“Overwhelmingly Positive” Maze-Building × Roguelike TD Game Launches! Block Invasions by Placing Blocks—22 Steam Games [9/18/2026]

New titles are released on Steam every day. Many of you probably want to check out the most talked-about new releases but find it hard to keep up with the constant stream of new releases, right?

That’s why the Game*Spark editorial team has narrowed down the selection to titles that meet the following criteria: “released within the last three days (whether in Early Access or as a full release)” and “have received over 100 reviews (regardless of whether they’re positive or negative).” We’re introducing all the freshest titles across every genre! Check out this article to see which titles are currently drawing the most attention on Steam.

Endless Legends 2

Set on an ocean-covered planet, this 4X strategy game lets you lead various factions to build an empire. Players construct cities to boost their economic power and influence, while organizing armies to expand their territory. Through turn-based exploration, expansion, economic management, diplomacy, and warfare, you’ll aim to uncover the secrets hidden at the planet’s core.

In this game, you choose one of several factions, each with its own philosophy, history, and abilities. Each faction has distinct characteristics in combat, trade, empire management, and diplomacy, so it’s crucial to devise strategies that leverage those traits.Combat takes the form of turn-based tactical battles, and expanding your faction involves not only developing cities and building up military strength but also engaging in diplomacy with other factions, forming alliances, and building relationships with smaller factions.

20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes

This is a simple, free puzzle game where you take on 20 different types of small mazes. The goal is to reach the finish line by solving the mazes provided in each stage, making it a compact game that can be played in about 30 minutes.

While some puzzles require knowledge of English, there are no problems that cannot be solved without distinguishing sounds or identifying colors. The game supports controllers and is designed with accessibility in mind—for example, it does not require pressing two buttons simultaneously.

CONVRGENCE (Early Access Graduated)

This is a single-player VR FPS where you explore restricted zones alongside your canine partner to recover materials. At the end of the 20th century, a massive explosion occurred at a research facility in Chernokamensk, Russia. The city, transformed by the immense energy of the blast, was sealed off by the government, but rumors of mysterious artifacts began to spread.Players take on the role of a member of a specialized team authorized to enter the area, tasked with recovering these artifacts while exploring an anomalous zone teeming with dangers such as wildlife and trespassers.

The stages you explore are procedurally generated, requiring meticulous preparation—including maintaining your weapons and stocking up on ammunition and supplies. Firearms can be customized to suit your preferences. Your companion dog, who joins you on your explorations, assists you in both combat and exploration.

Emberward (Out of Early Access)

A roguelike game that combines maze-building with tower defense. As the Watcher, players use blocks of various shapes to construct mazes and fend off invading monsters in order to protect the Flame of Life that illuminates the darkness.

In combat, players select combinations from multiple towers and utilize the layout of their maze and the towers’ capabilities to repel enemies. In addition to making strategic decisions—such as placing walls to force enemies to take detours or adjusting tower positions—players can also enhance tower abilities using upgrade cards.

As a roguelike element, the map, tower layout, and maze change randomly with each exploration. Along the way, players can acquire tower upgrades, special enhancement abilities, and rare wall blocks to use in the maze.

Lily’s World XD

This psychological horror game follows you as you investigate a laptop left behind by a teenager named Lily in 2004 and unravel the mystery surrounding her disappearance. You’ll read Lily’s blog and diary entries, send messages to her friends, and piece together what happened to her.

In the game, you’ll use the information left on the laptop as clues to investigate the contents of her blog, decipher hidden messages, and contact Lily’s childhood friend to unravel the mystery. However, as your investigation progresses, it becomes clear that not only Lily but also another entity is hiding something—and strange things may start happening to your own computer as well.

The Guild 1 Remake: Europa 1410

This medieval simulation game puts you in the role of the head of a family running a business in a medieval city, where you earn wealth and honor while eventually aiming to become a powerful figure in the city.To secure this position, you’ll need to do more than just earn money through your business—you’ll have to outmaneuver rivals, form alliances with various factions, and may even need to resort to bribery or extortion.

If you use every means at your disposal to secure rights at City Hall, it’s not impossible to have the law on your side. Additionally, in this game, you can issue orders to your subordinates to commit theft and robbery to make money. Conversely, you can earn the respect of the people by acting as a champion of the law—for example, by hiring mercenaries to apprehend criminals.

OpenFront

This is a large-scale multiplayer RTS where hundreds of players compete simultaneously on the same world map. You start with a small territory and expand your influence by advancing your army into surrounding unoccupied lands and other nations.

In addition to expanding your territory, you can build ports, cities, missile defense facilities, and more. You can also negotiate with neighboring nations or form alliances to establish temporary truces, but as the war progresses, it escalates from conventional warfare to nuclear attacks.

Your Older Sister

This is a game where a sexy older sister lives on your PC desktop. You can customize the character’s hair color, eye color, accessories, and outfits, and enjoy having her there while you’re using your PC—whether you’re working, studying, or taking a break.

On your desktop, you can check CPU and GPU usage, temperature, memory, storage, and network status; there’s also a hardware monitoring mode that displays more detailed information.It also includes features to support your daily life, such as a Pomodoro timer, reminders, a to-do list, and expense tracking. The game also features elements to enhance your desktop experience, including mouse cursor trail effects, ambient sounds like rain and forest sounds, and an 80-song Lo-fi music player.

Life Guard Holic (Adult Content)

This is an adult-oriented lifeguard simulation game and the spiritual sequel to *NTRaholic*. The protagonist, a former leader of a college swim team, wins ownership of a pool facility through a bet and goes on to fulfill his duties as a lifeguard while managing a pool filled with beautiful women in swimsuits.

In the game, you’ll generate profits by managing the pool, prevail in business competition against rivals, and engage in intimate interactions with the heroines through mini-games and during swimming lessons. The story progresses through conversations with the heroines, allowing you to enjoy the process of them gradually opening their hearts to the protagonist.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 2nd

"The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 2nd" is the second installment in a series of complete remakes, following "The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 1st (The First)," which was released on September 19, 2025.Based on the original *The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC (Second Chapter)*, it depicts the conclusion of the journey undertaken by the Free Agents Estelle and Joshua.

It retains the strengths of its predecessor, such as refined characters and a combat system that seamlessly switches between Quick Battle and Command Battle. Building on that foundation, every element has been fully remade based on the original work, including enhanced action sequences that highlight the characters’ individuality and a grand narrative set across the entire Kingdom of Liberl.

BLACKWOOD

A cinematic action-thriller game in the style of *John Wick*.Set in New York City in 2012, you play a character who leads an ordinary life by day as the seemingly unremarkable manager of a DVD shop, but by night, you step into the city’s underworld as a ruthless assassin—a “contract killer”—and fight to survive in a violent city shrouded in secrets.The story consists of three Acts; Act 2 is scheduled to be added in March 2027 and Act 3 in September 2027, with future Acts provided as free updates to purchasers.

In combat, you’ll fight enemies not only with firearms but also by making full use of movement actions such as diving, rolling, and sliding. A particularly distinctive feature is the situation-specific takedowns, which include not only unarmed attacks but also ways to finish off enemies by utilizing the surrounding environment.

Meanwhile, during the day, you’ll run your own DVD shop, handling tasks such as restocking merchandise, organizing inventory, setting prices, and serving customers in-store. You can also automate shop management, and the game features options to customize the shop’s interior and the protagonist’s outfits, as well as elements related to life in your apartment.

Professional Seafarer Simulator

This is a maritime simulation game featuring a system and physics engine modeled after real-world ship operations. Players navigate vast ocean waters while piloting vessels ranging from small workboats and rescue boats to large ships such as container ships, tankers, and cruise ships.

The game requires players to maneuver their vessels with precision in an ever-changing environment influenced by wind, currents, waves, weather, and other ships navigating nearby.The game is set in vast ocean areas based on real-world geographic data, featuring maps of 60×120 km around the German island of Rügen and 140×140 km in the English Channel, with over 40 ports.In addition to a day-night cycle, the game recreates changing weather conditions—such as storms, rain, snow, fog, and waves—as well as traffic from AI-controlled ships.

Woodo

This is a diorama puzzle game where you assemble a wooden landscape piece by piece. As you place objects in their correct spots, the scene gradually comes to life with color, animations, and little surprises. Through interconnected dioramas, players follow the adventure story of Foxy the fox and Ben the frog.

The game emphasizes the tactile sensation of pieces snapping together like real toys; players must not only assemble them in the correct order but also rotate the 3D space to find hidden pieces. With the diorama coming to life in response to your placements and accompanied by a gentle narrator’s voice, this game evokes the nostalgic feelings of childhood.

BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER BEFORE 4: DEMONS FROM THE PORTAL TO HELL I OPENED ARE STILL IN THE FAVELA AND NOW I HAVE TO SAVE MAMADAS FROM RONALDO

A fast-paced, old-school FPS set in Brazil. The game is heavily influenced by the early *Quake* titles. Incidentally, the game’s title translates to: “The demons from the portal to hell that I opened are still in the favela, and now I have to save Mamadas from Ronaldo.”

Gameplay centers on firefights, where you take down enemies by combining high-speed movement—such as jumping, double-jumping, and dashing—with gunplay. Picking up where the previous title, *BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3:We’re in Big Trouble Unless We Close the Portal to Hell I Opened in the Favela to Bring Back Mitt Aia,’ this installment depicts the demonic invasion triggered by opening that portal to hell, and in this game, you’ll continue the battle against the demons that remain.

Gladio Mori (Out of Early Access)

This is a physics-based combat game with no health bar, where bleeding from severed arteries or missing limbs can be fatal. Losing even one arm makes combat extremely difficult, and a precise strike to a vital point can sometimes end the fight in a single blow.Weapons, armor, and the characters’ bodies are all based on physics simulations; plate armor, for example, blocks slashing attacks. Therefore, the key to victory lies not in simply increasing the number of attacks, but in finding openings to strike.

Players can create their own move sets. Using the in-game move editor, you can directly manipulate the fighter’s body to create attack animations from scratch and use them in actual matches.

Code Velocity

This is a competitive racing game where players compete in typing speed and accuracy. Set in a near-future city populated by animals, players take on the role of either a police officer chasing a thief or a thief on the run, controlling their character via keyboard input.

In the game, typing a series of characters without errors triggers a special acceleration effect, and players can use items such as barricades and banana peels to hinder their opponent’s progress. Additionally, vehicles appear randomly on the stage, leading to strategic battles over their control.Three match formats are available: 1-on-1, 2-on-2, and 1-on-3, and the game supports AI-controlled replacements.

Animo

This free-to-play open-world monster-collecting RPG lets you encounter mysterious creatures called “Animo” and journey through a vast world alongside them. The continent of Idil, where the story takes place, is home to Animo of various appearances and abilities.

The core gameplay involves capturing Animo you find in the field to make them your companions, then traveling the world while enjoying raising, collecting, battling, and solving puzzles. You can train the Animo you’ve captured to become your adventure companions, and since even the same species varies from individual to individual, there’s the added fun of searching for your favorite one.

Additionally, by “Twinning” with an Animo, players can explore the field using that Animo’s unique abilities. Whether it’s crossing terrain, solving hidden puzzles, or taking on battles, your approach to exploration changes depending on which Animo you team up with. The game also features multiplayer modes where you can play with other players, as well as content set in a motorhome where you can spend time with your Animos.

Reincarnation Insurance Co., Ltd. R.I.P. (Early Access Graduated)

This game is a top-down roguelike shooter in the vein of *Vampire Survivors*, featuring equipment collection and management mechanics similar to those in *Diablo*. Players take on the role of an elite employee at “Reincarnation Insurance Co., Ltd.” and carry out their duties by defeating the hordes of zombies that swarm the screen.

The full release adds “Lin,” a new agent specializing in close-range combat with a katana and high mobility; new areas; Endless Mode; a new arcade mini-game where you can earn rewards; a massive selection of new gear; and an area collection system.

Train Sim World 7

This is an authentic train simulation game that lets you experience real-world rail lines and rolling stock as a train operator. You can travel on routes recreating various regions, such as Florida’s Tri-Rail, Northern England, and the Nuremberg–Würzburg line in Germany.

In addition to passenger trains, you can also experience freight transport, making your own decisions on track switching and train shunting to deliver freight cars to their destinations. Furthermore, the game features a real-time weather system based on real-world location data, as well as driving elements that replicate safety systems such as AWS and PZB.

Rollout Inline

This game is based on the extreme sport of “aggressive inline skating.” With gameplay that combines simulation and arcade elements, it offers an immersive single-player experience that will appeal to both real-life skaters and fans of extreme sports games.

Controls are designed for a controller: use the left stick to turn and spin, and the right stick to jump. For grinds and sessile slides, the game employs a dual-stick system where each stick represents one foot, allowing players to perform a wide variety of tricks.

Dimrace

Set in a fantasy world rendered in pixel art, this open-world action RPG lets you explore uncharted lands while leveling up your character. Players take on the role of a hero who gained the power of immortality due to a failed ritual intended to grant them strength, and journey through the war-torn land of Milcare.

In the game, you create a character from among 8 races and 6 classes, exploring ancient ruins and forests while uncovering the true nature of the threats lurking underground (3 races and 3 classes are currently available in the Early Access version).In addition to solo play, the game supports online co-op for up to 8 players. Combat takes place in real time, and you’ll battle enemies by combining elements using over 300 different spells. You can freely develop your character through skill trees, race-specific abilities, and class synergies, and the game also features elements such as equipment enhancement and collecting items of varying rarities.

You can also build a fortress in the wilderness to serve as your base, expand facilities, and unlock quests and enhancement features. You can even enjoy romantic relationships with your companions, all while unraveling the mysteries of ancient magic in a world where forests, weather, and seasons change as you explore.

Dog Hazard: Destrain

This third-person survival horror shooter challenges you to survive while making your way through a train overrun by terrifying teddy bears. Players take on the role of an agent in the form of a large dog and explore a locomotive research station overrun by monsters.

In the game, you advance from the rear of the train toward the front, fending off attacking monsters with firearms.Since enemies approach from both the front and rear, it’s crucial to skillfully manage aiming, dodging, and reloading within the confined space. The game also features mechanics for expanding the capacity of your backpack—which holds your gear—while managing resources such as ammunition and health items used in combat.