Biggest game releases this week: Phantom Blade Zero, Terrible Lizards and more (Oct 26 - Nov 2)

This week's Steam calendar runs from a giant egg to a Wuxia swordfighter. The headline launch is Phantom Blade Zero on October 28, but there is plenty of co-op, horror and Early Access behind it. Here are the most-wishlisted games launching between October 26 and November 2, in date order.

Monday, October 26

Monday is mostly small and strange, and most of it is co-op or horror.

• CRACK (PC, Mac, Linux): a 1-4 player co-op incremental adventure about cracking open a mysterious giant egg in a lab. From Rafoli.
• PAO PAO (PC, Early Access): a cozy seaside town you can play solo or with up to three friends, with cooking, fishing and farming. From ArtDock.
• Phantom Line: Prologue (PC, free to play): a 1-4 player co-op tactical shooter set in a war-torn Europe with paranormal events. From Antistatic Studios.
• Giggleland (PC): a first-person psychological horror game in eight chapters, set in a park. The listing says it is not suitable for children. From KMW.
• The Mailroom (PC, Mac, Linux): a cozy horror workplace simulator about being a human mail clerk in hell. From Crowfriend.
• Aibond (PC, free to play): an anime-style AI companion with long-term memory, described as free to start. From Schelling Point.
• Divine Frequency (PC, Early Access): a "fever dream" action-adventure about the collapse of reality. From Abraxaes.

Tuesday, October 27

• Emberville (PC, Early Access): an action RPG where you wake with no memories in a vast underground dungeon world and rebuild a ruined town. From Cygnus Cross.
• Nomad Drive (PC, Early Access): repair an RV and travel a procedurally generated post-apocalyptic world, solo or in 1-4 player co-op. From Indie Devil.
• Lacey's Flash Games (PC, Linux): a mystery about mid-2000s Flash games and the missing creator of their website. From ghosttundra.
• Magical Girl ER (PC): a medical simulation about treating magical girls hurt in kaiju disasters, with limited beds and stamina. From noranuco.
• You Are Empty: Absolute Edition (PC): a cult-classic shooter set in an alternate-history 1950s Soviet Kyiv. From Digital Spray Studios.
• Remothered: Red Nun's Legacy (PC): the final chapter of the Remothered trilogy, a survival horror game with an Italian neo-giallo twist. From Stormind Games.
• Northgard Battlegrounds (PC, Early Access): a city-building auto-battler set in the Viking world of Northgard. From Funday Games.

Wednesday, October 28: Phantom Blade Zero

The week's biggest release is Phantom Blade Zero from S-GAME Studio. It is an action RPG built on Unreal Engine 5 that blends classic Wuxia storytelling with fast combat. You play Soul, a warrior with only sixty-six days left to live. The Steam listing is PC; Gematsu's weekly Japanese releases list also names a PlayStation 5 version.

Also on October 28:

• Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim (PC): craft, trade and smuggle goods on a dystopian space station. From Questing Goose Studio.
• Fantasy World Manager (PC, Early Access): build a living fantasy world of heroes, factions and quests. From Florian Alushaj.
• ANOMALITH (PC): a survival third-person shooter set in Japan with a liminal-space, Showa-era look. From FURYU Corporation. Gematsu's list also mentions PlayStation 5 and Switch 2 versions.
• President Simulator (PC, Early Access): sign absurd decrees and survive press conferences as US president. From Studio 14b.

Thursday, October 29

Thursday is the busiest day of the week.

Game	Platforms	What it is
The Wolf Among Us Remastered	PC	Telltale's dark detective thriller where folklore is real
Terrible Lizards	PC	A horror parkour game set at an old Route 66 attraction
ATMOSFAR (Early Access)	PC	Survive on floating islands and build airships, solo or in a squad
Fart Together (free to play, Early Access)	PC	A 2-4 player co-op raft game steered by "fart power"
S.O.N.A.R.	PC	A 1-6 player co-op submarine sim from Abylight Barcelona
Ghost in the SQL Data	PC, Mac	A detective puzzle solved in SQL using Paris emergency calls
Finals Week	PC	A 1-4 player co-op cheating simulator
Epic Seven (free to play)	PC	Smilegate's turn-based hero-collection RPG

Friday, October 30

• Queen's Domain (PC): a retro-fantasy action RPG with brutal combat, set on the mysterious Isle of Neasied. From Freshly Baked Games.
• HANDS OVER (PC, Early Access): a 5-player co-op horror game of bluffing and sabotage. From ArtDock.
• Rip It! Card Collector (PC): a single-player incremental game about opening booster packs. From Cybernetic Walrus.
• Walkers (PC, Early Access): an open-world zombie survival game with base building and recruitable survivors. From Punch Interactive.
• I'm a Wizard, But I Dig (PC, Linux): dig a tunnel through a mountain with magic and a pickaxe. From Growfall Games.

What to play first

If you want one pick, Phantom Blade Zero is the obvious choice. For free options, Phantom Line: Prologue, Aibond, Fart Together and Epic Seven are all listed as free to play. Remember that every Early Access title above is still in development, so expect rough edges.