinth, poke at odd tools and find out how deep the puzzles really go.

From the creators of Golf Club Nostalgia and Highwater. Return to their whimsical, neon-lit apocalypse in a Jungle Book meets The Armageddon fusion.