Games We Cover
Indie and mid-tier games we cover. Find the latest guides, reviews, and news.
Windrose
A PvE survival adventure set in an alternative Age of Piracy. Build, craft and explore procedurally generated biomes solo or in online co-op (Steam lists support for up to 8 players and recommends up to 4), captain your ship through naval combat with boarding actions, and take on challenging bosses.
ARC Raiders
A multiplayer extraction adventure set on a future Earth ravaged by a mechanized threat known as ARC. Raiders head topside solo or in parties of up to three to scavenge and fight, then return to the underground society of Speranza to craft, repair and upgrade their gear.
Subnautica 2
An underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, from Unknown Worlds. Play alone or in online co-op with up to three friends, build custom bases, pilot the Tadpole submersible, and scan creatures from the smallest fish to towering Leviathans.
Kristala
A dark fantasy action RPG starring a feline warrior out to uncover the source of a deadly curse. Block, dodge and deflect attacks to regenerate Mana, equip up to 16 spells at a time, and use feline parkour to reach new areas. Your clan choice decides which type of magic you level.
All Hail the Orb
A short, light-hearted pixel-art incremental clicker about powering a mysterious orb. Recruit cultists to automate the work, explore an old dungeon to unlock new rooms and systems, and progress with no combat and no fail states.
Romestead
An action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players set after the fall of Rome. Fight the walking dead at night, haul resources back to camp, recruit survivors as artisans, restore the Roman gods, and grow a settlement solo or on a hosted or peer-to-peer server.
Valheim
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated world inspired by Norse mythology. Craft weapons, build longhouses and bases, sail the seas, and defeat the regional bosses known as the Forsaken to prove yourself to Odin.
Palworld
A multiplayer open-world survival and crafting game about living and working alongside creatures called Pals. Pals can fight, work on farms and factories, and be ridden across land, sea and sky, while you survive a harsh world and a poaching syndicate.
Legionbound
A casual retro RPG autobattler. Recruit heroes, discover class synergies, forge Ascensions, and build a party of up to 50 heroes at the same time to fight through waves of enemies in replayable roguelite runs.
Tainted Grail Fall of Avalon
A first-person open-world RPG set in a dark reimagining of Arthurian legend, 600 years after King Arthur's fall. Steam lists 50-70 hours of content across three zones, a branching main story, hundreds of side quests, and builds that mix attributes, skills and gear.
Graveyard Keeper 2
The sequel to the medieval cemetery sim, from Lazy Bear Games and tinyBuild. Manage your graveyard, automate production, restore the Town, and lead your zombie army into battle to save the realm from a zombie apocalypse.
DRG: Rogue Core
A 1-4 player co-op roguelike shooter spun off from Deep Rock Galactic. You play as Reclaimers across five classes (Guardian, Falconer, Retcon, Spotter and Slicer), fighting through procedurally generated, alien-infested mines with weapons and upgrades scavenged during each run.
Rune Dice
A physics-driven roguelite where you launch dice across the battlefield and matching dice fuse into stronger ones, triggering chain combos. Pick from 8 classes, each with special dice and abilities, and build synergies between dice, relics and runes to beat challenging bosses.
Fatekeeper
A first-person sword-and-sorcery RPG from Paraglacial, published by THQ Nordic. Explore a handcrafted world of ruins, caverns and forests, mix reactive melee with spells, and shape your character with relics, spells and choices.
Sunderfolk
A tactical co-op RPG for up to four players, built around game-night play. Play couch co-op with phones as controllers (only the host needs to own the game) or online with mouse and keyboard, using your skill cards to fight through the Sunderlands.
Outbound
A cozy open-world exploration game set in a utopian near future. Turn an empty electric camper van into a home on wheels, power it with sun, wind or water, grow crops and craft with modular parts, alone or with up to 4 players.
Lost Castle 2
A 2D beat 'em up roguelite. Steam lists over 200 weapons and armors, more than 130 treasures that stack up during a run, level scenes such as the Black Forest, Crystal Mountain and Black Castle, and 10+ bosses.
Die in the Dungeon
A turn-based dice-building roguelite where your dice are your deck. Choose from four frog warriors, customize every face of your dice, place them on the board to combine their effects, and collect relics on the way through a shifting dungeon.
Farever
An online multiplayer action RPG set in a vast fantasy open world. Explore alone or with friends, climb, glide and dive through the land and its dungeons, and combine class skills, weapon skills and attributes into your own build.
Far Far West
A 1-4 player co-op shooter where a crew of bounty-hunting robot cowboys takes contracts in a weird Wild West. Switch between six-shooters and spells, customize your gear, and take on missions, monsters and bosses.
WARDOGS
A tactical all-out-warfare FPS where up to 100 players split across three teams fight for randomized 2x2km Control Zones. Every player starts with $10,000, buys a loadout each life, and earns cash for teamplay, on a destructible battlefield.
Pratfall
A co-op cave crawler for 1-6+ players where you fall, dig and explode your way down a dangerous cave system to rescue your lost dog. Traps, hazards and gravity are the main threats, and scattered items such as ziplines, drills and food help you survive the descent.
Dave the Diver
A casual single-player adventure RPG: explore and fish the ever-changing Blue Hole by day, then run a sushi restaurant by night. Upgrade your gear with what you catch and earn, and watch your oxygen, because running out means leaving your haul behind.
Cursemark
A fantasy action roguelite where you play a cursed mage-knight. Runes change how every attack, spell, ward and ultimate works, and the Unknown Lands have no map markers, so finding secret passages and shortcuts is part of each run.
Moonlighter 2
An action RPG with roguelike elements and the sequel to Moonlighter. As Will, explore interdimensional dungeons for loot, manage your backpack to unlock item synergies, and sell what you find to rebuild your shop and the village of Tresna.
Dark Scrolls
A fantasy action platformer from Doinksoft, published by Devolver Digital, that mixes shmup-style chaos with roguelite progression. Play solo or co-op, locally or online, through procedurally generated runs of hand-crafted rooms, and rescue new heroes to add to your roster.
Rift Wizard 3
A hard traditional roguelike wizard simulator. Each run you build a new repertoire of spells and magical artifacts, buy any spell or upgrade at any time, and use the portal system to choose which levels to visit.
Paralives
A sandbox life simulation game about building homes, lives and bonds. Meet the town's Townies, explore an open-world town, and build grid-less homes with curved walls, split-level floors and freely resized and recolored furniture.
Killer Bean
A first-person and third-person action roguelike starring Killer Bean, an assassin coffee bean hunting the Shadow Agency. Steam lists a single-player campaign, procedurally generated islands with 4 biomes, 4 bosses and 4 mini bosses, and 4 factions.
Beastro
A cozy culinary adventure where you play Panko, a young chef in the village of Palo Pori. Farm and gather ingredients, play cooking minigames, and cook recipes that fuel the Caretakers in deckbuilding battles to save the world.
Tales of Seikyu
A farming life sim set on the island of Seikyu, where yokai spirits live alongside nature. Grow seasonal crops, raise animals, restore your family farmhouse, build bonds with villagers, and shapeshift into spirit forms to explore.
Starsand Island
A countryside life sim on a seaside island. Farm tropical fruit and vegetables, fish, make friends with capybaras, cats and dogs, decorate terrace gardens, and explore the Moonlit Forest.
Black Jacket
A blackjack-inspired roguelite deckbuilder where you gamble your way out of hell. Play blackjack against restless souls for their Soul coins, bend the rules with card combos, artifacts, suits and curses, and bribe the ferryman to escape.
Voidling Bound
A sci-fi third-person shooter built around monster taming. Take direct control of creatures called Voidlings, evolve them along branching paths, assign their attribute points, and fight swarms and bosses across corrupted planets.
Prime Monster
A card-based political roguelike about surviving in a parliament of literal monsters. Win votes by any means, weather scandals, and force through absurd laws to keep the top job in the Fractured Kingdom.
Gambonanza
A tactical roguelike that puts chess pieces on a tiny board. Spend money on rule-bending upgrades, board tiles and pieces, unlock 150+ Gambits that change the rules of your run, and face iconic bosses.
shapez 2
A 3D factory-building game about automating the extraction, production and delivery of geometric shapes. All buildings are free, resources never run out, and there are no enemies or time limits; factories grow across three interconnected layers.
Winter Burrow
A cozy woodland survival game about a mouse who returns home to find their childhood burrow in ruins and their Aunt missing. Gather resources, craft tools, knit sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals while braving the frozen wilderness.
Mina the Hollower
An action-adventure from Yacht Club Games, the developers of Shovel Knight. As Mina, you whip foes, burrow beneath hazards, and gear up with sidearms and trinkets to save a cursed island, in visuals styled after the Game Boy Color.
Mortal Shell II
A standalone sequel to Mortal Shell. Find and possess the Shells of eight lost warriors, fight without stamina limits to shatter enemy posture, upgrade melee and ranged weapons, and explore a compact, interconnected open world.
Slay the Spire 2
The roguelike deckbuilder returns in Early Access. Climb a newly reopened Spire alone or with other players, using a new and returning cast of characters and an arsenal of new cards, relics and potions.
33 Immortals
A co-op action-roguelike for 33 players from Thunder Lotus. Jump into runs with instant matchmaking, solo or with a party of up to 4 friends, fight hordes of monsters and massive bosses, and coordinate through emotes and pings instead of voice chat.
Denshattack!
A fast-paced train action game set in a colourful Japanese dystopia. Flip, trick and grind your customisable train through Japan's biggest cities, win over rival gangs, and take on the Miraidō corporation and a run of madcap bosses.
Abiotic Factor
A survival crafting game for 1-6 players set inside GATE, a secret underground research facility. After a containment breach, scientists must survive anomalous entities, invaders arriving through portals, and a military sect called The Order.
Alabaster Dawn
A top-down 2.5D action RPG from Radical Fish Games, the creators of CrossCode. You play Juno, the Outcast Chosen, fighting with combos and divine weapons, solving puzzles, and rebuilding a world ruined by Nyx. Steam lists a planned 30-60 hours of playtime.
Murim Survival
A survival roguelite RPG inspired by Vampire Survivors and Diablo. Survive constant waves of enemies until a final showdown after 15 to 20 minutes, then grow stronger between expeditions with equipment, martial arts, traits and companions met in the Hideout.
Tabletop Tavern
A roguelike RTS where you build an army from scratch and lead it through a campaign of real-time battles on a tabletop battlefield. Recruit units, find gear, and command factions such as the Vikings, Orcs, Elves, Humans and Dwarves, each with its own abilities.
Crimson Desert
An open-world action-adventure from Pearl Abyss, set on the continent of Pywel. You play as Kliff, who sets out to reunite the scattered Greymane faction after an ambush by the Black Bears, across wilderness, cities, ruins and the mysterious Abyss.
Meccha Chameleon
A hide-and-seek game where Hiders paint their white bodies to blend into the stage while Seekers hunt them down before time runs out. Your hiding spot, pose and painting skill decide who survives. Public and private servers are supported, with 2-10 players recommended.
Gamble With Your Friends
An online 1-6 player co-op casino crawler where friends share one bank account and one massive debt. Gamble across 17 games of chance and 4 themed casino floors, buy items, and hit the loan shark's daily quota in 5 minutes. Steam lists around 2-3 hours of playtime with 3 endings.
Risk of Rain 2
All 18 survivors, item tiers and artifacts, boss roster, and what the real 2025 DLC actually added, all in one place.
Sons of the Forest
All 3 bosses, all 21 weapons, the 78-prefab building system, and why the game's been quiet since January 2025.
Besmirch
Baron trust system, farming calendar, Three Days of Darkness survival, and dungeon combat in one hub.
Dinoblade
The review verdict, confirmed bosses and abilities, and an honest look at what this solo-dev release hasn't documented.
TetherGeist
Azae system, mushroom mechanics, ball-banking, checkpoint strategy, and the difficulty curve from first screen to finish.
Emberville
A pixel-art action RPG from Cygnus Cross, scheduled for Steam Early Access on October 27, 2026. The official pitch follows an amnesiac character waking inside the Vitromotus, an underground magical dungeon.
Permafrost
A story-driven survival sandbox from SpaceRocket Games set on a near-future Earth covered by endless winter, entering PC Early Access on October 9, 2026 through Steam, GOG and the Epic Games Store.
Over the Hill
An offroad exploration game from Funselektor Labs Inc., with Strelka Games named as co-developer on official project pages. It launches on Windows through Steam on October 14, 2026 for $24.99, with console ports planned for 2027.
Road to Vostok
A solo-developed survival FPS set in the Finnish-Russian border zone. Players scavenge, craft, and extract through a harsh open world with realistic gunplay and no hand-holding. Built entirely by one developer over several years.
Grand Theft Auto VI
The next entry in Rockstar's open-world crime series, set in the fictional state of Leonida (a Florida analog) and its Vice City. Follows dual protagonists Lucia Caminos and Jason Duval. Releases November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, with a PC release expected later.