Here every Friday you’ll find the latest global releases, new soft launches and everything in between.
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Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard (Poncle)
The first Vampire Survivors spin-off is a first-person, turn‑based deckbuilder. It’s coming to Steam, consoles and mobile in 2026.
Arknights: Endfield (Gryphline)
A second beta test for this 3D strategy RPG launches on mobile and PC today, before coming to PS5 on December 12. The beta promises up to 60 hours of content, ahead of the game’s scheduled release in early 2026.
Netflix Puzzled (Netflix)
This offers players new word, puzzle and logic games daily, including puzzles based on popular Netflix shows as well as classics like sudoku and crosswords. It’s available now for Netflix subscribers through the app as well as in a browser on tudum.com.
SEGA Football Club Champions 2026 (Sega)
This is actually a new, westernised edition of the long-running Japanese football management series Let’s Make A Soccer Team.
It is ‘powered by’ Sega’s Football Manager database and is coming to iOS and Android on January 22 2026, Gematsu reports. It’s also coming to PS5, PS4 and Steam.
NERF: Superblast (Nitro Games)
This cartoon shooter is closing down, developer Nitro Games announced on X. It’ll no longer be available after December 21 and will shut down completely in early 2026.
Love and Magic: Spellfyre (Candlelight Games)
This narrative fantasy romance game is in soft launch on iOS in Malaysia, according to Appmagic. It’s coming to Google Play too and is planned for release in the first quarter of 2026.
Magic Bloom Sort (Tripledot)
Players tap, sort, and match flowers into vases in this match 3 game, which has soft launched on the App Store in a handful of markets including Philippines, Indonesia, New Zealand, Russia, Portugal and more, Appmagic says.
Bulldozer Master (Supercent)
Players dig for valuable resources in this mining tycoon game. It’s soft launched on the App Store in the US and South Korea, Appmagic reports.
Cabal: Gun Strike (Supercent)
Appmagic says this action game has soft launched on iOS in a handful of markets including Myanmar, Pakistan, Macao, Algeria and other smaller markets.
Can’t Get Enough: A Tribute to Bad Company (Game My Fan)
This new match 3 game is designed for fans of ’70s supergroup Bad Company. It is made by Game My Fan, a new music distribution platform headed up by Kelly Sumner, the former CEO of Take-Two and Guitar Hero publisher Red Octane. It’s iOS only, and is $4.99.
Duck Detective: Ghost Glamping (Happy Broccoli)
This one’s out now on iOS and Android, and is free-to-start with a one-off IAP to unlock the full game.
