Liminal Shroud Review
No Monsters, No Combat, Plenty Of Dread Liminal Shroud, released September 3, 2026 for $12.99 from solo-flavored studio Everdeep Studios, arrives into a genre that's become gen
7.5 / 10
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Lunacid
A dark fantasy first-person dungeon crawler openly modeled on From Software's King's Field and Shadow Tower games, praised for filling a genre niche almost nobody else makes anymore — held back by combat reviewers call mediocre, some genuinely obtuse late-game secrets, and a launch-week controversy the developer addressed personally and directly.
7.5 / 10
Marvel's Spider-Man 2
The best traversal in games, attached to the worst PC port Nixxes have shipped — and a top-voted review that isn't about performance at all, but about the PlayStation runtime the game installs without asking.
7.5 / 10
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
An excellent, warm, considerably shorter Spider-Man game — and 42 of its 100 most-helpful negative reviews reach for the same word to explain why they're annoyed: DLC.
7.5 / 10
Merp in Merpworld
Solo developer maybell, following their 2021 twin-stick debut Satryn, delivers a compact, handheld-styled 2D platformer starring a tiny fibre creature with a leaf for hair, earning warm, specific praise for its physics-driven leaf mechanic, presentation and surprisingly affecting story from a small but nearly unanimous Positive review base.
7.5 / 10
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
Home to one of the most inventive systems in action RPGs — a system its publisher then patented, blocking every other studio from building anything like it, a decision reviewers are still angry about years after the studio that made it, Monolith Productions, was shut down.
7.5 / 10
Millennium Dream
A quietly beautiful, cross-culturally resonant liminal-space walking sim through a Chinese millennial childhood, held back by an unfinished English translation and a short, thin runtime.
7.5 / 10
MIO: Memories in Orbit
A visually stunning metroidvania whose reviews split sharply on one specific mechanic — permanent health loss tied to the story — that several players call the moment the game turns from a favorite into a frustration, and others say isn't nearly as punishing as it's made out to be.
7.5 / 10
Monster Hunter Wilds
Capcom's biggest Monster Hunter yet strips away almost everything that used to make the series hard to love — and a lot of what used to make it worth loving. A phenomenal hunt loop wrapped around a launch-year PC performance crisis and an endgame that shipped thinner than the marketing suggested.
7.5 / 10
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
The finest medieval battle simulator ever built, wrapped in a sandbox its own fans say is thinner than the 2010 game it replaced. Its most-upvoted negative review is a list of features Warband had and this doesn't.
7.5 / 10
Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
Level-5's sequel swaps Studio Ghibli's direct involvement for a hybrid of open-world action RPG and kingdom-building sim -- gorgeous and generous with content, but eight years on its combat, story and half-baked army battles are the recurring complaints even among fans who put hundreds of hours into it.
7.5 / 10
Oceaneers
Barrel Smash Studios' two-person Early Access debut drowns the world and asks you to build a colony on whatever's still floating — rafts, sinking islands, shark attacks and a corporate conspiracy buried in scavenged bunkers, all wrapped around a Rimworld-flavoured survivor sim.
7.5 / 10
OUTCLAW Review
A Pikmin-Flavored Debut From a Brand-New Studio OUTCLAW released on Steam on July 29, 2026, from debut developer and publisher Moss Monkey, for $24.99, following a public demo and
7.5 / 10
Planetfall
A js13k 2018 Mobile category winner that turns Star Citizen's seamless planet-to-planet flight into a tiny 2D platformer — land carefully, walk the curved surface of five distinct worlds, and use a sound-based radar to hunt down the satellite station on each one.
7.5 / 10
Promise Mascot Agency
Kaizen Game Works, the studio behind Paradise Killer, turns a Yakuza-style business side-story into a full open-world game about rehabilitating a cursed Japanese town through mascot management — a passionately loved, distinctly written game whose Overwhelmingly Positive score sits alongside a detailed, substantial minority who found the open-world driving and collecting underneath all that charm genuinely repetitive.
7.5 / 10
Raft
A co-op ocean survival game about building a floating home from scavenged debris while fending off sharks, Very Positive across more than 130,000 reviews — a genuinely excellent multiplayer experience overshadowed in late 2022 by a publicly disclosed, remotely exploitable security vulnerability, since patched, and a recurring complaint that its late-game story arc trades open building for linear jumping puzzles.
7.5 / 10
Rain World
A notoriously unforgiving survival-platformer casting the player as a small, vulnerable slugcat navigating a fully simulated predator-prey ecosystem, Very Positive across more than 30,000 reviews for a genuinely singular, uncompromising design vision — undercut by a near-universal pattern of reviewers, even admirers, describing its difficulty and opacity as crossing from earned challenge into disorienting frustration for a large share of players.
7.5 / 10
Risen
Widely regarded as Piranha Bytes' finest work and the true spiritual successor to their acclaimed Gothic series, Risen carries a remarkably stable, decade-spanning structural complaint — a genuinely strong first half giving way to a repetitive, fetch-quest-heavy final chapter that reviewers writing in 2016 and 2026 alike describe almost identically.
7.5 / 10
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Crystal Dynamics' 2015 sequel to the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot widens the scope into more open-world exploration and expands crafting and stealth, drawing consistently strong praise for its visuals and platforming — tempered by a recurring reviewer complaint that the story and focus of the original got traded for busywork, plus two specific, checkable marketing gripes around VR and a since-added Epic Games Services login requirement.
7.5 / 10
RuneScape: Dragonwilds
Jagex takes twenty-five years of RuneScape skill icons and welds them onto a Valheim-shaped survival loop. Fifteen months into Early Access, with a 1.0 date now on the calendar, the question is whether the skilling actually survived the move or just changed clothes.
7.5 / 10
Saints Row: The Third
Volition's absurdist open-world crime comedy, widely considered the series' tonal and commercial peak, still draws genuine affection more than a decade later — tempered by a specific, dated-server-related stuttering bug, a region-locked censored version for some countries, and a recurring reviewer recommendation to buy this original rather than its pricier, Epic-exclusive remaster.
7.5 / 10
Secrets of Temple Isle Review
A One-Man Love Letter to the N64 Era Secrets of Temple Isle is the kind of game that could only come from someone who grew up on a very specific diet of late-90s action-adventure t
7.5 / 10
Shattered Divinities
A short, accessibility-focused metroidvania from 星魂游戏 set in the ruined realms of fallen deities, Very Positive across 104 English reviews for its tight controls, generous difficulty options, and rewarding exploration, with a fair complaint that its story and boss variety are forgettable.
7.5 / 10
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
United Front Games' Hong Kong-set undercover-cop crime thriller is widely praised as the genre-alternative to GTA that actually earned the comparison, with reviewers repeatedly wishing for a sequel that never arrived — undercut by a serious, specific save-data flaw with no Steam Cloud support that has already cost at least one reviewer their progress permanently.
7.5 / 10