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549 games we have reviewed that run on Windows PC, best first.
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You brew potions by physically dragging a pestle across a map of alchemical effects, and it's one of the best crafting mechanics anyone has invented. The argument isn't whether it's good — it's whether a brilliant idea that stopped being developed is worth twenty-nine dollars.
7.5 / 10
A Chinese-language desktop-companion idle game about cats pumping balloons for gold, earning a unanimous Positive reception for its cat animation work and healing, low-stakes atmosphere, with reviewers' only real caveats being a screen-edge misclick quirk and a wish for more content down the line.
7.5 / 10
A free reading-habit companion that turns finished books into a growing pixel-art garden, tended by a Siamese cat named Grimalkin — released yesterday, built by a working novelist, and refreshingly upfront about having no ads, no energy bars and no dark patterns.
7.5 / 10
A Kickstarter-funded tactics/deckbuilding roguelike that launched to a small, entirely non-English review sample — this review translated and read all fourteen of them in full to find a genuinely praised elemental-tactics system with one sharp, specific complaint about shop RNG.
7.5 / 10
Brace Yourself Games turns Crypt of the NecroDancer's rhythm-roguelike DNA into a dedicated rhythm game where monsters are the notes -- a genuinely inventive idea that a clear majority love, held back for a real minority by readability problems at high difficulty and a DLC catalogue that now costs several times the base game.
7.5 / 10
Psyonix's car-soccer hybrid remains one of the most mechanically satisfying competitive multiplayer games ever made, with reviewers consistently praising its deep, physics-driven skill ceiling — but a large, sustained, multi-year wave of reviewer anger over Epic Games' stewardship since its 2019 acquisition, including a lasting removal of Linux and Mac support, is real and worth understanding before diving in.
7.5 / 10
Jagex takes twenty-five years of RuneScape skill icons and welds them onto a Valheim-shaped survival loop. Fifteen months into Early Access, with a 1.0 date now on the calendar, the question is whether the skilling actually survived the move or just changed clothes.
7.5 / 10
A solo-developed Metroidvania set across a cursed island of ten interconnected locations, where combining weapons with magical runes shapes your playstyle against eleven bosses, praised across a small but genuinely multi-language early review base for its old-school atmosphere and combat feel, tempered by a reported difficulty spike partway through and comparatively limited weapon variety.
7.5 / 10
A retro-styled, F.E.A.R.-inspired boomer shooter built in GZDoom, praised by critics and its own huge Steam audience as some of the best combat the genre has produced in years — undercut, with striking consistency across two years of Early Access, by maze-like level design that buries critical progression items in secrets and turns short, brilliant firefights into long, tedious hunts for the one switch that lets you move on.
7.5 / 10
A dark fantasy RPG that replaces turns and mana with a shared deck and a countdown clock — every card you play buys time against the enemy's next move, and every hero draws from the same pool of cards.
7.5 / 10
The best-looking Heroes of Might and Magic successor anyone has made, still getting factions and campaigns four years on — with an enemy AI its own players have been complaining about that entire time.
7.5 / 10
Endnight's sequel to The Forest is the best-looking survival-horror island you can build a base on, and its rockiest reviews — mostly written in the first weeks after launch — argued a beautiful map was hiding surprisingly little to actually do. Recent sentiment suggests the gap between the two has narrowed since.
7.5 / 10
A five-day-old Early Access boomer-shooter roguelite from a solo developer, blending Ultrakill-style movement combat with Risk of Rain-style item stacking and a boss roster drawn from world mythology — an unusually strong Early Access opening, read here as exactly that rather than a finished verdict.
7.5 / 10
A tactical fantasy co-op RPG built to replace board game night, with a genuinely standout value proposition — one copy covers a whole group of four — undercut for a large share of its own reviewers by a mandatory phone-as-controller scheme that several report they couldn't avoid even playing solo.
7.5 / 10
A shipwrecked hero levels up by winning minigames, not by clicking through menus. SoulGame Studio's sequel to its cult flash hit turns stat training into the whole game, and that idea is both the best and most exhausting thing about it.
7.5 / 10
Nightdive Studios' remake of the genre-defining 1994 original remains Very Positive across nearly 13,000 Steam reviews, widely credited as a remarkably faithful, lovingly crafted recreation — a fidelity that cuts both ways, as the review sample consistently describes the remake preserving the original's genuinely cryptic, maze-like navigation right alongside its atmosphere, and this review can confirm the remake's own development nearly collapsed entirely when the project ran out of money partway through.
7.5 / 10
A cozy visual novel about running a D&D-inspired tavern, where the drinks you pour nudge adventurers toward one of several endings. The cast and the accessibility work are the real draw; the drink-mixing and quest-building systems around them are thinner than the premise promises.
7.5 / 10
A lovingly faithful throwback beat-'em-up from the Streets of Rage 4 team that nails its 90s arcade nostalgia almost unanimously, undercut by a short story campaign, cross-platform multiplayer several reviewers say doesn't actually work as advertised, and a save-corruption bug reported as unresolved years after launch.
7.5 / 10
Read review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
Twelve years and eight chapters after launch, The Elder Scrolls Online still lets you start anywhere and stay relevant everywhere. Level scaling bought that freedom; the trade-off is a levelling arc with no real stakes and a monetisation model dense enough to need a spreadsheet. Reviewed with Season One: Return of the Thieves Guild live.
7.5 / 10
A soft-reboot entry point into Nihon Falcom's long-running Trails series, praised by newcomers and veterans alike for its new protagonist and combat, with a genuine, well-documented localisation dispute — multiple independent reviewers report English subtitles diverging from the original Japanese dialogue — that this review reports factually rather than adjudicates.
7.5 / 10
Read review of The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak
Sabotage Studio's debut turns from an 8-bit Ninja Gaiden throwback into a 16-bit metroidvania halfway through, and that structural gamble is exactly what still divides its Steam reviews eight years later -- critics loved the twist in 2018, but a large share of players now say the backtracking-heavy second half undoes what the first half built.
7.5 / 10
A tower-defence game, a factory incremental and a scripting sandbox welded into one free island, where the real endgame is writing the AI that plays it for you.
7.5 / 10
A fantasy bullet-hell roguelite with a loop players return to for hundreds and even thousands of hours, running in the same Early Access state for nearly four years -- Steam's own achievement data and the solo developer's own dev-blog admissions both back up the loudest recent complaint, that its major content update keeps slipping.
7.5 / 10
A one-purchase incremental about drilling through an entire solar system, planet by planet, where the reward for mastering one resource is a permanent buff instead of a bigger number to stare at.
7.5 / 10
