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.
ABYSS is a challenging multiplayer co-op horror game where you and your crewmates must operate an old submarine through narrow trenches, scavenging scrap from the ocean floor and avoiding the denizens that lurk in the deep. But not all is as it seems, for traitors may be lurking around every corner.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Become a nonogram-solving detective! Complete picture puzzles to reveal clues, follow the trail, and crack silly cases for clients with unusual problems.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A first-person roguelite horde shooter for 1 to 4 players in online & couch co-op. The city mutated, the internet is down, and dying costs money. Butcher the horde, bank the cash, upgrade your guns like the NRA intended, and keep working for the only pizza place still open.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Collect adorable gothic cats in this spooky idle adventure! Receive a new cat summon every minute, discover Bronze, Silver, and Golden felines, collect mysterious treasures, customize your companions, and build the ultimate haunted cat sanctuary.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A cozy puzzle game about the lines beneath a growing town. Homes move in and ask for water, power, internet and gas. Draw the pipes that reach them, dig under the busy parts of town and cross rivers on aqueducts. Every five years, the town votes on whether you keep the job.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Westvale Heights Residential is currently accepting overnight operators. Prior experience is not required. A desktop horror game set inside a late-1990s apartment management system.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A violent storm forces an urban explorer to take refuge in the abandoned industrial district of Baldwin, Wisconsin. What looks like an unexpected jackpot quickly turns sinister. Notes hint at the truth the EPA was sent to cover up. Some places aren't abandoned by accident.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A text-driven psychological horror visual novel. You wake up in a strange living room. Two silent men stand beside you. On the wall, blood writes: “Confess your sins, and you shall be redeemed.” Every choice changes the ending. Over 80,000 words in the base game, plus 4 standalone character DLCs.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Walkers is an open-world zombie survival game with advanced base building and NPC systems. Scavenge, craft, and loot across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Recruit survivors from the streets, assign them as workers, guards, or companions.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A 1-4 player fps co-op set in a dystopian future, where you are hired to take an elevator down multiple layers to eliminate hostile anomalies and gather resources for the Abyssal Company. Explore ever enlarging floors, gather items, make money, kill kill kill. How far will you go for glory?
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Astronauts stranded on the moon have gone a little crazy. Race office chairs, complete repair mini-games, and sabotage your rivals to win the heart of the Moon Princess: a rock with a wig. They're taking this very seriously.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A roguelite incremental game. Smash asteroids. Collect ore. Fight aliens. Buy upgrades. Come back stronger!
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Unrivaled is a digital card game where you battle your opponent with one of ten classes! You can play on the online ladder, join a tournament in tournament mode, or explore the world of Unrivaled in Campaign mode!
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Run a neon-lit roadside motel with an arcade next door. Haggle with guests, upgrade rooms, play eight fully playable arcade games, cook burgers for hungry players and manage it all from your retro tablet, solo or in online co-op for up to 4 players.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Six witnesses, six suspects, and thousands of discoverable lines of dialog. You're the fantasy detective on the case of a stolen magical artifact, and in order to determine the truth you'll have to cross examine, interrogate, and reference all your resources to catch the thief before time runs out.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Dive into madness in CTHULOOP, a 1st-person cosmic horror adventure game. Trapped in a loop, you must observe eerie anomalies and piece together cryptic clues before your sanity fractures completely. Can you escape, or will you loop forever? Developed for the GMTK 2025 Game Jam (theme: "Loop").
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Build four three-letter English words from letter tiles, one draw and one discard at a time. Just don't throw away the letter a rival needs to finish their words.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
In slaughter and exploration, seek the truth. KILL HIM is a black-and-white Metroidvania game where you will traverse a hostile world, challenge powerful enemies, and uncover the secrets hidden behind everything.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Baby Peak is a chaotic, physics-based multiplayer platform game where four babies race at the same time, and where reflexes and strategy collide. Your goal is simple: jump, climb, sabotage your rivals, and be the first to reach the golden pacifier. Explore the party modes and different levels.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Resurrect and Summon Extinct fantastical beasts to do battle on your behalf in this Arcadelike mind game of Life vs Death. Every defeat is fatal, you must use your wit and all the tools at your disposal to overcome challenges and survive.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A game about a small pony in a blackboard world wreaking havoc and bringing color to everyone's lives. In this puzzle platformer play as a student's rebellious fantasy pony, kicking its way through the blackboard and releasing colors from the environment, making the world seem less hopeless.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Rogue Runes is a turnbased puzzle roguelite. Place runes to fight enemies and discover the skill tree to gain more power. Connect straight with straight, circle with circle and diagonal with diagonal for damage, defense and mana.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
What if you couldn’t wake up from your worst nightmare? BURIED INSIDE ME is a first-person psychological horror experience where you find yourself trapped within your own dream. Explore, solve puzzles, and survive yourself.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
「座敷童カレシILOVEラーメン」は、ラーメン作りとハートフルなストーリーを楽しめる”ラブコメノベルゲーム”です。 ラーメンで大切なものを守り抜く、強くて優しいストーリー。
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A deep turn‑based tactics RPG featuring emergent stories, procedural world events, enemy factions, magical loot with drawbacks, and a fully simulated fantasy sandbox. Build your mercenary company, survive brutal battles, and uncover new content. Solo‑dev indie project with active development.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Medieval fantasy daughter-raising sim with adventure and romance elements. You are a single father, and every step of your daughter's journey is yours to guide. Study, adventure, make friends, fall in love… 70+ endings, each playthrough a new story. Ready to raise the most wonderful daughter of all?
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Arcany is a cozy persistent online world set in the mysterious Realm of Gravenmoor. Train skills, explore a magical land, craft powerful items, and uncover the story behind the forgotten cataclysme.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Harvest plants, unlock upgrades, and expand your farming loop through skill trees, perks, and powerful harvesters. Collect fragments, complete Hidden Book sets, and optimize your incremental growth.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Help stranded humans escape an otherworldly realm as you pick them up on your bus route. Investigate and interrogate each new arrival to ensure they don't devour you or your passengers as you head to your safehouse.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A challenging but fluid action rogue-lite in which you hack, slash and shoot waves of enemies. Between stages, manage and maximise your resources, spending them to gain skills, equipment, stats, or even mutations, if you're willing to risk the downsides.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
✨Relive that nostalgic Y2K excitement!✨ Sticker DECO is a cozy scrapbook game packed with kawaii vibes🎀 Collect 2000+ cute stickers, freely decorate pages📓✨, and trade with 50+ quirky animal friends!🐾 No time limits—just relax at your own pace☕
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Play as a digital rat and hack your way into the retro-futuristic grid-based movement puzzle world of Anonymized, where you shift hues and dive layers deep in search of the one true Source Cheese.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Priority One is a game where you and your friends play as a SWAT team where you defuse bombs, rescue hostages, locate evidence and arrest or eliminate Hostiles Also features a Alternative mode With Zombies ,objectives to search for and survivors to rescue 1-4 player Co-Op
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Fabienne a 17-year-old genius, has a rare gift: she detects lies! But when she discovers the body of one of her teachers, she’s left with no choice but to uncover the killer among the residents she’s lived with her entire life.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Every expedition is a gamble. Explore procedurally generated underground facilities, recover valuable loot, survive unique monsters, and escape before it's too late.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
OUTPOSTERS is a 1-4 player co-op zombie shooter with a rogue-lite core. Hold the line against escalating waves, then push into the dead city to scavenge weapons and upgrades before the next assault lands.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Experience the start of a tale about a cursed chapel located in a forgotten corner of a small town. Maintain your daily routine, improvise with limited tools, and complete your tasks before nightfall in a surreal horror experience marked by maintenance and decay.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
After the death of your mother and with no other choice, you take the only job available: guarding and maintaining a lonely campsite in the mountains. But what seemed like a quiet place hides mysteries that will change everything.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A shooter primarily focused on constantly aiming at various difficulties.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
pnoq is an indie puzzle platformer that revives the familiar retro CRT aesthetic with modernized color mechanics. Utilize RGB panels to bounce through walls and obstacles. If you can’t see it, does it even exist?
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A fast, physics-drunk arena shooter that never stays the same. Throw your gun to reload, wall-jump to stay alive, and stack chaotic upgrades until fights get gloriously out of hand. Duel 1v1 or brawl up to 4 players across 8 modes.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Explore a seemingly empty land where a lonely graveyard is your only familiar landmark. Gather the items needed to unlock a sealed crypt, uncover the secrets beyond its door, evade the relentless Apothecary who guards the grounds, and unravel the mystery buried beneath them.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
How to Destroy a City is a casual incremental game where you pilot a giant robot to destroy the city. Upgrade your robot, fight the army, and unlock special abilities and new robots. It's time to turn the city to ashes!
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Halloween Poppp is an easy, Halloween-themed connect-and-match puzzle. Space keeps shrinking — plan each move and pick the best option under pressure. Master 10 tools, chain combos for multiplied scores, and earn richer gems. Level up, then prove yourself on the Steam leaderboard!
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A puzzle platformer where you guide a little soul by shifting it from block to block. Use the power of “Shift” to clear each stage. The protagonist has fallen from a home floating in the sky down to this planet. Just keep moving forward, and someday you might find a way back to the moon.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Don't look away, Stare at their formation of attachment. A psychological horror ADV depicting the twisted pure love between a girl who dies without drinking blood and a boy who dies without eating human meat.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
BREAKING NEWS! A giant asteroid is about to wipe out Earth, and your only escape is the Moon! Grab anything you can find, stack it high, and build your way to safety, solo or with up to 3 friends! Think Only Up, but YOU'RE the architect. What could possibly go wrong?
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Tower defense where your towers fall as blocks. Drag each piece onto the board, wall in your HQ and turn the gaps into kill zones. Every enemy comes at you its own way, bosses test your build, and between waves the Armory never has enough money for everything you want.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
No backup. No easy way out. Just you, a meat cleaver, and the shift from hell in this retro slasher horror experience. Uncover the theater's dark secrets and survive the night, or become the BOOTH BUTCHER'S next attraction.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Lead your guild into epic raid battles! Recruit heroes from different classes, build your own team, and challenge powerful bosses with unique mechanics. Unlock talent trees, collect endgame gear, and grow from a small squad into the strongest guild. Relive the golden age of MMORPGs!
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Solve over 150 tile based lawn puzzles. Explore the grounds of a forgotten manor. Discover mysterious flora and figure out their rules. Cut grass and have fun!
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Start as a tiny spark. Drag cosmic fuel into your star and grow it through every stage of stellar life. Stack 158 upgrades, automate the feeding, and watch your numbers climb from single digits into the billions.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Samota is a Solitaire roguelike deckbuilder. You don't draw cards but instead arrange a pile of cards so it will create huge synergy. Find a bunch of unique effects, buffs, modifiers, relics and uncover the secret this game hides! All of it so that the number goes big and bigger!
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Follow the story of Lost Soul, a corrupted spirit with only one memory left. Explore the ruins of a sealed fae village. Solve music focused puzzles, find notes left behind, and experience lively conversation with unexpected company along the way. Because even a lost soul can still hear music.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
In this arcade roguelite, your car runs on blood and the zombies have plenty. Smash through the horde, drift to drain every last drop, and spin the roulette for brutal upgrades while you fight to survive the endless horde.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A party-builder rogue like, build your party to survive the monsters guarding the crystal. Master the turn-based combat system and break your limits to see how far you can take your party.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
One of the most complex and difficult co-op games on Steam, where you and a friend play as ex-convicted cats trapped in a hellish prison. Must work together to escape before time's up.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Feel the beat. SURI: The Seventh Note is a rhythm platformer where you must navigate a beautiful but treacherous world to save your mother's life. Time your jumps, dashes, and tricks to the mystical music around you, and restore not just your mother's health, but the rhythm of the island itself.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Veinrider is a scifi incremental game about traversing alien caves and escaping a strange planet. Fly, collect and upgrade your gravity-flipping craft to break deeper, faster and stronger!
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
UNDERDEEP is an idle RPG set in a gritty, immersive fantasy world, where you can dive deep into dungeon exploration and mapping. Blending the charm of classic RPGs with modern idle mechanics, it offers a rich and thoughtful gameplay experience.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Play as a young Exorcist tasked with saving a cursed town in this 90's pixel art Investigation-puzzler, with the top down visuals of RPG's of the era.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Death has crashed the office Halloween party, scythe in hand and pumpkin on its head! Fight back, wreck the office, or haunt your colleagues as a ghost. Play as Death and unleash hell. To escape, just answer the phone. Preferably before you’re sliced in half.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Urbexophobia is a survival horror game for 1 to 4 players. Survive. Loot. Escape… AND BET IT ALL AT THE CASINO!
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Turn the battlefield into lava. Fill the sky with meteors. Raise an army of shuriken-throwing ninja golems. Anvira: Forge Defense is a tower defense roguelite about crafting absurd golem builds — and watching endless goblin waves break against them.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Defy hordes of undead as a paladin. Strike, dodge, and chain devastating abilities through cursed graveyards in this action roguelike. Evolve your Oath, collect ancient relics and unleash deadly combos every run.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A cozy farm for two on one shared screen and one computer. Dig, plant and water together in local co-op, then grow crops, haul them in carts, keep bees and build a home. Play solo too, switching between the frog and duck. Peaceful farming, no character deaths.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Farm trucks with a crew on the back fight on one fenced farm. Cut crops for coins, spend them on crew between rounds, and watch them fight for you. A chaotic auto-battler on wheels for 1 to 4 players, online or against bots. The last truck still driving wins.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
First-person psychological horror and survival. Use your camera and sound to identify and repel enemies that mimic humans in total darkness, uncover disturbing secrets, and face increasingly intense nights in an industrial complex with multiple endings and high replayability.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A military sci-fi first person shooter set in a sandbox open world.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
The Lightseeker is a 2D pixel-art platformer in which you guide Analú, a young girl seeking her inner light in a world of darkness. Explore mysterious caves, shape paths with your lantern, and face trials in a deeply moving journey of self-discovery.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Sombie offers action packed PvP, and PvE in an always online MMO. loot, kill, die, repeat. Explore an endless randomly generated world with your friends. Offering a unique spin on the Zombie survival genre, built from the ground up.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Explosive arcade fighting game where you control a puppet with a balloon head. Pop your rival's balloon using sharp weapons, play in duels or survival mode against the AI, unlock new weapons, and climb the online leaderboard!
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Use your mic or type: SAY ANYTHING—the robots understand! In this sci-fi adventure, talk to characters in your own words and command them to manipulate the world as you hunt a spy. Explore a tropical island where machines have real personalities and emotions. Total conversational freedom.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Silberheim is a tactical collectible card game where card packs are earned, never sold. Build your collection, discover what your cards become as they evolve through play, and explore an ever-changing world through PvP battles, PvE adventures, and community events.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
You drive left. They drive right. Straight? Only if you're both on the same page. Shared RC splits control of one car between two players — team up (or don't) across brutal, physics-based courses where every wrong move is somebody else's fault too.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Shorten your journey to the castle by digging a tunnel through the mountain. Use magic and craft: swing your pickaxe, cast spells, blow up obstacles, and light your path with glowing slimes. Trade resources with the Goose, unlock new tools, and uncover the mountain's secrets.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
The Cat in the Hat once said, “It’s fun to have fun.” Play with him and your favorite characters in 18 exciting minigames or chase him around the house. Whether you play solo or with friends, your house is about to be full of giggles, groans, and glorious mayhem.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Command dark armies in this tug-of-war auto-battler. Build your base, summon units, customize abilities, and push the battlefield toward your enemy’s stronghold. Adapt your strategy each match and dominate in PvP, co-op, or Trials mode.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Spin the slots, fill your coin pusher with prizes, and push your way to a million! Buy upgrades, unlock higher tiers with bigger rewards, and complete collections in this satisfying coin pusher game.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Every tile you place in this strategic roguelike deck-builder shapes the story of lost kids trying to escape the twisted depths of the Grimmwoods. Outsmart lurking creatures, lay down paths with powerful items, and upgrade your deck to survive a forest that shifts with every step.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A fast-paced 3D action roguelike where you play as a gumball machine, shooting bouncing candy to survive waves of enemies. Build your loadout, combine powerful gumballs, and reclaim your mall before it’s too late.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Liminalphobia is a 1-4 player online co-op horror game set in The Backrooms. A man named James is lost, leaving behind notes as the only guide to finding him. Explore the liminal levels, manage your resources, solve puzzles and avoid the entities throughout the levels.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Your skill, patience, and ingenuity will be tested in this homage to precision platformers! Traverse various biomes, from caves to volcanic wastelands and mysterious towers. Each environment with it's own deadly traps, puzzles and challenges, designed to push you to your limits.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Asymmetrical horror comedy co-op for up to 8 players. Play either a pack of Rats trying to sabotage a restaurant, or the Chef determined to stop them.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Fight your way up The Golden Caravan Casino in this noir Roguelite where Poker Battles decide your fate. Play bold Hands, gamble for powerful Trinkets and pull daring Tricks to shift the odds in your favor.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A cozy, turn-based strategy party-game for 1–4 players where everyone moves at once. Spread fire across a new hex island every match, block rivals, set traps and race for Wisps, the key to victory. Play online with friends or solo against bots.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
After a huge solar storm destroyed their ship and left them stranded, help Volt and her crewmates escape the dangerous planet filled with deadly robots and a mysterious AI.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A cozy online playground that changes with the holidays. Explore with friends as the world, its look and its mini-games transform for each season. Right now it's Halloween in Hollow Falls, where you float through town as a ghost, pick pumpkins and hurl them across slippery streets.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Crystallium is a furry-themed rhythm game where you build a team of warriors to fight monsters. Vanquish corruption from the dungeons and unearth the ancient mystery that has faded from everyone's memory.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Descend into your own broken mind in this psychological survival horror. Survive twisted manifestations of your psyche, defend your shelter, and shape your fate through choices that lead to multiple endings.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A turn-based RPG about eating lots of cakes, hanging out with your friends, writing haikus, hearing tons of dad jokes, and exploring a world full of unique characters. It's also about surviving child abuse, dealing with your crazy, mentally-ill mother, and dealing with the fact that nothing lasts.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A school at night. A girl missing for 23 days. Seven children you can still hear singing. Veiled Whispers is first-person psychological horror with two stories set in the same school, choices that matter, and a building that knows exactly what you did.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Fight your way through a procedurally generated jungle, merge powerful weapon cards into crazy builds and defeat enemy hordes and epic bosses. Open Booster Packs to unlock new Characters, Weapons and Items.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
District Null is a cyberpunk city simulation. Traffic, energy, fire services, police, schools and entertainment all run at the same time.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Endless Survival. 24+ Classes. Hordes of enemies, unique skill trees. Thousands of items. 10 Player CO-OP. Can you Survive against the horde?
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Sleepytime Village is the story of a workaholic father who makes one wrong choice too many and becomes trapped in a children’s storybook reality, haunted by the residents, its formless narrator and visions of his childhood. What is the Village and what does it want from him?
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Lost in an unknown world, Lyara tries to make sense of her surroundings while dealing with inner conflicts. Brave different challenges to find the answers she seeks as you progress through the game and grow alongside her.
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
A retro-fantasy action RPG with brutal combat and traversal-focused exploration. Embark on a quest to find your father who disappeared on the mysterious Isle of Neasied, where sinister forces gather, secrets hide everywhere, and the sleeping Queen has begun to stir…
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
Jump, glide, and outsmart traps in this spooky 3D platformer! Smash obstacles, solve puzzles, and fend off evil spirits to defeat The Dream Master. Collect hidden treasures and restore joy to a world shrouded in darkness!
Coming soon · Full game release: Oct 30, 2026
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