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2026 Indie Video Game Release Schedule

Just when you think you’ve seen the best year of indie releases, a new year rolls up its sleeves. To keep you from missing great games, we’ve rounded up a list of anticipated indie (and indie-adjacent) titles set to release in 2026. This schedule is constantly growing, so if you know of a project coming out this year, reach out!

Image: MIO: Memories in Orbit

January

Release Dates

I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival

8

PS, Xbox, Switch

Big Hops

12

PS, Switch, PC

Archon Soul: Prologue

12

PC

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check

12

Xbox, PC

Hank: Drowning On Dry Land

13

PC

CASSETTE BOY

14

PC

Kejora

14

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Craftlings

15

PC

The Fortress

15

PC

CARNEDGE

19

PC

Hack And Climb

20

PC

MIO: Memories in Orbit

20

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Blightstone

20 (EA)

PC

Tailside: Cozy Cafe Sim

21 (EA)

PC

TR-49

21

PC, Mobile

Perfect Tides: Station to Station

22

PC

Look Mum No Computer

22

PS, Xbox, PC

Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven

22

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Bladesong

22 (EA)

PC

Escape from Ever After

23

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Wanderling

26

PC

Rightfully, Beary Arms

27

Xbox, PC

Core Keeper

28

Switch

Dispatch

28

Switch

Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator

29

PC

Cairn

29

PS, PC

I Hate This Place

29

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Don’t Stop, Girlypop!

29

PC

The Perfect Pencil

29

Switch, PC

Caves of Qud

TBA

Switch

Image: Lil Gator Game: In the Dark

February

Release Dates

Tearscape

2

PC

Hermit and Pig

5

PC

Dead Pets: A Punk Rock Slice of Life Sim

6

PC

Creature Kitchen

6

PC

Relooted

10

Xbox, PC

Crisol: Theater of Idols

10

PS, Xbox, PC

Romeo is a Dead Man

11

PS, Xbox, PC

Lil Gator Game: In the Dark

12

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Dear me, I was…

12

Switch, PC

Clue: Murder By Death

13

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

REANIMAL

13

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Scarlet Hollow Ep 5

13

PC

Vampire Therapist

17

PS, Switch

Forgotlings

17

PC

Aerial_Knight’s DropShot

17

PS, Xbox, PC

Under The Island

17

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Strange Brew

18

PC

The Killing Stone

18 (EA)

PC

Seafrog

19

Switch

Death Howl

19

PS, Xbox, Switch

Demon Tides

19

PC

LOVE ETERNAL

19

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Horripilant

20

PC

Bread & Fred

24

PS, Xbox

Nested Lands

25 (EA)

PC

Laysara: Summit Kingdom

27

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Image: Esoteric Ebb

March

Release Dates

The Legend of Khiimori

3 (EA)

PC

Esoteric Ebb

3

PC

Planet of Lana II

5

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Timberborn

5

PC

Slay the Spire 2

5 (EA)

PC

Pieced Together

6

PC

Lost and Found Co.

6

PC

Haunted Lands

10

PC

Mr. Sleepy Man

10

PC

Bubblegum Galaxy

11

Switch, PC

Piece by Piece

11

PC

Collector’s Cove

12

Switch, PC

Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times

12

PC

1348 Ex Voto

12

PS, PC

Mythmatch

13

PC

Bonnie Bear Saves Frogtime

16

Switch, PC

The King is Watching: The Crowns of History DLC

16

PC

Duck and the Land of Flightless Birds

16

PC

Dread Delusion

17

PS, Xbox, Switch

Fallen Tear: The Ascension

17 (EA)

PC

Voidwrought

19

PS, Xbox

Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game

25

Switch

Chico’s Rebound

26

PC

Project Songbird

26

PS, Xbox, PC

NUTMEG!

26

PC

Screamer

26

PS, Xbox, PC

Reclaim! Azhe-giiwewining

26

PC

The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish

27

PC

Hozy

30

PC

GRIME II

31

PS, Xbox, PC

Tombwater

31

PC

Little Nemo and the Guardians of Slumberland

31

PC

Super Meat Boy 3D

31

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

The Posthumous Investigation

31

PC

BLOODLETTER

31 EA

PC

RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike

31

PC

Image: Fishbowl

April

Release Dates

Fishbowl

2

PS, PC

Cursed Words

2

PC

MotionRec

2

PS, Switch

People of Note

7

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Nippets

7

PC

TR-49

7

Switch

Super Alloy Crush

8 EA

PC

ChainStaff

8

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

DarkSwitch

9

PC

Beyond Words

9

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

MINOS

9

PC

Tiny Bookshop

10

PS

Fight Life: Vanguard

10

PC

Gunboat God

13

PS, Xbox, PC

Moves Of The Diamond Hand

13 EA

PC

Before I Go

13

PS, Xbox, PC

Dosa Divas

14

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Moses & Plato – Last Train to Clawville

14

PC

Hades II

14

PS, Xbox

REPLACED

14

Xbox, PC

Windrose

14 EA

EA

Cleaning Up!

15

PC

MOUSE: P.I. For Hire

16

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Scriptorium

16

PC

The Day I Became a Bird

16

PS, Switch, PC

RAD: Repeat After Death

16

PC

Gecko Gods

16

PS, Switch, PC

Nullstar: Solus

16

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Lucky Tower Ultimate

16

Switch, PC

Treeplanter

17

PC

TownsFolk

20

PC

Vampire Crawlers

21

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Foreign Sun

21

Switch, PC

Caromble!

22

PC

Kristala

23

PS, Xbox, PC

Well Keeper

23

PC

Outbound

23

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Titanium Court

23

PC

Snap & Grab

24

PC

Moomintroll: Winter’s Warmth

27

Switch, PC

The Last Gas Station

28

PC

Far Far West

28 EA

PC

Demon Lord: Just a Block

29

PC

The Spell Brigade

29

PS, PC

No Stone Unturned

29 EA

PC

MULLET MADJACK

30

Switch

Sledding Game

30

Xbox, PC

inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories

30

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Forbidden Solitaire

30

PC

Image: Wax Heads

May

Release Dates

Constance

1

PS, Xbox, Switch

STICKER/BALL

4

PC

Dead as Disco

5 (EA)

PC

Wax Heads

5

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Dark Adelita

5

PC

Amberspire

6

PC

TetherGeist

7

Switch, PC

FROGGY HATES SNOW

7

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Alabaster Dawn

7 (EA)

PC

Mixtape

7

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Besmirch

11 (EA)

PC

Outbound

11

Xbox, PC (PS, Switch: May 14)

Black Jacket

12

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Call of the Elder Gods

12

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Subnautica 2

14 (EA)

PC

Perfect Tides: Station to Station

14

Switch

Augment Anthem

15

PC

SUMMERHOUSE

15

PS, Xbox, Switch

The Melty Way

15

PC

Slots & Daggers

15

PS, Xbox, Switch

Thrifty Business

18

PC

Atomic Owl

20

PS, Xbox, Switch

Phonopolis

20

PC

Coffee Talk Tokyo

21

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Table Flip Simulator

21

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Luna Abyss

21

PS, Xbox, PC

Bubsy 4D

22

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Enter the Chronosphere

25 (EA)

PC

Paralives

25 (EA)

PC

Stonemachia

26

PC

LumenTale: Memories of Trey

26

Switch, PC

Rose and Locket

26

PC

Town to City

26

PC

Yerba Buena

26

PS, Xbox, PC

BOXROOM

26 (EA)

PC

Romestead

26

PC

Echo Generation 2

27

Xbox, PC

Enigmatic Worlds

27

PC

Wandering Sword

27

PS

Schrödinger’s Call

27

Switch, PC

Starminer

27 (EA)

PC

Scale the Depths

28

PC

Mina the Hollower

28

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Cardburners

28

PC

Map Map

28

PC

One Move Away

28

PS, Xbox, PC

Heavy Metal Death Can

28

PC

868-BACK

28

PC

Crashout Crew

28

Xbox, PC

Dread Fields

28

PC

The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time

28

PC

Image: Calx

June

Release Dates

Ourlands

2

PC

OddFauna : Secret of the Terrabeast

2 (EA)

PC

Hell Clock

2

PS, Xbox

Swan Song

4

PC

The 7th Guest Remake

4

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

House Flipper Remastered Collection

4

PS, Xbox, PC

Cursemark

8 (EA)

PC

Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker

9

Switch, PC

Crushed In Time

10

PC

Letter Lost

10

PC

Beastro

11

PS, Xbox, PC

STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions

11 (EA)

PC

MOLE

15

PC

Denshattack!

17

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

and Roger

17

Switch

Thank You For Your Application

19

PC

Shift At Midnight

18

PC

Dark Scrolls

22

Switch, PC

Moldwasher

23

PC

Wanderstop

24

Switch

Deer & Boy

TBA

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Image: Dosmic

July

Release Dates

Backyard Baseball

9

PC

Helix: Descent N Ascent

23

Switch, PC

DOSMIC

TBA

PC

The Gardener

TBA

PC

Order Automatica

TBA

PC

Dinoblade

TBA

PC

Image: Sovereign Tower

August

Release Dates

Memoirium

12

PC

Grave Seasons

14

PS, Xbox, PC

Sovereign Tower

TBA

PC

Image: Nocturne

September

Release Dates

Phantom Blade Zero

8

PS, PC

Dungeon Settlers

10

PC

Nocturne

24

PC

Image: Neverway

October

Release Dates

CALX

8

PC

Neverway

TBA

Switch, PC

November

Release Dates

December

Release Dates

TBA

Release Dates

Tears of Metal

Spring

Xbox, PC

33 Immortals

Summer

Xbox, PC

LUCID

Summer

PC

Below the Stone

Summer

PC

Deep Dish Dungeon

Fall

Xbox, PC

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