12 New Indie Games on PC, November 2026

Potato Please hands you a knife, a bucket and a mountain of potatoes. You pick each one up, peel it by hand with physics-based cuts and drop it in the water. Thin peels waste less, so there is a small skill to it, and the deadpan joke is that the whole pile is for feeding an army.

The money you earn buys better tools and then machines that take potatoes in bulk, so the job slowly turns into a small automated line. That shift from hand work to a system is the heart of the game. It came out on November 3 and was among Steam's top sellers a few days later.

Horses of Hoofprint Bay starts you with a cheap plot of land, a falling-apart stable and one mare. You brush her, clean her hooves and treat scrapes before they turn into something worse, then train her until she is strong and calm enough for show jumping and cross country events in town.

Prize money pays for bigger buildings, staff and more horses. Breeding lets foals inherit coat colours, markings and even personality, so pairings matter. A team of three horse lovers made it, and an in-game library explains real horse care. It came out on November 4, and its Steam reviews were Overwhelmingly Positive at our check.

Underkeep is a first-person dungeon crawler in the style of 90s role-playing games. You pick a party of four adventurers, move through hand-built dungeons one square at a time and fight turn-based battles where stamina and mana run out fast if you waste them.

Between fights you talk to odd locals, solve puzzles and search for fake walls, hidden alcoves and optional bosses. An automap with your own markers keeps track of locked doors and places to come back to, which saves the graph paper. It came out on November 5.

DREADMOOR puts you at the wheel of a fishing trawler in a world that has mostly sunk under water. You look for good spots, try different baits and keep an eye on your hold, because bigger catches eat smaller ones. The rarer and nastier the fish, the more traders pay for it.

On land you search wrecks, caves and empty buildings for scrap and blueprints, then craft harpoons, medicine and boat parts such as a spotlight or a stronger hull. Mutated creatures attack in real time, on the water and on shore. It enters Early Access on November 9, and the Steam page warns about disturbing scenes.

Casualties: Unknown is a 2D survival game about a test subject sent into the caves of an alien planet to bring back lost cargo. There are 11 layers to get through, each with its own dangers, and you are just one of thousands of test subjects sent down.

The body simulation is the hook. Limbs and blood flow are tracked, so you bandage wounds, fight infection and stop bleeding before you pass out, and a low mood makes everything harder. You craft tools from what you find and choose from three characters. It launches November 9, and the developers warn about themes such as self-harm and drug use.

Worst Class Ever is a party game where students play against the teacher. The students hide among dozens of computer-controlled classmates and try to eat snacks, pass notes and play on their phones without getting caught. The teacher watches for anyone who moves a little wrong and calls them out.

Each map, from a daytime classroom to a late-night study hall, has its own hiding spots and prank tasks, and both sides unlock gadgets like smoke bombs, drones and tranquilizer guns. The Steam page still describes one teacher against five students, but the developer says the full release raises the limit to eight players and lets the host set how many teachers there are. It needs a group, since Steam lists no single-player mode. The US Steam store lists November 9, while the developer's own posts say November 10.

Main Sequence is a factory builder you play in first person from a small mining ship. You scan asteroids, mine and refine what you find, then build a space station where machines and conveyor belts turn raw materials into parts.

Every ship and station is yours to design, module by module, and later you link stations with automated supply routes. Your mining wakes up an old alien defence network, so part of your fleet has to fight. In co-op, each player captains their own ship and you split the jobs however you like. It enters Early Access on November 12.

Drawquarium turns your drawings into fish. You sketch a fish or a plant, put it in the tank and watch it swim, eat and get along with the others, or not. You don't need to draw well: there are ready-made fish, and you can upload any PNG, such as a child's drawing.

Feeding and raising fish earns golden scales that unlock new sand, lighting and decorations. A wallpaper mode keeps the tank running behind your other windows, with a timer, a task list and a journal built in. Its developer, a 3D artist who works in film, made the art and animation himself and started it to bring his children's drawings to life. It's out November 13.

Arctic Drive starts with an empty fridge, a freezing cabin and a broken car in the garage. Once it runs, you drive into a frozen wilderness that is different every time, stopping at cabins and gas stations for fuel, supplies and anything you can recycle into parts.

Everything is a physical object, so you really do stack boxes on the back seat and tow trailers, and one sharp turn can spill your haul across the snow. You manage hunger, thirst and body heat through blizzards and whiteouts. Up to four players can ride together online. It enters Early Access on November 25.

Reshine is about fixing up old objects in an attic while it rains outside. You take each item apart piece by piece, clean off the dust and rust, sand the rough edges and repaint the parts in colours you choose, then put everything back together.

There is no shop to run and nothing to fail, and at the end you can compare the result with how the object looked before. The developer says more than 60,000 people tried it in a playtest. It's due on Steam on November 26. A PS5 version was announced for the same day, but its PlayStation Store page showed no date at our check.

Appulse mixes pinball with a top-down shooter, and you are the ball. Flippers launch you as usual, but every shot you fire pushes you the other way, so you steer with recoil and can reach almost any part of the board on purpose.

It's a roguelite, so perks picked up during a run change how your ball behaves: more recoil, harder ramming, or a slow-motion trick for lining up combos. The store page also promises side quests, a space fleet to defend and enemy ships to charge. It comes from the publisher Raw Fury and launches November 26.

GrimKeep is a roguelite where your dice work like a deck. You collect items, roll to set off their bonuses and multipliers, and add special dice for poison, healing or gold. At a forge called the Crucible you can melt items together into new ones, which is where big builds come from.

The setting is a cursed fairytale city, and your goal is to fight through it to the Princess and end her. You start as the Huntress or the Beast and unlock more as you play, for seven heroes in all, with more than 200 items and 60 monsters in the full game. It's the last game here, out on November 30.