Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 16, 2026)

About a dozen new games appear on Steam each day, and it's easy for potentially exciting titles to get lost in the deluge. Below are five recent releases that stood out from the crowd. Roadside Research is a four-player co-op about running a gas station while secretly gathering intel as alien spies; it mixes first-person retail sim tasks with zany co-op antics and is live in Early Access with a stated roadmap and an active community.

Polyarmory: High Calibre Love bills itself as “the world’s only fully-loaded conspiracy theorist gun-nut dating simulation,” but it also plays as a first-person shooter where you juggle romantic interactions with highly sexualised firearms and fend off enemies while listening to a nonstop Infowars-style radio—released free of charge.

The Prisoning: Fletcher’s Quest is a short Metroidvania from Elden Pixels that places you inside the mind of a burned-out game developer after a psychologist visit goes wrong; it offers randomly generated maps in the style of Chasm and a playtime of around two hours.

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