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67 games released in 2015 and reviewed here, best first.
67 reviews
A philosophical sci-fi horror game about consciousness, identity and what survives an underwater apocalypse — nine years on, still Overwhelmingly Positive, and still honestly criticized by a consistent minority for gameplay that some feel gets in the story's way.
9 / 10
Eleven years and one free next-gen overhaul later, CD Projekt Red's open-world epic is still best understood through its side quests rather than its main story — and its combat, inventory and level-gating have aged in ways the writing never did.
9 / 10
A decade-old solo-developed RPG that redefined what a choice-driven combat system could mean, sitting at Overwhelmingly Positive across a third of a million reviews. The recurring negative review isn't a criticism of the game so much as a criticism of how impossible it is to live up to its own reputation.
9 / 10
Eleven years in Early Access, 97.6% positive across 223,161 English reviews, and a graphics overhaul eight days old that has upset a loud minority without moving the score at all.
8.5 / 10
Squad's beloved rocket-building and orbital-mechanics sandbox, reviewers repeatedly describe as genuinely educational as well as compulsively fun — a landmark simulation game with a real, well-documented 2018-era privacy controversy from a since-changed EULA in its history, which recent reviews suggest has quieted considerably.
8.5 / 10
A solo developer's hand-drawn bullet-hell shoot-em-up from the Epic Battle Fantasy universe, seven years before "bullet heaven" became a genre label for something else entirely — reviewed on its seventy stages, its scalable difficulty, and the Flash-era tech it still carries.
8 / 10
A genre-defining rhythm-roguelike hybrid, Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 23,000 reviews, whose own Steam achievement data confirms exactly the kind of brutal difficulty wall a decade of players have described — only 7.8 percent of tracked players ever finish Zone 4.
8 / 10
A Ludum Dare 33 satire in which you play a dragon filling out a fantasy tax form under a ten-minute deadline, cross-referencing scattered appraisal reports and angry peasant complaint letters — a genuinely funny, complete desktop game confirmed working with real mouse clicks and keyboard input, but built on mouse-only dragging with no touch support.
8 / 10
Hideo Kojima's final Metal Gear as series director delivers what reviewers consistently call some of the best stealth mechanics ever made, wrapped around an open world whose back half is widely acknowledged, even by fans, as visibly unfinished following Kojima's public split from Konami — a split compounded a decade later by a mid-2026 Denuvo DRM addition that reviewers report caused real performance problems and broke a long-running modding community.
8 / 10
The game that brought the isometric party RPG back from the dead, and spent a decade being judged against a memory of Baldur's Gate rather than on its own terms. Fewer than half its buyers finish Act I — but the ones who push through average eighty hours.
8 / 10
The most austere game Zachtronics ever made, and the one whose store page promises least — which is exactly why it rates higher than the siblings that promised more.
8 / 10
The Larian CRPG that laid the groundwork for Divinity: Original Sin 2 — genuinely one of the better-executed "Enhanced Editions" this library has covered, held back mainly by a back half its own fans agree drags compared to the sequel it made possible.
7.5 / 10
Bethesda's sprawling open-world RPG has weathered two separate, nearly identical controversies seven years apart — Creation Club's paid mods in 2017, and a 2024 "next-gen update" that broke almost everything the modding community had built to fix it.
7.5 / 10
A widely acclaimed single-player crime saga bundled with an online mode whose 2017-2018 wrongful-ban epidemic became one of the most documented anti-cheat fairness disputes on Steam — improved since, but echoed by a related complaint that persists into 2024-2025.
7.5 / 10
Double Fine's remaster of Tim Schafer's beloved 1998 LucasArts adventure sends a Aztec-inspired skeleton travel agent through a four-year noir mystery in the land of the dead, drawing near-universal praise for its writing and style — undercut by a specific, reproducible softlock bug at a fixed point in the game that reviewers report going unpatched for a decade.
7.5 / 10
Zachtronics in three dimensions, and the one its own siblings' reviewers keep calling fun — except it rates below them, costs the most, and its critics say it isn't the factory game the name implies.
7.5 / 10
A 2015 Kongregate clicker that grew into one of the incremental genre's most durable idle RPGs by making its faction choice actually change how you play, not just which number gets bigger.
7.5 / 10
Crystal Dynamics' 2015 sequel to the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot widens the scope into more open-world exploration and expands crafting and stealth, drawing consistently strong praise for its visuals and platforming — tempered by a recurring reviewer complaint that the story and focus of the original got traded for busywork, plus two specific, checkable marketing gripes around VR and a since-added Epic Games Services login requirement.
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
inkle's interactive gamebook adaptation takes a radical structural swing for its third entry, trading the series' linear branching for an open, dual-timeline world to explore — passionately praised by most as the series' high point, and just as passionately picked apart by a detailed dissenting review calling the same redesign tedious and poorly implemented.
7.5 / 10
Eleven years old, free now, and still the most tactically interesting shooter ever made — with a store page whose 82% badge is averaging a decade of paid-game reviews against a free-to-play relaunch its own players rate ten points lower.
7.5 / 10
A free browser incremental that has been running since 2015 — trap creatures, build a war economy out of them, and watch a soft-reset loop of zones, portals and heliums turn into one of the deepest progression systems the genre has ever built.
7.5 / 10
A deep, punishing isometric turn-based RPG built by a single developer for players who remember loving — and being punished by — their first playthrough of Fallout 1, complete with the same build-breaking traps and a genuine wiki dependency to match.
7.5 / 10
MachineGames' standalone prequel to Wolfenstein The New Order sends B.J. Blazkowicz back to Castle Wolfenstein for a tighter, gorier six-to-seven-hour Nazi-killing romp — widely praised as one of the best "expandalone" releases of its era, tempered by a specific, recurring complaint about its stealth sections and reports of AMD graphics card compatibility issues.
7.5 / 10
