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89 games released in 2016 and reviewed here, best first.

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Immersive SimWindows PC

Dishonored 2

Arkane's supernatural stealth-action sequel remains Very Positive across more than 66,000 Steam reviews, widely regarded as one of the finest immersive sims ever made — a reputation that survived a severe, well-documented 2016 launch-performance crisis this review can confirm was genuinely fixed, though a separate, newer, still-unresolved AMD CPU plus Nvidia GPU launch-failure bug persists in reviews dated as recently as August 2025, alongside real, current uncertainty over Arkane's own future following a July 2026 Xbox restructuring.

7.5 / 10

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Hexahedral

A small, polished isometric cube-sliding puzzle from Global Game Jam 2016 — one tap per move, a strict move limit per level, and 30 levels across three difficulties, confirmed to play identically on a touch phone and a desktop mouse.

7.5 / 10

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Action Platformer RPGWindows PCmacOSLinux

Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight

A gorgeous, atmospheric 2D action-platformer that most reviewers call a hidden gem, but a real, detailed critical minority makes a specific case that its combat rewards attrition over skill, and that its instant-kill hazards are unfair rather than genuinely challenging.

7.5 / 10

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Monster-Collecting RPGWindows PCmacOSLinux

Siralim 2

An extraordinarily deep monster-collecting RPG that fans compare favorably to Dragon Quest Monsters and Pokemon, built around genuinely endless dungeon progression — tempered by a detailed, specific critique from a devoted predecessor's fan arguing this sequel took real steps backward in its breeding, currency and creature-balance systems.

7.5 / 10

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Action RPGWindows PCNintendo SwitchPlayStation

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

A shipwreck-survival action RPG that turns rescuing NPCs into a settlement-building system and backs it with some of the fastest, most readable real-time combat Nihon Falcom has ever shipped. The PC version carries genuine baggage from a rough 2018 launch and a since-rewritten English script, but the game underneath both has aged well.

7.5 / 10

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puzzle

Match3 (glicOne)

A clean, classic 6x6 animal-face match-3 with cascading matches - confirmed genuinely working via real score-increasing swaps on both desktop and phone, after fixing a real canvas-overflow bug that made two-thirds of the board invisible on high-DPI phones.

7.4 / 10

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Shape Clear

A from-scratch, Candy Crush-style match-3 with generic shapes instead of licensed candy art, four toggleable modes, and touch-drag swap controls confirmed working via genuine live-state verification on both phone and desktop.

7.4 / 10

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board

Hnefatafl

A faithful implementation of the ancient Norse asymmetric board game (attackers vs. a king trying to reach a corner) - confirmed genuinely working with real click/tap-to-move mechanics and correct turn alternation on both desktop and phone, though the fixed-width 11x11 board overflows a typical phone screen and requires horizontal scrolling.

7.1 / 10

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Dystopian Strategy AdventureWindows PCmacOSLinux

Beholder

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

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Interactive Fiction RPGWindows PCmacOSLinux

Choice of the Pirate

A text-based interactive pirate adventure from Choice of Games, praised by genre fans as one of the studio's strongest entries for its character customization and writing — tempered by a real value complaint about its short length and a comparative critique that its choices react less meaningfully than other Choice of Games titles.

7 / 10

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Couch 2048

2048 reimagined as a physics puzzle — drag numbered cushions around a sofa instead of sliding tiles on a grid, and let soft-body physics decide how they settle and merge. A js13k 2016 entry judges called "amazing" for exactly that twist, with a drag control confirmed here to work cleanly on touch.

7 / 10

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Action-AdventureWindows PCmacOSLinux

Darksiders Warmastered Edition

Vigil Games' Zelda-structured, God of War-styled action-adventure casts War, one of the Four Horsemen, into a premature apocalypse — reviewers consistently praise its confident blend of combat, puzzles and dungeon design, and this remaster was notably given free to existing owners, though a specific, well-documented cutscene codec bug leaves Steam Deck and Linux players without a working story.

7 / 10

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Immersive SimWindows PC

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Eidos-Montreal's cyberpunk immersive sim remains Mostly Positive across more than 42,000 Steam reviews for its genuinely excellent stealth gameplay and world-building — undercut by a real, remarkably consistent complaint that its story ends abruptly mid-arc, a flaw this review can confirm the game's own writer has since publicly acknowledged, tied to a since-cancelled sequel that would have resolved it, and to real, dateable studio layoffs still affecting Eidos-Montreal as recently as March 2026.

7 / 10

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Action RPGWindows PC

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

A cult-favourite action RPG built around genuinely unique AI companions and monster-climbing combat, still Very Positive across 37,000-plus reviews a decade after its Steam release — and one where a cluster of January 2024 reviews describes Capcom quietly adding new anti-tamper DRM to the client just ahead of the sequel's launch.

7 / 10

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Konkr Legacy

A tap-to-conquer hex strategy game in the mould of Slay, open-sourced by its solo developer as the retired predecessor to the actively developed Konkr — genuinely playable with thumbs once two packaging bugs in the public repo are fixed, but unmaintained since 2022 and explicitly a legacy edition even by its own author's account.

7 / 10

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Pixel-Art Action-PlatformerWindows PCmacOSLinux

Owlboy

A famously nine-years-in-development pixel-art platformer following a mute flying owl who carries companions into battle, Very Positive across 2,400 reviews for genuinely exceptional art and music — undercut by an extraordinarily consistent complaint that its clumsy carry-and-throw combat and disproportionately punishing boss fights fail to match the presentation, alongside a reported softlock bug and an unaddressed screen-shake/flashing-light discomfort issue.

7 / 10

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Supernatural Narrative AdventureWindows PCmacOSLinux

Oxenfree

A supernatural coming-of-age narrative adventure built around naturalistic, radio-tuned dialogue between a group of teenage friends, Very Positive across nearly 6,800 reviews for its atmosphere and voice acting — dominated for roughly a decade by a severe, unaddressed audio-mixing problem that drowned out dialogue with unadjustable music, only fixed around the game's tenth anniversary in early 2026, months before Netflix shut down developer Night School Studio entirely.

7 / 10

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Save The Forest

A Flappy-Bird-style endless jumper built for js13k 2016 — hop from stump to stump ahead of a rising fire, with wind and speed actually affecting your trajectory. A single tap does everything, and this review had to go further than usual to prove that tap genuinely works on a real touchscreen.

7 / 10

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Sandbox Survival-Crafting RPGWindows PCmacOSLinux

Starbound

A ten-year-old space sandbox that still earns a Very Positive rating on the strength of its crafting-and-exploration loop and its modding scene — until you check the dates and find the developer has shipped one hotfix since 2019, then marked the tenth anniversary of its 1.0 launch with a vinyl record instead of an update, which is currently tanking the recent-review score in real time.

7 / 10

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4X Grand StrategyWindows PCmacOSLinux

Stellaris

A decade-old 4X space strategy game beloved enough to produce reviewers with 2,000+ hours logged — and, since 2024, a wave of those exact same veteran players turning against Paradox over DLC pricing, a specific performance regression, and player-reported AI-generated content.

7 / 10

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Time-Manipulation FPSWindows PCmacOSLinux

SUPERHOT

A landmark first-person shooter where time only moves when you do, Very Positive across more than 16,200 reviews for a genuinely innovative, widely imitated core mechanic — dominated by an extremely consistent complaint that its two-to-three-hour campaign doesn't match its asking price, alongside a specific, repeatedly cited controversy over content the developer removed years after release, a forced third-party launcher, and a real photosensitivity warning several reviewers say the game needs.

7 / 10

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