Yes, some brave games are still launching on Steam during GTA 6 week

Though it might seem hard to believe given its inescapability, not everyone is going to be playing GTA 6 next week. Some might be waiting for its eventual PC release (whenever that ends up being). Others might simply be unwilling to spend over a thousand dollars on a console just to enjoy the privilege.

Most publishers and developers releasing a videogame this season, however, have opted to vacate the GTA 6 blast radius—but not all of them. If you're looking for something new to play next week, you'll be pleased to know there are some brave games still launching on Steam. Here are some options to consider if you aren't dropping into Vice City:

Crusader Kings 3: Silk and Silver

If you're a CK3 player—and you should be; it's number eight on our Top 100 list for a reason—then Paradox's next expansion should be on your radar. While everyone else is focused on Grand Theft Auto, you could be engaging in the grandest theft of all: Commerce.

Silk and Silver is all about mercantilism: Merchant families can jockey for trade route monopolies and use their wealth to lobby for influence, while new Republic governments offer patrician dynasties a venue to vie for dominance in the constitutional Assembly—potentially forming commercial or military pacts with other Republics. It's also got a lot of Italian content in it. Everyone loves Italian content.

Crusader Kings 3: Silk and Silver launches on November 17.

Spirit Crossing

Among the cozier offerings arriving on Steam during GTA 6 week, Spirit Crossing is a building, crafting, and decorating MMO set in a world seemingly populated entirely by art students and befriendable spirits.

Borrowing a page from Sky: Children of the Light, it's only as much of an MMO as you want it to be: other players are only fully visible in your world if you mutually choose to engage with one another. Otherwise, you're free to roam its pastel soulscape and build out your own little corner of paradise solo for as long as you prefer.

Spirit Crossing launches on November 16.

Harma

Listen. I know. It's 2026. I feel the same suspicions that you do when you see a game with full-on pixel illustrations like this on Steam nowadays. But the developers of Harma insist that it's "developed entirely by human creators and does not contain any contents or assets generated by AI tools." Which is good, because it looks neat, and I want to believe.

It's a roguelike deckbuilder that has both a story-driven campaign and a replayable "Dimensional Rift" mode, which should provide plenty of opportunity to continue admiring the work of its pixel artists. Assuming there were, in fact, pixel artists. They wouldn't lie to me, right? Please?

Harma launches in early access on November 16.

Melvor Idle 2

Melvor Idle is for one of the most particular types of guys, and whether or not you're one of them should be clarified as soon as I say this sentence: Melvor Idle 2 is like Old School RuneScape with all the parts that aren't a skill grind stripped away. It's 100% gathering items so you can get better at gathering items so you can gather better items. It's pure, uncut clicking and waiting as numbers go up.

It's so thoroughly for RuneScape guys that, after the success of the first Melvor Idle, Jagex brought the operation under its publishing wing. If that's for you, I'm not judging. In many ways, you're living a more honest life than I am.

Melvor Idle 2 launches in early access on November 17.

Trafficity

If you do not yet acknowledge the awesome power of the roundabout, it is time to learn. Trafficity is a game about traffic. There are cars, and they must go places. But only so many cars can go to one place at once.

This is the crux on which our world is both built and broken.

And now it is yours to solve—using a toolkit of gridless road design tools, fully-customizable traffic lights, and dynamic interchange simulation. Somewhere, in another game, your uncouth lessers are disrupting this great task with the stealing and crashing of your vehicular charges. But now, you answer to a higher calling. The traffic must flow.

Trafficity launches on November 16.