Steam brings you 18 fresh PC game releases this week – from horror to building and role-playing games to action and simulation.
The second half of September heralds the start of the gaming autumn with a bang: several fan favorites are making their comeback on Steam. From thrilling zombie adventures to long-awaited skateboarding extravaganzas, there’s plenty of variety on offer. As we do every Monday, we present the most exciting PC releases of the week.
Highlight of the week: Dying Light: The Beast
(Genre: Survival action – Developer: Techland – Release: September 18, 2025 (Steam)
Ten years after his last appearance, Dying Light hero Kyle Crane returns – and he has changed: In Dying Light: The Beast , the former parkour pro becomes half-monster. After 13 years of captivity by a sadistic warlord, Crane breaks out and seeks revenge. But his tormentor’s experiments have left their mark: Crane now carries the virus within him, constantly fighting his own transformation into the Beast and unleashing unimagined powers in the process.
The setting for the new adventure is the mountain village of Castor Woods, which is ravaged by a zombie apocalypse. Despite the picturesque mountain backdrop, there is no time to catch your breath: As in the previous games, we must search for supplies during daylight hours and flee across rooftops and rocks—because as soon as the sun goes down, the infected in their strongest form crawl out from every corner.
New in The Beast are Crane’s brutal mutation and the resulting Beast Mode ability: He can temporarily transform into a raging, superhumanly strong berserker. In this state, you literally tear zombies to pieces, hurl entire groups of enemies around with your bare hands, and regenerate faster – making Dying Light’s already intense combat system even tougher.
More exciting Steam releases of the week
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Monday, September 15, 2025
- No, I’m not a Human: Suspicion is key here – this horror adventure makes you doubt every knock at the door. In No, I’m not a Human, you live in a post-apocalyptic world where people only venture out at night because of the brutal heat. But in the darkness lurk the Visitors: monstrous intruders who camouflage themselves perfectly as humans. As the host in your safe house, you must decide night after night whether to let strangers seeking shelter in. During the day, you examine your guests for subtle clues (flawless teeth? Dirty fingernails? Bloodshot eyes?) to expose potential monsters. The horror game, which feels like an eerie mix of Papers, Please and The Thing, creates maximum paranoia with a minimalist setting.
- LEGO Voyagers: Teamwork and block-building adventure for two players: LEGO Voyagers is a new co-op puzzle platformer adventure from LEGO. Two friends embark on an intergalactic rescue mission together – in a spaceship they built themselves! In each level, the two of them must solve creative puzzles, overcome obstacles, and build useful objects out of LEGO bricks to progress.
- Mars Attracts (Early Access): Mars Attacks! sends its regards – in Mars Attracts, you slip into the role of the nasty Martians. This quirky management simulation turns the tables: instead of building an amusement park for humans, you, as alien invaders, build a macabre human zoo on Mars. In this theme park sim for sci-fi fans, you construct cages and attractions, hire Martian staff, and kidnap unsuspecting earthlings to serve as exhibits for your alien guests.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
- Arena Breakout: Infinite: Ready for nerve-wracking hardcore shooter action? Arena Breakout: Infinite is a tactical free-to-play extraction shooter in the style of Escape from Tarkov, where every decision counts. You fight your way through PvPvE battles in a realistic military setting, collect rich loot, and try to escape alive – because if you die, you lose everything. The game has been available for some time via the Epic Games Store, and now it’s celebrating version 1.0 with its Steam release.
- skate. (Early Access): Fans had to wait over 13 years, but now the legendary skateboarding series is back on the scene – simply titled skate. The new Skate is a live service project from EA, which will initially launch in an early access phase and be continuously developed. You can let off steam to your heart’s content in the huge open-world city of San Vansterdam: thanks to realistic board controls (the popular flickit control returns), you can string together cool flips, grinds, and manuals and explore every corner of the game world. New is the strong multiplayer focus: you’ll meet other players on the street, can hit up spots together, or build and share your own skate parks.
- Voyagers of Nera (Early Access): Imagine Raft set in a fantasy ocean – that’s roughly what Voyagers of Nera feels like. This co-op survival game lets you set sail (alone or with up to 9 fellow adventurers) to survive in a magical ocean world.
- Town to City (Early Access): Fancy a bit of city building in between other things? Town to City is a cozy city builder with charming voxel graphics that gives you complete freedom to build. Instead of being tied to a rigid grid, you can place houses, shops, parks, and roads exactly where you want them, resulting in organically curved villages and cities. You start with a small country train station and a few settlers, fulfill the needs of the residents, and attract more and more people. Despite its relaxed presentation, there is a full-fledged economic simulation under the hood: you have to assign jobs, produce goods, and connect several towns through trade and transport to help your region grow into a thriving metropolis.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
- Strange Antiquities: Following the surprise success of Strange Horticulture, the developers at Bad Viking continue their darkly cozy puzzle series. This time, Strange Antiquities puts you in the role of a curiosity dealer in the Victorian-inspired town of Undermere. Your specialty: occult antiques. Customers come to your lovingly hand-drawn shop with mysterious artifacts that need to be identified and cataloged. You’ll leaf through old tomes, decipher symbols, and piece together the eerie stories behind the objects.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
- Ratatan (Early Access) : Patapon is unofficially back! Ratatan is the spiritual successor to the popular rhythm game from the PSP – some of the original developers have teamed up to bring drum fever to PC and modern consoles. As before, you command an army of cute little creatures by drumming beats: To the music, you use rhythmic key combinations to give commands to attack, defend, or gather. Ratatan mixes the proven concept with roguelike elements: the levels are procedural, each game session brings new combinations of enemies and power-ups, and you can permanently improve your troops between runs.
- Goblin Cleanup (Early Access): Have you ever wondered who cleans up all the remains after heroes have cleared a dungeon? Goblin Cleanup provides the wonderfully bizarre answer: in this co-op simulator, you work as a goblin cleaner in the service of a dungeon manager. Your task: to get the dungeon back in shape between two raids by adventurers! Up to four players work together to scrub blood off the floor, repair broken traps, refill treasure chests, and even revive defeated monsters so that the next group of brave warriors has something to fight.
- Easy Delivery Co.: A different kind of parcel service: Easy Delivery Co. is a relaxed open-world driving game that combines leisurely parcel delivery with a dash of mystery. You are hired as a new courier driver in a picturesque, snow-covered small town. In your little delivery van, you chug through the snow-covered streets, listening to chill drum & bass beats on the radio, and deliver packages to the quirky residents. Each house and each recipient tells a little story—but something seems off in this once-lively mountain town. Strange occurrences and hidden secrets invite you to take a closer look while delivering your packages.
- Morgenstern (Early Access) : Hardcore roguelite hack-and-slash meets co-op chaos: Morgenstern is a fresh action roguelite from Germany that mixes third-person hack-and-slash with elements of Vampire Survivors. In a dark medieval world, you’ll battle your way through fast-paced runs through procedurally generated dungeons full of demons and undead. Five different characters are available at launch, each with their own playstyle and upgradeable abilities. The extraction twist is particularly exciting: you must decide when to cut your losses and flee with your collected treasures, or whether to take the risk of venturing deeper (and perhaps lose everything). The levels are also completely destructible, allowing for creative tactics: smash walls to create shortcuts or bring the ceiling crashing down on monsters!
Friday, September 19, 2025
- Jump Space (Early Access): Co-op fans take note – Jump Space fulfills your dream of owning your own spaceship with a crew! This multiplayer game lets you pilot a sci-fi ship together and explore alien planets on foot. You can seamlessly switch between the bridge of your spaceship and external missions: while one player steers the ship through an asteroid field, the others can climb out in space suits or land on a planet’s surface to collect resources. Teamwork is everything here, because your ship needs constant maintenance and defense against alien enemies.
- Warborne: Above Ashes: More for PvP fans – Warborne: Above Ashes is an ambitious new MMO that focuses entirely on large-scale PvP battles. In a post-apocalyptic sci-fi fantasy world, players join hundreds of others and fight for supremacy in six factions. Special features: In the mass battles, you can tame giant monsters and use them as mounts or living war machines, and events are activated throughout the battle that can turn the tide. Warborne promises 24/7 real-time action, including 100-versus-100 battles for strategic objectives. Despite its PvP focus, there’s also something for solo players – those who want to can complete quests and smaller PvE missions to improve their equipment before throwing themselves into the fray.
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky – 1st Chapter: A JRPG milestone returns! Trails in the Sky – First Chapter is finally being officially released for modern platforms. This is not just a simple port, but a subtly modernized reissue of the legendary first chapter of the Trails series (also known as Legend of Heroes). Fans of the genre can look forward to around 80 hours of classic role-playing with turn-based combat, a deep story, and lovable characters. You accompany the young Estelle Bright and her adoptive brother Joshua on their journey through the kingdom of Liberl to become full-fledged Bracers (adventurer guild members) – a story that begins leisurely and slowly expands into an epic political and fantasy drama.
- Eclipsium: Face to face with cosmic madness – Eclipsium is a psychological horror adventure that will make Lovecraft fans’ hearts beat faster. In this surreal blend of exploration and puzzle-solving, you control a nameless wanderer from a first-person perspective as you navigate a world consumed by ruin. In search of a mysterious woman known only as She, your journey takes you through nightmarish environments: blood-soaked catacombs, cathedrals grown from flesh, and other disturbing places beyond all logic.
~Have fun gaming and feel free to tell us in the comments which of these new releases in this jam-packed week is your personal highlight!
