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47 Adventure games reviewed and scored, best first.
47 reviews
A top-down adventure about a self-doubting painter restoring colour to a world that's lost it, from the Wandersong and Celeste team -- Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam and still drawing new five-star reviews five years on, with one consistent, specific complaint about how the painting itself controls.
8.5 / 10
A solo-developed open-world action-adventure RPG stuffed with hand-written dialogue and reality-bending secrets, drawing genuinely rare "hidden gem" praise from reviewers who describe it as what Undertale could have been if Undertale had been more fun to actually play, held back only by simple combat and a navigation system some players find genuinely disorienting.
8 / 10
A genuinely inventive language-deciphering puzzle game, Overwhelmingly Positive and stable, whose beloved core hook is consistently diluted by stealth sections players compare unfavourably to the calm puzzle-solving around them — plus a real EULA controversy that Focus Entertainment has since publicly clarified and amended.
8 / 10
A spearfishing roguelite and a sushi restaurant manager share one save file, and the join is the best thing about it — what you catch by day is what you sell by night. The game just won't stop adding new systems on top of that, long after the core two have proven they didn't need the help.
8 / 10
A beautifully consistent solo-developer sequel that runs its story concurrently alongside the original Dreadrock's timeline — the same generous hint system, gorgeous pixel art, and standout music as its predecessor, with a specific softlock bug the developer patched within a month of a reviewer flagging it.
8 / 10
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A visually striking, mechanically brilliant first-person gravity-walking puzzle game carrying the Draknek and Friends seal of quality, drawing enthusiastic comparisons to Portal, The Witness and Stephen's Sausage Roll, held back by a sharp mid-game difficulty spike one detailed reviewer documents in granular detail and real frustration over how the pre-release demo was handled ahead of launch.
8 / 10
A game whose central mechanic is a 400-day countdown that runs whether you play or not — the most literal treatment of idle time anyone has attempted, and it's 92.3% positive six years on.
8 / 10
A Nordic dark-fairytale adventure whose art, music and folklore draw close to unanimous praise — repeated inside its own top positive review, which admits to hand cramps from "tedious" trial-and-error platforming — while Steam's own data shows nearly half of buyers still see it through to the end.
7.5 / 10
A visually stunning, richly written supernatural action game widely called a Remedy highlight — with a genuinely well-documented 2021 "Ultimate Edition without the Ultimate DLC" controversy, and a still-unresolved oddity for a single-player game requiring an internet connection just to launch.
7.5 / 10
A densely written, richly atmospheric Southern Gothic point-and-click set in a surreal, sinking Louisiana refinery town, whose passionate fanbase and its critics converge on the same specific complaint — a narrative that loses its footing in the final act after an extraordinary opening.
7.5 / 10
A solo-developed Metroidvania set across a cursed island of ten interconnected locations, where combining weapons with magical runes shapes your playstyle against eleven bosses, praised across a small but genuinely multi-language early review base for its old-school atmosphere and combat feel, tempered by a reported difficulty spike partway through and comparatively limited weapon variety.
7.5 / 10
A dystopian landlord-surveillance sim with real bite — a genuinely distinctive premise and striking art carry it a long way, but a real minority of detailed reviewers make a specific, checkable case that the game offers far less real choice than its "spy on anyone" pitch implies.
7 / 10
A 2-4 player co-op mining game about sharing one wallet, one pool of light and one simple goal — go deeper than your last run — where gas pockets, earthquakes and radiation punish anyone who pushes past what their gear can survive.
7 / 10
Emeteria's debut turns into a fluid, chain-reacting sphere and reshuffles reality around you, and that idea alone is worth the price. The kicking-things-off-ledges combat underneath it never catches up.
7 / 10
A cozy farming-and-creature-collecting adventure that deliberately strips out Stardew Valley's stamina bars and bedtime pressure — genuinely beloved by a huge co-op audience, but dogged by grindy late-game systems and a forced-save-reset controversy the developer never fully resolved.
7 / 10
The closing chapter of the rebooted Survivor trilogy swapped Crystal Dynamics for Eidos-Montreal and gunfights for stealth and puzzles -- a deliberate pivot that split reviewers in 2018 and, eight years and a Definitive Edition later, is still what most players argue about, alongside a specific progress-blocking puzzle bug that outlived several rounds of patches.
7 / 10
A NZ$10.29 fusion of time-loop adventure and idle incremental that has held a Very Positive Steam rating across four and a half years — not by avoiding friction, but by turning the loop's reset into the exact mechanism that makes idle progression permanent, while never fixing the one interface complaint players have repeated since launch week.
7 / 10
A genuinely ambitious open-world vampire action RPG from Rebel Wolves, a new studio founded by Witcher 3 veterans, that fills a real gap for vampire-themed RPGs and draws strong, consistent praise for its story and atmosphere, undercut by widespread but hardware-inconsistent performance problems, real controller bugs, and a deeply divisive time-pressure mechanic that a large share of reviewers say was misrepresented before launch.
7 / 10
A stylish witch-fantasy narrative game whose tarot-deck-crafting hook and Deconstructeam pedigree draw strong praise, undercut by a widely repeated complaint that the story pivots midway into a management sim many reviewers found tonally jarring, and that the marketed branching choices resolve into little more than two endings decided by one mid-game question.
7 / 10
A mystery-investigation adventure game set in an oriental fantasy city of humans, dragons and anthropomorphic "beastlings," Very Positive across 154 English-language reviews for its writing and cast -- and consistently misjudged from its cover art, with reviewers repeatedly reassuring newcomers put off by the furry-adjacent character designs that there's nothing adult about it, just a slow-starting, dialogue-heavy story that most reviewers say pays off.
7 / 10
A Debut Horror Short From A Studio Nobody's Heard Of Yet We Are Sisters is a $3.99 first-person psychological horror game from BobaGames, a studio whose first release this appe
7 / 10
A tiny, no-combat runner/metroidvania about a cat who can't fight and can only sprint past danger — a nearly five-year-old Early Access project the developer just released for free after its funding fell through, reviewed on its complete review sample old and new.
6.5 / 10
Hazelight Studios' prison-break co-op predecessor to It Takes Two and Split Fiction remains Very Positive across more than 102,000 Steam reviews for its inventive, purely two-player design — but this review can confirm a real, still-current complaint It Takes Two eventually resolved: A Way Out's mandatory EA App launcher continues to cause connection failures, crashes and Steam-invite friction in reviews dated as recently as August 2025, with no fix announcement found anywhere in the developer's own Steam communications.
6.5 / 10
A penguin, a mountain, and a chicken named Wilson But Why? drops a small group of players into the role of penguins trekking across an arctic landscape toward a distant, indifferen
6.5 / 10
