5 new Steam video games you in all probability missed (January 19, 2026)
On a mean day a couple of dozen new video games are launched on Steam. And whereas we predict that is a very good factor, it may be understandably onerous to maintain up with. Probably thrilling gems are certain to be misplaced within the deluge of latest issues to play until you kind by each single sport that’s launched on Steam. In order that’s precisely what we’ve finished. If nothing catches your fancy this week, we have gathered the greatest PC video games you may play proper now and a working listing of the 2026 video games which can be launching this yr.
Confidential Killings
Steam web page
Launch: January 13
Developer: Brane, Lorenzo Boni
Detective video games had a resurgence in 2025 and so they’re nonetheless coming. Detective Killings is a degree ‘n’ click on remedy ’em up set throughout the seedy heyday of Hollywood: somebody is systematically murdering actors, writers and producers, and it is your job to seek out out who. After completely investigating the gritty comedian book-style crime scenes, you may have to reconstruct occasions in an effort to uncover connections between the deaths, and the way the individuals you meet issue into them. You do detective work, in different phrases. In case you’re into L.A. Noire or James Ellroy’s Los Angeles novels, this seems like a pleasant match.
Craftlings
Steam web page
Launch: January 16
Developer: Ariano Video games GmbH
Craftlings mixes automation and Lemmings-style horde administration, however as a substitute of the brief ‘n’ snappy ranges of the latter, this outing takes place throughout 12 sprawling maps. As you’d anticipate, your craftlings could be assigned a bunch of various duties together with lumberjack, stone mason, warrior and extra, and as these roles indicate, there is a huge concentrate on useful resource administration and base constructing. Unusually for video games like this, you too can anticipate to face off towards foes from time to time.
Streetdog BMX
Steam web page
Launch: January 15
Builders: Yeah Us! Video games
Goddamn do I really like a very good push bike sport. Most of my latest faves have been about going actually quick down hills on mountain bikes (see Descenders, Lonely Mountains Downhill) however Streetdog BMX, because the identify implies, is all about their extra compact trick-oriented stablemates. Set throughout six maps, Streetdog takes the type of Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater: it is all about pulling off gnarly tips, particularly wallrides, fakies and icepicks. Do not ask me what an icepick is, however in case you should know there is a free demo.
EmuDevz
Steam web page
Launch: January 17
Developer: [r]labs
It is price stating upfront that EmuDevz requires a working data of programming: “if you cannot write code but, flip again when you nonetheless can”, reads the Steam web page, however in case you do have that ability this seems fascinating. Set within the yr 32767 within the aftermath of an web apocalypse, it is your job to construct an emulator for the fictional 1983 console NEES (one guess what that identify is referencing). It is a completely distinctive premise, and I love how uncompromisingly area of interest it’s.
Large Hops
Steam web page
Launch: January 13
Developer: Luckshot Video games
If programming a working emulator sounds is simply too sophisticated a activity, this cheerful 3D platformer is likely to be extra your velocity. Like most fashionable 3D platformers it adopts the ’90s mascot strategy, fairly successfully I might say, as a result of I can simply think about that cutesy frog within the above trailer on a cereal field. As you need to anticipate from fashionable 3D platformers, Large Hops is designed to really feel rather more fluid than its predecessors: the frog can tongue swing and free climb, the latter with a Breath of the Wild model stamina bar. In case you miss the 3D console video games of yore, this one’s for you.