November 7th free games roundup

Eight indie games, browser simulations, and retro arcade throwbacks are available to play or add to your wishlist for free right now across Steam, itch.io, and Android. Whether you want a 1990s arcade tribute, a medieval Hanseatic economy sim, or a Zerg-style real-time strategy game, there's plenty to grab without spending a dime.

Steam

1. Zero Mass

Developed by Wombex Games, this single-player space mining game puts you in the cockpit of a customizable vessel carving through procedural asteroid belts with excavation drills, drones, and tractor beams. It evokes classics like Asteroids and Motherload while adding debris storms, alien encounters, and wreck recovery between shifts. The base game launches as a permanently free-to-play release on Steam on November 23, 2026, and you can wishlist it on the store page now.

2. Pencil Shavings Soup

This quirky incremental clicker from indie duo HolographicQuad casts you as a burrowing critter living underneath a school who builds an automated culinary empire out of stolen pencil shavings. You start with a single sharpener and gradually unlock smarter collectors, hazard upgrades, and factory automation on your way to full-scale soup production. Ahead of its November 30 Steam launch, a permanently free downloadable and browser-playable build is live on itch.io and Steam with no expiration date.

itch.io and browser

3. FORTUNES! - LIVE ON AIR

Built in Godot by Midnight Desktop, this top-down action roguelike combines twin-stick arcade shooting with the aesthetic of an outrageous 1950s television game show. You play as a contestant trying to pay off a $1 billion debt by surviving deadly simulated Holodungeons under the watch of hosts Barry Ballyhoo and Gloria Gleam, who care much more about ratings than your survival. An early playable preview build is available for free on itch.io with no expiration date, and I'm curious to see how its risk-and-bank extraction mechanics hold up across longer runs.

4. Burgher 1400

Solo developer MarktundMacht built this medieval economic and political life simulation as a direct spiritual successor to 4HEAD Studios' 2002 PC classic Europa 1400: The Guild. Set in a 15th-century German free city, it lets you manage workshops, dispatch trade caravans, run for civic office, and establish a multigenerational dynasty. The full HTML5 browser version is permanently free to play on itch.io without an account, though standalone offline downloads for Windows, Linux, and Android cost $2.00.

5. The Creep Must Grow

Inspired by StarCraft's Zerg swarm, this 3D real-time strategy game flips the usual base-building script by casting you as a ravenous alien creep trying to consume the entire planet. You harvest biomass and acid to mutate your hive, hatch swarms of units, and fend off counterattacks from a holy paladin order. It's free to play directly in your web browser on itch.io with no time limit.

6. Driftlight

If you want something much quieter on a second monitor, Matteo Bonvicino's ambient HTML5 experience turns your desktop browser into a monitoring console for 520 lighthouses built on drifting rocks at the edge of known space. You watch ships drop out of faster-than-light travel, listen to radio chatter from StarPath Navigation & Safety Co., and read through the keepers' logbooks. It's permanently free to play in a desktop browser on itch.io with no download required.

7. Idle Roasters

After inheriting your grandfather's rain-streaked cafe, you brew coffee, hire baristas, and work to reopen the local Farmers Market in this pixel-art management game. Developer Juba designed it without energy timers, daily streak punishments, or gacha mechanics, so your staff keeps earning tips and unlocking recipe book notes at a relaxed pace. The 45-minute demo build is free to play in your browser or download for Windows and macOS on itch.io with no expiration date.

Android

8. Waifu's Panic!!

Argentine studio LuMax Soft goes straight for 1990s Japanese arcade nostalgia with this mobile tribute to Taito's 1981 classic Qix and Kaneko's 1990 hit Gals Panic. You draw lines across the board to slice away territory and reveal retro anime character art while dodging roaming monsters and managing an affection meter that turns your date hostile if neglected. It's permanently free to download and keep on Google Play for Android, supported by ads and optional in-app purchases.

While these indie releases, browser games, and demos don't have strict claim deadlines right now, early access builds and storefront listings can change at any time, so grab or bookmark anything that catches your eye while it's live.