The demo arrives alongside a new action-packed trailer highlighting Mira’s journey across a fractured world. Players take on the role of Mira, a wandering adventurer who must explore mysterious islands, battle corrupted guardians, uncover powerful relics, and solve puzzles scattered throughout the ancient landscapes.

At the heart of Blades of Mirage is its rune and skill system, allowing players to shape Mira’s abilities around their preferred approach to combat. Runes and relics can be used to forge different builds, giving players the freedom to experiment with strategies as they progress through the adventure.

Exploration plays an equally important role. Each island offers its own environments, secrets, challenges, and puzzle-driven encounters, with the game drawing inspiration from Southeast Asian mythology to create its world and its mysterious inhabitants.

The development team at Agate also used feedback from multiple rounds of playtesting to shape the current demo. One of the biggest additions is the option to choose between two difficulty modes designed to accommodate different approaches to the action.

The default difficulty focuses on precision and patience, delivering a more demanding combat experience. Players looking for a more accessible and faster-paced adventure can instead choose Casual Mode, which introduces features such as animation cancellation to make combat feel smoother and more forgiving.

Blades of Mirage combines action RPG combat with exploration and puzzle solving, giving players multiple ways to approach its challenges. From customizing abilities with runes to confronting corrupted guardians and searching for relics, the demo offers an early look at the adventure awaiting players when the full game arrives.

The Blades of Mirage demo is available now on Steam. The game is developed by Agate and Red Dunes Games and published by Red Dunes Games.

Players begin as survivors simply trying to stay alive before gradually becoming explorers capable of venturing deeper into the wilderness. The centerpiece of the game is an endless river that winds through canyons, dunes, valleys, and other dangerous environments, providing a natural route into an expansive world filled with new locations, resources, wildlife, and threats.

The river can be explored by kayak or raft, with each journey offering new discoveries. While the world features an expansive landscape, North Beach Games says it won’t simply rely on an endless stream of procedurally generated repetition. Instead, the game will combine its expansive world with a growing library of handcrafted content, allowing new biomes, locations, wildlife, crafting options, and other additions to be introduced over time.

The environment itself is also designed to react to players. Dynamic water and terrain systems allow players to dig into the landscape, reshape areas, and even redirect sections of the river. Rapids and dangerous waterways add another layer of risk to exploration, turning the river into both a means of transportation and a potential hazard.

Survival remains a core part of the experience. Players will need to manage health, hunger, thirst, and exposure while learning to identify the various dangers lurking throughout the wilderness.

Building a permanent home isn’t the only option, either. Stranded Deep 2 introduces mobile bases, allowing players to construct floating homes that can travel along the river. Players can pack up and move their base to a new location or settle along the riverbanks and establish a more permanent settlement.

The wilderness also functions as a living ecosystem. Animals roam the world, hunt one another, and participate in a functioning food chain, with players becoming another part of that ecosystem. Not every encounter will necessarily end with the player being at the top of the food chain.

Crafting has been expanded with a more physical approach to customization. The materials players find during their journeys can influence the tools and structures they create, allowing equipment and constructions to reflect the resources available in each region.

The series’ Cartographer feature is also returning in an updated form as Cartographer 2.0. Players will be able to create their own locations and experiences before sharing them with friends across platforms, opening up additional opportunities for community-created content.

North Beach Games says Stranded Deep 2 has been built around a decade of community feedback and is designed to grow through regular content updates. Its modular foundation will allow the developers to introduce new biomes, locations, wildlife, crafting content, and Cartographer additions over time.

Co-op is also being developed as a major feature, giving players the opportunity to explore the expanding frontier together.

Rather than simply offering another fight for survival, Stranded Deep 2 aims to make survival the beginning of a much larger adventure. With an endless river to explore, a world that can be shaped, a living ecosystem, mobile bases, expanded crafting, and ongoing content updates, the sequel is shaping up to offer a significantly larger survival sandbox.

The Steam page for Stranded Deep 2 is now live, allowing players to wishlist the game and follow its development.

Active Matter combines realistic modern weapons, equipment, and tactical combat with a world where the laws of physics can change without warning. Players will explore unstable environments filled with gravity-defying anomalies, strange SCP-style objects, and quantum-unstable creatures that can attack from unexpected directions.

The game takes players to locations that feel both familiar and completely alien, including a Soviet closed island, a quarantine zone in Central Africa, and a decaying North American city. These areas have been transformed by the unstable multiverse and are filled with valuable resources as well as deadly threats.

At the center of the experience is active matter, a mysterious substance capable of bending time and space. Players must venture into dangerous zones to locate the substance, complete objectives, collect valuable loot, and fight both hostile creatures and rival human operatives before attempting to make it back to safety.

Every successful extraction provides an opportunity to prepare for the next expedition, creating a cycle of exploration, combat, looting, and strategic planning. The unpredictable environments mean players can’t rely solely on traditional tactics, forcing them to adapt to threats that can emerge from almost anywhere.

An early version of Active Matter has already undergone extensive testing through Gaijin’s platform, with the latest major update adding a decaying American city and new weapons. The development team plans to continue expanding the game following launch, with regular updates introducing new content and opening access to additional areas of the fractured multiverse.

Players who previously purchased the early version of Active Matter through the Gaijin Store will receive access to a comparable edition on Steam at no additional cost. Progress can also be linked between the Gaijin Store and Steam versions, allowing PC players to continue their progression regardless of which platform they use.

Active Matter launches September 15, 2026, on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. The standard edition will be priced at $29.99/€29.99 in applicable regions, with additional editions also available.

Players take on the role of mischievous raccoons and can team up with up to three friends to cause as much harmless trouble as possible. The goal is simple: scavenge dumpsters, steal junk, raid snack supplies, and commit plenty of tiny raccoon crimes while avoiding the ever-present threat of the evil Exterminator.

There’s more to a successful raid than simply grabbing everything in sight. Players will need to cooperate to carry heavy loot, solve environmental puzzles, rescue captured teammates, and navigate traps placed throughout the world. The sandbox design means even simple plans can quickly turn into chaotic chain reactions.

When the day’s criminal activities are over, the gang can return to its hideout and put its stolen treasures to good use. Players can customize their raccoons, decorate their hideout with the bizarre items they’ve collected, and equip a selection of adorable hats that provide unique abilities for future missions.

The Exterminator ensures that players can’t simply run wild without consequences. Make enough of a mess and he’ll come looking for the gang, forcing players to outsmart traps, escape capture, and rescue friends before the entire crew gets caught.

Dumpster Gang is designed to be easy to pick up while relying on its physics and sandbox systems to create unpredictable situations. Every outing can result in different mishaps, discoveries, and ridiculous stories as players experiment with the environment and work together.

For Coyote House Games, the project began with the simple idea of a group of raccoons robbing houses together. The studio’s debut aims to turn that premise into a full co-op experience built around climbing, stealing, eating trash, making messes, and generally behaving like the world’s most adorable criminals.

Dumpster Gang launches December 2026 on PC via Steam and Xbox on PC, with the game also arriving day one on Xbox PC Game Pass.

Teams will need to work together to gather resources, survive waves of threats, and ultimately eliminate their opponents. What sets Like or Die apart is its Block Action system, which allows players to construct structures and reshape the battlefield during a match.

The system gives teams the ability to alter the environment on the fly, creating defensive positions, opening new tactical opportunities, or disrupting an opposing team’s plans. Players can use their collected blocks to shift the momentum of a battle and eventually destroy the enemy’s Nexus.

The combination of team-based survival gameplay, resource gathering, construction, and real-time environmental manipulation is designed to make each match unpredictable. Rather than simply fighting across a static arena, teams can actively transform the battlefield as the action unfolds.

NC has not yet announced a release date for Like or Die, but the company says additional details will be revealed at a later date. The game is already available to wishlist on Steam.

Players take on the role of Victus, an elite warrior monk searching for their lost god, Elta. After centuries of exile and suffering, Victus believes restoring Elta’s former power could provide their civilization with a path toward a better future. Accompanied by their dragon-god companion, players will battle through corrupted worlds while uncovering the secrets of a fallen divine power.

Elta: Defy All Gods combines free-form melee combat with fast-paced platforming and science-fiction exploration. Players can unleash lethal martial arts techniques alongside devastating magical abilities, with combat designed around fluid movement and large-scale encounters against groups of enemies.

Victus and Elta will grow stronger throughout the adventure, unlocking new martial arts techniques, magic abilities, traversal skills, and acrobatic moves. The game’s interconnected environments are packed with hidden areas and secrets, requiring players to master an expanding movement system to reach previously inaccessible locations.

The adventure spans three sprawling science-fantasy worlds, each designed around exploration and traversal. Players will need to chain their abilities together to navigate the environments, uncover hidden secrets, and progress through increasingly challenging encounters.

Developed by the team behind Dreamscaper, Elta: Defy All Gods represents a significant expansion of Afterburner Studios’ ambitions. The developer is drawing inspiration from both traditional brawlers and 3D Metroidvania games to create an experience centered on fast combat, movement, and exploration.

The story will see Victus confront the gods responsible for wronging their people and ending their civilization’s exile. Alongside Elta, players will follow in the footsteps of their ancestors, reclaim lost powers, and fight to create a brighter future.

Elta: Defy All Gods is scheduled to launch in early 2027 on PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Players will be able to get an early look at the adventure with a free demo launching on all platforms October 1.

CLUTCH is scheduled to launch in Spring 2027 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

The game follows a new generation of racing outsiders living a double life. During the day, players compete at the highest levels of professional motorsport. After dark, they enter a dangerous underground racing scene where reputation, rivalries, and pursuit become just as important as winning races.

Maverick Games was founded by award-winning developers including Mike Brown, who previously served as Creative Director on Forza Horizon 5. The studio’s goal with CLUTCH is to create the kind of open-world racing experience its team has wanted to make for years.

The game is also putting a strong emphasis on narrative. CLUTCH features an original story from Jamie Brittain, co-creator of the television series Skins, bringing a more character-driven and cinematic approach to the open-world racing formula.

Alongside its story, CLUTCH will feature extensive vehicle customization, allowing players to personalize their cars while shaping their progression through the game’s racing world. The combination of customization, professional motorsport, and underground racing is intended to give players multiple ways to experience the game’s open world.

Focus Entertainment says the partnership reflects its desire to work with developers pushing their respective genres in new directions. Maverick Games, meanwhile, sees Focus as a partner that shares the studio’s creative ambitions for CLUTCH.

With a team of Forza Horizon veterans behind the wheel and a story-driven approach to open-world racing, CLUTCH is shaping up to be an interesting new contender in the genre when it launches in 2027.

The solution is as horrifying as you might expect. Players must stalk strangers, steal their facial features, and piece them together into a grotesque skinmask designed to convince the target that you’re someone they can trust. Once the disguise is convincing enough, it’s time to knock on the door and infiltrate the target’s apartment.

Getting inside is only the beginning. SKINFACE blends stealth and exploration as players navigate brutalist, Soviet-era environments while attempting to avoid police patrols and discover potential victims hiding throughout the world.

The game’s unsettling premise gradually gives way to an increasingly surreal descent into violence. Players can mix and match facial features to create different disguises, while also decorating their own disturbing flesh-based canvas. Finding the right combination of features becomes part of the game’s twisted progression.

Developed by the creators of No Players Online, SKINFACE aims to deliver a short but intense horror experience filled with grotesque imagery, stealth, exploration, and psychological unease.

The main story is expected to take around two to three hours to complete, with additional content available for players determined to uncover everything hidden within its nightmarish world.

Grandma isn’t simply a character in the story. She is the narrator, and the world itself is shaped by the stories she tells. Her memories become explorable spaces filled with objects, characters, omissions, contradictions, and details that can change depending on how the player responds to her version of events.

Progress requires players to pay close attention, question inconsistencies, and decide when to challenge Grandma. Each contradiction has the potential to alter the world around them, causing paths to open or disappear while revealing previously hidden pieces of the family’s history.

But uncovering the truth comes with a cost. The relationship between the player and Grandma is at the heart of the experience, with trust acting as an important resource. Push too hard and Grandma may become angry, retreat behind her stories, or stop sharing them altogether. Stay too cautious and the relationship may remain intact, but the deeper truths hidden within her memories could remain out of reach.

This creates a constant tension between curiosity and compassion. Grandma can guide, deceive, protect, distract, and withhold information, sometimes all at once. Players must decide how much they are willing to challenge the person they love in order to understand the past.

The game’s shifting environments turn its themes directly into gameplay. Rooms, characters, and objects can appear, disappear, or take on new meanings when players question Grandma’s memories. Her labyrinth becomes a constantly changing representation of how memories can be altered, defended, forgotten, or passed down through generations.

Grandma (88) was created from a desire to make the unspoken and uncomfortable aspects of family history something players can experience rather than simply observe. The development team drew inspiration from questions surrounding inherited narratives, missing pieces of family history, and the silences that can shape a person’s understanding of where they come from.

The project also expands beyond the developers’ own experiences. ROTxBLAU launched a public storytelling campaign inviting people to share stories about family history, memory, silence, and repression. The campaign highlighted the different ways families confront their past while revealing common patterns that have helped shape the game’s interactive systems.

The developers are also working with the Brandenburg an der Havel Memorial for the Victims of the Nazi “Euthanasia” Murders and additional external advisors. These collaborations are intended to help the game approach memory, repression, family history, and intergenerational trauma with historical awareness and sensitivity.

At its core, Grandma (88) asks a deeply personal question: How do you ask the right questions when the answers come from someone you love?

The story takes players beneath the surface to the forgotten underground city of Aedaria. Decades ago, the city was cursed by the gods and plunged into darkness. According to legend, anyone foolish enough to pass through its gates is swallowed by the city and never seen again.

Alric has a personal reason for venturing into the ruins. His father entered Aedaria years ago in search of the truth and never returned. Now Alric must follow in his footsteps, uncovering the secrets buried beneath the cursed city while facing the creatures and dangers that have made it their home.

Sunken Realms features a hand-crafted dungeon made up of 109 rooms across six distinct sections. While the individual rooms are designed by hand, their arrangement is procedurally rearranged each time players enter the dungeon, creating a different route through Aedaria on every run.

Combat combines melee and ranged attacks with a collection of forgotten spells. Players can battle enemies, explore the ruins, and collect gold and crafting materials from defeated foes and treasure chests. The deeper players venture, the greater the risks—and the greater the potential rewards.

Between expeditions, players can return to their surface camp to make use of their collected resources. Weapons and armor can be crafted, food can be prepared, potions brewed, and equipment improved. The Soul Forge also allows Alric to upgrade his stats before heading back into the ruins. Once prepared, players can take on higher difficulty levels for tougher encounters and better loot.

The adventure isn’t entirely focused on combat and progression, either. Between runs, players can spend time around the campfire with a friend, developing a heartfelt personal story that adds another layer to Alric’s journey. An original score is also designed to reinforce the atmosphere of the mysterious underground world.

Warren cites Outward as the game that originally inspired him to begin developing his own project, particularly its sense of adventure and exploration of the unknown. Over the course of development, Sunken Realms evolved into its own experience while also drawing storytelling inspiration from Hades and a sense of adventure reminiscent of The Legend of Zelda.

Sunken Realms launches on Steam September 18, giving players the chance to descend into Aedaria, uncover the fate of Alric’s father, and discover what remains hidden within the cursed city.