Best New Indie Games on Steam – September 23, 2026
Discover indie games worth playing, wishlisting or keeping an eye on. Diershoubing editors update this page with standout new releases, hidden gems and promising upcoming games using Steam reviews, player activity, release momentum and editorial judgment.
Today's Top Indie Games
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Warding Witches
Switch constantly between firing, dodging, and each witch’s own defensive technique as the screen fills with bullets. Well-timed shields, projectile control, grazing, and erasure build your score, and that score feeds mid-run upgrades that can keep you alive longer. Changing witches also changes how you move, attack, and turn enemy fire into an advantage.
Alice Nation
Drag action and item cards onto people and places to explore the town, gather resources, negotiate, and solve puzzles. Materials can be combined into new tools, while many obstacles accept friendly, forceful, or deceptive approaches. Those choices can alter reputation and brutality, and an aggressive solution may leave the guards hostile even after the immediate problem is solved.
GemCraft - Legacy Collection
Forge and combine gems, then mount them in towers or traps to shape specialized defenses against incoming waves. Calling waves early earns greater rewards, but it also forces you to balance mana, skills, and a rapidly escalating battlefield across three long-form GemCraft campaigns.
Silver Pines
Search an interconnected small town where new tools and weapons open routes that were previously out of reach. Limited inventory and ammunition make every detour a choice, while investigation-driven puzzles and changing enemies keep familiar areas from becoming routine.
Roguefort
Develop magic through cheesemaking, then carry it into dungeon crawls, guild quests, homestead building, and voyages across a generated continent. Friends can join the adventure, or you can switch to Fortress mode and manage autonomous settlers, farms, and workshops.
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GemCraft - Legacy Collection
Forge and combine gems, then mount them in towers or traps to shape specialized defenses against incoming waves. Calling waves early earns greater rewards, but it also forces you to balance mana, skills, and a rapidly escalating battlefield across three long-form GemCraft campaigns.
Thanks, Light.
Shine light on a silhouette to turn it into a solid object, then absorb that light to flatten it again. As the puzzles grow more involved, mirrors, lenses, merged objects, physics, and changing perspectives make you reconsider which form each piece needs to take.
Stupid Never Dies
Devour defeated monsters to reshape Davey's body and steal their abilities, then combine mutations with equipment and limb-mounted attacks. Each timed descent pushes you to grow faster, improvise with newly acquired powers, and turn the weakest zombie into a stranger, stronger build.
if you stay
Spend one last date with Mika after being forced to leave your hometown, choosing what to say as old conflicts and hidden context surface. Those choices shape whether the relationship survives and lead toward at least two endings, all framed by PC-98-inspired pixel art and music.
Probably Stolen
Inspect questionable goods, authenticate or process them, and decide whether safer sales are worth more than profitable fraud and contraband. Every transaction can shift faction relationships, attract enforcement attention, or leave you short of the cash needed to survive rising rent and eventually buy the shop.
Magical Girl ER
Examine magical girls injured in kaiju disasters, combining symptoms, dialogue, documents, appearance, and test results into a diagnosis. Beds and stamina are limited, so accepting one patient may mean refusing another before you choose a treatment and live with where that decision leads.
Moon Sweepers
Start with a toothbrush and scrub persistent lunar dust from the surface, then haul it away and sell it. The proceeds expand your carrying capacity, tools, nearby collection stations, and cleaning vehicles, while crews of up to sixteen can divide the absurd job and watch the cleared ground spread.
Loftia
Build a life on a floating island by farming, crafting, exploring, decorating your home, and caring for animal companions. Link your island with those of other players, then contribute to shared projects that open new resources and locations while renewable-energy systems feed the growing community.
just volleyball
Control every step of your positioning and aim each touch with the cursor, leaving room for deliberate sets, attacks, and saves. Play anything from 1v1 to full 6v6 matches, practice against bots, or bring a team online and test how far the simple controls can stretch.
A Place for Every Potion
Pour mixed liquids between bottles until each holds a single color, then carry the finished potions to their proper shelves. Limited floating slots connect the two tasks, forcing you to choose what to sort and what to transport as the central pile shrinks and all 52 shelf sections fill.
Abyssal Lapidary
Assess uncertain raw stones before buying them, remove waste, and choose cutting methods that suit each mineral. Precise facets affect value before you combine the finished gems with metalwork for unusual customers, all while limited daily time and occult anomalies complicate the effort to restore the shop.