Indie
Small studios, big swings, and the independent games worth clearing an evening for.
1.0 Launch
Mars Attracts Leaves Early Access as a Five-Person Team Ships Its Alien Zoo Sim
Outlier's licensed Mars Attacks tycoon sim exits a year of Early Access with Sandbox Mode, a finished campaign, and a Very Positive Steam rating.
Vampire RPG
Wadjet Eye's Nighthawks Launches After Steam Wrongly Flagged It as Adult Content
Wadjet Eye Games' eight-year vampire RPG Nighthawks launched after Steam briefly slapped it with an adults-only rating days before its release week.
Indie Reboot
Double Fine Goes Independent, Debuts Action Labs With Thank You Bus Driver
Freed from Xbox, Double Fine launches its Action Labs label with the slapstick sim Thank You Bus Driver, out October 14, while a Kickstarter picks its next release.
Milestone
ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs Tops 500,000 Sales With Free Update
Mandragora's Y2K repair sim ReStory has sold more than 500,000 copies since its August debut, and its delayed free content update finally landed on September 21.
Launch Day
Kingdom Rush 6: Genesis Launches Today With a Classic Mode Built for Its 15th Year
Ironhide's tower defense prequel launches today on Steam and mobile with 18 new stages, plus a 15th-anniversary Classic Mode that revives the original four towers.
Launch Day
Well Dweller Launches Day One on Xbox Game Pass as Kyle Thompson's Next Metroidvania
Kyle Thompson's dark fairy-tale metroidvania Well Dweller launched September 22 on Steam, GOG, Switch, PS5 and Xbox Game Pass, following Crypt Custodian and Islets.
Launch Day
Packed Lair Turns Tetris-Style Building Placement Into Villain Warfare on Steam
Solo Belgian developer Patrick Pilmeyer's Fables of Wits launches Packed Lair today, a roguelike where packing buildings into a cramped lair is the real fight.
Early Access
Stormforge Dates Its Steam Early Access Launch for November 10
Roboto Games set Stormforge's Early Access launch for November 10, promising three biomes, class-based builds and a co-op world built on magical storms.
Demo Live
Graveyard Keeper 2's Free Demo Lands With a Save-Carry Into the September 22 Launch
Lazy Bear Games' zombie-apocalypse management sequel is playable now in a free Steam demo, and your save carries straight into the September 22 launch.
Launch Day
Woodo Launches on Five Platforms as a Two-Person Studio's Diorama Puzzler Debuts
Tiny Monks Tales, a two-person indie studio, launched Woodo on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch and Switch 2 this week, turning wooden dioramas into a cozy puzzle game.
Final Map
RV There Yet? Wraps Its Trilogy With the St. Búttin Bay Finale Map
Nuggets Entertainment shipped RV There Yet?'s third and final map, St. Búttin Bay, closing out a game-jam project that has sold over 4.5 million copies.
Indie
Wanderburg's castle-on-wheels roguelike reaches 150,000 owners in three days
Berlin co-op Randwerk's castle-on-wheels roguelike was picked up by 150,000 people in three days, and is now patching its Early Access build almost daily.
Indie
Big Walk hit a million sales in six days with no single-player mode
House House's co-op-only adventure passed a million sales six days after launch, publisher Panic says, with no solo mode and a day-one PS Plus giveaway.
Indie
How to Fish hit one million players two days after its $7.99 launch
Dazed Games is two people in Skövde, Sweden. Their $7.99 co-op fishing game passed a million players within two days of its 20 August launch.
Indie
Paralives: seven years of Patreon funding, a million copies in 30 days
Alex Massé quit his job in 2019 to build a Sims rival. Paralives hit a million Steam sales 30 days after its Early Access launch on 25 May 2026.