Stray
Four years on, 97.2% positive across 176,389 reviews — and its critics are still arguing that the only reason it scores that well is that you play as a cat.
8.5 / 10
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1087 games we have reviewed that run on macOS, best first.
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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
The roguelike that taught the genre what item synergy could be, at 97% across 439,000 reviews. Twelve years and hundreds of items later, its most experienced players are asking whether it now has too many.
8.5 / 10
The Case of the Golden Idol
A deduction puzzle game built around reconstructing twelve gruesome deaths across fifty years from frozen crime-scene tableaus, whose "aha!" moment design draws some of the most ecstatic, consistent praise this library has documented, tempered by a short runtime for its price and a divisive later UI overhaul.
8.5 / 10
The Drifter review
Powerhoof's pulpy point-and-click thriller resurrects a murdered drifter seconds before his death and sends him sprinting through a conspiracy-laden noir mystery, earning an "Overwhelmingly Positive" score for logical puzzles and a breakneck pace that reviewers say reinvents the genre's usual rhythm.
8.5 / 10
The Farmer Was Replaced
An automation game that skips the usual pretend-programming abstractions and just hands you a Python-shaped scripting language, then asks you to actually write the loops and functions that run your farm. The rare "learn to code" game that works as a game first.
8.5 / 10
The Mermaid Mask
SFB Games' third Detective Grimoire mystery sends its beloved duo to solve a locked-room murder aboard a submarine, landing "Overwhelmingly Positive" on the strength of its writing, voice acting and art, with a save-reliability bug and a repetitive interrogation loop as its only real blemishes.
8.5 / 10
The Rise of the Golden Idol
A standalone sequel to one of the sharpest deduction games in years, trading its predecessor's ancient-world mystery for a 1970s conspiracy -- slightly less airtight than the original by its own fans' admission, but still one of the best pure puzzle-narrative games released in 2024.
8.5 / 10
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
An expanded, engine-rebuilt reimagining of 2013's landmark narrative game, still regarded as one of the most original and cleverly written pieces of interactive fiction ever made — its only real, substantive criticism, buried under an avalanche of in-character joke reviews, comes from longtime fans questioning whether the new content justifies a doubled price for people who already own the original.
8.5 / 10
Total War MEDIEVAL II Definitive Edition
Widely regarded as one of the finest entries in the entire Total War series, still Overwhelmingly Positive nearly two decades on — its negative sample is thin and scattered rather than dominated by one crisis, split between expected age-related technical friction, a historical 2019 regional price-hike controversy, and a small, fresh cluster of Steam-client launch failures in late 2025.
8.5 / 10
TUNIC
A game about a small fox that hands you an instruction manual in a language you can't read and lets that single idea carry an entire adventure — and a soulslike hiding inside a Zelda costume, which is where most of its arguments start.
8.5 / 10
UFO 50
An audacious collection of 50 complete, fictional 8-bit-era games from the creator of Spelunky, near-universally admired for its craft, with a real and well-articulated minority finding its retro difficulty and near-total lack of guidance a genuine barrier rather than charm.
8.5 / 10
Untitled Goose Game
A four-person Melbourne studio's stealth-comedy about being a horrible goose became a genuine 2019 cultural phenomenon and a Game of the Year award-sweeper -- seven years on it's still Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam, with the same specific, consistent friction reviewers named at launch: deliberately awkward controls and a very short runtime for the asking price.
8.5 / 10
Valheim
A Viking survival sandbox that gates its whole progression behind biomes, each one resetting your sense of safety from zero. Five and a half years into Early Access, with a firm 1.0 date finally on the calendar, it's worth asking how much of that reputation still holds.
8.5 / 10
Worlds Upon The Wind
A solo-developed deckbuilder with no combat and no timers, built around resettling shattered islands using real historical Japanese woodblock art. Reviewers keep calling it one of the best games they've played this year — and the one honest complaint in its near-perfect record is worth reporting with real care rather than either dismissing or overstating it.
8.5 / 10
XCOM 2
Ten years on it's still the sharpest turn-based tactics game ever made, built on one brilliant, divisive decision: you are always out of time. The thing that's actually got worse since 2016 isn't the game — it's what you have to agree to in order to launch it.
8.5 / 10
Derelict Star
A momentum-based precision platformer set aboard an abandoned freighter, built around a deep and unusual movement system that reviewers overwhelmingly call among the best in the genre, at the cost of a difficulty curve that can turn away all but the most patient players.
8.4 / 10
Living Dead House Review: A Pitch-Perfect Single-Screen Arcade Throwback
Living Dead House is a retro single-screen arcade game about surviving zombie waves in a haunted house solo or in co-op, and its unanimously positive review sample praises its Burgertime-meets-Evil-Dead concept, polished score-chase loop, and catchy soundtrack.
8.4 / 10
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Set Yourself on Fire
A free, achingly beautiful visual novel about two young women falling in love as their town quietly ends — one of the most striking narrative debuts of the year, though not without a serious plagiarism accusation worth knowing about first.
8.4 / 10
Shop Town Dooter Review: Twin-Stick Chaos With a Mech You Can Bribe Your Way Into
Shop Town Dooter is a top-down twin-stick party shooter built around random arena events, a mid-round weapons economy, and the option to buy a giant mech to crush your friends, and its small but unanimously positive review sample calls it one of the best party games they've played.
8.4 / 10
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Titanium Court Review: A Surreal Match-3 Roguelite Unlike Anything Else
Titanium Court fuses a genuinely deep match-3 tower-defense roguelite with a sprawling, surreal, self-aware narrative, and while its dense walls of text and a demanding late-game grind aren't for everyone, it has landed as one of the year's most singular indie experiences.
8.4 / 10
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Vintage Story
A voxel survival sandbox that replaces Minecraft's tap-a-block-get-an-ingot logic with real material science — knapping, pit kilns, bloomeries and alloy ratios you actually have to measure — sold direct from the developer for one flat price with no storefront in between.
8.4 / 10
Love the Guard, Be the King Review: A Political Fantasy Visual Novel Worth the Wait
Love the Guard, Be the King is a black-and-white fantasy visual novel about protecting a fragile future king through court intrigue and personal choice, and its perfect Positive review sample, many written by fans who followed its years of itch.io development, treats it as one of the best visual novels they've played.
8.3 / 10
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Project Zomboid
Twelve years into Early Access, the isometric zombie survival sandbox just shipped its biggest update ever and got multiplayer back. The skill grind is still the best in the genre; the menus are still the reason half the people who buy it never see it.
8.3 / 10
Alaris
A fantasy otome visual novel about a healer drawn into fae politics and forbidden magic, praised near-unanimously across its Early Access run and full release for gorgeous art, distinct routes, and unusually thoughtful character customisation.
8.2 / 10