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2026 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures
On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that's a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of new things to play unless you sort through every single game that is released on Steam. So that’s exactly what we’ve done. If nothing catches your fancy this week, we've gathered the best PC games you can play right now and a running list of the 2026 games that are launching this year.
Steam page Release: March 12Developer: itamu
Mama's Sleeping Angels is basically Lethal Company by way of Cruelty Squad, though the latter's distinctive low-grade cyber-surrealism is replaced by a seasick Y2K nostalgia. Either alone or with up to three other players, you navigate an unpredictable dream world, killing threats and collecting "cursed objects" that provide "beneficial or bothersome powers" including, for example, the ability to jump very, very high. As you shoot, explore, and bear witness to countless uncanny atrocities across six maps, you'll slowly learn why you're trapped inside a nonsensical dream.
Steam page Release: March 13Developer: Lucy B. Locks
Lucid Blocks dares to ask: what if Minecraft except extremely odd, with an art style mixing "liminal spaces" with dreamlike misty voxel worlds? Like Minecraft, Lucid Blocks has infinite procedural generation, though it supports infinite vertical procedural generation too. In these worlds you'll find "cities made of plastic, serene fields of grass, and massive abandoned warehouses", but you'll also be free to craft your own structures and expanses as well, all while surviving indescribable beasties. It looks surprisingly fleshed out for $10, and has over a thousand "overwhelmingly positive" reviews.
Steam pageRelease: March 12Developer: Anomaly Works
The State of Nowhere is very reminiscent of Papers, Please, but instead of deciding who gets to cross the border into a totalitarian state, you're deciding who gets access to food in a totalitarian state. In other words, you're deciding whether people live or die an agonising, hungry death, while a...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
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2026 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures
On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that's a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of new things to play unless you sort through every single game that is released on Steam. So that’s exactly what we’ve done. If nothing catches your fancy this week, we've gathered the best PC games you can play right now and a running list of the 2026 games that are launching this year.
Steam page Release: March 12Developer: itamu
Mama's Sleeping Angels is basically Lethal Company by way of Cruelty Squad, though the latter's distinctive low-grade cyber-surrealism is replaced by a seasick Y2K nostalgia. Either alone or with up to three other players, you navigate an unpredictable dream world, killing threats and collecting "cursed objects" that provide "beneficial or bothersome powers" including, for example, the ability to jump very, very high. As you shoot, explore, and bear witness to countless uncanny atrocities across six maps, you'll slowly learn why you're trapped inside a nonsensical dream.
Steam page Release: March 13Developer: Lucy B. Locks
Lucid Blocks dares to ask: what if Minecraft except extremely odd, with an art style mixing "liminal spaces" with dreamlike misty voxel worlds? Like Minecraft, Lucid Blocks has infinite procedural generation, though it supports infinite vertical procedural generation too. In these worlds you'll find "cities made of plastic, serene fields of grass, and massive abandoned warehouses", but you'll also be free to craft your own structures and expanses as well, all while surviving indescribable beasties. It looks surprisingly fleshed out for $10, and has over a thousand "overwhelmingly positive" reviews.
Steam pageRelease: March 12Developer: Anomaly Works
The State of Nowhere is very reminiscent of Papers, Please, but instead of deciding who gets to cross the border into a totalitarian state, you're deciding who gets access to food in a totalitarian state. In other words, you're deciding whether people live or die an agonising, hungry death, while a...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
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