9 New Indie Games on PS5, November 2026

ZERO PARADES is a spy RPG from ZA/UM, the studio behind Disco Elysium. You play Hershel Wilk, a burnt-out operative called back for one last job in a city where three factions fight for control. Most of the game is talking: you question informants and pass skill checks through deception, force or deduction.

Confrontations come down to dice, and fatigue, anxiety and delirium build up if you push too hard. A system called Conditioning turns parts of Hershel's personality into new abilities. The PS5 version launched on November 3 as the Director's Cut, which adds full voice acting and a new encounter. Its PS Store launch price was $39.99.

The sequel to Escape Academy keeps the escape rooms and adds a whole campus to explore between them. You solve rooms full of traps against the clock, then wander the school looking for hidden tunnels, side quests and clues to a mystery about how the academy began.

On PS5 it supports two players, in split screen or online with PS Plus, and the store lists it as PS5 Pro Enhanced. If timers stress you out, a No-Timer Mode lets you solve at your own pace. It came out on November 5, the same day as on Xbox and PC.

Faraway is a minimal arcade game where you are a shooting star. To stay alive you connect stars into constellations, which gives you energy, while the universe is generated around you as you go, so every run starts from nothing.

The rules are simple, but riskier moves earn more energy and points, and leaderboards show how far everyone got. Besides the endless mode there are 16 handmade puzzle stages. One person, Steph Thirion, made it over more than ten years. It came out on PS5 and every other platform on November 5, with a PS Store launch price of $9.99.

Kingdom of Night is an isometric action RPG set over a single night in 1987, when a cult summons a demon into a small Arizona town. You play John, a teenager who heads out after his neighbour is kidnapped and finds the streets full of monsters.

You pick one of five classes, from Barbarian to Necromancer, and shape it through three skill trees. The town is open, so you can take on the Demon Generals in any order and follow side stories and loot along the way. A second player can join in local co-op. It came out on PS5 on November 5 at $19.99.

Hard West 2 is turn-based tactics in a Wild West full of demons. You lead a posse of gunslingers on the trail of a ghost train, and fights move through changing places, including horseback chases and a train robbery.

The twist is Bravado: a kill refills your action points, so one good turn can chain into several kills across the map. Your crew's abilities come from card combinations, which gives team building a gambler's feel. It has been on PC since 2022, and it comes to PS5 on November 10, published on consoles by Klabater.

Thronefall turns tower defence into a short daily loop. During the day you spend gold on farms, mines, walls and towers. At night enemies arrive in waves, and you fight on the field yourself as the king while archers and knights hold the line.

If the castle centre falls, the run is over, so each day is a choice between growing the economy and building defences. Ten maps, nine weapons and dozens of perks give later runs some variety. It has been on PC since 2024, where its Steam reviews are Overwhelmingly Positive, and it arrives on PS5 on November 11 as a one-player game.

Supermarket Simulator, the store-running game with millions of players, comes to PS5 on November 12. You order stock on a computer, unpack it into storage, fill shelves and fridges, set prices against a changing market and work the till, then spend profits on a bigger, nicer store.

Up to four players can run one store together online with PS Plus, and you can hire security guards when shoplifters turn up. The Fully Stocked editions add seven DLCs, from a bakery and an ice cream counter to clothing and hardware sections. A physical PS5 disc follows on December 4.

Hazard Levels sends you and up to three friends from a secret lab under an old pub into unstable rift worlds to collect strange ingredients. Each rift is generated fresh, with new layouts, hazards and creatures, and proximity voice chat keeps everyone on edge.

A gravity gauntlet lets you pick up and throw several objects at once, which is how you loot fast. Back at the pub you brew what you found into drinks that grant perks, or cause chaos. The full 1.0 version comes to PS5 on November 12, with crossplay between PS5, Xbox and PC.

DERELIKT is a first-person sci-fi horror shooter made to look like a lost PlayStation 1 game, down to the wobbly textures and old-style CGI cutscenes. You arrive as a contractor at an outpost built onto a strange asteroid near Saturn, to find out what happened to a missing excavation team.

There are guns, including prototypes and alien weapons, but also old-school puzzles, careful use of supplies and more than a dozen characters, including survivors whose stories don't match. It's the work of a solo developer, Philipp Jensen. It launches on PS5 and PC on November 13, and some of the retro effects can be switched off.