THE RELEASE CALENDAR
– · Soonest releases first. Try an available demo while you wait.
Dates follow Steam and may change. Games without an exact day are in Coming soon.
VELTARUM is a single-player retro FPS built around fast movement and brutal combat. Wall-run through a dark world of towers and chains, fight with guns and a sword, slow time, and face towering bosses. Spend crystals on upgrades between lives and climb again.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 8, 2026
A Christian-themed, story driven, side scrolling platform video game in the ZJ the Ball franchise by Breakthrough Gaming!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 8, 2026
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Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 8, 2026
1999. The protagonist, a boy named Akira, finds himself lost in the TOKOYO Building—an indoor amusement park filled with secrets and eerie rumors. There, he begins living and working alongside its peculiar staff, but... did you know? People disappear in the TOKOYO Building.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Search a persistent hay pile with millions of candidates and one winning needle. Work strand by strand alone or with up to three friends, sort the mess, sell strange finds, and unlock better tools in a cozy first-person test of patience.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A strange journey into the backrooms is an atmospheric exploration game focused on an introspective psychological voyage rather than mere survival. Navigate a lethal, endless labyrinth filled with forgotten stories and liminal spaces that stretch beyond the limits of human imagination.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Become a wizard, and a thumping good one! Abracademia is a cozy mage idle life-sim that lives on your screen and keeps you company while you work or play. Pick a coven, manage your daily routine, learn spells, make friends, embark on adventures, and pass exams on your way to graduation.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Why wait for heroes to come for you? Build and deploy a monster army to eliminate them before they grow strong enough to defeat you. A strategy roguelite from the Demon Lord’s perspective!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A medieval siege-defence strategy game where a rival crown comes for your city. Command your troops on the walls and in the field, and between rounds light beacons to choose which allies will march to your aid. Win or lose, every battle earns renown to make Aldmark stronger.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A group of university students is going to spend a week in the old hotel "Amnea". Within these seven days they have to find out what is hidden behind its facade and to unravel all the mysteries without losing their minds.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
The world has fallen. Animals have risen and evolved intelligence. Build your deck, fortify your hideout, position your army, then watch your animal gang battle automatically through the chaos of a post-apocalyptic war.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Fight through a shifting rift in a 3D action roguelite. Choose Lumi, Bram, or Nox; master their distinct melee, shield, and rune abilities; shape each five-room expedition with routes and blessings; and face the Swarm Heart with friends in online co-op or with AI companions.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Explore a distant planet, battle dangerous creatures and uncover hidden secrets in a classic 2D RPG with 10–15 hours of adventure. Complete quests and grow stronger in this faithful recreation of the 1998 DOS game, rebuilt by its original creators.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A digital comic set in the Beholder universe, presented as a handbook for the ever-watchful landlord. Discover the fine art of minding everyone else's business through dark humor, suspicious tenants, and the absurd rules of the Great State that never stops watching.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Slide cats of all shapes and sizes to leave exactly one empty space in each row and column. Meet 40 adorable cats and put your puzzle-solving skills to the test across 120 challenging levels.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Grow humanity’s last colony from one thawed sleeper to one billion souls aboard a failing generation ship. Draft cards, build powerful grid combinations, and trade population against dwindling life support in this idle roguelite deckbuilder. The billionth soul is the hardest one to save.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Dodge deadly blades, fight back with powerful abilities, and survive ever-changing challenges in this fast-paced arcade roguelite. Unlock permanent upgrades, master four specializations, and take on the chaos solo or with up to 4 players in local or online co-op.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Reunite orb-shaped birds with their flock by solving simple yet satisfying puzzles. Brought to life by hand-drawn art from a longtime bird keeper.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Your cat borrowed eight million, built a second sun in the bathroom, and named you guarantor. An absurd comedy visual novel with dubious contracts, a bathtub republic, a turn-based solar puzzle, and three ways to survive the evening.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Boss in Diapers is a competitive card game set in a chaotic daycare! Defeat your rivals to sit on the Boss Chair. Create your Baby Mafia Boss and battle with 2–4 players to rule the daycare.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
An incremental game made of seven physics simulations. Drop balls into a ring until it shatters, steal links on a gravity-free lattice, sweep a reactor with a beam. Upgrades change the physics itself, and automated simulations keep earning while you work on the next one.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Create your character, pick your starting gear, and settle into a rented cabin in this immersive, relaxing life simulator. Forage, work odd jobs, sell junk at the thrift store, and keep yourself fed and clean as you save up for the cabin of your dreams.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Cannon War is a pixel-art tower-defense strategy game spanning Ancient, Modern, and Future Warfare. Build towers and barricades to reshape enemy routes, combine weapons and targeting strategies, expand your permanent arsenal, and defend your headquarters through a multi-era campaign.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Build, armor and arm your car for a 50 km road trip through a zombie-infested canyon. Plow through the horde, refuel, hunt, cook and survive the night, then race circuit championships, drag tournaments and the launcher. 9 vehicles, 10 regions, live weather.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A vertical-climbing action roguelike: scale a massive tower as a capybara while your weapons fire on their own, bullet-heaven style. Level up, shape your build, take on quests, and unlock weapons and characters. Every run generates a brand-new tower.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Get ready to crack packs and throw cards in a single-player collectible card RPG! Explore a unique world while collecting your own cards to build the deck that'll make you a Cardaire legend.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Master the Deck & overthrow the King in this roguelike tabletop deckbuilder featuring strategy, dice and a little luck. Dominate suit-based combat with strength-boosting dice, or recruit and use unique heroes, powerful wizards, and legendary knights.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Casualties: Unknown is an unforgiving cave-exploration survival simulator. Your captors have tasked you with retrieving lost cargo on a foreign planet, explore its 11 layers and do your best to survive diverse hostile environments. You are just one of the thousands of test subjects sent to die.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Bring the greatest sport in the world to your Twitch stream with Corgi Race Live! Stream corgi races and have your chat compete with you; picking winners, exactas and trifectas with hopes of topping the leaderboard. Take on the mantle of corgi racing host and bring everyone to the party.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Corposlop is an automation game that lives on your desktop. Harvest resources using bureaucracy, and refine it into components to feed the corporate machine. Make better factories and efficient pipelines to make the most out your limited area.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Raise a family, carry on through generations, and fight demons to break a curse passed down through your bloodline in this family legacy simulation game.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Oh, a new face? Welcome to Death Pool Club. Every ball you sink takes a bite out of your rival's health. But we share the table, darling. Whatever you leave lying around is mine next turn ♠ The pockets are shady and the executives cheat openly. Beat them all, if you can.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Vicious demigods demand sacrifices! Take control of captive creatures, explore mysterious islands and solve 50+ mind-bending puzzles in story mode or 20+ unique levels in two-player online co-op. The twist? To please the demigods and uncover their secrets, you must kill yourselves!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Tiny goofy guys have moved onto your desktop and they're not leaving. They haul coins to your dock, play with toys, and get absolutely obliterated by your death ray. Click-through, always there, always up to something.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
3D Pretty Girl Dress-Up Fighting Game, earn DNA in battles to unlock skills and outfits. Experience the authentic feel of an arcade-style fighting game, with an original combat system, delivering exhilarating infinite combos and counter-infinite combos.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
DREADMOOR is a dark first-person fishing adventure game set in a submerged world, rotting from a past catastrophe. Fish in murky waters, upgrade your boat, craft survival gear, and fight monstrous creatures that lurk under the water and on the land.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Draw fire with every step. Close blazing loops to burn through the horde, combine ten powers, and survive fifteen minutes before facing a guardian. Free three haunted realms as a tiny ember that refuses to fade.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
In a world where human civilization is threatened by monsters, only the rare few individuals who wield forbidden skills dare challenge them. However, these brave warriors have to face an even more dangerous hazard... The Hero Syndrome. Only a young doctor can hope to cure the disease in this JRPG!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Grow alien plants in an abandoned greenhouse, pair neighbors that react in fire, frost and light, and breed new species you get to name. Tune the climate, explore the valley with robot spheres and hold the line when the pest swarms arrive.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Take control of legendary Heroes from myths, tales, and legends of every culture. Each Hero has a unique deck reflecting their personality and powers. Enter a tactical card game where strategy and foresight turn every battle into an unforgettable story.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Build and grow your own farm and roadside market. Grow crops, raise animals, craft valuable products, set prices, hire employees, stock your shelves, serve customers, and expand your small operation into a thriving business.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A cozy incremental where you choose how your bees evolve, plant flowers, guide your hive, and grow a thriving honey empire.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Forbidden House is a first-person puzzle adventure with over 40 puzzles to solve.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
You are a pilgrim lost in a mysterious forest. Survive in this procedurally generated, turn-based tactical roguelite inspired by Galician mythology. Upgrade your gear, adapt your strategy and remember: something is always lurking in the shadows.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
An incremental game where you dig through cursed tombs, harvest bones, flesh, and various resources; stitch together your own creature from nothing. Discover powerful artifacts, experiment with unique combinations, and bring your creation to life—piece by piece.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Search the ashes of an abandoned Latin American town and uncover 400 years of secrets. An epic non-linear mystery where you travel back in time and untangle the history of a community cursed by generations of supernatural forces.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
To escape the maze, you must survive turn-based combats in which cards will activate your weapons, and they will perform according to dice rolls. Gnart's Escape is a Deck-building Roguelike RPG.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Your weapons fire on their own. Your job is to keep moving. Wall-run, dash and bunny-hop through hordes of monsters across 10 worlds, and turn 46 weapons and 111 items into an unstoppable build. Play solo or in online co-op for up to 4 players.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A cozy gold panning game. Wash the creek gravel, watch the gold settle in your pan, sell your finds in the village, and turn a small empty room into a home. No timers, no failure. Just quiet, golden little days.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Gopher It is a cozy first-person job sim about being the newest intern in an office full of animals. When someone calls, you go and do what they want: copies, coffee, the post, a birthday card to pass round. Play solo or with up to three friends. No timers, no game over.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Raise a creature with a brain of its own: seventeen instincts, senses that mutate between runs, and a memory that lasts its whole life. Play it by hand to teach it, or watch it descend alone. Every floor is built from scratch, nothing comes identified, and it never truly dies.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A raccoon co-op horror extraction game for 1-8 players. Infiltrate procedural ruins, loot everything and extract the relic. Mammon, the Greed Demon, is watching… Stay away from his curse!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
The world above is gone. Guide two souls through a rotting underground and shape who they become with character traits in this grimdark role playing game. Sneak past strangers, try to understand them, or tear them apart. Anyone can die, your choices matter, and people remember how you treat them.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Ready your laser, rev up those trimmers, and run your own hair removal salon! Utilize cutting-edge salon tech, leaving clients hair-free and feeling fresh. Manage their pain levels, launch ludicrous sales pitches, and sink profits into gear upgrades and employees. Become a grooming powerhouse!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Handshakes: Hands On is a wholesome puzzle game all about shaking hands. With puzzles designed to foster discovery and gently guide the player towards their own solution, you can play alone or with a friend and get your hands dirty in this simple and surprising puzzler.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A little village lives in a strip at the bottom of your screen. While you work, adventurers hunt on their own, wielding the Hatchlings you raise as weapons. Enhance them until they take on a new look, mix any two into a new one, and follow the village journal. One price, no ads.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
HELL WAIT is riichi mahjong crossed with roguelike deckbuilding. Stack your jokers. Upgrade your yaku. Try not to deal in. You'll need those fingers.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A cozy Christmas-themed Sokoban puzzle game where Santa must push presents into the right places. Solve 50 handcrafted pixel art levels full of festive charm.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A serial killer nicknamed "The Hotdog Killer" is suffocating victims on the streets. Recruited by an FBI agent, you must run your late-night hotdog cart and closely observe suspicious customer behavior to identify the murderer before he strikes again.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Howlbound is a cinematic sci-fi fantasy management RPG where you command a mobile castle, develop cybernetic Lycan operatives, and direct branching node-based missions with automatic combat shaped by your preparation and choices.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Bow-hunt big game across five wild grounds in VR. Draw a real bow, track and call trophy animals, and survive the night when the woods hunt you back. Use a rifle, play it like a hunting sim, or open the cheats and bring a rocket launcher to a deer hunt or set the woods on fire with your flamethrower
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A fantasy idle RPG. Manage your camp, recruit heroes, and let auto-battles fight for you. Farm gear and materials from every fight, then strengthen, enchant, and customize affixes to forge your own powerful equipment as you conquer the frontier stage by stage!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
From the creator of Inertia - a first-person movement platformer built on fluid, refined mechanics. Run, create, and compete in the definitive movement experience.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Follow in the footsteps of a missing Egyptologist as you explore mysterious passageways beneath the Great Pyramids. Solve 50 unique and challenging puzzles, uncover ancient artifacts, and discover the truth behind his disappearance.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Build and run your own kebab restaurant in a single-player management simulation. Set prices, hire staff, serve customers, keep the shop clean, upgrade the interior, and turn a small counter into a thriving food business.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Law Firm Simulator is a business management sandbox where you build and run your own legal empire. Hire lawyers, take on clients, manage complex cases, expand your offices, and grow a small practice into the city’s most prestigious law firm.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
It's 2003. Your modem screams, pop-ups multiply, and your shared folder is your empire. Leech files, seed them for credits, close fake virus alerts before they eat your bandwidth, and keep your LeechMessenger friends happy in this Y2K idle game.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Build your world, one hex at a time. Little Lands is a peaceful, low-stress world builder where you gather resources, expand your landscape, and create a world of your own. No timers, no game overs, just build, decorate, and enjoy.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Crack open chests, chain buffs and recruit the ultimate goblin crew in this fast-paced incremental auto-battler. Send them deeper into dungeons. Get better loot. Repeat!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
When mysterious changes begin to affect the kingdom, the king summons a young adventurer to Xenopolis and entrusts them with a quest that could decide the realm’s fate. Journey through dangerous lands and uncover the secrets surrounding the crystal. What awaits you on the road ahead?
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
An autobattler focused on the creating synergies to buff your team. Upgrade your units and defeat increasingly stronger enemies in this rogue-like game.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
March and Conquer is a short autobattler game. During the battle, use the skill tree to train units to fight against enemies on the battlefield. Gain gold and mana from wins and train different units and upgrade your army. March across multiple lands and fight fearsome foes!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Enter Mediotorum, a fantasy world torn by rival factions. Collect cards, forge your deck, and face other players in turn-based duels where every decision can tip the balance of the war.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Megachest is an incremental game about opening chests, discovering legendary loot, and building your ultimate fortune empire! Start with simple rewards and grow into a master of magic and riches as you unlock rare items, upgrade your power, and hire helpers to automate your chest-opening journey
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Meltdown is a nuclear reactor desk-job simulation where you, as a newly recruited operator, must control the reactor to keep the surrounding city powered up. Maintain the wires in the power grid, regulate the water tank’s flow, and tune the steam ventilation to keep the reactor from overheating.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A colorful puzzle adventure about a lost child searching for her memories, guiding her through darkness by mastering light and shadow.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Menthal is a first-person horror game where you are the test subject. Take experimental medicine, endure the side effects, and try to survive what happens next.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
An intense 30-minute first-person survival thriller set in a post-apocalyptic underground. Survive a pitch-black tunnel, gather spare parts to fix your handcar, and reach the sealing station before your gas mask filter runs out.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Survive 10 minutes on the night shift at SHIFT24, where cup noodles, snacks, and coffee turn the aisles into a bullet heaven. Fight off nightmare customers, pay off your debt, and uncover what SHIFT24 is hiding in this survivors-like roguelite.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Sign artists, develop talent, release music and steer careers through tours, festivals and changing trends in a detailed music industry management sim set from 1952 to 2026.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Sinister tides are rising in the Drowned City. Dive into a Point and Click action-RPG with fast-paced shoot-outs and retro arcade racing. Uncover the truth behind a murder you don't remember committing!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
High-speed neon action! Swing with your grappling gun, blast rogue robots, and stay airborne. Shoot while flying, chain movement and combat, and feel the rush of unstoppable momentum. Choose powerful cards, unlock skill chests, and master your movement to become an unstoppable force.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A first-person gothic adventure where you drive a horse-drawn cart through plague-ridden Transylvania alongside an immortal woman, exploring forgotten places, battling desperate foes, uncovering ancient secrets, and searching for the legendary Count Saint Germain.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Build and manage a spiritual market inspired by Japan, welcome wandering spirits, produce and sell resources, and grow your space through memories and a cozy atmosphere.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A retro-inspired, classic turn-based RPG for those with nostalgia for the '90s golden era. Explore a vast world with 14 playable characters, fight hundreds of unique enemies, and delve into an epic story of war, betrayal, and redemption.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Command frontlines directly in a real time territorial strategy game. Push borders, link settlements with supply roads, and break defenses with cavalry and naval landings. Includes six historical campaigns, Skirmish, a built in map editor, and online matches for up to eight players.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Build and defend an armored train through ever-changing underground routes. Recruit gunners, alchemists, and mechanics, upgrade your wagons, choose your path, and survive relentless kobold raids and colossal bosses.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A chaotic multiplayer party game where you drink, fill your bladder, and compete with your friends to pee on as much as possible. Drink up, aim well, and claim the most territory to win!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Relax and engage your mind with these relaxing logic puzzles. Train your brain and find your inner peace.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A cozy pixel-art incremental about a flock of adorable pigeons and a park full of clueless picnickers. Aim your flock at the crowd, snatch coins from pockets, and spend the loot on upgrades. Every pigeon gets its own superpower. Steal, upgrade, repeat.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Plum is a 3d cozy platforming and collectathon game where you will have to roll and bounce through the valley in search for home. On your way, meet different ghost plums each which a story to share. This game is a colorful stylized short adventure (about 1h) made to chill or speedrunning.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A satisfying incremental idle game that drops the pretense to give you pure unadulterated progress. Boost, earn bonuses and buy upgrades to speed up your progress or take it easy and let it make progress by itself while you make progress elsewhere. No stress, only progress!
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A base-building survival game with terraforming and crafting. Earth lies poisoned and abandoned ten thousand years after invasion. Awaken from stasis, defend your fragile foothold, and restore a dead world so humanity can live here again.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Break in. Tear it up. Get out before the cops show up. Wall run, slide, double jump and rocket-jump off your own shotgun across places you don't belong. Headshot your friends mid-air and chain eliminations in a lightning-fast 4-player arena shooter you can pick up in a single match.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Set in an American home, REC:REWIND follows a missing husband and the wife who refuses to stop searching for him. Experience a “reverse loop” horror story, unraveling the truth through the eyes of both of them as you travel deeper and deeper into the past.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
A heartfelt New Year’s story about relocation and growing up. From wrapping gifts to navigating bureaucracy, can you adjust to a new life and discover what home means to you now?
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Revenant Survivors is a horde survival action roguelite set in a Diablo-inspired dark fantasy world. Tear through endless hordes with hard-hitting combat, absorb souls, steal bosses’ skills, and even take their bodies to become evil incarnate.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Rocket.io is an online multiplayer arena game where hover-cars battle for territory. Leave a trail, claim ground, and cut off your rivals! Play quick matches, private rooms, and battles with 2 to 8 teams, or take on the AI. Collect and customize over 25 vehicles.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Freeze when the music stops, solve her puzzles, and escape the house before she gets to you. A short, fully voice-acted anime VTuber horror game where every second counts.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
Unravel a cosmic conspiracy in a story-driven space opera featuring tactical fleet battles. Command your crew on an 8X5 grid with constant engagement and tight resource management against an unknown threat. Success depends on choosing the right tradeoffs at the right moment in order to progress.
Coming soon · Full game release: Nov 9, 2026
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