Here’s a recap of all the new releases from the past few days. There are plenty of fresh RPGs and strategy titles ready to jump into, and among them, I think a few stand out as especially interesting. As usual, you’ll find the full list by scrolling down below.
Wartales Contract: Fires in the Capital DLC
- Developers: Shiro Games
- Platforms: PC
- Release Date: April 23, 2026
- Steam Page
Let’s start with the new DLC Contract: Fires in the Capital, that sends Wartales mercenaries into Isandrin (the seat of the Edoran Empire), which is experiencing riots, street violence, and general unrest due to reforms being implemented at the governmental level.
This DLC focuses on General Maxime a young scholar that wants to use Parliament and ideas based on the Ancients as a way to transform the capital back into an orderly society, but also has his mercenary company hired to restore order within the city prior to it completely breaking down.
It introduces a more reactive urban environment to Wartales, with unrest affecting things such as prices, contracts, area access, and danger from streets. The player will be able to decrease tension by either hunting brigands, taking away propaganda, providing funding for charitable causes, or having a bard play for the people.
New combat mission types will also have different objectives, such as capturing brigands, escorting convoys, fighting through fires, and rescuing civilians under attack or pressure.
Below the Crown
- Developers: Misfits Attic
- Platforms: PC
- Release Date: April 21, 2026
- Steam Page
Below the Crown takes chess and turns it into an extremely lean roguelike dungeon crawler. It reduces the board to just a few pieces and challenges players to survive using positioning, magical use and upgrade choices, all based on strategy.
The Emperor wants gold; therefore, the player will enter the dungeon as a wizard with some pieces (like a Rook and Archer) as they build a small party and decide if their treasure is better spent on staying alive in this world or saving it for the crown.
Each Run in Below the Crown occurs in a procedurally generated dungeon. There are many differences among each wizard’s abilities in battle, the way the tactical style of play works like classic chess, the power of magical spells, the option to use Undo Tokens when mistakes happen during battle, battling against bosses, the two game mode options (Infinite and Random Dungeons), daily challenges, replay share functionality, and a really unique element of psychological testing that gives the whole experience a somewhat creepy aspect.
Developed by Misfits Atelier (the developers behind Duskers and A Virus Named Tom), Below the Crown appears to be designed for players who enjoy playing turn-based tactics games in which every single space has importance and just one bad decision can ruin a potentially great run.
Cosmos point
- Developers: Anatoliy Sidorov
- Platforms: PC
- Release Date: April 21, 2026
- Steam Page
One of my favorites this week is for sure Cosmos Point. A tactical sandbox RPG that uses a very dirty, brutal approach.
The loadout is an important aspect of each battle; fighters may be fitted with armor, weapons, packs, grenades, ammo, etc., prior to deploying, and then modified in the heat of battle when the situation has changed.
As such, each mission will include some form of inventory management (as a better haul results in additional funds to the space station, additional storage space, additional craft options etc.); which will also result in the player having access to new areas. If a fighter dies, they are left behind without their equipment; however, the remaining fighters can loot their deceased comrades’ equipment if there is sufficient space to do so.
Therefore, each time the player attempts to collect valuable items from defeated enemies he must weigh the benefits against the risks. Released on Steam on April 21st, 2026, by Anatoliy Sidorov.
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors
- Developers: poncle, Nosebleed Interactive
- Platforms: PC
- Release Date: April 21, 2026
- Steam Page
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors is what happens when dev poncle takes its monster swarms, builds escalation, and puts them together as a turn-by-turn roguelike deck-builder with dungeon crawler style.
Developed by poncle and Nosebleed Interactive, Vampire Crawlers was released April 21st, 2026. While it retains the same upgrade, flood, combo that is typical for the end game of Vampire Survivors, the gameplay will be played out through cards, costs and the TurboTurn system.
Players will move around the map, increase power levels, discover new characters with their own decks, utilize Arcana cards, and string together attack after attack by playing cards in an increasing cost order (each subsequent cost has the potential to multiply the previous effects).
While still all about building towards something absurd, this experience is presented through a faster-paced card battler instead of the fast-paced real-time shooting experience of Vampire Survivors.
ACE Strategy: Mecha Nova
- Developers: EMINA STUDIO
- Platforms: PC
- Release Date: April 24, 2026
- Steam Page
ACE Strategy: In Mecha Nova players are able to mix elements of roguelite deck-building and tactical action in a compact format that involves each fight being played out on a 3×3 grid. Card choices, drone placement, pilot recruitment, chip deployment, and mech position all contribute to building a strategy.
Players will be taking the role of an interstellar postal worker who is customizing their own ACE mech as they move through each game; then shape each run by collecting new cards, upping the power of existing parts (mech upgrades), recruiting new pilots and deploying supporting units to aid them, and using former boss enemies as their minions.
Developed by EMINA STUDIO, it was released on Steam on April 23, 2026.
Drop Duchy: Complete Edition
- Developers: Sleepy Mill Studio
- Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch
- Release Date: April 21, 2026
- Steam Page
Drop Duchy: Complete Edition brings Sleepy Mill Studio’s block-dropping strategy roguelite to PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch after its earlier Xbox and Game Pass release, bundling the base game with the additional “The Tribe” and “The North” content.
The game takes the familiar logic of falling-block puzzles and turns it into kingdom management, asking players to place terrain and buildings to generate resources, recruit troops, protect a castle, and push across enemy-held regions.
Its deckbuilding layer adds more than 110 cards, with structures, technologies, upgrades, and faction-based progression shaping each run. It is a smart fit for players who like puzzle games with tactical pressure, since every placement feeds into the larger war effort, and a bad board can leave the duchy short on soldiers when the next fight arrives.
Aethinion
- Developers: Lunar Penguin
- Platforms: PC
- Release Date: April 24, 2026
- Steam Page
Aethinion is a roguelike dungeon crawler with slot machine-type battle reels. Each turn you get a set of orbs to use, store, or chain into better effects.
Released by Lunar Penguin on April 23rd, 2026 on Steam, there are 23 hand crafted dungeons, which include; grid based movement, shops, treasures, camps, mysterious events as well as an additional unknown end game challenge at the end of the final level.
There are several orb types (seven) in addition to the ability to build upgrades in order to add new combos (eleven). Combos are used to increase damage taken, provide shields/healing/burn stacking/sustain, etc. In addition to building your orb combinations, you have the option to use “guardians” (i.e., dragons, phoenixes, golems, kraken); and/or equipment that will allow you to unlock over thirty different perk options. Perks will affect how many stats/rare items/other orb abilities you get.
Hunt for the Lost Folktales (Demo)
- Developers: Howling Lost Tales
- Platforms: PC
- Release Date: 2027
- Steam Page
In Hunt for the Lost Folktales, players are tasked with playing as a cursed hunter that made a pact with the Afterlife Scribe, finding escaped folkloric animals based on paw prints and scents to bind the beast back into its original book within the Library of Lost Tales.
It will contain 16 Hunt Contracts, 25 levels, over 100 battle encounters, 13 Elder Hunt Challenges, 3 Ancient Bosses, and at least 150 collectible Folktale Books; there will also be an expansive area of exploration that spans three wild regions, each of which contains various obstacles (hazards), climates, hidden rifts, areas for digging, roaming wildlife and other hazards.
Combat will take place using a grid-based map system, with fear that will act as the primary damage source, and the player can include additional damage through passive abilities and upgrades to allies in addition to the use of ink stamp (passive ability), items (trinkets), and party upgrade options to create additional strategies. The demo is now available.
Kumitantei: Old-School Slaughter
- Developers: Mango Factory
- Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch
- Release Date: April 23, 2026
- Steam Page
Kumitantei: Old-School Slaughter places sixteen of the world’s most elite “Absolute Students” in a crumbling bunker set within an alternative 1989 Japan. There, a mysterious and seemingly sinister experiment called Apathy sends students back into the school environment with the sole purpose of eliminating their classmates.
Developed by Mango Factory and published by Akupara Games, Kumitantei: Old-School Slaughter has been released on PC and Nintendo Switch and will be a murder-mystery styled ADV Card Battler delivered in episodic installments; there are plans for six total episodes.
It combines the aspects of a Visual Novel style relationship development, Crime Scene Investigation and Clinical Trial style Courtroom testimony with the added element of deck-building as players gather cards during explorations and build relationships with classmates.
This title was designed with ease to draw inspiration from other titles such as Danganronpa and Ace Attorney as well as retro anime and older Japanese adventure type games. However, the card-based debate system lends a unique tactical advantage to what would otherwise be the typical murder mystery loop.
Reptilian Rising
- Developers: Gregarious Games, Robot Circus, Hyper Luminal Games
- Platforms: PC
- Release Date: April 23, 2026
- Steam Page
Reptilian Rising, developed by Gregarious Games and published by Numskull Games is a retro-style turn-based tactic game, utilizing an 80’s tabletop toy box aesthetic (retro styled miniatures, time travel & a lizard army taking down humanity throughout history).
This was released to Steam on April 23, 2026, and features battles across all of human history (from the early days of humans to far into the future). Players can create squads with historical heroes such as Cleopatra or Albert Einstein and grow their powers while using time-bending abilities to take advantage of their position.
The idea behind this game is the combination of a Tactical RPG and Saturday morning cartoons; using positioning, growing your squad and using special powers in addition to battling dinosaurs, laser guns, and a comically ridiculous battle for human survival.
Crystant (E.A.)
- Developers: DAWNER
- Platforms: PC
- Release Date: April 21, 2026
- Steam Page
Crystant puts you in the shoes of a lab test subject, dropped into an underground facility in a post apocalyptic world.
A quick earthquake has opened up the path forward. Now, you need to make it past each floor. Dawner developed this title, which was released in early access this week. The gameplay includes a top-down roguelite style of play.
The player will have to deal with pressure from enemies and random encounters. The gameplay includes turn-based combat using a grid system.
While playing, the player may experience significant swings in their run due to various types of traps, hidden events (e.g., meeting other survivors), and randomly generated mutations in the creatures. The player will have areas to rest to regain health points, learn new skills through “Learning Chip” training, or use surveillance systems to show the player certain portions of the map.
The long-term progression is achieved through carrying over earned XP and currency to allow for unlocking additional classes, passively upgraded equipment and abilities, and slowly revealing what occurred within the walls of the lab via research logs.
TownsFolk
- Developers: Short Circuit Studios
- Platforms: PC
- Release Date: April 20, 2026
- Steam Page
Townsfolk is a Survival Strategy City Builder that puts you in charge of leading a small band of settlers as they journey into a new frontier to produce Tribute for the Kingdom.
The game was developed by Short Circuit Studios and published by SnapBreak. Players have the ability to construct their settlements either in Real-Time or Turn-Based format. Settlement construction will be based off procedurally generated maps and the game features Dynamic Events which are tied to specific Regions.
There are also Campaign Missions located throughout each Region. A Fog-of-War (FoW) system allows players to see a limited number of tiles at the beginning of a Run. Resource availability will be low. Factions exist within the game, providing players with options and opportunities during a Skirmish.
That’s everything for now, just time to wish you a great weekend. See you next week. Ciao
