Game releases in October 2026

Thursday 1 October

52

Gears of War: E-Day

PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox Series X|S

ShooterAdventure

End of Abyss

PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S

Adventure

Dynasty Warriors 3: Complete Edition Remastered

Nintendo Switch 2 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5

Hack and slash/Beat 'em upTactical

Monsters & Memories

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Role-playing (RPG)Adventure

83

Octopath Traveler

Nintendo Switch 2

Role-playing (RPG)Adventure

80

Retrospace

Nintendo Switch 2 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5

AdventureShooter

Heartworm

Nintendo Switch · Nintendo Switch 2 · PlayStation 4

IndiePuzzle

Moros Protocol

Nintendo Switch 2 · PlayStation 5

ShooterIndie

BloomTale

Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorPoint-and-click

94

Ghost of Yotei: Complete Edition

PlayStation 5

Role-playing (RPG)Adventure

Ozark

PC (Microsoft Windows)

AdventureIndie

Steel Ark

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Role-playing (RPG)Simulator

The Last Keeper

Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorIndie

88

Octopath Traveler II

Nintendo Switch 2

AdventureRole-playing (RPG)

Storebound

PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S

AdventureIndie

The Depths of Despair

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Role-playing (RPG)Adventure

Anvil Saga

PlayStation 4 · PlayStation 5

SimulatorIndie

Disconnected

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleIndie

Fiefdom

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

Hack and slash/Beat 'em upShooter

Gears of War: E-Day Premium Edition

PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox Series X|S

Helping Your Boyfriend

Android · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

Point-and-clickIndie

82

Muchi Muchi Pork! & PinkSweets Boosted

Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5

ShooterArcade

Ominous Recall

PC (Microsoft Windows)

IndieAdventure

Pinched

PC (Microsoft Windows)

AdventureIndie

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Avatar Legends Pack

Nintendo Switch · Nintendo Switch 2 · PC (Microsoft Windows)

RacingAdventure

Spline: Part One

PC (Microsoft Windows)

IndieAdventure

Toycrafter

PlayStation 5 · Xbox One · Xbox Series X|S

SimulatorIndie

007 First Light: Extended Operations

PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S

ShooterAdventure

Absolutely Nothing Good

PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorAdventure

AeroBloom

PC (Microsoft Windows)

AdventureIndie

Ake no Yosuga: Twilight Loop

PC (Microsoft Windows)

AdventureIndie

Algorithomus

Web browser

Point-and-clickPuzzle

Aliens Versus Predator 2 VR

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Shooter

Antes del Sur

PC (Microsoft Windows)

FightingRole-playing (RPG)

Arcade Archives 2: Balloon Bomber

Nintendo Switch 2 · PlayStation 5

ArcadeShooter

Arcade Archives 2: Crazy Balloon

Nintendo Switch 2 · PlayStation 5

Arcade

Arlasoft Soccer

Commodore C64/128/MAX

Sport

Backrooms Adventure

PC (Microsoft Windows)

AdventurePuzzle

Backrooms: Research

PC (Microsoft Windows)

AdventureIndie

Ballshit 2D

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Visual Novel

Bball Destiny

Web browser

SimulatorSport

BeBalance

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Beefy Boi

PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorAdventure

Beta Bar

PC (Microsoft Windows)

FightingSimulator

Better Chaos

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleSimulator

Biodome Bastion

PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorStrategy

Black Hollow

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Role-playing (RPG)Hack and slash/Beat 'em up

Blindsight

PC (Microsoft Windows)

AdventureIndie

Boreal Tenebrae Act 0

Nintendo Switch

AdventureVisual Novel

Bravery

PC (Microsoft Windows)

AdventureIndie

Bureaucromancer

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Strategy

C4: Classical Caliber Combat Contest

PC (Microsoft Windows)

ShooterStrategy

Carry the Count

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleAdventure

Castle Wars: Legacy

PC (Microsoft Windows)

StrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)

Catch Meow if You Can

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleAdventure

Chiasmus

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

Point-and-clickAdventure

Chromascape

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleRole-playing (RPG)

Chronicles of Albian: The Magic Convention

Xbox One

PuzzleAdventure

Clash of Armadas: Koxinga

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Strategy

Climber Animals: Together

Nintendo Switch

PlatformSimulator

Comet's wayfaring odyssey

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleAdventure

Console Archives: Chack’n Pop

Nintendo Switch 2 · PlayStation 5

Platform

Corid

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Indie

Corinne

PC (Microsoft Windows)

AdventureIndie

Crabrun

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

IndieArcade

Cradle of Ash

PC (Microsoft Windows)

ShooterAdventure

Crescent Break

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PlatformIndie

Crown Of Blight

Linux · PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleRole-playing (RPG)

Crow's Curated Closet: Shop Simulator

PC (Microsoft Windows)

IndieSimulator

Crying Booth

PC (Microsoft Windows)

StrategyAdventure

Decksplorers: Into the Shell

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

StrategyAdventure

D-Extinction

PC (Microsoft Windows)

AdventureIndie

Down Pit

Nintendo Switch

PlatformArcade

Drake's Mansion

Web browser

AdventureIndie

Eclesiar

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Role-playing (RPG)Simulator

Eden Camp

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

Visual Novel

Elsewar

PC (Microsoft Windows)

StrategyCard & Board Game

Emberlost

PC (Microsoft Windows)

AdventureIndie

Enarian: Orbital Command

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Role-playing (RPG)Strategy

Exit_ComputerLab

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleSimulator

Extravalence

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Role-playing (RPG)Strategy

Factory Default: Build, Trade, Repeat

PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorIndie

Faybound: Veils of Magic

PC (Microsoft Windows)

AdventureIndie

Flippy the Spider

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Indie

Flowers and Deities: Thief Prince Expansion Pack

Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorStrategy

Folletti

Xbox One · Xbox Series X|S

Role-playing (RPG)Adventure

Frost Survival: Winter

Xbox One

SimulatorStrategy

Goldfish Simulator

PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorIndie

Grape by Grape

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorIndie

Grapixo Arte em Guerra

PC (Microsoft Windows)

IndieAdventure

Gus Game

PC (Microsoft Windows)

StrategyIndie

Havoc Heirs

Linux · PC (Microsoft Windows)

Role-playing (RPG)Adventure

Hex Tower Boogie

PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorStrategy

Hollow Faces

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleIndie

Huckleberry Fields Forever

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

IndieAdventure

Infested DX

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Adventure

Involved

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Simulator

In Your Dreams

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleIndie

Kesu-Ji

Nintendo Switch

ShooterPlatform

Kitty Found a Camera

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleAdventure

Kousai Toshi

Nintendo Switch

AdventureVisual Novel

Labyrinth of the Crystal Princess

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleAdventure

Le Shampoo War II

PC (Microsoft Windows)

ShooterRole-playing (RPG)

Let's Tidy Up!: Konbini

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Simulator

Minute Man

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

FightingHack and slash/Beat 'em up

Mirrors of Deception: The Poisoned Legacy

Xbox One

AdventurePuzzle

MXGP 26: The Official Game

PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S

SportSimulator

MXGP 26: The Official Game - Scrubdesignz Liveries

PC (Microsoft Windows)

RacingSimulator

My Desktop Cat

PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorIndie

My Sexy Boss: Office Romance Boys

Nintendo Switch

Simulator

Mystic Land: The search for Maphaldo

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

Role-playing (RPG)Turn-based strategy (TBS)

No Register

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleAdventure

No Service

Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

AdventureIndie

Not Monsters

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Indie

No Witnesses

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Role-playing (RPG)Strategy

Oath of Stigmata

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Role-playing (RPG)Strategy

Occult Hand of the Blood Lily

PC (Microsoft Windows)

AdventureIndie

OCDust: One Room. Every Last Speck. One Way Out.

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Indie

Octopath Traveler + Octopath Traveler II Bundle

Nintendo Switch 2

Role-playing (RPG)

One Piexel

Web browser

Fighting

Opi Popi

PC (Microsoft Windows)

IndieVisual Novel

Penguin Weapons

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

Role-playing (RPG)

Permit Pending

Web browser

SimulatorIndie

Puckoff: Reloaded

PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S

Visual NovelSport

Pusheen's Place

iOS · Mac · visionOS

SimulatorPuzzle

Restart Zero

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Indie

Reversi2048

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleStrategy

Rhythmic Keyboard

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Indie

River City Survivors

iOS · Mac · visionOS

Rocket Racing

Android · Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows)

Racing

Sanasana

PC (Microsoft Windows)

IndieShooter

Scraplings

PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorStrategy

Sculpturillo

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Indie

Seek

Nintendo Switch · PlayStation 5

PuzzleRole-playing (RPG)

Seven Nights With Hanako

PC (Microsoft Windows)

IndieAdventure

Shady Business

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleIndie

Skyship Quest Story

PlayStation 4

Role-playing (RPG)Simulator

SnakeArea.io

Web browser

Arcade

Society Chess 3D

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Card & Board Game

So Close

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Adventure

Sous Raccoon

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Indie

Spooky Market

PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorIndie

SpyCat: Codename Wu

PC (Microsoft Windows)

IndiePlatform

Star-Coat

PC (Microsoft Windows)

ShooterAdventure

Starlathe

PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorStrategy

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown: Equinox

Nintendo Switch 2 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5

IndieStrategy

Sullyland Nursery Rhyme

Nintendo Switch

Point-and-clickVisual Novel

Sumoo

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

IndiePuzzle

Sump

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleAdventure

Super Chillers: The Chat Room

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Adventure

Tales from the Dancing Moon

Nintendo Switch

Role-playing (RPG)Adventure

The Calamity Trials

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PlatformSimulator

The Devil's in the Details

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

Visual NovelIndie

The Gardener

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

IndiePuzzle

The Gastarbeiters

PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorAdventure

The Legend of Chalkvania

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Role-playing (RPG)Adventure

The Roach Hotel: Chapter 2

PC (Microsoft Windows)

AdventureStrategy

Tile & Error

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Card & Board GameStrategy

Train Station Tycoon

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorIndie

Umbral Coterie

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Real Time Strategy (RTS)Strategy

Under the Red Sky

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

IndieAdventure

Usagi Shima

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

IndieSimulator

Velocity: Midnight Run

PC (Microsoft Windows)

RacingIndie

Vertigo Enigma

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleIndie

Volume.art

Web browser

Weekend Solitaire: Summer Village

Xbox One

PuzzleCard & Board Game

What Is The Ghost

PC (Microsoft Windows)

PuzzleIndie

Whistling at Night

Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorIndie

Wingspan: Bird Pack - Birds of Continental Europe

Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)

Zero Parades: Director's Cut

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Point-and-clickRole-playing (RPG)

Friday 2 October

90

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve

PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S

ArcadeShooter

24

Agefield High: Rock the School

Xbox Series X|S

AdventureIndie

75

Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War

PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S

ShooterSimulator

Cyber Cleaner Simulator

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Simulator

Dub Party

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Indie

Horror Scenarios: The Redwood Estate

PC (Microsoft Windows)

AdventureIndie

70

Paw Patrol: Dino World

Nintendo Switch 2

Adventure

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve - Customizable Cosmetic Set

PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S

ArcadeShooter

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve Deluxe Edition

PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S

ArcadeShooter

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve - Playable Aircraft: F-14A

PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S

ShooterSimulator

Aery: Calm Horizon 2

Xbox Series X|S

SimulatorAdventure

Aetherfall

Xbox One

PlatformPuzzle

Amanda's Magic Book 16: The Dragon Chronicle

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Puzzle

BalenaScape

Web browser

Role-playing (RPG)Adventure

Baseball Card Shop Simulator

PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox One

PuzzleSimulator

Bering Tonnage

Linux · PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorStrategy

Birb

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Indie

Bloodspill

PC (Microsoft Windows)

ShooterIndie

Cheddar Beach: Episode 0

PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorAdventure

Crack the Pack

PC (Microsoft Windows)

SimulatorIndie

Dates as announced by publishers and recorded on IGDB.com; they change. Only games with a cover are listed.