Idle Progress
A free-to-play idle RPG about farming, fishing and fighting for scrap, released by solo developer blevsoft in December 2023 and left without a content update since January 2024.
5 / 10
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Idle Weaponshop
A free solo-developer idle sim about running a weapon shop, prestiging into a town, and sending adventurers out to die for profit — a genuinely distinctive premise undercut by a near-total absence of tutorial explanation and two separate multi-month stretches where updates simply stopped.
5 / 10
Internet Cafe Simulator 2
A genuinely novel business-sim sequel -- build and run an internet cafe complete with a working in-game browser -- undone by a single, specific, four-years-unfixed bug that keeps showing up in reviews: save files randomly corrupting or wiping hours of progress, in a game its own last content update predates by over four years.
5 / 10
Killer Bean
A first/third-person action roguelike adapting Jeff Lew's cult-favourite Killer Bean animated short films, built and rapidly patched entirely solo, currently rough and buggy enough that a large share of reviewers explicitly recommend waiting despite real goodwill toward the beloved source material and an unusually responsive post-launch fix record.
5 / 10
Kritter: Defend Together
A genuinely charming co-op action roguelite with cute character design and an addictive loot-and-defend loop, undermined at launch by severe, specific co-op-breaking bugs, a local co-op mode one reviewer says openly admits it isn't finished, and a short main campaign — softened considerably by a developer reviewers repeatedly praise as unusually fast and responsive at patching.
5 / 10
Life of an NPC
A genuinely novel Early Access experiment in which every NPC's behaviour is driven by a language model the player supplies themselves, reviewed here on the strength of its complete 21-review Steam record and the solo developer's own unusually candid admission that this is one of three AI-driven projects competing for his attention, and currently not the one winning.
5 / 10
Mahokenshi
A beautifully produced samurai-fantasy deckbuilder whose own fans keep filing the same game-hardlocking bug report years apart — the developer's last news post dates to January 2024, and reviewers are still describing identical crashes into 2026.
5 / 10
Nadir: A Grimdark Deckbuilder
A roguelike deckbuilder with a genuinely clever hook — you choose which enemy attack hits you — trapped inside a game that left Early Access unfinished in February 2023 and hasn't been updated since.
5 / 10
Oh Deer
A genuinely funny asymmetric hide-and-seek party game — one hunter against a forest full of deer, some real and some human — whose appeal is real but whose thin content, rough performance, and now two years of silence from the developer have left a large share of its own fans feeling shortchanged.
5 / 10
PANOPTYCA: Idle RPG Manager
A genuinely distinctive four-panel idle RPG about commanding up to eight heroes at once, with real fans logging four-digit hour counts, undercut by a free-to-play model a large share of reviewers call predatory for specifically monetising the ability to idle at all, plus unexplained account bans and an unusual pattern of frequent server connections a smaller cluster finds alarming.
5 / 10
Power & Revolution 2022 Edition
The latest instalment in a long-running yearly geopolitical simulation series, offering genuine, unmatched depth for fans willing to run a country's economy, army and secret services, undercut by bugs its own loyal fanbase say have carried over unfixed for years and a full annual price for what many call a minor content refresh.
5 / 10
Rec Center Tycoon - Management Simulator
A solo-developed management sim with real, distinctive depth — build and run a recreation centre down to the individual pool lane and arcade cabinet — that stopped receiving public updates in September 2022 and has spent the four years since accumulating an unusually self-aware review corpus that argues, in real time, about whether "abandoned" is fair to say out loud.
5 / 10
Sacred 2 Remaster
A catastrophic November 2025 remaster launch — buggy, missing features veterans of the 2008 original say worked fine even in the community-patched Gold Edition — followed by a genuine, ongoing repair effort now six numbered patches deep, leaving recent reviewers split between "finally playable" and "still broken" depending on which specific issue they hit.
5 / 10
Sin Slayers: Reign of The 8th
A turn-based roguelite RPG that quietly relaunched after the original 2020 Sin Slayers was pulled from Steam, offering free replacement keys to affected owners, but running into the same grindy pacing and shallow combat complaints that dogged the original, alongside new balance and UI issues from the rebuild itself.
5 / 10
SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Lycoris
A licensed action RPG retelling Sword Art Online's Alicization arc, with combat fans genuinely like buried under launch-week performance problems, a slow first act that plays more like a visual novel than a game, and a gacha loot-box layer stacked on top of an already full-price purchase.
5 / 10
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Tyrant God
A NZ$6.39 mouse-driven incremental about melting waves of monsters and climbing a permanent upgrade tree. Its isekai title promises an RPG that isn't there, its most useful reviews are barely 90 minutes long, and a late-game visual effect has drawn a genuine photosensitivity warning with no in-game way to turn it off.
5 / 10
Trenches - World War 1 Horror Survival Game
A genuinely underused setting — WWI trench horror — with real atmosphere and sound design, undercut by a short, thin "collect the items while a monster hunts you" loop and a cluster of real performance bugs, despite years of continued developer support.
5 / 10
Vacation Cafe Simulator
A genuinely beloved, stress-free Italian cafe management sim that delivers exactly the calm, timer-free genre experience its fans have been asking for, badly undermined by a well-corroborated and specifically documented discrepancy between the developer's official AI-content disclosure and the extent of unedited AI-generated art, voice acting and music reviewers report finding throughout the game, compounded by shallow "auto-cooking" mechanics and real performance problems.
5 / 10
University Tycoon - The College Management Simulator
A solo-developer campus-management sim with an unusually specific pitch — schedule real courses and sections, build dorms, hire professors, chase reputation — undercut by a launch-week save bug, support that appears to have stopped within days of release, and Steam's own achievement data showing almost nobody gets past the opening hour.
4.6 / 10
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Bayou Island - Point and Click Adventure
A solo developer's debut point-and-click, built in open homage to the LucasArts era — charming in its music and its sincerity, undone by a flat voice cast, a clumsy inventory and a runtime some players clock at well under an hour.
4.5 / 10
Desktop Nard: Dice Idle
A charming desktop-widget idler where itemized dice roll across your screen farming loot — well-received at launch, then left to rot at exactly the endgame its own systems build toward.
4.5 / 10
Fantasy Miner: Idle Depths
A first game from a small studio, patched within a day of launch — but a mining incremental whose own reviewers repeatedly question whether its writing and design were properly finished before release.
4.5 / 10
Idle Pixel Fantasy
A free, charmingly drawn pixel-art idle clicker that most players finish in under four hours and largely enjoy for what it is, undercut by resource usage several reviewers describe as alarming for such a simple game and a DLC presentation several find pushed harder than the content underneath deserves.
4.5 / 10
New Arc Line
A party-based steampunk-versus-magic RPG that launched into Early Access with real Arcanum and Baldur's Gate 3 comparisons in its favor — and then, by this review's full read of its negative sample and its own public patch history, went almost a year without a real content update, turning early "great potential" reviews into a wave of "the game is dead."
4.5 / 10