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Steam's Summer Sale 2026 runs June 25 to July 9 with average discounts around 45 percent, deep cuts on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Space Marine 2 and Dead Space, and a flat two-week structure with no rotating daily deals.
Team Ninja's Dead or Alive 6: Last Round arrives June 25, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Steam. The current-gen re-release bundles 29 fighters, a new photo mode and a free Core Fighters tier, with DLC newcomer Minato and a KOF collab on the way.
Valve has officially priced the Steam Machine: $1,049 for the 512GB model and $1,349 for 2TB, with reservations opening June 30. A surging memory market - DRAM up over 170% year over year - pushed the SteamOS living-room PC well past early expectations. The six-inch cube packs a Zen 4 CPU and RDNA 3 GPU for roughly six times the Steam Deck's power, and launches alongside the Steam Frame headset and Steam Controller 2.
Firefly Studios' castle sim returns: a free, playable Stronghold 4 demo goes live for Steam Next Fest on June 23. The next mainline entry is a cinematic narrative prequel following shepherd-turned-leader Penryn of Wethel, with deeper siegecraft, extensive castle customization, and a Steam Early Access launch - a 22-mission campaign, skirmish and sandbox - planned for later in 2026.
Sonic Rumble Party's sci-fi Season 6 is live through June 25 with Space Ranger skins, a new Skin Fragment Challenge system and a Popeye crossover, across iOS, Android and Steam.
The biggest Steam Next Fest ever opened June 15 with roughly 4,931 free demos - a new record - running through June 22. Standouts include Paper Cult's Tears of Metal, Innersloth's Among Us Story: On Guard and 1047 Games' EMPULSE.
1047 Games, the Splitgate studio, brings its Titanfall-inspired 6v6 movement shooter to Steam Next Fest with a free demo - wall-running, grapples, Holojumps and mechs included - ahead of a June 24 Early Access launch that promises no microtransactions.
ZZZ's Season 3 update, Version 3.0 'A Sleepwalker's Confession,' arrives June 17 with the new sky-island region Roscaelifer, the first Wind Agent Velina, S-Rank Norma, a free Z-Rank Pyrois plus 1,600 Polychromes, and a simultaneous Steam launch with cross-save.
Innersloth marks eight years of Among Us with its first-ever single-player game: a story-driven murder mystery starring Guard, the ship's security officer. The free demo is live now as a Steam Next Fest highlight.
The frantic co-op railway builder has left Early Access. Unrailed 2: Back on Track launched into 1.0 on June 11 across PC, Switch, Switch 2 and PS5, expanding the cult original with a 3D world, new biomes, deeper progression and cross-platform play for .99.
Eterspire, the cozy old-school MMORPG from Argentine indie studio Stonehollow Workshop, left Steam early access at the Latin American Games Showcase on June 12, shipping Version 1.0 with a new desktop build for Steam and macOS plus full cross-play and cross-progression across every platform.
Revealed at Summer Game Fest 2026, the Mortal Shell II open beta is live worldwide on Steam, offering the opening three hours, a hunt for the Shell Tiel the Acolyte, the Magdalena boss fight, and a Flayed Harbinger reward ahead of the sequel's 2026 launch on PC, PS5 and Xbox.
The medieval survival town-builder Bellwright hit PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on June 9, 2026, adding the new 10 sq km Halmare Isles map, fresh quests and a Loyalty and Faction system. It remains in Early Access.
Firefly revealed Stronghold 4 at the PC Gaming Show - a back-to-basics Unreal Engine 5 prequel with a voiced 22-mission campaign, 8-player multiplayer and a free Steam demo on June 23.
New One Studio's cinematic FMV drama Road to Empress II launched globally on iOS and Android on June 9, 2026 - a choice-driven, live-action palace-intrigue experience with around 1,000 minutes of 4K footage shot on built sets.
Revealed at Day of the Devs: Summer Game Fest Edition 2026, Trine 6: Together in Time reunites Amadeus, Zoya and Pontius with two new heroes for 1-4 player co-op, launching September 17 on Steam, Epic, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch and Switch 2.
Riyo Games and Balor Games returned to Day of the Devs: Summer Game Fest Edition 2026 with a fresh trailer for Threads of Time, an era-spanning, turn-based JRPG that wears its Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy influences proudly. It's in development for PC and Xbox Series X|S.
Focus Entertainment and Italian studio Broken Arms Games revealed BioEden, a cozy solarpunk management game about restoring dead ecosystems and bringing extinct animals back to life. It launches on Steam September 3, 2026 (with PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2 to follow), and a demo is available now.
HoYoverse's Version 2.8 Phase 2 debuts Starlight Billy, the game's first Physical Rupture S-rank, alongside the big news that Zenless Zone Zero is finally coming to Steam with cross-save.
Playground Games' Japan-set racer has blown past 6 million players in seven days, hitting 270,000+ concurrent on Steam and a 91 on OpenCritic. A PS5 version is still due later in 2026.
Frontier Developments has officially announced Planet Zoo 2, with an October 13, 2026 worldwide launch on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam and Epic). The reveal trailer confirms first-time aquariums and aviaries for fully aquatic and flying species, a brand-new Wildlife Reserves layer for off-zoo conservation, a generational leap in animal animation and fidelity, and pre-orders open today at .99 Standard or .99 Deluxe with six extra species.
Hooded Horse and Tropico 6 studio Limbic Entertainment have locked in July 31, 2026 as the launch date for pirate city-builder Corsair Cove and dropped the demo on Steam today at 7AM PDT / 4PM CEST. The reveal trailer pitches a verticality-first builder with 50-plus goods, a turn-based naval combat layer, and a confirmed skip past early access into a full launch on Steam, Epic, Microsoft Store and PC Game Pass.
4Divinity and Leap Studio ship Realm of Ink Version 1.0 worldwide today, exiting Steam Early Access to launch on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Steam, and Epic Games Store with a fresh launch trailer, the campaign's final act, three new bosses, and a full BlazBlue Entropy Effect crossover that adds Oread as a playable second lead character.
Focus Entertainment and Mad About Pandas launch Yerba Buena worldwide today on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam, with a fresh launch trailer showing off the Oscillator's Copy-and-Paste mechanic, a surreal 1970s San Francisco game-within-a-game premise, and a single-mechanic puzzle-platformer designed in the lineage of Patrick's Parabox and Stephen's Sausage Roll.
Megapop and publisher Kasedo Games launch their underwater reef-building city-sim Life Below on Steam today, putting Rhianna Pratchett's Thalassa campaign, biologist-vetted species systems, and a WDC charity supporter pack in front of PC players worldwide.
ZA/UM's first game since Disco Elysium is finally out. ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies launched on Steam, Epic, and GOG today at $39.99, Steam Deck Verified, with a PS5 release still on the board for later in 2026. The espionage RPG follows Hershel Wilk (alias CASCADE), a tormented operant pulled back into the field five years after the failed operation that haunts him - and ZA/UM is explicit that this is a new IP, not a Disco Elysium sequel.
The clearest look yet at Clockfall, the Rever Games / Radical Theory roguelite where every action in the dungeon costs ticks on a global clock that is also draining your village's wave-defense timer above. The Gameplay Reveal Trailer plays up melee chains, parry windows, an elemental spell layer, and a multi-phase boss; the village layer gets a shorter cut but lands the time-pressure thesis. Steam playtest is open now, Early Access is still on the books for 2026, and the full PS5 / Xbox / PC launch is targeted for 2027.
OtherSide Entertainment's long-gestating immersive-sim heist game arrives on Steam for $4.99 today, six months after the studio dropped its planned PvPvE direction for solo and two-player co-op infiltration runs through alternate-1910s Kilcairn. The launch package: 16 contracts, two replayable maps, six gear pieces, dynamic stealth in the Thief/Deus Ex tradition, and a deliberately small entry price that the studio plans to grow with future content drops rather than a single $70 box.
Forza Horizon 6 launched worldwide on May 19 across Xbox Series X|S, PC, Cloud, and Game Pass. Playground Games' Japan-set racer arrives with a 92 Metacritic, 100 percent OpenCritic recommend rate, and the title of 2026's best-reviewed game already secured. The PS5 version still has no firm date beyond a fall 2026 window.
Forza Horizon 6 hit a peak of 172,093 concurrent Steam players during its $120 Premium Edition advanced access, more than doubling Forza Horizon 5's all-time peak of 81,096 before the worldwide launch even arrives on May 19.
Marmalade Game Studio just launched the Ticket to Ride: Round the World Ticket - a bundle wrapping all ten expansions, two ticket packs, and forward access to future maps into a single buy. Poland drops as the tenth expansion, and Pennsylvania is confirmed as the next big addition.
Arc Games and Thekla just confirmed Order of the Sinking Star is launching on Nintendo Switch 2 this year alongside Steam. Jonathan Blow's first new game since The Witness packs over 1,000 hand-crafted puzzles, four interlocking worlds, and five named playable heroes - including a talking boat.
Subnautica 2 hit Early Access on May 14 and immediately set a 467,582 concurrent Steam peak with over a million copies sold in the first hour, burying nine months of pre-launch drama on the way to one of 2026's biggest game launches.
Pearl Abyss shipped Crimson Desert hotfix 1.06.01 on May 12, just one day after the major 1.06.00 patch that added Special Mounts, an extraction system, Night Tone Mode, and a new Oongka skill kit. The hotfix unblocks Vault of Vengeance progression and the studio also owned up to an accidental Damiane armor bug.
Blades of Fire lands on Steam on May 14, 2026, and 505 Games is treating it more like a relaunch than a port. The free Version 2.0 update ships simultaneously to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Epic, and Steam, adding New Game Plus, Titanium difficulty, photo mode, Transmutation crafting, Anvil Trials, and a new Arcana system.
Unknown Worlds confirms a single global unlock at 15:00 UTC on May 14, 2026 for Steam, Epic, Xbox Series X|S and Game Pass. The .99 Early Access build introduces drop-in co-op for up to four divers on a new planet.
Rare's Season 19 Act 3 update launches Thursday May 14 with Last Ship Standing — a sloop-only, six-crew battle-royale mode set inside the Sea of the Damned, running through June 18. The mode hands a meaningful Allegiance bonus to the surviving crew and is explicitly slated to return as a recurring live event beyond Season 19. Day-one on Game Pass, Steam, PS5, and Xbox.
Cold Iron Studios and Daybreak just announced Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 with an IGN-exclusive reveal trailer on May 7, confirming Summer 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC with full crossplay. The sequel jumps from three-player to four-player co-op, adds a customizable Specialist class that mixes major and minor abilities from every other class, and ships with dedicated Horde maps at launch.
Supermassive's Directive 8020 swaps slasher tropes for The Thing-style space horror on May 12 — Lashana Lynch leads an eight-crew Cassiopeia as a real-time roaming alien hunts the ship and a new rewind mechanic breaks Dark Pictures' permanent-choice rule.
Forza Horizon 6's pre-load is live at 134.86 GB on Xbox and 146.4 GB on PC — the largest Horizon install ever — as the game claims #1 on Steam's May wishlist with 500K pre-orders booked ahead of its May 19 launch.
On May 27 the original Outer Worlds is delisted from Steam, GOG, Epic, and the Microsoft Store. Obsidian is patching the much-hated Spacer's Choice Edition into the definitive version and pushing it to existing owners for free, with grenades, DLSS 3, and a corrected lighting pass arriving the same day.
Eight-person French indie studio Evil Raptor has sold 250,000 copies of co-op cowboy shooter Far Far West in just 48 hours, climbing to No. 1 on Steam's top sellers and racking up an Overwhelmingly Positive review score. We break down the gameplay, the server hiccups, and the chances this hot streak holds.
Rogue Duck Interactive's Vending Machine Co. launches on Steam today, April 25 — a Japan-inspired cozy management sim where you stock, repair, and optimize vending machines across a stylized city. Each neighborhood has its own demographic and best-sellers.
Peter Molyneux and 22cans' ambitious new god game Masters of Albion hits Steam Early Access today at $24.99. The genre-blending project combines city-building, simulation, and action RPG in a Build by Day, Defend by Night loop.
Sintopia, a darkly comedic management sim where you run Hell as a corporate middle manager, has launched on Steam from developer Piraknights Games and publisher Team17, with a 15% launch discount through April 30.
Mega Crit reveals plans for competitive, short-run, and multiplayer modes for Slay the Spire 2, even as the Early Access title weathers nearly 10,000 negative Steam reviews over controversial balance changes.
Korean indie horror game Narin: The Orange Room launches on Steam April 7 at $14.99, offering supernatural scares rooted in Korean folklore.