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A short, first-person found-footage horror game set in an abandoned asylum, unanimously well-liked by its small review pool for atmosphere and pacing, but limited by a runtime under two hours, visibly reused horror-genre assets, and an unoptimized flashlight effect several reviewers flagged for frame drops.
7 / 10
Smilegate RPG's isometric action MMO still has the best raid encounter design the genre has produced, and still asks players to climb a honing ladder brutal enough that Amazon is now shipping a way to skip most of it. Reviewed as the Western service heads into an August 2026 server merge.
7 / 10
A Tim Burton-flavoured action-adventure where every citizen's fate is set by a dice roll at birth, built around a genuinely original hybrid of real-time dodging and card-hand-style dice combat that runs out of new ideas well before the story does.
7 / 10
A handsome, deliberately linear twelve-hour crime story in 1900s Sicily that three in five buyers actually finish — released at NZ$119.95, which is the number most of its arguments are really about.
7 / 10
A $2.99 voice-controlled spell duel that turned a solo developer's Early Access experiment into one of 2025's biggest indie surprises — a year on, the novelty has mostly held, but the update cadence and the mic's grasp of accents have not kept pace.
7 / 10
A charming, controller-first 2D projectile party fighter with 21 distinctive wizards and full voice acting, easy to pick up and genuinely deep once it clicks, held back at launch by rocky online play and unfriendly keyboard controls.
7 / 10
Alkacer Game Studio's debut is a top-down Metroidvania built around five-element spell combat and a Combo Counter that rewards chaining attacks rather than turtling behind a single favorite spell. Its first week of reviews are unanimously positive but few and short, so this is a read on a promising opening rather than a settled verdict on the whole adventure.
7 / 10
You Are the Drug MAINLINE opens with a premise so committed to its bit that it takes a moment to process: you are a dose of caffeine, injected into the arm of an exhausted human, a
7 / 10
A Forty-Fourth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review MECH DISTRICT entered Early Access on Steam on 11 September 2026 and carries zero user reviews at the time of writing. Tha
7 / 10
Sixteen years after its PSP debut, Peace Walker finally lands on PC as a faithful, mostly excellent port whose Mother Base loop and co-op campaign still hold up, undercut by a rocky keyboard-and-mouse launch state.
7 / 10
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One of the greatest games ever made, rebuilt shot for shot and shipped at NZ$114.99 with performance problems Konami stopped patching in January — now 60% off, eleven months later, for reasons the review page makes obvious.
7 / 10
A largely solo-developed 3D metroidvania built around a genuinely inventive gravity-walking mechanic and a striking rhythm-synced boss soundtrack, held back by a widely corroborated camera problem serious enough to induce motion sickness in a real share of its own review pool.
7 / 10
Mojang's accessible, co-op-first loot crawler wearing Minecraft's blocky skin over a Diablo-style structure — broadly loved for local and online co-op, and carrying one specific, heavily documented complaint its own Steam reviews won't let go of.
7 / 10
A budget soulslike built around a genuinely inventive hook — inhabit the bodies of dead warriors rather than levelling a character of your own — that's spent five years since launch as a genuinely divisive game, with real, still-current complaints about content thinness and unfixed bugs sitting alongside a devoted fanbase, just days ahead of a sequel's official release.
7 / 10
A neon-pixel run-and-gun roguelite that wears its Binding of Isaac influence openly and well enough to earn Strong critical reviews and a Very Positive Steam score, though a real share of players say the grindy unlock structure and a shrinking item pool wear thin faster than the genre's best.
7 / 10
Developer Zenovia Interactive, published by Retroware, delivers Neon Inferno, a dual-plane run-and-gun set in a cyberpunk New York City, earning strong, specific praise for its pixel art, soundtrack and inventive foreground/background shooting mechanic from a Very Positive review base, tempered by a repeated complaint about screen readability and an uneven difficulty curve with no in-run healing.
7 / 10
A Corporate Shell, an Angry Colony, and an ASCII Planet NERMIUS entered Early Access around June 8, 2026 from the solo-flavored studio Saturn Acme Corp., pitching itself as a genre
7 / 10
A shapeshifting action RPG from the makers of Guacamelee whose nineteen unlockable forms draw genuine, specific praise for build variety, undercut by a keyboard-and-mouse experience its own players were still calling broken more than four years after launch, and a co-op mode widely described as an afterthought.
7 / 10
A Physics Shooter Built Around One 45-Second Idea NOMSTERS launched on Steam on August 1, 2026, for $3.99 from solo developer Igor Yakunin, and its pitch is refreshingly small: two
7 / 10
A solo-developed debut JRPG that trades combat depth for a short, striking monochrome Alice in Wonderland-inspired journey led by an omnipresent Cheshire Cat, winning over a small but unanimously enthusiastic pool of reviewers who praised its atmosphere and music while flagging that its party-synergy systems barely get room to breathe before the story ends.
7 / 10
Hotta Studio's follow-up to Tower of Fantasy trades sci-fi towers for a neon-lit supernatural city, and the open world it built to fill that city is a genuinely bigger achievement than the parry-and-dash combat sitting inside it.
7 / 10
A cat-girl metroidvania sequel to the cult-favourite Nyakori's Rabbit Doll, praised for charming art, creative environmental puzzles and genuinely strong music — hit at launch by harshly criticized boss design and a controversial story ending, both of which this review's research confirms the developer directly reworked, first shortly after launch and again with substantial free content two years later.
7 / 10
A genuinely addictive naval spin on the Vampire Survivors formula, unanimously praised in its early sample for satisfying broadside combat and an unbeatable price, tempered by reported jank favouring controller over keyboard and mouse, inconsistent weapon-evolution mechanics, and content some reviewers describe as thin once everything has been unlocked.
7 / 10
A tiny idle arena shooter from Ivy Leaf where an octopus wields eight weapons at once to defend its gold from endless waves, Positive across all 11 reviews for its addictive build variety and rapid launch-week patching — held back by a real lack of late-game difficulty checks and a poorly explained hat-swapping system.
7 / 10
