On a mean day a few dozen new video games are launched on Steam. And whereas we predict that is a superb factor, it may be understandably onerous to maintain up with. Doubtlessly thrilling gems are positive to be misplaced within the deluge of recent issues to play until you kind by way of each single sport that’s launched on Steam. In order that’s precisely what we’ve completed. If nothing catches your fancy this week, we have gathered the greatest PC video games you possibly can play proper now and a operating listing of the 2026 video games which are launching this yr.
Horuma Hime
Steam ‌web page‌ ‌
Launch:‌ February 25
Developer:‌ Crimson Nightfall
Homura Hime is a third-person motion sport the way in which they used to make them 20 years in the past. Protagonist Homura has been tasked with defeating “5 extraordinarily highly effective demon ladies”, and the following violence seems to be like a mash up of Satan Could Cry with Nier’s bullet hell inclinations. It is a fairly simple slash and dodge ’em up wrapped in an anime pores and skin, and when you miss the times when video games like this have been mainly the norm, it is in all probability $23 properly spent.
Planet of Lana 2
Steam ‌web page‌ ‌
Launch:‌ March 6
Developer:‌ Wishfully
The primary Planet of Lana was a luxurious, hand painted cinematic platformer within the type of Inside and One other World. I actually loved it, and this sequel appears to develop on the unique largely within the route of tonal selection: this one has “frozen peaks, deep oceans and forgotten ruins”, which factors to a extra various color palette than the unique’s splendid vibrant blues and greens. Lana can be older and thus strikes with extra certainty, although general you possibly can count on one thing pretty just like the primary: a rigorously paced expertise mixing platforming, puzzles, and a few occasional stealth.
iRacing Arcade
Steam web page
Launch:‌ March 4
Developer:‌ Authentic Hearth Video games, iRacing
iRacing is among the most beloved “severe” racing sims however it’s actually not for everybody. Not everybody needs to concentrate to security guidelines and, frankly, not everybody needs to should brake round corners. iRacing Arcade is a solution to that: it is mainly an off-the-cuff, calmly cartoon-y tackle the principle sport with some administration sim features as properly. It has been put in protected fingers: the creators of Circuit Superstars is behind this one, and that is a mightily underrated fashionable tackle the topdown racer.
Shinehill
Steam web page
Launch:‌ March 7
Builders:‌ Peach Chunk
One other cosy sport within the post-Stardew mould, Shinehill has you play as a well-disguised alien spy who has been gifted a home and plot of land. So that you’d higher farm that land, I assume, all the higher to slot in and make a dwelling, and also you’d higher go forward and make good with the townsfolk, as a result of one among them is not who they appear to be. It is bought all of it: fishing, dungeon crawling, and cooking.
Angel Engine
Steam web page
Launch:‌ March 7
Developer:‌ HMS Studios, Black Lantern Collective
Angel Engine is an analog horror collection (suppose Blair Witch, Paranormal Exercise) revealed on vertical video platforms like TikTok and Instagram. I’ve by no means heard of it in my life, however it now has a sport. It is a “horror surgical procedure simulator that explores a lacking chapter of the Angel Engine collection”, and it is positively adopted that dirty DreadXP veneer, although it seems to be extra like a ’90s PC level ‘n’ click on journey than a PS1 sport.
