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203 games released in 2019 and reviewed here, best first.
203 reviews
An old-school, Warcraft-inspired RTS with a distinctive prehistoric setting of cavemen and dinosaurs, praised by genre nostalgics but held back by a persistent, long-unaddressed lack of mid-mission saving and widely reported unfair AI behavior in its campaign.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely beautiful atmospheric horror walking sim, undercut by an over-reliance on cheap jump scares that reviewers say breaks the very atmosphere it built, plus persistent crash reports spanning years and a store page that openly lists unresolved compatibility issues.
5.4 / 10
A Plague Inc.-style god game where you spread Greek mythology across the modern world — a genuinely different premise let down by an unclear tutorial and support that stopped a month after 1.0.
5 / 10
A free pixel-resolving idle game about building an art career city by city, with a legacy mechanic letting you hand a successor everything you built — supported for two months, then left untouched for over six years.
5 / 10
A charming, faithful How to Train Your Dragon spin-off with genuinely well-liked art and music, undercut by a near-universal complaint from both sides of its review sample — a 3-to-8-hour runtime that reviewers say doesn't match its original full price — plus real accessibility gaps like no control remapping.
5 / 10
A hand-drawn steampunk-medieval metroidvania starring a fish-controlled robot knight, praised for its distinctive art and inventive health/stamina system but criticized as a short, repetitive, undercooked experience let down by a genuinely poor interface.
5 / 10
A stylish, Hotline Miami-inspired co-op top-down shooter pairing an angel and a demoness against the apocalypse, undercut by an aiming system tied to character movement rather than the mouse — a design choice the developers themselves defended as intentional difficulty rather than fixing it.
5 / 10
A pixel-art riff on the old Lemonade Stand formula, swapping juice for weather-tuned lattes and a family home to restore, undercut for seven straight years by the same complaint from its own players — that it never explains how to actually play it.
5 / 10
An Atelier-series crossover celebration restructured as a town-management sim rather than an alchemy RPG — a genre swap the two most-upvoted reviews in its own corpus warn newcomers about directly, on top of a punishing failure state and a rough PC port.
5 / 10
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A solo-developed management sim with real, distinctive depth — build and run a recreation centre down to the individual pool lane and arcade cabinet — that stopped receiving public updates in September 2022 and has spent the four years since accumulating an unusually self-aware review corpus that argues, in real time, about whether "abandoned" is fair to say out loud.
5 / 10
A satisfying, comic-styled buddy-cop door-breaching FPS whose roguelite procedural levels and slow-motion shootouts earned real praise at launch — now undercut by a confirmed, independently corroborated shutdown of its online co-op servers, the game's own headline feature.
5 / 10
A Lovecraftian narrative RPG set in an Arkham torn loose from reality, Mixed across 575 reviews for genuinely strong writing, art and sanity-driven roleplaying — undercut by clunky, dice-heavy combat and a story that a large share of reviewers say ends abruptly, roughly a third of the way through what was promised.
5 / 10
A genuinely unique co-op stealth-horror game about teenagers investigating a cult beneath their town, with a distinctive community-driven live story system — now confirmed abandoned by its developers roughly two years after launch, with the narrative left unresolved and content updates permanently ended.
5 / 10
A genuinely tense, real-time investigative-journalism immersive sim set in a fictional 1980s British political crisis, whose ambitious central ideas were badly undercut at launch by a chapter-only save system and a string of progress-destroying bugs.
5 / 10
RedLynx's physics-platformer racing is as sharp as the series has ever been, but Ubisoft buried it under loot boxes, a mandatory launcher that locks players out entirely, and server-dependent load times — a textbook case of publisher decisions outweighing the game underneath them.
5 / 10
A visual novel that captures World of Darkness atmosphere genuinely well, undercut by choices that multiple detailed reviewers document as having no real effect on the story — a problem serious enough that the developer publicly walked back its own store description five days after launch.
5 / 10
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A wordless, visually striking exploration adventure from former Team Ico developers, drawing close comparisons to Journey and Shadow of the Colossus — undercut by widely and independently documented broken camera and movement controls that a large share of players say make the game genuinely difficult to enjoy.
5 / 10
A Diablo-shaped co-op loot ARPG set in the Warhammer Fantasy city of Nuln -- Mixed on Steam both at launch and seven years later, with a strikingly consistent complaint across the entire review history: a short, repetitive campaign, shallow build variety, and buggy co-op that a "Diablo clone" comparison never quite escapes.
5 / 10
A co-op spinoff whose launch-era complaint — unwanted RPG and looter-shooter systems grafted onto a beloved franchise — never really faded, and whose recent sentiment has fallen further still for a distinct, structural reason this review independently confirmed: the free Buddy Pass trial that let a friend join your co-op game at no cost has been delisted from Steam.
5 / 10
A free mobile-derived restaurant sim with over 20 million downloads and genuine long-term fans, ported to Steam with the same wait-timers and in-app-purchase economy intact — and a large negative-review cluster calling it exactly that trade-off, unsoftened.
4.6 / 10
A fondly-remembered American Revolution-set Assassin's Creed entry, now the only version of the game Ubisoft sells on Steam after delisting the 2012 original — undercut by a confirmed license-sharing requirement with Assassin's Creed Odyssey, an always-online requirement for a single-player game, and serious, specifically documented bugs.
4.5 / 10
A faithful hex-grid clone of the classic Chat Noir puzzle, undermined by a canvas that never learned to fit a phone screen.
4.5 / 10
An honest, cash-shop-free hero clicker inspired by Clicker Heroes that a good chunk of its own audience argues isn't really an idle game at all — and hasn't been updated in years either way.
4.5 / 10
A free browser-style dwarf-squad RPG with dark comic charm, quietly shut down in late 2024 after leaving no written player reviews behind to judge it by.
4.5 / 10
