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1861 RPG games reviewed and scored, best first.
1861 reviews
A beloved turn-based JRPG classic finally reaches Steam, but Capcom's DRM-laden, feature-stripped port undercuts the very same catalogue push that made Resident Evil and Dino Crisis's re-releases feel like a celebration.
5.5 / 10
A post-apocalyptic party-based RPG set in the Australian Outback, built around a distinctive philosophy-driven "Moral Compass" system, whose genuinely striking setting and ambition were undercut at launch by severe bugs and combat design complaints, and which this review finds has been meaningfully, if not completely, improved by roughly a year of sustained post-launch patching.
5.5 / 10
A striking dark-fantasy art style and a promising auto-battler/deckbuilder hybrid can't quite outrun a review sample full of persistent bugs, a punishing late-game difficulty spike, and a runtime several reviewers clock at well under ten hours to full completion.
5.5 / 10
A cozy Wild West spin on the Stardew Valley farming-sim formula, Cattle Country earns Very Positive reviews for its charming frontier theme, foraging variety, and optional combat toggle, but a large, heavily corroborated share of reviewers argue the underlying systems feel unfinished, from a badly broken hunting economy to a total lack of key rebinding and a genuinely uncomfortable, unadjustable flashing-weather bug.
5.5 / 10
A tactically satisfying turn-based space mecha mercenary game with real Advance-Wars-meets-Bannerlord appeal for fans of the developer's earlier Chaos Galaxy series, whose reception is dominated by a specific, widely-documented controversy: an undisclosed hidden campaign time limit that forces an early ending regardless of player progress, which the developer has firmly refused to make optional despite sustained, sizeable backlash.
5.5 / 10
A Medieval Dynasty-style survival building sim set around constructing the Great Wall of China, whose genuinely satisfying construction system sits inside a full-price "full release" that a large share of its own Mostly Positive review pool insists should have launched as Early Access.
5.5 / 10
A WWII squad-tactics game with a genuine XCOM pitch and combat that works in short bursts, undercut by a morale system many reviewers call broken, a difficulty curve that persisted through a real rebalance patch, and a Season Pass sold alongside the base game on day one.
5.5 / 10
A roguelike deckbuilder with a genuinely clever stat-based card discovery system, undercut by a repetitive bestiary, a difficulty curve reviewers call broken rather than hard, and specific interface problems — though a real post-launch expansion shows the developer working on exactly the complaints players raised loudest.
5.5 / 10
A free-to-play, Clicker Heroes-style idle mining game from a solo developer, split almost exactly down the middle — praised for being addictive and free, criticised by several independent reviewers for a progression curve that breaks within the first hour.
5.5 / 10
An ambitious, magic-only Soulslike built almost entirely by one developer, drawing genuine Dark Souls and Elden Ring comparisons for its interconnected world and spellcrafting, undercut by missing hit feedback, unrebindable controls and a scarcity of post-launch fixes for problems its own fans have been asking about since release.
5.5 / 10
A Thirtieth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review Cotimero released on Steam on 31 July 2026 and has zero user reviews at the time of writing, extending this stretch's run
5.5 / 10
A cheap, genuinely charming fishing-and-aquarium idle game that a real audience finds relaxing, undercut by thin long-term progression and the same kind of concrete, repeated interface bugs this small studio's other release drew independently.
5.5 / 10
A grid-placement idle card game with a genuinely original hook — where you lay cards down matters as much as which cards you own — that Playsaurus stopped supporting less than a year after launch and never returned to.
5.5 / 10
A charming, Zelda-meets-Pokemon action RPG from solo developer Fervir Games, Creature Keeper lets players befriend and fight alongside monsters across a whimsical, Kickstarter-backed world, and reviewers consistently praise its writing, art, and music, but a heavily corroborated complaint about unreliable creature AI, unexplained systems, and an underbaked release after years of development leaves a real, substantial share of its audience frustrated.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely fun, Darksiders-and-Diablo-flavoured co-op soulslite with satisfying combat and strong art direction, launched into deep controversy over a total absence of key rebinding and mouse sensitivity options, a widely-criticised disorienting lock-on camera, and a specific, independently-raised and unverified data-privacy allegation that this review reports transparently without being able to confirm.
5.5 / 10
A gorgeous, time-manipulation turn-based JRPG from debut studio Dreams Uncorporated and SYCK, Mixed across its Steam reviews for stunning art and voice acting — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that its signature past-present-future mechanic is underused, sluggish combat, uneven difficulty, and a story and pacing that collapse noticeably in the back half.
5.5 / 10
A solo-developed retro dungeon crawler with genuinely satisfying, weighty combat in the vein of Quake, Hexen and DUSK, undercut by a progression system reviewers call self-defeating and at least two specific bugs that went unpatched for the entirety of the game's four-year life.
5.5 / 10
A solo developer's xianxia sect-leader idle RPG that keeps a real slice of its audience playing for a thousand-plus hours, undercut by a Mixed reception built almost entirely around detailed reviewers calling it a near-identical reskin of the developer's own earlier game, Weapon Shop Fantasy.
5.5 / 10
Two Reviews, Both Negative, Both Pointing at the Same Flaw Cultivation Road launched on Steam on 19 August 2026 from developer Fengling Studio, and at the time of writing it has ex
5.5 / 10
A free, hour-long puzzle-battle RPG about a healer and an adventurer that earns real, consistent praise for its charming art and unexpectedly bittersweet story, undercut throughout this review's sample by a confusing battle interface, rough English translation, and basic technical omissions like a missing fullscreen option.
5.5 / 10
A bite-sized visual novel RPG about a young man who secretly masters his family's lost chocolate-magic art and sets off to live his own life, layering an elemental weakness wheel, a hunger-and-energy resource system and a part-time-job minigame onto roughly an hour of wacky, lighthearted story — reviewed here from a single positive early account plus the developer's own detailed mechanics breakdown, since no achievement data exists to independently corroborate it.
5.5 / 10
A Viking survival RPG following an exiled family managing a settlement through resource scarcity and hostile raiders, Mostly Positive across 570 reviews for its striking art and characterful writing — dominated by an extraordinarily consistent complaint that its random-event system fails high-probability rolls often enough that many reviewers describe the difficulty as broken rather than merely harsh.
5.5 / 10
Deep Sky Derelicts sends a three-person mercenary crew scavenging through derelict alien ships using a card-driven turn-based combat system, wrapped in a distinctive retro-comic art style reviewers repeatedly single out. Its opening hours land well for a real share of players, before an unusually consistent complaint about brute-force enemy stat inflation as the game's only real difficulty lever takes over the conversation.
5.5 / 10
A 40th-anniversary triple-pack revival of the 1986 Amiga classic — a faithful Retro mode, a visually remastered Classic mode, and a new procedural Kingdom roguelike — that reliably moves longtime fans to tears with its music and presentation, while a large share of the same fans and newcomers alike report that the underlying jousting, siege and swordplay minigames are exactly as luck-based and undercooked as they remember, or worse.
5.5 / 10
