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126 games released in 2017 and reviewed here, best first.
126 reviews
A solo-developer clicker/idle RPG with a clean, monetisation-free foundation and a genuinely fair asking price, undone by a total absence of support — its own Steam news feed has never carried a single post, and reviewers across eight years agree the content runs out in a couple of days.
4 / 10
A block-built robot combat game that spent years as one of Steam's most beloved free-to-play sandboxes before a single 2017 update gutted it in the eyes of its own community — and whose full, decade-later story ends with the developer closing the studio entirely and shutting the servers off for good.
4 / 10
A genuinely funny, distinctive premise — an undead bureaucrat balancing a skeleton army's budget — undercut by a near-total lack of onboarding, painfully mismatched sound design, and a missing save feature that's gone unpatched since the game's 2017 release.
3.8 / 10
Music Band Manager promises the fantasy of building a rock band from nothing to global fame. What it delivers, by its own players' near-unanimous account, is a repetitive economic grind with a broken money system, placeholder achievement names the developer never bothered to finish, and one confirmed patch cycle in 2018 before the studio moved permanently on to other games.
3.5 / 10
A one-person dungeon-management sim where you wall off rooms, seed traps and synthesise monsters to grind down invading adventurers. The pitch has real bones, but its entire English Steam review history — three reviews, all negative — describes a game that stopped short of finishing itself.
3.2 / 10
A bare-bones restaurant management sim with no missions, goals, or real progression loop, compounded by crashes and a broken autosave, and one detailed reviewer's unverified claim that the developer may not have built the game's assets themselves.
2.6 / 10
