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56 games released in 2014 and reviewed here, best first.
56 reviews
A tower-defense game where the enemy isn't units but a fluid — cellular automata standing in for an AI, spreading through terrain rather than pathing along it. Reviewed on its full lifetime and recent Steam review corpora, an 11-year-old cult favourite that some of its own harshest critics have played for thousands of hours.
8.5 / 10
The 2011 browser game that helped drag tower defense out of the Flash-portal era and into a genre of its own, still sitting at 96% positive on Steam a decade after its 2014 Unity port — mostly because the core loop of towers, heroes and boss fights it invented is still the one every entry since, including Ironhide's own sequels, gets measured against.
8.5 / 10
A landmark action RPG whose Nemesis system was genuinely influential and remains widely loved a decade on — but a real, organised share of its negative reviews are deliberate protests against Warner Bros. patenting that same system and closing developer Monolith Productions in 2025, not complaints about the game itself.
8.5 / 10
The roguelike that taught the genre what item synergy could be, at 97% across 439,000 reviews. Twelve years and hundreds of items later, its most experienced players are asking whether it now has too many.
8.5 / 10
The original, official 2048 - slide numbered tiles to combine them into 2048 - whose swipe controls were confirmed correct in all four directions on a real touch profile.
8.3 / 10
A well-known, touch-first hexagonal take on Tetris - tap either half of the screen to spin the hexagon and catch falling colour blocks - reviewed retrospectively after being on the shelf since before the review pipeline existed, with a third-party analytics script found and removed.
8.2 / 10
Creative Assembly's survival-horror take on the Alien franchise builds a genuinely unpredictable Xenomorph AI and a meticulously authentic 1979-film atmosphere that reviewers consistently call among the best horror design of its generation — undercut by a specific, widely repeated structural complaint that the game runs roughly three times longer than its tension can sustain.
8 / 10
Nicky Case's autobiographical dialogue game reduces every interaction to a single tap — read the next line, or pick what you're about to say — and uses dozens of quietly tracked choices to make that tap carry real weight through to a genuinely different final act.
8 / 10
A free browser incremental that hides its difficulty in storage caps and the calendar rather than big numbers — you are never fighting an enemy in Kittens Game, you are fighting your own granary.
8 / 10
A celebrated, GOTY-winning BioWare fantasy epic whose Steam review page has spent six straight years dominated by one complaint that has nothing to do with the game — the mandatory EA launcher, which reviewers are still calling out for breaking the game as recently as this year.
7.5 / 10
A solo-developed 2014 mobile deckbuilding roguelike that reviewers independently and repeatedly credit as the genre's actual origin point — predating and directly influencing Slay the Spire, Monster Slayers and Hearthstone's Kobolds and Catacombs expansion — buried under presentation even its biggest fans call some of the ugliest they've ever seen.
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 well-regarded, combat-focused Infinity Engine classic that reviewers consistently frame as the weaker sibling of Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment on story and characters — a stable complaint across a full decade — alongside a recurring multiplayer connectivity bug and some criticism of Beamdog's own Enhanced Edition script changes.
7.5 / 10
A widely acclaimed post-apocalyptic shooter whose negative reviews cluster around two distinct, dateable events rather than the game's own design — a 2019 review-bombing tied to Metro Exodus's Epic Games Store exclusivity, and a larger, more recent wave of genuine modern- system compatibility problems that this review found dominating 2025 and 2026 far more than any complaint about the game itself.
7.5 / 10
A landmark 2014 "playable post" by Vi Hart and Nicky Case that turns Schelling's model of segregation into a scrollable essay you interact with directly — drag unhappy triangles and squares around a grid and watch a mild, individual bias for "some sameness" spiral into total segregation, with nothing more than simple rules and honest math.
7.5 / 10
Widely considered the best of Harebrained Schemes' three Shadowrun tactical RPGs — richer writing, a real home base to return to, characters worth following — undercut for a meaningful number of players by a long-standing soft-lock bug near the campaign's end that this review can't recommend around.
7.5 / 10
A landmark, NES-inspired retro platformer bundle following a shovel-wielding knight across four connected campaigns, Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 10,100 reviews for genuine craftsmanship and charm — undercut by a consistent, well-corroborated complaint that its instant-death spikes and pits and momentum-based controls feel more punishing than genuinely fair, and by one bundled sub-game several reviewers say drags the overall package down.
7.5 / 10
United Front Games' Hong Kong-set undercover-cop crime thriller is widely praised as the genre-alternative to GTA that actually earned the comparison, with reviewers repeatedly wishing for a sequel that never arrived — undercut by a serious, specific save-data flaw with no Steam Cloud support that has already cost at least one reviewer their progress permanently.
7.5 / 10
A gorgeously art-directed Viking tactical RPG whose story and presentation draw near-universal praise even from critical reviewers — undercut by a specific, mechanically precise complaint that recurs across a full decade: the combat's action-economy design makes injuring and sparing enemies the optimal strategy, so killing them is often actively punished.
7.5 / 10
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 one-person city-building survival game from 2014 that still holds a Very Positive Steam rating across 37,800-plus reviews, built on a genuinely unusual pitch — no money, no skill trees, no combat — that a decade of players keep bumping up against the same mid-game ceiling to enjoy.
7 / 10
A genuinely deep, absurdist-humor roguelike about attending an academy for professional dungeon-delvers, still receiving real content updates a decade after launch — tempered by a specific, punitive anti-exploit design choice reviewers describe as an overreaction, plus real accessibility complaints about unreadable UI text.
7 / 10
A distinctive tower-defense/roguelike/RPG hybrid from Amplitude Studios that's legitimately hard even on its easiest setting, backed by a specific, well-argued reviewer critique that its randomness can erase hours of investment through no fault of the player.
7 / 10
A staggeringly deep voxel vehicle-design sandbox still receiving real updates twelve years after its true 2014 Early Access start, whose most-voted review in its entire history is a detailed, still-relevant account of a 2020 creative-direction controversy that split its long-time community.
7 / 10
