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January 2026 Highlights

This is our first Showcase of 2026. The below picks are highlights from a much bigger pool. Over January we added:

Here’s just a handful of the wonderful releases you shouldn’t miss:

Big Hops

Cairn

Scale the unclimbed Mount Kami in a gripping mix of realism and storytelling. As pro climber Aava, every wall is a boss fight—place hands and feet with precision, manage your strength and supplies, and carve your own route to the summit.

Pathologic 3

Enforce brutal quarantines and diagnose the dying across a looping twelve-day nightmare. Rewind time to fix your failures, sacrificing ethics and sanity to secure a cure before the plague consumes everything.

Tennis Elbow 4

Master the court in a hyper-realistic tennis simulation featuring rehauled physics and deep tactical gameplay. Rise through the ranks of a massive World Tour spanning 70 years, outplaying 3,500 rivals across nine distinct surfaces to define your legacy.

Streetdog BMX

Flow through sprawling urban playgrounds in a deep arcade BMX sim. Chain technical grinds and massive airs to conquer the concrete, risking brutal wipeouts to nail the perfect, infinite line.

✦ Hack And Climb on Steam

Ascend from the abyss as a living weapon, flinging your cursed steel frame up a grueling, physics-based climb. Master the weight and momentum of ten unlockable weapons, risking punishing falls with every spiteful throw to claim your vengeance.

Big Hops

Master a sticky tongue and acrobatic finesse in this maximalist 3D platformer. Cultivate your own path by planting magical veggies to grow the very platforms you need to escape a trickster’s grasp.

✦ Marble's Marbles

Master momentum and gravity in a treacherous physics playground, rolling through crumbling ruins and shifting contraptions. Balance on the razor's edge to guide your lost collection home without tumbling into the abyss.

Escape from Ever After

Team up with your dragon nemesis to dismantle a fairytale conglomerate from the inside, battling capitalism in a vibrant Paper Mario-inspired RPG. Climb the corporate ladder through snappy turn-based combat and office politics, saving storybook worlds from being bulldozed for profit.

✦ Earth Must Die

These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from my dear, sweet, extremely dead father? This is complete bullsh*t, and I'm going to make them dead.

One Turn Kill

Master a high-stakes card battler where you must eliminate every threat in a single turn or face instant annihilation. Balance a unique economy where drawing cards burns resources, engineering flawless combos in a pixel art wasteland to execute the ultimate one-turn kill.

Hank: Drowning On Dry Land

Plunge into the withering psyche of a paralyzed vigilante in a dark cartoon fever dream. Scour your subconscious for a cure before you drown in a puddle of spilled beer.

Chromatic Conundrum

Manipulate light and shadow in a first-person puzzle adventure, blending colors to illuminate your path through an enigmatic world. Solve intricate logic challenges by combining beams and casting silhouettes in a concise experience designed to be completed in a single afternoon.

Happy gaming!

The Indieformer Team