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Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 19, 2026)

Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

PC Gamer

EXCLUSIVE: Xbox Cloud Gaming will get ad-supported access this year — rumors coalesce after ad support notices appear prematurely

Users have been noticing that Xbox Cloud Gaming has begun referencing "ad support" while launching games, confirming our earlier report.

Windows Central

Despite being free on Epic, Blood West sold 200% more copies on Steam, proving players still prefer to pay on Valve’s store

Blood West went free on Epic Games Store during the holidays, yet Steam sales rose by around 200% at the same time. The case highlights how Epic giveaways may function more as discovery tools than sales replacements.

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Epic Games Store grew from 108M to 295M users, but third‑party revenue barely moved — proving giveaways trained users not to actually buy games. Is Xbox PC going down the same path?

Free games helped Epic reach millions of players, but it also changed how they spend. Is Xbox doomed to make the same mistake on PC?

Windows Central

'Turns out having your game be free on Epic is great advertising for Steam sales': New Blood chief says Blood West sold 'like 200% more' the day it was a freebie on EGS

More evidence people will pay extra to avoid splitting up their gaming library.

PC Gamer

Steam reportedly raked in a record-breaking $1.6 billion in December with Arc Raiders alone moving over a million copies

PC gaming remains a big deal.

PC Gamer

FromSoftware-inspired RPG Lunacid is getting DLC, as its creator expresses bafflement at its success: 'This was supposed to be niche'

The expansion is "about 70% done," though Kira LLC feels like "it's been at 70% forever."

PC Gamer

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You've got until Monday to get 80% off 2 of the best dungeon crawlers ever made

Legend of Grimrock and its sequel are going cheap.

PC Gamer

Terraria's long-awaited 1.4.5 patch finally has a release date, and it's this month: 'start the countdown'

Sharpen your pickaxe for January 27.

PC Gamer

To celebrate the imminent launch of a new Styx adventure, Epic is giving away Cyanide's last two goblin-flavoured stealth games for free

It's a steal.

PC Gamer

The sequel to isometric mech sim Brigador gives off serious Syndicate vibes in its latest footage, and you can play its alpha version right now

Stellar Jockeys describes Brigador Killers as "Hitman: Contracts meets GTA 2".

PC Gamer

Steam updates AI disclosure form to specify that it's focused on AI-generated content that is 'consumed by players,' not efficiency tools used behind the scenes

The tweak addresses the fact that generative AI tools have been stuffed into just about every piece of software professionals use.

PC Gamer

There's a fantasy swordsmithing sim launching on Steam next week, which is a sentence I've been waiting to hear since browsing my dad's replica sword catalogs in 4th grade

Peak videogames looks like modular quillon technology.

PC Gamer

One of Steam's hottest top-sellers is the zombie apocalypse sim that previously dominated Steam Next Fest, and it's celebrating with a Dead by Daylight collab

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is like The Last of Us meets Papers, Please

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Excitement for Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters raised and subsequently dashed by Steam glitch: "Don't do that, don't give me hope"

Valve's storefront strikes again

GamesRadar

Disney delists 14 Steam games without warning, with movie licensed games and LucasArts titles getting the axe

RIP Chicken Little Ace in Action, you were a real one

Operation Sports

Milestone Shares First Look at RIDE 6 Career Mode and RIDE Fest

Milestone has revealed the new career mode for RIDE 6 with a trailer focused on RIDE Fest, a travelling motorcycle festival built around freedom, competition and community. The game launches February 12 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store with Early Access…

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New World will join the graveyard of defunct MMOs when it goes offline in 2027

The MMO's last season will be extended until its final day.

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Windows Central

What was once one of Steam's biggest MMOs is being killed off, and it's already been delisted — you have one year to play before shutdown

Just over four years after launch, Amazon's MMO New World: Aeternum is being shut down in 2027 due to its failure to bring fans back after it fell off.

GamesRadar

Valve just revealed the Steam sales and events for the rest of 2026, and besides the discounts I'm looking at the Party-Based RPG Fest to help satisfy those post-Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 cravings

Prepare your wallet AND your free time

PC Gamer

It's my duty as a child of the early 2000s to let you know a Beyblade-inspired roguelike was released on Steam last month

We've wasted weeks where we could have been letting it rip.

TechRadar

If you ever doubted SteamOS, think again – this new Decky Loader plugin is possibly the best one yet

Gaming on SteamOS has just been made much easier, thanks to a new Decky Loader plugin that fits multiple game libraries into one.

PC Gamer

Total War: Warhammer 40,000 surpasses Steam wishlist milestone, with over 1 million people ready to fight for their dessicated corpse of an Emperor

The galaxy-spanning strategy game has already amassed a huge following.

GamesRadar

When your "100% a fan game" Danganronpa idea ends up changing your life: "We were at a crossroads where we either have to go back to doing our real jobs, or we can change this just enough to be legally distinct"

Interview | Selina Kibara, creative director of Kumitantei: Old-School Slaughter, talks going from Danganronpa fan game to original murder mystery: "I would rather make something that's derivative than something that's disingenuous"

Tom’s Hardware

Buying all DLC for Monster Hunter Wilds unlocks twice the FPS performance — higher FPS accidentally paywalled by resource-hogging background check for paid content

A performance-crushing bug in Monster Hunter Wilds appears to vanish as more DLC is purchased and added to the game.

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