Publisher Fellow Traveller and developer AP Thomson will release Titanium Court for PS5, Switch 2, Switch, iOS, and Android on October 29. The match-three tower defense roguelike first launched for PC via Steam on April 23. It is a single-player game with a playtime of six to 30 hours.
Titanium Court, winner of the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at this year's Independent Game Festival, is coming to more platforms after its Windows PC release in April. The indie hit will launch on Oct. 29 for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5, with a mobile version also coming to Android and iPhone.
Take a closer look at shop management and changing seasons in Acornia: Mirror Worlds, a new game from the developers of Tinykin: https://play.st/4yQDOg4
Enshrouded's 1.0 release is set for October 15 on PC, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 5 Pro, with an Xbox Series X|S version planned for spring 2027. The full release promises answers about the origins of the Shroud and the fall of Embervale, plus new enemies, biomes, and gameplay improvements. Up to sixteen players on PC and eight on PS5 can share a world, with building, exploring, and farming all contributing to the same goal.
Summer Eternal, a studio founded by former Disco Elysium developers, announced the physics-driven RPG Red Rooster. It will launch first on PC, with PS5, Xbox Series, and Switch 2 versions to follow, and no release date was given. Players take the role of white-collar inmate Redrick Roost as an arson investigator looking into a string of fires tied to his brother, the city's fire chief.
Developer Question announced that story-driven card battler The Killing Stone will leave Early Access and launch for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC on October 21 for $19.99, via Steam, Epic Games Store, and Microsoft Store. The game first launched in Early Access for PC on February 16, and version 1.0 adds the fourth and final chapter, The Reckoning. The full story is voiced by Emma Gregory and Liam O'Brien and can be played in authentic 17th-century English or a more contemporary style.
Half Human Games has announced Myths from the Maw, a dark cosmic fantasy strategy RPG coming to PC via Steam, with a Kickstarter campaign planned for 2027. Players lead mercenaries into the Maw, a colossal spacefallen fortress, where blood sacrifice, kills, and narrative choices accumulate corruption that manifests sinful traits affecting behavior in events, campfire actions, and battle. The game features turn-based tactical combat with permadeath, procedural dungeons, randomized loot, and builds drawn from 12 races and 20 classes.
Dark cosmic fantasy strategy RPG Myths from the Maw announced for PC
Kitaria Fables 2 Demo available on Steam https://buff.ly/gF4T8JE
Summer Eternal, a studio formed by former ZA/UM staff, announced Red Rooster, in which players take the role of arson investigator Redrick Roost working with an opiate-dependent mathematician on a string of fires tied to his brother, the city's fire chief. The studio describes it as a physics-driven RPG built in Unreal Engine, set in the tri-partie city of Arta-Tantor, and says it is nearing the end of pre-production with an internal playable tech demo. The game was announced through a 500-page physical book, the Summer Eternal Anthology, priced at €69 for the Standard edition and €99 for the Deluxe Firestarter bundle, with buyers eligible for membership in a non-profit that owns five percent of the studio.
Publisher Crunchy Leaf Games and developer Twigames announced that the narrative survival RPG Hollow Home will launch on January 27, 2027 for Xbox Series, Xbox One, and PC via Steam. Players take the role of Maksym, a 14-year-old boy alone in a besieged city, in a game with no weapons, battles, or combat, built around dialogue, branching quests, and moral choices and inspired by Disco Elysium and This War of Mine. Twigames founder Valerii Minenko said work began in spring 2022, and the game was funded on Kickstarter in August 2026, where 558 backers took the campaign to 140 percent of its goal.
Shifu: Traffic Masters, a solo-developed open world driving game from Boxy.Poly set in northern China in the 1990s, now has a demo on Steam. Players can haul cargo, chase criminals in a cop car, run a taxi service, drive a city bus on a timetable, and take part in arcade street racing, with weather affecting handling. It comes in Chinese and English, has no release date yet, and its Steam page makes no mention of generative AI.
Fantasy Blacksmith Simulator, a co-op blacksmithing game developed by CozyPlay and published by polden, has opened a free demo covering the game's opening chapter with single-player and multiplayer co-op support. Players start as a level 1 blacksmith and grow to level 4, mining, chopping wood, forging swords, shields, bows and necklaces, and enchanting gear, while hiring a blacksmith assistant and a bard. The demo is available to download on its Steam store page, where the game can also be wishlisted.
HeartLoop Games, a Montreal-based indie studio, has launched its debut single-player roguelike fighting game Poly Fighter in Steam Early Access. The game costs 68 yuan with a 10% launch discount bringing it to 61.2 yuan, and supports Chinese. Players fight through an underground league, stealing opponents' moves and combining them to build a different fighter each run.
Cybernetic Walrus, the studio behind Roadside Research and Order 13, has released a free demo for its card-collecting incremental game Rip It! Card Collector, which launches on Steam on October 30, 2026. The demo includes 369 collectible cards with foil and gold variants, plus an early look at upgrading the ripping setup. The full game features over 1,800 cards, with players selling duplicates and buying new equipment to turn manual ripping into a card-processing line.
Digital Cybercherries has announced that HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed on Switch will receive its "biggest" update yet, and it will be "completely free", arriving this week on 15th October 2026. The update adds full cross-platform support so Switch players can play with friends on Steam, Xbox and PlayStation, along with a story mode, 6 new bosses, 6 new enemy types, 3 new maps, 5 new weapons, 2 new playable characters and new modes including Infection, Capture the Battery and King of the Hill.
1999 TOKOYO Building will launch for PC via Steam on November 10, publisher Kodansha and developer TOKOYO FUDOSAN announced. The neo-nostalgic horror adventure game supports English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, and a demo featuring the first chapter (about two hours of gameplay) is available now.
BUZZ or DIE, a point-and-click game published by Kodansha and developed by Bon, will launch on PC via Steam on October 28 with English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese support, and a demo is available now. Players join a man named Sagishima in a death-match game show for death row inmates, diving into opponents' mindscapes to turn secrets into short videos and win the most Likes.
Animal City Cafe, an intuition-based rhythm game from Chinese indie team Yiguan Yan Studio, launched on Steam on October 13 at 48 yuan, with a 10% first-week discount bringing it to 43.2 yuan. The game features 35 original tracks spanning Jazz, Pop and House, with players taking the role of a cafe owner. The studio also plans to add a level editor about a month after launch, letting players create charts, animations, music, sound effects and narrative content and share them via Steam Workshop.
Zilong Games has released the first PV and gameplay demo for "Extreme Angler," a multiplayer realistic fishing game developed by JackWalker Studio, a sub-studio under Blackjack Studio. The game uses a high-precision physics simulation system that turns underwater lure and fish behavior into a real-time waveform display, with controller vibration feedback on PC. The debut version includes three fishing methods, with initial fishing spots drawn from the Qiantang River system and 47 fish species across three rarity tiers.
Indie publisher Raw Fury will show three new titles at Beijing Gcores Fusion 2026, with Deep Dish Dungeon launching October 13 on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox cloud gaming and Steam, plus Xbox handheld certification and Xbox Play Anywhere support. The other two are Kingdom III and Cassette Beasts 2002, the latter letting players import characters from the first Cassette Beasts and supporting online multiplayer. The show runs October 24 and 25, 2026 at the Shougang International Convention Center halls 1 and 3 in Beijing, with single-day tickets at 139 yuan full price and 129 yuan discounted on Bilibili Member Buy.
RibCage Games has released its rhythm action roguelite Blade of Rhythm on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, priced at 55 RMB / 17.99 USD with a 10% first-week discount on Steam. The game uses no input quantization, so every attack fires the moment a key is pressed and only on-beat hits become more lethal. Its weapons are based on real instruments recorded in a studio, and reverb, flanger, and delay effects reshape both combat and the mix of each run.
Sundew Studios showcased Tearoom of Terror, a cozy gothic murder mystery, during the Cozy After Dark Showcase. Players run a Victorian tea parlor serving lavender teas and scones to strange customers while being the primary suspect in their aunt's murder. A demo is available now on Steam.
META Publishing and developer Pokuch announced that Blind Descent will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG on December 2. PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series versions will follow alongside the full release. The cooperative science-fiction survival game sends up to four pioneers beneath the Martian surface to uncover the fate of a missing crew.
Finji has delayed the supernatural third-person action adventure game Usual June from its previously planned October 28 release date to January 20, 2027. It will be available for PC via Steam.
Usual June delayed to January 20, 2027 https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/usual-june-delayed-to-january-20-2027
Indie studio Perfect Garbage announced a new release date for its horror-themed farm sim Grave Seasons during Monday's Cozy After Dark showcase. The game was originally set for an August launch before being delayed indefinitely, and the showcase also offered a look at autumn and how progression works.
Table Knight Games announced that UnderMire, a cooperative first-person roguelite adventure, will launch for PC via Steam on November 13, with a demo available now. The game supports one to four players in online co-op, featuring four characters and the SMUSH system that combines junk into weapons and items.
Canadian studio Norsfell announced its new game Aftergods during the 3i Plan indie showcase in the early hours of October 9, positioning it as a top-down light survival-building ARPG where players act as gods who summon storms to harvest forests, call down temples and recruit followers to run their home. Its previous game Tribes of Midgard reached 5 million players worldwide over five years, and the new title expands to mythologies from multiple countries, including Chinese myth. Norsfell calls the approach Survivalite and aims it at players who like mythic worlds but find traditional survival games too harsh.
RimWorld announced the Waylith Engine and Update 1.7.
Colorbound, a puzzle-platformer from Panpipe Studio, is out now on Xbox Series X|S for $14.99. Players control Anku, a boy in the mountains of Chile who uses color to reunite his late grandfather's scattered band. The game draws on Aymara culture of the Andes, blending pastel watercolor visuals and panpipe music into a story of love, loss, and family.
Publisher tinyBuild and developer Mandragora announced that ReStory, a Y2K-era Japan electronics repair shop simulation game, will come to Android via Google Play in 2026. The game first launched for PC via Steam on August 6, where it has sold over 500,000 copies. It features licensed Atari consoles to repair, including the Atari 2600 and Jaguar.
Chivalware will launch for Switch 2 and PC via Steam on November 5, publishers The Arcade Crew and Imperfect Games and developer Regal Pigeon announced, with the Switch 2 version newly added. A demo is available now for both platforms. The tile-matching action roguelite has players equip up to three weapon disks, with four playable Disk Knights, over 80 weapons, and more than 150 upgrades.
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard From Vampire Survivors is officially out on phones. Author Giovanni Colantonio looks back on the games he has played this year and still counts the April release among his best-of-the-year picks.
No Man's Sky will arrive on the App Store on October 28, the only one of seven titles in Apple's Indie Games Week not yet available. Hello Games' Sean Murray said the iOS port has been in development for years and was held up by the studio's ongoing free updates, which the team has now caught up with. Players can sync progress from other platforms to their App Store copy, and the game supports controllers, touch controls, or a mix of both on iPhones and iPads released as far back as 2019.
Developer Gino Inc. announced that a demo for the anime-style 3D roguelite action game Bless You Again is now available on Steam as part of Steam Next Fest: October 2026 Edition. The demo includes the prologue and the first dungeon, the Corridor of Guidance, where players fight as protagonist Lily alongside the spirit Yoru. The full game is due out for PC via Steam in 2026.
Twin Swans has announced the voice cast for Hunter's Moon, a first-person historical narrative folk-horror game featuring 48 actors across more than 100 roles. The fully voiced story follows Lilith Thorne, an accused "witch" pursued by the Witchfinder General over the night of the Hunter's Moon. The game is due out for PS5 on October 26.
This week's PC games roundup includes Planet Zoo 2, which lets players run a nature reserve and build aquariums and aviaries, and Rolla, which casts players as a malevolent human-eating ball of tentacles rolling through a city like a Katamari. Valor Mortis is a first-person soulslike set in the Napoleonic era with body horror, and Total War: Shogun 2 - Compete is a remaster with fancier graphics and 50 new minor factions.
Push Square rounds up the 30+ games launching on PS5 from 12th to 18th October, including Planet Zoo 2 on 13th October and Castlevania: Belmont's Curse on 15th October. Other highlights this week include Valor Mortis, The Witch's Bakery, Ratatan, Tales of Eternia: Remastered, and two Toy Story re-releases.
Two new games launch on Xbox today, October 12. Alpha Nomos is a rhythm-action adventure for Series X|S, PC, and Cloud in which players control Cello and time attacks to the beat, echoing Hi-Fi RUSH's combat. Colorbound is a cosy puzzle-platformer, also on Series X|S, PC, and Cloud, following Anku as he uses color to reunite his late grandfather's band.