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updated Sep 22, 2026
Ashrun Survivors
Auto-battler survivor roguelike in the Vampire-Survivors lane. Each run is short, dense, and mean.
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Anime Shop Simulator
Run an anime store with up to three friends: stock manga and figures, set prices, open booster packs, and take the rare pulls into PvP card battles. Eight months of public demo patching before launch, ~123k wishlists on day one. Early reviews: Mixed, with friends making the difference.
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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
The 18-year wait is over: Snake's 2008 swan song finally leaves the PS3. Out today on Steam at $29.99 — or inside Master Collection Vol.2 at $49.99 with Peace Walker HD.
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Wanderburg
Drive a hungry stone castle across medieval fields, eat villages to grow, and bolt cannons to your own walls. Randwerk's roaming-fortress roguelike won gamescom's Most Entertaining award and opened at an 8,834 concurrent-player peak. Now ~1,200 reviews at 77% positive — momentum driving is the skill, and the -35% launch price died Sep 22.
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Fell & Sell
First-person hack'n'slash roguelike where you also run the shop. Dive the dungeon for stock, bank your haul or lose it, then price it and sell it. Out now, free demo on the store page.
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Welcome to Elderfield
Cozy horror farming RPG from one solo dev with a decade of hand-drawn horror manga behind it. Teeth and eyeball crops, turn-based Lovecraft combat, romance in 1.0, and "die in your sleep" listed as a feature. The 10% launch discount has ended.
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Happy Wheels
The 2010 browser classic is a paid Steam game as of today, sixteen years late and five years after Flash died. Same ragdoll physics, same 5M+ community levels behind an in-game level browser, now with no ads, Steam achievements and account linking. Jim Bonacci expected 5,000 wishlists and got 750,000; he is asking players to be patient with the servers, and says offline play and better controller support come after launch.
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Gallipoli
The new WW1 shooter from the Isonzo team — 50-player objective battles on the Ottoman Fronts. Beach landings, trench warfare, desert fights, 10 historic classes. Over 1,200 reviews in a day.
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ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE
Bandai Namco's first mainline Ace Combat in 7 years. You fly the whole war under a dead hero's callsign, the minimum spec demands an RTX 2060 and an SSD, and every pre-order bundles a port of the 2006 PS2 classic Ace Combat Zero.
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SILENT HILL: Townfall
First-person Silent Hill from the Glasgow studio that used to be No Code, set on a Scottish island in 1996. You play Simon Ordell, who arrives with an IV line still in his wrist, and the old radio is now a handheld CRTV you tune to find creatures and clues. 3,148 Steam reviews at 65% positive now that the standard edition is out, and the most upvoted review comes from a player who finished it and says it is not worth the time.
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Konbini Cleanup
Cozy organizing sim set in a trashed Japanese convenience store. Sort 2,928 products back onto their shelves — no timers, no pressure.
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Cthulhu's Reach: Devil Reef
The Lovecraftian action-adventure hits version 1.0 after a long early access run, with the launch trailer live now.
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STAR WARS Zero Company
Bit Reactor's Clone Wars tactics game is out — the closest Star Wars has come to XCOM, with an XCOM-veteran pedigree, custom squad building and a $49.99 full-price launch.
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Dressmaker
Run a dressmaking shop: sketch the commission, buy cotton or silk by the metre, cut the pattern to the grain, then sew it. From the itch.io prototype that pulled 834 ratings at 4.8, published by the Gorn studio Free Lives. Switch and mobile ports are on the roadmap; controller support is not in yet.
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Crimson Moon
ProbablyMonsters' 2-player co-op action RPG. Build your bond with the moon spirit, then decide how much of the story you want to see — the endings diverge based on how you play the duo.
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Normal Golf Game
Luke Muscat, the designer behind Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, spent his post-Halfbrick years on a golf game where you swing by dragging the mouse and fighting the club with six keys. 134 reviews in fifteen hours, 131 positive. Bounty money buys assists before a nine hole trial, and the free demo alone pulled 369 reviews at 98%. Windows 64-bit only, plays fine on Steam Deck.
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Touhou Koumakyou: New Classic
ZUN remade his own 2002 bullet hell classic: every track rearranged, upscaled art, an unlimited-lives mode, and the 2002 original bundled in at no extra cost. Deluxe with the 30+ track soundtrack is 15% off. 3,000+ Steam reviews in two days, 98% positive.
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Tiny Eden
A 2050 balcony-garden sim with a split reputation: Steam players 96% positive, three outlets landed at 5-7/10 over save bugs and UI lag. The gardening itself is genuinely good — start with the plant care basics.
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Gunman Contracts - Stand Alone
The Half-Life: Alyx mod with 86 pages of Workshop comments, rebuilt from scratch in Unity. Three story contracts, 18 weapons, leaderboards split VR vs flat — and you don't need to own Alyx or a headset. Solo dev ANB_Seth, price rises toward 1.0.
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The Blood of Dawnwalker
Open-world vampire action RPG from ex-Witcher 3 devs. Human by day, dawnwalker by night — plus a day-one 60fps patch after the 30fps backlash.
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Twisted Tower
BioShock-meets-Disney horror shooter from 3D Realms. Fight corrupted fairy-tale mascots through an abandoned 1950s resort and climb the tower to save the one you love.
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Grave Seasons
Cozy farming simulator meets small-town horror mystery. You tend the land by day, investigate what happened to the previous residents by night. Day-one on Game Pass.
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2
Four marines, not three. The co-op xenomorph shooter sequel launches with day-one crossplay across Steam, Epic, PS5 and Xbox — one matchmaking pool, 15 campaign missions, $49.99 no discount.
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Valheim 1.0
Five and a half years of early access end with the Deep North finally open. Around 137,900 concurrent players showed up within hours of the patch. Note for returning vikings: one console command permanently flags your save as cheated.
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Warlord: Awaji
Darkmatter Games' second immersive strategy game: command a samurai army from inside the warlord's body on a real-terrain island of 14th-century Japan. Sequel to Warlord: Britannia (Very Positive, 1,939 reviews). Day-one watch: crashes and a soft-locking tutorial.
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Graveyard Keeper 2
The sequel to the beloved 2018 cemetery sim. Restore the town, automate production with zombies, and lead your undead army into battle. Lazy Bear Games / tinyBuild. Out now at $24.99 — 89% positive from 1,055 Steam reviews.
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Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Capcom's samurai series returns after 20 years — Miyamoto Musashi vs. the Genma in Edo-era Kyoto, moved up to Sep 4. Expanded demo with boss mode is live now.
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Dungeon Settlers
CanOpener's first game: a colony sim bolted onto a real-time-with-pause dungeon crawler, four-member parties, permadeath runs on by default. How deep you build before descending is the whole argument.
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Garbage King
Strategy game where you build a waste-management empire. Think city builder mechanics, but you're the guy everyone used to ignore.
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The Lantern of the Laughless Saint
Morrowind-inspired open-world RPG where you wake on an island beneath a silent Tower. Full co-op, online or split-screen. Out in Early Access today.
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Serious Sam: Shatterverse
Behaviour Interactive (Dead by Daylight) and Devolver deliver a roguelite co-op FPS for 1–5 players. Multi-Sam gimmick: a squad of Serious Sams from different universes team up across shifting arenas. Day-one crossplay between PC, PS5 and Xbox.
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Breathedge 2
Space survival-craft sequel from RedRuins Softworks, in Early Access with 4-player co-op. Same Hitchhiker's-meets-Subnautica tone as the 2021 original, plus the immortal chicken Polyhedron.
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Project P.I.T.T.
You're an intern whose only job is to feed rubber ducks to a corporate void. Build physics contraptions, chain combos for profit, and watch the Maw grow. Very Positive two days in, free demo on itch.io.
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VHOLUME
Melancholic first-person parkour through a brutalist dystopia where bureaucracy turns one errand into an odyssey. Out now from a three-person team — 96% positive from 163 reviews on day one. Free demo on Steam.
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Brigador Killers
The continuation of the cult mech game Brigador, now infantry-first. Build a private arsenal and bring the war home to the corporations. Isometric insurgent combat out in Early Access today.
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Stars Reach
Sandbox MMO from Ultima Online designer Raph Koster — explore a living galaxy, build settlements, and reshape planets that react to you, all in one shared universe.
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KOTAMON
Dig super-rare trading cards out of the trash to complete a million-dollar collection. A silly, laid-back cozy sim — nobody rushes you, you just rummage and hunt the Kotámons.
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Mafia: The Old Country — Man of Honor
Two new story chapters in 1905 Sicily, following Enzo as he teams up with a young Salieri. Free Ride content with the crew is included.
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METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2
MGS4 finally leaves the PS3 — with Peace Walker HD, Ghost Babel and a lore database along for the ride. The 18-year wait ends today: Snake's swan song and Big Boss's army-builder in one $49.99 bundle, on Steam, PS5, Xbox and Switch.
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Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
A Plague Tale goes action-heavy: Asobo's prequel casts Sophia, 15 years before Requiem, on the run toward the Minotaur's Island. Dual blades, Greek myth, day one on Game Pass.
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Death Kitchen
A chaotic co-op cooking game with a horror twist — the kitchen fights back. If you survived Overcooked, this one tests your nerves differently.
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BRIGANDINE ABYSS
The third Brigandine tactical SRPG — six nations, hex-based battles, grand strategy map. Out on Steam today at $49.99, consoles tomorrow. Free demo still up on the store page.
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How to Fish
You and up to 3 friends crash a boat into an island, and to get home you have to learn How to Fish. Physics-based co-op fishing with fish to kill, sell, gamble on, and rare variants to collect. 1,600+ reviews on day one.
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Sister Other Paranoia
The new dark visual novel from nyalra, writer of Needy Streamer Overload. A mind-reading novelist, a codependent sister, and choices that make it worse.
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Black Myth: Zhong Kui
Game Science's follow-up to Wukong showed 15 minutes of real gameplay on August 20, 2026 — and still has no release date and no Steam page to wishlist. What the footage confirms about the setting, the combat and the timeline.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4
Infinity Ward's next mainline Call of Duty lands October 22, 2026: North Korea invades, Captain Price runs a personal war from the shadows, and the campaign keeps the open-ended mission structure. Beta wrapped September 1.
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EA SPORTS FC 27
EA's annual football sim returns September 24, 2026 with The Grounds — a street-to-stadium mode pitched as "where the streets meet the stadium" — plus crossplay and split-screen. Ultimate Team and Career come back unchanged.
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Metal Gear Solid 4 (PC)
Snake's 2008 PS3 finale finally hit Steam on August 27, 2026 — nineteen years late. $29.99 standalone, no launch discount, and sold separately from the Master Collection Vol. 2 bundle.
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NBA 2K27
Visual Concepts' annual basketball sim shipped September 3, 2026 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch: ProPLAY animation tech, the MyCAREER story and The City, at the usual $69.99.
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Shroom and Gloom
A first-person deckbuilder where exploration is a card game too: two decks, no block cards, and healing done by cooking the mushrooms that just tried to kill you. Early Access started September 10, 2026 at $14.99.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope
GSC Game World's first big expansion for Heart of Chornobyl, out since August 20, 2026 — a nonlinear Zone story with an early Duty-or-Freedom branch, plus the free Update 2.0 that shipped the same day.
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BOMBANANA!
Three players, three monkeys, one bomb, and a complete information gap between you: one can only see, one can only hear, one can only speak. Out September 2, 2026 at $7.99 — no solo mode, so bring two friends.
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WheelMates
A two-player co-op adventure about hand-sized RC cars lost inside a professor's house: roll, push and fall off the furniture together. Friend's Pass means the second player pays nothing. Out since September 1, 2026.
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Normal Golf Game
Solo-dev physics golf, out Sep 21. The swing is the game.
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TCG Card Shop Simulator
The card-shop sim that spent two years as a Steam Early Access giant finally goes 1.0 — playable Tetramon TCG included — and hits PS5, Switch, and Switch 2 for the first time.
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Big Ambitions
New York business RPG sim leaving Early Access on August 28. Pricing Manager employee, reworked import/export economy, and three years of updates in the final build.
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Servant of the Lake
The new premium point-and-click from Rusty Lake. You're the servant at the Vanderboom estate for one weekend — and the chores get very strange. Out on PC and mobile, 44 achievements.
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Ragnarok: The New World
Gravity's official RO revival — cross-platform MMORPG on PC and mobile, free to play, 8 classes including the new Druid.
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No More Room in Hell 2
Torn Banner's 8-player co-op zombie shooter finally hits 1.0 with the Armageddon update, now on consoles with crossplay. Brutal, scarce, and team-dependent.
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Halloween: The Game
Michael Myers finally gets his own 1v4 asymmetric horror — IllFonic's Boogeyman-vs-Haddonfield game is out now with confirmed full crossplay and a single-player story from Michael's perspective.
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Sandustry
Factory automation where every pixel is a resource. Mine the world apart, automate the chains, and dig for an ancient civilization's secrets. Day-one on PC Game Pass.
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ENDLESS Legend 2
Saiadha's oceans drain as the game runs, exposing land that's worth grabbing early. AMPLITUDE closed a year of early access with a 50% discount and two patches in the first 48 hours. 1,869 Steam reviews sit at 83% positive, and the loudest complaints are about a quiet interface and a slow sense of direction.
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WARDOGS
100-player, three-team tactical FPS from the Battalion 1944 devs. Destructible maps, a cash economy, and a "don't buy it" marketing stunt that backfired gloriously.
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Endacopia
A point-and-click that looks like a 90s edutainment game and slowly turns into something unsettling. Andyland's surreal town of Timesville — multiple endings, secret puzzles, suddenly getting a spotlight.
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Stage Tour
RedOctane Games — the original Guitar Hero studio — returns with a 90+ song rhythm game and real plastic instrument controllers. Revealed at gamescom 2026, the rhythm-game community has been waiting 15 years for this.
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The Wolf Among Us Remastered
Telltale's Fables noir classic returns as the definitive edition — all five episodes, enhanced visuals and a new Noir Mode that plays the entire story in black and white.
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Stars Reach
Sandbox MMO from Ultima Online designer Raph Koster. Explore a living galaxy, found settlements, reshape planets that react to you.
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KOTAMON
Become a garbage man hunting super-rare cards in the trash to complete a million-dollar collection. Silly, chill, single-player cozy sim — out now at $6.99.
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Mortal Shell II
The standalone sequel to 2020's Mortal Shell. Possess fallen warriors, upgrade your combat, and explore a compact open world. Free beta is live — pre-orders open.
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Shift At Midnight
Co-op detective horror for up to 3 players: work the night shift, spot the customers who only pretend to be human. Day one on Game Pass.
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Twisted Tower
BioShock-meets-Disney horror shooter from 3D Realms. Fight corrupted mascots through an abandoned 1950s resort and race to the top of the tower.
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Hell Let Loose: Vietnam
The hardcore 50v50 shooter's first new theater — jungle warfare, helicopters, and full crossplay between PC, PS5, and Xbox for the first time in the series.
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Mistfall Hunter
Dark fantasy extraction ARPG that hit a million players in week one. Soulslike combat, four classes, full crossplay — and it's on Game Pass.
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The Lord of the Rings: War in the North — Legacy Edition
The 2011 co-op action RPG is back after seven years off the shelves. Aspyr's re-release lands on every modern platform — 3-player co-op, QoL changes, and some grumpy Steam owners.
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The Sinking City 2
Frogwares' Lovecraftian survival horror in a flooded 1920s Arkham. Single-player, resource-lean, and the free demo already has people calling it a step up from the original.
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Big Walk
The co-op "walker-talker" from the Untitled Goose Game studio. 2–12 players, full crossplay, no timers. Critics love it; it's polarizing in the best way.
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Machine Party
Violent 2–4 player party games from the Buckshot Roulette creator. Failure is lethal, sabotage is encouraged, and the soundtrack slaps.
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Pax Autocratica
Satirical colony sim fused with an FPS roguelite. Run a totalitarian state, manage fear and loyalty, then personally storm the battlefield. Early Access out now.
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ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs
Slow, relaxing repair sim. Open up busted gadgets, find the fault, put it right. No timers, no pressure.
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Shogun's Stand
Action tower defense rogue-lite set in a besieged feudal Japan. You're the last defender — aim, fire, and fortify.
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Patisserie Simulator
Run a tiny dessert shop: bake, price, and handle the customers who complain that your croissant is "not flaky enough".
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Robbo Millennium
Casual puzzle-platforming return of a cult classic — collect the capsules, avoid the bots.
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