Fall 2026 isn’t completely outlined by these big-budget, AAA video games, nonetheless. Too-many-to-count indie and AA under-the-radar video games are popping out week after week all season lengthy. Under are 15 indies popping out this fall we’re trying ahead to, ordered by their launch dates. For probably the most half, we have caught to video games with confirmed launch dates, however make just a few exceptions for video games we’re simply too excited for to not embrace.
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Oops! You’re the Hero!
Launch date: Sept. 15
The place to play: Home windows PC
Not all heroes put on capes, and never all heroes even wish to be heroes. That’s the case in Oops! You’re the Hero!, which follows a thief who steals an historical artifact and mistakenly will get dubbed a hero within the course of. Study to embrace the hero’s life and face monsters head on, or stealthily sneak by them just like the thief you had been. Oops! You’re the Hero! additionally contains flying sheep. Will GTA 6? I feel not.
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Woodo
Launch date: Sept. 16
The place to play: Nintendo Change, Nintendo Change 2, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox Sequence X
Assemble cute dioramas within the healthful Woodo. You’ll place picket toys and objects in gentle puzzles and step by step see a cute scene come to life, like a gaggle of animals chasing one another round a tiny home or a seafaring journey. Woodo units out to seize easy joys of childhood, joys that may be simply forgotten over time.
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Dressmaker
Launch date: Sept. 21
The place to play: Home windows PC
Dressmaker is a cross between a administration sim and a dress-up sandbox (assume Infinity Nikki). You’ll get to know your city’s clientele whereas designing and crafting clothes for them. You’re in management each step of the way in which, from buying supplies to designing your clothes in a sketchbook to placing all their items collectively. There’s additionally a cat who hangs round your store and, sure, you possibly can pet it.
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Toem 2
Launch date: Sept. 29
The place to play: Nintendo Change, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox Sequence X
Seize your digital camera and get to helpin’ in Toem 2. It’s a comfortable journey the place you wander round a black-and-white city and {photograph} its attraction and eccentricities alongside the way in which. Assist resolve individuals’s issues, like unblocking sewage pipes together with your digital camera, which acts as a Swiss military knife. Whereas you’ll have a journal to trace quests and discoveries, a part of Toem 2’s enchantment is photographing for the enjoyable of it.
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11
Songs of Glimmerwick
Launch date: Sept. 30
The place to play: Home windows PC
With its vibrant artwork model and bushes that appear like paper cutouts, Songs of Glimmerwick is sort of a kids’s storybook in online game kind. It’ll take you to a magic faculty, however as a substitute of utilizing a wand to forged spells, all magic flows by means of music. Forged spells to open up new paths, or to simply chat with some bushes. There’s loads to do outdoors of college, too, as on this life sim you possibly can attend festivals, take pleasure in some native drama, be part of a band, and extra.
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Echo Weaver
Launch date: Oct. 8
The place to play: Nintendo Change 2, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox Sequence X
Metroidvania followers will wish to control Echo Weaver. Discover a ruined society caught inside a time loop, which supplies Echo Weaver a little bit of a roguelike aptitude. You’ll use time as a useful resource to barter, heal your self, and discover hidden shortcuts. Meet and study from quirky survivors contained in the loop, together with a “pizza-slinging cat.” No phrase but in case you can pet mentioned cat, nonetheless.
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Without end In the past
Launch date: Oct. 8
The place to play: Nintendo Change 2, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox Sequence X
Writer Annapurna Interactive has already had a robust 2026 with People of Note, Mixtape, and D-topia. It’ll look to proceed that scorching streak with Without end In the past, a story-focused highway journey journey. You’ll enterprise out looking for redemption, exploring new lands and making new associates alongside the way in which. A kind of new associates seems to be a stray canine, so we’re offered.
8
Order of the Sinking Star
Launch date: Oct. 8
The place to play: Nintendo Change 2, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC
You won’t want one other puzzle sport after Order of the Sinking Star delivers a 500-hour, 1,000-puzzle expertise. (Don’t fret although; you possibly can nonetheless end the sport itself with out ending all these puzzles.) Led by Braid creator Jonathan Blow, Order of the Sinking Star is all about hand-crafted puzzles that connect with and construct off of each other. You’ll step by step study and grasp puzzle mechanics, after which grasp how these mechanics mix collectively to unravel new and harder puzzles.
7
Penguin Colony
Launch date: Oct. 8
The place to play: Home windows PC
Tuxedoed penguins plus H.P. Lovecraft makes Penguin Colony, a cosmic horror sport starring a playable penguin. It’s a re-imagining of Lovecraft’s On the Mountains of Insanity and different tales, and finds you as a penguin following the misadventures of people within the Antarctic. Watch as they slowly lose their minds looking for historical energy. Then conceivably return to your penguin household to do… no matter it’s penguins do when not starring in a Lovecraftian horror sport. (They’re in all probability simply chillin’.)
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Silver Pines
Launch date: Oct. 8
The place to play: Nintendo Change, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox Sequence X
Metroidvanias meet survival horror in Silver Pines. A personal investigator heads to the middle-of-nowhere city Silver Pines looking for a lacking musician. His investigation leads him to monsters and mysteries lurking concerning the spooky metropolis. Whereas exploring each nook and cranny in Silver Pines, scrounge for and handle sources in true survival horror vogue.