Steam Adds Six Free Games Players Can Keep Forever

Steam added six free games on November 14, 2026, and they're free to keep, not free for a weekend. The set covers a roguelite, a surreal story game, a defense shooter, a horror title, a desktop toy and a management sim. None of them costs anything to add to a library, which makes this the cheapest shelf Steam has stocked in weeks.

First up is Kingslayers, a PvPvE and single-player roguelite from developer BortDad that launched earlier this month. Its pitch is that turn-based doesn't mean slow: players outbuild and outspeed their opponents across a shared run, and when both reach the finish line, they go head-to-head in PvP combat to decide the winner. Multiple builds and a rank ladder give the loop its length.

Vanakatu is the strange one. It's a surreal, story-driven game that combines puzzle solving with Guitar Hero-style rhythm battles and open-world exploration. Players help Van Cat track down his cult-leading uncle and talk him out of building a worldwide dictatorship. The solo developer's own description leans into the absurdity, and the game is better for it.

Temporal Strike is a time-loop defense shooter. Squads hold off orcs, boar riders and mechs, climb a 38-node upgrade tree, unlock more units, beat the boss waves and then rewind time to run it again with permanent upgrades kept. Property Inspection goes the other direction: it's a psychological horror game in which players are Inspector 8821-A of Structural Core Services, sent to Unit 47 after mysterious events, investigating a series of stickers left behind by the children who live there.

The last two are cozy. Townlet puts a small medieval village on top of a desktop taskbar, where it grows while its owner works: every file the owner deletes falls from the sky and is turned into something new by the villagers. Grandma Left Me A Building is an apartment management sim about restoring the complex a grandmother left behind — finding tenants, collecting rent and upgrading the place, with a guitar-shredding elf and a philosophy-lecturing yeti as neighbors.

The timing helps. Screen Rant framed the drop as a way to pass the weekend while players wait for the launch of what it called perhaps the biggest game of all time, and the free shelf is stocked accordingly: short, strange, low-commitment games that can be claimed in a minute and tried the same evening. A claim costs nothing and never expires from the library, so the rational move for a curious player is to take all six now and audition them later.

Free-to-keep drops like this one are Steam's quiet discovery engine. A player who'd never pay to test an unknown roguelite or a one-person surreal adventure will claim both for nothing, and a claim is how small games find the audience that reviews and word of mouth are built on. All six are available now.