Scope of Authority lands October 20 with the R-40 Sightliner sniper, the AMW-20 Apex anti-materiel rifle and Stationary Shroud armour.
Season 8 PUNCTUM began September 17, 2026 with Canto X: The Gaze Bearing and the Mirror of Sisyphe dungeon. Canto X is playable after Canto I alone.
Monster Hunter Rise's Steam average rose 69% over 30 days in October 2026, peaking at 29,314 players — years after its Sunbreak endgame concluded.
Monster Hunter: World held a 15,247-player Steam average through mid-October 2026 and peaked at 51,821 in June, as series news refilled the New World.
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT's October 9, 2026 update adds The Legend of Qin crossover, following Showdown Season 6.0 Sandforge and its new hero Inor Wan.
The Outlast Trials peaked at 147,955 concurrent players on 8 October 2026, three years after launch, after a 90% record discount and the Chemical Leak event.
Update 1.0.4 landed October 14: FSR and DLSS fixed in the graphics menu, keybindings no longer reset, fewer animals boxed, and lower interest on low-tier loans.
Build 42.21 (Stable, September 28) fixes zombies vanishing when a player re-enters a world chunk, tackles MP duplication and reworks XXL tree cutaways.
Update 43.2 equalises vehicle spawns across Normal and Ranked on six maps, sets six Motor Gliders per match, and ships two new console controller presets.
RimWorld 1.7 leaves Unity for Ludeon's Waylith Engine: 2.2x better late-colony performance, a 1500-mod pack loading in 6 minutes, and 1.6 saves intact.
Hallowed Concepts adds two survivors to Risk of Rain 2 — the default Enforcer and unlockable Acolyte — plus three bosses, new stages and 14 hexes.
Rust's October Livestock patch makes the Air Wolf helipad a server-wide repair job and turns sandbags into four-stage pillboxes, plus a Biofuel Generator.
Operation Split Fire has been live since September 1 with Noor's shield-piercing Horus Lance and a SoloQ-only Legend Division; Y11S3.1 landed September 22.
Patch 15's Chaos Siege Mode lets Space Marine 2 players fight as Heretic Astartes for the first time, with Crucible challenges and Season Pass 3's first DLCs.
STALZONE's Open Test Server opened 16 October 2026 for EU and RU players to try squad-based matchmaking, reworked detectors and item locking.
Clint and Sandy become marriage candidates and a new farm type is confirmed, but there is no 1.7 date, and ConcernedApe has debunked the circulating rumours.
Scream Fortress XVIII adds five community maps and a 23-item Haunted Hoard Case and runs through November 7, with every Halloween Contract reset for 2026.
Sky Odyssey rebuilt every bomber's damage model and made Nuclear Escalation permanent; the October 15 roadmap adds cluster bombs and helicopter MITL.
WARDOGS Season 2 cuts .308 base damage 25% and level 4 armour to 60% while level 20 XP drops to 111,500. How the Lonestar incentive experiment reads.
Warframe's The Icebind is a new six-player mode playable up to three times weekly, alongside the Nights of Naberus event and Taubound.
Where Winds Meet's 2.3 update opens the Qingzhou region on October 15, adding the Silkbind-Wings path, three folk-master world bosses and the Local system.
The Witcher 3 set a 137,724 Steam concurrent record on October 4, days before Patch 5.01 changed dynamic-resolution defaults and console graphics options.
World of Tanks Update 2.4 added six Tier XI vehicles and a fourth German heavy line, and split light tanks into Scout, Versatile and Support roles.
Update 15.9 adds the Pacific Front strategic event, four Black Friday ships and a cyclone that cuts detection to 15 km on the Ocean map.
7 Days to Die V3.3.0 went stable 5 October. What the new backpack system costs you, and which horde-night base designs still survive.
9 Kings has its full nine-king roster and 1.0 ahead. Which decks carry Endless runs now, and which picks need a plan first.
Aion 2 went free-to-play on 5 October with eight classes, 200+ customization options and a world NC says is 36 times larger. Elyos vs Asmodian inside.
Anno 117 production ratios for Latium and Albion, from basic food up through luxury goods, plus warehouse range and workforce-tier thresholds.
AoE2 Update 185872 gave the Mounted Crossbowman to twelve European civs, plus Cranequins (+1 range). The civ-by-civ read on Feudal aggression.
Caves of Qud: Diaspora: Diaspora launches as Steam’s first Early Access DLC