New on Steam: A Dark Survival Game Could Be This Week’s Surprise Hit
While console gamers eagerly await GTA 6, titles like Football Manager 27, Warhammer Survivors, and the dark fishing adventure Dreadmoor are holding their own on Steam this November.
Because of GTA 6, many major publishers are giving the release calendar a wide berth this month. But since PC gamers are still left out in the cold when it comes to the gangster epic anyway, we’ll just have to find other ways to pass the time.
Fortunately, there’s still no lull on Steam, and just like every Monday, we’re bringing you an overview of the week’s most important Steam releases!
The Highlight of the Week: DREADMOOR
Genre: Survival Horror –Developer: Dream Dock –Release Date: November 9, 2026 (Early Access)
If Dreadmoor immediately makes you think of Dredge, you’re not far off. Here, too, the normally leisurely activity of fishing is combined with a rather unsettling horror atmosphere. However, this time you’ll experience the action from a first-person perspective and will have to get your hands dirty much more often.
The setting is a post-apocalyptic world that’s largely submerged following a massive catastrophe. Aboard your fishing boat, you’ll explore the remnants of civilization, visit remote settlements, and try to make ends meet by selling your catch.
The problem: There are plenty of things lurking beneath the water’s surface that you’d rather not have on your hook. In addition to ordinary fish, all sorts of mutated creatures roam the depths, some of which react extremely aggressively.
And things aren’t necessarily any more pleasant on land either. As you explore abandoned buildings, caves, and shipwrecks, you’ll collect resources and blueprints, but you’ll have to fend off dangerous monsters time and again.
With the materials you find, you can upgrade your boat, reinforce its hull, install better engines, and craft new equipment. You can even make your own bait by butchering the creatures you catch and using their organs.
More Exciting Steam Releases of the Week
Monday, November 9, 2026
- Worst Class Ever: In this asymmetrical multiplayer game, up to six players compete against each other. Five students must hide among computer-controlled classmates, sneak a bite to eat, play on their phones, and get into as much mischief as possible. The teacher has to catch the troublemakers. It’s basically Prop Hunt, but with detention instead of headshots.
- Casualties: Unknown: A pretty ruthless survival simulation in which you have to fight your way through eleven levels on an alien planet. The detailed injury system is particularly interesting: individual limbs can be damaged, infections and blood loss threaten your survival, and even your mental state plays a role.
- Safari-TV (Early Access): Together with up to three friends, you run a safari agency, transport tourists through the wilderness, and try to survive encounters with wild animals as unscathed as possible. Of course, things regularly go wrong, because your safari truck features extensive physics and destruction simulation. You then film the chaos for your own in-game video channel.
- PeeVPee: The title alone gives away that this isn’t exactly a highbrow gaming experience. In this absurd multiplayer party game, you drink as much as possible, fill your bladder, and then try to mark as large a portion of the map as possible with your stream of urine. If you can’t make it to Cologne on November 11, at least you’ll get a pretty authentic simulation of Cologne’s city center during Carnival here.
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
- Football Manager 27: Pre-order customers have been able to play in the Launch Preview since November 3; now the full release is here. New features include the Tactical Effectiveness system, expanded tactical adjustments during matches, and an improved 2D game view.
- Warhammer Survivors: What happens when you combine Vampire Survivors with Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar? That’s exactly what Auroch Digital is trying out together with the Vampire Survivors creators at poncle. With more than 40 playable characters and over 75 weapons, you’ll hack and slash your way through massive hordes of enemies. Among them are the Space Marine Malum Caedo from Boltgun and all sorts of iconic monsters from both Warhammer universes.
- DreamWorks Shrek 2 Remastered: The green ogre is back! Aspyr is bringing back the action-adventure game based on the second Shrek movie with revamped graphics, 4K resolution, and modern convenience features. Just like before, you can switch between Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, and other characters to beat up enemies and solve puzzles. The co-op mode now supports not only local co-op but also online multiplayer for up to four players.
