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67 games released in 2015 and reviewed here, best first.
67 reviews
A match-3 puzzle game wrapped in a deliberately crude dating-sim framing, Overwhelmingly Positive across nearly 24,000 reviews largely on the strength of a genuinely strategic puzzle system — one that a consistent, decade-long thread of reviews says spikes sharply in difficulty right when the stakes are supposed to feel like a payoff.
6 / 10
A full 3D remake of the 1997 cult classic Abe's Oddysee, Very Positive across 1,600 reviews for genuinely impressive visual work — dominated by an extremely consistent complaint from longtime fans that replacing the original's precise, grid-based movement with free-flowing physics broke the precision-puzzle-platforming the series was built around, alongside a severe, apparently permanently unfixed controller-support bug.
6 / 10
A beloved prison design and management simulation originally built by Introversion Software, Very Positive across more than 34,000 reviews for its darkly comic, systemically rich core design — dominated by an extraordinarily consistent complaint that Paradox Interactive's 2019 acquisition brought a forced third-party launcher, unresolved bugs, and DLC paywalling content reviewers say was previously free, before officially ending development with a "Sunset Update" in May 2023.
6 / 10
VaragtP's puppet-theatre clicker arrived on Steam three weeks after Clicker Heroes and never quite escaped its shadow, but a decade of quiet patching, an honest NZ$4.49 price and zero microtransactions still make it worth a look — provided you don't mind that several of its 50 achievements want you to leave it running for a hundred hours or more.
6 / 10
Proton Studio put a first-person gun in the clicker genre's most abstract hand, turning "tap the cookie" into "shoot the cube wall." The framing genuinely changes the opening hours, but the studio moved on to two spiritual successors years ago and hasn't touched this one since a December 2021 holiday event.
6 / 10
A one-hit-kill boss-rush action-adventure where both player and titan die in a single hit, Mostly Positive across nearly 2,800 reviews for genuinely inventive, puzzle-like boss design and a striking soundtrack — undercut by an extraordinarily consistent complaint that the long walk back to each boss after every death wastes far more time than the fights themselves, alongside a well-corroborated lack of mouse support or key rebinding.
6 / 10
A voxel-building MMO welded to an ARPG loot treadmill, still running eleven years after Trion Worlds made it and three community letters a month after gamigo took over. The question in 2026 isn't whether Trove survives — it clearly does — it's how much of it is still a game and how much is a storefront.
6 / 10
One of survival gaming's defining sandbox games, whose Mostly Positive 80% across 332,096 reviews now sits under a live, furious controversy — official servers sunset in 2023 to push players toward a paid Unreal Engine 5 remaster after reviewers cite an archived tweet promising that exact upgrade would be free, and a 2025 update reviewers say broke years of mods, maps and communities on the way out.
5.5 / 10
A physics-driven dungeon-crawler RPG with genuinely acclaimed, weighty melee combat, Mostly Positive across more than 9,200 reviews — dominated by an extraordinary complaint that development has stretched past eleven years in Early Access with the game still at version 0.9.x, corroborated directly against the developer's own update history showing monthly blog posts substituting for actual content patches, alongside serious, unverified allegations about hostile developer conduct toward critics.
5.5 / 10
A one-mechanic dragon-hunting action RPG — hold a direction, auto-fight, buy four stats — that most players clear in well under an hour, with an eleven-year-old windowed-mode bug still being reported the week before this review was written.
5.5 / 10
A Dungeons & Dragons-licensed CRPG that split its own review base almost exactly down the middle over one question — is its simplified, MMO-style skill-tree combat a bait-and-switch on the 5th Edition rules it was marketed with, or a decent action-RPG judged too harshly against tabletop expectations? Neither side won: the developer collapsed five months after launch, the D&D licence lapsed two years later, and the game was pulled from sale entirely on 1 January 2018.
5.5 / 10
A 2015 remaster of Firefly Studios' 2003 cult classic that turns out to be closer to The Sims in space than the SimCity-style colony builder its marketing suggests — a genre mismatch the overwhelming majority of its negative reviews describe independently, on top of real modern-PC stability bugs.
5.4 / 10
A tiny, sincere space-RTS built around a genuinely original hook — gravity wells and time dilation as tactical tools — undercut by a clunky interface and thin content that its own players, split exactly down the middle, can't agree on.
5.3 / 10
A distinctive stealth-puzzle game about robbing graves while dodging vengeful ghosts, genuinely enjoyed for its original concept, undercut by real complaints about unreadable low- quality graphics settings, divisive humor, and rough voice acting.
5.1 / 10
A ricochet-shooting, box-lighting puzzle-platformer with genuine VR ambitions, undercut by a headtracking mismatch that a near-unanimous run of negative reviews says causes motion sickness within seconds, plus jump and movement controls several players call broken outright.
4.3 / 10
A five-resource idle civilization builder with genuinely more going on than most clickers of its era, frozen in Early Access for over a decade — its last real update landed in mid-2016, and reviewers are still calling it abandoned in 2026.
4 / 10
A simplified, buggier follow-up to the well-regarded Mars Colony: Challenger, with real crashing and missing-feature complaints and no updates recorded since 2016 — and a recent reviewer tribute revealing the game's solo developer passed away in December 2025 after a long illness, which this review treats with the care that context deserves.
4 / 10
A deliberately absurd, meme-heavy point-and-click adventure set in a Soviet bunker, split sharply between reviewers who find its humour genuinely funny and a larger group who find it grating — compounded by illogical puzzle design and bugs the developer stopped patching in early 2016.
3.9 / 10
A decade-old, MIT-licensed browser reskin of classic Minesweeper — competent, unusually accessible for a hobby project, and undone by a dead third-party image CDN that leaves its default board rendering as a wall of broken-image icons, plus a hold-to-flag feature that only works on iOS.
3.5 / 10
