Interesting upcoming game release next week

Week 45 - 5 (+4) games

Tavern Keeper 🍻 - Management

From the creators of Game Dev Tycoon comes Tavern Keeper 🍻, a cosy-chaotic management sim, featuring a powerful decoration sandbox and a magical storybook RPG!

(EA) The Last Caretaker - Survival Adventure

Save humanity. Sail across a vast ocean world in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Craft, explore, and battle rogue machines. An atmospheric, open-world adventure where every discovery and upgrade brings you closer to humanity’s rebirth.

Whiskerwood - City-Builder

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Kentum - Survival

Stranded in the year 10,000, Kent—an average Joe turned clone—must survive, explore, and rebuild civilization with the help of a quirky robot companion. Craft, farm, and automate in this 2D craftervania adventure as you uncover Earth’s secrets and kickstart humanity, one machine at a time.

Sanatorium - A Mental Asylum Simulator - Management Puzzle

The year is 1923. The lines between modern psychiatric treatments and pseudoscience are still vague. Enter the Sanatorium to diagnose and treat your patients. Struggle with moral decisions and society’s expectations – but tread carefully, as your supervisors may discover… that you are an impostor.

The cozy one: Dream Garden
Bigger game: Sonic Rumble - Europa Universalis V - Football Manager 26

Week 46 - 5 (+4) games

Where Winds Meet - Action RPG

Where Winds Meet is an epic Wuxia open-world action-adventure RPG set in ancient China at the tenth century. Players will assume the role of a young sword master as they embark on a journey to uncover the mysteries of their own identity. Let the wind carry your legend on an epic journey to the East!

Winter Burrow - Cozy Survival

Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore their childhood burrow. Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals.

Rue Valley - Story-Rich Adventure

Rue Valley is a narrative RPG about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must rise from the depths, delving into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.

Possessor(s) - Action Platformer

Possessor(s) is a fast-paced action side scroller with combat inspired by platform fighters, a story told through dangerous characters, set in a deep interconnected world ready for exploration.

Windswept - Platformer

🦆 Marbles and 🐢 Checkers need your help finding their way home after being swept away in a storm. In this 90s buddy-platformer there's a ton of stuff to do and even more to collect!

The cozy one: VORON: Raven’s Story
Bigger game: Anno 117: Pax Romana - Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7 - Escape from Tarkov

Week 47 - 5 (+2) games

(EA) Long Drive North: Co-Op RV Simulator - Survival

Join the Early Access journey with this immersive driving-survival game. Explore the harsh American wilderness in the Long Drive North. Drive & repair your trusty RV, scavenge for parts, hunt & cook to survive; all alone or with up to 4 players in separate RVs. SHARED RV support coming early 2026!

The Berlin Apartment - Story-Rich

One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.

(EA) Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault - Action RPG

Live the double life of a fearless adventurer and a crafty merchant! Dive into vibrant dimensions brimming with shiny loot and pesky enemies. Grow your shop, tinker with weapons and gadgets, as well as make your mark among a ragtag community of castaways.

Monsters are Coming! Rock & Road - Action Roguelike

Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defenses, and boost potential through enhanced player progression. Will you reach the Arch?

Replicat - Roguelike Deckbuilder

A roguelike memory deckbuilder where you bend the rules of card matching with wild combos, strategy-defining items and cards featuring some personality-packed cats.

The cozy one: The August Before
Bigger game: SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide

Long Drive North does indeed seem very disappointing. It's a shame, as I liked the concept and the visuals. To be continued, but it's going to be difficult for them to recover. Disappointing.

The Berlin Apartment is likely to end up on my wishlist, yes.
But I'd like to stay under 50, and that's pretty hard at the moment :D

Week 48 - 5 (+3) games

The Last Case of John Morley - Story-Rich Adventure

Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.

Ayasa: Shadows of Silence - Horror Platformer

A dark tale of survival and conscience, blending platforming, puzzles, and haunting beauty. Journey through surreal lands where every choice shapes the fate of a world on the edge of ruin will you restore the light or embrace the darkness?

Constance - Action Platformer

Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.

Red Rogue Sea - Turn-based Strategy

Red Rogue Sea is a roguelike strategy game that puts you in the shoes of a pirate captain and their crew. Manage your vessel as you sail through the treacherous waters of the archipelago, interact with the scum that inhabit it, and engage in battle using a tactical deck-building system.

Hail to the Rainbow - FPS Adventure

The story of a lonely young man named Ignat, who survives in the dangerous and gloomy world of post-apocalyptic cyberpunk. You have to face the trials of a new reality and plunge into the secrets of the surrounding chaos.

The cozy one: Light Up The Town
Bigger game: Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE - Project Motor Racing

Week 49 - 5 (+2) games

SLEEP AWAKE - Horror Adventure

In the last known city on Earth, people are disappearing in their sleep. Those who remain exist in a crisis of reckless experiments to keep awake. From Cory Davis (Spec Ops: The Line) and Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails), SLEEP AWAKE blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination.

(EA) Cloudheim - Action RPG

Ragnarok shattered the world, and the gods have chosen you to shape the next one. Cloudheim is a 1-4 player action adventure that blends crafting with chaotic physics-based combat. Awaken forgotten deities, drive back corruption, and upgrade your shop in the sky to bring harmony to a broken realm.

The Art of Reflection - Puzzle

Traverse mirrors as if they were natural extensions of space to solve puzzles and uncover secrets. Reshape your perspective to perform gravity-shifting acrobatics as you jungle-gym through a sprawling environment. You'll never look in a mirror the same way again.

(EA) MineMogul - Automation

Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

ANGST: A TALE OF SURVIVAL - Survival Adventure

Explore a frozen limbo in this top-down survival adventure. Collect resources, craft tools, and uncover a story of memory and redemption as you search for escape from the Hollow.

The cozy one: Log Away
Bigger game: OCTOPATH TRAVELER 0

... I'm a bit ashamed that I've never played Octopath Traveler.

For Sleep Awake. Well... I've just had surgery for myopia and I put 15 eyedrops in each eye every day.
Should I ask for broadcasting rights for the image? :D :D :D

Week 50 - 5 (+1) games

Death Howl - Turn-Based

Journey through the sorrowful spirit world in a soulslike deck builder. Craft cards and claim powerful totems to defeat the woeful spirits lurking in the mystical lands. Unravel the tale of a grieving mother in her desperate attempt to defy death and bring back her son.

(EA) Everdream Village - Farming-Sim

Build your ideal, cozy farm in a living village. Form bonds with fellow villagers to lend a hand as you grow crops, care for animals, and craft a corner of paradise. Sail across enchanted islands to discover new resources and adventures along the way.

Skate Story - Skate Adventure

Ollie, kickflip, and grind your way through the ash and smoke of the Underworld as you take on a seemingly impossible quest. Skate fast to destroy demons and save other tortured souls on your journey from fragile beginner to a hardened skater.

(EA) Alchemy Factory - Automation

Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate.Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!

(EA) High Fructose - Roguelike Survival

Ghostrunner meets Fruit Ninja in this first-person survival roguelite. Wall-run, bend time, and carve through hordes of demon fruit with unusual weapons. Kill fruit to complete recipes and unlock sweet power-ups, then spend your spoils in the shop between waves.

The cozy one: Unboxathon

Week 51 - 5 games

(EA) Raiders of Blackveil - Action Roguelike

Join the rebellion against the evil cooperation Blackveil in this action-packed roguelite for 1-3 players. Select your MOBA-like champion, collect RPG-style loot and infiltrate Blackveil’s massive factory. Wreak havoc, and smuggle out loot to get INSANELY powerful!

Pure Badminton - Sport

Pure Badminton is the most realistic Badminton simulation game.Experience the sensations of badminton, in a fast, technical and strategical game.

(EA) Varthos - Heir to the Throne - Action RPG

Varthos calls you to his side. Fight hordes of monsters and undead creatures in this captivating action RPG, who have only one goal: to kill you. Fight, die, repeat — the battle for the throne of the world has begun.

(EA) M.E.A.T. II: Absolute Zero - Action FPS

Grab a telestarion shotgun and meet Sir Culligan in fury mode! M.E.A.T. II: Absolute Zero is a classics-styilized shooter with a dark atmosphere, an engaging storyline and hordes of enemies to defeat.

Bearly Brave - Roguelike Deckbuilder

Bearly Brave is a 2D roguelike deck-building game set in a deceptively charming toy shop, where the cutest teddy bears come to life each night to fight in a no-holds-barred tournament that determines their placement on the shelves, and thus their likeness to be taken to their forever home.