Best of the best(Image credit: Rockstar)2026 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventuresOn an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. 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.Confidential KillingsSteam page Release: January 13Developer: Brane, Lorenzo BoniDetective games had a resurgence in 2025 and they’re still coming. Detective Killings is a point ‘n’ click solve ’em up set during the seedy heyday of Hollywood: someone is systematically murdering actors, writers and producers, and it’s your job to find out who. After thoroughly investigating the gritty comic book-style crime scenes, you’ll need to reconstruct events in order to discover connections between the deaths, and how the people you meet factor into them. You do detective work, in other words. If you’re into L.A. Noire or James Ellroy’s Los Angeles novels, this looks like a nice fit.CraftlingsSteam pageRelease: January 16Developer: Ariano Games GmbHCraftlings mixes automation and Lemmings-style horde management, but instead of the short ‘n’ snappy levels of the latter,…
Want more insights? Join Grow With Caliber - our career elevating newsletter and get our take on the future of work delivered weekly.
