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292 Casual games reviewed and scored, best first.
292 reviews
A NZ$2.99 satire of Steam's own trading-card economy, where bots buy, sell and craft cards into badges to push a level counter upward — a clever premise that Steam's tiny, Mixed-rated review corpus says never grows past its opening idea.
4 / 10
A NZ$3.19 merge-idler about evolving cats through drag-and-drop merges — clean on monetisation, but backed by so little player evidence (two English Steam reviews in four years, zero concurrent players at time of writing) that its own storefront can't muster a score.
4 / 10
A dark-comedy business simulator about running an online drug empire, launched into Early Access in January 2023 by solo developer PiCorp and left there, seemingly untouched, ever since.
4 / 10
A free-to-play idle magic academy sim whose store page promises "fully idle progression," while its small review sample describes a punishingly slow start, a key semi-idle item that got quietly nerfed out of usefulness, and AI-generated art and music the developer's own disclosure confirms.
4 / 10
A NZ$4.79 tower-defense-and-troops hybrid from the studio behind Merge Cats and Merge Beasts. It has collected exactly one Steam review in almost four years — and that review is negative, describing the exact lack of choice this write-up finds in the store listing itself.
3.8 / 10
A Cookie Clicker-shaped duck-collecting idler with no Steam achievements, reportedly slow-to-frustrating progression, and a free identical Android release — both of its two Steam reviews are negative.
3.8 / 10
A visually appealing mobile-derived hidden-object game, actively maintained with monthly updates, gated by an energy system nearly every negative reviewer says limits sessions to 10-15 minutes before demanding real money — including two independent, extremely long-tenured players who allege the game adapts its difficulty to spending behaviour, a claim this review could not verify but is reporting plainly given who's making it.
3.8 / 10
A free dinosaur-zoo tycoon with genuine charm for young dino fans, undercut by aggressive, repeatedly reported cash-shop pressure, real technical instability spanning years of reviews, and a specific age-verification bug several adult players report locks them out entirely.
3.6 / 10
A basic but originally decent Flash-style stealth puzzler, now overwhelmingly defined by the developer's later addition of roughly 5,000 near-meaningless achievements — a widely condemned "achievement spam" update that reviewers say buried the actual game underneath it.
3.6 / 10
A space-mining idle game that patched hard for ten straight months after its August 2022 Early Access launch, then went quiet in mid-2023 with its progression math still broken — four years and no 1.0 later, its own most dedicated reviewers call it the worst idle game they've played.
3.5 / 10
Fury Games Production's 2018 budget clicker promises a tycoon and delivers a five-achievement tap loop that its own tiny review base says is finished, and forgotten, within an afternoon.
3.5 / 10
A NZ$6.29 pixel-art idle-exploration RPG that pairs a genuinely appealing loop — explore fogged tiles, build a town, auto-fight through a side-scrolling combat screen — with balance so broken that its own players report HP-boosting gear leaving them with less HP, and a patch history that stops two days after a January 2022 launch.
3.5 / 10
A NZ$3.69 mobile port that charges upfront and then layers in-app purchases on top anyway — the single complaint its small review corpus has repeated, unprompted, for eight straight years, alongside a progression wall around planet 40-60 and a broken "offline progress" promise that shows up twice, four years apart.
3.5 / 10
The rough, dated first entry in a long-running hidden-object franchise, with a genuinely interesting premise buried under low-resolution graphics, unremovable text, and repetitive puzzle design that reviewers consistently say hasn't aged well.
3.4 / 10
A genuinely likeable spin on the House-Flipper renovation genre, with a real ghost-catching hook reviewers enjoyed for months — undercut by severe, persistent bugs and a rights transfer to a new studio that this review independently confirmed via a year of Steam silence, exactly matching multiple reviewers' abandonment claims.
3.2 / 10
A casual mini-game collection with a genuinely decent underlying concept, undercut by a messy, buggy implementation reviewers say is at times dreadful, a specific level-73 bug that can block completion, and a widely repeated claim that it largely reuses assets from its own predecessor.
3.2 / 10
A NZ$7.39 open-world survival crafting game with a tiny, split review sample — two of five reviewers report the game becoming unplayable within minutes, and no update or news post has landed since a week after launch in September 2023.
3.2 / 10
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A solo-developed beekeeping sim with real, specific depth that actual beekeepers among its tiny review sample genuinely admire — buried under a total absence of any tutorial, a broken hiring feature, and a game the developer never patched after its 2022 release.
3 / 10
A NZ$2.49 idle hero-placement tower defense from solo Chinese developer Yamate whose 30-wave campaign hits the same reproducible, game-breaking bug at wave 23 in two independent reviews a year apart, on top of a broken mana mechanic and unit upgrades that reset every time you quit — a serious flaw in a game built around idling away from the keyboard.
3 / 10
A cheap fantasy-themed clicker from Leakage Games that can be fully completed in a handful of hours, undermined by a genre-breaking design choice — no progress at all while the window isn't in focus.
3 / 10
A NZ$6.29 xianxia-themed idle herb farm from a Chinese solo developer who shipped a near-identical idle game five weeks earlier — a decorative thousand-card compendium and an auto-battling cultivator sit on top of a loop with exactly one real decision, and both patches and the developer's attention stopped inside the first week.
3 / 10
A NZ$10.29 desk-diorama ant colony sim from a solo student developer, launched unfinished on 1 April 2022 (unintentionally, on April Fools), publicly apologised for, patched twice over the following five months, and then left behind — a review from November 2023 says the developer "completely abandoned" it, and the game's own tiny nine-review corpus backs that up.
3 / 10
A free clicker whose "AFK all you want" pitch is directly contradicted by its own players, who report zero progress while the game isn't actively running — and whose negative corpus mostly isn't complaining about the gameplay at all, but arguing this is a Steam-inventory-item farming vehicle in the mould of Banana rather than an actual idle game.
3 / 10
A cheap, thin desktop-wallpaper colony builder with a review sample too small to trust on its own — but three separate negative reviews independently describe the game running unexpectedly in the background after being closed, a real and specific risk for Steam's own 2-hour refund window.
3 / 10
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