Indie developer Miss Self Destruct revealed a new trailer for Hell Is Other People during the inaugural Cozy After Dark Showcase. The Steam psychological horror game about social anxiety has players collect social skills instead of items and manage shifting emotions like Guilt and paranoia.
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.
Needle Shadow Tailor Dream is a management sim built around sewing, having players measure, pick fabric, draft patterns and run a tailor shop much like real garment work. It drew 200,000 wishlists before launch and now has over 10,000 reviews with a 98% positive rate. The author found the pace slow, with money for fabric as the only pressure, forgiving sewing checks and a photo mode for sharing finished dresses.
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.
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Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii shared a text-based interrogation game on X, saying it took about 30 minutes to make with AI. He said AI now lets people make a decent game alone by giving instructions, even without drawing or programming skills, and compared it to making The Portopia Serial Murder Case by himself in 1983. In the game, players question a 72-year-old former locksmith named Komiya before a lawyer arrives at 11pm, using evidence to break his lies as his agitation rises and his resistance hits 100.
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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.
Humble has released the Cozy After Dark Showcase Bundle, offering five titles for $8 or the full 10-game lineup for $12.
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.
Coder Swordpdf has unveiled RPS5S3, an emulator that lets jailbroken PS5s run PS3 games from physical discs, demonstrated with Gran Turismo 5. It is not yet available on GitHub, and the latest version on the PS5SX2 Discord is titled "RPS5S3 Test Build 3." A Discord post lists Grand Theft Auto IV, God of War: Ascension, LittleBigPlanet, inFamous, and MotorStorm: Pacific Rift as its "most played games."
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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.
Dragon Quest co-creator Yuji Horii has released a new text-based interrogation game that he says was made with generative AI in about 30 minutes. In a post on X, he recalled creating The Portopia Serial Murder Case alone, and said that with AI he can now make a decent game just by giving instructions. He also warned players not to press the boost button.
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.
Burn With Me is a hand-drawn card game where artist Eva Manuilovich's own right hand appears on the right side of each match, dealing cards and giving a thumbs-up when you beat the target score. Players take on the role of occult university students placing five creature cards around a pentagram to fill a vial with spiritual energy, using adjacency modifiers and the ability to incinerate a card to draw a random new one. Steam reviews suggest it lasts around 6-8 hours, and unlike Balatro, it has a story.
Coder Lorean Xavier has built an open source porting tool that creates a playable x86 PC executable from the original PS4 files of Hideo Kojima's P.T., rebuilding the engine in C++ and Vulkan to recreate every level, model, texture, sound, script and cutscene. Players still need their own legitimate decrypted copy of the original P.T. to generate a playable PC version. The native port adds upscaling, frame generation, a camera mode, experimental third-person and VR support, and a "museum" section for viewing and listening to in-game assets, including unused content.
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.
Indigo, a "full game replacement" romhack for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, already has a couple of public demos and is playable on PC via static recompilation. Set 15 years after Majora's Mask, it stars an older, bearded Link who is asked by the fairy Tael to find his missing sister Tatl. The project promises new items, enemies, bosses, maps, and story, while an official Ocarina of Time remake is due out in November.
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.
Fourteen years after release, The House in Fata Morgana remains one of gaming's scariest ghost stories and is still worth playing. The article places it alongside classics by M.R. James and Shirley Jackson, ranking it among the top tier of ghost literature.
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.
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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.
Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams says he has never been tempted to use generative AI in the game, calling AI-written code bloated and saying you can tell a vibe-coded game when your computer fan starts spinning. He notes he has worked with traditional AI for decades but now avoids the term entirely, and says only platform pressure from Microsoft could force him toward generative AI.
Modder Frederik Wessberg is developing a Starfield mod that enables seamless planetary landings, letting players manually enter a planet's atmosphere and fly in low orbit without loading screens. Inspired by the Seamless Grav Jumps and Seamless Planet Takeoff mods, it also offers autopilot, water landings, and volumetric clouds driven by climate data and weather systems. The mod is currently in development for PC only, with no release target yet, and will be free on Nexus Mods when ready.
Valor Mortis is a first-person Soulslike action RPG from One More Level, the studio behind the Ghostrunner games, set in an alternate version of the Napoleonic Wars. Players take on the role of William Dowsett, a resurrected British soldier in Napoleon's Grande Armée. The game is described as brutal, frightening, and strangely chill.
ConcernedApe (Eric Barone) said Haunted Chocolatier is more of an action RPG than Stardew Valley, with its main focus on adventuring, finding equipment and getting more powerful, plus monsters and boss fights. It is set in a more "metaphysical" locale and is aimed at Stardew Valley players who go into the mines. The game still has no release date, as does the Stardew Valley 1.7 update.
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.
In a recent GQ interview, Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone said Haunted Chocolatier is "more of an action RPG" focused on adventuring, finding equipment, and getting more powerful, with monsters and boss fights. Announced in October 2021 and in development for more than five years, the game still has no release date, and Barone said he has "returned to isolation" to finish it.
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Two new games launch on Xbox today, October 12. Alpha Nomos is a rhythm-action adventure with combat reminiscent of Hi-Fi RUSH, where players time attacks to the beat as Cello. Colorbound is a cozy puzzle-platformer in which players join Anku on a journey to reunite his late grandfather's band by using color to shape the world.
Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone said in a GQ interview that his upcoming game Haunted Chocolatier is "more of an action RPG" than a farming sim, focused on adventuring, finding equipment and getting more powerful, with monsters and boss fights. He described it as a more "metaphysical" experience and said it's for "the people in Stardew Valley that go into the mines." There is still no release date, with Barone saying no one is playing the game until he's ready to show it.
Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has released a new game, Interrogation Room Komiya, which he says was made in "just about 30 minutes" using generative AI. In the game, players select a series of text prompts to try to make a suspect confess to a crime. Horii had previously said he was thinking about adding an AI chatbot to one of his future games.