Best New Indie Games on Steam – October 21, 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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Shipping Store Simulator 2037
Start by accepting orders and carrying parcels around the warehouse yourself, then add specialized robots to automate more of the work. Trucks and drones widen the delivery network, while customer competition and risky black-market jobs add complications before the business eventually reaches space. The climb is lively, though the current progression can run out of meaningful upgrades fairly quickly and some manual hauling remains late in the game.
Warding Witches
Shoot and weave through bullet patterns, but do not treat defense as a last-resort escape. Each witch has her own movement, firing, and defensive systems, and well-timed protection feeds a risk-reward scoring loop that strengthens abilities during the run. Switching characters changes how those pieces fit together, although the early feedback suggests their options may not be equally flexible.
Probably Stolen
Inspect uncertain goods before deciding what they are worth, then manufacture, trade, or smuggle stock through a cyberpunk space-station economy. Bargaining, licenses, faction relationships, and inspections all shape which deals are safe, while hidden contraband can turn a profitable transaction into a larger risk. Rent keeps climbing in the background, pushing the shop toward increasingly difficult choices as you try to buy the business outright.
EarthX 2
Build launch vehicles from compatible parts, take contracts, and recover reusable spacecraft so the next mission costs less to prepare. As the company grows, factories can automate production and satellites can provide services in orbit. The logistics chain eventually stretches to lunar and Martian colonies, where expansion brings more moving parts—and early reports of repetition and worsening performance as object counts rise.
Athanasia
Explore a sealed research facility where prehistoric predators can be avoided, trapped, or fought with whatever supplies you can preserve. Hacking, lockpicking, powered machinery, explosives, and fire open alternate routes or create indirect solutions when a direct attack looks costly. That flexibility is the draw, but slow movement, imprecise combat, inconsistent physics, and confusing navigation can make escape plans harder to execute than intended.
just volleyball
Move every player manually and aim with the cursor, leaving positioning and shot placement in your hands instead of handing them to assisted controls. Matches scale from 1v1 and 2v2 duels to full 6v6 teams, with bots, offline play, and online competition available. The simple setup is easy to read, but the full release still has to prove that its physics and networking remain fair when more players crowd the court.
Find The Needle
Dig through an enormous haystack by hand, sell the hay you remove, and spend the proceeds on tools that speed up the search. Conveyors and machines gradually take over sorting and needle detection, while new production lines turn hay into more valuable goods. More than 300 upgrades promise a long climb from shovel work to automation, though the full game's pacing and factory optimization have not yet been tested.
Red Chat Ritual – TSUMIMI TIME
Spend each day searching social media and fan sites for clues, then enter livestreams at night and decide when to comment, send gifts, stay silent, or conserve limited funds. Those interventions change the evidence available for later deductions, which steer the story toward six major endings. The structure makes every broadcast part investigation and part interference, but the full game still has to show whether its deductions reward careful reasoning rather than simple branch selection.
Phantom Line: Prologue
Enter anomaly zones alone or with up to four players, investigate supernatural incidents, and contain what you find amid a wider military crisis. Transferable artificial bodies can scout dangerous ground, distract threats, or follow tactical commands, then improve through essence recovered in the field. The free prologue offers a focused chance to see whether switching bodies actually changes team decisions rather than serving as a situational trick.
Moon Sweepers
Begin cleaning the Moon with a toothbrush, haul the dust away, and sell it to improve your tools and carrying capacity. Collection stations shorten transport routes as the work area expands, and vehicles eventually replace some of the slowest manual trips. Up to sixteen players can share the job, turning permanent changes to the lunar surface into a group project—provided the large lobbies stay synchronized and everyone actually helps.