Steal the art. Catch your friends in the act. Hide among museum visitors, pocket exhibits and photograph rival thieves. Get snapped mid-theft and you're out! A stealth party game for 2–10 players, with Solo, Duo and Thief / Photographer modes.
Every card is an army in a beautiful papercraft world full of surprises. Choose from slimes, ghosts, a bug hivemind, giants, and more, across 22 distinct packs with unique playstyles. Earn the cardboard crown solo or online with up to three friends.
Coming soon · Full game release: March 2027
BI: Bounce Intelligence is an action roguelite loot game controlled with only the left mouse button. Bounce through a digital world, crush enemy hordes with explosive landings, collect powerful loot, and evolve your weapons to create a unique playstyle every run.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
BALLISTIC is a competitive drone ball sport built on physics and momentum. Team up online or over LAN, chase the ball in full 3D and drive it into the other team's goal. Getting airborne is easy. Getting good is another matter.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
Build your own battlefield. Climb into the sky, outplay your enemies, and battle as iconic Brainrot meme characters in a fast-paced multiplayer shooter.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
You are the parasite. The body is the dungeon. The heart fights back. Sever the tethers. Consume the host. APOPTOSIS is not a hero. It was left deep within a complex biome. A bionic larva. A biological machine. A protocol. First, awakens. Then, begins completing its tissue and host archive.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
When a catastrophic global anomaly known as "The Knocking" drags you into a nightmare dimension, you must fight to survive. Play as YouTuber Pisty and team up with an ally, Perm, to escape a four-layer hellscape. Solve puzzles, evade terrifying threats, and defeat the creator of this twisted world..
Coming soon · Full game release: To be announced
Make a fortune off the dead. Open stolen coffins for an evil company, sell the loot, and gamble your finds for bigger rewards. Automate the dirty work, unlock the coffins of giants and titans, and crack open rocks to uncover ancient fossils.
Coming soon · Full game release: December 2026
A BL visual novel set during the War of the Roses. Will love prevail over honour?
Coming soon · Full game release: Q2 2027
A cozy, small-scale, coffee shop and talking simulator. As a raccoon barista, you have a gift for warming people’s hearts: brew coffee, match flavours to your customers and discover their stories. Help travellers sort out their final errands before they catch their last train.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2027
Glob must find Globbies! Jump, bounce, squash, fight. Handcrafted platformer. Explore multiple worlds, hidden secrets. Local co-op, versus mode and Steam Deck.
Coming soon · Full game release: To be announced
Focus my Deer is a game that helps you stay focused on your real-life work! After every focus session, you gain energy which can be used to bring back plants and trees to the land. As the forest grows, animals will come to visit! Learn about the animals and help them on their quests.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q2 2027
GHOST'INN is a coop game up to 4 players , in which you go fishing for ghost in a charming breton style inn. Flush out spirit, capture them with your fishing rod and become rich !
Coming soon · Full game release: 2026
A 1–4 player co-op investigation horror game where you enter the Backrooms through an experimental gateway. Explore procedurally generated environments, document anomalies, recover valuable artifacts, and survive the unknown.
Coming soon · Full game release: December 2026
vim racer is a speed based training game that teaches real Vim motions by racing a block cursor through real source code, from h j k l all the way to search and bracket matching. There's no accuracy score, only speed, so the fastest path is always the correct one.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2026
A fast-paced 2D platformer with unique rhythmic movement. Play as an agile monkey sprinting through a dense and vibrant forest! Master the dynamic mechanics of grabbing vines and wall-kicking to navigate through the trees and reach the deepest parts of the woods.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
FarmFriendzy is a first-person multiplayer co-op farming life simulator built for friends who want to grow together. Complete quests, earn promotions, manage your personal wallet alongside the co-op economy, and keep an eye on your hunger and thirst as day turns to night and crops grow in real time.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
SUPERANCHOR is a 2D physics puzzle game with terminal-based storytelling. You can't control the ball—only reposition the anchor to swing and rotate the maze under gravity. Use momentum and mechanisms to complete your training. But some problems may never have been yours to solve.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
Unleash marble-fueled chaos onto the cosmos! Build zany contraptions that let your marbles soar across the stars. You have full creative freedom, so go wild.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2027
Free kicks in 2.5D, pixel art on a 3D pitch. Pick your taker, read the wall, bend it through wind and rain. Aim, power, curve. The keeper shuts the corner. Train to sharpen your shot. Made by a dev who grew up on Winning Eleven and PES.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
Hearts Gone Black is a top-down zombie survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world. Manage your base and survivors, scavenge, gather resources, craft equipment, and defend against infected while endure a broken world where weather, hunger, sanity, and moral choices can slowly wear you down.
Coming soon · Full game release: March 2027
"Shadow War" is a 2D action game focused on combat with a Japanese-inspired atmosphere. Enjoy a variety of combat actions by combining normal attack combos, parries, guarding, and skills that consume Spirit.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
Rockblaze is a 2.5D physics-based puzzle platformer. Move with thrusters or weapon recoil as you pilot your ship through a simulated futuristic prison. Upgrade your ship, experiment with builds, learn from failure, and uncover the secrets of the simulation.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
Commander, Gerand here. I repeat: the Armored Train is surrounded! Build and upgrade your squad of living tanks, crush the enemy in tactical battles, and fight your way through the blockade. Your objective: create a legend of the USSR — KV-44 2.0. Copy that? Over!
Coming soon · Full game release: Q3 2027
A dark-fantasy auto-battler roguelite where loot isn't the reward — it's the fuel. Sacrifice your gear to forge one ever-evolving artefact, bend your build around brutal Keystones and Pacts, and carve through a cursed forest where death is permanent.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
A short incremental game about a magical garden. Grow wonderful flowers, earn money, buy upgrades, and roll the gacha to discover rarer plants! Over 30 unique plants are waiting for you!
Coming soon · Full game release: Q2 2027
A dice themed roguelike where every roll matters, and your journey will be lead by faith.. Luck isn't on your side, it is the game. Throw dice. Adapt. Survive, and most importantly believe in your dices.
Coming soon · Full game release: To be announced
A cozy post-apocalyptic gunsmith simulator where you run a traveling workshop from the back of your camper. Craft, repair, restore, and customize unique weapons from scavenged junk while serving settlers, mercenaries, and gangs across the wasteland.
Coming soon · Full game release: To be announced
DUAT is a first-person survival horror game blending exploration, puzzles and psychological horror inside ancient Egyptian pyramids. Explore forgotten tombs, solve deadly mechanisms, uncover ancient secrets, evade relentless horrors, and survive the darkness.
Coming soon · Full game release: December 2026
"Phage" is a pixel-art platformer. Players control a weak primitive organism called the "Phage", whose only ability is to steal the bodies of other creatures on the map. The goal: explore, devour, evolve, and use acquired abilities to hunt and kill every living being in the world.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
Turn one idea into a playable AI world. Gamercury World Engine helps creators build detective mysteries, dress-up dramas, simulation games, and cinematic interactive stories with AI-generated plots, quests, character dialogue, voice, cutscenes, and 3D scenes.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q4 2026
Race, Build, Customize, Share! Physics based racing game featuring diverse tracks, extensive car customization, and a powerful intuitive block-based track editor with simple text-message sharing. Race solo against bots, compete online, or build and share your own tracks with friends!
Coming soon · Full game release: To be announced
A first-person 3D puzzle adventure escape room game for logic fans. Explore 30 standalone rooms filled with mystery and original puzzles. Observe, experiment, and doubt the obvious in this unique exploration challenge. The door won't open itself.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q1 2027
Paint yourself to match the scenery and sneak past guards. Explore an island of magical paintings, help its residents save their homes, or bring friends for online hide-and-seek and Prop Hunt. Create your own maps and share them on Steam Workshop.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
In this cyberpunk themed Roguelike card game, you can build your own deck, connect the pathways between cards, and along those pathways cyclically trigger each card's unique abilities. This allows cards to continuously cooperate with each other and unleash powerful combined effects.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2027
You are currently trapped inside a phone booth. When you pick up the receiver, the number “99” appears on the display, and a countdown begins. From among the vast number of flyers covering the walls on all four sides, find and peel off two flyers with exactly the same design that aren’t overlapping.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2027
Your first job as a project manager: get an office moving. Nobody acts without instructions. Turn actions you have already given into employee handbooks, share copies, and finish each delivery with fewer instructions. A single-player pixel-art puzzle game.
Coming soon · Full game release: March 2027
A co-op roguelite set in dark civil war era America. You and everything else in the land have been tainted rotten. Find redemption in vanquishing the embodiments of sin.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
Enter a cyber world in this On-Rails space shooter. You are a lone K.I.L.L.E.R. facing an impossible mission in a decaying dystopian future. Your only edge? Running high-stakes combat simulations through a NEUROVISOR powered by a highly illegal, custom-built Operating System-- HyperpunkOS.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
Still Pines: Watchtower is a first-person psychological horror mystery where you play as Claire, a college student trapped at an isolated winter watchtower. Explore a semi-open snowy forest, uncover clues about a missing ranger, survive the thing watching from the trees, and follow story objectives.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2026
Lost and with no memories, cross a solar system to get back home. Tear through each planet's hordes to recharge your ship's energy and take off before the world turns lethal. Combine weapons, implants and anomalies until nothing can stop you. Every death rewrites your reality and your memory.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2027
Play as a prisoner, guard, or warden. Scheme, trade, and betray, or lock everything down. In this multiplayer social game of control and escape. The prison is yours to use… or break out of.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2027
SoulPurge is a psychological horror mystery. Explore an old abandoned mansion. Find clues to solve the mystery. Discover how and why its former inhabitants lost their lives. Evade the horrors that wander the mansion halls. Free their tortured souls in an attempt to redeem yours.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q4 2026
Voidlights is a Neon-lit 2D top-down roguelight shooter. Auto-fire through escalating void swarms, stack modules and systems, survive storms and bosses. Play solo with save/continue, or dive into Steam co-op with up to 6 players.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q4 2026
A cozy medieval farming life sim on Grey Croft. Keep animals, trade in Ashford, and live through the seasons.
Coming soon · Full game release: December 2026
GREYWAKE: Project Somnium is a first-person, puzzle-focused horror game where exploration leads you deeper into the terrifying secrets of GreyWake Island. Solve challenging puzzles, investigate abandoned military facilities, and uncover the truth behind a classified experiment.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
A typing-based language learning game with WarioWare-style quick mini-games, spaced repetition, and built-in mnemonics — fun even if you already know the language, with secret advanced modes for dedicated learners.
Coming soon · Full game release: July 2027
An incremental game about a spaceship in outer space destroying asteroids and other strange objects. Take control of the spaceship's gun, shoot, earn money, make upgrades and unlock new weapons and targets.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
A psychological survival horror game on Mars. After a catastrophic expedition, you are left alone on the Red Planet. Rebuild your ruined base, restore contact with Earth, and find a way home while uncovering the truth behind the disaster, before isolation and the fight for survival break your mind..
Coming soon · Full game release: Q4 2027
An arena-based trap builder where defenses aren’t placed—they’re assembled from interconnected modules. Combine weapons, magnets, rotors, and elemental effects, fight with your cursor, and rebuild the factory before every new wave.
Coming soon · Full game release: To be announced
Spend a week on the microplanet of Archalh, cut off from the wider universe until the next macrocosmic pulse. Through the eyes of the planet's inhabitants and visitors, each with conflicting agendas; unearth what’s emerging within its confines before the next pulse frees it to spread beyond.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
A cozy idle game about James, a cat who just lives on your desktop. He climbs around your windows on his own, chases mice, and fills up his sticker album. Whether before, during, or after work — he'll always keep you company.
Coming soon · Full game release: January 2027
A knowledge Q&A party game with Steam Workshop support! Featuring hundreds of quirky, mind-bending, and bizarre questions—from everyday facts to counterintuitive trivia and pure luck challenges. Play online with your friends to find out who the true "know-it-all" is!
Coming soon · Full game release: Q4 2026
Cut and plant grass, guide your bunnies, and grow their numbers in this simulation puzzle. Clear traffic jams, supply food efficiently, and expand a colony that keeps multiplying through farming and breeding! How many bunnies can you make?
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
Roguelike deckbuilder where you run an Adventurers’ Guild. Combine heroes, weapons, and items into teams, fulfill quirky commissions, deal with difficult clients, and build the most powerful guild in the realm.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2027
Pilot the mothership and watch your drone fleet mine the asteroids. A laid-back space mining idle & incremental game you can just leave running, set to a mellow lo-fi soundtrack.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q4 2026
Awake each night from ancient slumber to manage Sanguine, an old occult club and vampire haven. Screen guests, control the door, and keep snoops, ghouls, demons, and werewolves from entering your sanctuary.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
A short indie horror blending Sokoban puzzles with tense resource management. Deep inside a hostile mining facility, you remotely pilot a pushing machine. The world's oxygen is depleting, but a volatile new form of cyclic ozone has been discovered. Excavate it. It's humanity's only hope.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q4 2026
Priest Amore is a cartoon-style, casual puzzle game. Players will take on the role of Amor, a priest working in the fictional institution "Palace of Love," experiencing her day in the life while encountering a mundane yet meaningful adventure about love and understanding.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
Command an army with your voice! Shout into your microphone to summon Warriors, Archers, and Mages, build the right formation, then clash head-on with the enemy. When the armies collide, shout louder and harder to push them back and claim victory!
Coming soon · Full game release: 2026
Join your friends online for the hilarious, addictive party racer where you race, shove, and betray your buddies. Team up 1v1 to 3v3 across physics-fueled minigames. Paint your car however you like.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2026
Grandpa has retired and now spends his days playing with his toy trains. With the station needing a new conductor, the responsibility falls to his grandson, Abraham. Board passengers, unlock powerful abilities through a skill tree, and expand your railway empire in this cozy incremental roguelite.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q4 2026
A system-driven turn-based RPG bringing new strategy to the classic Wizardry-style formula. Cut in on enemy actions with the "Interrupt Timeline Battle" system. Lead a five-member party, strengthen your team through combat and item discovery, and explore the dungeon's depths.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2027
Survive the deadliest future game show in The Survival Show! Jump over razor-sharp lasers, dodge killer robots, and hurl live bombs before the clock runs out. Test your reflexes in a top-down arena, entertain the crowd, and claim the billionaire grand prize!
Coming soon · Full game release: 2027
Travel between the real world and your dreams, dive into your subconscious, and survive your own fears. In this mix of Survival Horror and Psychological Horror, you'll play through a collection of the scariest phobias out there while being constantly hunted by fear itself.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
Draft Eleven is a football auto-battler roguelite where you build your perfect XI, scout the transfer market, create powerful synergies, adapt your tactics, and compete in asynchronous PvP against squads built by real players from around the world.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q1 2027
Chess, but you build an army, bolt game-breaking augments onto your pieces, and tear through realms of enemies. Exploding pawns, bishops that cleanse the board with holy fire, a king that ascends into a demon slaying god. Stack upgrades, ascend, get rich, Slay The King.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2027
Act Normal is a multiplayer game where you blend in as an NPC and steal enough to survive each round. With scores hidden, you never know if you're safe. Every player carries a hidden gun. Find them before they find you.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q4 2026
Enter the Library of Souls, where human stories are fading from the pages. In the first book, step into a night train in the year 2513, meet a mysterious fellow passenger, and face a choice between fear and trust. Make your decision and preserve the story.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
Lane Glitch is a fast-paced cyberpunk combat racing game where you drive an armed car through neon-lit highways, dodging obstacles and destroying enemy vehicles. Choose your path on a branching map, upgrade your ride, and face powerful bosses.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2027
You and up to 4 friends are the cabin crew on a flight spiraling into chaos. Serve meals, break up fights, unclog toilets, and stop the plane from descending into mayhem. Frantic local and online co-op for 1 to 5 players. No two flights go the same way twice.
Coming soon · Full game release: November 2026
The Wyoming Incident is a first-person psychological horror game from Veraxic Games, inspired by the infamous creepypasta of the same name. It's about what the broadcast does to you, and whether anything is left when it's done.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2026
Climb It Up is a chaotic solo/4-player co-op climbing dungeon game. Dolphin-jump, climb, swing with grappling hooks, choose powerful rewards, fight corrupted enemies, and try not to drag your friends into the abyss.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
A 2D action clicker where you click, drag, and scroll to hunt monsters yourself with your mouse. Aim your skills to break the bosses of 8 dungeons, and grow your skill tree into a build of your own. Not idle — aim, shoot, smash.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q4 2026
PLAYABLE DEMO AVAILABLE! The darkest horror visual novel you'll ever play. THEY. ARE. HUNGRY. Will you feed them?
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
Hold the Line is a top-down 2D roguelite survival game. Survive on a procedurally generated island, prepare by day, endure the night, forge your survival build, adapt to dynamic events, and face the final trial on Day 7.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2027
An isometric co-op action romp: charge in as a knight — or a kangaroo — against hordes of hungry dinosaurs. Explore a farm overworld and procedural dungeons, smash barrels for chocolate coins, gear up in the shop, and topple bosses in online co-op. Fast, chaotic, gleefully absurd.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q4 2026
A fast first-person arena brawler! Try to get other players out of the arena with a weapon that shoots different items. Enjoy multiple game modes and maps, and customize your character. Prove your skills in the ultimate chaos and be the last one standing!
Coming soon · Full game release: 2026
Celestial 9 is a deckbuilding roguelike inspired by Mushi, a traditional card game from Teochew in southern China. Build powerful hands, stack multipliers, and unleash epic combos. Defeat foes, help your bloodline thrive, and burn incense to honor your ancestors.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
A 1-4 player co-op campervan trip through the yokai-filled wilderness. Snap photos of elusive creatures, decorate your van together, and help the locals you meet along the way. Camp, cook, and clamber across diverse biomes, from misty swamps to snowy mountains. Adventure awaits, so Let’s Go!
Coming soon · Full game release: Q4 2026
A dark fantasy card-based survival game. Explore the cursed land, gather resources, craft tools, manage hunger and thirst, and survive through difficult choices. Every decision—from who to help to who to kill—shapes your journey.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q4 2026
A crazy roguelite straight from Hell! B.O.D.E. (Beast Of Despair Exiled) is a wild 2D shooter with chaotic movement mechanics.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q1 2027
Inherit your uncle’s run-down freight yard in rural Australia ... and his debt. Purchase unclaimed freight lots, appraise and repair what you find, then sell it for a profit. Pay off the debt, restore the yard and turn it into a booming business.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2026
Squish Them All is a top-down arcade shooter where your weapon has hidden abilities you have to figure out how to use. Face swarms of human sized insects and conquer the leaderboards. The bugs die in one shot but make one mistake and you will die.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
In this game, you fight zombies while building a team of wierdos to help you! There are 64 unique base cards to add to your deck, and 48 unique treasures as well! Combo cards together to DEFEND against the zombies, or deal devastating attacks! Features 7 different areas with unique bosses to fight!
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
Swear an oath and walk into the Isenmarch — a cold Norse frontier that does not explain itself. A Machine Game Master narrates your saga, answers the choices you make, the engine rolls, and the model can't fudge a result. No two sagas are alike. What breaks first — your isen, or your troth?
Coming soon · Full game release: November 2026
Math Marsh is an arithmetic arcade game where every correct answer buys you time. Guide a fly across numbered lily pads, eat the numbers that complete each equation, and dodge hungry frogs, lizards, and spiders. Choose your operations and difficulty, then see how far you can go.
Coming soon · Full game release: November 2026
You write the while(1) loop that fights for you. Assemble code-edits into an auto-battling program, descend a crashing OS from /tmp to the kernel, and debug your build every run. No two compiles are the same. Debug your code. Try one more time.
Coming soon · Full game release: January 2027
A multiplayer game where rival teams each run a restaurant. Cook, serve customers, and fortify your base during prep — then wage war: ram walls with vehicles, crack the enemy vault, and wreck their dining room. First team to the target score wins.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
A casino shooter roguelite. Aim and shoot your way through endless waves of demons, run and dodge, fire off abilities, and gamble your loot for busted upgrades and cursed items. Build your stats, pay off your soul's debt, and climb the ranks — or lose it all to the house.
Coming soon · Full game release: February 2027
Bato Battle is a chaotic submarine party combat game for 2-8 players. Pilot a whale, ram a shark, dive like a dolphin, and torpedo your friends across a pile of ridiculous gamemodes and maps!
Coming soon · Full game release: Q4 2026
Manage and grow your cozy café from scratch in a world full of adorable talking cats. Craft authentic coffee drinks inspired by real barista techniques, upgrade your shop, serve your fluffy customers, and become beloved by all.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2027
A cinematic psychological horror game where you explore a haunting dream world, investigate mysterious environments, solve surreal puzzles, and face unknown entities. Experience a deeply atmospheric journey where sound, fear, and instinct guide you through the darkness.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q1 2027
Lost adrift in the Antarctic, your hatchling is all that matters. Hunt, evade predators, feed and protect your only offspring in this short, atmospheric penguin survival experience. Each day is a race to stay alive, as the frozen oceans you once called home are overwhelmed by unfamiliar forces.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2027
A single player puzzle game following the journey of two stars as they climb to return to the constellation from which they have fallen.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q1 2027
A human and a specter, fused into one being, venture into the heart of darkness in this isometric action roguelite. Combine ancient artifacts and shards of corrupted power to unleash devastating synergies. The more power you embrace, the deadlier the consequences.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2027
A cozy first-person tidy up and organizing simulator where you sort 4,400+ fantasy dice and tabletop pieces. Solo or online co-op with up to 4 players, restore the Arcane Hall's 9 departments through relaxing, satisfying ASMR dice sounds and magic skills - no time limit.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
Repair your spaceship, explore mysterious planets, battle strange creatures, and survive in this sci-fi sandbox RPG where every journey becomes a new adventure.
Coming soon · Full game release: 2027
SHORAPAN — a dark parable of a strange city beneath an eternal crimson sky. Those who doubt it aloud are the first it takes.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q4 2027
Be quiet. Stay calm. Don't look at it. A 1–8 player co-op horror descent: search dark procedural levels, contain what you find, and extract — while a creature hunts whoever panics most. One shared panic meter, live proximity voice, and an infinite descent scored by how deep you get.
Coming soon · Full game release: Coming soon
A fish tank that lives on your screen. Real species, and every fish is an individual you can name. In Cozy mode nothing can die, so you can leave it running all day. Challenge mode is proper fishkeeping: water types, breeding, sickness, mistakes. Play it, or just let it swim.
Coming soon · Full game release: Q1 2027
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