tinyBuild showcase gives us bounty of goodies

Today we got a closer look at what the team at tinyBuild will be publishing this year and next, including some never-before-seen games from teams we know. There's a lot to cover, so let's get to it.

The Crab is Walking

Kicking things off, we have a new title from the team that brought us The King is Watching entitled "The Crab is Walking" – I'm starting to sense a theme already. In this tactical / tower defense game, you'll pilot a giant crab, fighting from its back as you cross an apocalyptic wasteland. There are over 100 unit types, so this seems like the kind of game built to break your brain with impossibly powerful combinations. The game is coming to PC, PS5, XSX|S, and Switch, but with no specific release date quite yet – stay tuned and wishlist it on Steam.

The King is Watching also got an update, this time focusing on mobile performance. It's official – it's now Steamdeck certified and ready to take on the go!

The Crab is Walking on Steam

From the makers of The King Is Watching comes a roguelite city builder where your capital sits atop giant creatures. Piece together your city, rain fury with your armies and crab your way across post-apocalyptic wasteland.

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ReStory

The next game takes us from killer crabs to cozy repairs. In Restory you'll rebuild electronics of all kinds, fixing them and re-building them for their next hopeful home. They also announced that they managed to sell 500k copies, and will be bringing new content on September 21st, including a new device and a new customer!

ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs on Steam

Run a quaint electronics repair shop in mid-2000s Tokyo. Grow your business by carefully restoring iconic video game consoles, cell phones, music players, and other nostalgic devices. Talk to customers, hear their stories, and see how your decisions impact both their lives and your shop.

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The Lift

The next game in the showcase is one I'm very excited for, as I said in my hands-on preview for it – The Lift. The lift casts you as a supernatural handyman tasked with helping fix the various issues with The Institute, your employer. As things get more strange, your tasks are equally as odd. Today we got our first real look at the story behind the scenes.

The Lift is launching in 2027 on Steam, PS5, and XBOX Series X|S.

THE LIFT: Supernatural Handyman Simulator on Steam

You are a handyman renovating a massive research facility abandoned after a mysterious incident. The Lift is an eerie first-person simulator with satisfying house-flipping gameplay, a mind-bending story, and a highly interactive world inspired by Soviet sci-fi and the SCP Foundation.

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Hozy

Hozy has been a hit on PC, and now the team at tinyBuild has announced that not only is the game coming to console (XBOX Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch) later this year, it's also getting a free update for Steam right...now!

If you're not familiar with Hozy, here's a little bit from the developers themselves:

Restore a forgotten neighbourhood through your favourite hobby, one cozy room at a time. In Hozy, clean, paint, and decorate abandoned homes with satisfying mechanics and intuitive controls. Enjoy the little details as you interact with tools, items and furniture to bring each space back to life.

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Restore a forgotten neighbourhood through your favourite hobby, one cozy room at a time. In Hozy, clean, paint, and decorate abandoned homes with satisfying mechanics and intuitive controls. Enjoy the little details as you interact with tools, items and furniture to bring each space back to life.

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Trainfort

From cozy renovation to hectic survival crafting chaos, our next stop was on a new game called Trainfort. As the name suggests, you and up to three more friends, are in charge of building a train that can repel all sorts of nasty creatures as you explore a massive, procedurally generated world. Your mobile steam engine base has to be crafted and built on the tracks, so anything else is up to you to explore, find, and bring back to the train to move forward. Good luck!

Trainfort is about to have a public playtest – bop by their official Steam page below and sign up if you'd like to join!

Trainfort is eventually headed to PC, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch 2.

Trainfort on Steam

Trainfort is an open-world co-op survival crafting game. As a dwarf nomad, hit the road of this post-apocalyptic world with your bearded mates. Build a moving steam engine, pack your base with you, and explore the wilderness. The country is big, your legs are short, but you gotta keep moving!

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Road to Jukai

After rattling around in a mobile base, next up it was time for a more tense ride in a night shift taxi. Road to Jukai (previously known as Silent Road) is a driving horror game set in Japan and looks like it should put you on the edge of your seat.

There's a new playtest on Steam, so head over there and sign up for yourself!

Road to Jukai is coming to Steam in 2027!

Road to Jukai on Steam

You work the night shift as a taxi driver in a remote region of Japan. Not all of the odd passengers you pick up after sunset are what they seem. Sometimes it’s safer to just keep your eyes on the road, especially when a fare leads to the strange, massive forest the locals whisper about.

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Drill Core

tinyBuild is bringing a number of quality-of-life improvements to their strategic planet-mining game, Drill Core. In Drill Core you'll dig to the heart of the planet while you manage your workers, research cutting-edge mining tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival? Time to find out!

Drill Core is available on Steam, XBOX Series X|S, and PlayStation 5.

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Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers’ safety, or focus on defense for survival?

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SAND: Raiders of Sophie

If you're into chaotic post-apocalyptic squad-based extraction shooters, then I've got something for you! SAND: Raiders of Sophie is an open-world early access game set in an alternate 1910 world where players battle each other in a brutal procedurally generated desert, scrapping astride customizable walking mech fortresses. The trailer reveals that the first major content is coming our way this month!

SAND: Raiders of Sophie on Steam

In SAND you build your highly customizable walking mech fortress. Squad up or go solo. Scavenge the dunes, gather loot, weapons, priceless artifacts, survive and extract. Clash with other players in a brutal procedurally generated desert set in an alternate 1910.

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Hull Rupture

Humans are a flexible species. They can be food, they can be workers, they can be liquified and used for all sorts of things. Soooooo versatile! In Hull Rupture, if the ship stops, so does humanity. Manage your spaceship, use those fleshy humans however you need to, and maybe build out some cannons to deal with those pesky relentless alien attacks. Good luck – the game comes out on November 4th, but a new demo is available...now!

Hull Rupture on Steam

If the ship stops, humanity ends. Manage a spaceship, treat puny humans as resources, and repel relentless alien assaults in a base-management tower-defense roguelite where every choice seemed reasonable at the time.

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Probably Stolen

Running a shop in the future is a rough business, especially when the world has gone to hell in a dystopian handbasket. Let's have the developers tell us about their game:

Probably Stolen is a cyberpunk shopkeeping simulator set in a dystopian space station. Craft, trade, and smuggle goods of questionable origin, navigate faction loyalties, and stop rampant AI by killing those it controls. Earn enough to buy out your shop before rising rent forces your hand.

If this sounds like your jam, you can check out the demo on Steam now. You won't have to wait too long as the game is headed our way on October 28th, 2026.

Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim on Steam

Probably Stolen is a cyberpunk shopkeeping simulator set in a dystopian space station. Craft, trade, and smuggle goods of questionable origin, navigate faction loyalties, and stop rampant AI by killing those it controls. Earn enough to buy out your shop before rising rent forces your hand.

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Of Ash and Steel: Shattered Faith

The team at tinyBuild and Developer Fire & Frost have been busy, bringing the game to Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 soon, but also building out a completely new expansion to the game. In this new update, entitled Shattered Faith, you'll gain access to long-forgotten magic, giving you a completely new advantage in the Kingdom of the Seven. No release date yet, but "coming soon".

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Of Ash and Steel is an immersive third-person open-world RPG created by a passionate team that values the essence of classic old-school RPGs and modern design. Explore the lands of a once-prosperous island, hone your combat skills, and survive in the unforgiving realm of the Kingdom of the Seven.

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Graveyard Keeper II

One of my most anticipated titles, Graveyard Keeper II, is almost here! In this sequel we get all sorts of new ways to put our undead horde to work. Not only can you buy up and gentrify the town, when the dead come a knocking, you can equip your own crew and save the town all over again! It's tough work being a graveyard keeper, but somebody's gotta profit handsomely while they do it!

Graveyard Keeper II is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, Switch 2, and Xbox Series X|S on September 22nd, 2026 – yeah, 7 days from today. You've got a demo that'll carry over your full game on all platforms, so you can technically get started now!

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The most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim is back! Restore The Town, manage the graveyard, automate production, lead your undead army into battle and turn the zombie problem into a thriving business! Graveyard Keeper 2 is the grotesque sequel that’s deeper than six feet, and more unhinged than ever!

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Kingmakers

Kingmakers is one of those games that looks even more insane every time we see it, and to cap this year's showcase, we got an extensive look at the game with a 10 minute gameplay deep dive. Story elements, modern weapons, motorcycles, a convertible car, and yes – even a tank await you when the game heads into Early Access.

Kingmakers is launching into Steam Early Access soon, and the players can sign up for the upcoming playtest on the Steam page.

Kingmakers on Steam

Go back in time to a war-torn medieval era with a vast arsenal of modern weapons, change the course of history, and save the future in this epic action/strategy sandbox. Build your kingdom, grab a gun, and lead an army of thousands into massive, real-time simulated battles — solo or in co-op.

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