Indie
Small studios, big swings, and the independent games worth clearing an evening for.
Launch Day
ALYSSA, Broken Arrow Games' Masked-Captor Horror Adventure, Launches on Steam Today
Solo Polish developer Marcin Krwawnik's psychological horror adventure ALYSSA leaves its demo behind and launches on Steam today, trapping a girl with three captors.
Free DLC
The Game Bakers Locks In October 29 for Cairn's Free Deep Water DLC
The Game Bakers' free On the Trail: Deep Water DLC adds three climbing areas, a playable Marco, and a Free Roam mode to Cairn on October 29.
Engine Switch
RimWorld Trades Unity for Ludeon's Own Waylith Engine in Update 1.7
Ludeon Studios has rebuilt RimWorld on its own Waylith engine, replacing Unity in update 1.7 with faster loading and a tease of a second game.
Full Release
Two-Person Studio Clumsy Bear Takes Hungry Horrors to 1.0 on Steam
Clumsy Bear Studio's folklore cooking deckbuilder left Steam Early Access on October 13, adding a new Megaliths biome, four Horrors and the campaign's ending.
Launch
Balancing Monkey Games Launches Beyond These Stars, a Space-Whale City Builder
New Zealand studio Balancing Monkey Games ships Beyond These Stars, a city-building strategy game set on the back of a living, traveling space whale.
Out Now
Tenebris Somnia Launches, Splicing Retro Pixel Horror With Live-Action Cutscenes
Saibot Studios and New Blood Interactive splice retro survival horror with live-action cutscenes from an award-winning Argentine crew, out now on PC and consoles.
Early Access
Crit Team and ChillyRoom Bring Extraction Shooter No Such Place to Steam Early Access
ChillyRoom and Crit Team's top-down extraction shooter No Such Place left its demo behind for Steam Early Access on October 14, with a risky weapon-crafting system.
Early Access
4Divinity's Realm of Taiwu Enters Early Access as a Scroll of Taiwu Spin-Off
Leap Studio's officially licensed spin-off sends wuxia survivors after ten divine swords in a fractured timeline where the original Scroll of Taiwu hero never arrived.
Playtest
Solo Studio TIDERAFT Opens NARON's Public Steam Playtest Through October 18
Hamburg one-person studio TIDERAFT, maker of Rift Miner, opens a public Steam Playtest for its co-op mining roguelite NARON through October 18.
Early Access
Nowhere Studios' Good Heavens! Enters Early Access October 14 After a Rating Delay
After a Steam rating dispute pushed its launch back nearly a month, Nowhere Studios' co-op crafting RPG Good Heavens! finally enters Early Access on October 14.
Countdown
Funselektor's Over the Hill Drives Onto Steam October 14 With Four-Player Co-Op
Funselektor's cosy off-roader Over the Hill launches on Steam October 14, bringing four-player co-op exploration and golden-age 4x4s to PC first.
Launch Day
Team17's Silver Pines Launches as a Rotoscoped Survival Horror From Sweden's Wych Elm
Private investigator Red Walker hunts a missing musician through a half-abandoned town in Wych Elm and Team17's new survival horror Metroidvania, out now.
Early Access
SpaceRocket Games' Permafrost Thaws Into Steam Early Access on October 9
SpaceRocket Games and Toplitz Productions bring Permafrost's frozen, co-op survival sandbox to Steam, GOG and the Epic Games Store this week in Early Access.