King in the Mountain

Mayday: The Survival Island is an open-world survival crafting game. After a crash you wake up alone and hurt on an island, and you have to gather resources, hunt, fish, farm and build your base. You can explore 24 different islands, with swamps, beaches and ruins, and little by little you find symbols and traces of a lost civilization that explain why you ended up there. Made by Pequi Studios, published by indie.io, out on November 2, 2026.

Agent of Strange: Arrival is the prologue to Agent of Strange, the new story RPG from the makers of The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante. You are a Conspirator returning from exile to Brocken, a frozen city in the early 20th century, to bring down the monstrous Traum Family. Your character is shaped by the choices of their past, and to sneak into the city you escape chases, ambushes and attacks on your mind. Made by Sever, published by HypeTrain Digital, out November 2.

Food Devils is a tactics RPG roguelite where you are the last chef in a post-apocalyptic world. You attract adventurers with monstrous food, make them sign contracts with the Food Devils and organise expeditions to hunt monsters for wicked ingredients. You customise your characters, build the perfect restaurant and plan every move. Made by Studio Daimon, it comes out on November 3.

Loftia is a cozy multiplayer game about building a life in the sky, in a shared world of floating islands that grows over time. You farm, craft, decorate and explore with old and new friends, working towards a more sustainable future. It is a place to unwind after a long day or team up for bigger adventures. It enters early access on November 3. Made by Qloud Games.

HEART ABYSS is pixel-art action platforming in a legendary Japan full of yokai, temples and cherry blossoms. You are Leon, a Jinko, half human and half fox, who breaks out of the cage humans kept him in and sets off to find his sister and take revenge. Combat is fast and bloody: you have to stay in the fight to drain enemies' health and charge the energy for your powers, like lightning or even a small black hole. You travel across the Empire, from the Capital to a temple lost in the snowy mountains, while uncovering what happened to your kind. Made by DEADMAP and published by HeroCraft PC, it comes out on November 3.

Death at Fleming Manor is a mystery game set in 1959, in an English country house outside London where unexplained deaths keep happening. You are the investigator: you look at each scene and the body, question the people involved and study the evidence. In the end you have to fill in the death certificate with who the victim is, what killed them and whether it was an accident or murder, and pointing at a suspect is not enough. Made by SUPERTHUMb, out November 3.

How Empires Work is an incremental strategy game where you build an empire on the Empress's orders. You start with a small lordship and discover taxes, trade, colonies and labour, until you run huge networks of trade routes and conquest. Whatever you do by hand you gradually automate into institutions that run themselves for centuries, and you use diplomacy or war to bring in new lands on a hand-painted map. Made by Crow Cottage, out November 3.

Abashed is a 2.5D narrative side-scroller that puts you inside the mind of Issac, a man living with psychosis. One day he wakes up alone and sets out to find the truth about his missing partner, as fragments of his past flash before his eyes. You solve puzzles, meet mysterious characters and alter reality as Issac faces his worst fears. Made by Supantha Paul.

ALTEREDBLOOD+ is a movement FPS platformer where blood is a resource. It mixes the splatter of Splatoon with classics like Doom and Quake: you cover walls and floors in your foes' blood, soak it up to refill ammo and health, and stand in it to alter yourself and your weapons. Made by TRUEWORLD STUDIOS.

Hull Rupture is strategy and management aboard a ship that can never stop. Earth is gone and you command humanity's last weapon, a ship run by a despotic AI heading for an alien planet with a cargo of people. You build and connect modules that turn resources, materials and the crew's effort into fuel, pick your route across the galaxy and defend the ship from alien waves with turrets, traps and barricades. Here people are a resource too, and sometimes someone has to be sacrificed. It has 3 ships, 6 modes and 4 modifiers so every run feels different. Made by Konfa Games and published by tinyBuild, it comes out on November 4.