Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 23, 2026)

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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.Horripilant Horripilant | Official Release Date Trailer – YouTube Watch On Steam ‌page‌ ‌Release:‌ February 21Developer:‌ Alexandre Declos, Pas Game StudioHorripliant is a horror grid-based dungeon crawler, or blobber, that borrows systems from the autobattler and idle game genres. The unnamed knight protagonist must gather resources to bolster their camp and upgrade gear, and as you’d expect, there are increasingly lucrative ways to expedite this process beyond lowly manual clicking. During enemy encounters the combat takes care of itself, essentially pitting the baddie’s stats against yours. Don’t worry though, Horripliant doesn’t play itself: it also features some especially cryptic puzzles. The art style is appealingly rugged, drenching the whole affair in the aura of a long-forgotten shareware nasty. Related articles Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 16, 2026) Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 2, 2026) Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 19, 2026) F-22: Air Dominance Fighter F-22: Air Dominance Fighter | Publishing Announcement Trailer – YouTube Watch On Steam ‌page‌ ‌Release:‌ February 17Developer:‌ Digital Image Design Ltd.F-22: Air Dominance Fighter originally released in 1997, and while this thorough revamp is published my Microprose and certainly looks a lot like a ye olde Microprose sim, it was originally published by Ocean Software. F-22 may look like one of those steely flight sims of yore that require a 200+ page manual to figure out, but it actually leans arcade-ward: the Steam page claims it “couples deep modelling of avionics, flight dynamics, and radar with easy controls”. The graphics have been marginally improved, but not so much that it F-22 doesn’t retain its distinctive ’90s charm.Screaming Head Screaming Head – Official Release Date Trailer – YouTube Watch On Steam‌ ‌page‌Release:‌ February 17Developer:‌ JZPS GamesHere’s a deliberately garish 2D platformer about guiding a disembodied head—and an ugly one, to boot—through increasingly challenging gauntlets. If that’s not your idea of a good time, I feel sorry for you, but it gets better: the ugly head’s attack is a guttural, quite chilling scream (hence the name, I suppose). There’s not