September might be the single busiest month we’ve covered all year. There’s a genuine heavyweight release, a cult favorite finally making its console debut, and then close to twenty more roguelikes and roguelites landing on Steam before the month is out. There’s everything from bullet-hell dogfighting to a talking car fighting its way through a sci-fi universe.
We’ve pulled together everything worth having on your radar, starting with the game we think deserves the spotlight, followed by the console release we couldn’t leave out, and then a rundown of every other rogue game hitting Steam this September. Wishlist accordingly, because your backlog is about to get a lot heavier.
Game of the Month | Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault | Sept 2nd
This is definitely the biggest game of the month. Moonlighter 2 has been in Early Access since November 2025, so it’s had the better part of a year to add biomes, relics, and weapons before its full 1.0 launch. Going by the response to those Early Access updates, Digital Sun has used that time well.
If you managed to grab the original Moonlighter while it was free on Steam, that giveaway was always building toward this moment. It was a genuinely smart bit of timing…get as many people as possible into Will’s shop before the sequel arrived, and now the sequel is actually here.
Moonlighter 2 keeps the same day-trading, night-dungeon-diving loop that made the original so addictive, just rebuilt from the ground up in 3D isometric instead of the original’s top-down view. If shopkeeping-by-day, looting-by-night was ever your thing, September 2nd is the day to jump back in.
Console Release | Mewgenics | Sept 8th
Mewgenics is already available on PC, but it’s making its console debut on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch 2 on September 8th. If you’ve somehow missed this one, it’s worth catching up on.
This is Edmund McMillen’s follow-up to The Binding of Isaac, and it’s been treated accordingly since it launched on Steam back in February. It reportedly sold over a million copies in its first week, and it’s been sitting with “Must-Play” status on OpenCritic ever since.
Instead of Isaac’s basement-crawling, Mewgenics has you breeding cats, sending them into turn-based tactical battles, and passing their traits (and their mutations) down to the next litter. It’s stranger than it sounds and considerably deeper than the cat jokes suggest. Console players are about to find that out for themselves.
Other Top Releases
As well as the headline acts, September is packed with big games covering everything from soulslike brawlers, deckbuilders, tactics games, and at least one talking car. Here’s everything else hitting Steam this month…
Crimson Moon | 1st September
Crimson Moon casts you as Nephilim, a human-angel hybrid built to fight demons, and it wears its soulslike influences openly. The game features brutal melee combat, punishing bosses, and the option to bring a friend along for co-op runs.
Early previews have pegged it as a solid combination of Soulslike weight and roguelike structure, even if some outlets are still uncertain exactly how it all comes together over a full run.
Cosmo Tales | 3rd September
Cosmo Tales is the palette cleanser of the month. It’s a family-friendly roguelite where you play as a talking car battling through a vibrant, ever-shifting sci-fi universe.
It’s launching into Early Access, with builds you piece together as you go and dimensions that reshape themselves between runs. If the rest of this list leans a little heavy on demons and blood, Cosmo Tales is the reminder that roguelikes don’t have to take themselves seriously to be worth your time.
Fracture Point | 4th September
Fracture Point drops you into a dark megacity as a former prisoner working your way up through a corporation-controlled skyscraper, floor by procedurally generated floor, gun in hand. It’s a first-person roguelike looter shooter through and through, featuring permadeath, escalating loot, and a straightforward revenge story pulling you toward the top.
If you’ve been waiting for something that treats loot progression as seriously as its gunplay, this is worth putting on the list.
Wanderburg | 8th September
Wanderburg has been compared to Howl’s Moving Castle, if Howl’s Moving Castle were a roguelike where you duke it out as a castle on wheels. and honestly, that’s about as good a pitch as you’ll read all month. It just won the Most Entertaining Game of 2026 award at Gamescom too, and it’s finally going to be available in Early Access on the 8th September.
You pilot a roaming fortress, devouring villages and rival strongholds to grow bigger and meaner, bolting on siege weapons and magical machinery as you go.
CyberSushi | 9th September
CyberSushi is a fast, glitchy arcade roguelite starring tiny cybernetic sushi heroes racing through collapsing dimensions, chaining streaks into WASABI bonuses and stacking increasingly wild Sushi Hacks along the way. It’s built for score-chasing rather than long, methodical runs.
If you want something you can drop into and out of in short bursts, this is one to keep an eye on.
Shroom and Gloom | 10th September
Shroom and Gloom is a moody, first-person roguelike double-deckbuilder from Devolver Digital, and the “double” part is doing real work here. Yu’re building and combining two separate decks as you fight your way through fungal foes and chase increasingly absurd combos.
It’s launching into Early Access with roughly 300 cards per pathway already in place, and the developers have said they’re planning to stay in Early Access for 12 to 24 months while they expand it further.
Ex Sanguis | 10th September
This is worth a mention as one of the more innovative releases of the month. Ex Sanguis is an XCOM-style tactical roguelite where you can speed up, delay, or swap turn order outright, and it leans hard into a blood-soaked identity that runs straight through into its story. Every drop spilled is framed as an act of defiance against a world that’s been drained dry.
Add destructible environments and genuine build depth, and this is a tactics game with something to say as well as something to prove.
The Loopler | 11th September
The Loopler might be the strangest premise on this list. It’s a roguelite deckbuilder about a slot car looping endlessly around a track. You pick cards, place gates, and collect charms to build synergies that push your speed and score higher with every lap.
It’s a genuinely novel spin on deckbuilding mechanics that usually get bolted onto dungeon crawls, and it’s launching alongside a demo if you’d rather try before you buy.
Dunebound Tactics | 14th September
Dunebound Tactics puts you in charge of a group of survivors crossing the sands in search of somewhere new to call home, with turn-based tactical combat, resource management, and terrain you can actively reshape as you go. It’s a roguelite tactical RPG where the decisions between fights matter almost as much as the fights themselves, and every consequential choice along the way genuinely feels like it sticks.
If XCOM-style tactics married to survival-management systems sounds appealing, this belongs on your list.
Fright Train | 15th September
Fright Train is a game we’ve been keeping a close eye on and reporting on for months. It’s a single-player, third-person survival horror roguelite that puts you on a train overrun by monsters in the middle of an Antarctic cold snap, playing as paranormal agent Doug Barker.
It’s a tonal shift from most of what’s on this list. The game is less about build variety and loot tables, and more about tension, scarcity, and simply making it to the next carriage alive. If horror roguelites are your thing, this one’s worth keeping an eye on.
Kernel Hearts | 17th September
Kernel Hearts is a multiplayer co-op roguelike action RPG about four magical girls trying to save a world that’s drowning in ashes, climbing a mysterious tower and taking down angelic enemies along the way as they gather allies and level up together.
It comes from Whitethorn Games and Ephemera, and it’s arriving with a Fortnite collaboration in tow, which is about as good a sign as any that this one’s got some real backing behind it.
Sunken Realms | 18th September
Sunken Realms is a focused ARPG dungeon crawler with roguelite elements, following a son descending into an abandoned underground city to find out what happened to his father.
It’s smaller in scope than most of what’s on this list, leaning on crafting and spellcasting rather than sprawling build variety, and it’s reportedly been in development for around six years. That’s the kind of long gestation that’s worth acknowledging on release day!
Lootborne | 21st September
Lootborne is a dark fantasy idle RPG designed to live in the corner of your screen while you do literally anything else…fighting and looting passively, refining your build, and triggering item synergies while you work.
It layers in PvE progression and asynchronous PvP on top of that idle foundation, so there’s an actual build-crafting game underneath the “leave it running” premise, for anyone who wants their roguelike progression without needing to sit and watch it happen.
True Vikings | 22nd September
True Vikings lets you choose your own path through its Norse-flavoured world. You can carve out a future as a jarl, rise to become a king, or switch sides entirely and follow a knight reliving the story of the Duke of Normandy.
It mixes adventure, RPG, and simulation elements rather than sticking to a single lane, which makes it one of the harder games on this list to pin down neatly, in a good way.
Wind Runners | 23rd September
Wind Runners is a high-speed, bullet-hell dogfighting roguelite that’s launching into Early Access this month, and early impressions have described it as turning players into “wannabe fighter pilots” within about thirty seconds of picking up the controls.
Runs are built around weaving through dense bullet patterns while chaining together upgrades mid-flight. If Windblown-style aerial combat crossed with escalating bullet-hell patterns sounds like your idea of a good time, this is one of the more promising Early Access launches of the month.
Furyball: Rogue Revenge | 23rd September
We first reported on Furyball: Rogue Revenge back in May and we were there to witness the demo pass 11k wishlists. It’s a fast-paced action roguelite where your only weapon is a bouncing bullet ball, and the whole thing is built around pinball-inspired, grindhouse-flavoured sports arenas that shatter apart as you fight through them.
It’s an unusual pitch even by roguelite standards, and it’s launching into Early Access with a demo already available if you want a feel for the chaos before committing to the full, sport-themed thing.
Tears of Vanfell | 25th September
Tears of Vanfell is an action-packed dungeon crawler mixing roguelike structure with hack-and-slash combat, letting you pick from a wide cast of characters as you climb the Mountain. It has online co-op for up to four players too if you’d rather tackle it as a group.
It’s a straightforward, combat-focused pitch built around fast movesets and escalating enemy waves, and there’s nothing wrong with that when the combat itself is genuinely the point.
Ammossum | 28th September
Ammossum is an action roguelike built entirely around one escalating idea…an endlessly upgradable weapon that evolves its projectiles into increasingly unstoppable firepower as a run goes on.
Set in a plague-stricken world overrun by infected creatures, with train-based progression carrying you between encounters, it’s a game clearly designed for players who love watching a single build snowball out of control over the course of a run.
Endless Rails | 29th September
Closing out the month, Endless Rails is an isometric bullet heaven roguelite where you’re defending a train rolling through a monster-infested wasteland, commanding drones and weapons to hold back increasingly large hordes.
Reaching new stations lets you buy fresh weapons, wagons, and upgrades before the next stretch of track throws more at you. It’s a fitting way to wrap up a month that’s had no shortage of things trying to overwhelm you.
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