Here’s the highlights from the recent 2026 Out of Bounds Showcase
Entalto Publishing recently held the second edition of its Out of Bounds Showcase, highlighting 16 indie games from developers around the world.
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HEAT: Pedal to the Metal by Days of Wonder is getting an official video game adaptation
Play your cards strategically and push your engine to the limit in HEAT: Pedal to the Metal, an official digital adaptation of the award-winning board game.
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Unforgiving cave-exploration survival simulator Casualties: Unknown arrives November 9
Casualties: Unknown is a game for people who love a tough challenge, with simulated limb and cardiovascular systems.
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Score touchdowns and win it all in the retro-inspired, side-scrolling Classic American Football
Classic American Football is an upcoming sports game from IsoTyger Studios, bringing back some retro fun in a neat looking package.
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Helldivers 2 switches over from GameGuard to Easy Anti-Cheat
While it’s still unavailable in the UK along with some other Sony published games, Arrowhead have moved Helldivers 2 over to Easy Anti-Cheat.
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Time-looping claymation puzzle-platformer UvsU: You vs You launches in January 2027
Claymation is something I love to see more of and we’re getting a fun looking treat here with the upcoming puzzle-platformer UvsU: You vs You.
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Dark first-person fishing adventure DREADMOOR looks awesome, arrives November 9
DREADMOOR is probably one of the most interesting looking fishing games ever - with a dark post-apocalyptic world.
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Steam Next Fest Oct 2026 is live with thousands of demos
Steam Next Fest Oct 2026 has arrived and with it - there’s multiple thousands of demos included.
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Trailblazers: Into the March shows off its unique blend of walking colony sim in a new demo
Trailblazers: Into the March is high up on my wishlist for the unique premise, with you building up a little colony on a walking landship.
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Crusader Kings III: Silk & Silver expansion arrives November 19
Paradox Interactive just announced a major expansion with Crusader Kings III: Silk & Silver now set to arrive on November 19th.
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Try the demo for The Mystery of Oak Island, a point and click mystery thriller from Visionaire Studio
The Mystery of Oak Island is a passion project from Visionaire Studio, who make the popular point and click game engine.
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RADV Promotes VK_EXT_host_image_copy To Enabled By Default For RDNA1 GPUs
Going back to July 2025 the open-source Radeon RADV Vulkan driver has offered experimental host image copy support with the API’s VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. This has been for RDNA1 and newer GPUs while now GFX10 RDNA 1 GPUs have this extension enabled by default while also enabling experimental support for prior GFX9 era GPUs too… ⌘ Read more
Dungeonbound is a unique dungeon crawler blending in auto-battlers, incrementals and inventory management
Dungeonbound is an upcoming first-person auto-battler dungeon crawler with some fun ideas and a mixture of modes that change how you play.
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Take on big oil and pirates as a lonely wind turbine in Spin Tide
Indie developers just keep coming up with absolute gems. Spin Tide is another survivor-like but it’s the style and animations that hooked me in.
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Get some great Double Fine and Serenity Forge games across two new bundles
Ready to fill up on some more games? The Double Fine Publisher Humble Bundle and Serenity Forge Emotional Impact Humble Bundle have some great stuff included.
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Enshrouded 1.0 rolls out and now it’s Steam Deck Verified
Enshrouded is a solo and co-op survival action RPG where your freedom and creativity come first - with a big 1.0 release out now.
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Hot Wax is an inventive new take on classic falling block puzzlers
Move over Tetris, it’s time for some Hot Wax - an inventive new take on classic falling block puzzlers.
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Valve fix Zero Company crashing on Steam Machine with the latest major game update
Zero Company recently had a major upgrade, with it crashing on Steam Machine and probably other SteamOS / Linux systems - which Valve have solved.
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The impressive sci-fi squad tactics game ‘Archrebel Tactics’ gets a fresh demo
Inspired by Rebelstar, Laser Squad, and the original X-COM - Archrebel Tactics is one you definitely need to try with a big brand new demo.
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NVIDIA GeForce NOW gets expanded DLSS 4.5 Controls
NVIDIA have levelled up their cloud gaming service GeForce NOW with some more advanced DLSS features, to tweak your streams how you like them.
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The Fallout inspired ATOM RPG returns with a Plague Island DLC and major update
Released back in 2018, ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game is a classic Fallout-like and the developers just gave it a nice upgrade and DLC.
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Caves of Qud: Diaspora is coming December 9
Caves of Qud: Diaspora is the first expansion for the incredible roguelike, coming December 9th in Early Access.
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BRUTAL, the framework behind RimWorld’s Waylith engine, releases its source code
With the news recently about RimWorld dropping Unity for their own game engine, we now have a little more info on the tech behind it called BRUTAL.
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Proton Experimental for October 15 has fixes for ARC Raiders, C&C Red Alert, Counterstike and The Aftermath
Valve launched the latest update for Proton Experimental to fix up more issues found with Windows games running on SteamOS / Linux.
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Steam Beta for October 15 brings a 64bit Linux client, Achievement Sets and more
Another big new Steam Beta release for all platforms has arrived - bringing with it a 64bit Linux client, and a fancy Achievement Sets system.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Ghostwire: Tokyo enter the GOG Preservation Program
The GOG Preservation Program has expanded to include another two fun games with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Ghostwire: Tokyo.
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Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released
Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released, as the latest upgrade to the popular Linux distribution.
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New fighting game Poly Fighter combines roguelike features to build your fighter
Poly Fighter is a new Early Access fighting game designed to be for solo play, with you building up your own fighter with each win.
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Humble Bundle has two new bundles full of horror and factory-building games
Humble Bundle has launched two new game bundles with very different themes: one built around Halloween horror, and the other all about factories and automation.
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Speed through strange retro worlds in the strategic roguelike racer Reality Drift demo
Available with a demo now - Reality Drift is a retro strategic roguelike racing game where you battle through a series of strange worlds.
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Ashes of the Singularity II gets a November release date
Set to arrive on November 10th, Ashes of the Singularity II will bring a fresh next-generation grand-scale RTS to your systems.
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Framework expands funding support for CachyOS Linux
The very popular Arch-based Linux distribution CachyOS is growing up, with Framework expanding their direct funding support of it.
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Everybody have fun tonight,
Everybody Shang Tsung tonight.
Epic Games Launcher preview arrives - Native Linux support, Fortnite for Linux is coming and upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat
Epic Games have announced their brand new Epic Games Launcher refresh has a Preview available, along with Native Linux support and Fortnite is coming to Linux.
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Plasma 6.8 is out as KDE celebrates 30 years
It’s officially KDE’s 30th birthday, and with that they’ve given us a gift with Plasma 6.8 now available.
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CultGame is a cult simulator RPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world with haunting ASCII art
One to stick on your list for testing out on Halloween, CultGame is a cult simulator RPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world with haunting ASCII art.
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HUEMON takes the style of retro Pokemon and spins it with 5v5 battles
Another interesting demo to go and check out is HUEMON, it’s styled very much like retro Pokemon but brings 5v5 tactical battles.
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Smash through hordes in the minimalist gladiator roguelite ‘Mini Gladiators’
Mini Gladiators is a minimalist gladiator roguelite with bullet-heaven combat and satisfying ragdoll physics. A demo is now available to try.
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Facepunch are rethinking s&box since it’s not doing well - it’s going free to play
The sandbox game creation and game playing platform s&box from Garry’s Mod and Rust developer Facepunch is going through a big rethink.
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Peekpal is an upcoming colour E-Paper Faceplate for the Steam Machine
The Steam Machine having a customizable Faceplate was a great idea, as we’re beginning to see more fun creations like the Peekpal.
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Very cool shots! 🤘
Steam Frame - some early thoughts
GamingOnLinux has managed to acquire the SteamOS powered Steam Frame VR device, these are some initial thoughts now I’ve got it all set up.
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Squadron 42 now has a Steam page and new trailer ahead of “Q2 2027” release
Cloud Imperium Games have put up a Steam page for Squadron 42, their cinematic single-player sci-fi adventure game set in the expansive Star Citizen universe.
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Clean up a bloody aftermath to grow a terribly weird garden in Goreticulture
Goreticulture is a game about growing a visceral garden as you clean up a bloody aftermath.
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One More Flight is an upcoming psychological horror set aboard a doomed flight trapped in a time loop
This looks like it could be an interesting on. A psychological horror game set aboard a doomed flight trapped in a relentless time loop.
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Pick up more games in the Cozy After Dark Showcase Humble Bundle
More cheap games to add to your collection? Yes! The Cozy After Dark Showcase Humble Bundle is live with 10 games available in it.
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Hytale Chapter I: Out of the Breach has arrived as a massive update
Hytale Chapter I: Out of the Breach is out now bringing with it a lot of new content, along with a whole new ability system.
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RimWorld switching from Unity to their own Waylith Engine and a new game was teased
Ludeon Studios announced a major change the the popular game RimWorld, as they’re moving away from Unity to their own game engine - and a new game is coming.
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Proton Experimental gets updated to fix a prefix corruption bug and more
A smaller update to Proton Experimental landed for October 12th, but one of the fixes is quite a major one (although a rare issue).
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Firefox 158 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support By Default
Firefox 158 is now available with JPEG XL image support enabled by default, making .jxl images a standard part of the browser rather than an experimental feature. The release also adds JPEG XL to Firefox’s default image Accept header, improves Smart Window form filling, and brings new CSS typed-arithmetic support for developers. Phoronix reports: At long last, … ⌘ Read more