Best New Indie Games on Steam – October 22, 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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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.
Pixel Washer
Blast away layers of grime to uncover bright pixel-art streets, buildings, and vehicles beneath them. Coins improve your washer’s pressure, spray width, and range, while tools such as wider jets and a dirt radar speed up stubborn jobs. Between cleaning sites, you can explore the town, hunt for collectibles, and break up the routine with small activities such as a hedge maze or memory puzzle.
Brick by Brick: Tidy Up the Small Town!
Search the town for bricks, sort them by shape and color, then place all 18,490 pieces according to building blueprints. Finished sections turn scattered piles into complete streets and structures, while magnets, carts, and scaffolding change how you collect, move, and place materials. You can take on the full reconstruction alone or divide the work among as many as five players.
AKIBA LOST
Follow the same unfolding mystery through seven characters whose routes overlap in time. Switch perspectives to catch events another character could not see, make choices that branch individual stories, and use discoveries in one route to unlock scenes that have stalled elsewhere. Multiple endings invite another pass through the case, especially when an obscure clue or missed connection sends events in a different direction.
Lighthouse of Madness
Carry a lantern through an isolated island and mine, examining the environment for clues and solving escape-room-style logic puzzles. As sanity declines, the game can interfere with your perception and sense of control instead of leaving the horror entirely in the scenery. The challenge is to keep reading the space clearly while the island becomes less trustworthy.
A Game About Opening A Chest
Open the same bottomless chest, compare procedurally generated loot, and decide which pieces deserve space on your altar. Item types activate abilities and multiplicative synergies based on their arrangement, forcing you to trade immediate gold against stronger stats and enough defense to survive. Each of the three stages adds hazards to the growing targets, so a profitable setup may still need to be rebuilt when the next threat arrives.
Groundwork Simulator
Drill and test the ground, excavate promising material, and haul it across terrain that keeps the marks left by your machines. Excavators, wheel loaders, and bulldozers each handle a different part of the job, while mud, slopes, and rough ground complicate transport. The recovered material then feeds a wash plant you build from pumps, hoses, sluices, and concentration equipment, with solo and online co-op work supported.
Probably Stolen
When the shop opens, you will inspect, test, craft, and authenticate goods before deciding what to buy or sell. Legal and illegal professions come with different production chains, while permits, contraband, customer judgment, and faction relationships determine which deals are worth the exposure. Rising rent keeps cash tied up in inventory from feeling safe, and the long-term goal is to earn enough to buy the shop outright.
just volleyball
Move your player manually while aiming volleyball actions with the cursor, leaving room to place shots instead of relying on automated positioning. Matches scale from quick 1v1 and 2v2 contests to full 6v6 team play against bots or online opponents. A replay mode lets you review rallies and capture the highlights worth keeping.