Games for desktop and the browser. Where a game is paid, a free browser demo is usually on the same page. 53 products.
How these are made. Every CSAF product is made with AI. Each entry below repeats the AI disclosure exactly as its store page states it (for example "AI Assisted, Code, Graphics").
ANATOMIST is a Game Boy roguelike where a monster's shape is its stat block: 8,640 creatures drawn by a real 32 KB cartridge. The free browser demo on this page is floors 1 to 4, with no download and no account.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: analogue-pocket, dungeon-crawler, game-boy, gbdk, homebrew, permadeath, procedural, retro, roguelike, turn-based · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
In ANATOMIST you read them. In GRAFT you wear them. A real Game Boy cartridge (.gb ROM). The free browser demo is on this page: floors one to four, no download.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: dungeon-crawler, game-boy, gameboy, gbdk, homebrew, permadeath, procedural, retro, roguelike, turn-based · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
You are a charged particle. You cannot steer, you cannot thrust, and you cannot stop. The only thing you control is whether you are positive or negative.
Free · Tags: arcade, electricity, html5, magnets, minimalist, one-button, physics, polarity, score-attack, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
AUGUR is a vertical shoot 'em up for the browser in which every enemy is built from parts, and each part shows what it will fire. The first reach plays free on this page, and the full game is a paid download.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: 2d, arcade, bullet-hell, html5, pixel-art, procedural, retro, score-attack, shoot-em-up, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
You never move a knight. You plant a banner. Every knight on the field charges it at once, in a straight line, and does not stop until something stops them.
Free · Tags: grid-based, html5, knights, logic, medieval, short, singleplayer, tactics, turn-based · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
BOLTHOLE is a twin stick action adventure for Windows with a free browser demo: 27 rooms, five wardens and four seals in one barred keep. You move with one hand and aim every crossbow bolt with the other, while the dead fire back.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: action-adventure, boss-battle, bullet-hell, dungeon-crawler, fantasy, pixel-art, singleplayer, top-down, top-down-shooter, twin-stick-shooter · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
BONEFOLD is a top-down necromancer action game for Windows with a free browser demo: 12 rooms, 3 bosses and 13 kinds of foe that get up and fight for you.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: 2d, action-adventure, controller, dark-fantasy, necromancer, pixel-art, singleplayer, top-down, undead · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
You never choose an action. You choose where your four characters stand, continuously, while the fight is already running. What each of them does is decided by their rank and by who is standing beside them.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, dark-fantasy, fantasy, jrpg, pixel-art, real-time, singleplayer, strategy-rpg, tactical-rpg, top-down · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
COMPOSITOR is a Game Boy typesetting puzzle with 40 formes: push four lead sorts into the composing stick in the right order and the line reads. The first 8 are free in your browser.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: game-boy, gbdk, logic, pixel-art, procedural, retro, singleplayer, sokoban, typography · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
CRAQUELURE is a Game Boy Color game about catching forged paintings, with 64 generated panels and three lamps. Three lots play free in your browser right here.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: deduction, detective, game-boy, game-boy-color, gbc, gbdk, pixel-art, procedural, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
CSAF Pocket Anthology is 6 original Game Boy games as real 32 KB.gb ROMs, with a free demo of each one playable here in your browser. Run the full games in a Game Boy emulator or put them on a flash cartridge.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: analogue-pocket, collection, deduction, game-boy, gbdk, homebrew, pixel-art, retro, rom, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
You never see what happened. You see what it left behind.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: deduction, demake, game-boy, gbdk, geology, logic, pixel-art, retro, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
DOWNBEAT is a short rhythm action game for Windows, with a free demo you can play in your browser on this page: the first area, THE GREENWOOD, and its boss.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: 2d, boss-battle, controller, fantasy, music, pixel-art, short, singleplayer, top-down · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
Dowser is minesweeper with no numbers, in 15 fields and 3 digs. The first 4 fields are free in your browser. Nobody hands you a count here.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: 2d, archaeology, casual, deduction, logic, minesweeper, pixel-art, relaxing, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
String the festival lanterns through an old tree. Light every one with the fewest strings there are. Every fork of the tree holds a dark paper lantern.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: brain-teaser, game-boy, game-boy-color, gbdk, logic, math, pixel-art, relaxing, retro, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
GLASSWRIGHT is a stained glass workshop management game for Windows with a free browser demo: 12 commissions, one season and a shop you can lose. Each patron brings a brief, a budget and a deadline.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: art, atmospheric, generative, historical, management, medieval, procedural, relaxing, singleplayer, stained-glass · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
One village. One night. Every costume is a key. It is All Hallows' Eve in Hallow End, and the Midnight Man woke early. The dead are up out of the churchyard and they will not go back to bed until someone rings the church bell at midnight.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: action-adventure, ghosts, halloween, monsters, pixel-art, singleplayer, spooky, top-down, witch, zelda-like · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
HEADGATE is a time travel western in 17 places and 3 endings: a resurveyor re-stages 1873, and the present redraws. The first half is free in your browser.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, exploration, narrative, pixel-art, short, singleplayer, story-rich, time-travel, western · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
HEDGEMAGE is a short top-down wizard action game for Windows, with a free demo you can play in your browser on this page: the first area, THE RILL, and its boss.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: 2d, boss-battle, controller, fantasy, magic, pixel-art, singleplayer, top-down, wizards · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
HOLLOWAY is a top-down adventure on a hand-built highland: a sword, four tools and three barrows. Every new game reshuffles which chest holds which tool or key, and which barrow sits behind which mouth.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: action-adventure, boss-battle, dungeon-crawler, exploration, fantasy, pixel-art, randomizer, singleplayer, top-down, zelda-like · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
LAST CART OUT is a one-thumb HTML5 mine cart escape you play in the browser: six levels, 26 bends, and a mine coming down behind you. It is free, it runs on a phone with nothing to install, and a clean run takes a little over two minutes.
Free · Tags: arcade, driving, fast-paced, one-button, pixel-art, retro, short, singleplayer, speedrun, touch-friendly · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
Linguist of the Deep is a puzzle adventure: learn 18 glyphs of an alien language by watching a reef speak, across 7 zones. The first 3 zones are a free browser demo.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: 2d, atmospheric, exploration, metroidvania, mystery, pixel-art, science-fiction, singleplayer, top-down, underwater · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
LODESTONE is a cave descent platformer with 12 shafts and 12 marks, where the dungeon does what the stones you carry add up to. The first 4 shafts are free in your browser.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, cave, deduction, difficult, experimental, game-boy, physics, pixel-art, roguelite, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
Raise three windmills. A mill stays where you raise it. A farming parish needs its grain milled.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: farming, game-boy, logic, pixel-art, relaxing, retro, singleplayer, village · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
Clear every street. Double back as little as you can. It snowed all night. Before dawn you take the village's one plough out of the depot, and every street has to be clear by the time people wake up.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: cozy, driving, game-boy, logic, pixel-art, retro, singleplayer, snow, winter · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
NOCTUARY is a picross game for Windows with 66 plates, and each one you solve develops into a mounted moth specimen. Each specimen carries a Latin name and a catalogue number.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, cozy, generator, html5, nonogram, picross, pixel-art, procedural, relaxing, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
Something is in the room with you. You cannot fight it. You cannot leave. You can only name it, and to name it you have to work out what it is, in the dark, with a lamp that is burning down.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, dark, deduction, halloween, horror, html5, pixel-art, psychological-horror, short, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
PILOTAGE is a puzzle game with 40 anchorages: bring a fishing fleet home at dusk, every boat on a mooring of her own. Free in the browser for the first 10.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: boats, game-boy, logic, ocean, pixel-art, relaxing, retro, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
PLUMBLINE is a short metroidvania for Windows in 4 regions, with no keys, no upgrades and no items. The only thing that opens the way forward is what you learn.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: 2d, atmospheric, exploration, metroidvania, mystery, no-combat, pixel-art, procedural, short, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
PROOFMARK is a real 32 KB Game Boy deduction game: work out each day's hidden rule from 5,760 generated coins. The free browser demo is days one and two.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: analogue-pocket, deduction, demake, game-boy, logic, mystery, pixel-art, retro, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
Grow the roots. Share every path you can. A seed has landed in a meadow. Somewhere under it, pools of water sit in the soil between the clay and the stones.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: cozy, game-boy, gardening, logic, nature, pixel-art, plants, procedural, relaxing, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
ROSE ENGINE is a Game Boy arcade survival game with endless play: you stay alive inside a rose curve while the lathe cuts it around you. Six dials are free in your browser.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: analogue-pocket, arcade, game-boy, gbdk, generative, pixel-art, procedural, retro, score-attack, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
A tray of sealed packets of metal. Each one is stamped with what it weighs. Exactly one of them is lying. SCRUPLE is a Game Boy ROM containing forty assay problems.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: deduction, game-boy, gameboy, gbdk, logic, pixel-art, procedural, retro, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
An action RPG with no attack button. You cut a monster by running into it off centre or from behind. Meet it head on and you both take the blow. Play the free demo in your browser above.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: 2d, action-adventure, action-rpg, boss-battle, fantasy, pixel-art, retro, short, singleplayer, top-down · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
Lead a skein of geese south through one night. You start alone in the dusk. Somewhere in the clouds the others are calling. Find them, one by one, and bring them into the line.
Free · pay what you want · Tags: atmospheric, birds, emotional, flying, music, nature, pixel-art, relaxing, short, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
Your savings are a snowball. Your debt is an avalanche. Steer one working life, from 22 to 67, down one mountain. The snowball is your savings, and it grows on its own as it rolls: that is compound interest, and you can watch it happen.
Free · Tags: arcade, casual, finance, game-jam, money, pixel-art, short, singleplayer, snow · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
SOUNDER is a Game Boy railway game with 12 night shifts: you are the operator at a small telegraph office, keying orders before two trains meet. The first 2 shifts are free in your browser.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: analogue-pocket, game-boy, gbdk, homebrew, keyboard, morse-code, pixel-art, railway, retro, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
STRAYWOOD is a puzzle game with 40 woods: fly a witch on her broom and carry every lost kitten home, three at a time. Free in the browser for the first 10.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: cats, cozy, cute, game-boy, halloween, logic, pixel-art, relaxing, retro, witch · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
Stringline is a castle whodunit in 15 cases, where every clue is a line you draw. The first 3 cases are free in your browser. Crossbow bolts are stuck in the walls of Castle Harrowgate and nobody saw the bow.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: 2d, castle, deduction, detective, logic, medieval, mystery, pixel-art, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
THE BRASS ORRERY is a turn based RPG where you build a fighter by closing shapes in a five pointed star: 16 nodes, 18 classes, no menu. Strength, Toughness, Agility, Resistance, Spirit sit at the five points.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, character-customization, fantasy, html5, monsters, procedural, singleplayer, steampunk, tactical-rpg, turn-based · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
You start at level 99 and the game takes it away. You go down the cairn at full strength. Everyone does, because the stair only opens for someone who has something to set down.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, dark-fantasy, difficult, jrpg, pixel-art, replay-value, singleplayer, story-rich, turn-based · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
The Turning Year is a puzzle adventure with 4 lands and one dial that turns the world through 4 seasons: ice is a bridge, flood a road, drought a door.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, exploration, html5, metroidvania, no-combat, pixel-art, seasons, singleplayer, top-down · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
TINDERBOX is a top-down firefighting action game for Windows with a free browser demo: seven burning buildings, 40 people and 11 animals to get out. You are the fire warden of an old timber town with a barrel of water on your back.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: 2d, arcade, controller, fire, firefighter, pixel-art, singleplayer, top-down · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
WARDLOCK is a logic puzzle game on a real Game Boy ROM with 48 warded locks, each shipped with its proven fewest moves. Play the first 16 free in your browser on this page.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: analogue-pocket, demake, game-boy, gbdk, handheld, logic, pixel-art, procedural, retro, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
WINTERING is a short top-down survival action game for Windows, with a free demo you can play in your browser on this page: the first three days of the winter.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: action-adventure, animals, atmospheric, crafting, pixel-art, singleplayer, snow, top-down, winter · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
A wisp hides in an old tree. Every night it hops one fork. Catch it in the fewest dawns there are. You climb a bare tree at night. Somewhere on one of its forks a wisp is hiding, and every night it moves along one limb to the next fork.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: atmospheric, brain-teaser, game-boy, gbdk, logic, math, pixel-art, retro, singleplayer, turn-based · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page
WITNESS MARK is a deduction game on a real Game Boy ROM with 160 proved fair cases and 390 suspects. Play five cases free in your browser on this page.
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Tags: analogue-pocket, deduction, detective, game-boy, gbdk, logic, mystery, pixel-art, retro, singleplayer · AI disclosure: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text · store page