Best New Indie Games on Steam – October 20, 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.
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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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Silver Pines
Explore a monster-filled town where better tools and weapons open new routes, shortcuts, and puzzle solutions. Ammunition, healing supplies, and inventory space are limited, so each encounter asks whether fighting is worth the cost or slipping past will leave you better prepared for what lies ahead.
Tenebris Somnia
Search oppressive 2D environments, solve puzzles, and fight creatures while keeping an eye on ammunition, health, and inventory space. The retro exploration repeatedly gives way to live-action practical-effects scenes, shifting the same nightmare from pixel art into flesh-and-blood horror.
The Witch's Bakery
Run a witch's bakery by day, then spend the evening exploring Paris and getting to know its residents. Enter troubled hearts to find ingredients for healing bread, and use the night to strengthen your magic and decorate the shop before the next round of customers arrives.
Trash Day
Up to six raccoons push and steer a stolen cart through hazards while piling it high with valuable trash. Damage forces the group to stop and make repairs, and blocked routes turn tools, positioning, and collective shoving into improvised solutions before the haul can continue.
Folded Fables: Tidy Up The Dragon Hoard
Sort and arrange 5,648 treasures inside a papercraft dragon hoard, then tally their value and turn the work into new skills. Specializations improve finding, carrying, movement, and precise placement, whether you tidy alone or divide the enormous pile among as many as 16 players.
Brick by Brick: Tidy Up the Small Town!
Find 18,490 loose bricks by shape and color, sort them against blueprints, and place them until scattered piles become complete town buildings. Magnets, carts, and scaffolding speed up the work as the project grows, and up to five players can split the searching and construction.
Thanks, Light.
Shine light on a silhouette to turn it into a solid object, then absorb that light to flatten it again when its physical form gets in the way. Mirrors, lenses, scaling, and object combinations gradually layer onto that rule, making the order of each transformation part of the solution.
Mimic Busters
As a mimic, sculpt and paint a disguise with simple 3D tools, then blend it into the environment before the hunter finds you. Hunters receive periodic audio clues but lose health for careless shots, so a convincing fake can waste both their time and their chances.
Good Heavens!
Explore procedural floating islands alone or with up to eight players, gathering resources that become better tools, equipment, homes, and workshops. Restoring settlements and advancing six combat and life-skill trees keep the journey moving, while the absence of hunger and thirst leaves more time for building and exploration.
Pixel Washer
Wash layered dirt from pixel-art streets and objects to reveal the color underneath, earning currency as each area comes clean. Upgrades increase pressure, spray width, and range, opening more efficient ways to cover new materials and reach tucked-away grime while light exploration and puzzles break up the work.