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5 games released in 2009 and reviewed here, best first.
5 reviews
A co-op zombie classic still Overwhelmingly Positive 17 years on, beloved for exactly what it doesn't have — no loot boxes, no unlocks, no grind — held back for the entire span of its Steam review history by one specific, remarkably persistent complaint about its Versus community.
8 / 10
A near-perfect 2009 strategy game sold as a 2009 build, in which the design has aged beautifully and the port has aged badly — and the complaints are getting more common, not less.
8 / 10
Widely regarded as Piranha Bytes' finest work and the true spiritual successor to their acclaimed Gothic series, Risen carries a remarkably stable, decade-spanning structural complaint — a genuinely strong first half giving way to a repetitive, fetch-quest-heavy final chapter that reviewers writing in 2016 and 2026 alike describe almost identically.
7.5 / 10
A landmark, hugely influential post-apocalyptic RPG once it's running — but this review's negative sample is dominated by a specific, still-unresolved problem: reviewers across nearly a decade, including as recently as mid-2026, report the Steam version simply refusing to launch on modern Windows without third-party fixes, years after Bethesda removed the old Games for Windows Live requirement.
7 / 10
A genre-defining, universally beloved CRPG whose Steam version has become genuinely unreliable on modern hardware — three-quarters of this review's negative sample cite crashes, the complaint has worsened every year since 2023 rather than fading, and 16 of 100 negative reviewers independently recommend buying the DRM-free GOG version instead.
6.5 / 10
