Penguin Lifter
A cozy job simulator about flipping fallen penguins back onto their feet that quietly turns into a tense, atmospheric little thriller — short, cheap, and better for it.
6.3 / 10
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Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
A licensed Star Trek game that's actually trying to be a game "Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown" puts players in command-adjacent decisions aboard Voyager as i
6.3 / 10
Super Safe Spelunking
A free isometric shoot-'em-up roguelite about gunning down "long forgotten employees" through procedurally generated caves — a tiny, likeable proof of concept with real chaos-shooter charm, undercut by thin content and at least one run-ending bug.
6.3 / 10
Liminal Heist Review
A Heist That Goes Wrong the Moment the Door Locks Liminal Heist opens with a simple, almost mundane premise gone immediately sideways: you break into an abandoned mansion to steal
6.2 / 10
Spartan Survivors Review: A Free Halo Fan Game With a Real Technical Secret
A free, fan-made bullet-heaven built entirely around Halo's Covenant and Flood delivers real nostalgia for series fans, though reviewers are split on how much depth is hiding underneath the fan service, and one discovery about how the game actually runs has become a recurring talking point.
6.2 / 10
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Black Plague Review
A Dark Medieval Take on the Survivors Formula Black Plague drops the player into an endless arena where relentless waves of monsters close in from every direction, and survival dep
6.1 / 10
MEMOLITH: Forsaken by Light
A turn-based tactical RPG that spent roughly two years in Early Access under the name
6.1 / 10
Resort Island Simulator Review
Pirates, Paddling, and a Resort That Runs Itself Resort Island Simulator throws an enormous amount at the wall and, somewhat to its credit, most of it sticks well enough to be enjo
6.1 / 10
Road to Vostok
A hardcore, single-player answer to Tarkov and STALKER, built almost entirely by one Finnish developer, whose atmosphere, gunplay, and permadeath tension win over a huge Early Access audience despite a badly broken enemy AI that both fans and critics flag as the game's biggest current flaw.
6.1 / 10
60 Parsecs!
60 Parsecs! takes the dark-comedy shelter-survival formula of 60 Seconds! and blasts it into space, keeping the frantic supply-grab opening and the doomed-crew management underneath. Most of its own reviewers enjoy the ride, and just as many are quick to add that the original did it better, with a heavier dose of unforgiving randomness standing between the two.
6 / 10
Above Snakes
A Wild West-themed survival worldbuilder letting players craft and place the map's own biome tiles, praised for a genuinely fresh core concept — held back by a repetitive mid-to-late loop, a weak story that clashes with its own open-ended premise, and a severe base-building performance problem the developer attempted to fix once but reviewers say never fully resolved.
6 / 10
Arcane Survival
A 4-player co-op anime bullet heaven from Miki Games, built in Unreal Engine 5.5 and split across a roguelike Survival mode and a crystal-defending Defense mode — reviewed three days after launch against a store page with zero user reviews, no achievements defined and a character roster that doesn't quite match its own marketing copy.
6 / 10
ASKA
A Viking colony sim with a genuinely loved foundation — Rimworld's scheduling, Medieval Dynasty's village-building, Valheim's Nordic survival — undercut by villager AI that both its biggest fans and its critics independently name as the one thing standing between it and greatness.
6 / 10
Backrooms Lost Runners
A co-op Backrooms survival game that trades pure liminal dread for a crafting-and-story structure, launching into Early Access with a rougher edge than the demo that built its wishlist base.
6 / 10
Backseat
A first-person psychological taxi-horror game where every night-shift passenger might be a dangerous stranger, earning a Mostly Positive launch reception for its tense, original premise and multiple endings, tempered by widespread reviewer complaints about repetition, driving bugs, and a story that outstays its own welcome.
6 / 10
Can Your Otaku Cabinet Grow a Beautiful Girl?
An adult-oriented, Vampire Survivors-style bullet-heaven roguelite about rescuing and nurturing flower-themed girls in a miniature otaku-cabinet world, whose reviewers consistently describe the core survivors combat as average at best and the real draw as its generous, AI-illustrated animated intimate scenes.
6 / 10
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Chernobylite
A survival horror RPG set in a photorealistic recreation of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Very Positive across more than 5,400 reviews for its atmosphere and dark original story — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that it suffers a genre identity crisis, marketed as an open-world STALKER-like shooter but delivering a repetitive, linear mission structure padded with base-management busywork and persistent technical bugs.
6 / 10
Choo-Choo Charles
A viral solo-developer horror hit about upgrading a train to fight a monstrous spider train -- genuinely well-liked, and just as consistently criticised, on both sides of its score, for being over in about the time it takes to watch a movie.
6 / 10
Coconut Party
A brief, deliberately absurd first-person coconut-throwing arcade game with a functional wave-survival loop, held back by thin content and a review pool too small to call it a hit yet.
6 / 10
Colony 37
A cheap, story-driven block-mining game that found its 223-review audience largely through YouTube and Twitch coverage rather than storefront discovery — genuinely liked for its darker RPG-flavoured take on the digging genre, with reviewers just as consistently honest that it's still a rough, unfinished Early Access build.
6 / 10
Craft Hero
A cheap, addictive day/night survival-crafting village-builder that's received genuinely substantial content updates for years longer than its early, frustrated reviewers expected, though its 2022 launch was marred by an incomplete translation, an always-online requirement for a single-player game, and a specific bug that left some players permanently stuck.
6 / 10
Dachs Hunter Review: A Cozy, Divisive Take on the Bullet-Heaven Formula
HFBros' dachshund-wizard survivors-like trades speed for charm, and reviewers are split on whether that slower pace makes it relaxing or just clumsy.
6 / 10
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Damnatio Lusoris
A pixel-art survivors-like that ends every boss fight at a poker table, from a first-time solo studio with no public track record and, a day after launch, no review corpus to check its 500-node unlock ladder against.
6 / 10
D.E.C.A.Y. Review
A VR-Only Wasteland From a Studio That Knows the Genre D.E.C.A.Y. is a VR-exclusive survival shooter that casts you as the operator of a remote bunker in a scorched, post-apocalypt
6 / 10