Best New Indie Games on Steam – November 12, 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.
Top Indie Games for This Date
Best Indie Games to Play That Week
Annihilated
Every item you carry has limited uses, so even a strong weapon is already counting down toward breaking. Save its final use for a stunned enemy and you can execute the target and steal replacement gear; let equipment break, and the resulting curses can fuel rerolls, crafting, experience, and progress after death. Four rescued companions add different abilities and lead into separate character routes and endings.
Funeral for the Sun
Explore a ruined town across memories and historical periods, then record secrets, relationships, family trees, and causes of death in your notebook. Official histories, local stories, and events you witness do not always agree, so progress comes from connecting what each account leaves out and reconstructing five centuries of buried history.
MONOMOON
Wander a compact open world with little explicit direction, combining platforming with point-and-click interaction to work out where you can go and what the world expects from you. Some discoveries solve visible puzzles, while others reveal rules and systems that were hidden in plain sight. Reaching the initial ending does not exhaust the trail: optional secrets continue to reshape what you understand about the map.
Number Machine: Math Factory
Route numbered spheres across a hexagonal grid, then use machines to move, combine, split, destroy, and modify them into the required result. A basic solution clears the stage, but shrinking the factory and cutting its turn count can send you back to rebuild the whole line in a smarter way.
Casualties: Unknown
Descend through eleven alien cave layers to recover cargo, scavenging materials and crafting the tools and treatments needed to keep moving. Injuries affect individual limbs, while bleeding, infection, cardiovascular condition, and morale can turn one bad encounter into a broader medical problem. Valuable supplies may lie deeper in hostile territory, forcing you to decide what is worth risking before your condition deteriorates.
All Indie Game Picks for This Date
Funeral for the Sun
Explore an abandoned town through memory spaces, tracing relationships and past events across a nonlinear investigation. Build family trees, record secrets and causes of death, and reconcile conflicting historical sources to uncover what the town buried for five centuries.
Number Machine: Math Factory
Route numbered spheres across a hexagonal grid, then use machines to move, combine, split, destroy, and modify them into the required result. A basic solution clears the stage, but shrinking the factory and cutting its turn count can send you back to rebuild the whole line in a smarter way.
The Devil's Due
Build poker hands to attack while using card totals to defend against demons standing between you and freedom. Hide, swap, strengthen, or sabotage cards to turn impossible hands around, but every trick feeds a suspicion system that follows you through branching routes, new cheating cards, and permanent upgrades.
Casualties: Unknown
Descend through an alien cave system while tracking limb injuries, blood loss, infection, and consciousness instead of relying on a single health bar. Scavenge resources for tools and medical supplies, stabilize your condition, and keep pushing through eleven underground layers with different hazards.
Horses of Hoofprint Bay
Groom horses, clean their hooves, treat injuries, and train their strength and confidence before entering show-jumping and cross-country events. Breed foals that inherit appearance, ability, and personality traits, then expand the stable and hire staff to take over routine work as the herd grows.
Psycho-Sleuth
Investigate murders in which contagious cognitive abnormalities change what witnesses and suspects can perceive. Learn each character's limitation, reconstruct events around rules such as an inability to lie or recognize faces, then accept statements or rebut them with collected clues during debates.
TANUKI: Pon's Summer
Ride a BMX around the island while balancing awkward packages and learning faster delivery routes. Between jobs, tackle trick challenges across streets and rooftops, fish, collect critters, and spend your rewards repairing and customizing the shrine before the festival arrives.
After the Wane
Guide Lena through competing dance companies, community work, or an independent occult path as she searches for traces of the mother she never knew. Choices about dances and even personal details can alter scenes, while rotoscoped performances and changing music follow the route through romance, identity, and supernatural mystery.
Underkeep
Assemble four adventurers whose strengths, flaws, and abilities complement one another, then map handcrafted grid-based dungeons in first person. Hidden passages and optional bosses reward careful exploration, while turn-based battles make positioning, stamina, mana, and remaining supplies part of every decision.
The Maker Way
Design ground vehicles and flying machines from modular parts, 3D-print them, and test them across open desert terrain where traction and bumps affect performance. Rework each build to raid guarded facilities, recover data drives, and return them to cooled servers at your expanding base.