Marple Library Games

Free Games Showcase: October 2025

It's October, so you know what that means: Halloween's right around the corner. Here at Marple Library Games, we're celebrating the season with a collection of horror and horror-adjacent games. Whether you're looking to be chilled to the bo...

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Dark & Cold - a Bitsy game
Entry for March 2018 Bitsy Game Jam
Kacper Woźniak
Puzzle
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Be Honest
Horror Personality Quiz
Ezra Szanton
Interactive Fiction
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A Day in the Office
Something strange is happening in the workplace...
WinRawr
Puzzle
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How to Make a Cup of Tea
Make me a cup of tea, please!
WORLDENDDISK
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the uncle who works for nintendo
ztul
Adventure
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Fetch Quest
You are dog. Climb fast. Save your best friend.
Lumpy
Platformer
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Boo! Get Out!
You're a ghost living in a mansion until uninvited guests barged in one day out of the blue... Chase them out!
Qing
Role Playing
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rococo
A world of forbidden sweets beckons beyond the wall of sleep.
colter
Platformer
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The Patch
Retro Pumpkin Patch Horror
Baxter28
Fighting
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TINY HORROR
Kill or not?
pavlov36
Card Game
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PLANT LOVER
Do you love your plant? ...Do you really?
Chaoclypse
Simulation
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Free Games Showcase: September 2025

This month we are celebrating the world of cozy games. Maybe you're going back to school. Maybe you're having struggles at work. Maybe you're just sick of the summer heat. Whatever's causing you stress, we'd like to help you wind back with...

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pet good boys!!
pet some good boys to make them happy and then get another good boy to make it also happy!​
JorgeGameDev
Simulation
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Uproot
A quaint puzzle platformer about an onion's quest for sunlight. Made for Global Game Jam 2023
AntB225
Puzzle
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SPACE FROG!
a story of a frog in space.
npckc
Adventure
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Fruit Basket
Combine fruit and use powerups to score points!
Saffrona
Puzzle
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Fossilogical
Rebuild skeletons, or make your own work of art!
Mystriodis
Puzzle
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Sheep may safely graze
A relaxing puzzle game with nice sheep.
Robin Six
Puzzle
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my micro room
Relax and decorate your micro room!
mkrysht
Simulation
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kumo.
The tiniest of gardening games.
Turbo Hermit
Simulation
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Air Pico
A cozy flight sim lite for Pico-8
Tom Mulgrew
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Snug
A cozy game about packing bags.
cookiecrayon
Puzzle
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Kabuto Park Demo
Cute Beetle Collector
Doot
Role Playing
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Serenitrove
Dig, upgrade, expand... then dig deeper!
Scoot
Adventure
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Free Games Showcase: August 2025

This month's theme is word games. Wordle comes once a day, but these games will occupy you while you wait for the next puzzle. This collection presents a range of quirky takes on the act of spelling. We hope you enjoy!

Wordfall
Make words from the falling letters
Donutask
Puzzle
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Snakle.io
Snake + Wordle
omrrr
Educational
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Dwor
An Arcade Word Puzzle
AdHam2899
Puzzle
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Word Thirds
Six letters. Three buttons. One word.
Red Sprite Studios
Puzzle
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ELIMINATION
A simple word game about finding the longest word by eliminating letters.
Ahmed Khalifa (Amidos2006)
Puzzle
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My Type!
How fast can you type?
Curlew Studios
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WORDWARD DRAW
explore 4 letter words
Daniel Linssen
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Let's eat Grandma.
Commas save lives! Made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 56
Yoav Kagan
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Word Pyramid
word + solitaire game
kloonigames
Puzzle
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Word Serpent
Serpent-like word search
ElanMakesGames
Puzzle
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Type Word
Type the right anwser, by the given clue.
Bcraft
Puzzle
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Word String
A casual word-finding game
FeatureKreep
Puzzle
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Free Games Showcase: July 2025

In 1986, Nintendo released the original Metroid game on their Famicom system in Japan; a year later, the game would reach the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America. Metroid featured side-scrolling action like Super Mario Bros. , bu...

Microbot
5 minutes metroidvania
Germán coronel
Adventure
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Growmi
Explore a tiny world full of connected puzzles.
Carlos Pedroso
Puzzle
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A Graveyard for Dreams
A pixelart metroidvania where you explore the world of dreams.
Jani Nykänen
Platformer
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Mini World
This is a small and hard metroidvania where you explore the world and improve.
Kairase
Platformer
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Colour Shift
Metroidvania Month 14 GameJam
gregflashman
Platformer
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1985 (Lowrez Jam version)
The legend of the video game industry was born back in 1985. It's the short tribute to the good old days.
Wolod
Platformer
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Allocation
A Metroidvania without an interconnected world or character upgrades.
Mush
Action
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Cataractae
Float and platform your way through waterfalls and ancient temples to reach the Shrine Above.
Ferociter
Platformer
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Chrono Froggo
A mini-metroidvania with timing-based platforming puzzles!
Tiny Face Games
Platformer
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Manorvania
Mini metroidvania filled with skeletons!
Stopsignal
Platformer
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Cuckoo Castle
A mini-metroidvania.
Richard Lems
Platformer
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EMUUROM
Nonviolent creature-scanning metroidvania
borbware
Platformer
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Free Games Showcase: June 2025

From the days of Tetris on the original Game Boy to today's daily Wordle , puzzle games have always held a unique position in the gaming space. Somehow, these mentally intensive games have proven to be the most accessible. Title-matching pu...

Out of Ctrl
A Keyboard Puzzle Game
Miknugget
Puzzle
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Mimic
Mimic animals to take their form!
sourencho
Puzzle
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mingle
Find yourself in the crowd
cookiecrayon
Puzzle
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Raide
train tracks!
Kultisti
Puzzle
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Domino Grove
cozy score-chasing puzzle
Ezra Szanton
Puzzle
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Streamline
Grow your line to reach the goal.
Francois van Niekerk
Puzzle
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Cell Machine
What is life?
Sam Hogan
Puzzle
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Pack
A cozy puzzler where you drag and drop items of different shapes into your suitcase.
plasmastarfish
Puzzle
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Handshakes
Achieve Connection Nirvana!
Pet Pumpkin
Puzzle
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Klifur
Indoor climbing puzzle game
Torfi
Sports
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Combo Pool
A game about colliding and merging balls
NuSan
Puzzle
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Stealth Crossword
Stealth! Crossword! Action!
ComputerJames
Puzzle
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Free Games Showcase: May 2025

The history of driving in games is long and varied. Racing games have been a popular genre for decades, but there isn't one single way to make one. We've had the realism of Gran Turismo , the over-the-top carnage of Burnout , and the futuri...

Fruit Truck
Collect as many fruits as you can
dani maccari
Racing
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Maze Racers
Memorize the map for each maze then race through it before the time runs out. A #LOWREZJAM 2016 entry.
itchabop
Sports
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Cursor Drifter
A casual racing game where a car follows your cursor. Compete in a time trial format to earn gold stars!
Semyon Kotelnikov
Racing
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HARVEST 2300
Survivors, bullethell, mystery
xk
Survival
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HWY3310
How far can you get on Highway 3310?
machinescreen
Action
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Horizon
JunebugRocks
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Forget The Brakes!
We'll be Multi-Track Drifting
Ferran Bertomeu
Action
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Whiplash Taxi Co
A break-neck taxi driving game
Tom Mulgrew
Racing
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Brutal Pico Race
Brutal Pico Race futurist racing game on Pico8 by Yourykiki - The Lurking Engine
yourykiki
Racing
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The Fish and the Furious
Race the clock or a friend while keeping your car fueled with fish!
relsqui
Racing
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Pico World Race
A PICO-8 Racing Game
PAK-9
Racing
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PolyTrack
A high speed low-poly racing game.
Kodub
Racing
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Free Games Showcase: April 2025

Working in a library, you see how much interest there is in the culinary arts. A quick subject search of the word “cooking” reveals over 1300 titles in the Marple Library alone. Cookbooks are routinely among the most widely-circulated i...

The Last (Hotdog) Stand
Grow your hotdog empire!
Seedborne
Simulation
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[demo] detailed cooking sim
a game about unwritten rules
zidigital
Puzzle
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High Steaks
The steaks have never been higher. Can you become the King of the Grill? Or will you leave the family BBQ in flames?
cricketHunter
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Chopstick Cooking
Mashup genre between cooking game with memory game
Cat Summer
Simulation
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SOUP TIME
a frog chef follows his soup-making dreams
Jerbob
Simulation
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Dice it Up
A dice-based cooking game
DDRKirby(ISQ)
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Omelet You Cook (Jam Version)
Quickly assemble the perfect omelet to satisfy an ever-increasing number. Gain new ingredients to try new combos.
Schu
Strategy
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LD48 - Deep-fry deeper
Ridiculous cooking minigame collection :)
Ithildin
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Feed the Beat (Ludum Dare 41)
Rhythm, Cooking, Beat-em-up
Benstar
Rhythm
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Pumpkin Café
A cozy Halloween themed cooking game
ilymeiib
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Crazy Cauldron
Mix colors to brew potions in this charming endless brew-em-up!
Quite Good
Puzzle
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Free Games Showcase: March 2025

Keyboard controls are as old as computer games themselves, but a few games put the whole keyboard to work. Borrowing characters licensed from Nintendo, Interplay Productions brought edutainment to the Mushroom Kingdom with Mario Teaches Typ...

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Type 'n Jump
A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
The Jucas
Platformer
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Monologue
Can you deliver your monologue before the hero escapes?
Phildo
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Social Interaction Simulator
brandenmb
Simulation
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Type & Magic: Chapter 1
Type your way to freedom.
senokos
Platformer
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Whack-A-Key
Whack-a-mole game played with a qwerty keyboard
Icefish Software
Action
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Blood and goods
A dungeon roguelike where you're your own wallet
selewi
Adventure
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20 WORDS // 20 SECONDS
How high can you score in 20 seconds?
Kevin Hutchins
Educational
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Mondays: a Sisyphean Typing Game
Absurdist Typing Game developed as part of the Briefs series
maxhgrobins
Interactive Fiction
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Exit84
Just a frustrating PLATFORMER TYPING game
probe_31
Platformer
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Shiba Cafe
Just my type of game
jub
Simulation
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b-e-e-t-l-e
A relaxing typing game
Paul and Viv
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Free Games Showcase: February 2025

Platformer (noun): “a video game where the play is primarily focused on moving past obstacles in real time with one's avatar by using various abilities (such as jumping and climbing) and items (such as weapons)” (M erriam-Webster ) The...

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A Key(s) Path
Use your movement keys as platforms to progress
Geegaz
Platformer
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Black Castle GB
An action platformer for the Gameboy
User0x7f
Platformer
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Frogfall
falls and flies!
Kultisti
Platformer
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Fallen Girl
Sacrifice to progress in this atmospheric platformer
fullmontis
Platformer
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Fox Tower
Small game about climbing up a hill and probably even a tower.
Nozomu Games
Platformer
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SELF
self is lost without soul
dev_dwarf
Platformer
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CELESTE Classic
Climb a mountain
Maddy Makes Games
Platformer
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Pikwip
Head to the summit. Local co-op or single player.
cookiecrayon
Platformer
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APOLLO
Short cute platformer
Daniel Moreno
Platformer
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Hollow Floor
an single-sitting exploration-based Metroidvania inspired by VVVVVV and REDDER.
Ahmed Khalifa (Amidos2006)
Adventure
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