On a mean day a couple of dozen new video games are launched on Steam. And whereas we expect that is factor, it may be understandably arduous to maintain up with. Doubtlessly thrilling gems are positive to be misplaced within the deluge of latest issues to play until you kind via each single sport that’s launched on Steam. In order that’s precisely what we’ve accomplished. If nothing catches your fancy this week, we have gathered the very best PC video games you may play proper now and a operating record of the 2025 video games which are launching this 12 months.
Stray Kids
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Steam web page Launch: October 31Developer: Onion Video games
Stray Kids is a brand new RPG by the creators of Moon: Remix RPG Journey, a PS1 cult traditional that partially impressed Undertale. Onion Video games has made a few new video games since then, however that is their first RPG for many years. It is set in a world the place adults are instantly horrible to kids—not simply typically, however on a regular basis—and so our dog-faced hero finally ends up teleporting right into a videogame set in a world totally dominated over by youngsters. Fight is turn-based and, at a look, a contact extra typical than Moon. The pixel artwork is elegant, completely capturing that interval within the late ’90s when builders had been pushing the fashion to its restrict utilizing tech purpose-built for 3D video games.
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Steam web pageLaunch: October 29Developer: Autoscopia Interactive
Here is an interesting first-person narrative journey tackling the onset of Alzheimer’s illness. It is an try to seize what the situation would possibly really feel like, as aged lady Annie loses her grip on the current, whereas recalling vivid moments from her previous regarding her lifeless brother. “Annie and her kids deal with reversed caretaking roles as she strikes from her long-time residence,” so reads the Steam description. “Whereas her kids conflict over methods to take care of her, previous recollections of Annie’s long-dead brother begin to emerge.”
Evil Egg
Steam pageRelease: October 31Developers: Ivy Sly
Here is a twin-stick shooter freebie with a chunky disarranging artwork fashion that’ll both provide you with a crippling headache or take you to a different dimension. Evil Egg is framed as a misplaced arcade traditional, and whereas it by no means actually existed, Ivy Sly is exceptionally good at combining the fashion of ye olde tabletop arcade video games with a cultish, verging malignant, aura, exacerbated by the unrelentingly hectic digital music soundtrack. Evil Egg has infinite ranges, on-line leaderboards, and “appears like sweet” apparently.
ScootX
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Steam pageRelease: October 31Developer: Mash Video games
After a stint in early entry, this “physics-driven” scooter sim is now in 1.0. And sure, it appears principally like Skate 3, besides with scooters somewhat than skateboards, and the physics simulation is not centered solely on the automobile itself but additionally the participant’s physique. Which means, in line with Mash Video games, “each grind, whip and slam reacts the way in which it ought to”. There’s a mixture of skateparks and road spots, and likewise Mod.io integration.
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Steam web page Launch: October 28Developer: BKM
Initially launched in 1996 as Die Fugger 2, this turn-based buying and selling sim is ready in 1600s Germany. Apparently you may develop from a easy roaming dealer into an emperor, by some means, and there is actually no have to do issues legitimately: it might be extra expedient to plunder your competitors as a substitute. There is a multiplayer “hotseat mode” for as much as six gamers, and textual content and voiceovers can be found in each German and English. I truthfully hadn’t heard of this sport earlier than right this moment, nevertheless it appears price your time for those who miss the look and vibe of formidable ’90s PC technique video games.
