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A puzzle-precise tactics RPG wrapped around a Persona-flavoured school-life sim, whose Into the Breach-style combat and Saturn-era art and music land far more consistently than its tonally uneven writing, after four separate delays finally got it out the door.
7.5 / 10
A Yokai-Themed Deckbuilder Built Around Reading Your Opponent's Stamina Descent of Yomi is a roguelike deckbuilding card battler from solo Chinese developer R-each, set in Yomi
7.5 / 10
Mimimi Games' Wild West prequel to the classic Desperados perfected real-time tactics stealth well enough to earn Overwhelmingly Positive acclaim — and a specific, articulate minority of its own fans arguing the genre it perfected is really an elaborate puzzle box in disguise.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely addictive Farkle-based roguelike deckbuilder built around push-your-luck risk and satisfying dice-synergy builds, unanimously praised across its small early review sample for tavern atmosphere and exquisite 3D dice models, tempered by a few specific swingy-mechanic complaints, minor acknowledged bugs, and requests for multiplayer and workshop support.
7.5 / 10
A tactical roguelike that fuses the physical dexterity of Crokinole with fantasy hero recruitment and campaign-based artifact building, winning over a tiny early review base with genuine strategic depth in how disc abilities interact, though the sample so far is too small and uniformly glowing to say much about where the game might still fall short.
7.5 / 10
A narrative-heavy tactical RPG about exploring a sprawling, mysterious castle full of locked doors and deterministic robot-enemy encounters, earning enthusiastic praise for its hand-drawn art, sci-fi mystery story and puzzle-like combat, while a real, recurring minority of reviewers find its trial-and-error fights and backtracking-to-heal structure genuinely tedious.
7.5 / 10
A first-person FMV romance in which strange events awaken the protagonist's ability to enter a hidden "Inner Realm," entangling them in the secrets of six live-action heroines, drawing an Overwhelmingly Positive reception praising its production values, day-one English subtitles and unusually solid translation, tempered by a genre-typical lack of mechanical depth and one detailed complaint about pacing and coherence.
7.5 / 10
A horror roguelike bento-builder that channels the CloverPit-style slot-machine roguelite craze into a genuinely addictive food-assembly puzzle, earning strong praise for its charm and multiplier tension even as some reviewers flag it as more derivative than distinctive.
7.5 / 10
A GBA-styled tactics RPG with a genuinely inventive card-based skill system, held in very high regard by a large audience, with real and specific complaints about mid-game combat bloat, a punishing reverse difficulty curve and an unusual lack of a traditional auto-save.
7.5 / 10
A Gladiator Club Wearing an Autobattler's Clothes Eslabong, from solo developer shirowita, entered Early Access on August 24, 2026, and describes itself simply as "arena c
7.5 / 10
A faithful, beautifully realised digital adaptation of the acclaimed Everdell board game that speeds up a long tabletop session without losing its charm, held back for years by a near-total absence of the physical game's beloved expansions until a first one finally arrived in 2026.
7.5 / 10
A medieval survival city builder from the makers of Grim Dawn that spent three years building the deepest farming and disease system in the genre, then left Early Access in October 2025 to a Very Positive Steam rating and a still-vocal minority saying the milestone patch didn't fix what was wrong with it.
7.5 / 10
A Noir Cat Detective in a Madlib Museum Mystery Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery launched May 13, 2026 from solo Australian developer Nobody Crown, published under the Dev
7.5 / 10
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A near-universally loved remaster of the genre-defining 1997 tactical RPG, undercut for a large share of its 4,979 English reviewers by one decision that has nothing to do with the game itself — Denuvo DRM that requires an online check even in single-player.
7.5 / 10
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Battleship, Reimagined as a Race Against the Clock Fleet Hunters takes the pen-and-paper hidden-fleet formula nearly everyone grew up with and asks a simple question: what if nobod
7.5 / 10
A roguelike deckbuilder where your deck is literally the train you've assembled car by car, and every collision on the tactical grid can chain into a fight-ending disaster for whoever's standing in the way.
7.5 / 10
A horror-tinged roguelike solitaire from the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline, earning an overwhelming reception for its meticulous, unsettling 90s-CD-ROM aesthetic and genuinely compelling card mechanics, weighed here against a large, detailed and consistent critical minority arguing its meta-narrative framing device never mechanically pays off and its card-battling grows too shallow and RNG-dependent to sustain its full runtime.
7.5 / 10
A medieval-themed tile-placement puzzle game where seven different structures score gold by seven entirely different rules that interact and sometimes conflict, drawing genuine comparisons to Carcassonne and Dorfromantik — a short, cheap, cleverly designed package with a few rough edges in its controls and its more random Adventure mode.
7.5 / 10
A solo-developed turn-based tactics roguelite that sends a party of heroes to slay gods, earning strong day-one praise for its build variety and simultaneous-turn co-op, tempered by reviewer complaints about punishing boss escalation and repeat-kill enemy design.
7.5 / 10
Monopoly, But Somebody Finally Fixed The Pacing Fortune Avenue is a $6.99 3D board game from solo Belgian-flavored studio Binogure Studio that wears its inspiration on its sleeve:
7.5 / 10
A clean, actively-maintained implementation of the classic drop-a-piece board game, where the entire touch interface is a single tap on any column — confirmed by testing to drop a piece and trigger a working AI response on both a phone and a desktop mouse.
7.5 / 10
An X-COM-inspired tactical RPG set in a lawless 25th-century frontier, unanimously praised by a small early sample for deliberate, non-random-feeling tactical combat, genuinely reactive procedural maps, and unusually strong worldbuilding built around a mysterious crystal and a rough, personal crew of misfits, read with appropriate caution given how few voices currently make up that reception.
7.5 / 10
A Sequel Built On A Beloved Free Predecessor Frostrain 2 is solo developer nemonan's follow-up to Frostrain, a free train-building roguelike deckbuilder that built a small, dev
7.5 / 10
A Kingdom Builder Crossed With a Giant-Slaying Tower Defense Game Giantfall pitches itself plainly: a "medieval kingdom builder / Tower defence real time strategy game" i
7.5 / 10
