Best New Indie Games on Steam – November 6, 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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Probably Stolen
Inspect questionable goods, judge their value, modify or manufacture stock, and bargain with customers aboard a cyberpunk space station. Illegal merchandise can raise profits, but raids, licensing rules, customer retaliation, and faction reputation make every shortcut a calculated risk. Rising rent keeps the pressure on as you expand into new professions and shops.
Sushiamo
Build sushi from ingredients, sauces, and tools whose effects stack into increasingly wild score combinations. Each round raises the target, while unlocks, random events, and changing map routes force you to adjust the engine instead of relying on one fixed recipe.
Dungeons & Dynasties
Recruit adventurers, train them, pay their wages, and build enough squad depth to cover fatigue and injuries. You set lineups for dungeon expeditions and rival guild matches, then live with careers shaped by growth, friendships, grudges, and permanent death as your guild climbs a six-tier league.
Horses of Hoofprint Bay
Groom horses, treat injuries, and train their strength and courage before entering show-jumping and cross-country events. Prize money expands the stable and unlocks staff and advanced breeding, while inherited colors, abilities, and personalities shape each new generation. When the routines ease off, you can ride through forest, coast, and mountain routes.
Message From Aliens
Start with an alien number system and use examples, tests, personal notes, and an in-game dictionary to infer what unfamiliar symbols mean. As your vocabulary grows, the messages expand from mathematics into science, poetry, jokes, and the culture behind a writing system of more than a thousand symbols.
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Probably Stolen
Inspect questionable goods, judge their value, modify or manufacture stock, and bargain with customers aboard a cyberpunk space station. Illegal merchandise can raise profits, but raids, licensing rules, customer retaliation, and faction reputation make every shortcut a calculated risk. Rising rent keeps the pressure on as you expand into new professions and shops.
Sushiamo
Build sushi from ingredients, sauces, and tools whose effects stack into increasingly wild score combinations. Each round raises the target, while unlocks, random events, and changing map routes force you to adjust the engine instead of relying on one fixed recipe.
Dungeons & Dynasties
Recruit adventurers, train them, pay their wages, and build enough squad depth to cover fatigue and injuries. You set lineups for dungeon expeditions and rival guild matches, then live with careers shaped by growth, friendships, grudges, and permanent death as your guild climbs a six-tier league.
Message From Aliens
Start with an alien number system and use examples, tests, personal notes, and an in-game dictionary to infer what unfamiliar symbols mean. As your vocabulary grows, the messages expand from mathematics into science, poetry, jokes, and the culture behind a writing system of more than a thousand symbols.
Echo Mates
In near-total darkness, speaking into a microphone sends out a wave that briefly reveals the level—and tells nearby creatures where you are. Up to four players must coordinate sound lures, vocal puzzles, and timed retrieval jobs across changing floors, deciding when visibility is worth the noise.
Chivalware
Clear connected colors on the battlefield to charge matching weapons, but keep moving while enemies attack across the same grid. Choosing the right tiles competes with dodging and attack timing, while five characters, dozens of weapons, and more than 150 upgrades change how each run develops.
Mayday: The Survival Island
After a crash leaves you alone, gather resources, craft equipment, hunt, fish, farm, and raise animals to keep yourself supplied. Build a base, then venture across 24 handcrafted islands for new materials and secrets that push your survival setup further.
Cucina Stellata
Follow step-by-step procedures to prepare a traditional 19th-century Italian dish in a kitchen haunted by hunger. The careful cooking ritual grows increasingly unsettling as food, consumption, and cosmic horror begin to merge around you.
ALTEREDBLOOD+
Cover arenas in enemy blood, then slide, dash, or stomp through it to recover health and ammunition. Standing in blood changes weapons and movement, letting classic techniques such as bunny hopping, air strafing, surfing, trimping, and rocket jumping feed directly into the firefight.
Underkeep
Assemble a four-character party, equip it for complementary roles, and explore handcrafted first-person grid dungeons filled with hidden passages, puzzles, and optional bosses. Turn-based battles ask you to control space and manage stamina and mana, while missed keys and neglected rest can interrupt an expedition.