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549 games we have reviewed that run on Windows PC, best first.
549 reviews
A debut game from a small Chinese studio brings authentic wuxia storytelling -- the genre of Jin Yong's martial-arts novels -- to a gorgeous 2D pixel-art RPG, and Steam's audience has responded overwhelmingly. The praise is earned, but a persistent, years-unresolved UI and localisation problem and real pacing complaints keep it short of a flawless recommendation.
7.5 / 10
A turn-based CRPG that hands you a voidship, a dynasty's fortune and the Imperium's blessing to do almost anything with both — built on a career system that turns absurd by the final act, and shipped rough enough at launch that its current, patched shape is a genuinely different game to review.
7.5 / 10
Some of the best-written quests and dialogue in any CRPG, wrapped around turn-based combat that knows what it's doing — and six years of bug reports that never quite stopped, concentrated almost entirely in the co-op mode it was sold on.
7.5 / 10
Developer Minakata Dynamics, published by Hooded Horse, delivers an Early Access city builder about mice establishing an industrious colony under the tax-collecting paw of cat overlords, earning enthusiastic, specific praise for its full-z-axis construction, deep production chains and unusually responsive developers from a Very Positive review base, tempered by a repeated complaint about a monotonous mid-game loop and a near-total absence of clear long-term goals.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive climbing-horror roguelike in Early Access that earned an Overwhelmingly Positive badge across a massive review base, whose own biggest, most consistent complaint is that it "does not respect the player's time" — permadeath resets progress through well-tuned early content, and reviewers say newer biomes added since launch haven't been tuned as carefully as the original two.
7.5 / 10
A meditative, deeply personal organization game about arranging over 500 wordless icons into a system only you understand — beloved almost universally, with just two real complaints: no penalty for chaos, and an ending that cuts the fun off too soon.
7.5 / 10
Reviewed with Midnight, the eleventh expansion, current and Season 2 landing this month. A look at what a subscriber actually gets in 2026 — the onboarding path, the sub-plus-shop-plus- expansion cost stack, and whether two decades of accumulated systems still add up to a game worth the monthly fee.
7.5 / 10
A two-day-old cozy first-person tidying sim that scatters 2,071 jigsaw pieces from 87 real public-domain paintings across a gallery and asks you to sort them back into place, priced at €4.67 and sitting at 91.7% positive on its opening weekend.
7.2 / 10
An anime open-world action RPG that was built as a mobile gacha game, lost its publisher, won a legal fight to come back as a single-purchase Steam release, and still carries every scar of where it came from — for better and for worse.
7.2 / 10
A 1997 Acorn RISC OS cult classic from future Deck13 co-founder Jan Klose gets its first-ever PC release — a genuinely deep 4X of colonization, law-making and tactical combat wrapped in a steep learning curve and a deliberately period-accurate 256-colour look.
7.2 / 10
Meteor Forge's solo-developed launch grafts a Slay the Spire-style build ladder onto a physics pinball table — 50+ balls, 60+ artifacts and an ascension climb that early players clearly love, held back by an interface that won't explain itself and only three tables to play it on.
7.2 / 10
A voxel-art city builder that trades money and disasters for a strict web of building adjacency rules, turning city planning into a genuine spatial puzzle — Very Positive on Steam, with a persistent, well-documented complaint that its achievement-gated progression can trap players on the first map for good.
7.2 / 10
A hands-off map simulator where you paint borders, spawn AI-controlled nations and then watch them conquer, ally, revolt and collapse across thousands of simulated years. The scenario tools and Steam Workshop are genuinely excellent; the combat resolution underneath them is close to a coin flip, and that undercuts the "simulator" the title promises.
7 / 10
Bail, By Way of Precision Platforming ASTRAL COURT DX, released free on August 25, 2026 from solo-flavored developer LUA COMPUTA, opens with a premise as odd as its name: you'r
7 / 10
A roguelike deckbuilder that swaps cards for dice and damage/block for a dual Purification/Corruption system -- gorgeous, genuinely inventive, and Very Positive on Steam, but close to half its negative reviews cite overwhelming complexity and a similar share cite dice variance that several reviewers call unfair rather than merely risky.
7 / 10
A short, physics-driven incremental about buying, upgrading and prestiging a swarm of bouncing balls to smash cores -- praised by reviewers for making the genre's usual buy-order puzzle feel like an actual strategic decision, with a real, specific complaint about late-game visual effects tanking performance and triggering photosensitivity concerns.
7 / 10
A dystopian landlord-surveillance sim with real bite — a genuinely distinctive premise and striking art carry it a long way, but a real minority of detailed reviewers make a specific, checkable case that the game offers far less real choice than its "spy on anyone" pitch implies.
7 / 10
A team-based aerial PvP game about birds stealing each other's eggs, built around always-on proximity voice chat — genuinely loved by a fast-growing fanbase who call it the real version of a beloved internet meme, while a real, well-corroborated matchmaking and toxicity problem threatens to shrink the population it depends on.
7 / 10
A NZ$2.99 desktop pet from Salt Fish Studio that reacts to your keyboard and mouse in real time and rewards ordinary computer use with hundreds of collectible cosmetics, pitched by reviewers as a more customizable, Steam Workshop-backed successor to Bongo Cat, with an almost entirely positive but genuinely thin dissenting record.
7 / 10
A RuneScape-inspired idle RPG that spent nearly two years in Early Access before its 1.0 launch in June 2026. It nails the AFK-grinding feeling its whole design is built around, but a capped offline system and a new Challenges layer added at launch have split even its most devoted players over whether it's still the idle game they signed up for.
7 / 10
A 3D roguelike ARPG dungeon crawler with ten character classes and a distinctive hand-painted-meets-pixel-art look — well liked a week into launch, with real, repeated complaints about shallow combat and a genuinely unusual design choice: no mid-run save system at all.
7 / 10
A genuinely charming, monetisation-free idle terrarium sim from a three-person team who built it after concluding digital bugs were the only kind they could keep as touring digital nomads — beloved by most of its 998-review corpus, with one specific, unaddressed bug report standing out: income silently stops accruing after 24 hours away, undercutting the exact AFK pitch the game is built on.
7 / 10
A charming, addictive retro cafe-management sim from prolific Japanese developer Kairosoft, landing Very Positive with its fanbase despite a patched launch-week bug, a step back from a better system in one of the studio's earlier games, and a familiar "same formula, new coat of paint" complaint from its most experienced players.
7 / 10
A gorgeous, genuinely soothing pixel-art fishing game that lets you fish actively or let an idle mode do it for you — beloved enough to have gotten real players off the couch and back onto real lakes with their own families, undercut at launch by a real, consistently documented complaint that idling outperforms actually playing, and that there simply wasn't much game underneath the vibe.
7 / 10
