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550 games we have reviewed that run on Windows PC, best first.
550 reviews
A solo developer in Edinburgh shipped a complete, story-driven survival-crafting game straight to 1.0 with no Early Access period — a genuine feat that's earned near-universal respect, complicated only by a real and recurring complaint that the store page sells it as something more open-ended than the tightly linear campaign it actually is.
7.5 / 10
A hand-illustrated roguelike deckbuilder that swaps cards for dice — you don't collect relics so much as permanently rebuild the six faces of your own dice — landing close enough to Slay the Spire and Dicey Dungeons that its own reviewers keep naming both games unprompted.
7.5 / 10
A Hades-and-Dead-Cells-flavoured roguelite metroidvania whose art, combat feel and hub writing draw strong praise for its opening hours, with a consistent, specific counter-argument that its meta-progression grows passive rather than build-defining once the difficulty ramps up.
7.5 / 10
Backpack Hero turns the inventory screen itself into the entire combat system — item shape, orientation and neighbouring slots decide what a fight looks like, not a separate stats page. A look at whether that idea, and the game built around it, survived the jump from a free browser prototype to a finished commercial release the developer has since gone quiet on.
7.5 / 10
A desktop-postcard idle game about attracting and photographing over 130 real bird species, charming enough to convert players who weren't birdwatchers or idle-game fans going in — held back at launch by a genuinely rough technical start that the developer has spent the months since steadily patching away.
7.5 / 10
An action-combat MMO where the fighting is closer to a character-action game than a tab-target RPG, the real long-term game is an offline worker economy running nodes and trade routes while you're logged out, and gear upgrades can fail hard enough to destroy the item you spent months building. Ten years old, still getting weekly content, and still the most mechanically dense MMO most players will ever half-understand.
7.5 / 10
A horde-survival roguelite that makes you actually fight, forcing constant swaps between melee and ranged weapons against enemies built to resist whichever one you're not holding — a deliberate answer to the genre's reputation for playing itself.
7.5 / 10
A Nordic dark-fairytale adventure whose art, music and folklore draw close to unanimous praise — repeated inside its own top positive review, which admits to hand cramps from "tedious" trial-and-error platforming — while Steam's own data shows nearly half of buyers still see it through to the end.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely varied, unanimously well-received collection of seven short horror stories about radio and conspiracy theories from different independent developers, with one entry, COW EXPORT, repeatedly singled out as an outright standout, held back by the inherent quality inconsistency of an anthology format, a specific narratively-thin entry, missing achievements, and a launcher reviewers describe as rough around the edges.
7.5 / 10
A six-year solo passion project built without RPG Maker or any off-the-shelf framework, praised by CRPG veterans as a genuine, deep throwback in the vein of Jeff Vogel's work — worn down over a 90-to-100-hour playthrough by a widely-reported glut of low-stakes trash combat that even its biggest fans say the back half leans on too heavily.
7.5 / 10
A cheap, brutal, four-player climbing game that turned into one of 2024's biggest Twitch phenomena almost overnight -- rage-comedy physical comedy where the whole point is watching your friends drag you off a ledge, not a game built to survive a second playthrough.
7.5 / 10
A NZ$7.39 first-person clicker that spends most of its three-to-six-hour runtime pretending to be a joke about number-go-down before revealing a real escape-room puzzle structure — checked against a 442-review corpus and achievement data showing only about one buyer in nine ever reaches the end.
7.5 / 10
A breakout-hit combo-scoring puzzle roguelite that plays much closer to Balatro than to any traditional city simulator, with satisfying spatial-placement gameplay and deep meta-progression widely praised by a huge review sample, undercut by a well-corroborated complaint that it's too easy even at maximum difficulty and a genuine, recurring dispute over whether its city-building framing and screenshots represent what's actually being sold.
7.5 / 10
A visually stunning, richly written supernatural action game widely called a Remedy highlight — with a genuinely well-documented 2021 "Ultimate Edition without the Ultimate DLC" controversy, and a still-unresolved oddity for a single-player game requiring an internet connection just to launch.
7.5 / 10
The best character-driven strategy game ever made, and the clearest case in gaming of DLC that doesn't just add content but withholds answers. Its players log 117-hour medians and write four-hundred-vote reviews about the storefront.
7.5 / 10
Sad Panda Studios' idle dating sim is a genuine time-blocking resource-allocation game wearing an anime pin-up costume, still shipping new characters and events after almost a decade — and still leaning on the same event-currency pressure its own players complain about.
7.5 / 10
A solo-developer job-system JRPG built for players who want Final Fantasy V's class depth without any hand-holding -- widely loved for exactly that reason, and just as widely criticised for making platforming mandatory and its endgame punishingly unbalanced.
7.5 / 10
Diablo III launched in 2012 with a real-money item market that quietly rewrote its own loot tables, then spent the next two years proving the fix was worth the wait. Fourteen years and thirty-nine seasons on, it's a cheap, complete, still-excellent action RPG stuck in maintenance mode — and still carrying an always-online rule it no longer has a reason for.
7.5 / 10
A blackjack-roguelike deckbuilder whose "Balatro but Blackjack" tagline both sold it and set up its harshest reviews, with a genuine post-launch redemption arc that culminated in a major content-doubling update weeks before this review.
7.5 / 10
A factory-automation game whose endgame isn't a bigger number but a visible megastructure eclipsing a star. Five years into Early Access, the premise is still the best in the genre — the question is whether the game around it has caught up.
7.5 / 10
A sprawling, deeply systemic roguelike sandbox RPG from the solo creator of the cult classic Elona, updated almost daily -- one of the densest, most addictive Early Access RPGs on Steam for the players who click with it, and a genuinely confusing wall for anyone who arrives without a wiki tab open.
7.5 / 10
The game that Epic Battle Fantasy 5's critics kept holding up as the better one — except it rates two and a half points lower than the sequel they were complaining about.
7.5 / 10
A single-player RPG built to feel like a classic MMORPG raid night, populated entirely by NPC "SimPlayers" who level, group up and loot alongside you — a genuinely novel hook wrapped around an Early Access game still finding its footing on UI, quest clarity and combat feedback.
7.5 / 10
Erik Asmussen strips the conveyor belts and airships out of his own Factory Town and rebuilds the same economy as a menu-driven idle game — a genuinely distinct reimagining that nails offline progression but never quite explains the numbers it wants you to obsess over.
7.5 / 10
