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2026 Highlights

The biggest hits and breakouts launched this calendar year.

Categories (38)

Genres (11)

Tags (224)

Rating

0%–100%(42)

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Price

Free–$70(12)

Free$70

Reviews

0–37k(42)

Release

2026–2026(60)

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92%

New

007 First Light

2026·Singleplayer · Stealth

Earn the Number. 007 First Light is a thrilling espionage action-adventure game from IO Interactive. Follow James Bond as a young, resourceful and sometimes reckless recruit in MI6's training programme, and discover an origin story of the world’s most famous spy.

37k reviews

89%

New

Noun Town Language Learning

2026·Education · Open World

Learn 1,000+ words and phrases in 12 languages - including Japanese & Spanish - with no subscription and no ads. Explore a colorful open world, beat vocab mini-games, and speak to NPCs using real speech recognition. Language learning that actually sticks, and actually feels like a game.

546 reviews

78%

New

Crazy Oddballs: Idle RPG

2026·Idler · Loot

Build your oddball team, grind endless loot, and optimize ridiculous gear combinations in a chaotic idle RPG with guild battles, PvP, and long-term progression.

SiNiSistar 2

2026·Sexual Content · Hentai

Step into a beautifully somber pixel art world of decay filled with grotesque, writhing abominations...A dark action RPG that follows the journey of a demon-slaying nun who must resist destruction and despair while purging the corruption from this world one boss after another!

179 reviews

70%

New

The Dead Await

2026·Survival Horror · Deckbuilding

Build your deck and try to survive in The Dead Await, a deck-building RPG set during a zombie apocalypse. As one of many survivors, set out across the desolate world, discover the truth about the outbreak, and rebuild human civilization - or die trying.

97 reviews

86%

New

Gravelord

2026·FPS · Boomer Shooter

Gravelord is a fast-paced boomer shooter voiced by a badass protagonist featuring hand-crafted levels filled with secrets and hordes of enemies to kill. Dish out some brutal carnage with powerful guns and collect Tarot Cards to gain even more killing power. Let's put the fun back in funeral!

95 reviews

Tropical Resort Simulator (Paradise Beach Simulator)

82%

New

Tropical Resort Simulator (Paradise Beach Simulator)

2026·Crafting · Life Sim

Transform an abandoned island into a thriving business. Install fun activities, open your restaurant, maintain your equipment, manage your staff. It's time to open the beach, you're ready to welcome your first customers!

83 reviews

84%

New

GameStonk Simulator

2026·Management · Roguelite

Gamestonk is the first roguelite shop simulator. Manage the last videogame store in town, keep up with the latest releases, trade smuggled retros, select your modifiers strategically, hire workers, and deal with pesky shoplifters.

75 reviews

71%

New

Lost Hope: Backrooms

2026·Horror · First-Person

Lost Hope, a chilling horror game set in the eerie Backrooms universe, challenges players to delve into enigmatic locations teeming with bizarre and inexplicable phenomena. Embark on an expedition alone or with friends!

66 reviews

91%

New

The Guardian of Nature

2026·Puzzle · Point & Click

«The Guardian of Nature» is a hand-drawn, size-changing adventure. Embark on a magical journey with botanist Henry, use your size-changing ability to explore nature in big and small and solve solarpunk puzzles to put nature back in order.

57 reviews

73%

New

Aztecs: The Last Sun

2026·City Builder · Survival

Rule Tenochtitlan in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Expand the capital, perform sacred rituals, and withstand the coming darkness. Build, grow, sacrifice, survive - or watch the last sun set forever.

56 reviews

96%

New

NAMAKORIUM

2026·Point & Click · 3D Platformer

Namako (Sea cucumbers) will save the Earth—NAMAKORIUM is a chaotic, cooperative multiplayer RTS game for up to four players. Command the “cleaners of the sea” —Namako left behind by humanity and work together to clean up the polluted oceans!

26 reviews