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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

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: MOLE

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

Duppy Detective Tashia

7

PC

Cursemark

8 (EA)

PC

Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker

9

Switch, PC

Bellwright

9

PS, Xbox

Crushed In Time

10

PC

Beatdown City Survivors

10

PC

Letter Lost

10

PC

33 Immortals

10

Xbox, PC

BOXROOM

11 (EA)

PC

Beastro

11

PS, Xbox, PC

STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions

11 (EA)

PC

Don’t Let It Starve

12

PC

MOLE

15

PC

and Roger

17

Switch

Shift At Midnight

18

PC

Until Then: Afterimages

18

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Thank You For Your Application

19

PC

NONEWORLD

21

PC

The Drifter

22

Switch

Dark Scrolls

22

Switch, PC

SAND: Raiders of Sophie

22 (EA)

PC

Moldwasher

23

PC

Deer & Boy

23

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

DELTARUNE Chapter 5

24

PS, Switch, PC

Wanderstop

24

Switch

Nophenia

25

PC

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

25

Switch

Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands

30

PS, Xbox, Switch

Momento

30

PS, Xbox, Switch

Image: Scarlet Deer Inn

July

Release Dates

Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence

3

PS, Xbox, Switch

Backyard Baseball

9

PS, Xbox, PC

MineGeon: Renegades

13

PC

Ascend to ZERO

13

Xbox, PC

KAZ

13

PC

Hell Clock: Cursed War

14

PS, Xbox, PC

D-topia

14

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

A Simpler World

14

PC

I Know a Spot

14

PC

Denshattack!

15

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

What Surrounds Us

15

PC

Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit

15

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Puppergeist

16

Xbox, Switch, PC

Happy’s Humble Burger Cult

16

PC

Go-Go Town!

16

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Moss: The Forgotten Relic

16

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Heave Ho 2

16

Switch, PC

Looking For Fael

16

PC

The Mermaid Mask

16

PS, Switch, PC

Desktop Explorer

17

PC

The Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian

20

PC

Scarlet Deer Inn

21

Xbox, Switch, PC

DIVE or DIE – Children of Rain

21

PC

Lost in Tandem

22

PC

Love is a Demon

22

PC

Shift At Midnight

22

PC

Tears of Metal

22 (EA)

PC

Dodo Duckie

23

Xbox, PC

Doomsday Diner

23

PC

Cultic

23

PS, Xbox, Switch

Dinoblade

23

PC

Worlds Upon The Wind

23

PC

Helix: Descent N Ascent

23

Switch, PC

Rubinite

23

PC

An Eggstremely Hard Game

24

PC

Graphite

27

PC

Plum Road Tea Dream

27

PC

My Lil Afterlife

28

PC

The King is Watching

29

PS, Xbox, Switch

Mistfall Hunter

29

PS, Xbox, PC

Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?!

29

Xbox, PC

Rita

30

PC

Parcel Pals

31

PC

Occulto

31 (EA)

PC

Image: Sovereign Tower

August

Release Dates

Big Walk

4

PS, Switch, PC

Kynseed

4

PS, Xbox, Switch

Block Block Block

5

PC

Lost & Found: A This Bed We Made Story

5

PC

Akatori

5

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Gunstoppable

5

PC

Fields of Mistria

5

PC

Lies of P: Complete Edition

6

Switch

Doloc Town

6

PC

Capy Castaway

6

PC

ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs

6

PC

Ambrosia Sky: Act Two

6

PC

IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator

6

PC

Pigeon: A Love Story

6

PC

Monsters are Coming! Rock & Road

6

Xbox

Sovereign Tower

6

PC

Spiritstead

6

PC

Horse Magnifier: The Full Horse

10

PC

T.W.I.R.L.

10

PC

Hole Is Mine

10

PC

Backpack Boy

10

PC

RUNT

10

PC

Ledgerbound

11

PC

Agent 64: Spies Never Die

11

PC

Omen

11

PC

Finding Polka

11

PC

Pro Jank Footy

12

PC

Verde

12

PC

The Cave Diver

12

PC

Memoirium

12

PC

CloverPit

13

PS, Switch

Servant of the Lake

13

PC

Wild Blue Skies

13

PS, Xbox, PC

Sandustry

13

PC

Lootbound

14

PC

Sister Other Paranoia

14

PC

FEED IT

17

PC

Tukoni: Forest Keepers

17

PC

The Sinking City 2

18

PS, Xbox, PC

Entropy

18 (EA)

PC

Exark

18

PC

Darkest Dungeon: The Fire’s Edge

18

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Hearth and Hamlet

19

PC

Project P.I.T.T.

19

PC

Mortal Shell II

20

PS, Xbox, PC

Slayblade

20

PC

Mexican Ninja

20

PS, Xbox, PC

Puppergeist

20

PC

1000xRESIST

20

Switch

Grim Trials

20

PC

Theropods

20

PC

Berry Bury Berry

20

PS, Xbox, Switch

Play Faster

20

PC

Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder

24

PC

Blood Dungeon

25

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Box Knight

25

PC

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy

27

PS, Xbox, PC

The Immortal John Triptych

27

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Sucker for Love: Crush Landing

31

PC

Image: Nocturne

September

Release Dates

Aerial_Knight’s MrFreezy

1

PC

Crimson Moon

1

PS, Xbox, PC

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault

2

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Orbitals

3

Switch 2

Worming from Home

4

PC

Isle of Reveries

4

PC

Order Automatica

4

Xbox, PC

Cat Me If You Can

8

PC

Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster

9

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Valheim

9

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Roguecraft DX

10

PC

Magical Blush

10

PC

The Royal Writ

10

PS, Xbox, Switch

Shroom and Gloom

10 (EA)

PC

Hazard Pay

10

PC

Truck-kun is Supporting Me From Another World?!

14

Switch 2

TCG Card Shop Simulator

15

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Little Witch in the Woods

16

Switch

MONOWAVE

16

PC

Woodo

16

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Roman Sands RE:Build

16

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Kernel Hearts

17

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

lily’s world XD

17

PC

Absolum

17

Switch 2

CONCRETE BURIAL

17

PC

Flamecraft

17

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Mr. Sleepy Man

17

Switch

Trine 6: Together in Time

17

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

CITADEL

21

PC

Normal Golf Game

21

PC

The Rabbit Haul

21

PC

Dressmaker

21

PC

Well Dweller

22

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Delverium

22 (EA)

PC

EbiTapes

22

PC

Little Ghost

22

PC

Graveyard Keeper 2

22

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Wind Runners

23 (EA)

PC

Stick It to the Stickman

23

PC

Fallen Tear: The Ascension

23

PC

Doggy Don’t Care

24

PC

Dragon Shelter

24

PC

Nocturne

24

PC

Fallosophy

25

Switch, PC

Keep Driving

28

PS, Xbox, Switch

Unshine Arcade

28

PC

TOEM 2

29

PS, Switch, PC

The Merlies

29

Switch, PC

Dicevaders

29

Switch, PC

Songs of Glimmerwick

30

PC

Image: Echo Weaver

October

Release Dates

End of Abyss

1

PS, Xbox, PC

Shroomwood

1 (EA)

PC

Echo Weaver

8

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Forever Ago

8

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Dancing with Ghosts

8 (EA)

PC

Silver Pines

8

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Truckful

9

PC

Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers

9

PS, Switch

Burn With Me

12

PC

Colorbound

12

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Allogloom

12

PC

Deep Dish Dungeon

13

Xbox, PC

Valor Mortis

13

PS, Xbox, PC

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse

14

PS, Xbox, PC

Among the Trolls

14

PC

The Witch’s Bakery

14

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

over the hill

14

PC

Enshrouded

15

PS, PC

Pixel Washer

15 (EA)

PC

Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction

15

PC

Penguin Colony

16

Switch, PC

Tenebris Somnia

16

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Blue Ridge Hunting

20 (EA)

PC

We Were Here Tomorrow

20

PC

Mycopunk

20

PS, PC

A Sister’s Journey

20

PC

WOIM

21

PC

Cutout Village

21 (EA)

PC

Under Canopies

23 (EA)

PC

The Séance of Blake Manor

27

PS, Xbox, Switch

Emberville

27 (EA)

PC

Virtue and a Sledgehammer

27

PC

ANOMALITH

28

PS, Switch, PC

Phantom Blade Zero

29

PS, PC

Danchi Days

29

PC

Curse of Resthaven

29

PS, PC

Tom the Postgirl

29

PC

Terrible Lizards

29

PC

Usagi Shima: Bunny Island

29

PC

The Gardener

TBA

PC

Image: Milki Delivery

November

Release Dates

Cozy Game Restoration

4

PC

Slumber Realm

4

PC

Worship

4

PS, PC

Horses of Hoofprint Bay

4

PC

In Full Bloom

5

PC

Airframe Ultra

5

PC

After the Wane

10

PC

MONOMOON

11

PC

Moomin: Midsummer Madness

11

Switch, PC

9 Kings

12

PC

BALL x PIT: Risen Ballbylon

12

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Milki Delivery

17

PC

Volvy’s Adventure: Reslimed

19

PC

Blacksmith Master

19

PC

Ship Miner

26 (EA)

PC

Am I Nima

27

PC

Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School

TBA

PC

Light of Atlantis

TBA

PC

Bestseller Tycoon

TBA (EA)

PC

Bulbo’s Belief System

TBA

PC

Image: Akashic Slingshot

December

Release Dates

Hela: of Mice & Magic

1

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Akashic Slingshot

2

PC

TBA

Release Dates

LUCID

Summer

PC

Grave Seasons

Fall

PS, Xbox, PC

Deep Dish Dungeon

Fall

Xbox, PC

Below the Stone

Q3

PC

Under Canopies

Q4

PC

Milki Delivery

2026

PC

Penguin Colony

2026

PC

Cairn: On The Trail

2026

PS, PC

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