New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Detective Instinct: Farewell my Beloved - 2025-11-29 Edition

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Between 2025-11-22 and 2025-11-29 we selected 9 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. Inside the lot there’s a very nice new visual novel about a woman who’s disappeared, and you seem to be the only person ever remembering her. What’s going on ?

There’s a lot of other cool indie titles worth checking too:

THE USE OF LIFE

Released on 26 Nov, 2025, developed by だらねこげーむず/Daraneko Games and published by PLAYISM. [Steam Store Page]

Genre: Adventure, Indie, RPG

Steam Deck Rating: Verified

User Reviews: 97.4 % Positive (out of 115 total reviews)

About the game: The Use of Life is a multi-ending adventure book style JRPG. The main character’s various attachments change in accordance with the choices the player makes, and the ending changes depending on “the use of life” you choose through your journey.

ABANDONED ARCHIVE

Released on 24 Nov, 2025, developed by Vedal, self-published. [Steam Store Page]

Genre: Action, Indie

Steam Deck Rating: Verified

User Reviews: 96.3 % Positive (out of 461 total reviews)

About the game: Abandoned Archive is a fantasy, spell-casting, rogue-like, featuring a wide variety of relics, a unique spell-upgrading system, with compelling and engaging bosses. Each floor is filled with items and mysteries for the player to uncover; what will you discover in the Abandoned Archive?

DETECTIVE INSTINCT: FAREWELL, MY BELOVED

Released on 26 Nov, 2025, developed by Armonica LLC, self-published. [Steam Store Page]

Genre: Adventure

Steam Deck Rating: Verified

User Reviews: 96.1 % Positive (out of 103 total reviews)

About the game: A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch? Nobody on board remembers her ever existing in the first place - nobody, except for you. Uncover the story in this mystery adventure game!

KILL IT WITH FIRE! 2

Released on 25 Nov, 2025, developed by Casey Donnellan Games LLC and published by tinyBuild. [Steam Store Page]

Genre: Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation

Steam Deck Rating: Playable

User Reviews: 94.4 % Positive (out of 840 total reviews)

About the game: KILL IT WITH FIRE! 2 is the ultimate co-op spider-hunting experience! Either solo or as a team of Exterminators, unleash an arsenal of crazy weapons, wreak havoc, and complete dozens of challenges across seven dimensions under spider siege.

NOOBS ARE COMING

Released on 27 Nov, 2025, developed by Overboy, self-published. [Steam Store Page]

Genre: Action, Casual, Indie, RPG

Steam Deck Rating: Verified

User Reviews: 91.5 % Positive (out of 437 total reviews)

About the game: YOU ARE THE FINAL BOSS. Brutal synergy arena roguelike. Pick your Final Boss character, equip boss patterns and combine tons of attacks to create unique builds. Play solo or in co-op!

CROSS BLITZ

Released on 24 Nov, 2025, developed by Tako Boy Studios LLC and published by The Arcade Crew, . [Steam Store Page]

Genre: Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy

Steam Deck Rating: Playable

User Reviews: 89.8 % Positive (out of 735 total reviews)

About the game: Cross Blitz is a unique RPG deckbuilder featuring fast-paced tactical combat with loads of cards to collect and synergies to wield. Explore, level up, craft new cards and build the perfect decks as you carve your own path to victory!

CONSTANCE

Released on 24 Nov, 2025, developed by btf and published by btf, . [Steam Store Page]

Genre: Action, Adventure, Indie

Steam Deck Rating: Verified

User Reviews: 86.6 % Positive (out of 380 total reviews)

About the game: Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.

SLYDERS

Released on 24 Nov, 2025, developed by Kato Games, self-published. [Steam Store Page]

Genre: Action

Steam Deck Rating: Playable

User Reviews: 94.7 % Positive (out of 38 total reviews)

About the game: Slyders is a FPS survival roguelite bullet hell that blends fast-paced shooter action with an over-the-top upgrade system. You’re Aryx, a fearless fox freedom fighter on his supersonic battle turtle who aims to liberate Sky World from evil.

HAIL TO THE RAINBOW

Released on 27 ноя. 2025 г., developed by Носков Сергей, self-published. [Steam Store Page]

Genre: Adventure, Action

Steam Deck Rating: Playable

User Reviews: 91.2 % Positive (out of 57 total reviews)

About the game: The story of a lonely young man named Ignat, who survives in the dangerous and gloomy world of post-apocalyptic cyberpunk. You have to face the trials of a new reality and plunge into the secrets of the surrounding chaos.

More Steam Games for the Deck From the Past Weeks

You can also check our previous entries in the series for the New Steam Games released with Playable rating for the Steam Deck. We have them every week: