On a mean day a couple of dozen new video games are launched on Steam. And whereas we predict that is factor, it may be understandably exhausting to maintain up with. Probably thrilling gems are certain to be misplaced within the deluge of recent issues to play until you type by means of each single recreation that’s launched on Steam. In order that’s precisely what we’ve accomplished. If nothing catches your fancy this week, we have gathered one of the best PC video games you may play proper now and a working record of the 2026 video games which are launching this yr.
Confidential Killings
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Steam web page Launch: January 13Developer: Brane, Lorenzo Boni
Detective video games had a resurgence in 2025 and so they’re nonetheless coming. Detective Killings is some extent ‘n’ click on resolve ’em up set throughout the seedy heyday of Hollywood: somebody is systematically murdering actors, writers and producers, and it is your job to seek out out who. After completely investigating the gritty comedian book-style crime scenes, you may must reconstruct occasions to be able to uncover connections between the deaths, and the way the folks you meet issue into them. You do detective work, in different phrases. In case you’re into L.A. Noire or James Ellroy’s Los Angeles novels, this seems to be like a pleasant match.
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Craftlings
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Steam web pageLaunch: January 16Developer: Ariano Video games GmbH
Craftlings mixes automation and Lemmings-style horde administration, however as an alternative of the brief ‘n’ snappy ranges of the latter, this outing takes place throughout 12 sprawling maps. As you’d anticipate, your craftlings will be assigned a bunch of various duties together with lumberjack, stone mason, warrior and extra, and as these roles suggest, there is a massive concentrate on useful resource administration and base constructing. Unusually for video games like this, you too can anticipate to face off in opposition to foes now and again.
Streetdog BMX
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Steam pageRelease: January 15Developers: Yeah Us! Video games
Goddamn do I really like push bike recreation. Most of my current faves have been about going actually quick down hills on mountain bikes (see Descenders, Lonely Mountains Downhill) however Streetdog BMX, because the identify implies, is all about their extra compact trick-oriented stablemates. Set throughout six maps, Streetdog takes the type of Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater: it is all about pulling off gnarly tips, particularly wallrides, fakies and icepicks. Do not ask me what an icepick is, however in the event you should know there is a free demo.
EmuDevz
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Steam pageRelease: January 17Developer: [r]labs
It is value stating upfront that EmuDevz requires a working information of programming: “if you cannot write code but, flip again when you nonetheless can”, reads the Steam web page, however in the event you do have that ability this seems to be fascinating. Set within the yr 32767 within the aftermath of an web apocalypse, it is your job to construct an emulator for the fictional 1983 console NEES (one guess what that identify is referencing). It is a completely distinctive premise, and I like how uncompromisingly area of interest it’s.
Massive Hops
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Steam web page Launch: January 13Developer: Luckshot Video games
If programming a working emulator sounds is just too sophisticated a process, this cheerful 3D platformer is perhaps extra your velocity. Like most trendy 3D platformers it adopts the ’90s mascot method, fairly successfully I’d say, as a result of I can simply think about that cutesy frog within the above trailer on a cereal field. As you need to anticipate from trendy 3D platformers, Massive Hops is designed to really feel rather more fluid than its predecessors: the frog can tongue swing and free climb, the latter with a Breath of the Wild type stamina bar. In case you miss the 3D console video games of yore, this one’s for you.
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