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546 games we have reviewed that run on Windows PC, best first.
546 reviews
A short, charming incremental about a young mole drilling into a meteor crater — genuinely distinctive for giving its dig-upgrade-repeat loop an actual story, but held back by spiky progression pacing and a back half that plays itself.
6.5 / 10
The 1999 Bullfrog classic that put you on the evil side of a fantasy dungeon, reissued on Steam in 2024 as a straight port of the GOG build. The dungeon-management design still holds up completely. Whether the executable does depends entirely on your PC.
6.5 / 10
A turn-based dungeon crawler from the Rivals of Aether universe whose art, music and writing draw near-universal praise, while its central dice-drafting combat system is the subject of a genuine, ongoing argument between reviewers who find real strategic depth in it and those who describe the same mechanic as a tedious, exploitable stalemate generator.
6.5 / 10
A well-crafted co-op escape-room game whose puzzles draw genuine praise, held back by a mandatory timer players have been asking to disable since launch week, a roughly four-hour campaign against a DLC catalogue that doubles the price, and a cross-platform promise several reviewers say still doesn't work years later.
6.5 / 10
A first-person shooter where the targets are mushrooms the size of garden sheds, this short, cheerful mashup nails the fantasy its title promises but quietly breaks the genre promise in its own name — every one of its three short levels wipes your numbers back to zero.
6.5 / 10
A solo developer's brutal survival-horror JRPG sequel with a devoted, near-unanimous cult following -- undercut consistently, across its own review corpus, by a save system reviewers say punishes patience as harshly as it punishes mistakes.
6.5 / 10
A hero-collecting idle RPG with real longevity behind it — five years in Early Access, fifteen-plus progression systems and no priced Steam DLC — undercut by a currency count that outgrows the player's patience and a guild structure that quietly punishes anyone without an active group.
6.5 / 10
A relaxing pixel-art building game about fulfilling customer blueprint orders as a young garlic apprentice, praised as a "hidden gem" comparable to Coloring Pixels for players who enjoy Minecraft-style creative pixel art, with real complaints about window sizing bugs and how little the core loop actually asks of the player.
6.5 / 10
A dress-up idle auto-battler about running six simultaneous parties through dungeons for loot -- a competent, RNG-heavy hack-and-slash idle RPG whose most detailed reviewers, having actually pushed into the endgame, list a specific and credible set of design limits underneath its solid core loop, alongside disclosed AI-generated character art.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely funny, genuinely satisfying Foddian rage-platformer about rollerblading your way up the corporate ladder, whose sharp writing and rewarding movement system earn it real distinction in a crowded genre, undercut by real physics bugs and save-system failures that cost players hard-won progress.
6.5 / 10
A first-person gardening job gone strange, where trimming grass and watering flowers gradually gives way to a knowledge-gated mystery about a missing owner and an unsettling town, earning constant Outer Wilds comparisons that a large, thoughtful minority of players argues don't actually hold up once the loop's failure states and repeated chores set in.
6.5 / 10
A guild-management idle RPG with FF12-style Tactics scripting and concurrent party automation, whose launch performance crisis was corroborated by players across four language communities — and whose developer's rapid, well-documented patching earned real goodwill from many of the same players who first reported it.
6.5 / 10
The Dealer returns, and this time he's dealing cards over a bullet heaven. The card layer is the most interesting thing in the genre right now; the horde layer underneath it hasn't worked out how to make you feel powerful yet — and the deckbuilding in its own tagline is still on the roadmap.
6.5 / 10
A polished AdVenture Capitalist-style idle tycoon that still earns steady thumbs-ups eight years on, even though its developer stopped visibly supporting it in 2019.
6.5 / 10
A co-op horror-comedy about hauling wrong-looking wildlife through a national park that shouldn't exist, held back from the genre's top table by a punishment mechanic that erases a night's work for reasons the player often can't see coming.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developer idle roguelite that stacks tactical auto-battles, city building, a no-cash-required gacha and a marriage system into one RPG Maker package. The systems draw genuine praise from a small but devoted audience, undercut throughout by a rough English translation that dominates almost every negative review the game has.
6.5 / 10
A budget dark-fantasy clicker where you tap cultists back into worshipers with a cross, told across twelve moody pixel-art areas — handsome and short enough not to overstay its welcome, but dogged by accusations that its loop is a close reskin of another incremental.
6.5 / 10
A bullet-heaven idle game with a genuinely satisfying 50-hour core campaign and a vocal, high-playtime fanbase, weighed down by a shiny-demon rarity system some players call brutal rather than rewarding, and a crash-and-corrupted-save bug still being reported months after launch.
6.5 / 10
An idle tower-defense RPG that syncs your progress between phone and PC and genuinely respects the hours you put in -- right up until the upgrade menu starts asking for real money in ways the achievement list quietly admits are rare to finish.
6.5 / 10
A sprawling free-to-play idle RPG that spent 4.5 years in Early Access building one of the genre's biggest, most devoted communities -- and, by its own veteran players' account, spent the last two of those years testing exactly how much monetisation that community would tolerate.
6.5 / 10
A solo developer's cyberpunk idle management RPG lands in Early Access with a real premise, a genuinely player-friendly monetisation model, and — two days in — barely enough built to judge either one properly yet.
6.5 / 10
Lavaflame2's first idle game, and the direct ancestor of Legends of Idleon — the same skill-web formula in a single character, a smaller shop and a much shorter session length.
6.5 / 10
A fifteen-year-old browser empire-builder that finally came to Steam in 2017 and went fully free-to-play in 2021 — Illyriad's 400+ technologies and player-run economy reward the kind of patience most modern strategy games no longer ask for, but its Steam premium account duplicates what the original site gives away, and "Grand Strategy MMO" undersells just how much of this is Tribal Wars with a research tree bolted on.
6.5 / 10
A polished incremental about commanding elemental golems to strip-mine an endless dungeon, with the best chain-reaction visuals the genre has produced this year — and a finish line most players cross in a weekend, despite the name.
6.5 / 10
