Best New Indie Games on Steam – November 13, 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.
Playrooms
Gather thousands of balls scattered across abandoned playrooms and haul them back to their pits. Each load pays for tools, keys, and abilities that open stranger areas and speed up the work. Once darkness falls, the familiar cleanup route becomes a light-dependent survival problem, though the danger settings can reduce or remove the monsters when you want a calmer shift.
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.
All Indie Game Picks for This Date
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.
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.
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.
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.
Horses of Hoofprint Bay
Groom horses, care for their hooves, prevent and treat injuries, then train them for show-jumping and cross-country events. Competition prizes fund new facilities and staff, while breeding passes appearance, ability, and personality traits into the next generation. As the ranch grows, employees can take over repetitive work and leave more time for competitions, breeding plans, and relaxed trail rides.
Octbuster: Video Rental Store Cleanup
Use several tentacles to grab, carry, clean, and sort a rental shop's 10,000 scattered tapes into sixteen visible categories. Turning walking limbs into extra arms increases your carrying capacity but changes how you move through the mess. Carts, cat helpers, shelf sensors, and other upgrades gradually reduce the hauling, while buried arcade machines, decorations, and collectibles give you reasons to keep clearing each pile.
Psycho-Sleuth
Investigate murders committed under contagious cognitive conditions such as an inability to lie, perceive the left side, or recognize faces. Each rule changes what witnesses can report and what evidence can appear reliable, so solving a scene means accounting for every participant's limits. Timed debates then ask you to use collected clues to accept or refute specific claims before the argument moves on.
Underkeep
Assemble a four-person party whose strengths, flaws, and abilities cover one another, then move through handcrafted grid-based dungeons filled with puzzles, hidden passages, and optional bosses. Turn-based fights make positioning, stamina, mana, and equipment part of each decision. An automap and custom markers let you record locked paths or unfinished discoveries and return when you have what they require.
GRAVHOUNDS
Land on a hostile planet, gather materials, and extend a working base with generators, crafting stations, resource lines, and turrets before the next enemy wave arrives. Gravity tools let you fling supplies toward storage or throw enemies across the battlefield, keeping logistics and combat connected. The longer your team stays, the deadlier the mission becomes and the better the potential rewards, but everything still has to make it back onto the ship.
After the Wane
Guide Lena through a new city as she pursues dance and traces the path of the mother she never knew. Choices can draw her toward an elite troupe, a community center, or an independent occult investigation, while relationships and family revelations lead to different endings. Hand-drawn scenes, rotoscoped dance, and music that changes with the mood give each route its own dramatic rhythm.