Indie Games Upcoming on Steam: 6 to Watch, 8 Just Out

The indie games upcoming on Steam right now stretch from a witch-school life sim to a 3D bullet hell sequel, and a handful of this year’s strongest small-studio releases have only just arrived. What draws most players to indie games is the sense that one clear idea is being pushed as far as it can go: a farming sim that hides a serial killer, a co-op game built around talking, a card game you can now climb with friends. Below are the ones to wishlist now, plus the 2026 releases worth playing while you wait.

Indie games upcoming in 2027 with a date on Steam

These three have the firmest plans. Two show a full release date on their Steam pages and one shows a year. If you only wishlist a few indie games upcoming next year, start here, especially if you like life sims (games about building a daily routine of work, friendships and home life in a small community).

Witchbrook

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Of all the indie games upcoming in early 2027, Witchbrook is the easiest recommendation for anyone who has sunk a season or three into a cozy farming game and wished it had more magic in it. You arrive as the newest witch in Mossport, a busy seaside town, and enrol at Witchbrook College. Classes cover Alchemy, Potions, Astrology, Rituals, Demon Hunting and Tarot, and passing exams earns you new spells and moves you toward graduation.

The other half of the game is money. You fund your studies by running a witch business: crafting wares, filling orders, delivering them by moped (and later by broom once you have your licence) and setting up a stall at the Sunday market. Friendships and romance sit on top of all that.

Who it suits: life sim fans who want structure through classes and exams. Players: single-player or online co-op for up to 4. Steam lists: Jan 28, 2027, from Chucklefish and Robotality, published by Chucklefish, on Windows. For more like it, see our cozy co-op games like Stardew Valley.

Grave Seasons

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Grave Seasons takes the farming sim setup and quietly sharpens a knife behind it, which makes it one of the more unusual indie games upcoming in 2027. You play an escaped convict trying to live a quiet life in Ashenridge, a small mountainside town, until a supernatural serial killer starts attacking your neighbours. You have one in-game year to protect potential victims, using farming, foraging, crafting and investigation to find ways of warding off monsters.

Choices carry weight here. Steam’s page says decisions are checked and autosaved, and new stories open up whether a character dies or survives, so each playthrough becomes your own version of what happened in Ashenridge. It is presented in isometric pixel art.

Who it suits: players who love a mystery and do not mind dread in their cozy games. Players: single-player. Steam lists: Mar 9, 2027, from Perfect Garbage, published by Blumhouse Games and Solo Game, on Windows.

Neverway

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Neverway mixes horror, life sim and action RPG. Fiona quits a dead-end job, starts over on a farm and becomes the immortal herald of a dead god, while a nightmare reality called Neverway leaks into her everyday life. You farm, craft, cook and decorate your homestead, and each day splits into morning, afternoon and evening blocks that you choose when to advance.

Combat is top-down and fast, and the more than ten characters you can befriend or date each give you buffs and combat abilities as your bond grows. The game is co-directed by the pixel artist of Celeste, with music by Disasterpeace, which will matter to anyone who loved that game’s look and sound (our games like Celeste list has more from that corner). Among the indie games upcoming in 2027, it is the one still waiting on a month.

Who it suits: anyone who wants a life sim with real fights in it. Players: single-player. Steam lists: 2027, from Coldblood Inc., published by Coldblood Inc. and Outersloth, on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Announced indie games without a release date yet

These indie games upcoming on Steam have store pages and plenty of detail, but no fixed date. “To be announced” means the developer has not committed to a day; “Coming soon” is a looser placeholder. Wishlist them so Steam tells you when that changes.

Enter the Gungeon 2

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The original Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler: you dodge-roll through screens packed with enemy bullets while firing back with an absurd collection of guns, in rooms that are procedurally generated (built fresh each run). The sequel, the most familiar name among the undated indie games upcoming here, keeps that core and moves it into a new 3D art style, with new weapons, new enemies and new tricks.

Enemies that used to live on a flat plane can now be knocked around, tossed into the air and thrown into pits. You pick from a growing roster of Gungeoneers, rescue stranded heroes from the depths and build power from combinations of passive items, active items, blessings and curses.

Who it suits: roguelite fans (games where each run starts over but you keep some progress between them) who want twitchy shooting. Players: single-player. Steam lists: To be announced, from Dodge Roll, published by Devolver Digital, on Windows. If you need a fix now, try our roguelite games like Hades.

Blight: Survival

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Blight: Survival is a PvE (players versus the game, not each other) action horror game set in a brutal medieval world. You and your kin, the Writhens, head into the no man’s land between two warring kingdoms to destroy the source of the Blight, an affliction that is turning soldiers into monsters.

The store page promises visceral combat mixed with ideas from roguelites and extraction games (where you head into danger, grab what you can and try to get out alive). You fight both humans and monsters, and the decisions you make along the way are part of the challenge. For co-op squads, it is the grimmest of the indie games upcoming on this list.

Who it suits: squads who like tense, grim co-op. Players: single-player or online co-op for up to 4, with cross-platform multiplayer. Steam lists: To be announced, from Haenir Studio, published by Behaviour Interactive, on Windows. Our upcoming survival horror games list covers more in this vein.

Kingmakers

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Kingmakers is the loudest pitch among the indie games upcoming here, though note that Steam files it under Action, Simulation and Strategy rather than its Indie tag. You travel back 500 years to medieval England with assault rifles, shotguns, grenade launchers, armoured SUVs, attack helicopters and air strikes, and try to change the course of a war to stave off an apocalypse.

Battles run as real-time simulations with thousands of soldiers, each driven by AI that handles decisions, pathfinding and loyalty. Between fights you build your kingdom, and in co-op you can break down a castle’s defences together or hold an allied stronghold against hordes.

Who it suits: sandbox players who want spectacle and strategy at once. Players: single-player or online co-op for 4. Steam lists: Coming soon, from Redemption Road, published by tinyBuild, on Windows. More team-ups wait in our upcoming co-op games roundup.

2026 indie releases worth catching up on

Many of the indie games upcoming at the start of this year are now out. If your wishlist is quiet until January, these six are ready to play.

Mina the Hollower

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From Yacht Club Games, the studio behind Shovel Knight, Mina the Hollower is a top-down action adventure in 8-bit visuals styled after the Game Boy Color, with modern widescreen and animation touches. Mina is a Hollower sent to rescue a cursed island, and her signature move is burrowing underground to slip under hazards and monsters.

You fight with her whip, Nightstar, or swap to other weapons that each have their own move set, then layer on Sidearms and Trinkets for extra effects. Expect big bosses, odd characters and secrets tucked into each area.

Who it suits: retro action fans. Players: single-player. Steam lists: released May 28, 2026, on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Planet of Lana II

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Planet of Lana II is a cinematic puzzle adventure about Lana and her small companion Mui, set on a world where new technology is stirring greed between tribes. You journey across frozen peaks, deep oceans and ruins in a hand-painted world, and there is no spoken dialogue: characters use an alien language, so music and visuals carry the story.

Puzzles rely on awareness, timing and working with Mui rather than heavy logic, and an older Lana moves more freely than before.

Who it suits: players who want a calm, beautiful evening game. Players: single-player, gamepad recommended. Steam lists: released Mar 5, 2026, from Wishfully, published by Thunderful Publishing, on Windows.

Dosa Divas

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From the makers of Thirsty Suitors and Falcon Age, Dosa Divas follows sisters Samara and Amani, who pilot an ancient spirit-mech called Goddess to bring down their corporate sister’s fast food empire in a world where cooking is forbidden. Turn-based combat sits alongside rhythm action, mini-games and fishing, and you gather local ingredients as you explore.

The store page puts its runtime at about 10 hours, which makes it a good pick if long RPGs keep stalling on your backlog. Our new and upcoming RPG games list has more.

Who it suits: story-first RPG players. Players: single-player, gamepad recommended. Steam lists: released Apr 14, 2026, from Outerloop Games, published by Outerloop Games and Outersloth, on Windows.

Titanium Court

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Titanium Court refuses to explain itself, and its store page leans into that joke hard. Underneath the surreal presentation, it describes itself as a match-3 tower defense roguelike for one player, with a playtime somewhere between 6 and 30 hours.

Who it suits: people who enjoyed the strange rule-bending of puzzle roguelikes; our Balatro like games list is a good next stop. Players: single-player. Steam lists: released Apr 23, 2026, from AP Thomson, published by Fellow Traveller, on Windows and macOS.

Big Walk

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From House House, the creators of Untitled Goose Game, Big Walk is an online co-op “walker-talker” about wandering a big open world with friends. Proximity voice chat makes voices fade with distance, echo in corridors and crackle through walkie-talkies, and when talking is not possible you point, wave and use tools like laser pointers, flares, whiteboards and cowbells.

Who it suits: friend groups who would rather hang out than compete. Players: online co-op from as few as 2 players, cross-platform. Steam lists: released Aug 4, 2026, published by Panic, on Windows and macOS.

Starsand Island

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Starsand Island is a relaxed country-life sim on a seaside island: grow tropical fruit and vegetables, hang out with capybaras, cats and dogs, fish, explore the Moonlit Forest and shape terraced gardens. You get around by longboard, retro scooter or boat to nearby islands.

Who it suits: anyone who wants low stakes and pretty views. Players: Steam lists single-player and multi-player. Steam lists: released Aug 18, 2026, from Seed Sparkle Lab, on Windows. See our best farming games on Steam for more.

Still growing in Early Access

Early Access means a game is on sale and playable while the developer keeps adding content before a full launch. These two are out, but their finished versions still belong on any watchlist of indie games upcoming in the next year or so.

Slay the Spire 2

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Slay the Spire 2 is the sequel to the game that defined the roguelike deckbuilder: you climb a tower, adding cards to your deck after each fight and picking up relics and potions that change how those cards work. The Spire has reopened after 1,000 years with new cards, relics, potions and a mix of new and returning characters. The headline addition is a co-op mode for up to four players. Our Slay the Spire 2 Early Access article covers its launch.

Players: single-player or online co-op up to 4. Steam lists: released Mar 5, 2026 in Early Access, from Mega Crit, on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Subnautica 2

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Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure on a new alien world. A colony ship goes wrong, you are stranded, and you build bases, craft tools and explore ruins in your Tadpole submersible. Steam does not tag it Indie, but it is self-published by Unknown Worlds. Fans should read our games like Subnautica list.

Players: single-player or online co-op with up to three friends, cross-platform. Steam lists: released May 14, 2026 in Early Access, on Windows.

How to keep track of indie games upcoming on Steam

1. Wishlist everything that interests you. Steam emails you when a wishlisted game launches or leaves Early Access, so you never have to check pages yourself.
2. Follow the game too. Following puts developer updates, delays and new dates in your activity feed.
3. Play demos during Steam Next Fest. Many indie games upcoming in the next year show up there with free demos, which is the cheapest way to test a game’s feel.
4. Read the release field literally. A full date is a plan, a year is a target, and “To be announced” means nothing is fixed.

The common mistakes when following indie games upcoming on Steam: treating a year like “2027” as a promise, assuming a Steam tag tells you whether a game is indie (Kingmakers and Subnautica 2 show that tags vary), and assuming co-op from a trailer instead of checking the features list. Our release dates hub tracks changes as they happen.

Which upcoming indie game should you wishlist first?

Start from what you already play. Here is a worked example: say your last two favourites were Stardew Valley and a horror game. Of the indie games upcoming in 2027, Grave Seasons sits right between the two, so wishlist it first, add Neverway for the same mix with more combat, and play Starsand Island now if you want pure calm in the meantime.

• Cozy life sim players: Witchbrook, then Grave Seasons.
• Action and roguelite players: Enter the Gungeon 2, then Mina the Hollower today.
• Co-op groups: Blight: Survival or Kingmakers, then Big Walk or Slay the Spire 2 now.
• Story players: Dosa Divas and Planet of Lana II, both out now.

For finished picks, browse our best indie games on Steam, and keep an eye on the upcoming games page for the next wave of indie games upcoming on Steam.

Questions and answers

What indie games are coming out in 2027?

On Steam, Witchbrook is listed for January 28, 2027 and Grave Seasons for March 9, 2027. Neverway is listed simply as 2027, with no day or month yet. Enter the Gungeon 2 and Blight: Survival are announced but show To be announced, and Kingmakers shows Coming soon, so any of those could land in 2027 or later. Wishlisting them on Steam is the easiest way to hear when a date appears.

When does Witchbrook come out?

Steam lists Witchbrook's release as January 28, 2027. It is developed by Chucklefish and Robotality and published by Chucklefish, and it comes to Windows. It is a witch life sim set in the seaside town of Mossport, where you attend classes at Witchbrook College, run a small witch business and make friends or find romance. It supports single-player and online co-op for up to four players.

Is Enter the Gungeon 2 out yet?

No. Steam lists Enter the Gungeon 2 as To be announced, which means there is no public release date yet. It is developed by Dodge Roll and published by Devolver Digital. The sequel moves the bullet hell dungeon crawler into a new 3D art style with new weapons, enemies and gameplay tricks. Steam currently lists it as single-player with full controller support on Windows.

Are these upcoming indie games coming to Nintendo Switch?

Gamescape covers PC games on Steam, and the platforms listed here are the Steam versions: Windows for every game, with some also on macOS and Linux. Several of these studios have released console versions of earlier games, but console plans change and are announced separately. If you mainly play on Switch, check each developer's own announcements before assuming a Switch release.

What does Coming soon or To be announced mean on Steam?

Both mean the developer has not committed to a specific release date on the store page. To be announced usually signals that a date is further off or still undecided, while Coming soon is a looser placeholder. A year on its own, like 2027, is a target window rather than a promise. Only a full date on the store page tells you exactly when a game is scheduled.

Which upcoming indie games have co-op?

Witchbrook supports online co-op for up to four players, Blight: Survival lets you team up with up to three friends with cross-platform play, and Kingmakers offers four-player online co-op. Among recent releases, Slay the Spire 2 and Subnautica 2 both add online co-op for up to four players in Early Access, and Big Walk is built entirely around online co-op.