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1603 reviews
DONTNOD's narrative vampire-RPG draws real praise for its moral choice system and atmospheric London setting, undercut by a genuinely clunky combat system that's the single most common complaint in this outlet's sample, and a deliberate "commit to your choices" single-save design that several reviewers describe compounding real bugs into permanent, un-fixable stuck states.
6.5 / 10
The first new mainline entry in the Mana series in over a decade brings genuinely fun three-character action combat and some of the best art and music the franchise has produced, undercut by a shallower open world than its predecessors, a story several longtime fans call the weakest the series has told, and a real, documented studio closure that landed days after launch.
6.5 / 10
Vlad the Landlord is a $5.99 solo-developed pixel-art vampire management sim from Melinus Games that has players stocking a mansion "pantry" of tenants, managing thirst, and unlocking vampiric powers to eventually become human again, and this review's small, unanimously Positive sample praises its unusually genuine take on vampire fantasy and surprising depth.
6.5 / 10
A creature-taming third-person shooter from Hatchery Games that lets players hatch, breed and splice sci-fi monsters into custom killing machines, built on a genuinely satisfying collection-and-customisation loop that a large share of its own reviewers say runs out of campaign and endgame content long before it runs out of ideas.
6.5 / 10
A 100-player tactical Early Access FPS from BULKHEAD, published by Team17, pitched as a cash-driven, Battlefield-meets-Arma sandbox shooter, entering a Mostly Positive reception despite a genuinely chaotic launch day of server queues, a DDoS attack, and a last-minute anti-cheat swap that broke Linux and Proton support the developers had previously promised.
6.5 / 10
A boss-rush action RPG that ties equipment bonuses to your microphone, your frame rate and your graphics card model — a genuinely novel gimmick that a large share of its own audience says runs out of new ideas within the first hour or two.
6.5 / 10
A third-person survival horror game from FTRGameStudio set on a werewolf-haunted space station, Very Positive across a rich English review sample as an atmospheric Alien-meets-Dead-Space horror outing, with fair complaints about recycled content relative to the developer's earlier game, a steep price, and controller UI friction.
6.5 / 10
A Resident Evil-inspired puzzle horror game about sneaking into an underground facility to rescue a loved one, drawing a small but strongly convergent 9-review English sample that credits its tense atmosphere, puzzles, and story while flagging a fair complaint about weak, bullet-sponge combat and a short runtime.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive Monster Hunter rival, launched at a premium price in a state so broken that its own launch-week reviews accused EA of "buy now, patch later" — and, seven months on, EA reportedly considered ending support altogether, a story Steam's own aggregated press coverage keeps returning to years later.
6.5 / 10
A One-Person Boss Rush With Something to Prove Wizard Disaster is a solo project from developer Slimboy M., released August 25, 2026 for $4.99. Its own pitch is refreshingly blunt:
6.5 / 10
MachineGames' sequel brings B.J. Blazkowicz's fight against a Nazi-occupied America to Steam with genuinely praised gunplay and presentation, sitting Very Positive across nearly 50,000 reviews — undercut by a real, remarkably consistent "step down from The New Order" complaint about cutscene-heavy pacing and underdeveloped new characters, and by a specific, dateable technical incident this review can confirm: an August 2018 patch that broke previously-working video memory handling, which the developer then hotfixed within roughly five days.
6.5 / 10
Team Ninja's fantastical Three Kingdoms take on the Nioh formula has real fans of its deflect-driven combat, but this review's negative sample is dominated by a catastrophic launch PC port — fps drops tied to specific in-game actions, including crashes on deathblows — that remained a proportionally large complaint well over a year after release.
6.5 / 10
A fast-paced 2D bullet-heaven survivor built around a xianxia (Chinese cultivation-fantasy) identity rather than a generic reskin, with over a hundred "Arts" to combine into distinct builds — praised in its almost entirely Chinese-language review sample for genuine build depth and a strong visual identity, but held back by a steep early difficulty spike and a widely reported gap between melee and ranged/caster viability.
6.5 / 10
Disruptive Games' physics-based co-op extraction game sends crews of 2-4 players into a twisted Bermuda Triangle aboard a hybrid land/sea/air craft, landing "Mostly Positive" on satisfying physics and vehicle mechanics that are held back by bugs, missing options, and a full-price launch that plays like early access.
6.5 / 10
A hand-drawn Slavic-folklore action RPG about a one-handed, cursed blacksmith, still Very Positive on Steam seven years on -- but critics and players have agreed, with striking consistency since launch week, that the art, story and Romanian folk soundtrack are carrying a combat and crafting system that never got fixed.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous Edo-period fantasy action RPG with three distinct heroes and fluid combat, whose shallow run variation draws real roguelite complaints -- and whose launch was upended a week in when its publisher abandoned the project, not the small developer some angry reviews initially blamed.
6.5 / 10
A Solo-Developer's Love Letter To Offline MapleStory Yuma Nest, from developer Piokou (a Kickstarter-backed project dating back to 2023, previously known under a different name
6.5 / 10
A Love Letter to the N64 Spy Shooter, Written by One Person Agent 64: Spies Never Die wears its influences on its sleeve so openly that the title itself is barely a disguise: this
6.4 / 10
A gorgeously claymation-styled dark fantasy CRPG about four guards investigating a vanished village, built by a two-person team who refuse to explain any of their systems and leave players wildly divided on whether that's a feature or a flaw.
6.4 / 10
Crimson Oath is a $14.99 parry-focused souls-like from a small indie team, and while a vocal group of players praise its Dark Souls-inspired level design and nostalgic combat feel, a larger, more detailed body of English-language reviews describes broken parry timing, unbalanced enemy aggression, and a single-weapon design that undercuts its own ambitions.
6.4 / 10
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Fuel Me Up is a $9.99 roguelite shoot 'em up from solo developer O Rei Luiz, built around a leaking fuel tank that forces constant forward momentum across over 5,000 possible ship, pilot, and add-on combinations, and this review's full 9-review sample is unanimously positive, praising its addictive loop, generous customization, and genuine community-driven post-launch support.
6.4 / 10
Be Bee, Kill Hornets, Steal From Isolationist Ants Hive Havoc 3D is a third-person action-adventure with a premise that could only work as a punchline: you are a bee, armed and dan
6.4 / 10
Hovercrafts x Nihilism is a $6.00 solo-developed boss-rush game from developer soomr, blending Shadow of the Colossus's structure with Evangelion's visual language, and this review's small Positive sample praises genuinely memorable boss encounters and atmosphere while repeatedly and specifically flagging control and camera problems that make aiming and steering an ongoing fight.
6.4 / 10
A Deckbuilder Wearing a Survivorlike's Clothes Slay the Horde is a roguelike from solo studio Regretware that grafts card-based deckbuilding directly onto the screen-filling ho
6.4 / 10
